#yes I don't only take pics of dutch

[dokiyeom]

THE TAG IS SO SO CUTE ILL END IT 💥💥 u should send me more asks & ill give u an emoji hihi 🫶🫶 IM EXCITED TOO YAY i have so many fic & smau ideas so im glad i can work on them then! (maybe i should tell u a few of them 🤭 ....)

that sounds so nice!! i think i recently ate sukiyaki (?) && it was so so good! baking and mahjong 💔💔💔 im glad u had so much fun because i also completely get what u mean?? i don't have any family here nor do i have any cousins/family members of my age + the distance is just 👎 so im not in contact with any yk

im still . flabbergasted like i want to go 2 japan too hello 😭 tbh at first i thought u lived in maybe japan or IDK but then u said u would show ur friends ur motherlands? so i was like ??? and also I WANNA KNOW UR TIMEZONE PLSPLS pleaseee yes im dutch & french but was born in the netherlands and lived there for 10ish years before moving to France!!

OK I WILL WATCH AN EPISODE SOON THEN!! pls this is so funny YES ik jay + me = twins hihi i hope so too!! that would be really cool but im just waiting impatiently for the official announcement rn so that i can mark it on my calendar, BOOM! ill also go to a big city just before my bday so maybe MAYBE if I have some pocket money i could buy myself a cute dress for the party and or an album teehee YA I HOPE U FIND IT IN JAPAN OMG im curious do u alr have some albums or like merch

i LOVE sudoku omg ,, it's so cool that ur using photoshop like u made ur carrd thingy with that right? it's so pretty i will never not say that. im sure ur gonna do v well hihi 🫶

i will !!! try to drop by ur ask box more frequently !!! unfortunately i’m,, a tiny bit awful at coming up w ideas on what to say but i will try !!!! and hello yes ??? u should 100% tell me abt ur smau ideas !!! or fic ideas in general && in return,, i’ll share some of my horribly messy notes app full of fic ideas w u <3

aagg i’m so happy u enjoyed sukiyaki !! if u get the chance,, i highly rec kansai style sukiyaki unless eating a bit of semi raw egg feels unnatural or intimidating !! i feel like i should b more loyal to kanto style bc i’m from the kanto area,, but kansai sukiyaki is just. wow. && aagg yea i feel u :(( i think it allows for u to b a lot closer a family friends bc they end up sorta being a proxy,, but it does kinda suck not being close or in contact w extended family <//3

i hope ur able to go someday !!! && my time zone is pacific standard time !! or pacific time atm bc of daylight savings,, but i did live in japan for a while &’& am considering moving back there after uni !! and woa hello u live in france ?? that is so cool omg,, i def want to visit france at some point for the fashion museums and exhibitions wraaaa :0 also fun fact,,, i took a plants/human welfare course last yr && the only thing i really rmbr from that was tulip’s apparently caused an economic recession in the netherlands during the early 1600s :D

EXCITED FOR U TO WATCH !! and omg what if the cb announcement is after woozis done posting all the album pics on his instagram :00 but oo what sort of dress would u get ? lw i’m so insanely picky w dresses that for prom i’ve just decided to get a lower costing plain dress && alter it + sew on an egregious amount of accessories

&& yes i have albums !! for merch i have a candy bong && moa bong that i got for the twice n txt concert i went to,, but unfortunately i stood in like for like an hr and a half at the svt concert mercy line only to reach sort of the front area && hear a staff member at the truck yell that carat bongs were completely sold out <//3 i do have. a pc binder that both brings me sm joy && shame for realizing how much money i’ve spent on. silly little pieces of paper w people taking silly little selfies tho. what abt u :0

RIGHT SUDOKU IS SO <3 but it’s also caused me like. sm headaches omg. and thank uu <3 i did make it on photoshop !! but i’m considering making a new one w more of a powerpuff girls/ diff take on a retro cyber theme :D

#aiyah aya !! #answered (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ #aya's lomls ( ´ ∀ `)ノ～ ♡ #dori dearest ꒰๑´ᗜ`꒱*›◡‹꒱꒱

[coldmorte]

✧ These Eyes ✧

#Arthur morgan #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #video games #rdr #red dead redemption #digital photography #western #xbox #xbox one #free roam #rdr photomode #photomode #chapter 1 #colter #mine #eyes #yes I don't only take pics of dutch #I am a vdm shipper after all :P

[natromanxoff]

Queen live at Congresgebouw in The Hague, Netherlands - December 8, 1974

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This is Queen's first show in the Netherlands. The Dutch band "Kayak" played before Queen, but perhaps not as the traditional opening act. Some members of Kayak have claimed that it was a 'double bill' organised by EMI records to promote both bands (thanks to Jeroen Kooistra for the story).

There is a pic of Kayak's guitarist, Johan Slager, seen at this blog, with Queen's monitor (sporting the Queen II crest) in front of him. The photographer didn't take photos during Queen's set as he, like a fair number of people on hand, was a fan of Kayak, not Queen.

Here’s what the blogger wrote:

On 8 december 1974, British rockband Queen -my alltime favourite band, by the way- played at the Congresgebouw in The Hague, Holland. Kayak were support act (although some people say it was in fact a 'combi-concert', organised by EMI Records). Queen were a relatively new band at the time. Like Kayak, their first album was released in 1973. At the end of 1974 they had just had their first European hit with "Killer Queen". Of course, later Queen became one of the biggest bands of all time. But at the The Hague concert in 1974, probably more people were there for Kayak, and not so much for Queen... The members of Kayak don't really have special memories of this gig, although Max Werner does remember getting some 'presentation-tips' from Freddie Mercury, and Johan Slager seems to recall that Queen-guitarist Brian May watched part of the Kayak show backstage, and complimented Kayak afterwards. Ton Scherpenzeel mainly remembers Queen playing 'loud and not quite subtle'... Ton also remembers that he had a very short talk with Queen's drummer Roger Taylor after the show. When Roger asked Ton what he thought of Queen's performance, Ton -not too impressed by the concert- could only say 'Great lightshow'. End of conversation... Road manager at the time was Hans Kloes. He recalls a bit of commotion about Kayak using Queen's PA or not. In the end, Kayak played with their own equipment, and they were quite satisfied with the sound.

The show sold poorly due to bad promotion. People passing the venue were let in for free, so it would appear more full.

Mercury is timid after the first song. "Thank you and good evening, and welcome to the show. This is our first time in Holland, and I know you're going to like it. Yes? It's really nice to see you all. It really is. Right now we'd like to carry on with a number from Queen II; that's our album. And this is Ogre Battle." He delivers the song convincingly. After the audience quickly quieten down afterward, he remarks, "It's so quiet; you can hear a pin drop, you know, one of those things." They warm up to him a bit when they confirm they've heard of Queen II upon his asking.

"We'd like to do a sad number. A very sort of delicate, sad number, so you'd better get your handkerchiefs out. You know those things?" He then introduces White Queen, the third song in a row from their second album.

After the medley, he says (referring particularly to the musical complexity of Bring Back That Leroy Brown): "I hope that took you by surprise. I thought you thought we were a pop group. You know, pop." He says 'pop' in an almost condescending way towards the disposable nature of pop music, light years away from the overtly pop songwriter he'd purport to be in a decade. He continues, "We'd like to do something from our first album. Would you like that?" Someone in the audience promptly shouts out for Liar. "No, Liar will come later on. We won't go away without that. Right now we'd like to do Son And Daughter."

A silent reel-to-reel video (apparently in black and white) of the concert exists, and is said to include backstage footage from before the show. The reels sold at a fan club convention in Rotterdam in the 1990s, and its contents have yet to emerge.

More pictures from this show can be seen in a Dutch book called "Voor Queen En Vaderland" by Edger Hamer. It has concert reviews, commentary by friends and Dutch artists, and a general focus on the relationship between the band and the Netherlands, a nation that truly embraced the band over the years.

#queen #queen band #roger taylor #freddie mercury #brian may #john deacon #queen concerts

[squidproquoclarice]

Don't know what you'd think of this, but my read on Dutch is that his first concern is his own safety, and when his safety isn't a concern his talk is genuine. When everything starts going to shit his selfish nature comes to the forefront and he subconsciously ramps up the manipulation tactics. And I don't how Ch 6 Dutch would have behaved if he wasn't Post-Hosea and brain damaged.

I’m wrapping this into another Ask of “You believe Dutch never loved Arthur, John, or any of them?”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~To answer second Ask very directly, I’d say no, that Dutch never loved any of them.  But that’s due to asking “What is love?”  (Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more).  I’m saying that with the perspective that real, genuine love needs empathy, selflessness, concern for the other person first above yourself.  You can be very fond and affectionate and caring, but if you’re a narcissist who will always, always instinctively want to put yourself first, if you’ll sacrifice them for your needs, then yeah, you don’t truly love them.  You can’t.  But none of them knew it, including perhaps Dutch, because they weren’t pushed anywhere near that until 1899.  The only vague hint we have is his implied habit of going through women and treating them as somewhat dispensable.  (I do think he was fond of Annabelle, but if you dig into it, I’m going to guess at its core it’s mostly anger that something of his was taken from him.  He only talks about her in a sense of outrage that Colm killed her, not the grief for her as a person.  Contrast that to Hosea’s very real grief for Bessie.)To the first Nonny, I think you’re right.  I never would say Dutch is all a cynical act.  He does like and care about these people.  He’s taken them in when they’ve been lost souls and given them a family, and yes, there’s certainly an angle of self-interest in preying on their vulnerability–the ones he finds as kids are particularly painful–but it’s clear he also enjoys these people.  He likes them.  He’s not just seeing them as little toy soldiers who he has to fool by playing nice so he can use them.The trouble with Dutch is, as you say, when the good times are good, his better nature is there.  He can be kind, generous, funny, and it’s easier to downplay the darkest part of the reality, that he’s a silver-tongued egomaniac who’s drawn all these people together into an anarchosocialist cult with him as their godhead.  But there’s room for kindness.  There’s room for affection and pride.  There’s room for him to see Hosea as (almost) his equal and treat him and his opinion with great respect.  Though the fact that it’s very definitively the Van Der Linde Gang, not the Van Der Linde/Matthews Gang, makes it clear that Hosea may be a brother, but definitely subordinate.  There were other outlaw gangs with a more equal partnership definitely noted: the James/Younger Gang, for example, or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid getting equal billing in the Hole In The Wall Gang.  In this case, Hosea’s the quieter junior partner, and even he eventually observes how he’s fallen under Dutch’s spell.Most violently oriented cults don’t hold together for years on end.  I think there’s a reason for that.  Technically the gang’s been in existence for at least 23 (?) years, since I believe Hosea’s news article details him and Dutch breaking out of prison in Ohio in 1876.  They found Arthur in 1877.  Hosea had Bessie, and it sounds like Susan is also an OG.  But that was that for a while, until they brought John into it in 1885.  That changed things again, but I’d argue that the early days of the gang were very different.  It was a small group: Dutch, Hosea, Bessie as Team Mom, Susan leaving her role as Dutch’s lover and becoming Team Spinster Aunt, Dutch’s current lover in any given year, Arthur growing into manhood and his role as Annoyed Older Brother, and John as Little Brother.  That small core family of two kids, two dads, one mom and one aunt (though Bessie sounds to have died before the gang really exploded in size) and one revolving-door girlfriend, seems to have been a fairly set dynamic until c. 1892 or 1893.  It sounds to have been fairly stable, tight-knit, warm and affectionate.  I suspect Arthur’s anxiety settled down when he saw that he’d always be treated and respected as the eldest son, and he and John were actually pretty close until John fucked up with Abigail.  The closest that anyone came to leaving was Arthur riding off for a few days every couple of months to  go see Eliza and Isaac.  This also sounds like the best days of the gang in terms of charity—that article from the bank robbery from the mid-late 1880s that’s clearly Dutch, Hosea, and Arthur happened, and they promptly went and were handing out money to the local poor people and basically being giddy Robin Hoods.  Arthur remembers when they used to help people.  These were the good days.  So in 1892/1893 you have Dutch, Hosea, Arthur, John, Susan, and Dutch’s Current Girlfriend (though I suspect nobody counts her that much since she’s prone to changing every couple of years).  I think Bessie is dead by this point since Hosea makes it sound like it happened before most of the gang members were there. So we’ll say this gang is effectively five people, with one more loosely attached honorary member.  Suddenly the gang population explodes.  It sounds like everyone else joined in the last six years prior to RDR2, probably many in the last two to three.  From Pearson’s pic of the stagecoach likely in 1895, given Abigail holding baby Jack, they had Dutch, Hosea, Arthur, Abigail, Susan, John, Pearson, and Bill, and we know Javier was part of it, Tilly sounds to have been.  That’s ten right there, maybe more.And I think that swapped the dynamic for Dutch too.  Suddenly they’re acquiring every stray, lost soul, and orphan in their path.  He’s not just the fond patriarch of a tight-knit family, he’s got to be the leader, the prophet, the Messiah of a Goddamned movement.  And I think that exacerbates his narcissism.  He has more people to look after, and more people to hold in his sway.  His personality becomes bigger.  His rhetoric and his plans become more grandiose.  He becomes more of the fire-and-brimstone street preacher.  The gang becomes less charitable, more insular, more we take care of our own first, because they’re becoming far more dangerously visible with the need to take care of ten, fifteen, twenty people, and the more constant stream of risk and crimes that comes with it. The population explosion pretty much doomed the gang, I think, because it pushed Dutch’s narcissism to deadly levels, and forced them to start taking on bigger and riskier crimes on a more regular basis.  By 1896 the clock was probably already ticking down, and the pressure of the next few years ratcheted that up until it finally explodes in the Blackwater Massacre and everything that happens after. So to backtrack: I think the Dutch that Hosea, Bessie, Susan, Arthur, and John knew from c. 1876 to 1893 was a proto-narcissist who would have looked out for ol’ Number 1 when pressed hard, yes, but the situation and dynamic they had was a lot more forgiving and brought out Dutch’s idealism, affection, and the like rather than his worst traits.  When the gang started getting bigger, he had more people to hold there, and more risk to keep it all together, the manipulation and grooming and gaslighting ratcheted up too because things had already subtly transformed and started to turn.  You can see some of it in Chapters 1-4 with things like him insisting Arthur will betray him and telling Hosea he needs FAITH NOT DOUBTERS but yeah, it’s really Chapters 5 and 6 that show it.  Missing Hosea’s restraint and with Arthur as the son being unable to take the role of the brother, and with the likelihood of Traumatic Brain Injury/TBI to boot, there was no other way it could have ended, because those were the final nails in the coffin.  But I don’t think it was all Hosea and TBI. The seeds of everyone’s destruction were there long, long before.  I don’t think Dutch is this cynical mastermind and that everything is a deliberate act, mind.  Both those who say that Dutch changed (Sadie, Charles) and those who say he became who he always was (John, Arthur) are right.  He changed and became his true and worst self, and I’m not sure even he fully realized how much he’d been keeping at bay in a far more forgiving situation that let him be his best self.  

#dutch van der linde #arthur morgan #john marston #rdr2 #hosea matthews #thank you for coming to my red talk #Anonymous

[ahloveisboo]

hallo jo!!

sorry dat het zo lang duurde om te antwoorden... het is zo druk geweest deze week! ahhh ok enough but i've never met anyone belgian before! i work in entertainment so i do get to meet people from all over but never anyone belgian! wait no that's not true, one person... but YES omg it is hard. i know german from childhood (in bits, i don't use it lots, i probably actually use dutch more?) so it helps A BIT but not loads? have you always lived in belgium?

I LOVE your story around your accent! it has been so so long since I watched cbbc, you gave me childhood flashbacks. i have a friend of mine who keeps switches between the two depending on who she speaks to haha - do you have a fave accent to listen to?

no matter what it is i think you should do what you love and if you love music enough you'll find a way and manage to succeed, i know it! so never stop yourself wanting to chase doing music (but only if you want to, ofc) i'll root for you if you do! (i mean, i'll root for you whatever, but espesh if you go into music someday!

we've had that here, it's just been a random hodgepodge of seasons and it's been a bit like :/ hahah ok i would literally be santa if that was an actual job, i love it a lot so i can always always help you with all the christmas cheer hahah XD i miss being outside a lot as well - where was the last place you went on holiday? is there somewhere you wanna go soon?

YES to the MVs haha :D

HAHAHAHAH I'm glad the KMK made you laugh haha :D I think I would pick something similar? i find hannie's pet rock agenda really really sweet, it seems so calming? but idk if i'd want to kiss or marry it haha XD

oooh ok my fave vocal unit song is hasjdahdkjashd either come to me or habit or when i grow up - i really low key love their tracks. i forget how much i love their stuff. perfomance would be lilili yabbay aka the love of my life and hip hop unit....... either what's good or maybe back it up? but then i forget i like how much i like chili until it comes on shuffle. you? what are your favorite unit songs?

biases!! jun and dk, but then i semi include vernon, josh and jeonghan too - it's a bit like a bias line sitch?

have the best day, hope you're super looking forward to the end of the week coming up soon and i hope you are doing really well! take care friend <3 <3

carat anon xxxxxxxx

goedemorgen bub, i'm back!

sorry it took so long :( as we speak my mum is doing some more work in my kitchen and i've had barely any alone time this week. have to go grocery shopping right after this.

oh ENTERTAINMENT that sounds interesting. can u elaborate on that a little or is that too much personal info for comfort? i had a brief moment of panic yesterday when a client called in in french and my brain just completely short circuited so fast that i couldn't even apologise for my french being bad in french to her lmao i'm so embarrassed. i was born and raised here, yes!

one of my favourite shows as a toddler was bananas in pajamas hahaha i still remember what it looks like and when i got older i used to watch animated shows like batman and biker mice from mars?? golden oldies. i think it helps that shows are subtitled instead of dubbed here, you pick up a thing or two just by watching. a favourite accent? hmm not so much i think, maybe more northern ones? i know people make fun of those sometimes but as someone from "the north" myself i can appreciate a nice "ugly" accent hahaha. i just like the way it flows? the intonation. scottish/irish is always nice to listen to, too, but more in a sense of how they pronounce their words? if that makes sense?

actually, the last place i went on holiday to was glasgow! we spent one day in edinburgh too which was fun. i'd go back in a heartbeat, i loved it there. i think there's some pics of the trip on my "personal" tag if you want to check them out. what was yours? what's the first trip you want to make once we're able to travel freely/safely again? i really miss travelling and exploring :( there's so much of the world to see!!

wow those are all SOLID unit song choices, i'll give you that. especially habit, which i wholeheartedly agree with! for the hip hop unit mine would be if i, and un haeng il chi. perf unit? um. highlight & lilili yabbay for sure! are you planning on watching caratland this year? i'm lowkey hoping for an age unit switch and i'm anxiously anticipating whoever gets the light a flame stage.......... also a live version of wave!!

JUN AND DK. well deserved!!! that's a combination i haven't encountered before, that's very interesting. and yet, it makes perfect sense. both are very full of light and comfort. and i feel u on the bias line front.. there's just a lot to love there, innit?

i hope u have the loveliest weekend! recharge yourself from the rest of the week, and take care of yourself too <3

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