Pull up the people!

Arden, 19

[honeymushroom]

why is this weird orb screaming at me

[gayjewishfarmer]

[concerningwolves]

Full offense but your writing style is for you and nobody else. Use the words you want to use; play with language, experiment, use said, use adverbs, use “unrealistic” writing patterns, slap words you don’t even know are words on the page. Language is a sandbox and you, as the author, are at liberty to shape it however you wish. Build castles. Build a hovel. Build a mountain on a mountain or make a tiny cottage on a hill. Whatever it is you want to do. Write.

[somecutething]

[little-miss-rasputin-pageant]

the poetic cinema in the movie Holes when it shows Kate Barlow in the schoolhouse and drops of water are falling on the book she’s reading and you think the roof is leaking again even though Sam fixed it but then it shows that it’s actually because she’s crying and then Sam walks in and looks at her tear stained face with the softest expression and says, “i can fix that.”

[little-miss-rasputin-pageant]

[weary-hearted-art]

Walasse Ting, Grasshoppers, 1964

[dahliaborne]

recipes for your garden party

[ereereee]

my primary goal is to have a calico cat and a sunlit kitchen

[beco-diagonal]

[kochamchleb]

[ps1]

gotto510

[the-embodied-image]

[pikckelss-deactivated20201015]

[incorrectgreekmyths]

Reblog if you think african mythology should be represented more in media

[sassystarlightcollection-deacti]

Absolutely

[nuggetisawesome]

One of my favourite myths is one about cheetahs getting their streaks from the tears of crying mothers through the generations. It’s possible the most beautiful story imo in existence.

The version I was taught in Zulu was that a mother loses her cubs to a hunter. After hiding them in a bush and going to hunt, the Hunter- being too lazy to hunt traditionally - steals them, and so distraught she cries and cries until the tears stain her cheeks. A wise man, hearing this, comes and helps her. Hearing that her cubs were taken he tells the whole village about the selfish hunter, who is then banned.

Now cheetahs wear those stains to remind everyone that it is only honourable to hunt traditionally.

It would be epic if some of our myths and legends were represented more because some of them are plain gorgeous, whilst others like the tokoloshi are practically key to understanding the culture.

[pacificremains]

Baby buns! Domestic rab-bit (L) and mountain cotton-tail (R ). Very interesting morphological differences that you might not notice were they not side-by-side.

[wizzardbaby]

@pangur-and-grim seems like something you’d be interested in

[babydreamgirl-deactivated201902]

[ruinedchildhood]