I don't even know, man.

“The folklore among knitters is that everything handmade should have at least one mistake so an evil sprit will not become trapped in the maze of perfect stitches. A missed increase or decrease, a crooked seam, a place where the tension is uneven - the mistake is a crack left open to let in the light. The evil sprit I want to usher out of my knitting and my life is at once a spirit of laziness and of over-achieving. It’s that little voice in my head that says, I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.”

The English and more generally the Brits learn nothing about their empire and colonialism. It is currently not compulsory for primary or secondary school students to be educated on Britain's role in colonisation. European teachers of mine at our Scottish University did a survey asking British students what they knew about colonialism by their government and they knew nothing. Nothing. Colonialism had happened and it was bad - when, where, how and to what extent none of them knew. The Empire was something positive or neutral in their mind but they had no idea what it meant effectively. We French and German people knew much more than they did, and that's something given colonialism is very little covered in Germany and still not extensively covered in France (though it's the subject of multiple History and Geography lessons from middle school to high-school and the main subject of one module in philosophy). I was in an international British section in my French high-school, and my French British History and Geography teacher had to constantly correct and question the official lesson plans he was supposed to follow to give us the bigger picture. So I wasn't even shocked when my classmates discovered in Irish literature class that Ireland was Britain's first colony, and that the bloody methods of plantations were tested there before being exported to America.

Open the door! :3c

This is one of my favorite posts because that cat’s fucking name is fucking meatloaf