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bethrnoora · 2 years ago

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hi i need you to know i am positively vibrating over your tags. i generally need to read more yeats and im LOVING this analysis

a very peculiar pair of siblings from a very peculiar isle

(aka there was some kind of funny joke to be made here about the residents of summerisle worshipping nuada. nuala is here too. also yes this is reposted bc i wanted to adjust the contrast)

bonus john myers as sergeant howie bc someone has to get put in the wicker man eventually

#i just LOVE slotting this hellboy fixation into my (admittedly slightly patchy) irish mythology interest #so watching the wicker man often has me turning into the leo dicaprio pointing meme #(though ik theyre in scotland in that)#anyway. the way they wrote the royal family in hb2 is similarly interesting in its construction and how they transposed significant names #onto similar but distinct characters (i.e. the one-armed king is named balor and he's nuada + nuala's father)#was never sure EXACTLY where they pulled nuala from even though i know it's an irish name #maybe just that it's superficially similar to nuada's name. idk #i like thinking about her as a loose analog to fionnuala anyhow since she's kind of Doomed By The Narrative #and that's not even to do with the overarching dunsany reference. which is not capital M Mythological i know but is just cool to me #and partially related to revivalist literature on account of his ties to yeats (i think?)#SORRY for all the tags in response. the intersection of these few things makes my brain start spinning like an old timey airplane propeller #also happy may day/bealtaine!

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