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Currently sat in a summer school type thing we're hosting in work and some English architect is telling us about sustainable design in Wales, except she hasn't bothered learning a single Welsh name and if I have to listen to one more "I don't know how to say 'Welsh name' so I'm going to use 'shitty English name/nothing while laughing at it' I'm going to throw this slanty drawing desk at her head
#I lecture in habitat management which means I reference systems around the world#and I ALWAYS look up how to pronounce the people/places first#fuck off lady#celtophobia
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Love listening to a podcast only to hear some asshole Americans making a "WeLsH NaMeS FuNiE" joke on their fucking ads. We get it, Americans have no understanding that Wales and England are separate countries but if Jesse thorn could not rub salt in the wound of years of historical oppression and language erasure for yet another comparison to archetypal fantasy that would be cool!
#Maximumfun#maxfun#mbmbam#troubled waters#was the actual podcast the ad was for#seriously fuck these people#how dare you make a joke about something you clearly know NOTHING about#celtophobia#cymraeg
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Guess who got marked down on an assessment for her museums and heritage course because her Australian teacher didn’t understand the difference between Wales and England - and so didn’t understand the central argument I was making about how certain national museums have the potential to be decolonial. Love losing marks because of my teachers own ignorance and prejudices
#celtophobia#wales was colonised by England#they are not the same#decolonialism within the museum needs to be more nuanced than all white people are bad#because colonisation wasn’t just of white people against people of colour#it was also white people against other white people#it was also Asian people against Asian people#culture and cultural violence is more nuanced than that
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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 :)
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maybe ill stop using the english version of my name that would be cool :3
#i have like 3 different anxiety disorders and internalized celtophobia @_@#my primary school was ✨️fun✨️ [sarcastic]#slugpup squeaking#fin
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why does the BBC keep employing Scottish/Welsh actors, only to make them do THE most boring/RP/southern/nice-part-of-London type of English accent possible.
at least let them do a fun regional accent???. it's like keeping a tiger in a flippin playpen.
#the south london accent is actually grand to listen to but WHY ARE YOU MAKING THEM ALL DO IT?#im two steps away from taking protective custody of the poor sods#not tagging this as celtophobia because that's dramatic but i am so tempted to#david tennant
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Wasn't expecting my last post to have done so well- diolch pawb!
I have another bad take I saw in the #Welsh tag to post about, but I think I've looked at enough celtophobia for one day. I'll probably write that post another time.
Instead, I'd like to shoutout to all of the celtic solidarity going on in the notes of that post. Diolch mawr i chi from Wales!
#cymraeg#welsh#celtic languages#lukes originals#There's some asks too I'll respond to when I have time over the next week
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4 the anons saying whitemisia isnt real: the only argument ive seen for that thats backs you up on it being racist is that we already have words for it (like celtophobia slavophobia etc) its not racist for people to have an umbrella term
Exactly. Having an umbrella term isn't racist.
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just spent twenty minutes smiling thinly at a woman as she explained to me that the Welsh just don't have a work ethic, it's in the culture, she moved there from London to open a local shop and the people she hires only show up for the hours they're contracted to work, they quit if they aren't paid well or are treated badly, they aren't desperate for jobs...
celtophobia is real and dear god Londoners need help
#Welsh#london#it's amazing you've managed to combine at least three terrible opinions into one shitty take#its the way they expect you to agree with them so confidently#like I know I'm a vaguely posh Londoner but. posh Londoners. they're unbearable.#bring back the soapbox
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A friend of mine is currently in the process of trying to open a joint bank account with his partner, which has been a lengthy and protracted ball ache as the bank keeps asking for more and more forms of ID and credit checking and so on. Today they had a message from the bank saying they need to call back to discuss the application; friend calls, and is told that it's on hold because the address on the application and the address on his driver's licence doesn't match.
"What?" he says. "Yes it does."
"No," says the bank. "Because your application says 123 Road Street, Swansea. But your driver's licence says 123 Road Street, Abertawe."
"... that's the same address," says my friend. "The licence is in Welsh."
"We don't count that as the same," says the bank. "You needed it to match on the application."
"It would have," says friend. "But your application form didn't allow the name Abertawe, so I had to put Swansea."
"Well, we can maybe change it," says the bank. "But it'll count as a new application, so we'll need to credit check you again."
...
"It flipped a switch," he told me afterwards. "I went from zero to nationalist in half a second."
Fun times.
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If we're counting fanfiction as books, Sunrise in Exile by Ragdoll. It's MCU fanfic, so if that doesn't float your boat, you have been warned, but I find it good daydreaming material. Frankly, I love their portrayal of FRIDAY. If we're not, then "S." by Doug Dorst and J. J. Abrams. It's a book within a book, with two people trading the fictional library book "Ship of Theseus" and writing out their story in the margins.
@becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys. Elanor's political commentary is both absurdly funny and on-point and she covers several other important topics, such as climate change and celtophobia. Side note, notice how Grammarly tried to autocorrect celtophobia to xenophobia and "gelotophobia", which google tells me is a fear of being laughed at.
Family stuff's private, sorry.
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Antidisestablishmentarianism. I have no clue what it means, the rhythm of it is just nice.
"The Silent Patient" by Alex Michaelides, "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and "The Bullet That Missed" by Richard Osman. If I get any others, I've heard that "Cain's Jawbone" and "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" are both very good.
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Opal's gorgeous, as well as peacock ore.
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I am *not*. Changing or skipping over history is a recipe for disaster - for the universe for the former, and for me for the latter. I refuse to be the one to deal with such nonsense.
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Margaret Thatcher. Gonna shove her face in some mashed potatoes and peas.
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When I'm camping, especially in the summer, the very early morning, just after the sun rises. Fog hangs over the area where I camp like a cloud at that time, and it's stunningly beautiful yet terrifyingly eerie. Anytime else, the afternoon. Early enough to not be exhausted and a good time to get shit done, but it doesn't have the lazy, chill vibes morning does.
I do not, but thank you. So are you, :).
I've wanted to learn Irish Gaelic for a long while now, but unfortunately, my audial processing is bad enough in English, so that might be a while in the making. Spanish, French, or Mandarin all seem like they'd be very useful to learn.
Strawberries are awesome, but I'll never turn down a good apple, and blueberry muffins in particular are great.
The characters from The Owl House. ITts going to be amazing, yet incredibly chaotic. I love it already.
Aww, thank u boo :D. ILY2.
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Just saw a post labeled celtophobia because someone didn't learn the Welsh pronunciation of some landmarks and like... Maybe that's a real problem in the UK/Europe but white racism (that is racism against white races) will never not be funny to me. Probably because as an American I'm so disconnected from any "ancestral ties". Like I know I'm kinda Irish, kinda German but not to any specificity beyond that and I literally don't care at all. For people to be like "man fuck Swedish people" is wild. My grandma was legitimately racist against Swiss people and I have literally no idea why. I don't think she ever left Pennsylvania in her life. She definitely never visited Switzerland/Europe.
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thoughts on "whitemisia"? i think your asian and i want to know what you think abt the racism going around /gen
in my source i was liyuen and i still am but most of my family is either welsh or chinese 👍
ive seen and felt generational trauma from celtophobia even though welsh people are european (the welsh nots i am the only living person in my family that can speak welsh and am not even good at it the way that hiraeth gets watered down like its a sport to mean longing or whatever whenits a words to decribe our greif at being colonized and homesickness for when wales was free that cant be properly translated into english wales isnt even a welsh word its from the anglo saxon word wealhas witch means foreign/foreigner the welsh word for wales is cymru wlehs people are cymry theres also capel celyn etc etc etc tân yn llŷn is a good song)
i dont think thst having a umbrella word is racist to me being antiracist is being agaisnt ANY discrimination based on someones skin or ethnicity ive seen how people are more biased towards people with paler skin (my source is litteraly genshin impact theres SO MANY biases in thar game) but also if i try to be anti racism by deciding that a groups experiances dont count or they do count but they shouldnt make words for it becuz of there skin color then ive missed the point
(uhhh disclaimer that am happy to change my mind with evidence and i do my best to be nice and listen to people if i have messed up please tell me so that i can fix it)
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