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taylor002 · 3 months ago
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While I'm doing The rottmnt drawing, I finished doing this one
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The character is not mine! It's a fanart of the creator of marow on Tik Tok: @ediebetty
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watches-and-windchimes · 2 years ago
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Hi! If you don't mind, could you expand on the Cornwall is (not?) England post? I'm a little confused but extremely intrigued
Sure!
Cornwall is a Brythonic Celtic nation. Culturally and historically it has more in common with Wales and Brittany (and, more distantly, other Celtic nations) than it does with England. At one point in history the Welsh and the Cornish were very connected, but England now physically separates them (Side note: this is why people refer to King Arthur as Welsh, despite him being born in Tintagel in Cornwall. "Welsh" here is being used to refer more broadly to Brythonic people) Cornwall has its own language, mythology, music etc
While Wales gets some legal recognition as a nation (though not enough imo), Cornwall and Brittany do not and are considered a part of England and France respectively. Some Cornish people want independence, others just want more recognition than they currently have, and a lot of us are focused on the No Second Homes movement
Because of all of this, Cornish people don't consider Cornwall to be a part of England. As of the last census, 14% of people in Cornwall define their national identity as Cornish and nothing else (bearing in mind that due to the extreme rate of second homes, a lot of people in Cornwall at the time of the census may not have been Cornish)
Like I said, even Cornish people who don't feel strongly about independence will state as a fact that Cornwall is not English. It's just understood as a given, for the same reasons that Wales is not considered English
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rafaelcb · 2 years ago
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"You look great," he confirmed with a grin. Different, sure. Older, definitely. But neither of those things were bad, it was just that he had gotten to know the Newman brood when they were teenaers, kids… still figuring out who they were and where they wanted to land in the world.
"How about I get this one, and you can get the next one?" he asked when she insisted on paying for lunch this time around. Rafael didn't mind; the fact that she was taking time out of her day to catch up meant a lot, and he wanted to do his part to show her that he was grateful for it. Always would be. "Although if you're paying next time… we'll bring for one of the very fancy places in town."
"Always on the go, it keeps me young," he winked. Maybe he wasn't actually gearing up to be young, but he could tease her. "I try, every now and then. Spend time with my parents, get outside… but enough about boring old me," he gestured across the table to her, where she was sitting, "how have you been? How is life treating you over at the Times?"
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Marlow laughed as Rafae made a big show of not recognizing her. "Oh c'mon, I can't look all that different!" But she knew she had grown up and into herself quite a bit. When she first came back to Merrock, those locals who hadn't known her all that well didn't always recognize her at first. Ten-plus years will do that to you -- especially if those years are spent in someplace New York, so different from Merrock.
"Stop it!" She chided good-naturedly, "I have a big girl job and a savings account and everything now! I can pay for my own lunch." She knew, though, that there would be no talking Rafael out of it. She flagged the waitress for a water to start before turning her attention back fully on the man across from her.
"I'm glad you've been good. And busy! I know that's how you prefer it." If she was being honest, Marlow never really understood Rafael's business. Law wasn't her thing and real estate certainly wasn't her thing. But she knew that he had done well for himself and that was all that mattered to her. "I hope you're still taking some time for yourself, though."
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mlarty · 6 months ago
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Is the monster hunter in the swamp dead in your playthrough? I have had decision paralysis for a while trying to decide if my durge would want to get out of the conversation quickly or kill him to protect >.< I'm curious what Marrow thought the moment Gandrel said he was hunting Astarion.
While working on Marrow's story, we actually thought a lot about the monster hunter scene. Marrow killed him in our playthrough, and we asked ourselves over and over again maybe she would have let him live, but near the end game it became clear that it was more our personal wish to see this character alive and his impact. We’re game nerds and love to see all, literally all, content, but in this case it conflicted with Marow’s canon
So yeah, Gandrel is dead and likely to remain so. Marrow really didn't care. Not about him, not about his hunt. It was the 1st act - the time when she was most focused only on herself. All she was really interested in was revenge and anything stopping her, such as tadpole, goblins, or a random monster hunter. She preferred to just liquidate any obstacle and did not see any problem in this, only if her companions did not argue with her. She didn't even see Gandrel as a person or anything like that, just an object, just a problem, just a potential threat to her path. The murder just seemed... a natural solution. The right one. And she started to think that there was really something wrong with her methods and mind only after Alfira's death, when she realized wow, she really seemed to be out of control
As for Astarion, she didn't even think about protecting him. Sure, she already knew he was a vampire, but they weren't close yet and, as we said, she had pretty "psychopathic" behavior to feel the need to protect someone. Protecting him is just a combination of circumstances. If Astarion wants to kill some hunter, so let him, as long as nothing delays them. That's his business. However, Astarion began to see her as a good tool to use. As he thought
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epphfervescent · 6 months ago
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Hisoka Marow from Hunter X Hunter, for @flaming-homosexual-vol-4!
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protectorsoftheearth · 1 year ago
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I love Suvi's moment of malicious compliance. I love how much it speaks to who she is.
She can't follow her friends again, she's been told to put it on ice. She can't control the wild one and the witch, only herself. She is once again bound by a promise to not go after her friends on an adventure. The promise to a grandmother and a mother.
She is of the empire, she is the empire, she will uphold the empire, she is trained as such and it is her duty and this is how it works. She is the archmage apprentice. Her mother is the sword of the citadel. There is an order to things, a hierarchy. She is both beholden to, honouring and rallying against the order she claims to love. She chose to run off on an adventure with Ame, she chose not to contact Steel, she chose to follow Eursulon to rescue Ame after being told to put it on ice. She paid the price. Order left, and order has come again and you will bend to it again.
Now when some part of her knows what has happened, that Eursulon has freed Naram and chaos is coming, when the soldier in her must know that it is her duty to the empire to stop what is coming. She chooses not to, because she was told to put it on ice. I wonder had the conversation with Steel not happened if she would have made the same choice.
Suvi who admittedly hates the spirits. Who saw the utility in the actions of Marow, who said to Eursulon that if the spirits come into this world they get what they fucking get. If Suvi was not told by her mother, by the Sword of the Citadel that what Marow was doing was wrong, that he will be punished, that there is no point hating something that is beyond you, if she would have made the same choice.
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imisssummer · 10 months ago
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request rules (closed)
everything has to be x fem!reader, they should be answered within a week of submitting, and i’ll do pretty much anything (incest, non-con/rape, piss, age gaps, yandere, etc etc) except for scat!!! as for fandoms & characters—
masterlist
jujutsu kaisen
𖤐 — satoru gojo, suguru geto, toji fushiguro, sukuna ryoumen, nanami kento, choso kamo, megumi fushiguro, itadori yuji, mei mei, shoko ieiri, yuki tsukumo, toge inumaki, & okkotsu yuta.
hunter x hunter
𖤐 — chrollo lucifer, hisoka marow, illumi zoldyck, feitan portor, kurapika kurta, shalnark ryuseih, ging freecs, & pariston hill.
my hero academia
𖤐 — shota aizawa, shinsou hitoshi, dabi, hawks, shigaraki tomura, shoto todoroki, izuku midoriya, katsuki bakugo, endeavor, mirko, himiko toga, & amajiki tamaki.
haikyuu!!
𖤐 — rintaro suna, atsumu miya, osamu miya, eita semi, sakusa kiyoomi, oikawa tooru, iwaizumi hajime, ushijima wakatoshi, tendou satori, kita shinsuke, akaashi keiji, kageyama tobio, kozume kenma, kuroo tetsuro, bokuto koutarou, sawamura daichi, hinata shoyo, asahi azumane, tsutomu goshiki, & koshi sugawara.
tokyo revengers
𖤐 — mikey sano, draken ryuguji, haitani ran, haitani rindo, hakkai shiba, takashi mitsuya, chifuyu matsuno, kazutora hanemiya, taiju shiba, keisuke baji, shuji hanma, shinichiro sano, kurokawa izana, hajime kokonoi, seishu inui, & sanzu haruchiyo.
demon slayer
𖤐 — kyojuro rengoku, giyu tomioka, sanemi shinazugawa, tengen uzui (+ wives), muzan kibutsuji, akaza, doma, muichiro tokito, gyomei himejima, obanai iguro, mitsuri kanroji, & shinobu kocho.
attack on titan
𖤐 — levi ackerman, eren yeager, mikasa ackerman, armin arlert, zeke yeager, reiner braun, hange zoe, erwin smith, jean kirstein, connie springer, & yelena.
bungo stray dogs
𖤐 — osamu dazai, atsushi nakajima, yukichi fukuzawa, ranpo edogawa, doppo kunikida, chuuya nakahara, ougai mori, ryuunosuke akutagawa, akiko yosano, fyodor dostoyevsky, nikolai gogol, tetcho suehiro, & edgar allen poe.
black butler
𖤐 — sebastian michaelis, ciel phantomhive, alois trancy, claude faustus, & undertaker.
kakegurui
𖤐 — moomobami ririka, momobami kirari, ikishima midari, jabami yumeko, saotome mary, & yuriko nishinotouin.
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tonikensalegend · 2 months ago
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meow? :3
MAROW :3
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tobacconist · 1 year ago
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Nynʃyw marow an yeth goth, na whath. Yma hwyth yn hi preʃt! ha byʃyes, ha bryʃyow, dhedhi o lavur, ha'n eledh ynwedh. Ah, my a wel unn edhen bagh, aʃs yw teg y gwisk pur dhu, uerie ʃmart, ha'y gelvyn kogh. Hanʃum chap yw ev, na? heb-mar. yn-whir, 'my prince' my a'th henwel, re Jovyn (yma ges). Agan brennyn ny, Myghtern Arthyr y hanow, orʃyk wheg, chryʃtyon gwir, kowrladher krev, ha myghtern juʃt. yn termyn eus paʃsyes, lemmyn... dhe-ves... hush, yn dann dhor ow koʃk e', yn kres ʃublym, gans an re erel. H'agan arloedh ny, Iheʃu Chriʃt, y'n nev e' a drig. yn ʃplendour ha glori, ryb an tas. Nynʃyw marow. Ev aʃwon an dolor mernans. Ev a Wor. an bal y bedh, dhe'n yfarn eth e'. Ha'n jowl ow trembla, Ganow dhragon tenna, ha'y rudh terrys. Ygeri ledan, an wag dhu moʃek. ha'n priʃner a bon yn-kerdh, an peghadoryon, deʃprena an arloedh dhenʃi.
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lacunajulie · 1 year ago
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i have returned on the marow so i must ask, DO A FLIP YURRR
ok here goes nothing
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orangelovesyou · 10 months ago
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I AHTE LOS TRES SO MUCH THEY HAVE GOOD SOMGS BUT YESTERDAY (VALENTINES DAY) I HAD RO HEAR THE ONE THAT WENT ELLA ES MI NENA NENA LIKE 3 FUCKING TIMES IN A ROW AT THE RESTAURANT UGHHHHEUSOEPWALWÑWÑQÑÑAÑA AND BOLSA DW MAROWS US
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scotianostra · 2 years ago
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January 3rd the year 671 saw the birth in Ireland of Saint Maelrubha, a monk who founded a monastery at what is now Applecross.
St Maelrubha was born of an ancient Irish royal family ; his father's side Maelrubha was eighth in descent from the famous Niall of the Nine Hostages, King of Ireland, and through his mother he belonged to the kindred of St Congal of Bangor. He was born on 3rd January 642 AD, probably in the south-east part of what is now Londonderry. After residing for some time in the monastery at Bangor, he embarked for Scotland in 671 AD.
In A.D. 671, when he was aged twenty-nine, he went to what was then known as Alba, and after two years he founded Apurcrossan in Mearns, where he resided for fifty-one years. He also founded a church on an island in Loch Maree, which takes its name from him. According to Irish accounts he died a natural death, at the age of eighty, at Apurcrossan, but the Scottish accounts are more likely to be correct, which say that he was killed by the Northmen. He lay for three days wounded before he died, and then a wooden church was built over the spot, which afterwards was made the parochial church, and is now called Urquard. His body was translated to his monastery at Apurcrossan.
The name of this saint is seen in many different spellings, such as Mulruby, Mulrew, Melriga, Marow, Murruy, Arrow, Errew, Olron, Ro, Rufus, and, taking in his title, Summaruff, Samarevis, and Summereve.
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bonhmhm · 2 years ago
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marow wiht short hair!!
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missfinefeather · 2 years ago
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melzfavsblog · 3 months ago
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My fake life thing
(Just a roleplau story part 2 will be kinda soon Ig 💜)
Part 1
Marlow :bf
Lisa :bff
Chris mat nick: cousins
Karkar:me
Contains : cursing , 16+ of Yk dosent go to detailed going into it enjoy !!!!
:I’m a male guy dating my boyfriend Marlow and living with my cousin in la with my family near by in a big giant mansion because my family’s billionaires and,
Very very famous singer
Sold out concerts In stadiums and passing Taylor Swift my life is so good I’m rich af and I have so much money and so dose my bf I do Melanie concerts also with my own songs also and there very good
The show is about 4 hours long and 20 minutes i put on quite a show
But that dosent fuckining matter
Bc I can still be miserable a lot!
Me and Marlowe are 16 and 17 I turn 17 in November this year
Nick mat Chris are 21
Once I was walking in the park these group of teenagers my age noticed it and they ask me to hang out with them and I do we become friends
And hang out often with that group when marlow is with me only sometimes tho!!!
Nick is in Tokyo rn mat and Chris are in Boston we live in La carlafornia
Nick is in Australia atm
I didn’t answer nicks texts in 3 days
Nick: hello
Nick: hru today ??
Nick: did you do the shopping for the groceries???
Nick : answer
I finally answer today
Karim: bro stfu I’m busy I have a tour tomorrow I have to go somewhere I have to rehearse I have so much stuff to do I’d appreciate it if you don’t keep fucking texting me thanks
Nick:…
Nick: fucking watch until I get back!
Nick comes back but dosent do anything
*one day later while nick and mat and Chris are in the house me and my boyfriend marlow entered Marlow parked his car outside we both walk in to my house also nicks , mats , and Chris .
Me and marlow walk up to my room nick is still sleeping but mat was outside with Chris somewhere in havent seen nick in almost 20 days and haven’t really seen my cousin that much before nick went to finish the tour with madison beer they went to Boston’s for 20 days without me but i was fine i never really go to Boston..
Mat ,nick,Chris kinda always go there there all triplets that’s where there bff Nate !, lives and some of there fiends and ofc , theire parents . Their parents are my auntie and uncle because my grandparents parents adopted them but my mom wasn’t adopted
* me and marlow step into my room and lay on the bed we both hear a knock on the door it’s nick!*
Nick knocks on your door a bit angrily as he stands outside the door before he says "Can I come in?"
• my boyfriend marlow is like: oh??*
Nick waits outside the door for your answer as he continues to stand there waiting patiently
he sighs and says angrily
"Please let me inside the room..."
• i open the door going back on my bed with marlow *
Nick enters the room and quickly closes the door behind him as he walks over to a chair and sits down, he remains silent as v he looks down at the floor
He continues to stay silent for a while before he finally looks up at you and Marow and just glares at you, he clearly looks angry
(Nick dosent wanna discuss this infront of my boyfriend marlow !)
He looks at Marlow and nods silently, indicating that he doesn't want to discuss this in front of him
Nick crosses his arms and continues to sit down on the chair, he looks at you angrily for a few minutes before finally speaking
"Do you know how annoying it is to be ignored for 3 days??" He looks at you as he speaks angrily
• i say marlow can u leave the room for a couple of minutes giving him a pleasing look*
Marlow looks at you hesitantly before nodding and getting up from the bed and leaving the room, closing the door behind him
Once Marlow leaves, Nick looks at you silently for several seconds before finally speaking
"Do you have any idea how annoying it was... to be left on read for 3 days??" Nick says angrily as he glares at you
• ok i know i was rude about it I'm so sorry it's very hard on me to enjoy life when i have to do billions of shows with up to 7 nights each i have to rehearse and all of that shit it's very hard on me l want a social life I don't like this I say sobbing trying to control my panic attack *
Nick's expression softens as he sees you begin to sob and panic
He stays silent for a bit as he listens to you before finally speaking
"I understand, i shouldn't be upset... i just-... I haven't seen you in so long... and you've just barely been replying to me... it's just been really hard..."
Nick gets up from the chair and hesitantly approaches you before sitting down on the edge of the bed next to you
He looks at you silently for several seconds before speaking
"I didn't mean to be angry... I'm just... frustrated and upset... I still should've at least been a bit more
Nick continues to look at you silently before he slowly moves his arm around you and pulls you close to him, embracing you in a gentle hug
He holds you closely and gently as he holds you in his arms before speaking again in a more gentle tone "I'm sorry for being upset... I shouldn't have gotten so angry over this... i understand how stressful your work must be..."
Nick pulls you tighter into the hug as he holds you close to him, feeling a sense of comfort
"I just... I missed you a lot... I was worried about you...
He continues to hold you in the embrace as he speaks
"I know this may be kind of selfish... but, i was just worried that you might..."
He pauses before continuing
"Forget about me..."
• ur my cousin not my boyfriend?* Nick chuckles lightly and nods his head, still holding you close to him in the embrace
"Yeah, I know that...
"
He pulls you a bit tighter into the hug, gently resting his chin on your head
"But that doesn't change
how worried and alone i felt whenever you didn't respond for days at a time..."
• how can I forget you I live with u?!!*
Nick chuckles lightly again and shakes his head lightly
"Yea i know that... but i still felt like that
whenever you'd ignore me for days at a time... it... genuinely made me feel like you didn't care anymore... like i wasn't even important..."
Nick continues to hold you closely in his arms, his voice going quieter
"It just feels like you ignore me on purpose sometimes... not
responding to me and avoiding me... it... just feels like you might not care about me
anymore..."
*later that nigth im laying in bed with marlow watching a movie in my bed Chris walks into my room asking me why is there a lu- bottle on my nightstand *
Chris walks into the room and notices a bottle of lu- on the nightstand, he looks at your and Marow before making a surprised expression
"Uh... why is there a whole bottle of lu- just on the nightstand? I have so many questions."
*Chris chuckles
awkwardly and looks at you and Marow, a bit curious but
• get out I say very unbothered and tired
*
Chris chuckles at your unbothered reaction
"Okay okay, I'll go now, i was just curious.."
He says before leaving the room, shutting the door behind him • he is telling mat and Chris 4 minutes later I fall asleep*
Nick, Mat, and Chris are sitting in the living room together when Chris walks out of your room and over to them. He starts telling them about the bottle of lu- being on the nightstand
Mat looks rather surprised by the whole situation and let's out a little scoff and a chuckle
"What the hell?? A bottle of lu- on the
nightstand?? He just leave it there for anyone to see it??"
"Damn... he really is bold, just leaving a bottle of lu- out in the open like that..."
( nick says but he is 16 ain't he to young nick says about me!?? Then nick says : actually Nahh it ok I take it back people are alowed to have fun he remembers our conversation from earlier on remembering I need some of Yk in my life *
*Mat chuckles silently at
Nick's comment and shakes his head*
"I mean, he's 16.. that's still pretty young.."
*Nick nods and agrees but then quickly remembers the conversation you guys had earlier*
"Actually yeah, you're right
Mat chuckles silently at
Nick's comment and shakes his head
"I mean, he's 16... that's still pretty young...
"
Nick nods and agrees but then quickly remembers the conversation you guys had earlier
"Actually yeah, you're right, he's allowed to have some fun..."
Nick says with a small smirk
Mat nods and chuckles again, a sly smile on his face
"I guess you're right about that... he is allowed to have some fun... and i mean, he is a kid, i think it's totally ok to mess around a bit at his age..."
mat gose into my room to say good night to me and
marlow my boyfriend but he sees we're both asleep*
Mat quietly walks into your room to say goodnight to you and Marlow, only to see both of you are already asleep
"Oh, looks like they're both asleep already.."
He looks at you both for a few more seconds before turning around and silently slipping out of the room, closing the door behind him
He walks back into the living room where Nick and Chris are still sitting on the couch, and lets out a little laugh
"Looks like they're both asleep, they didn't even wake up when I walked in..."Nick chuckles at Mat's comment and nods
"Yeah, looks like they were both tired and just passed out... didn't even stir a bit when you came in..."
Chris looks at Mat with a smirk
"Damn, they're both super deep asleep... they didn't even move a single bit when you walked in..."
Mat nods with an amused smile on his face
"Yeah, it was like they were in a coma or
something... didn't make a single noise or a single move when I was in the
room...
Nick and Chris chuckled at
Mat's comment
"Wow, it is pretty damn impressive how deeply they were sleeping... didn't even twitch a muscle when you were in the room..."*now it's the next day and now morning and marlow is talking to nick and Chris in the kitchen while I'm still asleep in my room marlow gets on very very well with nick, mat, and Chris it's like there family *
Nick, Mat, and Chris are sitting in the kitchen talking to Marlow, laughing and chatting about random topics
Marlow gets along really well with Nick, Mat, and Chris, talking and joking around with them like they're all part of the same family
Nick and Mat are talking about something random while Chris listens and takes sips from the cup in his hand They all seem to get along really well, like they've known each other for years...
*there talking *
The conversation
continues for a while as the three of them chat, laughing and joking around Suddenly Mat says something funny and all three of them burst out laughing
• 2 minutes later marlow says : I'm gonna wake up Karim and get changed!!!*
Nick, Mat, and Chris all nod and look at Marlow
Nick: "Alright, go ahead and wake him up and get ready..."
Mat sips from his own cup and nods
Mat: "Yeah, we'll just keep talking here, go ahead and wake him up..."
Chris smiles and nods in agreement
Chris: "Yeah, go ahead and wake him, we'll just keep hanging out here for now...
Chris and nick and Amy had plans so they were leaving the house rn leaving me and marlow here alone *
Nick, Mat, and Chris were getting ready to leave the house for the day
Nick: "Alright, we're gonna head out now..."
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warningsine · 5 months ago
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The ancient Cornish language has been declared dehwelans dhyworth an marow – back from the dead – amid a rise in popularity thanks to Covid-19 and a critically acclaimed psych-pop star.
There has been a significant rise in the number of people learning Cornish since the pandemic lockdown forced classes online, according to the volunteer network An Rosweyth.
“We have people in America, we have people in Australia, Mexico, Spain, Turkey,” said Emma Jenkin, its support officer, who said her last online lesson had “a couple of people in Cornwall – but mostly people are dotted all over the place”.
Jenkin added there had been a “huge influx” of people wanting to learn Cornish during the pandemic and the interest has kept growing – not just from those overseas who mostly have Cornish heritage, she said.
Younger people are taking up lessons as a result of its recent revival in popular culture. The singer-songwriter Gwenno’s second album, Le Kov, was written and performed entirely in Cornish, and its follow-up, Tresor, was nominated for the Mercury prize. The comedian Edward Rowe, better known as Kernow King, has also helped popularise the language.
The sudden popularity is quite the turnaround for a language that was described as “extinct” by Unesco’s world atlas of languages little over a decade ago. The UN’s heritage agency now classifies Cornish – Kernewek – as “endangered”, having been reclassified as “critically endangered” in 2010.
Only 563 people described said that Cornish was their main language in the most recent census, covering England and Wales. However, experts say this is likely to be a significant underestimate because it relates to the number of people who speak it as a first language when, in reality, most Cornish speakers use English in everyday life.
Cornwall council estimates that between 2,000 and 5,000 people can speak basic Cornish, and that number is on the rise.
A report by Language magazine last year claimed more than 4,000 people were learning Cornish across the county. According to evidence given to a parliamentary committee, more than 2,000 people were learning the language using the app Memrise while a further 200 were taking formal adult education classes.
Whereas once these classes were the preserve of retirees and amateur enthusiasts, said Jenkin, they are now becoming popular with a younger generation.
More than two dozen primary schools, representing more than 9,000 pupils, have started learning the language as part of the Go Cornish scheme.
That has created its own problem: there are not enough Cornish teachers to meet the demand. Jenkin said: “There’s only one school support officer for the whole of Cornwall – and she only works part-time – so they [Go Cornish] have a waiting list because they can’t do any more than what they are doing”.
Denzil Monk, the chief executive of the independent production company Bosena, said artists such as Gwenno and films such as Bait and Enys Men by the Bafta-winning director Mark Jenkin were part of a renaissance in Cornwall’s cultural scene.
“When I was growing up [Cornish] was seen as a historical thing and there was just a small number of people learning it,” Monk said. “But it’s become something that’s easy to get into and accepted as something that’s fun and an important part of our cultural life”.
The revival has not come about as a result of increased funding from central government, though the Cornish people were formally recognised as a national minority in law in 2014.
But recognition alone is “not enough to support a minority language from going into decline”, Cornwall council said in a submission to MPs last year, describing the language as “a British cultural asset which is at risk”.
Monk, who is leading an effort to foster more Cornish-language films, said he had never considered the language extinct – “maybe deeply asleep” – but that its recent revival in popular culture reflected what was happening on the ground.
More people are using bits of basic Cornish – such as dydh da for hello, or meur ras for thank you – in everyday life, he said. The language with roots stretching back thousands of years is now seen as “interesting, culturally relevant and contemporary, rather than something of the past”.
Useful Cornish words
Good morning – Myttin da Good afternoon – Dohajydh da Thank you – Meur ras Please – Mar pleg More cake – Moy tesen How’s it going? – Fatla genes? Very good – Pur dha Evil/awful – Euthyk I would like to – My a vynnsaHow’re you doing my beauties? – Fatla genowgh hwi ow thekteryow?
 This article was amended on 19 June 2024. An earlier version said that “557 people described themselves as fluent Cornish speakers in the most recent UK census”. In fact this census, which covered England and Wales only, said that 563 people had described Cornish as their main language. Also, it was not the Cornish language that was formally recognised as a national minority in law in 2014, but the Cornish people.
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