#DiaD

[scrumptiouscreationturtle]

رأيكم باللوك؟؟

[teacupsofthoughts]

alignment memes i made with my ocs look like:

somebody’s drawing of an anime girl from google

picrew image

diy-ed drawing

and fancy dagger

[finnlongman]

The joy of finding a queer reading of the lament for Fer Diad that

a) is recent b) I didn't already know about c) actually talks about queer theory beyond erotic potential d) engages with other useful theories like grievability

Anyway, it's Housley, Marjorie, '"The noble way you blushed": queering mourning verse in the Ulster Cycle' in Grief, gender, and identity in the Middle Ages (2022), pp. 142–164.

I take back what I said about there only being one article on this and it being from 2009. There are two!! And one of them is from this decade!!

[incorrect-ulster-cycle]

Cú Chulainn: I had seven dads and two moms and I turned out fine

Fer Diad: seven what now?

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

sometimes i think i'm okay about láeg/lóeg literally meaning "calf" but figuratively being a term of endearment meaning "beloved" or "favourite" and i'm like. that's fine. totally okay for him to be called that. i'm normal about it.

and then i consider that in cú chulainn's lament for fer diad when he directly address fer diad as "beloved", that is the word he uses. a lóeg.

and on the same page: a lóeg, a phopa láeg, help me cut the gae bolga out of him, take this message for me, be there with me, be the only person i trust in this moment when i am falling apart,

and his name is fucking beloved

and fer diad is beloved and fer diad is fucking dead and láeg is fucking culpable because he helped and i don't even know where i'm going with this it's just something about being loved as an act of violence i think. beloved as a weapon. a bloody favourite and a mirror and a double and

[riseupriseupandcomealong]

i love to be normal about the táin bó cúailnge

[denndrawings]

Jesus Christ if he slayed (Ferdia warmup sketch)

Credits for the character design as always to my dearest @sissiarte 💙

[sissiarte]

Cú Chulainn and the three people who want to be buried with him :) I'm very happy that I'm finally settling their designs !!!!!!

[an-ruraiocht]

anyway guess what i learned about feidm is mó today

in at least some versions, fer diad speaks this poem... to his charioteer. to idh mac ríangabra. this is him having a breakdown to his charioteer. this is him going "hey this is gonna suck so bad! i don't wanna fight cú chulainn!"

when he says BURY ME IN HIS GRAVE, he's saying that to láeg's brother aka probably the one person who could actually in theory make that happen!!

well shit.

[niexigo]

Here’s a preview of some art for a YT project about my fic (demon in a daycare.)

More sketches below. To be finished soon. (There’s more, but those will be a surprise.)

[scrumptiouscreationturtle]

رأيكم باللوك؟؟

[teacupsofthoughts]

*gestures vaguely* found family roles being hard to define both in universe and out

[finnlongman]

Love to get halfway through working out my argument for a piece of academic work and conclude that I've come up with a reading that's going to piss everyone off.

[incorrect-ulster-cycle]

Cú Chulainn: You want what I have.

Fer Diad: A stupid name and a death wish?