enigma ☿

@marylandtrack alumnus| hamptonu ‘26 alumnus| @botanicalvsn | track and field| if you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. MA CF-SLP

[enigma ☿ @Geauxdrake]

She deserves a solo post

[enigma ☿ @Geauxdrake]

Brinity come get your 100k and let’s just skip to the reunion fr

[ecco @loonapilld]

this just took me all the way there

[enigma ☿ @Geauxdrake]

A shift happened in the atmosphere…

[trixie ❤︎.𖥔 ݁ ˖ @capableofluv]

THE CHOREO HELLOOO???? PINKLELA THIS IS EVERYTHING

[enigma ☿ @Geauxdrake]

@downlowtrade No cause let’s open #that discussion…

[samuel @pinkswig]

Take Me Apart // new avatar

[dj franzia @hawillisdc]

and if i said kelela's music is so intimate to me i dont enjoy listening to 99% of her discography with other people present

[enigma ☿ @Geauxdrake]

Outta time is one of those songs that is going to stand against the tests of time…

[Resident Advisor @residentadvisor]

On her masterful next step, Kelela reconfigures shoegaze, IDM and R&B into a Black, femme sound of the future.
https://t.co/3QqJy5yva2

[enigma ☿ @Geauxdrake]

She’s tugging at cherry coffee’s seat at the head of the table rn…

[enigma ☿ @Geauxdrake]

I see no one talking about this masterpiece rn… https://t.co/UG0MSmILHq

[lex @hatemadeuluvme]

this scene gave me chills… shakespeare could never 🥺😭 #loveislandusa

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

I say I hate Israel, and then I read something like this, and I realize I don’t hate them nearly enough. These people are sick beyond words.

[enigma ☿ @Geauxdrake]

Rewatching bayverse transformers movies just to feel something

[Gyal dem sugarcane @treyfive_]

C section that’s why I be taken aback when somebody think I’m pussy

[what’s app ricky @kenanbell]

wifey & i got married in an actual garden and didn’t invite one single person 💕

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

There are more Cape Verdeans living outside Cape Verde than inside it. Nearly a million people abroad, around 530,000 at home. The islands look like a postcard, but their whole history runs on one hard fact: for centuries, the main thing to do here was leave.

When Portuguese settlers landed on these ten islands off West Africa in 1462, nobody lived there. No people, no big animals, just volcanic rock rising out of the Atlantic. The town they built on Santiago, Ribeira Grande (now called Cidade Velha), became the first lasting European settlement anywhere in the tropics. Within a hundred years it was one of the richest cities Portugal had, and the money came from a single trade: enslaved Africans, shipped through here on the way to the Americas.

The name is a little ironic. "Cabo Verde" means green cape, taken from a green point of land on the coast of Senegal a few hundred miles east. The islands themselves are mostly bone dry. Rain can fail for years, and the famines that followed killed tens of thousands at a time. Each drought pushed another wave of people onto boats headed for New England whaling ports, Lisbon, Rotterdam, Dakar. The biggest Cape Verdean community on earth now sits in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, not on the islands.

That history is why the music sounds the way it does. Morna, the slow guitar-and-voice style Cesária Évora carried around the world, comes down to one word: sodade, Creole for the ache of missing a person or a place you might never reach. UNESCO added it to its heritage list in 2019. A whole style of music built around goodbye.

The modern story runs the other way. These small, resource-poor islands became one of Africa's steadiest democracies, with power passing peacefully between two parties since 1991. In 2007 Cape Verde became only the second country ever to leave the UN's "least developed" list, after Botswana. Tourism now brings in about a quarter of the economy, money sent home by Cape Verdeans abroad covers close to a tenth more, and over 90% of the food arrives by ship.

And on the island of Fogo, people live inside an active volcano. When Pico do Fogo erupted in 2014, lava swallowed two villages and the only road in, and buried the school under rock. Everyone got out alive. Then they moved back onto the cooled lava and replanted the vineyards, because that volcanic soil grows what nothing else on the islands can. They keep rebuilding on the thing that keeps destroying them.

[🌙 @navybih]

.@rihanna your turn to drop unreleased shit NOW ISTGGG

[enigma ☿ @Geauxdrake]

@lnbshr Removed no more slow jams, no more r&b too… like okay girl

[enigma ☿ @Geauxdrake]

@tyychelly No fr like we were in the trenches lmfaooo

[enigma ☿ @Geauxdrake]

No more YouTube links 😩 https://t.co/lu0L9j3f25