#our sillay queen

[agapestricken]

hello, hello, you all — so... i hope you all are having a great thursday thus far, and i thought i'd bring this up now since i hadn't before; but with ana's zombification comes some noticeable differences to his behavior as well as appearance. because, and don't get me wrong, he was already pale before... but now anastasiy's skin now has this pallor that takes on a sickly look. and it has become necessary for ana to have to apply some concealer to his skin daily to hide the fact that his lips are, indeed, sort of tinged blue + some veins (particularly around his eyes and mouth) can clearly be seen and it definitely isn't the most uhh. natural look, to say the least JSJSJ

now, i'll probably cover more about his behavioral differences later, but one thing is that this man does have these SICK and TWISTED urges to consume human flesh as a zombie would in typical fiction would... so that's lovely / j LMAO nahhh, i'm totally being sarcastic with y'all right now as that is actually horrifying. but anastasiy does try his darndest to resist giving into this temptation because cannibalism is a BIG no-no in society for a reason (because its absolutely terrible and extremely gross) + with... slightly mixed results 😬

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus i bawb!

That's right! It's WALES' BIRTHDAY*!!! Yaaaaayyyy today you are all Welsh. Enjoy your 24 hours of perfect harmonisation ability and utter disinterest in any celebrities. Watch out for the dragons.

*It is not Wales' birthday

I have decided to revive an old favourite of this blog to mark the occasion - prepare for a classic Pick The Fake Welsh Word Poll! And to super charge the Welshness today we are assessing the glory that is the daffodil - the national flower of Wales (lol not really, our national flower is the leek. And that's why queen Lizzie Two had to get coronated with a leek on her dress because we refused to let them use the daffodil even when the palace designer begged. Iconic.)

(But the daffodil is still a symbol of Wales, so it counts here.)

So! Let's go! Etymology at the end.

Etymology Notes

Croeso'r Gwanwyn - they flower in March! Hence the St David's Day link. One of the first flowers to bloom in spring.

Clych babi - the trumpet bit looks like a bell, I suppose, and has similar (make a noise' connotations. Why a baby? Dunno. Maybe a spring link again.

Gwayw brenin - the leaves are definitely spear-like, and the petals look a bit like a crown

Pibell felen - 'pibell' usually means a pipe in the sense of music, so another trumpet reference. Except we didn't have trumpets in Wales, so pipe it is

Gylfinog - the trumpet again. The word is often used for animals (morfil gylfinog is beaked whale, for example). Cognate with Cornish gelvinek, Irish gulba, etc.

Cenhinen Pedr - Peter is probably the saint. The leek is otherwise a Welsh emblem

Lily pengam - the angle of the flower head, maybe, makes it 'wry-headed'? And then the lily link, which turns up a few times

Melyn Clamai - yellow is obvious. Clamai is a corruption of Calan Mai - May Eve. Another reference to the time of year

Lili Clamai - lily again, Calan Mai again.

Dwndili - a corruption of the English word 'daffodil', and the lili again

Daffidondili - further corruption

Daffitwndili - corruption but with hypercorrection of the d to a t! Can you tell these ones are dialectic?

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Enjoy!

[raviollies]

op i just wanted to say i love the elden ring fanart you've done. your marika's Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss energy is unparalled, and i laugh myself sick everytime i remember the 'message to de caria manor: get sillay' picture... ty for drawing it ♥️

Message to de caria manor: get silay is the stupidest thing and coincidently the thing that made me crack up the most when making it.

Also thank you!! I hope the DLC can come out soon so it can rekindle my interest (I'm so bad at this shit cause I really do just become hyper-fixated and then. Just completely abandon something for a new hyper-fixation. Wack.) because I do miss our problematic queen....she may be an unrepentant villian to YOU, i get her though ♥️

[zu-zup]

So hi, random shit ask, or not ask bc I'm just telling you stuff but turns out pride *was* really fun. Especially after I put the "free kisses" sigh on my back ;D. But in all seriousness, i had a great time and the people were really wonderful, i don't think I've met so many kind and joyful souls in my entire life ( and the drag queens were *GORGEUS*). I hope everyone can attend an event like this at least onece in their life because I don't think I've had this much fun, like, ever.

!!!! I'm so happy for you!! Pride is really such a wonderful thing, especially in our country i feel like - really makes you feel at home with who you are.... :''') and its always fun to get a little sillay if ykwim

[gnomeantics]

ASKING THE DIFFICULT QUESTIONS [gently slides these bad boys over]

orchid and papyrus

also palm tree but edited cause i ain't catholic ⇢ do you have a fictional villain you shouldn’t like but love regardless?

orchid -  what’s a song you consider to be perfect?

take on my (symphonic version) !!!! its SO good i am SO average about it (lying)

papyrus -  if you put your ‘on repeat’ playlist on shuffle, what’s the first song that comes up? what do you like about it / associate it with?

love of my life by queen !! i love this song it is just very nice. i think it might be there because i associate it very heavily with good omens which i watched recently but also i just really love the song !

palm tree

i really love izzy hands from our flag means death. i know i am not in a minority here but hes just so babygirl ! and so pathetic. sillay !!