Wanderer

 Made up of random parts. Queer and hearing impaired. A giant geek. Mother of one black cat. 

[bintro]

is anyone else their father’s female son

[notwanderinglost]

First born, eldest daughter/only daughter. So yeah, even with two younger brothers.

[depsidase]

[pragnificent]

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

[thingsamylikes]

I reblogged her late last year and my 2024 has been very satisfying work-wise and (secure enough to not stress out) money-wise so far. Money Snake is wise and good.

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[imanutcase-10]

Then bring me luck

[thirddeadlysin]

the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work

[pishposhimlost]

I really need something good

[zariverse]

This potato works wtf😭

[https-vintage]

Guess I'll reblog then

[m-ray-72]

Potato do ur magic 🙏

[probablyasocialecologist]

[thechekhov]

[acanvasofabillionsuns]

[ID, partially borrowed from @magnetothemagnificent: A tweet by Caelan Conrad reads, "Okay but this young trans guy singing about 'archaeologists digging up trans skeletons' is exactly what I wanted to see today." Below it is linked a tiktok made by Sasha Allen, a trans man. There is a comment onscreen, a reply to Cartero.Cafe's comment, reading "we need the full song". Sasha says, "This goes out to transphobic motherfuckers that are like “(deep, mocking tone) Yeah but when they dig up your bones in a hundred years they’re gonna know that you’re biologically female!” Shut the fuck up, bitch! Jesus." and then begins to strum on his guitar and sing:

One day when they find my bones in the ground

Whoever they are will say “look what we found!”

A historical find, it’s a relic of time

And they’ll never attest that I don’t know my mind

And,

One day when they find my bones in the earth

They will not equate who I was to what I’m worth

And they’ll find your bones from the same frame of time

And they’ll treat your bones just as they’ve treated mine

We’re the same

We’re the same

We’re the same

We’re the same

One day when they come across my remains

They won’t consider assumptions you’ve made

They will see me, not the things that you say

They will put up my bones in historic displays

And,

I’ll be a symbol of what it all means

To be human, to know the earth infinitely

And your bones are there too, we’re both seen as art

It’s ironic the people can’t tell us apart

We’re the same

We’re the same

We’re the same

We’re the same

And one day if they find my bones it’ll be

Far in the future like forty twenty-three

You were so worried about me,

I don’t think that you noticed it

By then all the archaeologists are transgender socialists

And it’ll be determined on the hill which you die

That in terms of history you were way off on the wrong side

And,

I’ll forgive you, with kindness, grace and elegance

And dance for eternity with your stupid fucking right wing skeleton

Raaah!!!!

Yeah."

The video ends. The images following it are a comic, created by @thechekhov, illustrating the lyrics up until "It's ironic the people can't tell us apart." /end ID]

[blessedanimals]

[mossynerd]

[straypupp-deactivated20240703]

[seaweedsaiki]

[parsnipt]

[nongunktional]

[minovskyy]

[vesperaevis]

[aymerictheblue]

[joasakura]

[ltleflrt]

[oleolesimeeligen]

[that-wildwolf]

[ignotussomnium]

[die-erlkonigin6083]

[jinjeriffic]

[background-palindrome]

[notwanderinglost]

[thefellowshipofthemic]

"The grey rain curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass...and then you see it. White shores. And beyond...a far green country under a swift sunrise." - J.R.R. Tolkien

RIP Bernard Hill

[dindjarism]

REST IN PEACE, BERNARD HILL (1944–2024) THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)

[rogers-carter]

And no more despair.

REST IN PEACE BERNARD HILL (1944–2024)

[reallyndacarter]

I like your shoelaces

Thanks, I found them in my desk!

[lizormianillustration]

whatever was left, that was ours for a while.

sunrise - louise glück

[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.

[teathattast]

[thefurriestofchows]

oh,

oh this is absolutely beautiful

[wakingfromthewater]

I saw some James Webb Telescope scientists give a talk and one of them said this was her favorite image because she had waited and worked 25 years to see this.

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

masks and helmets that hides someone's face in such a way that they become the face themselves my beloved

these are all creatures to me

[ancient-debris]

Angel of War, angular and strange, gleaming silver and gold, Angel of Wonder, pure and one-eyed, looking to stars new and old, Angel of Harvest, simple and hidden, bring nature's sweetness to all, Angel of Health, mysterious and fine, beacon when life starts to fall, Angel of the Deep, crooked and cage-like, guide us across the sea, Angel of Solace, protect us from evil, lead us to where we are free.

[omnybus]

Was inspired by the previous post a while back, and had been working on this on and off for a long while.

You can see the full-resolution versions on My Patreon.

[you-have-startled-the-witch]

@wearepaladin

[yidany]

The shield-maiden of Rohan

[lunamagicablu]

Raccogliere la pioggia in un pentolino per preparare una minestra al gusto di nuvola. (Fabrizio Caramagna) ********************* Collect the rain in a saucepan to prepare a cloud-flavored soup. (Fabrizio Caramagna)

[queenklu]

a great song for an uncertain but hopeful new year

Come all you no hopers, you jokers and rogues We’re on the road to nowhere, let’s find out where it goes It might be a ladder to the stars, who knows? Come all you no hopers, you jokers and rogues

[queenklu]

Because it keeps getting mentioned in the notes! There is a movie about this group on Netflix called Fisherman’s Friends - a dramatic retelling of the true story on how this ragtag group of fishermen became a modern day top 10 hit with their sea shanties!