#Tomás and the alien

[elbiotipo]

Viajaste de 2023 al Buenos Aires Biopunk de 2143? Uy, que garrón. Dejá que yo te guío, no te preocupes.

Esa cosa que ves en todos los souvenirs? Es la Torre del Tricentenario. Es como una torre de biocristal en forma de hebra de ADN montada en el Río de La Plata, un kilómetro de alto tiene. La más alta de Sudamérica. Bueno, aparte del ascensor espacial de los brasileros.

Toda esa gente rara? No seas malo. Ah, vos decís las escamas, las plumas, las colas? Sí, ponele que es medio como los tatuajes en tu época. Es la moda. Bueno, vas a ver más que nada a la gente vieja que quedó del biopunk original, y algunos pibes de ahora con eso, a mucha gente no le gusta joder con esas cosas ahora. Que es biopunk? A ver, como te explico...

Sí, casi todo el centro es peatonal. No hay tantos autos. Ah, esos coatíes? Las cotorras y los carayá? Son personas, moreaus, animales con inteligencia por modificación genética. No les vayas a decir animales. Son ciudadanos de la Confederación, chamigo. Sí, el delfín también.

Confederación? La Confederación Argentina, obvio? Ah, a ver, como te explico. Bueno, por allá por los 80, cuando reprimieron la comuna porteña, el Buenos Aires carmesí, la gobernadora Alegre... che, estás escuchando?

Obvio que se vende Guaraná Antártica por todos lados. La Coca Cola? No la hacen más desde el Ecocidio. Creo que hay una fábrica que quedó en Córdoba, pero no sé si es el mismo gusto...

DESPUÉS TE EXPLICO LO QUE ES EL ECOCIDIO CHE UN PASO AL VEZ

No, no es gendarme, es GENEdarme, porque están con todo el tema de la genética viste. No les digas Robocop. Son los del SENA. Servicio Ecológico Nacional Argentino. No, a los perros no les gusta que les acaricien, te lo van a decir. Sí, también son ciudadanos. Sí, son bien yuta.

Esas lianas y los árboles están para decoración y para las cotorras, sí, pero también limpian el aire de patógenos. Tranqui, vos estás en área segura. Buenos Aires es una de las ciudades más seguras del planeta.

Igual, por las dudas, comprate un barbijo. Tomá, 20 australes te deben alcanzar, no?

La UBA? Que, un vino? Ah, la UNBA. Sí, mirá, en los 80,

Esos bichos son las langostas del SENA. Y son como mitad helicóptero, mitad bicho. Claro, claro, algo así como los del Half Life! Juegazo. Salió la parte 5 hace poco, sabías?

Era todo avenida esto, podés creer? Mirá lo que es el Parque 9 de Julio ahora. Acá están todos los biopunks, bueno, para los turistas. Uy, mirá, mirá, los coatíes están haciendo una coreo! Dejales un par de australes.

Había un McDonalds en el Obelisco? Ah, como en las pelis viejas? No, no existe más eso.

El grafiti? Sí, son Evita y CFK. Las otras dos? La Dra. Alegre, obvio, y la del casco es Valeria Martínez, primer argentina en el espacio. El Dibu? Ah, me parece que es la nieta che.

La bandera esa es del Tawantinsuyu. Unión Andina, si no te sale el nombre. No, no son los incas, bueno, tienen esa onda... a ver, antes eran Perú y Bolivia. Son de izquierda, me parece. Sí, los equipos de fútbol siguen existiendo.

Independiente no gana nada desde el siglo pasado, pero creen que esta vez sí. Cuantas copas tenemos? A ver, si contamos el mundial de Cataluña, s-MIRÁ EL YACARÉ, siempre quise tener uno de mascota!

No, no podemos ir a Boulogne. No existe más.

No me importa si tu casa estaba ahí. Mirá, ya sé que lo de las "áreas restrictas" parece de película, pero en serio, no vayas.

Ah, no, está bien si le decís Capital, muchos se confunden. La nueva está en el sur. Sí, antes era Viedma, como sabías? Manejas toda la data vos, eh?

De que laburo? Ah, yo hago hormonas para mantener el sistema de lianas municipal. Sí, está bueno. Mi novia estudia astrobiología. A ver, si te digo que encontramos aliens te vas a desmayar también? Jajaja. No, es joda, joda. Pero sí. Los encontramos. No, están, como a 1000 años luz, no te preocupes. Bueno, dicen que en Titán...

Bueno che, te dejo que descanses acá. Este es uno de los mejores árboles de la ciudad, ombú bien pampeano y seguro, vos tranquilo. Lo atiende un par de cotorras super buena onda. Deciles que te canten algo de tu época, tipo los Wachiturros, por ahí te agarra la nostalgia.

[ofcowardiceandkings]

this is stupid but yknow what really hit for me about actually how intimate and long-term the pair of them living in the Hateno house for that 5 or 6 years ???

thats about as long as i've lived with Tomás

not to use my own life as a frame of reference for fictional characters smooching (again) or anything but by that point it gets so natural and comforting, and alien when the other person isnt there ???

idk man that just clocked me in the head and damn

[phibes]

I think it’s super cool you have a website for it. I’ve went through it, I’m looking forward to when your work is on there. I was happy to see you posted about it today too! I’m curious, could you tell me more about those two characters in particular? What’s their dynamic, who or what inspired you to create them? Whatever you wanted to share. I’m sorry if I’m being nosy I’m just genuinely very intrigued, haha. I hope today is good for you, too.

Aw, you're good. I have a lot of lore built up over time regarding the characters. I'm still trying to make it seem moderately coherent.

On the left is MICHAEL and on the right is Ben Wilkinson/The Entity.

MICHAEL, also known as Made In Christ's Holy Almighty Eternal Love, is a part of a UFO cult run by Emlee West. He is one of Emlee's closest confidants, but is still treated as an outsider by the rest of the group. He has this rivalry with Emlee's two other confidants--Charles and Lillian Armstrong. He is intended to be a kind of pathetic and neurotic character. He is desperate to be wanted by someone, to have someone's full attention and love.

This character originated from reading about Unarius and the kind of drama involved after Uriel's death. His closest real life analogue from that group is Antares. MICHAEL's real name is Tomás Cruz--which is a pun, in and of itself. Visually, he is not based off of anyone specifically. I ended up cannibalizing an old oc's design into his current one.

Ben Wilkinson experienced a severe mental break following the suicide of his sister, Margaret. After making his own attempt, he believes that his soul has been replaced by that of an inter-dimensional genderless alien being referred to as "The Entity." He blames Emlee West for Margaret's death and begins planning a poorly thought out revenge plan. He claims to have left his human life as Ben Wilkinson behind, despite clearly having strong ties. He is fueled entirely by grief and anger. His human life prior to Margaret's death was also collapsing into disappointment, her death was the thing that pushed him over into the breakdown.

Ben's real life analogue is Marshall Applewhite from Heaven's Gate. The name Benjamin Wilkinson is kind of a play on Jemima Wilkinson, properly known as the Public Universal Friend. Visually, he's just Anthony Perkins.

As far as their dynamic goes--MICHAEL redirects The Entity's anger/revenge in a way that benefits his own plans. They both see each other as means to an end. The Entity views MICHAEL as his own personal test--to see if he has truly transcended the human vice of lust. MICHAEL initially views The Entity as someone who is easy to manipulate--but ends up becoming more fixated on him over time, solely because he gives MICHAEL true attention.

[splendontcore]

hi tumblrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, im Tomás and this is my brand new HTF-sideblog.

Let me introduce yall to this comic concept I have working for a long while.

"After being victim of an assault, Flaky had decided to never feel weak and helpless ever again. Disguised as Franky Jones, they is ready to patrol and make their neighborhood safe again-with help of their ssssSuper friend Splendont, an alien squirrel who can change form, of course.

Will this lame fella show their worth? Is Franky Jones just an alterego or there's something deeper? What's inside Mole's briefcase?"

[alrightbuckaroo]

Hii ada 🥰 For nice ask week, tell me about your favorite Lone Star character, if you like!! I'm pretty sure I know who it is but just want to hear you talk about them 😏

Desi, my dear! How are you? I hope life is being kind to you <3

What if I pulled an absolute wild card and said something like Pearce LOL

No but I think you're right in the fact you already know who it is because lord knows I do not shut up about Carlos Tomás Reyes!

I don't know what it is about that man, but god there's much to explore and I want a map to all of it.

I want to know more about his sisters, I want to know if he's an uncle (I've already decided he is but whatevs), I want to know what happened to Kique the Koala, I want to know if he played JV soccer in high school or if he was a stage tech for theater.

Then there's of course just his normal disposition; it's so familiar in the sense that I know why it's stoic, but it's so alien in the sense I know there's more to it that we don't know yet.

I want to know about his relationship with religion, I want to know if there was a battle between that and his sexuality and what the aftershocks of that were. But alas, this is a 44 minute ensemble show that is also a procedural, so maybe we'll get all these answers by season 34 😭

Anyways, I just realized that I didn't say why he's my favorite character and barring everything above because I do love that there's so much to explore, I love that he's just as much a hopeless romantic as TK is.

How smitten he was when talking about TK in the early episodes of s1 to Michelle? Calling him a 10 with a smile he probably doesn't even know he's making? Making dinner in the middle of the night to a man who sees it as nothing more than a booty call? Tim Minear said we're gonna get this man some love on GOD

I don't know, I think he's just so interesting because we know he, in his own way, struggled with terms around his sexuality, but seeing that it doesn't stop him from having so so so so much love for TK, for another man, proves that they are, in fact, soulmates. He'd love him in every universe because he'll always have so much to give.

[smashpages]

Bad Idea announces ‘Planet Death’ by Derek Kolstad, Robert Venditti + Tomás Giorello

The last surviving soldier of a battalion sent to destroy an alien weapon must continue his mission alone.

[phibes-art]

GENERAL INFORMATION

(left to right--Charles and Lillie Armstrong, Shelly West, Emlee West (seated), MICHAEL, Benjamin Wilkinson, and Margaret Wilkinson)

A story of revenge, obsession, and aliens. Set in 1972 Carlsbad, New Mexico. (TW: for suicide mention and a general warning for cult related issues)

M. Leigh “Emlee” West

A widow with a deep interest in the supernatural. After coming into contact with a being she refers to as The Entity, she makes a series of predictions that mostly come to fruition. She decides to abandon her old life in pursuit of her cosmic destiny. 

Benjamin Wilkinson

He has been driven to madness after the death of his twin, Margaret. He is seemingly revived by an inter-dimensional alien being after his own suicide attempt. The being states that he was revived for the purpose of punishing those responsible for his sister’s death. With this mission in mind, he plots out his unrelenting and unfocused revenge. 

Tomás Soto/MICHAEL/Made In Christ’s Holy Almighty Eternal Love

Tomás Soto was hitchhiking when he met Emlee West. She is drawn to Tomás and states that they have met throughout several lifetimes. Tomás, sensing a possible grift, goes along with this. Emlee reshapes him in her image and names him MICHAEL. He has grown to hate Emlee with each passing day.

Shelly West

Emlee West’s daughter. She has grappled with Emlee’s abandonment of her in the past but has come through the other side seemingly confident and assured. She does not doubt her mother’s love. This is tested during the story.

Charles and Lillie Armstrong

Emlee’s first devoted supporters. They have uprooted their entire lives for her. They do not like MICHAEL. 

Margaret Wilkinson

Benjamin’s twin sister. She believed she was dying of a mysterious illness and sought out various cures. She attended one of Emlee’s seminars and made a connection. Despite this, Margaret committed suicide a year later. 

[movienized-com]

Hay algo en el bosque

Hay algo en el bosque (Serie 2024) #AlfonsoAgra #AndreaNuñez #AngyFernández #DanielIbáñez #DenisGómez #IvanMassagué Mehr auf:

Serie Jahr: 2024- (Februar) Genre: Abenteuer / Comedy / Fantasy Hauptrollen: Alfonso Agra, Andrea Nuñez, Angy Fernández, Daniel Ibáñez, Denis Gómez, Ivan Massagué, Laura Laprida, Michael John Treanor, Nadal Bin Alberto, Tomás Pozzi, Zorion Eguileor … Serienbeschreibung: Eine Gruppe von Fremden befindet sich in abgelegenen Hütten, wo sie entdecken, dass Aliens, Kriminelle und Monster nur einige…

[jaimendonsa]

O crescente interesse pelos OVNIs está influenciando as crenças religiosas, com demônios e anjos frequentemente vistos como entidades benevolentes, enquanto seres extraterrestres são frequentemente vistos como paranormais ou maus.

Todas essas entidades: extraterrestres, anjos, demônios, espíritos, guias espirituais estão interligados em nosso mundo físico, agindo em nossas vidas.

Os fantasmas persistem, sugerindo que servem a propósitos psicológicos, investigam a morte e promovem a esperança de que traços de personalidade sobrevivam à morte física.

Alguns relatos sugerem que os anjos caídos introduziram a magia, fundindo-se com os humanos para causar o caos, enquanto os anjos bons simbolizam pessoas altruístas que continuam a exercer influência positiva no mundo físico.

Os estudiosos da fé, muitas vezes, ignoram as origens das religiões criadas e organizadas sob os fenômenos sobrenaturais.

São Tomás de Aquino referiu-se aos anjos como seres inteligentes imateriais que comunicam a mensagem de Deus e são os principais agentes da ação de Deus no mundo.

A intenção deste livro é revelar as dimensões espirituais que nos cercam.

OS EXTRATERRESTRES SÃO ANJOS, DEMÔNIOS, ESPÍRITOS & GUIAS ESPIRITUAIS, Anton Kabaroski eBook Kindle https://amzn.to/3Mf3egY

ALIENS ARE ANGELS, DEMONS, SPIRITS & SPIRIT GUIDES, Anton Kabaroski (English Edition) eBook Kindle https://amzn.to/3QwBhUH

LOS EXTRATERRESTRES SON ÁNGELES, DEMONIOS, ESPÍRITUS Y GUÍAS ESPIRITUALES, Anton Kabaroski (Spanish Edition) eBook Kindle https://amzn.to/3MeRT0l

[forget-foal]

When looking at my Letterboxd statistics (yes, I have a Letterboxd, I'm kind of a loser), I noticed that a vast majority of the films I've watched and rated over the last few years have been primarily made in the U.S. I've always liked to think I've seen a lot of foreign films but looking at this map, it's very clear I haven't.

(469 American movies. Sheesh! Also, I've definitely seen Russian films but they classified the one's I've seen as USSR. Weird.)

So today, I thought I would set a goal for myself to watch at least one film from every country. Obviously this isn't going to be something I finish in a day, but I still got a lot of life left to do it haha.

So I started today with a film from Cuba, that being 1968's Memories of Underdevelopment by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.

Memories is a film about Cuban bourgeois Sergio after the Bay of Pigs invasion and the impact of the Cuban Revolution on him. He's a man whose view on Cuba is quickly becoming outdated, leaving him alienated from the world around him.

This film is without a doubt a character study and probably one of my favorites by far. I don't really find myself engaging with many of them, but this one makes me want to watch more in the future. Sergio is very interesting to listen to and to watch, as it's almost like watching in real time his lifestyle and attitude be brushed aside, and his instinct to do the same to the people around him. By leaving his wife and leaving his friends, Sergio is responding to Cuba's disdain for him by doing the same. Purposefully exiting from public life and looking down on the Cuba forming around him.

Incredible film, and one I thought I would be bored by. Quite the contrary, I really enjoyed this movie and I'm definitely adding it to my list of Criterion Collection physical copies to get in the future.

10/10

[elbiotipo]

How to distinguish my space settings from each other: FTL (faster-than-light travel para los que no dominan la jerga) and the Argentine Character (they all have at least one)

Campoestela:

FTL: Travelling is done in relatively short (12-72 hs.) flights through a cloudly dimension called the Aether. The feeling is much like pre-jet era flights, with frequent stops for fuelling (they need a fuel called "nafta" which is refined in special worlds). Different currents carry you faster, making for trade routes stretching across the galaxy. Ships range from space-shuttle sized to slow cargo mega-carriers.

Argentine Character: Beto, a guy from Space Chaco (ironically, my most porteño character) who is a space trucker unionized on the CGT (Confederación Galáctica del Trabajo) and loves listening to history podcasts

Space Battleship Aurora:

FTL: Light speed? What's that? This is a fantasy setting. Space Byzantium (literal Byzantium) used galleys equipped with magical sails to transverse the oceans between the crystal spheres and conquer its empire. Sure, now they resemble WWI battleships, but the principle is the same, this is a star ocean.

Argentine Character: Tomás, a huge guy from Bonaeropolis, Terra who is the ship's cargo master and a communist revolutionary who adopts a couple of noble kids who aren't sure of this whole thing yet

METAL lml

FTL: jump devices are only found in old ships or automatized factories from the golden Age of Aquarius where everybody disco-danced. They are fuelled by the very energy of the universe that fuels everything else, METAL, the lml (Liquid Matter-Light), the song of the universe itself. Ships simply "jump" to their destination instantly, as long as you know the song.

Argentine character: Two, actually. One is a teen girl isekai'd from 2012 who uses the power of METAL to destroy her enemies, the other is a very chill gaucho from Space Corrientes who herded asteroids and now flies a Hind-like ship kicking ass.

The Greatest Scam:

FTL: This is a hard sci-fi setting. The only FTL is wormholes, which act with within laws of physics as we know them. The AIs who mine bitcoin in the Solar matrioshka brain use them to create incomprehensible processing systems. AIs friendly to humanity and the Socialist Interstellar maintain wormhole gates that allow limited interstellar communication and travel ('human' space is about 50 light years across). These gates are expensive pieces of infrastructure, much like space railroads.

Argentine Characters: None just yet, but many wandering habitats are of Argentine descent, flying under the flag of the URSAL.

Concordia (Star Trek Rebuild)

FTL: Depending on the date, if set in current times none at all (humanity is just expanding through the solar system, think For All Mankind), but if there is a FTL, it's an Alcubierre-like "warp drive", which functions much like in Star Trek, the main limitation is the energy required to keep the "warp bubble" stable. Interstellar travel takes days to weeks, humanity has explored just a corner of the galaxy and mostly thanks to friendly alien civilizations.

Argentine Character: A recently promoted captain born in Curuzú Cuatiá, Corrientes, who is trying to keep the balance between his Usamerican first officer and his Soviet chief engineer.

Biopunk South America:

FTL: There is plenty of space activity, but no FTL and there probably not ever be because of physics (if there ever is, it will be like in The Greatest Scam). As of 2143, there are only unmanned interstellar probes to Alpha Centauri and others which will take decades to reach destination, interstellar exploration is a long-term project.

Argentine Character: Except for Marina, all of them. Even the dolphin. Especially the dolphin.

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

Durge was an ancient Gen’Dai bounty hunter who did work for the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars. As a Gen’Dai, Durge was incredibly long-lived and difficult to kill, a talent he used to unleash himself upon the galaxy without fear. Durge hated many, but the Jedi ranked high on his list.

Source: Republic 51 (Art: Tomás Giorello; 2003)

Read more on Wookieepedia.

[trashsoph]

My OCs!

•Tomás, a 22 y/o dude who’s a huge space nerd. One day, he was coming home from work (he works waiting tables in a hotel) when he met-

•Iván (human name), an alien with three eyes who had just crashed on planet Earth.

I don’t have a title yet, and I’m still writing the story. My idea is to make short, funny comics, but I don’t know where to start lmao All in all, I want to make character sheets so you can meet everyone that way and know more about their story!

•Samuel, he’s a transboy tired of his roommate (Tomás) bullshit.

•Pedro, next door neighbour. Basically the voice of reason of the group (and also a science nerd).

Also they’re gay.

[vixen-academia]

Classic books of all South America

Argentina 

The Invention of Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares

The Seven Madmen - Roberto Arlt 

Zama - Antonio Di Benedetto

Hopscotch - Julio Cortázar

Scarecrow & Other Anomalies - Oliverio Girondo

Idle Days in Patagonia - William Henry Hudson

Cris & Cris - Maria Felicitas Jaime

Tropical Night Falling - Manuel Puig

How I Became a Nun - César Aira

The Tango Singer - Tomás Eloy Martínez

Los Pasajeros del Jardin - Silvina Bullrich

Friends of Mine - Angela Pradelli

Traveller of the Century - Andrés Neuman

Bolívia

Raza de Bronce - Alcides Arguedes

Turing’s Delirium - Edmundo Paz Soldán

Juan de la Rosa - Nataniel Aguirre

Let me speak! -  Domitila Barrios de Chungara

Los Deshabitados - Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz

Brazil

I’ve alredy done a full post about Brazilian Classics. You can check out here!

Chile

The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende

Curfew - José Donoso

Seeing Red - Lina Meruane

My Tender Matador - Pedro Lambel

The Sevage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño

The Postman - Antonio Skarmeta

The Shrouded Woman - María Luisa Bombal

Ways of Going Home - Alejandro Zambra

The Absent Sea - Carlos Franz

The Man Who Read Love Stories - Luis Sepulveda

Colombia

Dark Stars - Arnoldo Palacios

The Armies/New Directions - Evelio Rosero

The Vortex - José Eustácio Rivera

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Blue Days - Fernando Vallejo

En Diciembre Llegan las Brisas -  Marvel Moreno 

Catalina - Elisa Mujica 

In the Beginning Was the Sea - Tomás González

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

News of a Kidnapping -  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Equador

Polvo y Ceniza - Eliécer Cárdenas

Huasipungo - Jorge Icaza

Las cruces sobre el agua - Joaquín Gallegos Lara

Los que se van - Demetrio Aguilera Malta, Joaquín Gallegos Lara and Enrique Gil Gilbert

Los Sangurimas - José de la Cuadra

Cumanda or A Drama Between Savages - Juan León Mera

Between Marx and a Naked Woman - Jorge Enrique Adoum

Juyungo - Adalberto Ortiz

Un hombre muerto a puntapiés - Pablo Palacio

Guiana

The Shadow Bride - Roy Heath

Guianese Poetry: Covering the Hundred Years' Period, 1831-1931 - Many authors

Poesias escogidas - Martin Carter

Selected Poems of Egbert Martin

Paraguai

I, the Supreme - Augusto Roa Bastos

Son of Man - Augusto Roa Bastos

Poetry from Rubén Bareiro Saguier

Dias roturados: poemas de la guerra civil - Elvio Romero

El sol bajo las raíces - Elvio Romero

Hombres, Mujeres y Fantoches - Gabriel Casaccia

Los Exiliados - Gabriel Casaccia

Poetic Anthology - Josefina Plá

The flame and sand - Josefina Plá

Peru

Peruvian Traditions - Ricardo Palma

El Sexto - José Maria Arguedas

The Time of the Hero - Mario Vargas Llosa

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter - Mario Vargas Llosa

The War of the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa

The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa

The Bad Girl - Mario Vargas Llosa

A World for Julius - Alfredo Bryce Echenique

La palabra del mudo - Julio Ramón Ribeyro

Broad and Alien Is the World - Ciro Alegria

Los heraldos negros - César Vallejo

El Mundo Es Ancho Y Ajeno - Ciro Alegría

Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality - José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira

Suriname

The Queen of Paramaribo - Clark Bertram Accord

We Slaves of Suriname - Anton de Kom

Two evenings in Saramaka - Richard Price

Daring life - Astrid Heligonda Roemer

Uruguay

Open Veins of Latin America - Eduardo Galeano

The Ship of Fools - Cristina Peri Rossi

La vida breve - Juan Carlos Onetti

La Tregua - Mario Benedetti

Jungle Tales - Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza

The Book of Embraces - Eduardo Galeano

Body Snatcher - Juan Carlos Onetti

Aventuras de los jóvenes dioses - Eduardo Galeano

Ariel - José Enrique Rodó

Pedro y al Capitán - Mario Benedetti

The Naked Woman - Armonía Somers

Venezuela

Dead Houses - Miguel Otero Silva

Las lanzas coloradas - Arturo Uslar Pietri

Cuando quiero llorar no lloro - Miguel Otero Silva

Canaima - Rómulo Gallegos

Memories of Altagracia - Salvador Garmendia

Cantaclaro - Rómulo Gallegos

Boves, El Urogallo - Francisco Herrera Luque

Cuentos grotescos - José Rafael Pocaterra

[bean-na-farraige-agus-foraoise]

So I want to learn about Tuatha de Danann. Are there any books, websites, or videos you’d recommend for someone who knows nothing about Irish lore but wants to learn?

So each of the books I’m about to recommend to you I have pdfs for and am more than willing to share if you come off anon and shoot me a dm. 

Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth by Mark Williams is a book that I love recommending to people starting out- it’s well written, published within the last 5 years, and pretty comprehensive. 

Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga by  Tomás Ó Cathasaigh is also great, it’s a collection of 31 essays that serve as companion pieces to the lore. 

While by no means about the lore, this next book, Fosterage in Medieval Ireland: An Emotional History by Tom C. O’Donnell, is one that I also recommend as it gives a lot of context into the familial relationships found in the lore that might seem a bit alien from our modern perspective. 

I also cannot stress this enough. 

THE BEST WAY TO LEARN ABOUT THE GODS IS TO READ THE LORE.

If you don’t have the money to purchase physical copies of translations of our lore, that’s fine- sacred-texts has much of it available for free to read here.

And not to self-plug but I do know how hard it can be to motivate yourself to read the lore, especially when you’re probably not used to medieval syntax- and if you’re interested in reading it as a group I do run a discord server that has a myth-study group and you’re more than welcome to join. Feel free to shoot me a message for an invite link if you’re interested. <3