#gilling

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Valley Farm Estate, Gilling East, York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom,

Mark Bramhall Architect In collaboration with Julian Philips,

Photos by Jim Varney

[jeffreystewart]

Norsery Rhymes from A to Z Happy Thorsday - Fjalarr, The Hinderer

Well here we are another Thor’s Day and another 20 min sketch of a Norse (and Germanic) mythological characters.  This week it’s Fajalarr / Falr / Fálr / Falur / Fal / Fjalar the Dwarven (Dverg / Dvergr / Dwarf). One of the Dvergr mentioned in the  Skáldskaparmál of the Prose Edda.

His name translated to ‘hide’ from the old norse Fela’ and ‘pipe’, ‘tube’, ‘spearhead socket’ from the old Norse ‘Falr’, possibly by way of the Proto Germanic ‘Falhuz’ meaning ‘to hide’ or ‘to conceal’. It’s the hold at the back of a spearhead that the shaft or handle is fit into. He’s known as ‘the hinderer’, and ‘the deceiver’, and ‘the cunning and clever’.

Fjalar and Galar are the dverg who created the mead of Poetry. The Mean of Suttungr. That can turn anyone into a fact knowing verse speaking and Skaldic scholar.

They brewed this mead from honey, and the blood of Kvasir the wise. Who they killed to get it. They had heard of Kvasir’s wisdom and sought him out to see if they could in some way steal this from him. When they had him alone, they murdered him and drained all his blood into jars and cauldrons.

Kvasir who was born of the spit of both Aesir and Vanier was well loved by both for his wisdom and kindness. So when the Aesir send someone to check up on him, and the Aesir went to speak to Falr and Galar, the last to see him, they told the investigating emissary that Kvasir had choked on his own knowledge. Apparently convincing in their witty explanation the envoy left them alone.

They then went on to kill the Jotun Gilling and his wife who were visiting with them. Possibly because they discovered the mead. Crushing Gilling under a millstone, and drowning his wife. When their son Suttungr found them he put them out on a rock far out to sea at low tide. Sure to be drown and dashed against the rocks. They bargained for their lives be giving him three casks of the mead of Poetry.

Not much else is known about what happens to them after this. I’ve got another version in mind for next time, that‘s less spear oriented an more, mead brewing murderer centered.

I did a previous version under Falr that’s in my gallery. 

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Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.

Nikita Gill

[mournfulroses]

Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Seven,"

[shandzii]

personal seb ref lol

[tonia-aaaaa]

You've heard of the Bad Boys as the Heathers... now get ready for: Mean Gills as the Mean Girls!!

[anbaisai]

somebody help him 💔

[olympain]

#i'm STILL HERE i'm STILL THINKING about this 🥴

[bangtanghan]

20240611

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[luminescentchimera]

Most accurate summary of (c)Martyn i've ever seen

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Creature from the Black Lagoon at the Drive-In

[azuneekun]

did sebastian come out of a romance drama or something

[sprinklesharkie]

more textpost cos i love them

[mournfulroses]

Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Gretel After Hansel," (edited)

[slayercain]

When a straight man lashes out after dating or having sex with a trans woman, he is often afraid of the implication that his sexuality is joined to hers. When a gay man anxiously keeps trans women out of his activism or social circles, he is often fearful of their common stigma as feminine. And when a non-trans feminist claims she is erased by trans women’s access to a bathroom, she is often afraid that their shared vulnerability as feminized people will be magnified intolerably by trans women’s presence. In each case, trans misogyny displays a fear of interdependence and a refusal of solidarity. It is felt as a fear of proximity. Trans femininity is too sociable, too connected to everyone—too exuberant about stigmatized femininity—and many people fear the excess of trans femininity and sexuality getting too close. But sociability can never be confined or blamed on one person in a relationship; it’s impersonal, and it sticks to everyone. The defensive fear and projection built into trans misogyny, whether genuine or performed, is an attempt to wish away what it nonetheless recognizes: that trans femininity is an integral part of the social fabric. There will be no emancipation for anyone until we embrace trans femininity’s centrality and value.

Jules Gill-Peterson, A Short History of Trans Misogyny