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Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

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Want to learn something new in 2023??

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Beekeeping 101

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??

How to use and sew with a sewing machine

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that's okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece's black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

How to garden

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Ukrainian

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2024??

Beginner-oriented video on how to sail

This guy has so many videos on baking different types of bread. SO very many.

Coding in Python - one of the most flexible and adaptable high-level programming languages out there - explained through projects making video games

Learn to swim! (for adult learners. I don’t care if you live in Kansas or Mali or wherever. LEARN TO SWIM.)

Learn how quantum mechanics works. Then read some more about it

[Learn about quantum mechanics again, but in a more advanced engineering/mathematics class. Then read more about the math and physics of it]

Poetry Handbook, by Mary Oliver

Something I learned this year: how to sew a quilt (Here’s a very easy beginning pattern that looks amazing and can be done with pre-cut fabric!)

How to hit the ball in softball

Tutorial video on what is under the hood of most (gas) cars + weird engine sounds and what they mean

Full beginner mechanics technical training, if you want to go more in depth

Playlist on how car engine physics work if you want to go ultra in depth

Lecture series on architecture design through study of buildings

How (American income) taxes & tax law work (choose “audit course” at checkout for free class)

Pickleball for beginners (so you can finally join your neighbor/friend/distant cousin who is always insisting you join their team)

+ Para-Pickleball for beginners (for mobility aid users!)

School is so much more fun when there’s no tests:

American Law - Contracts

Shakespeare’s Life and Plays

Fairy Tales: Meanings, Messages, and Morals

Modern Poetry

World History [Part 1, Part 2]

Learn a language:

Arabic + Resource Guide compiled from Reddit (includes info on different dialects)

Chinese (Cantonese) (audio)

Urdu (frequently recommended course on Reddit) + Resource Guide

Yucatec Maya

[sunshineandlyrics]

😉 we are happy you didn't keep your word about this Louis 🙏🏼

🇺🇸 5 October 2025, ​AFHF NY 2025

"This will be the only time I'll play this song! The one and only time!"

🇩🇪 2 April 2026. HDWGHWT Cologne

"I'd like to think I'm a man of me word, but I did say I was only going to play once, but here we are"

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nobody writes odes to parasocialism like louis tomlinson i'm afraid "All the ways you need me I need you the same And you're the reason why We'll stay until it's over We'll keep growing up side by side" - Side By Side (How Did I Get Here?, 2026)

"I said you know me alone, we're only just as good as the rest together we're the greatest [...] we're the greatest it's you and me until the end life for us is never over" - The Greatest (Faith in the Future, 2022)

"We made it, underestimated and always underrated" - We Made It (Walls, 2020)

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sorry let me also add the iconic line and live call & response:

"for every question why, you were my because"

- Walls (Walls, 2020)

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I need all the pics in one post 🔥

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it's a god damn LILO primer

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[goodmorningtomyblorbos]

THANK YOU!!

You saw and noticed the same thing I did. That he’s so attuned to others, he doesn’t even know how to really be selfish. If someone really pressed him on it, his version of being selfish would be to want more for his sisters maybe. To be selfish for them, to favor them, or to be biased for them in some way.

Him feeling guilty that his grief affects Oli is just more of same.

It’s sooo interesting how he is not even aware at all that this isn’t how people are. A lot of it is obviously how his relationship with Jay was and how he learnt to just “be” as a very very young kid.

But you can see how he has no other mode of operation. He simply doesn’t know any other way of being.

Hi anon,

I think it fascinates me because he is rather introspective and philosophical, but then when it comes to this it's like his entire self consists out of the people he's loved in his life. There's no singular Louis that exists outside of that.

And I wonder if it's in a way a survival mechanism, a self-preservation mode where you don't want people to worry about you so you make it your job to worry about others and ensure they do well in life. Because that's something you're good at, making other people feel good.

Obviously like I said earlier we all see and hear what we want to, and surely my take and perhaps also yours is influenced by our own experiences in life. I definitely relate to finding it hard to chart your own path, because you're so used to always taking others into account and putting that before your own needs - because you never took the time to even identify what those needs might be.

It stood out to me though that when he said the reason he doesn't like talking about it is because he doesn't want it to define anything - that it's not fair to his mother, to his sisters, to his family. And I just thought, it's also not fair to you, Louis. Because you are more than the cards life has dealt you, always have been, always willl be. But he wasn't able or didn't want to articulate that. It just says a lot that even then his head isn't even at what it means for him, but mostly what it means for his loved ones.

And it's obviously so much that happened in such little time, that it also makes sense he's still working through all of it. And grief is private - you shouldn't have to process that in front of the entire world watching you. So it's still very brave that he shared as much as he did, even the parts where he now reflects on and goes 'i know that's not rational, but it was my very honest, human reaction to it. like e.g. feeling that guilt for Oli for having to grieve for him. But that suggests he has deifnitely also reflected a lot on how he might've responded in the moment, versus understanding now why things happened the way it did, or why he felt that way. And that's really emotionally intelligent.

In any case, it's still clear that Louis managed to avoid talking very specifically about himself when he probably just didn't want to, or delving deeply into e.g. him so off-handedly mentioning he can't pinpoint dates because his brain has deleted it for him. I think there were other elements were they sort of skimmed around some of the looming, more prodding questions - and that's very fair. I'm happy he got to set those boundaries, talk about how these events have shaped him on his own terms, and share what he wanted to and nothing more.

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Louis full show of AFHF 2025.

Part 1.

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Louis's show [AFHF, 05.10.25].

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[veryfastnighuncatchable]

You know what I would love to see? A little role reversal in the Yard's reactions to Holmes and Watson.

No one at Scotland Yard is put off by Sherlock Holmes. Sure, they all know he's a little weird, but in their field who's not a bit strange? And he's damn good at what he does too, and he's really very nice when you get to know him.

You know who they are terrified of? Watson.

Because Holmes had found himself a flatmate, and everyone was prepared for the certain level of strangeness that must accompany anyone rooming with one Sherlock Holmes. But Watson is deceptively ordinary, and that's where the fear starts.

Because this man is a civilian, a doctor, he wears knit jumpers for god's sake, and he should be the everyman presence at the Yard. But any officer can tell you that Watson is the one you need to watch out for, because Watson will shoot a man at point blank range for looking at Holmes wrong, and then have a cup of tea about it afterwards and look at you like you're the crazy one. Watson once tackled a serial killer for no reason other than the fact that he could and no one had told him not to. Watson, early on in his whatever-he-has with Holmes, had arrived at an absolutely gruesome double murder and not batted an eye.

So yeah. The officers at Scotland Yard are absolutely terrified of Dr. John H. Watson.

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Agreed, @veryfastnighuncatchable.

It's the quiet ones you need to fear.