That Goth Shit

Books, the romantic poets, Shelley Circle, fashion, picturesque scenery, witchy stuff, and musicians.  (She/her/they/them)

[drizzlingtears]

“you are a shot of espresso” no girl i’m the most insane person you will find at the grocery store

[finalgrrrl]

sometimes tiktok is good actually

[finalgrrrl]

another take from tiktok i like <33

[maryfitzroy]

[maryfitzroy]

HELP

[through-a-historic-lens]

Two Canadian airwomen wearing carnival heads have a drink at a victory party in Sudbury, 1945

[2uselemon]

⚠️flash warning⚠️

dolores just wants to sleep

[angelkitty7888]

@amusementofaprincess caramelldansen is back!! 🤣

[narcissiste]

Embellished gloves at Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2014 Menswear

[bubblegumskye]

Stimboard for @cottageagere !

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[daughterofchaos]

Claude Monet: Winter

[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).

[cythraul]

Trioedd Ynys Prydain (literally “the Triads of the Island of Britain”, though in English they’re usually called “the Welsh Triads”) are a huge collection of lists of three things from Welsh lore, including a lot of Arthurian lore. They’re not stories, but they contain fascinating allusions to stories, to whole strains of the Arthurian tradition, that we may or may not have elsewhere.

Keep reading

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Absolutely fantastic addition, yes, Rachel Bronwich’s Triads are glorious.

[rannulfr]

I’m surprised no one has mentioned that The Holy Grail is basically a Christianization and amalgamation of several different Cauldrons in Welsh mythology.

[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

this southern charmer!

https://www.instagram.com.southernlivingmag

[daughterofchaos]

Detail of The Annunciation and Expulsion from Paradise by Giovanni di Paolo, ca. 1435

[letzternachtzug]

Brittany Murphy by Jeff Riedel for New York Times Magazine; September 1, 2002

[gagarin-smiles-anyway]

The Massandra Palace, residence of Emperor Alexander III of Russia, Massandra, Crimea

[redlipstickresurrected]

Guardian photographer Sarah Lee (b. Big Island of Hawaii, based London, England) takes a dawn walk in frost covered Regent’s Park (London). She found herself in St John’s Lodge garden, locally known as the Secret Garden, 2022, Photography

[mamatriedtoraisemebetter-deacti]

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[fandomsandfeminism]

Is there anything sadder than the little chunk of Kikis Delivery Service when Kiki says "I used to really like flying before it was my job" and then gets so burned out that her magic stops working and she cant talk to Jiji anymore and she tries so hard to FORCE the magic that she breaks her mothers broom and stays up all night, alone, trying to make a new one and crying?

And I know it is all ok in the end- Kiki has friends who look out for her and she takes care of herself and finds her place.

But fuck, those 20 minutes just hurt my heart so much.

[shybi-n-ready2cry]

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