#estrild

[crrahsa-yamah]

Tactics Ogre Reborn mercenary name bank

Oh, I see

yeah

the whole hyur population of eorzea

tbh these were good names, I don’t blame them

wait WAIT

ESTRILD IS FROM KUGANE

[gailyinthedark]

Locrine: Hey Corineus, I don't want to marry your daughter any more because I'm in love with Estrilde

Corineus: Marry her or I'll kill you

Locrine: Okay

Locrine: *keeps Estrilde in a cave for seven years*

[snowflowers-ffxiv]

FFxivWrite2024 - #6: Halcyon

adjective

— characterized by happiness

— calm ; peaceful

Sunlight streamed through the windows of her room and she could hear the distant sound of birdsong. Estrild breathed a sigh of content. Beside her, G’raha was still asleep. If her knowledge and observations of the Scions’ daily habits continued to remain reliable even with the organization disbanded, she knew it shan’t be long ere he awoke, but for now, she was content to leave him be—Twelve knew he was oft worse than her about forgetting basic necessities like food and sleep.

Besides, she was quite comfortable with the way things were, laying on her side and observing her companion as he remained lost in dreams. Happy ones, if the slight smile on his face was any indication. She wondered what they were about. Was he reliving old memories or dreaming of travelling the lands, crossing the seas, and taking to the skies as he always wanted?

She raised a hand, lightly brushing a finger against his cheek to trace the area where it was once crystal. He stirred, his ear flicking once before letting out a noise that was halfway between a yawn and a sigh. Estrild giggled softly. Cute.

With the Final Days averted, the question of what remained for her to do once the star was no longer in need of a hero had turned out to be quite simple to answer for it was enough to simply live and find happiness where it could be found. Her injuries in Ultima Thule had been severe enough that she needed to take it easy for a time, but she intended to continue her life as an adventurer in due time. Preferably with G’raha Tia beside her for he had once asked that she would take him with her on her next adventure.

But for now, she was quite happy as it were, living life in Old Sharlayan with G’raha. It had been a long time since she’s felt so at peace.

Perhaps the sight of his sleeping face lulled her back to sleep as well for the next time she opened her eyes, there were a pair of scarlet ones looking right back.

“Good morning, my love.”

My love. Still new to her, but not unwelcome. “Good morning, Raha.”

Yes, she could absolutely get used to this.

[darrisgrove]

The Windeby Puzzle by Lois Lowry REVIEW

1/5 Stars ⭐

I would like to point out that this book is a historical fiction. Several parts of the book include snippets of history of the Windeby bog child and recounts of history of the time from Tacitus explaining cultural rituals surrounding the bog. While these recounts from Tacitus were true, my main critique lies in the painful misrepresentation of ancient Germanic tribal culture surrounding women's rights.

It is okay to have a strong female character to represent the girls reading this book. I quite enjoyed reading Estrild's story and was rooting for her, but we all know how her story ended so there's not much we could have done about that. The story itself was fine. What I did not find "fine" was the incorrect history that Lowry held onto with a death grip. Pre-Christian pagan history finds that women were highly respected and equal to men. We find Goddesses, deities of strong women such as the Morrigan, Danu, Athena, Hecate, Freyja, and Hel. There are legends of strong women such as the Valkyrie and Scathach. What baffled me the most was the incessant depiction of only male druids. It really, to me, seemed like the author's only source of druid history and depiction came from popular media, which wraps the druids around a mysterious aura, dark robed and hooded men, slaughtering animals and reading their innards for omens, and MEN. Women in druidic history could be druids just as equally as men. To have read Tacitus' accounts on the history of this era and completely avoid the mention of Banduri, or female druids, was astonishing. Again, this IS only the authors interpretation, however to call her story a historical fiction and avoid all historically accurate inspiration infuriated me.

What also bothered me and only angered me more was one of her quotes at the end of her book, on page 182 Lowry states, "Although I was creating fiction, it was to be based on truth". Except it was far from it. While yes, the child did meant and untimely and unfortunate death, the act of making these stories and claiming them to be as close to truth as possible made me upset. There was certainly an attempt made in TRYING to be historically accurate, but that attempt was so short that that it failed her stories.

Below are two links to support my claims, thought I have done past research in druidic history in published books as I consider myself a new age druid. These links are only meant to serve as a quick and easy read for those that want to actually do the research on strong pagan women in pre-Christian history as well as the Banduri.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/histo...https://www.sheathenry.com/roles-of-p...

Here are my notes during reading. WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW

-The book is sectioned off by real history and then fictional "What might have happened". -To think that the girl wasn't married or wasn't "sophisticated" enough to marry is very close-minded. It is important to look back at he cultures written at the time the girl died and be sure that the theories are correct. While she was about 13 years old at the time of her death, if the history of her culture is true and women did marry early, then that is that. It is easy for our minds to find these features of an ancient culture to be alien. It's easy to think that a girl of 13 could only have childish behaviors like having an awkward crush on a person. Times were very different back in the first century AD Germany. It is very likely that he was punished and thrown into a bog for loving a different boy. She was a child. -Mention of Ogham staves. -Varick likely has scoliosis. -My main issue concerning the story so far is that women are underminded. Caretakers, yes, but women before Christianity were worshipping. There were Goddesses, strong women who fought in battle that inspired mortal women to follow. Goddesses that not only birthed and raised children, but fought wars as well. Here, women are just baby making machines and submissive. Celtic/Germanic women had more purpose, strength, and freedom than that. Women conducted war plans along male leaders equally. -The fear of the Gods is also a Christian instilled concept. While there were wrathful Gods, the Gods called upon to help were typically not wrathful and typically weren't ones to act spitefully. -I feel as though the author did the barest minimum of research as far of druid and their history go. As if the author took what was popular in media and ran it as truth. For one, druids weren't mysterious and secluded, they were everyday people that worked with the village, doing chores as a normal person would, and could be found in the higher ranks with leaders and war planning. Secondly, druids could be women as well, it wasn't an exclusively male job. To have a section for history before the story begins and fail to implement the history into your historical fiction story is bazaar. "Why are there no women druids? she had asked her mother once. Her mother had looked startled, shocked. "It's not our role," she said. (Lowry, pg 66). The druid role was a job for women as equally as men. It most certainly was their role as a woman. -I confess. It was excruciating for me to read Estrild's story. The history was all wrong, and it was almost like the author was romanticizing an evil heathenistic, barbaric, tribe with horrible druids. While yes, druids were considered judges and did help make decisions for the tribes, druids were looked up to by all peoples in the tribe. Druids helped people and sought to better their peoples, by seeking out word from the Gods/Goddesses. Druids were also equally women as were men. It could be easy to say "oh well this is Lowry's interpretation of the story", sure, but at least get the history right. WOMEN WERE JUST AS IMPORTANT AND RESPECTED IN THESE COMMUNITIES AS MEN WERE!!!!! There were female deities, there were strong female warriors, female raiders, female judges, female druids, female leaders. Women were NOT disregarded, ignored, placed upon the outskirts, or only meant to please the men. Women were HIGHLY respected in these cultures and to write a historical fiction based around the culture and managed to get this wrong is infuriating. -It's like the author was piecing her puzzle together with jigsaw pieces and legos. -Starting Varick's story -You can't hear owls wingbeats.

[kitsunesobo]

Seal of the Cursed Instruments

The Cursed Instruments (サプライズ、ユーフォリア、テラ、オステンテーション、リヴィディティ、オブザヴェーション、ピティー、ヴィジョン、ディスガスト、フェラリティ、インサイト、ツイステッドネス、プレザントネス、ヴィセラリティ、オカルトネスとサティスファクション) are currently used by the Cyrii (Lords): Cambel Hand, Gwendolen Hyle, Ignoge Coban, Cordella Gwantoke, Mehetabel Peachey, Ragan Brertun, Gonorill Slade, Gwinefred Hutton, Gwinevera Skofeld, Estrild Kox, Sabrina Kotope and Conwenna Bowen.

These twelve are led by the Cyrii Cyrium, who wield the remaining Instruments: Wevedswine Femsdire, Bilcresst Whitmoone, Zouvereine Zinchourch and Starrzetteen Murreenleam.

[cassiesbookishcorner]

•May 27, 2023•

On to my next read!!

Entranced by @authorsylviamercedes

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Stunning book covers are my weakness 😍

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Bookworms, I've read 40 books this year! Who am I? What happened?

When I was signing up for the summer reading program at the library, I told a lady that I had read 36 books this year and she told me to slow down.

Slow down?!?!?!

No ma'am. Not happening.

How can I slow down when there are so many books I have yet to discover???

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Synopsis

THE PRINCE AND THE LIBRARIAN . . .

Clara is an Obligate—a human servant at the Court of Dawn.

She doesn’t know why. She knows only that she broke the Pledge and must therefore spend her days obliging the every whim of a capricious fae princess. If she can keep her head down and follow the rules, she might survive to the end of her Obligation, spending her days working in the vast palace library.

But how can she stop devastatingly beautiful Lord Ivor from looking at her in that special way that makes her heart stutter? And how can she avoid the jealous fury of Princess Estrilde, who seeks to claim Lord Ivor for herself?

Most of all, how can she elude the conniving Prince of the Doomed City . . . who is determined to buy her Obligation for his own dark purposes?

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[newswireml]

Book Review: “The Windeby Puzzle: History and Story,” by Lois Lowry#Book #Review #Windeby #Puzzle #History #Story #Lois #Lowry

Estrild is a girl with a feminist streak. She compares the thankless drudgery of her mother’s life with the homage paid to warriors. This seemed anachronistic to me, but as the narrative gained momentum I stopped quibbling. With the help of an outcast boy, Varick, Estrild learns the warriors’ battle chants, the barritas described by Tacitus. Varick has a crooked back, but he works for the…

[diioonysus]

name aesthetic

→ estrild | “battle”

[chaos-self]

name aesthetic | Estrild

for @estrild

request an aesthetic

[mercury-minded]

You got that big Pisces energy, love

it’s so loud! 😂💕

[unseendeity]

For pendulum (please? 😊 ): is this month the month? MH Capricorn

Sure! ❤

I got a Yes

[snowflowers-ffxiv]

FFxivWrite2024 - #5: Stamp

noun

— the impression or mark made by stamping or imprinting

— a distinctive character, indication, or mark

Watching them set sail without him was a bittersweet experience. Oh how he wished he was on that boat to the Tural as well, but G’raha didn’t begrudge them for it. He wished he could’ve been there with them, but he knew Krile would not have taken this chance while she had concerns about leaving the Students of Baldesion in the interim. She needed answers about that mysterious letter and so, G’raha had made his offer in hopes that she would accompany Wuk Lamat without guilt.

A little more difficult parting was with Estrild. He knew she wasn’t all that keen on the idea of getting involved in politics again, but there wasn’t much she could do to hide her excitement about seeing the land beyond the Indigo Deep. The past several moons have spoiled him, he thought. Though they did not spend every waking moment with each other—especially once the expedition into the Void began in full—but their investigation into the Twelve and her regularly returning to Sharlayan for one reason or another, meant there were plenty of experiences to be had together. And those experiences did not need to be world-shattering or even excising, really, to be worth something to him. There was something quite wonderful about simply waking up and making breakfast together after all.

So it was with a slightly heavy heart that G’raha returned to the Annex intending to continue the work he had temporarily put on hold in order to spend some extra time with Estrild before she set sail.

Lying in wait for him on his desk was a package. A wrapped package with a handwritten card bearing his name stamped with a wax seal bearing the image of a lily. He blinked, confused, before picking up the card.

I started making this for you while in Radz-at-Han and finished it just before we met Wuk Lamat. The timing was quite auspicious in this regard if nothing else. Though I understand the reasons for why you will not be with me during this time, I will be thinking about you until the day you are.

—Yours, Estrild

[darrisgrove]

The Windeby Puzzle - Notes

-The book is sectioned off by real history and then fictional "What might have happened".

-To think that the girl wasn't married or wasn't "sophisticated" enough to marry is very close-minded. It is important to look back at he cultures written at the time the girl died and be sure that the theories are correct. While she was about 13 years old at the time of her death, if the history of her culture is true and women did marry early, then that is that. It is easy for our minds to find these features of an ancient culture to be alien. It's easy to think that a girl of 13 could only have childish behaviors like having an awkward crush on a person. Times were very different back in the first century AD Germany. It is very likely that he was punished and thrown into a bog for loving a different boy. She was a child.

-Mention of Ogham staves.

-Varick likely has scoliosis.

-My main issue concerning the story so far is that women are underminded. Caretakers, yes, but women before Christianity were worshipping. There were Goddesses, strong women who fought in battle that inspired mortal women to follow. Goddesses that not only birthed and raised children, but fought wars as well. Here, women are just baby making machines and submissive. Celtic/Germanic women had more purpose, strength, and freedom than that. Women conducted war plans along male leaders equally.

-The fear of the Gods is also a Christian instilled concept. While there were wrathful Gods, the Gods called upon to help were typically not wrathful and typically weren't ones to act spitefully.

-I feel as though the author did the barest minimum of research as far of druid and their history go. As if the author took what was popular in media and ran it as truth. For one, druids weren't mysterious and secluded, they were everyday people that worked with the village, doing chores as a normal person would, and could be found in the higher ranks with leaders and war planning. Secondly, druids could be women as well, it wasn't an exclusively male job. To have a section for history before the story begins and fail to implement the history into your historical fiction story is bazaar. "Why are there no women druids? she had asked her mother once. Her mother had looked startled, shocked. "It's not our role," she said. (Lowry, pg 66). The druid role was a job for women as equally as men. It most certainly was their role as a woman.

-I confess. It was excruciating for me to read Estrild's story. The history was all wrong, and it was almost like the author was romanticizing an evil heathenistic, barbaric, tribe with horrible druids. While yes, druids were considered judges and did help make decisions for the tribes, druids were looked up to by all peoples in the tribe. Druids helped people and sought to better their peoples, by seeking out word from the Gods/Goddesses. Druids were also equally women as were men. It could be easy to say "oh well this is Lowry's interpretation of the story", sure, but at least get the history right. WOMEN WERE JUST AS IMPORTANT AND RESPECTED IN THESE COMMUNITIES AS MEN WERE!!!!! There were female deities, there were strong female warriors, female raiders, female judges, female druids, female leaders. Women were NOT disregarded, ignored, placed upon the outskirts, or only meant to please the men. Women were HIGHLY respected in these cultures and to write a historical fiction based around the culture and managed to get this wrong is infuriating.

-It's like the author was piecing her puzzle together with jigsaw pieces and legos.

-Starting Varick's story

-You can't hear owls wingbeats.

[flmeth]

Three Words OC Meme

Rules: say the first three (3) words that you think of when you think of your oc(s)! (without an explanation of course) I was tagged by @fensharel!! and as usual i don’t know who to tag in these things bc you all probably did it by now so if anyone feels like doing this you can just consider yourself tagged by me :))

➵ Gwen Amell (Dragon Age) — witch, freedom, curls ➵ Ivy Shepard (Mass Effect) — strength, red, vodka ➵ Evie Trevelyan (Dragon Age) — soft, books, chantry ➵ Estrild (Divinity) — war, faith, blind ➵ Betsy Baker (Fallout)  — romance, eyepatch, joy  ➵ Cordelia Cousland (Dragon Age) — heart, vengeance, stubborn ➵ Oriana Lavellan (Dragon Age) — identity, ambition, loneliness ➵ Lysandra van Vredendorf Deglace (Tyranny)  — hedonism, manipulate, hair

[gildedmouths]

Have you ever had a mystical experience or dream? I love to hear about people’s dreams.

No actually I haven’t. I have Very vivid dreams but nothing mystical. My mother was the one to get the predictive dreams. I have very good intuition though! I can get a feel about a person very quickly and know who to avoid and who to stick with.

[travsd]

Recollecting Ramona of the Radio

Recollecting Ramona of the Radio

Young singer/pianist Estrild Raymona Myers (1909-1972) performed under the single name “Ramona”, much like the incomparable Hildegard, and “Jerry” (she of the Baby Grands). In her day, it was necessary to assert that the name was not drawn from the then famous novel and film, but was derived from her given name. In any case, in our day, she’s mighty hard to Google. Adding the word “singer”…