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nadinestorying

@nadinestorying@zirk.us

Liminal storyteller. Prose and poetry published in adda, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed Mag, and elsewhere. Jamaican to de bone. Learning Hangeul (first time) and Spanish (again). She/her

Posts about (but not limited to):

Storytelling
Poetry
Folklore and mythology
Caribbean history, literature, languages, and culture
Anime, K-pop, K-dramas, etc.

(some of my posts are hurled into the exosphere after a while)

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nadinestorying, to folklore
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For tonight’s Full Moon:

In the late 1800s, Jamaican children would play Moonshine Baby on the night of a full moon. Claude McKay recalled his father telling them that “the making of these moonshine babies was an old African custom and that different villages used to compete in the making of them.” (“Boyhood in Jamaica”, Phylon (1940-1956), Vol. 14, No. 2 (2nd Qtr., 1953), pp. 134-145)

Olive Senior wrote about this game in her poem “Moonshine Dolly”.

#Jamaica
#Folklore
#Poetry

nadinestorying, to Writers
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“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis?... Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can’t put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.”

— Erin Bow


nadinestorying, to random
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For this week’s #MythologyMonday theme, Brews and Potions, an excerpt from Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women:

“Homer send her to the man lodging to rob a spoonful of gunpowder. Then Homer send Gorgon up to the hill with no tree and she come back with a cup of dirt from Massa Patrick Wilson grave. Homer mix the two in a glass and fill the glass with rum...

Homer prick Lilith thumb and she wince. Homer stick Lilith thumb in the glass until the potion start to turn red.”

#Jamaica

nadinestorying, to climate
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

If you’re a Caribbean writer who resides in the Caribbean, submit your poetry, fiction, or non-fiction by June 7, 2024 to Writing for Our Lives, “an anthology of stories illuminating the urgency of the climate crisis for people and communities of Caribbean states marked by their varied yet substantial vulnerabilities”.

Learn more:

https://thecropperfoundation.org/writingforourlives/



nadinestorying, to 13thFloor
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In one of the Nahua creation myths, “The giant earth monster Tlaltecuhtli (“Earth Lord”), a crocodile-like creature, swam in the sea searching for flesh to eat. The gods turned themselves into serpents, entered the sea, and tore Tlaltecuhtli in half. The upper part of her body became the land, and the lower part was thrown into the sky to become the stars and heavens.” (Michael E. Smith, The Aztecs (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996)

#MythologyMonday
#Mythology
#CincoDeMayo

nadinestorying, to poetry
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The Early Caribbean Society will host Poetry for Liberation: From Haiti to Palestine on Friday, May 10, 2024 at 12 p.m. EST with readings from poets, students, and instructors. Donations to Care for Gaza.

Meeting registration:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpcu2uqT0qGdxZPN8zvFxYbiodxc-2Y7QT#/registration


nadinestorying, to random
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What will it take for people to understand that the sea is the home of sharks and countless other predators? This is heartbreaking.

https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/tha-condemns-slaughter-of-sharks-at-buccoo-6.2.1991321.0e8397b11f

msquebanh, to nature
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at .

Yellow rocketcress flowers
Yellow balsamroot flowers
White hawthorn flowers

nadinestorying,
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@msquebanh The balsamroot flowers resemble sunflowers. Are they related?

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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Dancing can cause all sorts of passions - some of them rather dark ones...

#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://www.patreon.com/posts/headless-41100420

nadinestorying,
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@juergen_hubert Is this ghost rider the inspiration for the Headless Horseman in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?

nadinestorying, to dance
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Kumina, an Afro-Jamaican religion based on communication with the ancestors, has Congolese origins and was brought to Jamaica by indentured Africans in the 1840s-1860s. The ritual dance, along with drumming that summons and controls the spirits, “seems to be the bridge between esoteric and the exotic...” (Olive Lewin, “Jamaica’s Folk Music”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amM1048JTDo

Prof. Nettleford and the Kumina performance: https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2021/11/27/kumina-turns-50/

#MythologyMonday theme: #Dance
#Jamaica
#Caribbean

nadinestorying, to random
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“Earlier this month, Jamaica’s Taino chief, Kasike Kalaan Nibonrix Kaiman, gave a presentation titled, ‘Stories as medicine: Taino and African Healing and the Environment in Jamaica’, at Northeastern University.”

https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240418/jamaicas-taino-chief-speaks-abroad-stories-medicine



nadinestorying, to random
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A team from the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ) will go to Glasgow to retrieve a Jamaican Giant Galliwasp, a species now presumed extinct. This is said to be the first repatriation of a natural history specimen in the Caribbean.

https://news.sky.com/story/170-year-old-lizard-specimen-to-be-repatriated-from-scotland-to-jamaica-13117977


nadinestorying, to kpop
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“Knock, knock!” It’s MAMAMOO rocking suits in their live performance of Décalcomanie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFp1zmytR6U

#KpopMonday theme: #SuitDance
#Kpop

nadinestorying, to random
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TIL about a Japanese legend for finding cats that leave and never return home (and I’m so soft rn 🥺):

Talk to the street cats in the neighbourhood as if you would talk to anyone and ask them about your cat. Describe your cat, tell them your cat’s name, and ask them to help you find him/her. Tell them how much you love your cat and want him/her to come home. They will communicate with each other to help your cat return home.

(via Malin Chinthaka)

nadinestorying, to random
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A Caribbean literary giant has joined the ancestors. Rest in peace, Maryse Condé 💔 🕯️


msquebanh, to random
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I see - a fish, in dish(soap).

#DoYouSeeWhatISee #ActiveImagination #WorldInMyEyes #dishsoap #FishLike

nadinestorying,
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@msquebanh Yep, I see it too.

nadinestorying,
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@msquebanh omggg YES!!! Looks bewildered fr 😄

nadinestorying,
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@msquebanh 😄

It's fascinating to me how the brain works. Pareidolia and (sidereal) Pisces season ftw 😉

msquebanh, (edited ) to Trains
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#MonochromeMonday

#TrainTracks & #trail - I'd love for commuter rail to be built on the island.

#VancouverIsland #CowichanValley #VanIsle #NatureTrail #railroad #ExploreVanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #SamsungGalaxy10

nadinestorying,
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@msquebanh Did you snap this? It's moody in a lovely way.

nadinestorying, to random
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TIL that some Black American midwives used to use a Hoodoo tradition of applying cobwebs to stop bleeding, and now I need to do further research on birth traditions in Jamaica.

nadinestorying, to random
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"Long-term loan deal"? 🤨

Why do they keep perpetuating the lie that the Taíno are non-existent when their descendants are very much alive and well in Jamaica and throughout the Caribbean and the Americas?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/09/british-museum-tribal-artefacts-jamaica-ghanaian-gold/






nadinestorying, to poetry
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Jean "Binta" Breeze, who was born on March 11, 1956, was a storyteller, cultural activist, an author, and the first Jamaican woman dub poet who performed her work in all parts of the world. Her poetic vision was “to make words music, move beyond language into sound.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN8buYd8y0E

"Writing the Woman’s Voice: On the Verandah with Jean “Binta” Breeze": https://academic.oup.com/cww/article/12/1/1/4564768

#Jamaica
#Poetry
#DubPoetry
#CaribbeanLiterature
#OnThisDay

nadinestorying, to ghana
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Happy Independence Day, Ghana 🇬🇭

https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/36886

#Ghana
#WestAfrica
#Africa
#AfricanArt
#Art

nadinestorying, to folklore
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When someone loses a tooth, a Jamaican custom is to throw it on the rooftop and say, "Rat-a-tat! Rat-a-tat! Tek mi ole teet' an' gimme a new one." The belief is that this prevents the rat from coming for the rest of one's teeth and ensures that one would receive a new tooth.

#MythologyMonday theme: Teeth
#Jamaica
#JamaicanFolklore
#Caribbean
#CaribbeanFolklore
#Folklore

nadinestorying, to shortstory
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Today, I learned that "The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo is an American short story published in 1819 by the pseudonymous Uriah Derick D'Arcy. It is credited as "the first black vampire story, the first comedic vampire story, the first story to include a mulatto vampire, the first vampire story by an American author, and perhaps the first anti-slavery short story"" with proximity to the Haitian Revolution. (Wikipedia)

https://archive.org/details/the-black-vampyre-a-legend-of-st.-domingo-by-uriah-derick-d-arcy

#ShortStory
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