#like I really like some of England's mythology though I'm not an expert on it at all
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monty-glasses-roxy · 1 year ago
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"Oh but why would you bother doing the Fandom Submechanophobia Wiki if you hate Fandom so much? Why do you keep looking around FNaF Fandom Wiki if you hate Fandom so much? Why would you do this???" I hear no one asking and to that I say...
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Where else would I get my emotional duck tape phrases?
Seriously, fuck Fandom and the Fandom wiki but some of the people writing these pages get a pass for being extremely funny lmao
#yeah I say 'it helment' all the time now it's actually altered my brain chemistry#I ADORE it helment#it's my discord status AND wifey's discord status lmao#it helment... my beloved...#yes I've found more gems I should make a post abo-OH I COULD ADD SOME OF THESE SILLIES TO THE HALLOWEEN ROSTER#just a few#doodles 100 word drabbles random sillies and some gems in my wiki travels...#that seems like a nice mix ngl#drabbles are the hardest I think but the most important because Nano is coming up#so some little things to get in the game a little before it starts should help#but yeah I'll add a few to the trick or treat roster lmao some of them are really funny to me#I gotta have a nice mixture for the trick or treaters!!#gotta keep 'em on their toes!!!#might just make some posts of random things I find fun too#like I really like some of England's mythology though I'm not an expert on it at all#and I know some fun stuff about animals and stuff! and bits and pieces of other languages!#and history stuff!!#I can make such a wide collection...#I could put links to art blogs that I really like and some fics#wait no I've. not read any lately... :(#pfft I go grab some stupids from the books and sprinkle those in#not many though! I feel like I've beaten that one to death already#can't drag it through the mud anymore than I already have lmao#nah I got ideas though man#for DAYS#just got a life thing to get done first#NO I DON'T I HAVE TWO LIFE THINGS AT LEAST#THREE#MAYBE FOUR#oh god they're multiplying how many fucking things have I forgotten??????
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The thing with the Mari Lwyd, though, is that it's being... I don't know, 'appropriated' is the wrong word, but certainly turned into something it isn't.
Thing is, this is a folk tradition in the Welsh language, and that's the most important aspect of it. I feel partly responsible for this, because I accidentally became a bit of an expert on the topic of the Mari Lwyd in a post that escaped Tumblr containment, and I clearly didn't stress it strongly enough there (in my defence, I wrote that post for ten likes and some attention); but this is a Welsh language tradition, conducted in Welsh, using Welsh language poetic forms that are older than the entire English language, and also a very specific sung melody (with a very specific first verse; that's Cân y Fari). It is not actually a 'rap battle'. It's not a recited poem. It is not any old rhyme scheme however you want.
It is not in English.
Given the extensive and frankly ongoing attempts by England to wipe out Welsh, and its attendant cultural traditions, the Mari is being revived across Wales as an act of linguistic-cultural defiance. She's a symbol of Welsh language culture, specifically; an icon to remind that we are a distinct people, with our own culture and traditions, and in spite of everyone and everything, we're still here. Separating her from that by removing the Welsh is, to put it mildly, wildly disrespectful.
...but it IS what I'm increasingly seeing, both online and in real world Mari Lwyd festivals. She's gained enormous pop-culture popularity in recent years, which is fantastic; but she's also been reduced from the tradition to just an aesthetic now.
So many people are talking/drawing about her as though she's a cryptid or a mythological figure, rather than the folk practice of shoving a skull on a stick and pretending to be a naughty horse for cheese and drunken larks. And I get it! It's an intriguing visual! Some of the artwork is great! But this is not what she is. She's not a Krampus equivalent for your Dark Christmas aesthetic.
I see people writing their own version of the pwnco (though never called the pwnco; almost always called some variant on 'Mari Lwyd rap battle'), and as fun as these are, they are never even written in the meter and poetic rules of Cân y Fari, much less in Welsh, and they never conclude with the promise to behave before letting the Mari into the house. The pwnco is the central part to the tradition; this is the Welsh language part, the bit that's important and matters.
Mari Lwyd festivals are increasingly just English wassail festivals with a Mari or two present. The Swansea one last weekend didn't even include a Mari trying to break into a building (insert Shrek meme); there was no pwnco at all. Even in the Chepstow ones, they didn't do actual Cân y Fari; just a couple of recited verses. Instead, the Maris are just an aesthetic, a way to make it look a bit more Welsh, without having to commit to the unfashionable inconvenience of actually including Welsh.
And I don't really know what the answers are to these. I can tell you what I'd like - I'd like art to include the Welsh somewhere, maybe incorporating the first line of Cân y Fari like this one did, to keep it connected to the actual Welsh tradition (or other Welsh, if other phrases are preferred). I'd like people who want to write their version of the pwnco to respect the actual tradition of it by using Cân y Fari's meter and rhyme scheme, finishing with the promise to behave, and actually calling it the pwnco rather than a rap battle (and preferably in Welsh, though I do understand that's not always possible lol). I'd like to see the festivals actually observe the tradition, and include a link on the booking website to an audio clip of Cân y Fari and the words to the first verse, so attendees who want to can learn it ahead of time. I don't know how feasible any of that is, of course! But that's what I'd like to see.
I don't know. This is rambly. But it's something I've been thinking about - and increasingly nettled by - for a while. There's was something so affirming and wonderful at first about seeing the Mari's climb into international recognition, but it's very much turned to dismay by now, because she's important to my endangered culture and yet that's the part that everyone apparently wants to drop for being too awkward and ruining the aesthetic. It's very frustrating.
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sweetestpopcorn · 3 years ago
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Hi POPCORN 🥰, I'm a big fan of yours and Daemyra, first of all I want to say thank you so much for making amazing fanfic about Daemyra, I really LOVE it 🤗
may i share something? about OTP Daemon and Rhaenyra?
We know that Daemyra is the most controversial and hottest couple in fire&blood, Although we know that Rhaenyra was originally inspired by Empress Maude, the mother of King Henry ii of England, but I think Rhaenyra and Daemon were also inspired by the most controversial and hottest couple in Greek mythology, Aphrodite and Ares.
Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, love, sexual desire, fertility) all Rhaenyra 😂😂
Ares (god of war, sexy) I think that's enough to describe Daemon 😌.
Both of them have an affair with someone else (RhaenyraxHarwin) (DaemonxMysaria,Laena,Netles?) Also happened with Aphrodite and Ares, but when they are together 🔥🔥
Their first scandal when caught by Ser Arryk is similar to the first scandal of Aphrodite and Ares when it was caught by Helios which caused "the Hephaestus Net" scandal 😂 Even after the scandal, their relationship continued, and they had many children 😂.
Rhaenyra's fate was similar to Aphrodite's regarding her first marriage, mens fighting for Rhaenyra's attention reminded me of the moment Aphrodite arrived at Olympus and caused chaos because the gods were obsessed with her, This causes Zeus/Hera (Viserys) wed Aphrodite (Rhaenyra) to Hephaestus (Leonor) arranged marriage stuff, Hephaestus and Leonor also have no biological children from Aphrodite and Rhaenyra, even though they are husband and wife, in contrast to other Rhaenyra and Aphrodite affair.
Adonis aphrodite's favorite was killed by Ares in the form of a boar, and Daemon behind Harwin's mysterious death? 🤔
Is this just a coincidence or George was inspired by Mars and Venus? what do you think popcorn? ️
Hi there Anon!🤗
While I have some doubts that George took inspiration from Ares and Aphrodite while writing Daemon and Rhaenyra I absolutely think they do have some very interesting similarities! Even if they weren’t intended, they absolutely are there and I absolutely LOVED what you wrote!!!!!!! Thank you so so much for sharing it with me 😍😍😍😍
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Besides Ares and Aphrodite, however, I would claim they have a little something of Hades and Persephone as well, and not only because they were uncle and niece 😏 but because in a way Daemon did pull Rhaenyra into the “dark” side deciding that he wanted her, and she pretty much just tagged in for the ride 😂 You have the seduction of Persephone and the seduction of Rhaenyra. Sorry Hades, Daemon wins, he got her a tiara 😂
Not to mention that (and please forgive me because I am by no means an expert on Greek Mythology) in some versions of the myth, Persephone does love her new found power as Queen of the Underworld. She (just like Rhaenyra) doesn’t change Hades (in the latter case Daemon), but instead rules by his side which is something I really like about them. You can tell I am tired of the good girl changes the bad guy trope 😂 let them both be as they are!!!
And this fact, that Rhaenyra and Daemon have a lot of Aphrodite/Persephone and Ares/Hades in them, is, amongst others things, what makes me a firm believer that their signs were definitely ♉️♏️ 😎 it is known.
Thank you again Anon!!!! I loved your analyses!!!!!! And thank you so much for your words about my fics ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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