When I've only started crocheting amigurumis, it was a challenge. I've tried it before, 10+ years ago back at school, but it was never close to success. So summer 2022 I've decided that I'll try again and was glad that there are so many talented people creating patterns! Starting fresh I've been choosing free patterns at first, to build confidence and get familiar with all the abbreviations and techniques, as I wasn't still sure if it would be a good investment. Heck I would be even more frustrated if I couldn't figure out the pattern that was paid for tbh ... So I'm very grateful to people sharing their tutorials and free patterns, as they really helped me to get into crocheting! Here are some of them! Part 1
you know how you're trying to finish a fic but then you get another idea in the middle of writing it. god. i cant write this lmao
yet another genshin impact otome game/dating simulator au, but probably not in the way you're thinking. just fun trope-y things and you don't have to think too hard about it haha
ok so like. you're this normal person in school leading a perfectly normal life, working a normal part-time job and having other normal friends. but if there's one thing odd about you, it's that the good-looking guys around you dislike you for some reason?? it's not like you go around pissing people off as a hobby, so this is quite uncalled for.
in any case, you wonder if you'll ever have a chance at dating. while riding a bus, you sit next to a strange girl immersed in playing games at her phone. when you sneak a peek, she's busy with............. wooing a guy from an otome game? she catches you staring and instead of getting upset with you for peeking, she excitedly asks if you're interested in dating simulators. truthfully, you aren't, but then she rambles about this otome game she's personally coding and she'd like someone as a beta tester to check for flaws. "you're perfect protagonist material! hell, i'm sure you'll clear it in no time!"
so she takes your phone, downloads her game on it, and leaves no room for argument. before she hops off the bus, she sends you a cryptic smile.
when you load the app, the game interface is pink and sparkly, cheesy glitter hearts pasted everywhere. strangely enough, you already have progress in the story ("72% to your happy ending," it says) and the "new game" button won't work? the characters page is locked too, and you don't know who the male leads are. there's already plenty of problems to report about... you shrug it off and close the app. you weren’t that interested anyway.
the next morning on your way to school, someone tugs off your scrunchie and lets your hair loose/ruffles your hair to make it messy. it's childe, the guy that has tormented you since childhood. you went to the same primary school and when he sat behind you in class, he was the type to tug on your hair or fly paper airplanes on your desk. he still hasn't grown out of that habit. “are you trying a new hairstyle, [name]?” he asks, as if he hasn't just ruined it. you chase him off, him laughing all the way until he enters his classroom.
you go to your own, looking too haggard for this early in the morning. your brooding seatmate, xiao, gives you one indifferent look before turning back to his book. he hardly talks to you outside of paired schoolwork, and the kindest thing he's done for you is probably that one time he lent you pencil leads for your mechanical pen when you ran out of them before an exam.
you fiddle with your hair, deciding to fix it in the bathroom. in your way there, you grab your phone from your pocket, having felt it buzz twice.
the notification is from the dating sim.
beyond puzzled, you tap on it. the characters page has two slots unlocked.
AJAX ; CHILDE
title: childhood bully
favorability: 86%
story: has been secretly harboring a crush for the protagonist since he was a kid. has trouble treating them better or doing romantic gestures for them because he thinks it's going to make things awkward.
XIAO ; ALATUS
title: seatmate
favorability: 63%
story: doesn't know how to talk to the protagonist without coming off as intimidating. needs a little push before realizing he has feelings for them.
you blink at the screen, the twinkling sparkles mocking you as your expression morphs into one of horror.
the day progresses in a similar pattern, your phone buzzing each time you interact with the guys you are — well, were — sure hated your guts. albedo, who was once your lab partner in chemistry and the guy you pissed off when you messed up your practical for a pair project and he ended up getting a bad grade as a result, was described as "a fool in love who doesn't know how to appeal to the object of his affections".
itto, the guy who detroit-smashed your face at a round of dodgeball for gym class and gave you a really bad nosebleed, had "done it because a guy was leering at you but his aim is atrociously bad".
kazuha, that one boy in class who kept glaring at you in every opportunity, is "an artist who is fond of drawing the love of his life, and he hasn't realized they know he's staring at them and getting the wrong idea".
scaramouche, your pissy coworker at your part-time job who you were certain not only hated you but hated everyone in general, is "just as bad with people he likes as much as he is with people he dislikes".
ayato, the so-called cold prince of campus you've never talked to, turns out to be "the secret admirer who sometimes slips flowers or snacks in the protagonist's locker".
perhaps the least surprising character is thoma, who is pretty much kind to everyone he meets, but you were sure he was after your friend ayaka, not you.
the game offers you "events to increase your love interests' affection", such as "heart-throbbing locked in a room scenario ♡" or, "bittersweet injured at sports day and princess carry scenario!!" or, "exciting skipping class event with my senpai who loves napping in the infirmary?!?!!!" or, "jealous doki-doki kabedon after school scenario ☆"
in any case, the game is garbage and you are half-convinced you died in the bus after a car crash accident that very first day and this is some weird dream before you go to hell.
...what counts as a happy ending, anyway? what's the point of receiving their affection, and what happens to the others when you choose only one? do you respawn after the bad end? you have to, right? the save/load feature can travel you back in time, so bringing you back from the dead in the "yandere scaramouche" route is possible..... right?
how do you unlock the "true ending" of the main story so this game will finally end, and just who is this last slot in the character page that remains locked even after several months?
i really want to write bad smut. not bad as in nasty or kinky, but like bad in the way where you would cringe reading it. let me shiw you rq.
gorou: im putting it in now
y/n: wait! we need a condom🥺🥺 i dont want to get preganant
gorou: its okay, i was neutered
LIKE TELL ME THAT WOULDNT BE THE FUNNIEST SHIT EVER.
Freedom will never come unless it is inclusive!
Bongo Cat Amigurumi by Gabriela Krasteva
Free Crochet Pattern Here *** Video Pattern Only ***
Crying…
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[@mc-amps! Your boy!!]
No se porque pero no me deja poner la versión en español TT-TT no se si es por el peso, tratare de ponerla en instagram a ver si me deja
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Gracias por todo el apoyo que les dan a mis dibujitos 💕💕
Pig by Kylie Slee
Free Crochet Pattern Here *** Video Pattern Only ***
Little Bird Amigurumi by Raffaella Tassoni
Free Crochet Pattern Here