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Cate. 28.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

doing my damnedest to free myself of the “just gotta get through this week” “only x more days til the weekend” mindset & learn to appreciate each day for whatever it is lest i be driven to madness

[moveslikekeithrichards]

so what if tomorrows monday i have leftovers & maybe this week i will make soup. maybe ill see a cat. maybe each day will show me something worthwhile even if im tired & maybe i can enjoy it

[moveslikekeithrichards]

if u are negative on this post im blocking u ! some of us are trying to get better

[gray-v]

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[youmissedworldhist]

if adam dies in greywaren, there will be no getting over it for me. i will mourn him like a young victorian widow who can't even bring herself to get out of bed and must be taken to the sea for her health as she gazes silently out at the water with a blank lifeless stare.

[bluesrrgents]

keep your trc tumblrina mutuals in your thoughts and prayers today. we are going through it

[snoopyist]

if trc didnt fundamentally alter your brain chemistry at an obsessive level at some point did you even read it

[flightspathfic]

in TRC Dream Thieves is like when the bass drops

[lesbian-helen-gansey]

Adam Parrish arriving at Harvard and starting the crying club

[kingreader]

if your best friend doesn’t steal the car that you love more than anything in the world to go wake up the ley line you specifically told him not to go wake up, is he even your best friend?

[biloveds]

omg ok put in the tags a food that makes u feel like life is worth living when you eat it. like u eat it and it’s soo good and everything’s fine actually

[bisexuel]

happy bisexuals day i love being bisexual and you should cherish your bisexuality and your bisexual friends

[girloikawa]

i cannot make another post about the homoerotic friendship in that raven book i cannot make another post about the homoerotic friendship in that raven book i cannot make another post about the homoerotic friendship in that raven book i cannot make another post about th

[adampvrrish]

mstief not writing more trcverse even though she planned to bc of haters is literally like giving the whole class detention because one kid kept acting up

[cheeeryos]

hey friends let’s talk about ronan lynch

what’s everyone’s favorite (not sad) ronan moment

I’ll go first: cow balloon debacle

[catboynecromancer]

Ronan’s blatant distaste for old people 😌💕

[catboynecromancer]

Also “So I did, Parrish.”

[cheeeryos]

“it ate my deer thing”

[thedreamthieves]

[unganseylike]

[kelliealtogether]

We can’t forget the discovery of Gwenllian:

[cheeeryos]

some excellent additions from the peanut gallery:

[cheeeryos]

more from the tags! thank u all for your service

[catboynecromancer]

Let’s never forget the moment Ronan became my favorite character 🥰

[be-a-muse]

“Adam's response was buried in the sound of the second-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window!"

Ronan's voice sang out from behind his closed door: "You're already dead!”

[adampvrrish]

me reading that mstief won't write any more trcverse bc the #haters got to her

[tragicomedys]

what’s the thing u guys are most excited for ur future house/apartment/etc

[zaatanna-moved]

anyway just a reminder for the myth lovers out there

king arthur was welsh. merlin was welsh. camelot was in wales. the lady and the lake she pops out of; welsh. excalibur; magic inanimate welsh object. etc.

on the way to see family, i drive past a lake that in which is welsh legend, is the last resting place of excalibur.

i’m just saying in my experience a lot of these legends had been so anglo-fied in the past and it’s like, all this cool shit is celtic welsh legend.

[jackironsides]

Arthur’s wife was called Gwenhwyfar first.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Like the kraken I emerge, summoned by the English theft of Arthur

Arthur is a Welsh name. It means ‘bear’. He’s likely derived from a Gaulish bear god

In the form of King Arthur, he is an anti-Saxon mythological WELSH figure, representing the native Brythonic people of Britain against the Anglo-Saxon invaders, dating from the 500s AD

The version appropriated by the English in the 1100s is the shitty boring sanitised version - they did it because they were trying to compete with the romance tradition on the continent at the time but didn’t have anything of their own to romanticise

Merlin is called Myrddin

Percival is Peredur

Kay is Cei, and also was subject to enormous character assassination in the English version - in the Welsh version he’s much closer to Arthur’s right hand man

Guinevere is Gwenhwyfar

There is no Lancelot, no Galahad, no tedious affair story

There is no Camelot. Arthur’s seat was Caerllion - modern Caerleon, putting him into both the region of the Silures (one of the most fearsome and warlike of the British tribes, modern South East Wales) and the old Roman fortress, which would have been an impossibly huge Palace for a warlord at the time.

They all have super powers and get up to wacky hijinks involving hair care, giants, strange giant wildlife, spectral revolving/glass fortresses in the Celtic sea, and a really fucking weird chess match. Also a cloak made out of beards.

What the fuck is the round table

Anyway it’s particularly irritating because traditional Welsh culture and beliefs have been so thoroughly stripped away and destroyed by England over the centuries, and Arthurian legend is one of the few surviving fragments we have left to preserve. And he’s specifically an anti-English figure. So the ubiquity of the boring and appropriative English Arthur across the whole fucking world is… Well, it’s not great.

[may-or-may-not-be-me]

This is so interesting! Does anyone know a good source/reading material where one could get more of the original Welsh versions of the stories?

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

The Mabinogion, translated by Sioned Davies is your best bet! It’s got a bunch of big-ass Welsh myths in, but most relevantly it includes Culhwch ac Olwen, which is a full-on Arthurian text (plus a couple of interesting ones).

There’s a whole bunch more that’s survived in fragments, but they’re all in Old Welsh - fully readable if you speak Welsh, but obviously not much use if you don’t (I don’t know if you do or not but from context I’m guessing not lol).

[prismatic-bell]

Petition to bring back Gwenwhyfar and Myrddin in 2021. Like. Just straight-up fucking pretend you’ve never heard of Guinevere and Lancelot. Someone says Merlin and you’re like “you mean Myrddin?”

Let’s steal it back on behalf of the Welsh. Repatriation of a legend. Call the English version Fanfiction and REALLY piss off a certain subset of academia and English nationalists*.

*technically it doesn’t meet the modern definition of fanfiction because fanfiction isn’t considered to exist until copyright does, but you know what? Fuck that. I’m a fandom historian and I am declaring the English Arthur as fanfiction. All of it. Galahad was somebody’s OC and Lancelot exists because some idiot just couldn’t stand having nice things and had to start a ship war. Go. Be free. Piss off the nationalists.

[solitairians]

i still fully believe the greatest scene in the raven cycle is in the dream thieves when gansey has decided glendower is in a lake so the gang + orla go to research it. they’re all in a boat and orla’s wearing an orange bikini. adam and gansey stop functioning and blue (a self-proclaimed feminist) gets incredibly angry and ronan is gay. then orla dives in the water because they might have found something and this makes blue even angrier so she jumps in the water too, fully clothed, and it’s when she emerges from the murky lake like she’s the Swamp Thing that gansey has another panic because this might just be the sexiest thing he’s seen in his entire life and he doesn’t know what to do with himself and anyway, that’s how they find a camaro wheel at the bottom of a lake that they put there themselves 500 years ago in the future