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*waves* going to sleep because work was grim, disgusting, awful, a war crime, so pls send asks about anything u want!

Also some more Gwyn After She's Given Birth for u all:

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i am actually insufferable once I get comfortable with someone

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i sit down to write and suddenly i am the most distracted human alive. the chair is uncomfortable. my coffee is too hot. my playlist isn't quite the vibe. i need to research what victorian houses smelled like in 1872 for exactly 45 minutes even though my story takes place in space. and yet the moment i'm trying to fall asleep? every single sentence i've ever needed just lines up perfectly in my brain like some kind of creative parade i'll never get back.

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Hand and a half sword, Germany, circa 1530

from The State Art Collection Dresden

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anything I'd like! I'd whistle but I'm genuinely bad at it (no idea how to effectively do that in written form either so, ✨y'know✨)

okay okay okay. I got it. only if you're up for it, of course–! but I've got it.

if it well and truly is an Anything Goes type situation, then I'd request that you write the most self-indulgent thing you can. And I'm not asking for that in a weird way!! I know how that sentence has gotta read sans verbal tone, and I promise I'm not sitting here leering like a creep at my phone or anything hahaha. I just well and truly love everything you write, and as with most creative pursuits, the magic tends to exalt where its wielder exalts in the process in some manner. sO-! whatever calls to you most during these trying times is just perfect by my standards.

signéd,

one Extremely sleep-deprived 🧡, circa two whole seconds before I went back to fiddling with the idea of making an arthuriana-centric sideblog to better pester u by

Me being like 'MAKE THAT SIDEBLOG!!' but only once u have had enough SLEEP, 🧡. (I can't say anything though and you have my sympathy.) Me being like u mean I can make my 'Manawydan and Pryderi's Excellent Adventure' thing I was gonna do? Ehjfjx Oh, NO. O.O (Also, Gwyn and Gwalchmai's Gossip Corner Part 2 because i have IDEAS.)

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Hello, bringing this to u on this fine Sunday morning because I was bored on the bus coming to work. Pls send prayers for me cuz I'm working for seven hours in the Christmas rush. (Ew.)

This is Gwyn after Llacheu's birth because you all love him - namely @gwalch-mei - so I wanted to show u his and Gwyn's first meeting. (Also Dylan content too for @dullyn )

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hurr hurr I'm a human body hurr hurr I'm gonna solve all my problems using mucus

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Added a little of movement to the picture just to recall how to use AE

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drabble you say? 👀 <-[ has read everything you've posted at least thrice, greedy ]

also wishing you well!!! and that you get through the next couple days with ease, peace, and speed!!! you got this!!!

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also happy winter solstice. the night may be dark and full of retail, but life can only get brighter from here! (literally haha)

Yes!!!! Can be about anything u want, dear 🧡! Also omg Winter Solstice, my beloved esjdjdjdhd Finally, more light! Hallelujah!

Also, thank u. I am hoping retail will be nice to me but we shall see. *crosses fingers*

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Are there any characters from Welsh mythology that didn't get into popular Arthuriana, but you think would fit in really well there?

Okay, so this is a bit tricky because the whole of the Mabinogion can be interpreted as being just another facet of Arthuriana in a way. After all, a) Pryderi and Manawydan are two of King Arthur's attendants in Culhwch ac Olwen which, therefore, means that they must be there after their adventure in Branches 1, 2, 3 (thankfully not 4 in Pryderi's case) have already concluded. Bendigeidfran - Manawydan's brother and giant lad - has his head dug up by Arthur and so that also has to happen after branch 2 cuz that's what allows the Saxons to eventually gain a foothold in Britain after Arthur's death. Also, Gilfaethwy - Gwydion's bro, the main cause of chaos in branch 4 - is the inspo for Griflet.

HOWEVER, Because of that you can neatly slot them into wherever works best for u.

Who you can't slot in best - because where are u gonna put her? - is Blodeuwedd. She's not somebody who I'd consider as able to slot in because she's an owl. Her entire thing is tied to the Branch Four escapades. However, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE HER THERE. @wildbasil has some real great art where she in owl form hangs out with gwyn ap nudd and his brother edern and that works superbly well.

I also think that the entirety of what occurs with Cantre'r Gwaelod would be fascinating to explore through an Arthurian lens. Think about it. A whole kingdom - a whole island! - gets swallowed in the sea! And you can still hear the warning bells ringing out across the sea. You could tie them back to the fall of Camelot, to the failure to keep things in check, to people gradually getting complacent and perhaps a little corrupt. It would be SO FUN. And also you could perhaps have it be God's vengeance too.

Plus Lludd and Llefelys. It's BANGING. It could be another quest for the knights to undertake. You have three magical 'quests' that Lludd has to undertake (which are pretty easy to overcome but the possibilities? Endless.) There's a race of magical creatures called the Coraniaid, a demonic race of people who can hear EVERYTHING (which is also the same power Gwydion's uncle, Math, has who is another dude I think would be BRILLIANT in an Arthurian story!), a mysterious screaming that causes every woman to miscarry which is eventually found to be a red dragon (Y Draig Goch my beloved) and a white dragon (those peaky Saxons) fighting, and last but not least a wizard who he has to defeat by dunking himself in a bucket of water so doesn't fall asleep. (It makes sense in context, I promise.) Lludd - king of Londonium - undertakes the quests while his older brother, Llefelys, King of Gaul gives him invaluable advice. I have always thought that it should be made into a story because you could connect it to Merlin (the dragons are buried I'm Dinas Emrys which is literally 'Emrys'/Merlin's Hillfort' because he uncovers them and lets them FIGHT!!!! (Red dragon wins if ur wondering.)

(Also, you could slot Tŵm Sion Cati in there if u wanted. He's very much a Robin Hood archetype - and also his stories are set centuries after the Arthurian mythos (16th century during the time of Mary I /Bloody Mary) - but I mean that should not stop u.

(Doesn't stop me trying to combine all this shit together.)

Anyways!!! This ran away from me so I heartily apologise! Also, somebody will tell me, 'Sarah, you utter tit, somebody has already done these things' so I am prepped for that being the case.

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The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye

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nimble, a border collie-papillon mix, wins the 12” class in the 2024 masters agility championship. the first time a mixed breed has won at westminster ever.

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what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

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they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"

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EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME