#bro that was such an EXPERIENCE

[celinolesunshine]

I FEEL COMPELLED TO SHARE A STORYTIME FROM MY TRAVELS TO TANZANIA THIS SUMMER

So I went to Tanzania for a summer program. I ended up learning a bit of conversational Swahili, but English is my mother tongue. Now, mind you, I know Japanese as well. Nowhere enough to be fluent, but enough to know general words.

(could I converse with the Japanese kids on program? Hell no. Did they think me trying to speak Japanese in my funny little American accent was adorable and they wanted to treasure me? Yes. Unfortunately.)

But by the end of about two weeks, I was able to impress the new batch of people (I stayed the whole month while all but three other people stayed the rest of the time with me) with my newfound speaking skills, and so they thought I knew what the fuck I was talking about.

and Boy, Oh Boy, did I get ahead of myself.

Now, a little lesson for you; Jambo is slang for ‘hey-o’ for tourists. Market-goers will call it out to you expecting you to repeat it back. Now, the FUNNIEST thing was replying back in full-ass Swahili like we were taught and watching these people lose their MINDS.

“Aye-o, Jambo!”

“Sijambo, na wewe?”

Now, THIS— this roughly translates to,

“Aye-o, hey! Tourist!”

“Hello! How are you?”

BAHAHAHAHAHAAHA—

oh, watching older African men lose their SHIT to a little 5’0 scrunkly-ass American boy spit THIS back out at them was COMEDY GOLD.

Another time was me acting like me and the kitchen staff could hold a conversation:

“Ah, bui-bui! Habari za asubuhi?”

“Nzuri sana! Na wewe?”

“Nzuri, nzuri.”

Which roughly translates to,

“Ah, spider!* how’s the morning?”

“Very good! How about yourself?”

“Well, well.”

*bui-bui is ‘spider’ in Swahili, which was the nickname for our driver, Lukumay.

BUT OHHHHHH MANNNN, was it so much fun. God, do I miss it there.

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

Thinking back to the time I was about halfway through TMA and was explaining the plot to a friend who has never listened to a single episode and they tried to make one of those "Soup was invented by John Soup when he wanted to drink a chicken" jokes and ended up saying something along the lines of "The Magnus Institute was created by John Magnus when he wanted to make an institute for all the fears" and at the time I was like haha good one bro but in hindsight I think I need to fucking throngle them with my bare hands

[eggwishing]

someday... you gotta learn when to QUIT.

[sadisthetic]

the madness frustration loneliness of the dissonance of a mismatch of the rotten heart to the rest

allosexual aromantic swag happy pride *peaces out*

[pianokantzart]

Mario's normally the last one to stress about visitors. But there are exceptions.

[cloudyydraws]

more mario and luigi doodles but i took their mouths away

+ extra unfinished stuff under the cut

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[booigi-boi]

Wanted to draw something quickly before the SAF concert, so here's Tatiana 💞

[hitwiththetmnt]

Baby’s first hair problems ('▽')

[sandushengshou]

demonic cultivators Wei Wuxian & Jiang Cheng for @soresus 

[peonycats]

thoughts on philippines korea besties⁉️

they get drunk and shittalk america together ofc

[raycatzdraws]

I saw an opportunity to make a meme and I took it.

Turtle shirt!

[sandflakedraws]

so i'm readin various stuff on the xray cause this silly film is my current source of joy and

wait

hold up.

what...

WAHT ??? WHAT

XRAY CAST DESCRIPTION????

YEARS???

xrAY dESCRIPTION eXPLaIN!!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN FLOYD WAS HELD CAPTIVE FOR YEARS, WHAT SECRET INFO DO U HAVE ACCESS TO???

[idle-compy]

"someone is hunting us"

"but why? who would even wanna do that?"

that's a really good question darius

baffling even

[brothebro]

Listen ive been reading entirety too much dead tired lately

[yourlocalabomination]

I ain’t afraid of no ghost!