#cu chulainn/fer diad

[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

[finnlongman]

Dá scaraind gan troit is tú, gidar comaltai, a cháemChú, bud olc mo briathar is mo blad ic Ailill is ac Meidb Chrúachan Should I part from you without a fight, O gentle Hound, though we are fosterbrothers, my word and my name would be held in ill esteem by Ailill and Medb of Crúachu.

(TBC LL, ll. 3207-3210)

A cháemChú.

Hard to gauge for sure whether it was intended as a compound in the manuscript, since the Book of Leinster isn't big on word-breaks, but if it were a regular adjective, it would come after the noun, so I guess whacking it on the front like that -- while probably for metrical/rhyme reasons -- does have that effect.

Cool, well, I'm fine about that.

[riseupriseupandcomealong]

i love to be normal about the táin bó cúailnge

[sissiarte]

Back at it ✌️✌️

I've been wanting to revisit these designs to stylize them more, bc I was making some characters with more exagerated shapes than others and it was a mess overall. I had sketches done for a long time that I really liked but never got around to do a lineup

[revisionlightning]

Art of Cú Chulainn and Ferdiad. I couldn't decide on a bg so have both.

[isathetiefling]

"They were brothers of one blanket" and "Loeg needs to help him prepare his special weapon" are two quotes that only make sense in Celtic lit class

[an-ruraiocht]

oh yeah i wasn't really suggesting anyone should like. write fanfic of coimheasgar na gcuradh. although that would be funny. i just like to take details from different texts and smush them together to make the worst of all worlds :) :)

shipping cú chulainn/fer diad but specifically from the eighteenth century text that has fer diad being twenty years older than cú chulainn, because i want to watch the world burn (think it's funny when discourse mongers get mad about things that are absolutely not the main issue here)

[aliaoftheknives]

ff loves to name a bunch of its weapons after weapons of mythological legend which every game since the beginning of time has done this but it's often very funny because it'll be like ah the storied spear Gae Bolg, whose name means Spear of Mortal Pain, with which the great Cu Chulainn struck down his brother Fer Diad. It's from the base game released in 2013 and is a level 50 weapon now only acquired for fashion purposes

[riastrad]

Medb: Could you do me a favor and kill your boyfriend?

Fer Diad: No.

Medb: please

Fer Diad: No.

Medb: I’ll let you marry my daughter.

Fer Diad: what exactly about the whole boyfriend thing makes you think I’m into women

Medb:

Medb: Cú Chulainn called you a pussy ass bitch and said he didn’t think you had the balls to fight him.

Fer Diad: I am going to end him

[finnlongman]

That feeling when you're absolutely certain you've read an article on a topic but you can't find it, or anything quoting it, or any reference to it, and you're beginning to think you imagined it and it never existed in the first place.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

LOOK AT THIS

MY CHILDREN

DOING BALLET

incredible

😍

modern AU fanart of cú chulainn and ferdiad dancing! - with no effort to show realistic anatomy and v little dancing knowledge! based on a v good fanfic by @trans-cuchulainn

[incorrect-ulster-cycle]

Cú Chulainn: You want what I have.

Fer Diad: A stupid name and a death wish?

[riseupriseupandcomealong]

definitely one of the more cursed táin memes i’ve made

[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 !!!!!!

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

sorry i spent like an hour straight reading this poem over and over again this evening and. what do you mean fer diad says he's going to kill himself if cú chulainn dies because of him. what do you mean he says that and then also says he'll kill medb and her whole army for making him do it. what do you mean he asks to be buried in cú chulainn's grave. and then what do you mean he says all that and ends the poem like "anyway tell cú chulainn scáthach always said he would kill me" jesus CHRIST

i'm trying to memorise the feidm as mo poem from the stowe tain and i'm also trying to record my voice so i can see how it changes on T so guess what incredibly on-brand series of videos i'm now making

[revisionlightning]

Cú Chulainn and Ferdiad art. The first one from two years ago, the second one from a couple nights ago. I will continue the work on the new one. Ferdiad is on the right in each pic.