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Happy Lesbian Visibility Week 🧡💛🤍🩷

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Hey! Remember to Click for Palestine today!!

Thank you 💕🕊️

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It’s not been anywhere near close to long enough. How could it ever be?

Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult // All Of Us Strangers, dir. Andrew Haigh, Searchlight Pictures // Mary Oliver // Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáen // Unknown // In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive, Clementine von Radics // The Haunting Of Bly Manor

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Had je antwoord helemaal gemist whoops!

En nu heb ik gelijk zin in barbecue en het is nog niet eens mei! Helaas zelf geen tuin of balkon maar ik kan vast mijn ouders wel overhalen om iets te organiseren🤔

Oh ik wil echt een keer naar Groningen! Mijn moeder heeft daar ook gestudeerd en heeft het er erg naar haar zin gehad! Mijn probleem is altijd dat ik er niet maar een dagje heen wil maar hotel etc is toch significant duurder dan een retourtje met de trein :')

As someone from Holland (Rotterdam) I can say that having beef with us is incredibly fair. We deserve it. Prinsjesdag is quite Dutch I think yea. Koningsdag too, I'm pretty sure. I remember people on youtube being quite confused about the fleemarkets and little kids playing instruments (god that was AWFUL so glad I only did that like twice and then i quit the violin lmao)

Als het nog wat warmer wordt deze maand kan het altijd 💀 There is always time for a bbq. Desnoods doe je het elektrisch en binnen, met de afzuigkap aan. Kan ook :))

Groningen is een prachtig stadje. Echt bijzonder gezellig (veel meer dan Leeuwarden bijvoorbeeld, hoewel ik wel echt een soft spot heb voor Lwd). Een retourtje kan altijd! Voordat ik er woonde bezocht ik het vaak met een dagpas van de NS (hebben ze die nog steeds? Kocht het altijd voor 15euro bij de Hema). Het zit zo goed op de Grote Markt. En ze hebben nu ook een hele leuke bibliotheek, naast dat asociale gebouw van Vindicat (ik adviseer om nooit door de ramen te kijken het is echt goor).

ROTTERDAM. You’re kidding. That’s HOLLAND Holland. The beef is largely one-sided I believe but the majority of it is largely because of 1) the stereotype that we’re all uneducated rural dick, 2) the idea that our language, accents, and dialects are ugly (they’re not), and 3) the people from Holland who move to the countryside under the assumption that it’s ‘peaceful’ and ‘clean’ and then complain about tractors and farmers spreading manure over the fields. Tbf the latter are usually boomers though, so it makes sense that they’re nagging about normal rural things.

Koningsdag is an experience and I actually figured that different kingdoms also did similar stuff on their monarch’s ‘birthday’. Though I suppose that the orange can be rather… well. Disorienting lmao

#ask #anon #dutchblr #nederblr

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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TIL that the Audubon Society has released official statements on the difference between a "bird", a "birb", and a "borb", featuring such gems as:

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Day 4 of @tamlinweek - Calanmai

Vaguely based off @thrumugnyr's Calanmai comic. Word got around the Great Rite accepts dudes now.

#acotar #tamlin #lucien vanserra #rhysand #eris vanserra #i love this actually

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What I Want You To Know About Long COVID

Well lads, I've been suffering from Long COVID for over a year now. My life is at a complete standstill. I'm 25 years old and I'm too sick to go back to school, I can't work, I had to move back in with my parents and I'm still stuck here.

Here are just a few things I wish people knew about Long COVID, including things I didn't know myself until I got it.

COVID destroys your immune system. Yes, even if you don't have Long COVID. Are you getting sick more often now? When you get sick, does it last longer? There are many studies showing that COVID causes t cell depletion, even in mild COVID cases! T cells are how your body remembers how to fight off infections you've had before so losing those cells? Bad news.

Your initial infection can be mild and you can still get Long COVID. Right from Yale Medicine, "Most people with Long COVID had mild acute COVID." (This is also a good link for a basic Long COVID overview).

There can be a gap of time between when you "get better" from the initial COVID infection to the onset of Long COVID symptoms. Some people get sick with an initial COVID infection and never get better. Some get better and then weeks or months later start developing Long COVID symptoms. Long COVID symptoms can even fluctuate over time, can go away for months and then suddenly come back.

So many people have Long COVID and don't realize it. Do you feel more tired lately but no matter how much you sleep, nothing helps? Is it harder to concentrate at work or school? Can you just not think like you used to? You could have Long COVID and not even know it. Even mild post-COVID symptoms are still Long COVID.

COVID can do anything to your body. Long COVID has over 200 recognized symptoms and can affect basically any part or system of your body. There is no one mechanism or cause of Long COVID which unfortunately also means there's no one cure either.

The effects of COVID are cumulative. Each COVID reinfection increases your chances of developing Long COVID. COVID is also affecting your body in other ways, yes, even if you're otherwise young and healthy! "Repeat COVID-19 infections increase risk of organ failure, death".

Once you have Long COVID, repeat COVID infections will make your symptoms worse. "80% [of Long COVID patients] saw their symptoms worsen [from reinfection]. In 60% of people who were in recovery or remission from Long COVID, reinfection caused a recurrence of Long COVID."

There is a lot more I want to say about Long COVID but I want to keep this post at least somewhat manageable to read. Like how when COVID is contracted during pregnancy, those COVID-exposed fetuses have a 6.3-fold increased risk of motor developmental delays, or that another study found 50% of babies exposed to COVID in utero had developmental delays.

You need to keep caring about COVID, for others around you and also for yourself even if you're "healthy". Everyone is at risk. And don't forget 40-60% of COVID infections are asymptomatic, which is why masking even if you feel fine is crucial. The only way right now to not get Long COVID is to not get COVID in the first place. It's not too late, if you've stopped masking it's never too late to start again! I know it's easy to get distracted by things in your life that seem more real than the possibility of getting sick some time in the future, and the peer pressure to not mask can be intense. But it only feels less real or less important until your entire life is having Long COVID. Trust me.

I know this is a complicated issue, many people can't afford to stay home when sick even if they want to because of their jobs, there are disgusting policies trying to ban wearing masks, but please if you can. Keep masking. Masking works, masking saves lives.

This post got a bit longer than I wanted so below the cut is a non-exhaustive list of my Long COVID symptoms and some of my experiences as one of the "healthy young people" who got "unlucky". cw brief mention of suicidal ideation.

Welcome to the Thunderdome that is my body with Long COVID. Keep in mind these are just my experiences and symptoms, Long COVID can cause any range of symptoms at varying severities.

Dysautonomia: Exercise intolerance, Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM), fatigue, and heat intolerance. What do those things mean? Here's some specific examples. Absolutely terrible circulation I am so cold all the time but also, if I get a little too warm I will pass out. Eating hot food makes my heart rate spike, I sweat, my body feels heavy. Blood pooling and pins and needles in my feet when I walk. Don't even think about exercising past walking, it's impossible. I used to work out an hour a day 4 times a week and now walking up one flight of stairs makes my heart pound and I can't breathe. Can't take even just warm showers anymore or I will pass out. Heat rashes from being in the sun for 10 minutes.

Digestive issues: Honestly too many to name but: constant bloating, extreme nausea, constipation, slow motility, lack of appetite, just so much cramping and pain. I lost 18 pounds from Long COVID, as someone who was already considered underweight their entire life, and almost had to get a shunt put into my chest to deliver nutrients because I was nearly completely unable to eat. For the first 6 months of Long COVID, if I could manage 600 calories a day, that was a good day.

Histamine intolerance: Oh boy. My worst symptoms, I don't even know where to start with it. If you know Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) it's very similar. I can only eat 19 foods. If i eat a single bite of something not on that list, it's 48 hours of absolute hell. Coughing, migraines, itchy eyes, such extreme nausea I cannot even describe it, panic/feeling of doom, racing heart rate, derealization, rash, uncontrollable muscle tremors. I only learned about histamine intolerance 5 months into having Long COVID so before that, I was experiencing these symptoms nearly every single day. Terrifying isn't even a strong enough word to describe how it felt to experience all this and have no idea what it was, how to stop it, or if it would ever stop. Really dark times.

Neurological issues: More of that derealization. Inability to concentrate. Anxiety. OCD-like symptoms such as thoughts getting "stuck" in my head, repeating 24/7 completely unable to stop them, genuinely felt like my brain had cracked open and I had lost my mind. Constant dizziness like I'm on a boat.

Sleep issues: I sleep like garbage. I have insomnia, I wake up dozens of times every night and every single time I sleep I have intensely vivid dreams. I can't sleep longer than 7 hours total no matter how exhausted I am. It is exhausting. I'm exhausted, I'm so so tired.

And finally. Just. Really intense suicidal ideation. My body, my health, my entire life has been stolen from me because someone else decided my life was worth less to them than wearing a mask or staying home if they feel sick. Before I got Long COVID, I was preparing to go to South Korea to teach English, then on to a PhD in neurolinguistics, I was supposed to meet my long distance partner and had already booked plane tickets when I got sick. All of that has been destroyed.

Most of us with Long COVID are stuck in a cycle of being extremely sick, then if you're lucky you'll slowly get better over months, just to get reinfected and go right back where you started or worse. Honestly, I'm not scared of dying from COVID. I'm scared of living for a long time, suffering from Long COVID the entire time. This isn't living.

I don't know how to end this now. I'm still fighting, I'm trying experimental treatments, I'm not giving up yet. I hope everyone reading this stays healthy and well.

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Heb ik ook! Direct de neiging om oranje vlaggetjes op te hangen! Als we het over snert hebben. Ik vind eigenlijk dat de klm naast stroopwafels ook iedereen een kopje snert moet aanbieden, wordt vast een grote hit! Ben trouwens ook helemaal kwijt of wij wel een typisch zomer gerecht hebben? Stamppot en snert etc zijn eerder winter voer in mijn beleving?

Also! Als je toch de ask game aan het doen bent... 1, 2 en 29?

I also think that a national tradition that might seem strange for outsiders would be our high school graduation tradition? The one where we fly the national flag and hang the schoobag of the graduate from it. I don't think they do that anywhere else, but I could be wrong about that

Ik krijg af en toe spontaan het Wilhelmus in m’n kop. Vreselijk. En de snert—geweldig idee! Iedereen wordt happy van erwtensoep denk ik. Met geroosterd bruin brood op een paar mijl hoogte. Perfect. Het hele vliegtuig ruikt gelijk naar een kringloopwinkel.

Typisch Nederlands zomervreten is 100% stokjes of hamburgers op de barbecue, met pindasaus en voorgesneden stokbrood (bonuspunten als er ook komkommer en kruidenkaas is). En zo’n salade in aluminium wegwerp bakken die je bij de slager kan halen (of in een wit plastic emmertje). Dat dus, of groentesoep met vermicelli. Of aardappelen met jus, gekookte boontjes met nootmuskaat, en een gehaktbal, want da’s jaar-rond denk ik.

And also!! Yeah!! I can’t believe I fully forgot hanging up your bag with the Dutch (or your province’s) flag after graduating. Maybe Prinsjesdag as well? And circle-birthdays with a nation-wide set schedule and rules my beloathed.

De Ask Spel:

1. favourite place in your country?

Groningen. I went to uni there (as did a large part of the country) and it has an incredibly special place in my heart. Absolutely lovely city to live in.

To be a little more ‘exact’, the Folkingestraat in the direction of the Vismarkt.

2. do you prefer spending your holidays in your country or travel abroad?

Abroad! The weather is shit 9 out of 10 times! I will go to at least the south of France even if it kills me! Give me heat and a good baguette and I will be happy! But if I see other Dutch people I will shrivel into a shrimp of shame.

29. does your region/city have a beef with another place in your country?

It’s a region in Europe of course we do.

In order of importance: the village 5km away, the city 10km away, the province next door (Groningen), the provinces below the rivers, and Holland in general. You’ll never guess which part of NL I’m from 🫡🫡

#anon #not from the us ask game #dutchblr #nederblr #etc etc

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(different anon than the original ask) I keep forgetting you're also dutch so i got completely jumpscared by rouwe andijvie stamppot lmaoo. Completely agree though! Stamppot is a 10/10 meal especially in winter

Like my mum says, you schrikte van de schrok (but we’re Frisian technically so it’s more like you skrikte van de skrok).

Ik ben altijd zo gigantisch 👀👀 als ik iemand op de helsite zie die misschien ook Nederlands is. Spontane oranje uitingen en dergelijke. Voel de jumpscare dus op een erg persoonlijk niveau. Maar ja!! Stamppot my beloved. Dit land is er op gebouwd. Gelukkig zei ik geen snert, dan waren de niet-Nederlanders spontaan van hun stokje gegaan

#dutch anon!!! #dutch jumpscare #dutchblr #nederlblr #etc etc

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3, 7, and 13 for the not from the US game

hiii!!!

3. does your country have access to sea?

Yes. Like half of it. I grew up really close to it too, though I wouldn’t call the area where I lived ‘beachy’ (the Wadden Sea is very much not. The sand gets placed on the shore manually. It’s all mud and muck naturally). The parts of the Netherlands with direct access to the North Sea do have sandy beaches!!

7. three words from your native language that you like the most?

That one’s HARD but I’ll try!

Hamsteren. A verb meaning ‘to hamster’ literally, but it’s more like ‘to hoard’. Hoard in regards to food, because hamsters hoard food in their cheeks. Remember the great, world-wide loo roll disaster of 2020? Yeah, you were hamstering toilet paper.

Bekokstoven. To make secret plans in a very secretive way. Related to ‘in het geniep’, or ‘secretly’. It comes from ‘bekoken’ (to ‘cook’ something thoroughly; thinking deeply and thoroughly about something) and ‘stoven’ (to braise, to stew).

Desalniettemin. An etymological exaggeration at its core. It means ‘nevertheless’; it is also the superlative of ‘nevertheless’. The words it’s made up of are ‘des’, meaning ‘of this’, ‘al’, meaning ‘all’, and ‘niettemin’, meaning ‘in spite of’ or ‘nevertheless’. So literally, desalniettemin means ‘in spite of all this’, which is still ‘nevertheless’ but even more nevertheless than nevertheless already is. It has existed in Dutch for like 400 years already. I hope it will exist in Dutch for at least 400 more.

13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that might seem strange to outsiders?

I… actually have no clue, so I had to ask:

According to my dad, my mum’s side of the family prepares a fuckton of food for birthday celebrations with visitors. He was baffled when my parents started dating and she took him with him for my cousin’s birthday. Like an outrageous amount of food (I personally think it’s polite).

We also visit the birthplace of relatives after they’ve passed, and during their goodbye dinner, we put a plate of food for them in front of ‘their’ chair along with a candle that remains lit until it burns itself out. You then put the plate outside for birds and other animals to eat the food. I don’t think that’s strange though. Oh! And leaving pebbles and coins on top of the gravestone, but I believe that’s common practice.

#not from the us ask game #chowmein-samosa

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hii!! for the "i'm not from the us ask game" (which is so interesting btw)

4, 5, 11 and 23

dw, i’d almost entirely forgotten about it!!! 💀

4. favourite dish specific for your country?

Stamppot rauwe andijvie, always.

Andijvie is a bitter leaf-vegetable related to endives (its latin name is cuchorium endivia). I can’t find any references on it being eaten anywhere other than the Netherlands but please correct me if I’m wrong about that lmao. You can boil/blanch it, but generally we eat it raw. It’s (in my humble opinion) fantastic in ‘stamppot rauwe andijvie’, which is basically just mashed potatoes, chopped andijvie, some spices, and (usually) thick, baked-dry bacon bits. Some people also add cheese, if they finish it off in the oven like a casserole. We tend to add smoked sausage as well.

5. favourite song in your native language?

(choosing was hard) my favourite song is probably Het Regent Zonnestralen by Acda en de Munnik (‘It’s Raining Sunbeams’). I keep coming back to it.

11. favourite native writer/poet?

Omg I don’t actually read a lot of Dutch books anymore, but I suppose Harry Mulisch! He was a Dutch icon and a tremendously prolific author.

Books I enjoyed by Mulisch are Twee Vrouwen (Two Women), a tragic queer romance that plays with the Orpheus and Eurydice myth (opinions on it are… mixed), and De Ontdekking van de Hemel (The Discovery of Heaven), which is considered a masterpiece (it is) and I really… can’t describe it, largely because it’s so long and so much. But it’s beautiful nevertheless.

Some general lit recs (of which there are English translations):

I also really, really enjoyed De Engelenmaker by Stefan Brijs, a Flemish author—‘The Angel Maker’ in English. Creepy and intriguing and wonderful. Brijs sets an incredible tone. Love stuff that plays with hubris.

The other one is a classic and also has a movie: Het Gouden Ei (The Golden Egg) by another Dutch icon, Tim Krabbé. It’s a short thriller and an easy read. Totally recommend it.

23. which alcoholic beverage is the favoured one in your country?

Beer lol. Can’t go wrong with beer here. There’s some spirits too: jenever (the ancestor of gin), a variety of kruidenbitters (spice & herb liquor, very flavourful), and my beloved advocaat (an almost custard-like liquor made of egg(yolk)s, condensed milk, sugar or honey, and an eau de vie).

#not from the us ask game #heartfeltletters-written

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#27+8 (8 gets ‘cut off’ at the 30 mark leaving 5) +40 = 75

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Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

#stories #folk tales