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Guth: Reading Irish Myths & Legends

Now that I am a Real Grown-Up Academic (tm), I have been trying to find a way to support my students and the general public by making medieval Irish literature more accessible to people who, be it a lack of time, disability, or any other factor, find sitting down and reading the original texts challenging.

What I settled on was creating a Podcast where I sit down and read out of copyright translations of Irish legends which I have called Guth: Reading Irish Myths and Legends.

If that's all you need to hear, you can go check it out right now! It is on Spotify (here), Podbean (here), and YouTube (here), and should be on Apple Music in the coming weeks. Alternatively, it is embedded here:

For those of you who need a harder sell, or want to know more about it, check out below!

So, why Guth? Well, I have encountered several different Podcasts and YouTube Channels out there which are doing something similar, recording audio of them reading medieval Irish legends. While several of these are quite cool, there are issues.

In terms of more benign issues, to get around the issues of copyright, people in these alternatives tend to retell stories, and while that is very cool as an example of something like an oral tradition, it means the stories are often being altered and changed by a non-expert audience. Elements that are not very important are being given great importance, areas that are very important are cut, and sometimes things are incorporated from other texts to make an unspoken composite (or, alternatively, sometimes people cut a section of a text out and retell it independent of its broader context).

These aren't bad, but, it means these other Podcasts and Videos aren't really suitable for my purposes of supporting my students and giving people access to the actual stories.

In terms of the big problems, there is at least one Podcast on a similar topic being presented by someone who I have reason to suspect is faking having a PhD. Further, there are at least two people putting out content like this that are actively forging content and passing it off as authentic who just so happen to also be Fascists. So, not ideal.

I hope Guth can serve my students and interested members of the public by providing a solid academic perspective on a text. Each episode I open with a discussion of our manuscript sources and the date of the text (a lot of other pieces out there will describe tales as 'ancient', when in actuality they're a 14th century scribe just vibin'). I then read the text exactly as it is translated, including using reconstructed Old Irish pronunciation for all the names that appear in the text. Lastly, I conclude with a brief discussion of secondary scholarship I think is particularly relevant for the interests of the public.

All of that to say, I hope people enjoy Guth, and that it can serve people who are interested in the actual medieval tales rather than the various retellings that are circulating out there.

[lifelyne]

Raven Reaper and geno (and little guth as a bonus)

:3

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Being Careful

2022-2024

Featuring: Alex Kirkland, Billy Bottoms, Chaney Gilmore, Calvin Green, Tory Ward , Collin Maynard, Cayce Walton, Kevin Gillespie, Tony Wagner, Peter Limberg, Jack Yelle, Sam Bakken, Casey Pflipsen, Arhnez, Jordan, Cayman, Mirza, Mitch, Guth, and Denery

Filmed by: Kevin Gillespie, Collin Maynard , Calvin Green, and Billy Bottoms

Additional Cameras: Chaney Gilmore , Mitch Guth, Dan Pergrin, Alex Kirkland, Erik Olson, Mike Liddle, Ben Bilodeau , Casey Pflipsen , Trevor Slattery

Filmed in various locations across Turtle Island

LOITERING 4EVER

[y0uc4n7kn0w]

Niji Nights Day 7: Characters of Color in Anime Part 5

Welcome to the last night of Niji Nights 2024 our PRIDE event here on We be Bloggin’! There’s no time like the present to appreciate when creators add characters of color to their works of art! Soma (Black Butler) He’s filled with energy and loves to annoy his uptight cousin, Ciel. Leo De La Iglesia Yuri on Ice!!! He’s an ice skater that works hard by studying hard and practicing hard so…

[ajl1963]

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…adventures in antiquing

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, adventures in antiquing, stop us from our Driving for Deco creed.  A friend and I were speaking about Anthony and my antiquing adventures. She asked if anything stopped us. And it got me thinking. And the answer is: Not usually. But the creed doesn’t mention blood. My blood, and lots of it. But I’ll get to that later. Adventures in Snow: Ontario…

[pedro-reed]

Sedgwick Guth phographed by hollywood_bruisers

[bleedingcoffee42]

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

Forrest liked Spiers as the company’s CO, remembering that “he was a good man. He was fearless. He hated the Germans and was rather ruthless. Everyone respected him.” “Of all the officers, I think of him most kindly,” Forrest told me. “I think he was the most caring.”

~ Larry Alexander

[wiltedprayers]

something i love about band of brothers is the little quirks and details in each of the soldiers' clothes, especially those that pop up after the war progresses when nobody really bothers with uniform regulations anymore.

my favorites from each episode:

sobel's wool jacket in currahee

toye's brass knuckles in day of days (didn't have a good choice clothing-wise for this one, sorry!)

talbert's camo handkerchief in carentan

bull in his undershirt in replacements

luz' scarf in crossroads

spina's hat and sweater in bastogne

dick using his lapels as a scarf in the breaking point

malarkey's beanie in the last patrol

nix's suspenders in why we fight

liebgott's entire outfit in points

[coochiequeens]

This is exactly what feminists warned of.

By Marielena Meder February 8, 2025

Convicted criminals in Germany are endorsing Germany’s new gender self-identification law for allowing them to easily hide their pasts by changing their identities. One violent criminal, Mirko Guth, even spoke to local press about his plans to change his legal sex and name by claiming to be transgender.

Guth, who spent several years in prison for violent crimes and aggravated robbery, described using the gender self-identification law to hide his past as a “fuck you to the state,” complaining that he had struggled with difficulties in opening bank accounts and obtaining mobile phone plans due to his lengthy record of serious offenses.

After the Self-Determination Act came into effect in Germany on November 1, 2024, individuals were permitted to change their legal sex and name through a simple declaration at the registry office. The new law also included a disclosure ban, which prohibits passing on the real sex and former name without consent and imposes harsh penalties for those who “misgender” or “deadname” a person who has changed their legal identity.

“This is the paragraph that erases my past,” Guth told Die Welt regarding the disclosure ban. “I am bankrupt and can’t get work contracts anymore. If I become a woman, I can have a mobile phone, an Amazon account, and a Netflix account again.”

“I can’t be mistaken for a woman. I believe I don’t have a single feminine trait,” Guth, who is bald and covered in tattoos told Die Welt. “I’m doing this out of desperation.”

Guth reports that he first got the idea to take advantage of the law from a woman he had worked with at the youth welfare office. After being released from prison, Guth had attempted to offer his services as a “reformed criminal” to a youth-focused organization called “Gefangene helfen Jugendlichen e.V“ (Prisoners Help Youth). This association of former prisoners organized prison visits, conducted school prevention education, and offered anti-violence training intended to steer at-risk kids away from a life of crime.

However, the state cut off financial support for the association in 2024, leaving Guth dejected. He then pursued changing his legal sex and name.

Guth reports that many of his friends with criminal records will similarly seek to change their legal sex and names under the law. But not only do they seek to erase their past, they also plan to deliberately invade women’s washrooms and locker rooms, hoping to be thrown out so they can sue for discrimination and collect compensation.

There have been several cases in Germany involving trans-identified males demanding money after being denied access to women-only spaces. As previously reported by Reduxx, a man in Bavaria named Nicolas “Laura” Holstein was awarded €1,000 after being refused membership to a women’s-only gym.

Doris Lange, the owner of Lady’s First fitness studio, reported that one week after she was ordered to pay a €1,000 fine, she received a demand from Holstein’s lawyers for an additional €2,500 in compensation, along with a threat of a €5,000 penalty if she were to deny him access to the women-only gym in the future.

In another case, a neo-Nazi changed his legal name and sex, and is now suing a child safeguarding advocate for referring to him as a “man” without his consent. Last month, Reduxx spoke exclusively with Josefine Barbaric, the chairwoman of the association of Nein, lass das! e.V. (No, don’t do that!) for the prevention of sexual violence against children and adolescents, from whom “Maria-Svenja” Lieblich is now demanding €15,000 in “discrimination” compensation.

Barbaric is also being ordered to sign a cease-and-desist declaration, which would entitle Liebich to collect a €10,000 fine from her if she ever misgender him in the future and is raising funds for her legal defense. 

In addition to hiding their criminal past and finding an easy payday, some men have admitted to using the self-determination law to avoid conscription and commit bank fraud.

One man who spoke to Die Welt said he hoped to avoid military service by altering his legal sex to “female” in the event a war broke out in Germany. However, the law does include a specific regulation forbidding sudden “sex changes” in the midst of impending or active war.

In other cases, men have planned to open multiple bank accounts in different federal states, obtain loans, withdraw the money, and then change their gender identity and name.

Spokespersons from Commerzbank and the Federal Association of German Banks (BdB) have expressed doubts that this plan would work, as they only grant significant overdrafts and loans if regular net income, for example from salary payments, is present in the account. However, a criminal in Berlin pulled off a similar heist in 2023, prior to the introduction of the Self-Determination Act.

The 32-year-old man claimed to be “transgender” at several registry offices, and thus obtained new personal documents multiple times. With the obtained documents, he opened several bank accounts, withdrew the money, entered into contracts with mobile phone providers, and made online purchases. According to the public prosecutor’s office, further investigations are pending against the accused for the same fraudulent scheme.

The police union had previously warned that easing the regulations around changing legal documents would open the floodgates to criminals seeking to use the law to avoid detection or commit further crimes. Registrars and government officials have also expressed fears of becoming the targets of discrimination complaints if they refuse or question the motives of some change requests.

Since the implementation of the Self-Determination Act at the end of November, almost 15.000 individuals in Germany have altered their legal sex. This figure significantly surpasses the initial estimate of 4,000 changes per year.

[jareckiworld]

Hella Guth (1908-1992) — The Threepenny Opera [woodblock, 1933]

[lifelyne]

Human afterdeath :D

Reaper is a woman because yes

And you know who else is a girl? GUTH

I can!

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[holespoles]

Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan Materials, Makers, and Mastery by Christine M. E. Guth (Author)

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London Blue Topaz, Diamond and Yellow Gold Cuff by Kathaline Page-Guth

Source: Kathaline Page-Guth Fine Jewels via Pinterest

[thesonofthefisherman]

“As she considered these things, she was drawing her father little by little. She wanted to return to that pine wood, that green nest, that vision that had been carved in emerald. She stopped at the edge of the wood; there seemed to be a hand that held her back.”

(Chapter 22) (Aşk-ı Memnu)

(Stephan Guth)

Aşk-ı Memnu leaves the father and daughter at the woods where Nihal and Behlül’s “love scene” took place, though “an imaginary hand” holds Nihal back from going into the woods with her father.

Also interesting that the name “Nihal” means “sapling” and that we are first introduced to Nihal while her father is carving her portrait into the wood.

@winged-cries Could be interesting to examine through your analysis of woods as related to incest (though it is of course “incest” as a literary metaphor in this case, not literal incest).