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You're On My Yams Brotha

@onlyifiknewthefuture / onlyifiknewthefuture.tumblr.com

My name is Laren and I have a lot of time on my hands. I dont really do anything. I like to collect a wide arrange of interesting things from bones, to crystals, fur, insects, and antiques or pretty much anything. I'm sort of a pack rat as well, which is probably why i adore them so much. Currently I am the mother to ten rats, eight ladies, and two gentleman. Along with my ten rats, I own a prairie dog, nine degus, and some fish and like to consider myself very knowledgeable when it comes to animals. In the past I've had birds, guinea pigs, reptiles, sugar gliders, amphibians, rabbits,hamsters, mice, among many other animals. They're a huge part of my life, even after they've passed on. As for religious beliefs I consider myself to be an eclectic pagan. Im a very spiritual being and like to educate myself on many different religions and foundations of those religions. As said before, I collect crystals and have a decently sized collection of 150+ crystals and am extremely proud of them all. They're just as important to me as my animal children and bone collection.I do not only collect crystals, but I work with them too. Mainly using them for crystal healing, grids, and spirit elixirs. Aside from all of that, im a pretty boring person. I enjoy almost everything there is out there. And thats pretty much it. Yeah. I now have a second blog called @driedbloodandenergy dedicated to anything and everything related to dead animals and crystals, two of my favorite things.
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luellaarbre
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beauafrique

I remember being teased relentlessly throughout my childhood and my teenage life where people would say that because of my skin I’ll never be beautiful enough, they would even recommend skin bleaching products. So as a child I quickly realised that as a dark skinned girl I was not considered beautiful enough… At that time I didn’t know that it was the negativity from the people around me that was causing me to hate my skin and myself for that matter. I remember a time during school photos where a girl shouted “she’s too dark! You won’t see anything on her ID but her teeth!”, of course everyone laughed it out… And so did I…. Because I didn’t want to make it seem like I was offended… Their feelings felt more important than mine… After all growing up I was always reminded of how unlikely I was of ever being beautiful or finding someone that found my darkness beautiful….. As a 19 year old today I sit here and say “I never gave in to skin bleaching”, “I was constantly reminded of how ugly I was but that only made me love myself even more….. I began considering myself as someone different, someone beautiful and out of the ordinary.” Your skin no matter how dark it is that when you smile you can only see the glow of your teeth is worthy of love, your skin is that of a goddess and you should never feel anything about your skin but self love. I write this to all of the people that have gone through similar and worse, you don’t need to learn to Love your skin, the love is already there… You just gotta unleash it.

I would like to hear some stories of yours if you’ve ever gone through the same thing…. Message me on Instagram. IG: YoungNubiie

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oneoakdutch

sooo gorgeous omg! and such a cute bathing suit!!

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blackbackedjackal
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kendallhaleart

I’m tired of getting these stupid offers to work on people’s “passion projects” for free, usually with the promise of compensation when/if the project takes off. Guess what? I don’t care that you’re passionate about it, I care if you’re competent. When you knock on my door asking for free work, its a clear sign that you aren’t. You might have hopes that your project hits it big and that you’ll eventually get rich off of it, but if you REALLY believed in it, I feel like you’d be more willing to put your own livelihood on the line instead of asking an artist to do it for you. If I do a bunch of free work hoping it’ll pay off, I’m not doing other work that could actually feed me and pay my bills. And what happens when the project doesn’t get funded or some important factor blows up or everyone decides to quit out early? I get screwed. So, no. I don’t want to work on your passion project. Not unless I get paid up front.

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shingworks

WONDERFUL ADVICE for artists. Please don’t undervalue your art, your time and efforts are valuable and deserve fair compensation.

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