Cats will be cats. Although lions are not known for their tree-climbing prowess, these youngsters in Kenya's Maasai Mara couldn't resist the urge to test their arboreal abilities. At this age, clambering up a tree trunk is still relatively easy for the lions, but as the cats grow in size and stature, climbing will become more difficult and agility more elusive. Despite these limitations, some lion prides have become adept at climbing trees and spend much of their time draped over branches where they can escape the heat of the day.

Bertie Carvel as Oliver from The Pride

This photo from the blog: The Other Bridge Project

They published a feature on Bertie Carvel praising him for his dynamic talent in acting specially in theater. They highlighted his ability to be a chameleon, saying that he 'thrives when he looks nothing like himself' and it circles back to one of Bertie's interviews for The Crown where he says he is a 'character actor'. In the same interview, Bertie happily says that he knows he is doing his job well when you cannot recall him in a show/play/movie that he starred in. That the transformation is part of the creative process (ie. he first starred in The Crown as Sir Robin Day before he starred as Tony Blair).

Guy: “I’m Guy, my dad literally hates me but doesn’t know it’s me, and I brought candy gushers.”

Kelly: “Hi, I’m Kelly! I live every day imagining various scenarios my brother could possibly die like our aunt and never mention it, and I brought sour patch kids.”

Maz: “Sup, I’m Maz, and I got a car thrown at me once.”

Timothy, looking the camera dead in the eyes and pouring skittles into the bowl: “My mom keeps my dad’s corpse in the basement.”

Meanwhile in the other universe

Gal: “Heyy, Gal here, I think I might have gender issues but honestly prefer not to think about it. And also I brought mini KitKats.”

Kelli: “I’m Kelli and I nearly died from an exploding grill when I was 13, also I brought sour rings.”

Maizy: “Sup, Maizy here, I think a supervillain injected me with weird glowing liquid two years ago but nothing really happened so I think it was a fluke? I brought candy hearts.”

I've been busy with real life (driving lessons took over my whole June 😅), so I couldn't post as much as I wanted to. I didn't finish the Pride series I planned, and I didn't post on my birthday... but I still wanted to share this one drawing.

It's me (my sona) with a cake, a party hat, and a bunch of colourful balloons — each one is a different Pride flag. I wanted to celebrate love, because... love is one of the best things we have, isn't it? Maybe not the only good thing in life, but definitely one of the most genuine, warm, and beautiful.

I wanted to celebrate all kinds of love — quiet love, loud love, love that's still figuring itself out, love that doesn't have a name yet.

This drawing was hard for me in some ways. I still don't always know how I want to see myself. But I'm learning, slowly.