December 23, 2023 - Activists from Workers for Palestine NL disrupted the Christmas shopping at the Bijenkorf mall in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, calling on shoppers to boycott brands that help fund Israel's genocide and occupation of Palestine. [video]
Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau shared these two pictures on her Instagram page of herself with her sister, Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, during their ski holidays in Morzine-Avoriaz, Switzerland -December 31st 2023.
📷 : Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau on Instagram.
Hey peeps, spent a few days in the lovely Zeeland in the Netherlands 😊 with my goddaughter and her mum. I'll be back to replying but wanted to show some pictures!
So I visited Amsterdam over the weekend, and of course it's the Netherlands so I was surrounded by tulips. An abundance of tulips, everywhere, in all varieties.
Of course my brainrot set in, there has to be a Kanthony Amsterdam AU right? What with all the coffee shops too, it's just asking to be a fanfic:
Maybe he's a florist, and she randomly comes in one day for a bunch, he helps her choose the perfect bouquet and unbeknownst to her he's an obsessed clown already and matches the shades of tulips to her lips.
Maybe she's the lead guide for a walking tour, and he's taken the tour multiple times and always asks her irrelevant questions to wind her up, they bicker and naturally fall into a huge flowerbed of tulips.
Maybe they're both tourists on a canal cruise, and just hit it off (in their argument/flirting type of way), everyone else on the boat can tell they're in love already, no overt tulips but just mentions of them as a constant in the scenery.
Maybe just a straight forward 420 'coffeeshop' smut (but the coffeeshop is called "2 lips" and their logo is a mouth taking a drag, get it? So the tulips thing is only in pun form here).
Anyway
These were some of the thoughts plaguing me when I kept seeing those flowers. I've not searched AO3 to see if any of those exist yet, but I can only assume there'll be something related.
I'd planned to have a relatively chill time and spend the few days in aimless exploration, perhaps even complete some of my unfinished add-on fic chapters or some edits in peace (ideally while sat in a cafe overlooking a canal).
But my sister invited herself along last minute (also did I kinda foreshadow this for myself, with the beginning of the last Anthony week fic 'Yours'? Lol), and planned so many things for us to do so that I wouldn't have a moment's rest. It was marvelous - my feet are just very very sore. I obviously need to go back solo...