Shans 🦋

youth worker/writer | founder of @TheSoulShackLDN @TheWriteVibeUK ✨ trusting the process 🫶🏾

[Shans 🦋 @_Shans_x]

My youth + community led social enterprise @TheSoulShackLDN is recruiting volunteers for our:
💖Summer food and play programme for 10-21 year olds from Lambeth/Southwark from 22nd July - early September 2020

[🪷 @shnn798]

Mango + Berries whipped cream yoghurt dessert

[Afridiziak Theatre News 🤎🎭 @Afridiziak]

Submissions open for The Sareeta Domingo Prize 💖 📚
https://t.co/VAIy67ScW3

[sharmi (food/acc) @ilovemcgriddle]

today i decided to experiment with the leftover clams & make a malaysian-style spaghetti alle vongole. i swapped the chilli for sambal belacan & finished it with spring onions instead of parsley

it turned out just how i imagined: funky, oceanic, briny, spicy & full of umami ~

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

kind of feels like a big deal that almost everyone in this documentary went unidentified for decades because their families reported them missing and the police just didn’t bother to open an investigation

[Clarine @BIGPIKLIZ]

That’s nice. I am happy everyone is living good.

[shol @sssholaaa]

New new! https://t.co/mbC4GZ9Msl

[saweeeties @saweeeties]

fluffiest cinnamon rolls with maple cream cheese frosting

[rain ☆ @rainyoats]

made a chocolate toastie with croissant bread for breakfast because i have free will like that

[Kevin → Plant Daddy @KevinEspiritu]

Today I traveled to a small mountain town in Japan to learn a dying art (literally): natural indigo dyeing...

Most "indigo" today is synthetically derived. A chemically identical blue molecule, brewed in a factory from petroleum, reduced with industrial chemicals...

It's MUCH cheaper than natural indigo and you're probably wearing it right now in your pair of jeans.

Natural indigo is something else. It's aliiiiive...

The dye starts in the leaves of the indigo plant as a colorless compound called indican. The leaves get composted and fermented for months into a dark mass called sukumo

That goes into a vat with wood ash, wheat bran, sometimes sake. The ash makes the solution highly alkaline and bran and sake feeds it. Why? The vat is a living culture. Microbes do the work that factories do with chemicals...

I decided to attempt a "double gradient" with a nice cut of of cotton cloth. First, I hooked it to a wooden contraption that allowed me to dip it evenly into the solution...

I dipped and pulled it out and it wasn't blue. It was green. In the vat the indigo is in its dissolved form, "white indigo," and it comes out looking yellow-green...

Then you rinse off the solution and in a few seconds, the green crawls into blue right in front of you. That's oxygen bonding to the molecule and turning it back to true indigo, now locked into the fibers

Dip. Rinse, Oxidize, Repeat. Each cycle goes darker. I dipped each side 7 times, carefully planning the dip length and depth to create a beautiful gradient effect

It came out amazing for my first attempt and more importantly I learned yet another amazing process that's slowly being lost to the sands of time

[The Cake Lady @got_cake]

This is what Caribbean summers taste like! 😍
What was your favorite shaved ice flavor?

[kida @kidasnow]

edible lace. second attempt.

[Swvnk @justinswvnk]

conspiracy always seem stupid till cia drop the 2026 files in 2055

[mia golds 𓂃✰ @themiagolds]

You literally have to be the cool you want to see. All that 'can we bring back' that and all that 'why don't people' this bitch, get in the field!

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

when you realize that routines are actually rituals of devotion to yourself and your dreams, they become much easier to follow.