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[nonsensegnomes]

started a blog for talking about the ttrpgs i'm writing & the games i'm playing, esp because the plan is to be a bit more active over the summer (& get something PUBLISHED!!), so if anyone is interested in that at all it's over @depthlessdungeons

[valtsv]

it's always "you need to quit using the demon blade that is corrupting your soul and encouraging you to shed oceans of blood in its name cold turkey, you need to stop right now" and never "let's discuss some harm reduction techniques that will help you to form a more positive, safer relationship with the demon blade"

[dechuis]

holding ur hand gently as i say this. kneecap isnt the only focain irish language band out there <3. expand ur horizons a chairde there is so much good music as gaeilge around rn

some recommendations:

Súil Amháin is a poet and rapper from Listowel (hon the kingdom!) and I fucking love his music for how it effortlessly positions gaelainn not as a relic of a slowly suffocating culture, but as a language belonging totally to the modern world and to modern Ireland in particular, and at the same time staying true to aspects of traditional Gaelic songs, such as a propensity towards place names lol. the áit dhúchais is as important in Súil Amháin's 'Lá Breá', as it is in any sean-nós song and the leanúnachas between tradition and a bold plunge to the future is inspiring

Róis is an artist from Fermanagh whos album Mo Léan is a beautiful exploration of the tradition of death songs and keening in ireland. its like a mix of sean-nós and electronic music and a bunch else mixed in. personlly i prefer her 2023 album Uisce agus Bean but Mo Léan is the better album without a doubt lol. the attempt to reconcile death in the modern world with irish grieving traditions that span centuries is very affecting and also the songs themselves are absolute tunes 🎶

their website says it best. "Through bold reinterpretations of at-risk Irish language songs, Huartan’s mission is to connect contemporary audiences with the oral singing tradition and native language of Ulster." they call their genre 'tradtronica' and I desperately want to see them live ive heard they're incredible. their music is so fun and energizing and the blend of electronica and trad instrumentation is sublime. also they're very firmly and demonstrably pro-Palestine (éist le Fiáin nó Dorn San Aer / listen to Fiáin or Dorn San Aer!)

IMLÉ is a pretty prominent collective in the Irish language music scene, their stuff is like pop / hip hop / indie and for the most part their singers have Connemara Irish i think. some of their songs annoy the shit out of me lol and im not a huge fan of what James Shannon brings to the table but i LOVE Róisín Seoighe and overall theyre fun!

Róisín Seoighe's individual stuff is brilliant as well, i really love this song of hers.

Amano is a Japanese-Irish singer songwriter from Kerry who released an EP last year, Thread, comprised of 4 incredible songs in Irish. her voice is beautiful and her music energizing and the EP weaves together so many disparate threads 😉 its such a joy to listen to!

Síomha's stuff isn't on spotify anymore but her tunes are so effortlessly stunning and graceful. her website describes her genre as 'cosmic, folk-informed, jazz-tinged, post-pop' lol and her debut album Infinite space is so dreamy. And ofc you only have to listen to Spéir Rua to fall in love with it.

i just love Kíla. theyve been around for a few decades, theyve a wealth of albums and their newest one, Raise the Road, is a collaboration with an 8-piece brass brand ‼️ They're described as 'Contemporary Irish World Music' and their sound is sublime, theyve such palpable energy. ngl tho Rónán Ó Snodaigh is a phenomenal bodhrán player but i find it very hard to understand his irish, idk if its just the dublinness or what lol

and ofc the ogs of using irish to make (not so) contemporary music, Na Fíréin! founded in 1984, they were an attempt at a rock band whose songs were entirely through Irish. Their song Tír na nÓg is genuinely one of my favourite songs ever, i love it so much. Sin Mar a Bhíonn is also great. give them a go! they are very 80s but its nice to know that something like them existed and that the Irish language was a part of the rock scene in Ireland back then.

That's all I have room for lol but please it ye have recommendations for music in Irish feel free to give them! <3

[an-spideog]

Gender Neutral Pronouns

Saw a few posts about gender neutral pronouns in Irish so I thought I'd talk about it a bit.

So like others have said, there's no native gender neutral pronoun, traditionally in Irish if you don't know someone's gender you'd call them duine (person) which is grammatically masculine, and then use masculine pronouns to refer to that.

But of course there's lots of non-binary people who wouldn't really want to use masculine pronouns so let's talk about alternatives a bit.

Siad

Siad is originally a plural pronoun in Irish meaning "they" (pl.), but is the most commonly used option nowadays for non-binary people. It is a direct calque from English, but as far as calques go it's a pretty useful one.

Neopronouns

Neopronouns are pretty tough in Irish, harder even than in English where still they have pretty low adoption rates. This is because pronouns in Irish come with a lot of grammatical baggage. It's not enough to say "subject / object / possessive"

A pronoun in Irish needs to have subject, object, possessive, and a prepositional form for every preposition.

Like for brevity we often write pronouns as like sí/í. But in reality what we have is:

Subject: sí, object: í, possessive: a (h-prefixes, no lenition), ag: aici, ar: uirthi, as: aisti, le: léi...

So to create a neopronoun you have to both document all of these forms, and then get people to adopt them (which is hard, because there's more to adopt).

Also for the possessive form it's hard because the third person possessive is always a, it's just that masculine lenites, feminine h-prefixes and plural eclipses. If you try to add a different a, it will have to have the same mutation pattern as one of them, at least in many situations.

One possible solution to this is to use a neo pronoun but use the grammatical forms of siad, so like tá siú ag labhairt leo féin (they are talking to themself). But at that point we are still calquing from the english.

ea

ea exists in the language in certain situations as a neuter reference, historically it existed more, but if you tried to use it now you would have similar difficulties to the neo pronouns, you'd need prepositional forms.

Also, é gets reduced a lot in speech especially in Conamara, to the point where it would sound very similar to ea if you were trying to say things like Is dochtúir ea for "They're a doctor" it would sound a lot like Is dochtúir é "He is a doctor".

Conclusion

Because of all that, I think generally the most flexible option is to use siad, even though it is a calque of English. But for those who would like neopronouns, now you're prepared for the large table that comes with it!

If you want something that's a little bit neo a little bit traditional you could consider adapting dar, the ending of the 3rd person plural past in words like bhíodar (they were). This ending has become a pronoun in some limited contexts (still for the plural, but stuff like tá dar - they are) but if you wanted to use it as a singular pronoun with the grammatical forms of siad, that could also be an interesting option.

[lucy-harker]

MISERY (1990) dir. Rob Reiner

[boozytiramisu]

HANDINGLOVE

[wereshrew-admirer]

Sangfielle Season One Epilogue: Duvall, part 1

(only 10 images per post? rude)

CWs for intrusive thoughts, insects, and for page 6 only: active (insect-aided) decomposition, morbid intrusive thoughts, insect infestation of human and monster bodies

[wereshrew-admirer]

Sangfielle Season One Epilogue: Duvall, part 2 (one more part after this, it's big so it's on its own)

[wereshrew-admirer]

Sangfielle Season One Epilogue: Duvall, part 3: Weald and Woe (modified)

Following the passing of a legendary cleaver, sometimes the Course crashes into the Heartland to claim their body as a prize, flooding the landmark with visions of endless possibility. to activate this ability, die.

[gnossienne]

Enescu’s Œdipe (Royal Opera House, 2016)

[inadequate-nefelibata]

Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter in THE APARTMENT (1960)

[kingofallgirls]

1.07 The Buffet (2017) / Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025)

[3bagshotrow]

middle-earth dashboard simulator

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pippin was 29 years old???

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he should've been at the green dragon

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#gates of argonath #argonath #amon hen #middle earth landscapes #photographers of middle earth #travel #dark academia #lmao pls reblog this i almost fell out of my boat taking this photo

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my hungry ass could never travel with lembas

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#the entitlement i see on this site sometimes is disgusting #y'all will just post about having easy access to lembas when we can't eats hobbit food??? #we must starve??? #vent #do not rb

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CALLOUT FOR GRIMA WORMTONGUE

I've talked a lot about this already on this blog, but I want to have everything collected in one post so next time some dipshit with a white hand icon slides into my inbox to call me a liar I can just link to this post. tl;dr grima wormtongue has been poisoning my uncle and the land of rohan for the past few years, and here are the receipts:

Keep reading

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i stg if one more of you tells me I should've sent frodo on the eagles I'm asking iluvatar to take me back

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recent read: there and back again: a hobbit's tale by bilbo baggins

I thought this was SOOO fun and cute! I'm usually not into rpf but did anyone else think there was something between bilbo and thorin? 👀 I can't be the only one who saw it. but the ending made me cry my eyes out.

4.5/5 stars

#booklr #there and back again #bilbo baggins #recent read #dark academia #light academia #book review

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who up mirking they wood

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wtf the new king of gondor just bowed to these four random short guys?? everyone else bowed too and I just went along with it lmao 😅 am I missing something????

#this is right after he sang a song and made out with some hot elf chick #truly the wildest coronation i've ever been to

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ULTIMATE HOTTEST FIRST AGE BADDIE TOURNAMENT FINALS!!!!

Galadriel VS Luthien

Galadriel

Luthien

Voting ended onDec 2, 2023

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here y'all go again pitting two bad bitches against each other

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everyone who voted galadriel is a kinslayer apologist #luthiensweep

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fuck my job so much. everyone manifest an attack on gondor so I can finally warm my fingers on this beacon fire.

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by eru this can't be happening

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[forestgreenlesbian]

Saturday Night, Ollie Jones

Sun’s Private Concert, Marcos Palazzio

[vincentpriceofficial]

the psychotherapist who wrote a piece for GQ about how half man takes place in a jungian dream space is basically identifying the same aesthetic quality that me and my friends did when we were like "this show takes place in Yaoi World" he's simply coming to the subject matter from a different intellectual tradition

[havingapoemwithyou]

Regime by Carl Phillips

[skarchomp]

advertising lemonade is pointless. the human body already knows it needs it

[farenmaddox]

I have just found. the COOLEST website???

Lost Kitchen Scrolls

It has a huge variety of historical recipes from different regions, taken from manuscripts, transcribed and translated, and a whole section of notes about the context for the recipe. It's really fun and I AM going to try a couple of these recipes.

Look at how this lamb recipe is presented:

This is just such a fun way to learn more about historical foodways and discover traditional cuisine.

Look at all the filters you can use:

Maybe if I can forage some good blackberries this year, I can make a 300 year old recipe for blackberry wine!

Anyway. Check out Lost Kitchen Scrolls.

[hcnnibal]

Top 5 hannigram fanfic rec?

1. And So I Raise Me Up From Sleep by bendingsignpost

currently my fave fic. it made me feel so so so terrible, i loved it so so so much. i literally had to lay down after reading this bc it hurt my stomach.

2. Two Solitudes by emungere

such a beautiful story, good god. it overwhelmed me so much that i had to take a break from reading anything for awhile. i keep wanting to draw scenes from it but honestly– im unworthy. 

3. Uncharted Sea  by louise_lux 

such a gorgeous fic, really interesting premise and flawless execution 

4. Bachelor by berlynn_wohl

loved this writing style. spot-on characterization. a shorter fic but intensely satisfying to read. 

5. Oddbodies by toffeecape 

one of my favourite aus. super fleshed out universe and just an overall super cool and interesting read.