@BigAMGBenz @WeimarPilled @Christelyn How would you know? I think its because black men love white dick more than anybody. That's why yall get so mad when you see BW/WM together.
@KLV92168164@siya_later___ @Lorenzojulien1 @BlackAndNative1 How don't Black American have nothing to do with skin? Otherwise you would just be American. And American don't have anything to do with race at all.
I started this blanket the day after my stroke. Couldn't hold the hook properly for the first two months, my right hand just hung there useless while my physical therapist kept saying "small movements, we'll get there." I'm fifty-three years old and I had to relearn how to grip a crochet hook like I was five.
My daughter wanted to put me in assisted living. Said I couldn't take care of myself anymore, said she was worried. I understood, I really did, but the idea of giving up my independence because my brain betrayed me made me want to die. So I told her I'd prove I could still function. I'd make the most complex blanket pattern I could find, and if I finished it, she'd let me stay in my house.
Found this Irish lace pattern online from a woman in Dublin who teaches traditional stitches, and she spent hours on video calls walking me through each cable twist while I cried in frustration. My therapist let me bring my project to sessions, said working my fingers on the yarn was better therapy than any exercise she could give me. Seven months. This blanket took seven months of sitting in that therapy room three days a week, forcing my damaged hand to remember muscle memory it lost.
Every stitch in this thing is a battle I won. Every bobble represents a day I didn't quit. The pattern has twelve different cable variations and I can tell you exactly which sections I made on my worst days because the tension's tighter, angrier. My daughter came to therapy yesterday to see me finish the border, and when I held it up she just stood there crying. She hasn't mentioned assisted living since.
Listed it in my new online shop this morning. Already have six orders from other stroke survivors who need to prove to themselves and everyone else that they're still capable. I'm making blankets that say "I survived and I'm still here creating." My hand shakes when I work now, always will, but it works. That's enough.
By Emilia Berry
@chetthomas96@factualpain@MyronGainesX Bullshit. He probably got that clip from YouTube and it's insane amounts of these entitled idiot videos with white women. Usually I dont do the whataboutism but he really is just pandering to his white male fan base.