An impressive Japanese blue and white porcelain vase by Makuzu Kozan, circa 1900, the elegantly thrown upright baluster body painted in tones of underglaze blue with a misty forest landscape of pines and cedars near and far receding into the mists, bold five character seal mark in underglaze blue within incised double circle to base, height approx 60cm (vertical hairline crack to body).
The best piece of writing advice I can give is that you should strive to be sincere rather than original.
You can’t force originality. Originality will arise as a natural consequence of sincerity. Make the story completely and apologetically yours, and originality will come by virtue of it being your story.
Yall sleeping on this Sam L. Jackson interview about trump lmfao.
It’s your uncle, Sam.
He was an activist before he became an actor. He was told to get out of town before he ended up dead as a young man, due to his activism.
This is just more of him being himself, which is as it should be.
People really forgot that Sam Jackson was a Black Panther
I reblogged this without saying anything earlier, but damn it’s so refreshing to see a celebrity that doesn’t feel the need to appeal to literal fascists.
TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries (x)
In 1997 Amelia’s daughter, Mary Moran, and other members of the Moran family were invited to Sierra Leone, West Africa, where they were welcomed in Freetown by Sierra Leone’s President and then flown by helicopter to the country’s interior. There, in the small village of Senehun Ngola, Mary and Bendu Jabati met and sang this song together for the first time. Years earlier, Bendu’s grandmother had told her that this song, which had been passed down in her village from mother to daughter for centuries, would one day reunite her to long-lost relatives.
In addition to finding out where in Africa her ancestors were abducted into slavery, Mary Moran discovered the meaning of the Mende song: a processional hymn for the final farewell to the spirit, it was sung in Senehun Ngola by women as they prepared the body of a loved one for burial.
(The OP’s link leads to a site with a recording of the song sung by both Mary Moran and her mother, Amelia)
Because the original link was broken, I tracked down a news story about how the song is continuing to help Mary Moran’s relatives find their African communities:
Also, there’s an apparently sanctioned link to the full documentary about tracing the song.
I was really fascinated to learn that the song was originally recorded by none other than Lorenzo Dow Turner, the founder of Gullah studies. Gullah was dismissed (by white people) as a nonsense language until a Black linguist trained on Old and Middle English came along in the early 20th century, and I love him.
…suddenly like Mega Salty. like a mix of grumpy and angry and sad and resentful
sooooo imma assume im about to have some kind of Flair Up and see what happens
if prior experience holds out its gonna be a migraine in a day or so
if not…then i guess i got New Issues (oh fucking joy)
…well i’ve been taking preventative meds for migraine and so far no migraine
buuuuuuuut, also im still Angy
so re-evaluating:
im still pre-migraine and its just taking a while to fuck off (i’d be more worried if this wasn’t more warning than i usually get)
im just pissed at disappointing fic wasting my time with incorrect tags on longfic (not the first time, unfortunately probably not the last either(if this is the cause im actually handling it quite well))
im coming down with whatever grandma has that she finally couldn’t hide from us anymore (hope its not covid)
it was a different kind of health flairup
a little bit after the previous reblog it hit and i felt like ass and then when it was done i felt better
so mystery solved
(in better news grandma went to doc and its NOT covid or the flu)
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