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babylon-crashing · 1 month
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[X marks the spot: the only lending library on Culebra.]
Q: Would you ever give a lost Tarot deck a good home?
Every year I travel to the tiny island of Culebra, off the coast of Puerto Rico, to frolic in the ocean and explore coral reefs. It's so small that there is only one stop sign and most of the residents tootle around in golf carts. There are no cruise ships, no mega-hotels, no nightlife, no drunken entertainment. It's humble. It's beautiful. It always feels like home when I return.
There use to be a public library but for complicated reasons that have nothing to do with this post it was closed down a few years ago. Regardless, every year I bring an assortment of books that I find fascinating and leave them in the little free library that someone erected in the downtown of the island's village, Dewey. Last year it was all about one of my favorite poets, Alejandra Pizarnik. This year I'm bring Barbara Smith's Home Girls anthology, the poetry of Pat Parker and Celia A. Sorhaindo's collection, Guabancex, named after the Taino goddess of hurricanes.
I'm also bringing something slightly different, a Sea Witch Tarot deck and its grimoire that I wrote in 2023.
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The book isn't just an user guide for Tarot, it's much of my writing on the theme of Sea Witchcraft. I include tidal charts, spells, history, poetry, maps and translations as well as the art that went into the deck.
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I have no idea who on Culebra needs this but that's not really the point. I have faith that these gifts will make their way into the right hands provided that I'm open and listening. Who knows what will happen? It will be, as they say, a grand adventure.
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viejospellejos · 9 months
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Y voló!
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nawneesama · 4 months
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I hate tourists.
I hate tourists. Call me toxic all you want, but I hate them with a burning passion. They're nothing but a reminder that my land is a playground to them. My history is just a story to them. My culture is for them to appropriate. My people are slaves to them. My people are targets to them. Vieques was used as bombing practice for 63 years, and I didn’t know. We had a god named Atabey, the mother of our land, whom we loved, and I didn't know. Christ was the only “god” I knew. Our homes are nothing but hills to be plowed so the Americans can come and build their resorts upon the corpses and memories of our people. To them, we are just a vacation destination. We are a place for them to get drunk and party their cares away. But we can't party, we're stuck living here in the crisis they created. “Come on down to Puerto Rico: La Isla Del Encanto! Or did you think that was Colombia, thanks to Disney? You won't care either way when your blood is pumped full of bacardi! Since you love it so much, why not just move here? Look, one of our locals just moved out to the states, why don't you take their home?” May you drown in the resort pools. May you be cut by our reefs. May you be burned by our sun. May you be beaten by our people. Whenever tourists enter my bar, all I can see are colonizers, the erasure of my people, the erasure of who I am. Of who we are. They do not see my people, all they see is their next vacation.
I hate tourists.
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comicsiswild · 1 month
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Suicide Squad (2021) #9
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bam-stroker · 22 days
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Woe, horny race car rival robots be upon ye
This one is named SB (but he also goes by Star Boy)
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And then his rival... Culebra (✿◡‿◡)
They're nonbinary because I simply must💕
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Annnnnnd their dynamic
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7deadlysinsfics · 8 months
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mini photo/video dump from my vacation 🤍
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kamikozen · 2 years
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Anyways….. just got back from a long weekend in Culebra. 🏝
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daily-spanish-word · 6 months
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snake la culebra
Imagine a cool snake (wearing sunglasses) riding a zebra, or maybe even wearing a bra, but in any situation: always staying as cool as the Fonz.
Seen from the sky, the river looked like a snake. Visto desde el cielo, el río se parecía a una culebra.
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rutasandinas · 1 month
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🧬🐍
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fetichesonoro · 4 months
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Santa Sabina, longevous jazzy prog-rock from Mexico City
Santa Sabina is a Mexican rock band that originated in Mexico City. It was established in 1989 by Rita Guerrero, the lead vocalist, along with (Alfonso) Poncho Figueroa on bass, Pablo Valero on guitar, and Jacobo Lieberman on keyboard. Juan Sebastian Lach served as a keyboardist for a period. The band's name pays tribute to Maria Sabina, the Mazatec shaman from Oaxaca. Santa Sabina is recognized for its gothic rock and darkwave elements in both lyrics and stage performances. While their music can be actually characterized as a form of progressive rock with significant influences from jazz. The band ultimately stopped issuing albums after the sad passing of Rita Guerrero on March 11, 2011, due to breast cancer.
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clubsoduh · 2 years
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𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐹𝑖𝑠𝘩 / 𝑇𝘩𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑆𝘩𝑎𝘩𝑎𝑛
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babylon-crashing · 1 year
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Taino clay faces. Pre-Spanish invasion. Museo Histórico de Culebra "El Polvorín" If you are ever on the island I highly recommend this museum.
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Culebra Cut Valley in Panama
American vintage postcard
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why-i-love-comics · 2 years
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Suicide Squad #14 - "Defunded" (2022)
written by Dennis Hopeless art by Eduardi Pansica, Julio Ferreira, Dexter Soy, Jeremiah Skipper, & Peter Pantazis
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1/14/23 cool pic my debut Life is Beautiful show at the culebra creek ditch!
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bam-stroker · 1 day
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Fellas, is it gay for your racing rival to show up late at night just to ask "Are you alone?" or are they asking to fight? Asking for a friend...
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