Ex Undis Ad Astra

28|Pansexual|Married|Her/She|INFP-T Aqua Sun|Gem Moon|Cap Rising Ask me anything you like :)

[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.

[la-paritalienne]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[ebonykain]

Be careful when you do this! Many applications include a section (usually right near your signature) stating that by signing this you declare that everything you've written in it is true and complete to the best of your knowledge and that you have not willingly falsified or left out any information under penalty of perjury (and various other wording to the same effect).

If your application has this and you fill out the section for professional references with personal references then you have technically committed a crime. Now, 9 times out of 10 nothing will ever come of it, but down the line they can use it as an excuse to not only fire you, but to press criminal charges and possibly claim damages (I.E. it gives them ammunition for suing you for money, whether or not you lying on your application actually lost them any money. They can make all sorts of claims once they have proof of dishonesty)

If you're going to do this kind of thing, here's how to make it real (and thus, no longer perjury):

You and your friend group should work on projects together and take turns, per project, on who is the "boss" supervising the project. These can be anything from organizing a canned food drive for the local Food Bank, to picking up trash on the sides of the road or on a beach, to beautifying a public garden, to trail-clearing, etc. Make sure all the projects are volunteer work type projects because 1) volunteer supervisors count fully as professional references! and 2) volunteer work always looks good on a resume.

You don't technically need to volunteer through a non-profit organization, but the name-dropping often helps for legitimacy. So, if you're doing the food drives, for example, you can say "I worked under [your friend's name] organizing quarterly neighborhood food drives for [Name of Food Bank]."

If you guys go hiking and you pick up trash along the trails, touch base with the local park rangers to say "hey, our group does this thing where we help beautify parks by picking up any trash we find on the trails. Can you tell us where the bins all are?"

Then, if/when the employer follows up, the Food Bank or Park Rangers know you enough to say "oh yeah, that group comes by all the time. The to good work!" Ta-da! You've now given your non-existent volunteer group legitimacy, and so when you say you worked under your friend doing this project you are now telling the complete truth.

Your volunteer project can legit be as simple as offering to put up fliers for a fund raiser. "I worked under [friend's name] for the [fundraiser event]." "Oh? What did you do?" "Mostly helped out with the marketing doing the advertising."

You can spin a LOT if stuff into legitimacy for your applications and interviews without needing to outright lie and risk being caught out committing a crime.

Do what you need to get the job, but Be Smart about it. Be safe and cover your ass.

[catsofinstagram]

[ya-wn]

please for the love of god turn ur sound on

[argumate]

the human stress response seems so maladaptive!

[cargopantsman]

To be fair 99% of our evolutionary stress response was meant to deal with far more immediately conclusive scenarios than the tedious bullshit we put up with these days.

[argumate]

very very slow tigers are chasing me

[yellbug]

not to leave a serious comment on a silly post but one of the best pieces of advice I ever got about stress was to SLEEP but secondly, when overwhelmed, lay in a bed and intentionally hold all your muscles clenched. clench EVERYTHING. hold it for a few seconds, then let go. It tricks your animal fight-or-flight monkey brain into thinking it had, and won, a fight, and some of the stress response will leave you

[creekfiend]

#turn a slow tiger into a fast tiger with this fucked up trick

[storm-of-feathers]

if youre white you dont get to say what is and isnt racist and you dont get to argue with people of color about it. end of fucking discussion. 

[highlyglamorous]

If you break up with me, do not tell me you miss me. That’s your fault and your problem. I don’t care if it’s 2 days or 2 years later.

[teaboot]

I have one very simple political belief and that is 'if there is a thing that a person will suffer or die without, then they should have it, and they shouldn't have to earn or deserve it'

[patrick-stewart]

It’s a heavy lift with a gift so humbling Always left Abuela and the family fumbling Grappling with prophecies they couldn’t understand Do you understand? Encanto (2021) 

[afeelgoodblog]

Surprise triplets 😂

[sandersstudies]

I can’t decide what’s funnier, if this was a genuine candid photo of the father’s shock, or if he was an excellent sport and was like “hey folks, know what would be hilarious…”

[lizluvscupcakes]

“Yknow, Ted, the guys at the bar are gonna wanna know what it was.”

“Bring the photo! It’ll be funnier if you bring the photo.”

[gay-ellis-thats-all]

Story Time!

My father, who is an identical twin, has two older sisters who were also identical twins. My grandfather’s favourite way to tell the story was that in 1956 when he was awaiting the arrival of 🤷‍♀️ Child™️, the doctor (who, in the small town where we’re from, had delivered my aunts a few years earlier) came to the lounge, lit a cigarette and took a seat next to him.

“Clifford… how are ya?” the doctor greeted.

“I’m alright… yourself?”

“Good, good…good, so how many ya want this time?”

My grandfather, even in the retelling of the story heaved the most world weary sigh and said, “…how many ya got?”

[melonmemes]

[impormable]

Old dude came in the shop and when I said "lemme know if you have any questions" he goes "what was the name of Alexander the Great's horse," thinking he was so funny. I told him Bucephalus, and he was so disappointed. Like his whole day was hanging on beating me at trivia. He says "you're only the second person who knew that" and I said "well, probably the third if you count Alexander the Great." He left without buying anything, and did not say goodbye. I think I honestly hurt his weird little feelings! Sorry I'm a bitch, old man!

[sonnetscrewdriver]

I had one of these once, bookshop customer randomly challenged me to name, quote, ‘the only word in English where two u’s are next to each other’, and when I immediately said ‘vacuum’ he looked disappointed and when I pointed out it isn’t even the only word with two u’s next to each other in English and offered ‘continuum’ as an example he looked like I’d just punched his ribcage out his back like a Mortal Kombat character

[captainclickycat]

People claiming this didn’t happen have never worked a day in retail

[squidbelly]

"Hey Veronika, what was Scar's name before he got a SCAAAAAA-?"

"Actually Jeremiah his name was Prince Taka which means "trash" which to me at any rate makes our emo lion so much more noble, to toss aside such a villainous name and dub oneself after a traumatic wildebeast encounter, wouldn't you say?"

"*incoherant babbling*"

[afeelgoodblog]

The kid will cherish this for their whole life. If they remember it.

[theroseandthebeast]

[studentlifeproblems]

[lucifewian]

[beaft]

my cat hates taking his pills. the only way we can get him to eat them is to turn it into an elaborate pantomime - we take the packet out of the cupboard slowly and hold it up, saying “oh!! what’s this? what’s this? a TREAT? a TREAT for louis????” while making surprised faces. we offer him a pill… then, before he has a chance to sniff it, we wag our fingers at him and replace it in the packet so it becomes a Tantalising Forbidden Mystery. we continue doing this until he’s so confused and excited that he will eat the pill as fast as possible, just so he can find out what it is before we can take it away from him again. as soon as he’s eaten it he looks utterly disappointed and betrayed, like a child who just ate a delicious sweet only to find it was a chocolate-coated brussels sprout. it never gets old

[autumngracy]

Op this is the funniest thing I’ve ever read

[fucktheflagandfuckyou]

op how could you just hide this from me in the tag this makes this objectively 10000000% funnier

[stalling]

50 First Doses

[skyline-sunset-in-my-veins]

You trick Louis? You trick Louis like a common fool? Oh jail, jail for owners ONE MILLION YE-oh what’s this? A treat?

[woolfdyke-deactivated20201127]

famous last words that make me go feral and tender at the same time

— “Happy.” Raphael (1520)

— “I’m still learning.” Michelangelo (1564)

— “A great leap in the dark.” Thomas Hobbes (1679)

— “It has all been most interesting.” Mary Wortley Montagu (1762)

— “Now is not the time for making new enemies.” Voltaire, when asked by a priest to renounce Satan before his death (1778)

— “Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.“ Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet, to his wife (1837)

— "Take courage, Charlotte; take courage.” Anne Brontë, to her sister Charlotte Brontë (1849)

— "I must go in, for the fog is rising.“ Emily Dickinson (1886)

— "Now comes the mystery.“ Henry Ward Beecher (1887)

— "Pull up the shades; I don’t want to go home in the dark.“ O. Henry (1910)

— "Swing low, sweet chariot.“ Harriet Tubman (1913)

— "It’s very beautiful over there.“ Thomas Edison (1931)

— "I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.“ Virginia Woolf to her husband (1941)

— "Are you happy? I’m happy.“ Ethel Barrymore (1959)

— "I love you. Sleep well, my sweetheart. Please don’t worry too much.“ Rob Hall, to his wife (1996)

— "A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.” Leonard Nimoy (2015)

— "I want to be with Carrie.“ Debbie Reynolds (2016)