#St Gwen

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Saint Gwen of Talgarth

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Feast Day: October 18

Saint Gwen (Wenna), holy virgin and martyr, was born in Wales. She was very fond of her brother, St. Nectan and followed him to Cornwall to be near his hermitage.  She established several churches and chapels in Devon and Cornwall, including St Wenn, St Kew and Cheristow. When returning to Talgarth to visit her family she was murdered by the heathen Saxons who were attacking the town, thus receiving her martyr’s crown at age 29.

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Do y'all remember those character colour wheel challenges? These ended up being quite popular on my Instagram last year.

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Andrew as spiderman is hard to believe he's a loser.

You mean to tell me this photography nerd who skateboards and has a close, supportive relationship with his older aunt isn't a hit??? Bro he could get it.

loser as in he loses (his uncle)

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inspo/redraw from a pinterest post i’ve always been obsessed with

[too-antigonish]

A Bit on Music in Endeavour

A favorite musical moment in Endeavour is at around 04min45s in Scherzo (S8E2) where you hear Wagner’s Prelude to Act III of Tristan und Isolde. Morse has it going on his record player while he dresses for work. We’ve just come off of the first episode of S8 and we’ve seen the degree to which he is starting to fall apart. He’s a mess really. Perfect time for some Wagner.

If you don’t know about Wagner, he was a horrible human being, but an innovative composer. Tristan und Isolde, in particular, is considered a real turning point in composition because of its very intentional use of dissonance. It’s so significant, in fact, that the very first chord you hear in this piece is actually referred to as the “Tristan chord”—one of only about a dozen or so “named” chords in the western musical canon. 

The chord just…aches. There’s a really intense urge to hear it move on to its harmonic resolution. You want it to get better!

And this particular prelude is at the beginning of Act III, so if you know the opera, you start to picture it in your mind…

…As Act III opens, Tristan is lies mortally wounded. His faithful servant waits for the arrival of Isolde, the only one who has the power to heal Tristan. A shepherd lad has been instructed to signal the servant by playing a tune on his pipes when the ship carrying Isolde is sighted. They wait, listening. Surely help will arrive in time to save the dying man…

Nope. It’s Gwen. 

Another favorite is in Neverland at about 15min. Monica and Morse are in a cozy, domestic scene. He’s doing the crossword. She’s darning a sock. She asks if he’s happy and somewhere along the line you realize that they’re listening to the beginning of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (basically a musical retelling of the crucifixion). By the first time I saw that episode, I’d learned enough about how they used music in the series to guess that things were about to go very, very wrong. There actually was going to be a crucifixion of sorts.

There are so many instances where they use music (both classical—and if you you are lucky enough to be watching the UK versions—popular as well) to either foreshadow or pull a bait-and-switch or to reference another work or otherwise give a scene additional layers of meaning.

It’s just beautifully done—but it’s also done gently. It’s done in such a way that those not “in the know” aren’t left on the outside. There’s nothing crucial that you’re going to miss out on, but at the same time it’s great fun when you see it.

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Beverly Crusher (Mother of Wesley + Jack): Recommended by evie7common. Loving, supportive and protective of her sons.

Gwen Cooper (Mother of Anwyn Williams): Protective mother desperate to keep her daughter safe from the horrors she has seen.

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hate being a teenage girl i cant go on runs without worrying that ill be fucking snatched or something

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My oc band: Dixie’s Demons!

[gawrkin]

I think there's not enough emphasis on the fact that the time where Arthurian Era is set (the late 5th/early 6th century) is also the time of the British Saints.

There are many miracle-working saints that have interacted with the Camelot gang. Dubricius, Illtud, Dewi, Gildas, etc. have all met Arthur.

There is also a number of female saints, both in Britain and in Britanny, that lived in this time period. You have St. Dwynwen, the various daughters of Brychan (who have founded churches and monasteries!), and St. Gwen Teirbron ("thrice-breasted"):

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Ask, Original Stud, 🎃: The incest cousins, Ben and Gwen.

Ben:

Gwen:

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American Girl + Percy Jackson PicCrew (4/?)

Lindsey Bergman, daughter of Apollo

Kailey Hopkins, daughter of Neptune

Marisol Luna, daughter of Terpsichore [alt idea: victoria]

Jess McConnell, daughter of Mercury

Nicki Fleming, daughter of Pluto [sidenote: if we get a better contemporary pluto girl, nicki can easily transfer to arcus]

Mia St. Clair, daughter of Victoria

Chrissa Maxwell, daughter of Venus

Gwen Thompson, daughter of Apollo

Sonali Matthews, daughter of Invidia

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moodboard: gwen x nikki