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People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter

[The artist, putting a simple cake next to a much fancier one: “Aw man, that guy’s cake is way better than mine.” The Audience, gleefully holding up a knife and fork “HOLY SHIT! TWO CAKES!”]

elvencantation

additions from the og artist (credit)

scientia-rex

“Holy shit two cakes,” I mutter to myself as I do fucking anything these days, this post was a godsend

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.

gacougnol

Steve McCurry

Cammino di Francesco – Rieti, Italy

thatmadscientistbitch

I'm sorry but this photo got me emotional - this moment could have been from any time in the last 500 or more years and not a thing about the composition would have changed. Certainly, for hundreds of years, monks have worked in these gardens and stopped to pet animals in need of scritches. A monk 300 years ago dressed in this same style in these same gardens probably stopped to pet the ancestor of that cat. The only difference between now and then is that this time there was a camera. If you went to any monastery or temple in the world you could find similar scenes playing out.

People stop to pet cats and it has me emotional.

naamahdarling

This should be a statue. We need more statues showing kindness and companionship to cats.

redtheroom

Like or rb if trans girls r pretty, and dysphoria is mean to them

kidzbopdeathgrips

it's kinda crazy how out of money the banks are rn

kidzbopdeathgrips

#TheBanksAreOutOfMoney

kidzbopdeathgrips

i literally went into Chase this morning and when i asked to withdraw $20 the clerk just looked me dead in the eye and said the machine was broken

sheerricetorrent

Happy (late) trans day!

dostoyevsky-official

there was a huge wave of grassroots organizing in the spring of 2024, students, activists, professors—the democratic base. democratic mayors and governors set the police on them, democratic congressmen sold them out to the republicans, and the democratic media lied about antisemitism. now there's only token opposition, chuck schumer is cracking jokes about area 51 . the party is over, sorry

dostoyevsky-official

there was a huge wave of grassroots organizing in the spring of 2020, african americans, activists, young people—the democratic base. democratic mayors and governors set the police on them, democratic congressmen sold them out to the republicans, and the democratic media lied about violence. all the energy was co-opted into some street name changes and joe biden. the party is over, sorry

eastofurban

I'll be honest, these stories could probably go on for a while

anarchopuppy

this will keep happening as long as we pay any attention to what the controlled opposition (the democratic party) is doing. they arent helping us because they dont want to, because theyre bought by the exact same billionaires the republicans are. anything we want we have to take for ourselves

theres a huge wave of grassroots organizing happening right now, in winter/spring of 2025. this time, lets not make the same mistakes