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blueberry-ovaries · 4 months

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no one asked for it but here it is!

My ranking on which Band of Brothers characters I think i could beat in a fight:

for context i am 5”4, like 60kg soaking wet, but filled with rage and self belief - my entire fighting ability is based solely on the fact i grew up as the only girl and learnt to fight dirty

Dick Winters: First and foremost. I would NOT fight this man, i feel like it would be like hitting my mum, he just gives me disappointed mum vibes. secondly, i have no doubt that man can fight, and i would be folded like a deck chair - HOWEVER: i feel like he would help me stop the nose bleed i would get from him breaking my nose

Lewis Nixon: I feel like i could beat nix in a fight, just something about him screams like he would not be able to fight in like an anything goes street style fight? maybe it’s the Yale student in him.

Carwood Lipton: Again, i feel like it would be like hitting my dad. Also i know that man would be able to kick the shit out of me. Like we saw his arms in the baseball scene? yeah. no way would i be able to beat that man in a fight

Ronald Spiers: I wouldn’t even attempt to fight that man. He would rock my shit. There is no doubt about it. I may be delusional but i’m not THAT delusional

Harry Welsh: I feel like this one would be pretty easy, and i think i would win. Like he’s a loveable guy yaknow? but also if i had to i would beat him. However, i would probably feel pretty bad about it if im being honest

Joe Liebgott: now, i understand this man is probably like a foot taller than me, and very angry. BUT. i feel like this a a 50/50, in the sense that i feel if i could get him onto my level, it would a fair fight. HOWEVER, i feel this man would fight dirty if need be.

Joe Toye: no way. nuh uh. we’ve all seen his arms, they are bigger than my head, his brass knuckles?! yeah no way would i win that fight.

Bill Guarnere: again, i feel like this is similar to Joe Toye, in the fact that i feel like this man is filled with a lot of rage and would definitely knock me on my ass. Like i would put up a fight and maybe get a few punches in but, he would put me on my ass fs

George Luz: no offence but i would for sure win. Like love George but, if i had to fight him, i would win. But i don’t think i would ever want to fight George, look at that face and tell me you would want to harm it

Skip Muck: look at that face and tell me you would want to hit it. I would however win, i feel like there isn’t much height advantage for him to have, and even if there was i am used to fighting people bigger than me. So in short, yea i would win but i would feel bad about it

Don Malarkey: hasn’t he been through enough!? But seriously though, i think he would probably win based on arm size alone. Like he would crush me with his arms, even if i could fight back.

Frank Perconte: i would win. no doubt in my mind. That’s not saying this man wouldn’t be scrappy, because he gives me scrappy vibes, but i would win this one.

Babe Heffron: My beloved, my special guy, my pookie, i would NEVER. However, i think it would be a pretty 50/50 fight if i was able to get him to my level. That is if my ass wasn’t kicked my Bill first.

Bull Randleman: look at me. look at me. Bull Randleman would rock my shit. I would be folded like a pretzel. He would knock me on my ass, and most definitely brake a bone in my face. Look at him!!!!

Shifty Powers: it would feel like punching a sad little puppy :( i don’t want to fight him! Like i physically don’t think i would even fight him, and i feel he would feel bad if he hit me… maybe we go out for breakfast and don’t fight

David Webster: now i have full faith in my ability to beat this man in a fight. I feel he would be a pretentious harvard man and i would definitely be able to beat him, especially if it’s an anything goes brawl.

Johnny Martin: This man would eradicate me with a single death glare. He is TIRED of everyone’s shit, and i think he would use that to just decimate me off the face of the earth.

Chuck Grant: Now, we’re talking pre head wound chuck, he would probably beat me, PROBABLY. I feel like that man would fight dirty, but there would be a chance for me to win. So maybe like a 70/30 chance his way?

Floyd Talbert: This man would flirt his way to victory. He would make me turn red at the compliments and sweet talking and i just would not be able to fight him. And to be honest, i would let him

Eugene Roe: Again, i would NEVER want to fight this man, he has been through enough!!! But the fact he would be able to throw me like a sack of potatoes would wound my ego severely. Like dude is strong! he’s carrying around injured people all day! Which means he would most definitely win.

Buck Compton: This one’s a tricky one for me to say, i want to say he would win. BUT, i feel like he would fight fair yaknow? So maybe if i caught him off guard and like, bite him maybe i would win? But who knows for sure.

Skinny Sisk: This man has to deal with Web and Lieb. HE IS TIRED!!! I would not fight him based on the fact that he needs a break. Give him a break. BUT i think it would be pretty 50/50, he seems beatable but also seems like he could kick my ass yaknow?

#band of brothers #babe heffron #bandofbrothers #dick winters #ronald speirs #donald malarkey #george luz #hbowar #band of brothers #carwood lipton #band of brothers thoughts #madsrambles #bluerambles

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vashtijoy · 11 months

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Today I want to rant at length about highlight a plot-relevant but otherwise rather dry line from Shido's Palace, simply because it's been living rent-free in my head for days and I'll die if I don't.

And up front I want to say: this is not intended as translator bashing, shit like this is rarely on the translator, though I will possibly get a little aerated at times. More about that at the end.

This is really long, and probably very boring. So to summarise quickly:

Ooe's "diplomat" and "president of some company" are the Minister for Transport and the railway company president from the 4/10 cinematic with Sae and the SIU director;

Shido wasn't "specially appointed", he's the Minister of State for Special Missions, likely with oversight for either the PTs or the psychotic breakdowns;

being a pro translator sucks;

something about a well.

my least favourite line so far

Shadow Politician 春先に地下鉄事故があっただろう?狙ったのは、あの運転士だからな。 harusaki ni chikatetsu jiko ga atta darou? neratta no wa, ano untenshu da kara na Do you recall the subway accident early last spring? The one I had targeted was that engineer.

nb—this "engineer" is the train driver. I didn't get this at all, but apparently train drivers are called engineers in the US? This is a good example of how something you think is a mistranslation may not be.

There is an occasion where the guy is referred to as a "driver", but this is actually 車掌 shashou—in Japanese, a conductor in the British sense, the member of staff who is not the driver, but walks up and down checking tickets. This is meant to hint to us, I suspect, that the NPC saying this may not be a reliable source—he's making some spooky claims, after all. Yet again, in America, the conductor can be the driver of the train...? IDK, confusion abounds.

But on to the important bit:

Shadow Politician 目障りな国交大臣と、現政権派の社長のクビを取るためだった。mezawarina kokkou daijin to, genseiken-ha no shachou no kubi o toru tame datta It was to take out the president of some company and a diplomat who sided with current government.

Full disclosure: I have never liked this line. It screamed of being mistranslated. "The president of some company"? Ooe had this guy destroyed, and he can't be specific? And "a diplomat"? This has come from nowhere—I can't think of another diplomat in P5. It just all seems so random. And it is random. Because this was meant to close up a background plot element from the start of the game, and it just... doesn't any more.

So, for this one, I'm just going to break out the big red DENIED stamp again:

The hell of it all is that I can see what they did here, so I'm going to go through it at excessive length, as like... an object lesson in what not to do. Not just for you, but for me.

And I need to be clear up front that I'm not an authoritative source on the Japanese language. I'm not fluent, my Japanese is barely passable (which is why asks, comments and discussion on my language posts are all always super welcome, btw, just like for everything else I post). I'm just a weeb on the Internet, who constantly posts assertions and theories that future me will hate. Bring your salt shaker.

Quick glimpse behind the curtain: this is from my Google doc for Shido's Palace. You have the textbox code, the speaker, then the text in Japanese, romaji and the localisation. Usually these days I don't add the romaji (it's not good for your reading), but lines that go into posts get it temporarily.

Words I don't know, or had to verify (like shachou, where I wanted to know if it was always a company president or if it could be a role within a political faction), or lore/grammar notes, all get comments, which are highlighted in yellow.

the peril of dictionaries

I'm bilingual English/Welsh-speaking; until I was fifteen, I was educated through the medium of Welsh. So I got taught very early on about the correct use of dictionaries. The exact example I remember is that a past pupil (probably apocryphal) wanted to put "Well, Dad was angry!" into Welsh. And they had looked up "well"....

ffynnon, roedd Dad yn grac! Well, Dad was angry!

This is a ffynnon:

It's a funny story. The point is that you should always flip to the other half of the dictionary to verify the meaning you found. Or these days, with the Internet and all, we get to check multiple dictionaries, corpuses and sources! And a riotously good time it is.

part one: who was that mysterious diplomat

The main phrase I want to focus on is 国交大臣 kokkou daijin. This is what has been rendered "a diplomat" in the localisation. On first glance, that's a string of kanji I don't know: country, the right-hand side of the second half of 学校 gakkou (school), something about a big man... is that read daijin?...

Maybe it's a yojijukugo—a fixed four-kanji phrase with an often-idiomatic meaning? Let's put the whole thing into Jisho and see what we get.

(Incidentally, I bash Jisho constantly, but it's still my first stop because it's fast and often good enough. You just shouldn't rely on it for anything critical; trust, but verify.)

Well, there's no yojijukugo. But one glance at that tells us that Ooe's "diplomat" is not a diplomat at all. Ooe's "diplomat" is the Minister for Transport who was brought down as a result of this subway crash in April. You might have thought Shido had this guy taken out, but no. He did it for Ooe. He crashed a subway train, injuring 80 people, as nothing but a favour to Ooe.

But why is it using kokkou, "diplomatic relations"? Well, Jisho gives us a convenient "see also" link. Let's take a look:

You see what they did there? The full phrase is 国土交通相 kokudo koutsuu-shou, "Minister for (National) Land and Transport". But nobody wants to say that. So you strike out some of the kanji. The word becomes kokkoushou—but everyone still knows who you mean.

Let's do a bit of that verification I mentioned. Here's Wikipedia:

HmmMM. Notice how the Minister and the Ministry are read the same; only the last kanji changes. But we're still on track.

Let's click over to Japanese Wikipedia. What do they have to say?

And there it is again, highlighted: our old friend 国交 kokkou, "diplomatic relations". "In Japanese, this is commonly abbreviated as kokkoushou".

daijin

How about 大臣 daijin? It looks like it just means "big man" or "important man", but what does it actually mean? Again, let's start with Jisho:

... B|

Jisho offers us a bunch of "further reference" links, so I'm going to go straight to Japanese Wikipedia for this one—which sends you to an old revision of the page, by the way; be sure to go to the latest one:

大臣（だいじん）は、本来は皇帝や国王などを輔弼して国政を司る重要官職だが、今日では一般的に君主制か共和制かにかかわらず、政府を構成し、各行政部門の長に位置する官職を指す。閣僚ともいう。 Historically, 大臣 daijin referred to the high position of those responsible for matters of state, who advised emperors and kings on those matters. However, today it generally refers, regardless of whether the government in question is a monarchy or republic, to an official who leads a division of government.

... ... B|

In other words, a cabinet minister. Seems to sum it up pretty well, but let's just look at the invaluable ALC corpus on this:

So we have it. A daijin is unquestionably a cabinet minister. And Ooe is unquestionably talking about the Minister for Transport.

last-minute edit: I actually wrote this entire post, preened for completing it, then closed it in my drafts and forgot all about it. Until I opened my grammar text to a random page and found this:

EVEN MY GRAMMAR BOOK KNOWS.

Actual grammar books are a bit obsolete in 2023, but that is a great one if you're in the market. Just don't get the Kindle edition, it's illegible on Kindle which is probably not what you want.

Incidentally, yes, a Diet member is sensei—you can often hear people refer to Shido that way.

but we can also backreference this one

Another cool thing we can do is get context-relevant examples. That is, we can search the P5 script itself to see how it uses daijin and kokkou daijin.

Two lines use kokkou daijin. One is this line of Ooe's. The other is a news story, which gets it right:

Newscaster 国交大臣の辞任に伴い、与党への批判が高まっており⋯ kokkou daijin no jinin ni tomanai, yotou e no hihan ga takamatte ori... Criticism of the ruling party has surged, following the resignation of the Minister of Transport.

But people talk about the Minister quite a bit. What phrases do they use? Well, sometimes he's simply the daijin—"the Minister"; this usually becomes "Minister of Transport" for context. Sometimes he's the kokkoushou, as we discussed above. And often, on the news, he gets his full title—he's the kokudo koutsuu daijin.

Usually, daijin by itself in P5 is part of 総理大臣 souri daijin—the prime minister.

meanwhile in shidoland

In passing, the MoT is not the only one who gets translated out of the script. You might remember from the calling card cinematic that Shido is the "Minister of State for Special Missions".

Makoto tries to tell us this at one point:

Makoto 特命担当大臣現職の閣僚よ tokumei tantou daijin genshoku no kanryou yo He was specially appointed to the position. That's his current title. He's the current Minister of State for Special Missions.

(What is that, exactly? I'm not gonna do a huge research effort on this one right now, this post is already longer than the Nile and dry as sand, but they appear to be appointed to deal with things that are a big deal—the link gives you examples of some of the issues they've been appointed for. It's not inconceivable that Shido was appointed to the Cabinet to deal with the national crisis of psychotic breakdowns and mental shutdowns that he started. Either that, or the PTs themselves—he does talk about them an awful lot.)

and that's not all

There is, of course, a real Japanese Minister for Transport. We can put kokkou daijin into Google (with a little は on the end to filter Chinese-language sites), and what do we get back? The first hit is the Wikipedia page for the Minister for Transport.

My guess would be that the translator knew the word kokkou, but they didn't have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Japanese politics. So they read kokkou daijin as some kind of important diplomat.

part two: in which we invent time travel

And that was only the first of the two things that made me hate my life about that textbox. Let's bring the line back:

The second thing that got under my skin was this:

現政権派の社長 genseiken-ha no shachou

This means, in the terms of the localisation, "a company president who sided with current government". But... what is even going on here?

In Japanese, modifiers go before the things they modify, right? Like ... always. I'm going to cite the slightly-tongue-in-cheek but also inestimable Jay Rubin (probably best known as Haruki Murakami's English translator) on this:

... by about the middle of the seventh century, the Emperor, who still wielded actual power then, made a rule, maybe the one rule that really works in the language and never gets broken: “From this day forward, subjects will always come before their verbs. And, just to keep things neat, modifiers will always come before what they modify.” Never in all these centuries have there been any exceptions—at least not in normal syntax....

Shōmetsu shita zō is “The elephant that vanished”—a fragment, just a noun with a modifier in front of it. By putting it before the zō, we’ve changed the shōmetsu shita into a modifier. I’m going to go way out on a limb here and call anything that modifies a noun an adjective. Shōmetsu shita zō (literally, “vanished elephant”) works exactly the same way as utsukushii zō (“beautiful elephant”).

(That's from the book "Making Sense of Japanese", by the way, which y'all should totally read if you can find a copy. It's one of Kodansha's little books, which are all worth at least a glance; they published tons of them, with titles like "All About Particles" and "How To Sound Intelligent In Japanese" and etc etc etc.)

back to our sentence

So how is this translation breaking that rule? Let's look at it again, with the problematic parts bolded:

目障りな国交大臣と、現政権派の社長のクビを取るためだった。mezawarina kokkou daijin to, genseiken-ha no shachou no kubi o toru tame datta It was to take out the president of some company and a diplomat who sided with current government.

現政権派 genseiken-ha is the current government; the current administration. No problems there. It's just in the wrong place.

kokkou daijin, we established, is the localisation's "diplomat". genseiken-ha no translates as "aligned with the current government". But genseiken-ha is after kokkou daijin. It cannot be modifying it. It can't have been taken for a relative clause—what Jay Rubin framed as an adjective in the quote up there—because we still have the two people the sentence describes, the "diplomat" and the businessman; the sentence has not been read as talking about a diplomat who is also a government-boosting company president.

We should have, literally, "an eyesore of a minister for transport" and "a company president who sides with current government". But we just... don't.

Is it possible it doesn't make sense that a company president would be aligned with the government? Has the sentence been rearranged for that reason? But this is essentially what Okumura does: he's a company boss aligned with a powerful politician. So are the TV and IT Execs whose shadows we meet, for that matter. They are not in politics themselves, but they network with politicians. Big business and politics are always hand-in-hand.

All of this gives us the following working version of the translation:

It was to take down that intolerable Minister of Transport and a company president who supported the government.

And on that note....

who is that mysterious company president

"the president of some company", the localisation says. This seems a bit vagued up. Are there any company presidents we should be aware of here?

The answer is yes:

On 4/10, in the cinematic after the crash, the SIU Director talks at length about how this is the fault of "the company and the government". Of course he does—he knows very well what's happened, and he knows where the blame is to be assigned:

SIU Director: It's less of an operating accident and more of a crime of the company and the government. SIU Director: Site inspectors apparently reported all of this six months ago—the deterioration of the tracks and the ATC.

And the last two lines in full, since they diverge:

SIU Director それを会社が隠ぺい…国交省も故意に見逃したフツがある。 sore o kaisha ga inpei... kokkoushou mo koi ni minogashita futsu ga aru Seems the railway company and the Ministry of Transport both turned a blind eye to the truth. So the railway company covered it up... and the Ministry of Transport did what they do best: they turned a blind eye to it..

This is just a slight difference in emphasis: the railway company allegedly performed a deliberate coverup, and it was the Ministry that did their normal thing, and chose to overlook that coverup....

But note that "railway company" here is just 会社 kaisha, "company". Originally, it was obvious from context; the localisation clarifies it. But when Ooe later mentions a 社交 shachou, a "company president", in the same obvious-from-context way, it has not been picked up on—our very personal railway company president has become "the president of some company". Who was important enough for Ooe to personally destroy, but not important enough for him to remember where he worked.

SIU Director 隠し通せんよ。大臣の進退まで行くだろう。 kakushitoosen yo. daijin no shintai made iku darou There's no way they can hide. This will go all the way to the top. They can't keep this hushed up forever. By the end of this, the transport minister's job will be on the line.

... but here's the first real appearance of the Minister for Transport, with the SIU Director—who, again let's not forget, knows this crash was engineered in part to get that minister—not just saying this incident will "go all the way to the top", but that it will specifically end with them coming for the minister's job.

where did we come from, where did we go

Where does that leave us with the sentence?

It was to take out the president of some company and a diplomat who sided with current government. It was to take down that intolerable Minister of Transport, and the president of the railway company. He supported the government, after all.

We've broken that little genseiken-ha out into its own little explaining sentence, since it's hard to phrase as one sentence in natural English. And now you know.

btw, leave the translators alone

Look, this is far from the best translation I've ever seen. We should be mad about this, right? Well... no.

As a hobbyist, I have the luxury of focusing on a single fandom, spending hours, days, or weeks thinking about single scenes, researching context, language and concepts, confirming I've understood things to the best of my ability. Your average animanga/JRPG translator is not being paid well enough, or given nearly enough time, to do this. They cannot be expected to do this.

This is not, not, NOT on the translator. Read that ten times. We are supposed to go from our second language to our native tongue; that's how translation works best. So there will always be areas of confusion like this, things that need clarification and research. Japanese media translation requires a vast knowledge of differently arcane terms depending on the work; nobody will know them all.

Who is this on? It's on Atlus, for skimping on and rushing not only the translation but the editing; they did the English localisation of a massive property on the cheap. Something like this should have been caught by the editor, but honestly P5's editing (including the way things are finalised in English, and the overall polishing of the script) tends to come in for more criticism than the translation per se.

tl;dr: blame the company, not the poor translator who was most likely just one of us trying to make a shitty living with something they love, and a skill they worked their ass off for.

#persona 5 #p5 meta #japanese language #translation #long post #very long #very boring #you have been warned

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wellthebardsdead · 11 months

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How all my dragonborns sound/their accents:

Poppy: yeehaw cowboy Cole Cassidy. I’m not even joking Poppy isn’t just my character but he’s a shared Oc amongst my dnd group who all enjoy both the elder scrolls and Overwatch. Our dm made him purely because he wanted a cowboy cyborg dwemer npc so he could practice his Cole Cassidy impression and he loves how we’ve all adopted him as our own in so many different ways.

Bass: Extremely deep baritone voice with a slight African accent. Though with his voice regulator on he sounds closer to South African or English with a very robotic undertone.

Henwen: A deep but very soft spoken voice with a Welsh English accent that can quickly switch to old Norse Viking when he’s tapped into his atmoran roots and screaming a battle cry that could send enemies running as they shit themselves.

Riiju-Lei: A Nordic accent but with hints of argonian roughness and occasional dunmer inflections. He’s a polyglot and often jumbles words from different languages but he’s often very gentle in his tone if not a bit direct.

Shamat: Soft spoken dunmeri accent teetering on Australian. His voice is quite deep but as a healer and someone wanting to befriend all he tends to lower his tone to a softer more approachable level.

Flynt: Irish, English/American accent. Raised in Cyrodiil he grew up knowing bosmeri thanks to his father and other bosmer in the community but due to how heavily ostracised they were at the time he adapted a more imperial accent. Though get him flustered and angry enough and he will quickly switch back to his bosmeri/Irish accent. He’s very confident in himself and in what he wants, though once he’s blinded and loses his ability to speak hes left only able to communicate through slurred and sad attempts at speech. Made even harder if he’s upset.

Dune: A very deep but surprisingly eloquent orcish voice, not as rough as most orcs but still capable of growling low enough to emphasise a point. Less of a barbarian and more of a mage/healer he speaks quite softly but can be confident among friends.

Aurorwren: his accent is a mix between Greek/Roman & old English. He’s very confident in himself and presents it clearly with how he speaks but around those he cares deeply for, particularly humans, he’s very softly spoken not wanting to be perceived as a threat to them in any way. Especially given his peoples reputation for cruelty.

Sylas: Welsh/English. He is rough and irritable at the best of times towards everyone except for Taliesin. His voice is deep and husky and he will use it in any way he can to seduce, persuade or intimidate others to get what he wants. But when alone with Taliesin and holding him tight the meanest he’ll get is a low growl in his ear during the throws of passion.

Vivienne: dunmeri/imperial accent, he spent most of his life in the city of blacklight but picked up English through the dwindling imperial influence throughout the city. Quite softly spoken and sweet when at peace. Under extreme distress voice will dip into Vivec’s voice, echoing with both his own and his past incarnation.

Marigold: English accent, formerly bosmeri/Irish. His fathers cruelty and etiquette lessons literally beat his accent into him. He’s clearly spoken and can be authoritative in his tone if needs be and he’s not afraid to be cutting with his words either. When physically weakened or vulnerable however, he can be very soft spoken displaying he needs gentle care.

Shen Lung: Mandarin/Nepali accent. Living his whole life on the isolated island of Akavir he’s unfamiliar with the imperial language adopted all across mainland tambriel however he is a polyglot and knows all the languages on his homeland from Akaviri, to the snake folk tongue, to his own Tang Mo. He’s a fast learner and picks up how to speak from interactions with team dragonborn. His voice is quite deep but softly spoken with a playful lilt. When startled he will scream like a monkey and if left with his thoughts will sometimes chirp like a marmoset or smaller primate.

Evalien: Modern Working class Australian accent. She’s from our world and has and will call Nazeem a cunt to his face.

Naria: Māori accent. He’s generally very friendly and approachable with his tone and accent, easily pulling anybody in with it and making them a friend. Under water however he clicks, trills and groans out like a dolphin or whale.

Wyrm: English accent. Growing up in the collage of winterhold with access to endless knowledge and tutoring he’s a polyglot and very eloquent in several languages including his native dunmeri. He has a soft, kind voice and it matches his introverted nature, however he can speak clearly and authoritatively if needs be. With his adopted father Urag however, he’s like any teenager and will whine and complain if he doesn’t get his way~

#skyrim #ocs #dwemer dragonborn #bosmer dragonborn #dunmer dragonborn #Altmer dragonborn #falmer dragonborn #maormer dragonborn #Ayleid dragonborn #tang mo dragonborn

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georgia-stanway · 3 months

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Tagged by @steeple-sinderby-wanderers 10 songs I've been listening to lately.

1. Parson's farewell (black sails version) I like the original but this version goes so hard. (So does the entire black sails soundtrack tbf)

2. Hadestown. The entire album but particularly How long? If you even remotely like musicals I cannot recommend it enough .

3. Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird from the Ballad of songbirds and snakes. I like the genre anyway and I'm a sucker for a soundtrack

4. Speaking of I've been rewatching Dr who which always prompts a dive into the soundtrack. This is Gallifrey has been particularly stuck on repeat this time round

5. Cry to the beat of the band by Sophie Ellis-Bexter. In what can only be described as an act of grief I watched the 2013 series of strictly and 12 year old me developed a crush on her and was extremely angry at the judges constantly favouring abbey Clancy (no idea whether this is true but it's what I felt in my heart) naturally I brought the album she promptly came out with. Everybody listening to murder on the dancefloor reminded me of it and it's not actually that bad.

6. Beethoven's 5th specifically the third movement. I went to a concert which featured it before Christmas and fuck me the third movement just slaps

7. P.R.O.T.E.C.T.T.R.A.N.S.K.I.D.S by Cheap dirty horse. Local band and given the current atmosphere sometimes you just feel like screaming at the top of your lungs

8. Take me to Church by hozier. The song of all time, ever present on most of my playlists.

9. Bottom of the river by delta Rae. The song that inspired my username (bottom of the river was already taken). Another one on most of my playlists.

10. Yma o hyd. I like going through random folk song playlists on YouTube and discovered it again and got stuck reminiscing about rare positive football moments. Also I keep meaning to email one of my distant Welsh cousins who's just started looking at the family tree because I've done a lot of research and every time I go to write it i basically just end up going hey did you know our common ancestor may have spoken cymraeg? In both a genuine question because I don't know the answer and in a isn't it sad how our family just completely lost the language way so I've been a bit in my Welsh heritage feels as well.

I'm terrible at tagging people so I'll just tag whoever wants to do it.

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cheese-chiled · 1 year

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Is anyone else angry when a post making fun of other people's names pops up on their dash?

Like, I know it's easy and fun to mock girls named kaytelynne or Airwrecka or guys named Dayve or Sssster. It's fun to mock mormon and mormon adjacent naming conventions where parents try to get a unique name by spelling a regular on as weird as possible, but I have to ask- how do y'all treat non-english names?

On that post I saw, people brought up normal names: Nichelle (African american, combo of nicole and michelle), Brigid (The original form of brigette), Belinda (English, very old). And and a number of non english names: Yonathan (Original Hebrew variant of Jonathan, spelled a bit differently though), Ngqabutho (Zimbabwean meaning first born or leader)

Lets be real here, would any of these people bat an eye at the name Elijah, but then scream and shit themselves at the original Eliyyahu?

If you can handle a Kevin you can handle a Cefin (Welsh variant of the name)

And that doesn't even begin to scrape the surface on how racist this behavior is, especially when targeting african-american names!

Please for the love of fuck stop mocking peoples names, especially if you don't know the origin of it.

#names #racism #language #seriously people shut the fuck up #this is just racist #not every language is english #and it isn't funny even if the kid has a weirdly spelled name #you don't know that person's history or relationship with their name #you don't know the importance behind it #so shut the fuck up

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Guess the kin? Les go.

- just your average Welsh rugby player who happens to do ✨ magic ✨ and has an angry sister, unaware that her brother does said magic

- a star with an extended lifetime™

- angry pig guy who runs around screaming at everyone and everything. can't get anyone's name right.

- gay snowboarder and skateboarder who moved abroad and can't speak the language of his new country. falling so hard for his best friend

- lives in a sleeping bag but can kick your ass if you dare to hurt someone they care about

- walking megaphone. can topple a building with their voice alone. disses children on live tv. why do you do your hair like that, you look like a banana.

- (accidentally?) married an assassin and has a telepathic child (this one might be a bit obvious haha)

#fictionkinfessions #fictionkin #guess the name #shipping issue #mod party cat!#3rd one is pigguyman from amnesia a machine for pigs #5 is that sleepy bnha guy?

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:) Dantes, Oberon, and Luxu?

First impression

Dantes: KOMAEDA?????????????????????????

Oberon: Oh, cool, Oberon, he has a nice des-- WHAT THE FUCK IS HIS FULL NAME???????? NO FUCKING WAY?????? I NEED HIM

Luxu: Oh, okay, faceless apprentice, he seems sweet-- [cue epilogue of KH3] brb screaming into my pillow

Impression now

Dantes: My god, I love this absolute fucking madlad. My good sir you fuck severely, please keep protecting me in my dreams from horrible beasties.

Oberon: I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM OH MY GOD I AM SAVING LITERALLY ALL MY SQ FOR HIM IN AUGUST I WILL CRY IF I DON'T PULL HIM I LOVE HIM SO MUCH I AM ACTUALLY GOING INSANE I CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM AS A CHARACTER

Luxu: That's my tired old man that's my boy that's my love oh my fucking god. I was so mad when they squished him into Braig because I had sO MANY HEADCANONS FOR BRAIG but I worked with it and I love him so much now.

Favorite moment

Dantes: Every time he shows up in our mind to sweep us out of trouble dramatically. Bonus points for everything in Shimousa. He loves us so much, the weirdo.

Oberon: GOD. GOD. His flashback with Castoria where he teaches her magic and barely manages not to blow his cover with just sheer outrage at how they treat her. His genuine vengeful rage over the burning of the Welsh forest despite how much he claimed to loathe it there. The way he almost tore Koyan's throat out immediately on seeing her. How he's one of the only people to look at Fujimaru and be angry about what they've been through on their behalf. Everything about the final confrontation with him. When you summon him after beating LB6 and he's just completely fucking gobsmacked you'd actually want him around after All That Bullshit.

Luxu: The epilogue. His confrontation with Ava. Everything about Bragi.

Idea for a story

Dantes: I want to explore more of his time in Chaldea, not just in Fujimaru's dreams, go talk to other people, have interactions!

Oberon: I NEED PHH VORTIGERN EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW IMMEDIATELY I WANT TO SEE PHH VORTIGERN RECONTEXTUALIZED WITH THIS NEW INFORMATION FROM LB6 I WANT MORE OF THE VORTIGERN PART OF HIS EXISTENCE!!!!

Luxu: Goddd, more of his past lives please.

Unpopular opinion

Dantes: IDK what's popular or not lmao.

Oberon: Related to the above, I think people tend to focus too much on the Oberon aspect? I want to see more focus on Vortigern he's my favorite part of this whole amalgam, I desperately want to see PHH Vortigern looked at again now that they've retconned Garden of Avalon's version. There's SO much potential.

Luxu: I absolutely do not like this painting of him as cruelly stealing other people's bodies like Xehanort, I don't like the idea that Braig was bodysnatched DURING BBS, I don't like the focus on what if Braig/Bragi are still in there. I prefer a juxtaposition where he's gentler about it and I definitely think we've only ever known Braig as Luxu.

Favorite relationship

Dantes: Besides the comedy of Dantes and Nightingale, I love him and Fujimaru's relationship so much. I kinda ship it ngl.

Oberon: LB6 TRIO OBERON FUJIMARU CASTORIA I CRY UNCONTROLLABLY, DEAR GOD. But also please for the love of god let me explore Oberon and Merlin's relationship especially in context of the mythos with Vortigern and Emrys holy shit.

Luxu: RADIANT GARDEN SQUAD ACTIVATE but also him and the other Foretellers, Oof.

Favorite headcanon

Dantes: Despite being his usual batshit self in most settings, due to my Fujimaru's unique abilities he's a bit more chill if he's in Chaldea proper, and he actually Needs those glasses he wears in the summer alt outfit.

Oberon: OH GOD I CANNOT EVEN BEGIN WITH THESE. Please don't make me start in on my Vortigern headcanons and my hcs for my version of him in Chaldea, I have way too many. But here's one: PHH Vortigern raised Merlin for at least part of his life. Fuck your timeline weirdness.

Luxu: Luxu and Braig's hearts accidentally merged so they're literally the same person now, whoopsie. That's why he says this is his last vessel. He Can't Leave. Good thing he doesn't need to!

#fateseriesblogging #khblogging #chara: shot to the heart #chara: white dragon of the abyss #chara: hell to your doorstep

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Best of New Colossus 2024

I'm currently recovering from a busy New Colossus Festival and a few folk have asked for rundown of my faves, so here you go.

First of all, this years fest was my absolute favorite and it was great to see so many packed venues appreciating the music. I've been every year to this festival, I love it and long may it continue.

If you don't know what it's all about it's similar to SXSW, or Iceland Airwaves, or a personal favorite of mine back home - The Great Escape in Brighton. Tons of small venues showcasing new and upcoming bands. New Colossus leans towards indie, rock and shoegaze, but there's a smattering of other genres too all in the best small venues in the Lower East Side, NYC.

Here's what I enjoyed the most:

Cucamaras

Possibly the festival highlight for me. Nottingham band taking influences from early Arctic Monkeys, Fontaines DC, Yard Act. As with a lot of these new bands their Spotify list doesn't really do them justice, you have to see them live.

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NOBRO

Definitely the most fun set of the week. 4 piece canadian all female punk band, with sing-a-long choruses, crowd surfing and smiles galore. My fave chant: EAT! SLAY! CHARDONNAY!

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Reme

Half spanish, half english classic rock, super talented musicians. Sleeves proudly adorned by all their influences, Beatles, Bowie, Queen, Elton John all come through, another fantastic live band.

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Scrounge

Two piece, reverse White Stripes formation. Killer riffs and angry vocals. This is an instant classic. Formidable live.

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Langkamer

Bristol lads with a drummer / singer. Sound like Pavement, Belle & Sebastian and Teenage Fanclub. Full of catchy melodies and fun lyrics.

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O.Wake

I broke my no local band rule for O.Wake, as they play regularly in NYC along with my other local faves Mary Shelley and TVOD. But Im glad I did. They're a little hard to pigeonhole, the new single is quite funky phoenix style indie, great lyrics and songs that veer in all sorts of directions but usually with a great hook.

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Slash Need

Certainly won't be a lot of peoples cup of tea, but if they're on a festival you're at this year - GO SEE THEM. Musically they're dark electronica, I would imagine Peaches is a big influence and if you know the belgian dance band GOOSE similar sounding to them. Visually, it's a feast, lead by a fierce lead singer, heavy beats and two gimp-like dancers that get uncomfortably close.

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Hotel Mira

Probably the most primed for a main stream audience out of all this list. Radio friendly indie-pop with a very enigmatic lead singer but you can't deny they got tunes and they're good fun live.

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Minas

The most intense set of the week. Difficult to categorize again, nearest I can think of is The Prodigy. Welsh rap / industrial noise / metal?? I honestly don't know, but they put on a helluva show. Two of the best heckles came out of this set, 1. "MORE YELLING PLEASE" after a particularly shouty track and 2. "Are YOU OK?" a response to the singer asking us if we're OK after a track which had him pounding the floor and screaming. Terrifying, but super interesting.

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Holiday Ghosts

Perhaps the polar opposite to Minas, bright sunny indie, chock full of tunes from Brighton / Falmouth. Hints of a milder Sleater Kinney.

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I've done a spotify playlist with these and a few more artists I liked the sound of but didn't get round to watching so check it out .

While I have you my general 2024 new music playlist is taking shape, so give that a follow too and I'll continue to add to it.

#newcolossus #new music #nowplaying #Youtube

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This summer, I accidentally wrote a YA novel set in a fictional Welsh mining town at the beginning of the 20th century that features a Really Angry Protagonist, the systemic erasure of her culture, spying, social issues, and pit-ponies. Plus nature bits, because.

Because my Mam wanted to read it as a proper book, and not as a collection of screen grabs, or a word document, I put it on That Website since it seemed like a good idea at the time. I’m 90% certain that the copies I’ve actually sold have all been to her 😂.

Tymblr is usually just where I go to post silly drawings, and enjoy everyone else’s takes, and occasionally shitpost about Howl Pendragon, or go on about how much I love my horses, and watch everyone be cleverer, funnier and more interesting than me.

On the 16th -18th December, as a nod to my Dad, I’ll be running a promo on That Site where you can download it for keeps at 99p. I’m baulking at the idea of putting a link here and screaming about it, but if you’re curious, send me an ask :)

#wales #welsh fiction #tymblr #celtophobia #horses #ponies #coal mining #coal industry #independent author

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anthonysstupiddailyblog · 1 year

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Anthony’s Stupid Daily Blog (295): Thu 5th Jan 2022

Looked after Luna today. I normally refer to Thursdays as mine and Luna’s play day but I think I might rename it “Road Runner and Waffles” day because that’s all she ever watches / eats. We also watched this Welsh show called “My Petasaurus” about a little girl with a pet dinosaur. It’s awful and all the episodes are less than five minutes long. You’d think this would make them easier to watch but there’s about a hundred episodes and Luna wanted to watch them all. So rather than a movie where we see the characters evolve over ninety minutes we see the same characters do something mundane, then disappear while the credits roll and then go back to doing something mundane. It was like the TV equivalent of waiting for a South Shields bus.

Tuned into tonight’s Hollyoaks which opened up with a very funny storyline where Darren was hiring his friends and family to monitor Oscar on his very first solo walk to school. This included Tom wearing a fake moustache and driving a milk float and Goldie wearing one too dressed up as a lollipop man. This was awesome. The show was really funny when I started watching it but some way along the way it became all drama so I’m glad that they’ve readdressed the balance. Also no one questioning why Goldie had a moustache was great. I was really hoping the post-credits scene after tonight’s episode was going to be an angry milkman going outside and screaming “HEY! WHERE THE FUCK IS MY MILKFLOAT?!!” The actual episode was kind of marred by the ending. Early in the episode discovers that newcomer Beau was sacked from his old school teaching job after being accused of having an appropriate relationship with a student which he denies. Nancy told Beau she was going to tell the headteacher in the morning but at the end of the day Oscar started to choke on something and who do you think rushed in to save him? That’s right Beau gave Oscar the Heimlich manoeuvre and saved him printing Nancy to forget about the whole thing. Ain’t that convenient? This was so damn convoluted. A lot of the dramatic turns the show takes rely on MAJOR coincidences. So basically if Oscar hadn't happened to have choked right there in front of Beau he'd have been finished.

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indianatrust · 2 years

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Fall fall fall fall cherub

Fall fall fall fall cherub skin#

Norman Large was once a CHERUB agent after his parents died in a fire. Surprisingly, though he abuses his students, he loves his job very much, as he is brought to tears when he resigns. He lives with Gareth and his adopted daughter, Hayley Large-Brooks. He especially enjoyed seeing the agents tortured. Large is described as being a homosexual, angry man that was very good at his job. Large is described as a huge man with red hair. Despite wearing the biggest size CHERUB t-shirt, his muscles still look like they are trying to burst out of his t-shirt. In a flashback, he oversees the Malaysian tsunami with Kyle Blueman and Dante Welsh Large, after leaving CHERUB, becomes a security guard for the local ASDA. However, as soon as she leaves the room, he cries. Large then resigns after getting kicked out by Zara. Lauren knocks Large out, yet again, with a spade. Zara Asker is the CHERUB chairwoman, she has high security at her home, and CHERUB security officers are at her house within minutes, but not before he tries to kill Kyle. Large then tries to break into the Askers' house to kill Meatball. Lauren then goes to Large and shows him the photos saying that James was going to dump her and break her heart, but lots of other boys on campus would be interested. James went on a date with Hayley and Bruce took lots of pictures of them snogging. Their plan involves Large's daughter, Hayley. Meryl says she will see what she can do, but Lauren and Kyle come up with their own plan. Lauren goes to Kyle about it, who in turn goes to Lauren's handler, Meryl Spencer. Meatball is the dog that Lauren gave to the Askers after rescuing him at a dog testing lab. He goes to Lauren and threatens to break Meatball's back if she didn't lie and say that he wasn't drunk. In Mad Dogs, Large is still suspended from his job. Getting annoying because of this, Lauren Adams hits him over the head with a spade making him very angry. Norman Large also fell off his stretcher in confusion when he had the heart attack. Lauren calls him an old saddo beacuse he sang a song that her dad always sang when he was drunk. He also laughs at the thought of the agents having to drag huge granite blocks up a hill. Large is suspended from all duties in this book. In The Fall, Large gets drunk and has a heart attack while in charge of lots of CHERUB's, undergoing basic training to become agents. Dana Smith complained to Mac about the injustice. James team had the second least eggs left, but Large said that the eggs that Lauren, who was in James' team, had, shouldn't count as the eggs said Lauren on them, but Large said her name was "puke". However Mr Pike, another training instuctor stepped in and said that he was being brutal. The losing team would face humiliation, and would have to go on a multiple mile run.

Fall fall fall fall cherub skin#

This training exercise involved Eggs However, instead of using boiled eggs, the CHERUB's were using stimulated metal skins, which penetrated the skin a lot more than normal ones. In this book, Large is in charge of a rapping exercise. She jumps in naked and her body freezes. However she does succeed and puts Large into a very bad mood, after which he brutalizes her in a board game Norman Large has a cameo in this book while Lauren was in basic training, in the first chapter he brings the Trainees to an unknown country. Bethany had a sore back and was slowing down, and Mr Large was screaming abuse at her, saying she wasn't good enough to become an agent.He was hit with a shovel and suffered severe pain. Large made Lauren and Bethany dig a grave and fill it in again. Large has a tiny bit in this book when Lauren whacks him over the head with a shovel for bullying her friend, Bethany Parker. He also made fun of Nicole for being flabby and told her to "get rid of that wobbly ass or you'll never make it". Every time James' foot touched the ground, Large would hit James with a baton. James was two and a half hours late, so Large makes all the recruits crouch for that time. Large dislikes James even more when, they didn't quit even when James and Kerry Chang were forced to strip and sleep outside on Christmas Day, therefore losing him a £50 bet with Mr. He made James stand on one leg with a bucket on his head. He punishes James on the very first day for being late to Basic Training. Large is first introduced in The Recruit, when putting James Adams through Basic Training.

#Fall fall fall fall cherub

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oldgooddaysoldgooddays · 2 years

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On Friday I realise it’s Friday and that yesterday’s entry discussing “Friday” was in fact Thursday. What this then does to my week and how I reported it, I have no clue, but I can rest assured I’m in the famed phase of autumnal depression where day names are merely accessories, the purview of those who Have It Together My brain badly wants to skip ahead, but to what exactly? Frieze London, where I leave every party early and hungry and morose? Christmas, when my family play cards as though a third of us didn’t vote to leave the EU? My 30th birthday shortly after, when I fashion some surprisingly convincing arguments for not having achieved enough for my age? Or do I just want it to be 10pm all the time so I can go to bed? 11am all the time when painting feels most exciting? Do I secretly want to die? Today - actual Friday - I resign myself to a day alone, teetering on the edge of total loss of perspective, biking home in the rain. Instead J surprises me at the studio just as I’m losing the will to paint, the perfect visitor. We rewatch a segment of Chris Morris’s Jam, episode 3, where a Welsh woman describes her sexual fantasy - her husband arrives home and has been gang-raped, he suspects he is bleeding from the back passage and she asks to check his trousers. “And by that time I’m very ready”, she says “aching for a fuck”. J plays me the audio of an angry voice message Alec Baldwin left his eldest daughter some years ago. This is the last time you humiliate me, he screams, I don’t care if you’re 12 years old! J is in the position, romantically, that V dreads. Living together out of financial necessity and fighting over the gas meter, not connecting emotionally. I ask J if he fantasises about being in the studio while he’s with his girlfriend, not having any kind of diagnostic reason for the question, but knowing how often I’ve felt this same feeling. I say this a lot, but I don’t know what would possess a person to date an artist. It is a poisoned fucking chalice. I believe this so strongly that anybody who professes to want to date me evokes such insurmountable pity that it ruins the mood. And I’m made all the lonelier for this, so I can’t judge J’s romantic dilemmas. By the time he has to leave I don’t want him to. The number of people who could safely surprise-visit me this way is so small. I meditate. Also, as though God is showing me the day needn’t end in depression, it doesn’t rain

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The ANGLO-NORMAN ruling class screwed over Wales. Ordinary English people had nothing to do with it, are ethnically more Briton than Saxon, but are always lumped in with a ruling class. A lot of Welsh and Scottish nationalism is blood and soil nationalism with a fluffy progressive face. England is the only diverse country of the UK but insular, whitey white Scotland and Wales treat the English as uniquely xenophobic and bigoted while denying their own role in the BRITISH empire.

I'm screaming anon what the fuck

Like why have you even sent me this??? Do you just see a visibly Welsh person and your blood pressure raises your Celtophobia until you uncontrollably shart out moronic opinions?

Like thanks for bothering to share your fucking views, anon, but there is so much nonsense in this I don't even know where to start??? I... "An Anglo-Norman ruling class screwed over Wales" oh right, okay, so the Treachery of the Blue Books, the Merthyr Uprising, Tryweryn, every single thing that happened and continues to happen around Aberfan, the aftermath of the mine closures, the findings of the Silk Commission, the abandonment of Wales after natural disasters that England gets a blank check for, the theft of our natural resources including water and the removal and cancellation of every single large scale infrastructure project in Wales over the last 15 years are all the fault of *checks notes* a time travelling Anglo-Norman ruling class from the Medieval Period, right, gotcha.

Do you... do you see the irony of whining and pissing about English ethnicity and then proclaiming that Scotland and Wales are 'whitey white'? Do you see the irony of trying to claim that you are specifically 'our' kind of white before denigrating it in us? Do you see the irony in the fact that you're wrong, anyway, and genetic studies in Britain consistently show that English people are overwhelmingly continental with eau de Viking thrown in?

I mean honestly, you could not have screamed "I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW A SINGLE THING ABOUT THIS SUBJECT" any louder if you tried. You have written absolute nonsense here. You are laughable. This is unhinged levels of bullshit. This is like a man marching up to a feminist and going HOW DARE YOU SAY MEN ARE OPPRESSIVE WHEN THE REAL OPPRESSIVE PEOPLE WERE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE 1300s AND ORDINARY MEN HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, AND MEN ARE ACTUALLY MOSTLY FEMALE GENETICALLY ANYWAY BECAUSE WE HAVE AN X CHROMOSOME AS WELL AS A Y, AND ANYWAY MEN ARE THE ONLY DIVERSE POPULATION UNLIKE WOMEN WITH YOUR MONO-X CHROMOSOMES WHO JUST WANT TO IGNORE THAT YOU'RE MEAN SOMETIMES AS WELL."

You're a fucking idiot. You have clearly never actually listened to the issues, you've never done one iota of research, never looked up a single thing from Welsh history, and you sure as shit aren't paying attention to Welsh current events. Instead, you felt defensive and angry, so you took up the old party line and tried to blame anyone else you could, including a socio-political faction that hasn't existed in centuries because that way, it's all in the past. That list of examples I gave up there? That is just a handful of events from the 1800s onwards. This is how I know you're mewling ignorance at me. You honestly, genuinely think - as so many "ordinary English people" do - that the mis-treatment of Wales started and ended with the conquest. You genuinely don't know a single thing that happened after that, and let's be real, you don't even know anything about the conquest. You genuinely believe that we've been living in sunshine and roses ever since, and that we're complaining about nothing. Because if you didn't, you wouldn't be trying to blame it on an "Anglo-Norman ruling class".

And you genuinely know so little about modern Wales that you actually, honestly think that when we say we aren't the same as England, we're talking fucking racially I mean Jesus Christ holy fucking projection Batman.

I'll leave you with this: the current attitudes and campaigns of "ordinary English people" against Welsh language and culture, and the current migration of "ordinary English people" into Welsh heartlands where they refuse to learn or even respect Welsh language and culture while pricing locals out, is causing untold damage to Wales. Today. Right now. Your confessed ignorance of us while you nonetheless swing into the conversation is causing damage to us. You do not get to hide behind "It's all in the past and therefore not my fault", you craven whinging xenophobic waste of human skin.

Now do fuck off, there's a lamb.

#celtophobia #WALES!#closed for cleaning on mondays

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Bad Blood and Dirty Laundry

Caerwyn was pissed. And overwhelmed and just irritated in general. School had started back up, the spring term full of the usual review work that they would need in order to pass their end of year exams in June. It had been around this time last year that Caerwyn had broken up with Louis, but thankfully, that definitely wasn’t the case this time around. No, their relationship, if possible, was stronger than before ever since they had first had sex in her bedroom over the spring break. It had brought them closer together, a new understanding formed between them after Caerwyn had finally let down her walls completely to allow Louis into the most damaged, detested parts of herself. While she definitely wasn’t going to be stripping off her sweater around anyone else any time soon, she was, slowly, growing more and more comfortable around her boyfriend as far as her body was concerned. She no longer swatted his hand away when he tried to get up her sweater, there were no tears when her dress came off, only kisses along every bit of skin he could reach in the moment. There was still always that little wave of worry, the trepidation of ‘what if?’ that soon passed the moment he was inside of her again, whispering how much he loved her in her ear or telling her what a good girl she was being for him. Caerwyn would melt for Louis, relaxing into the now familiar strokes of his body pressing into her own, the rocking of their hips as they made love. They hadn’t explored the rougher sides of it yet, having not exactly had time in the week they’d been back at school for much more than quiet intimate moments in Louis’s bed at night and the occasional shag in a broom closet.

No, it definitely wasn’t her relationship that was bothering Caerwyn. Nor was it the fact that she and Louis had, in the throes of passion, forgotten to use any type of protection for their first time. She hadn’t remembered until they’d woken up later that afternoon and felt his seed leaking and kind of goopy between her legs that they hadn’t used a condom. Cleo had plenty in her bedside table, they were right there across the room, and yet, Caerwyn hadn’t even thought about it. Neither had Louis and she had only panicked for a little while before remembering that the doctors had said being on that one pill for so long could make her struggle with fertility. And thankfully, within the week, Caerwyn got her period right on schedule, no worries to be had. They had remembered the condom since then… mostly, but sometimes they couldn’t help themselves. And, to be honest, Louis felt so much fucking better inside of her without one on. Perhaps she should look into some kind of birth control… Maybe she could ask Rose what she had used when sleeping with Scorpius, as awkward a conversation as that might end up being.

The fact of the matter was that Caerwyn was angry because of fucking Anthony.

For some reason, when they returned from school, the older Gryffindor had decided that it would be fun to start bothering Caerwyn. At first it had just been little things, like a smirk from across the common room that might not have been for her and a grab across the table to swipe up whatever dish she’d been about to take from. He always apologized for that, especially because she was usually with her mates. It had been getting worse though, like he was purposely working his way up to pushing her buttons to the point of wanting her to burst. A bump in the hallway, a hand brushing against her own when she wasn’t looking, and then, the snide little whispers that began to follow every time she was by herself. Caerwyn didn’t share every single one of her classes with a mate and there were a few that she had to walk to alone regularly, which had never been a problem before. Usually people gave her a wide berth because she was ‘that mad girl, she’ll knock your teeth out if you’re not careful’ but not Anthony. He wasn’t afraid of her but she was of him… and he knew it.

“Didn’t know Weasley liked little piggies. Tell me, do you squeal for him or does he prefer it when you oink?”

“He’s never going to stay with you once he knows what he’s in for, might as well end it now.”

“Hey lard ass, maybe you should avoid the bacon. Y’know… cannibalism and all that.”

Anthony had started touching her too, tugging at her hair, throwing an arm around her in what appeared to be a friendly manner, a smile on his face before he learned down to whisper in her ear. She froze up every time, losing her voice in a way no one else had ever managed to make her do. She wanted to beat the shit out of him, to tell him off and make him regret ever getting anywhere near her… but she couldn’t. It was as if her entire body shut down when he got close to her, as though she were still the same girl she’d been that horrid day when she’d stripped for him and he’d smashed every bit of her heart and self confidence into dust with just his words.

Out of embarrassment, Caerwyn didn’t mention it. Not to Louis, to Rose, to Albus. She kept her chin up and dealt with it the way Caerwyn always did, trying not to back down, to let Anthony see any sign of weakness in her. Most of the time she ended up able to brush him off and go on her way, shaky but still stomping down the hallway as though he hadn’t affected her at all. Other times though, she ran and he’d laugh like she’d said something funny, when really she’d simply murmured a ‘fuck off’ and booked it in the opposite direction. She knew if she told Louis he’d be angry enough to start a fight and they were so close to the end of the year, he didn’t need any more detentions, especially with so many under his belt already from the autumn. It would be risking expulsion at this point, she couldn’t have him doing that to himself, not for her. She’d handle it on her own. Maybe Anthony would get bored and give up, or, she’d just have to deal with it until school ended and he graduated. Then she’d never have to see him again.

“Oi, watch it!” A girl’s voice shouted angrily as Caerwyn slammed into her, knocking books all over the floor. The girl glared down at her, eyeing her with the kind of distaste one might use when looking at a particularly nasty bug. Caerwyn didn’t know her well, she was a Ravenclaw in her year but she’d never spoken to her before.

“Don’t stand in the middle of the fucking corridor then, dumbass.” Caerwyn shot back, kicking one of the books away from her and towards the stairs, intent on making it so the girl would have to chase it.

“Ugh, I can’t believe Louis is dating you of all people. You’re so rude and… well, just look at you.”

“Yeah? Go ahead and fucking look, next thing you’ll see is my fucking fist in your bitch face!” Caerwyn shouted. She gave the book another solid kick, knocking it down the stairs hard enough that it bounced all the way to the landing. Already in a rotten mood, she wasn’t about to let some bitchass girl get the better of her.

“What the fuck!?” The girl gestured towards her book, obviously displeased. “Go get it!”

“No. You go fucking get it.”

“You kicked it. You get it, you little fucking whore. That’s all he wants you for, you know that right? Everyone sees you, snogging all the fucking time. What’d he say to convince you he actually likes-”

The girl did not get to finish her sentence. Caerwyn’s fist connected with her mouth in two seconds flat, knocking the Ravenclaw on her ass. Before she could even get her barings, the little Gryffindor was on her, screaming nonsensically in both English and Welsh, punching every inch of the bitch that she could reach without any kind of remorse. “Don’t! You! Fuck! Ing! Talk! About! Him! Like! That! Ever! Again! You! Fucking! Cunt! Ass! Whore!”

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