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Zak Ové — La Diablesse (forged metal, woven textiles, fishing nets, driftwood, 2013)

#Zak Ové #british art #contemporary sculpture #la diablesse #caribbean folklore

WE DID IT! Liquid Sunlight is officially published on Amazon! ☀️🌊

Ya girl is a published author now, and I honestly can't believe my dream came true. Little me would be in absolute disbelief that we actually wrote and published an original book. I’m so incredibly proud of myself for taking this leap, and I feel like I've written something that not only makes me proud, but will make my family, my friends, and all of you proud, too!

I truly couldn't have done this without you believing in me. You gave me the courage.

When I first got back into writing after going through a really bad time back in March of 2024, it was just a way to cope. I was so terrified to even publish on AO3 and Tumblr—I genuinely thought no one would care about my story (shoutout to Steadfast Hearts and Levi x Tiana!). But a dear friend read the massive Google Doc I had been hoarding, loved it, and pushed me to share it with the world. Eventually, I took the plunge in September 2024 when I made my Tumblr, AO3, and then eventually my Patreon.

Then, I got to connect with all of you.

Hearing how my stories affected you, made you happy, and brightened your days changed everything for me. It made me realize that the stories I wrote from places of pain and isolation could be alchemized into joy and wonderful emotions for others. Something just clicked in my brain that my purpose is to use my writing to make people feel joy and evoke emotions and thoughts that sometimes can't be reached on their own.

I am so eternally grateful to you guys. You have no idea, and no amount of words will ever be able to convey it.

I hope you enjoy Liquid Sunlight. I hope you fall deeply in love with Naomi and Ezra, as well as my other characters. I hope you get swept away by the world, the lore, and my Bahamian culture! I hope this book makes you feel everything and makes you think about the complexities of this bizarre, wonderful world we live in. I love you all so much!

Here is the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTK4SYT1

PHYSICAL COPIES ANNOUNCEMENT!

The Paperback and Hardcover editions will be available for purchase on Monday, April 27th!

The night-soil men can see a bird walking in trees. It isn’t a bird. It is a woman who has removed her skin and is on her way to drink the blood of her secret enemies. It is a woman who has left her skin in a corner of a house made out of wood. It is a woman who is reasonable and admires honeybees in the hibiscus.

Jamaica Kincaid, from At the Bottom of the River

#Caribbean folklore #Jamaica Kincaid #Caribbean literature #Read Caribbean #Caribbean #soucouyant

cryptid of the day !!! Day one - Lusca

Maritime mythical cryptid! Thought to have the upper body of a shark, lower of an octopus.

From caribbean folklore!

The Lusca is said to exist in the blue holes near Andros, an island in the Bahamas

It is also said to hunt and prowl the Gulf and areas near the Mexican shore

Lesser known cryptid

Prowls the deep and feeds on boats & swimmers !

Very large cryptid (over 250+ feet long)

The Haunting of the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway

In (belated) honour of Halloween, here’s a spooky urban myth from Claxton Bay. Photo by Hayden Roach.

From Life in Trinidad and Tobago:

”This story dates back to the 1900s, where a young woman becomes the victim of circumstance in this tragic romance.

The lore says, in 1909 the daughter of a Spanish overseer on the Forres Park Sugar Estate, named Maria, fell in love with an Indian labourer who worked there. Maria’s parents, especially her father, did little to hide their disdain toward her relationship. One night, the overseer saw his daughter and her lover in what is described as a “compromising affair”, and became furious. So he waited, and when the young man left his daughter’s company, he made it clear to her that she wasn’t to see him again. But, Maria was in love, and had no intention of ending her relationship with the young man, and retorted that she’d rather die.

When his daughter refused to comply, he took an alternative approach calling upon his most loyal workers to execute the labourer. As the overseer of the estate, it was not difficult for him to persuade them to get the job done. However, word got back to Maria of her father’s plan, and was advised to warn her lover of his inevitable fate if he didn’t leave. Angry and terrified she left her home on a mission, determined to save her love. Unfortunately, Maria never makes it, on her way to him she is bitten by a snake but still she continued on, weakened by the venom, she falls to her death from the hill. Whether, the labourer is murdered by her father’s men, or they find Maria’s body before they could, is not known.

Grief stricken by the loss of his daughter, her father constructs a statue of the Virgin Mary in her memory, on the estate’s tallest hill where he pleaded for her forgiveness. Over the last century, since her death, people claimed to have seen Maria’s ghost trying to cross the Solomon Hochoy highway, where the statue still stands today, although decapitated.”

From Angelo Bissessarsingh’s Virtual Museum of Trinidad and Tobago:

“Many motorists travelling this stretch of roadway in the dead of night have been brought to a screeching halt or worse by swerving to avoid the apparition of a young girl seen darting across the double carriageway. Some have actually stopped to explore the nearby bushes on the verge of the roadway for evidence of her flight but to no avail.

This manifestation is said to be the phantom of the dead child of Forres Park who is searching through time and space for her head, for long ago, the statue atop the hill was decapitated and the head was lost along with much of the torso.”

#trinidad and tobago #caribbean #west indies #west indian #trinbagonian #trinidad #trinidadian #ghost stories #caribbean folklore #folklore #urban legends

I want to learn more about African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latino, and continental African folklore!!!

Especially the horror stories!!! I already know some but there’s so much I don’t know!

Can anybody please suggest any books or resources that talk extensively about folklore from these communities 🙏🏾?

#06 speaks #folklore #african american folklore #caribbean folklore #afro caribbean folklore #african folklore #afro latino folklore #horror #black horror #folk horror?

A lil (late) Good Friday horror comic.

There's a well known superstition that one must never go swimming, or even to the beach on Good Friday because without fail someone has drowned.

there was a discussion on caribbean Twitter talking about making a horror short story/film about this superstition and I couldn't get it out of my head, so this was my take on it!

experimenting with black and white and watercolour brushes in fresco!