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occasionally subtle
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Love Begins
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hello vonnie
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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i don't do bad sauce passes
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cherry valley forever
izzy's playlists!
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@fethemsoire
genuinely convinced that part of the reason for the belief that certain families brought banshees with them when they emigrated to America is bc they came here, heard an Eastern Screech Owl, and understandably assumed it was the bean sídhe come all the way across the ocean to keep on heralding death
decentralize and clean up your life!!!
use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.
get rid of bloatware
use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.
use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.
use storygraph instead of goodreads.
use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.
use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google
use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
burn your music onto cds
use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes
use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail
remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
remove bloatware on samsung X
use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.
feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3
last updated: march 18th 2025
This poem about bush from the merry muses of caledonia by rabbie burns is killing me. rip robert burns national bard of scotland you would have done numbers on tumblr dot com
Obsessed with the gay little hand motion of the fellow on the right of this image. limps my wrist at you while beating you to death for your unfairly high rents
Landlord: please oh my god I'm sorry I evicted you don't kill me I have a family!!!!!!!
Whiteboys:
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LMAO
wow i wonder why if you make hatred one of your primary beliefs you get less friends
Unnatural Landscape series by Palestinian artist Khaled Hourani, 2020
“I did a series of small works, a project called “Unnatural Landscape.” [...] It started as a project about the landscape and the wall, and how this construction, this ugly concrete, [...] tries to cut, separate, and destroy the scene. What kind of effects does this wall have on the landscape, especially from a distance? I can see, when close to the wall, what kind of damage and social side-effects the wall has between the farmer and his land, the family and their relatives, between a city and a village. But also, from a distant view, for the one who wants to hike only, the landscape has a different meaning. We live in a high area here in Ramallah; when you look toward the sea, you can see different layers of mountains, but there is no empty landscape without settlement, without the wall.” – Khaled Hourani in an interview with Lela Vujanić
Gearrscannán ar YouTube
Short films on YouTube
(Don't worry, everything has English subtitles in the videos themselves)
Fán https://youtu.be/e3xnvkMp_1Q?si=i-4pmljDbzA8bRtu
Created by the incredible @nibmoss, an absolute queen (Bánríon). It is a short sapphic story about 2 best friends who end up together and it is my favourite short story ever!!! It is also my favourite piece of Irish media in existence!!! I love it!!! It is incredible!!! BEYOND AMAZING!!!
Yu Ming is ainm dom https://youtu.be/JqYtG9BNhfM?si=jnZjP4LozqOhNxkI
This is a classic. Ive had 4 different teachers show me this over the years, and my first year Irish class studied it exam style. It was the first piece that we studied and everyone LOVED it, people were quoting it all the time. Every second conversation had someone using a line from it. It's a crows pleaser and simple to listen to even without the subtitles provided. It also has a great storyline about a man who is fed up with his life in China and learns Irish to move over here, and well (bhuel) , I won't spoil the plot twist for you
Lipservice https://youtu.be/4QP0eEhhTSo?si=1DLvo_ECRhwGI5s8
It's the day of the oral exams and everyone is terrified (bhí imní an domhain ar gach duine), people are rehearsing in the bathrooms and speaking French instead of English, the stuff that half of them come out with is absolutely gas, this one is such a bit of craic, I was in stitches. And the bit at the end is so sweet. Is breá liom an gearrscannán seo agus beidh mé mo scrúdú béil i dhá bhliain 🙈🙈🙈 (I loved this short film and I've my speaking test in 2 years🙈🙈🙈
Filleann ar feall https://youtu.be/Tay7eMxas2k?si=q3ksVJVYJ7E_xxoa
IT'S CILLIAN MURPHY AG CAINT AS GAEILGE!!! You can't beat a bit of Cillian, he's a national treasure. And this is 2000 Cillian, he's so young (this was before I was born) he's in the Gaeltacht for his holidays with a grumpy friend, on a job to sell some Putchín, and he is everyone's favourite sweetgeart, a bit of a himbo, and a respecter of old ladies. Agus deir duine sa sna tuairimí (a person in the comments said that it's like Breaking bad, but with an Irish teacher that instead of a chemistry one (I've never seen Breaking Bad, so I don't know how true that is, but I do know that this was AR FHEABHAS!!!
Rúbaí https://youtu.be/jjYx5v2BUWo?si=tFu1ektBvHNkoQFB
This is a short story about a little girl (cailín beag) who's class is about to make their 1st Holy Communion, but she doesn't believe in God (ní creideann sí i nDia). She's everyone is trying to convince her that god is real and she's just like "nope, read a bit of Darwin, he's great, I'm off to collect worms", even to the priests face and towards the end there's a bitter sweet twist which gives a LOT of background. This was a nice, easy watch, the little girls was so cute, there were a couple of laughs (cúpla gáire) and the vocab was nice and simple
Gaiste https://youtu.be/Xr-V7vg_Y2Q?si=cMMNqPLkmtugbg8t
Very simple vocab, good message, kind of like a fable, big "One of us is Lying" vibes. Nice short film overall
Fíorghael https://youtu.be/t3Kv4fZ2SOE?si=bHibiFJyRUcvZ-TZ
This ones a bit older, but it's still a good bit of craic. You need to wait a couple of minutes to get into it, but the end is brilliant (Caithfidh tú cúpla nóiméad a fanacht chun dul isteach ar, ach tá an chríoch go hiontach)
Sylvia https://youtu.be/fi_4aweOP4w?si=ZCfUAfYaD73IVn8r
There are plot twists, and then there plot backflips, this was the later. This is so weird, but I really enjoyed it at the same time
Ciúnas https://youtu.be/cGfuQ-HeTmk?si=WRPGmo-UNQ0bw9mA
There's not much dialogue, but all of it is very casual, so you still get to pick up a few words that you wouldn't find in a textbook. The storyline is quite sweet, but please be careful watching because it although it centres around her family's love for her, it is set on the way home from the hospital after she tried to end her own life
Can’t believe you’d leave this classic out
Fair play for Yu Ming is Ainm Dom (the nice gearrscannán we’d watch in school) but you’ve got to also include the opposite.
I believe An t-Ádh is also on youtube? Wouldn’t necessarily recommend that though. I’ve got some LGBT+ ones linked in my Irish LGBT+ media post also.
Screen Ireland have many short films on their YouTube channel and/or free to watch on their website. They’re a great medium.
Nuada Airgetám
Here now with both hands, back in the seat of the King.
Grammar time
This was my mams when she was in school and she gave it to me. It has everything from how to congugate regular verbs and every irregular verb, how to put things into questions, how to reply in the affirmative/the negative, useful question words, prepositions, all of the essentials. It's okay if you don't understand all of it, I didn't at first, but now I love this cheat sheet
can siad/iad be used as a gender neutral singular pronoun? ive seen sin and duí been used, as well as sé/é, but none of those seem particularly appealing (esp. sé/é for obvious reasons). i'm trying to work out how to refer to myself when im not feeling in a sí/í mood.
altho if i have to settle for just sí/í i guess that would be fine. i wouldnt be overly bothered.
Yeah it can, it doesn't have the same historical precedent as in English, but people use it like that today. Also what's duí ?
grand! thank you (i may be consulting gaeilge tumblr in future as well lol as i continue to learn). duí apparently comes from duine, according to this post i found explaining gender neutral pronouns, but apparently it's not popular.
Sorry for the poor quality of the picture lol. This is from an foclóir aiteach
I feel so seen
The thing they don't tell you about getting really into one specific historical period is that very quickly every conversation turns into an attempt to avoid sounding like the "horribly wet in wexford today but not as bad as in the 690s" tweet
Me whenever someone's random comment can be connected to one of my special historical guys in some extremely tenuous way for real
Taltiu
Calling Na Morrígna a collection of “war deities”, and focusing solely on that as if it were the only aspect of who they are, has never really sat right with me for some reason.
I think I figured out why tonight (not like it took me 5 years or anything. Go me).
All 5 / 6 of them have strong, central sovereignty / kingship associations. Additionally, most carry the epithet of “Great Queen” or “Queen” of some form- and have strong associations with specific regions of Ireland (specifically in the case of this aspect of sovereignty).
All 5 / 6 of them act as judges or oracles at varying points.
All 5 / 6 of them enact various forms of righteous vengeance, retribution, and retaliation- or participate in battles based mostly in the concepts of tradition, protection, and rightfulness.
Most of those acts are against important people… And most of them are people who wronged them, broke the codes (legal or moral), just didn’t measure up, or didn’t learn their lessons or heed their warnings.
If you acknowledge that in conjunction with the mythos that states that one is (or all are) sister to Fódla, Ériu, and Banba- who are all physical personifications of the land of Ireland itself, from whom the traditional names of Ireland are derived?
They become less “War Deities”, in my opinion… Hell, I think they transcend War entirely; it feels more like they’re their sister’s keepers than anything else.
I think they’re rightfully the protectors of the land and the judges of those who inherit it- and punisher and executioner of those who violate it… Further, I feel like they are the representatives, and potentially the guardians, of the contract with the Tuatha Dé.
Oversimplifying them as “war deities” (or worse, boiling them down to “fertility figures”), bothers me in light of that.
Lughnasadh (sometimes written Lughnasa or Lúnasa) is a festival originating from Ireland that celebrates the start of the harvest season.
It is traditionally celebrated on August 1st (in the northern hemisphere) or halfway between the summer solstice and the fall equinox.
The festival is named for the Irish God Lugh and it is said that the festival started as a funeral feast and athletic competition to honor his mother or foster-mother Tailtiu who had died of exhaustion after clearing the plains of Ireland for agriculture.
