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Loki, the Martyr, the Result. Loki.

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Val d’Aran

Val d’Aran, also called Vath d’Aran, meaning ‘Aran Valley’, is a parçan (territorial division in the Occitan nation, equivalent to the Catalan comarca) situated in south-east Gascony in Occitània, and politically in the north-west of Catalonia.

[Val d’Aran’s location in Catalonia]

Its own and official language is Aranese, a dialect of Occitan. It’s a co-official language together with Catalan and Spanish. It has a population of 10.295 people (according to the 2009 census), an area of 633,60 km², and its capital city is Vielha. Its anthem is Montanhes Araneses, a lightly modified version of the traditional Occitan song Se canta.

The Aranese national day is Hèsta d’Aran, celebrated annually on the 17th of June.

[Aranese flag]

The first inhabitants in Aran lived during the Bronze Age, and left many funerary jaciments.

In the 3rd century bC, the Greek historian Polybius wrote about the existance of a tribe called Arenosi who lived in Aran, but the origin of the word that we use nowadays comes from the 1st century bC. Then, the Roman emperror Pompey annexed the whole Garona Valley to the Roman Empire. It was around that moment when the local language, of Basque origin, got mixed with Latin and resulted in the Aranese that has evolved to the one spoken nowadays.

The word Aran comes from the Basque language, and means ‘valley’.

After the fall of Charlemagne’s empire, the valley was Christianised. Val d’Aran is rich in churches from many time periods and styles, but is especially famous for its Romanesque churches.

After centuries of defeating the foreign invasions, on the 14th century the French and Catalano-Aragonese nobles fought to govern the valley with their feudalist system. The Aranese voluntarily decided to side with the Catalano-Aragonese Crown, since they respected the Aran’s own system of government. So feudalism never became part of Aran, such as other languages (nor French nor Catalan, nor later Spanish) never became majoritary.

[Romanesque church in Aran]

A hundred years after the Spanish invasion of Catalonia, Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion in 1810 took it for the French. In 1815, the French king Louis XVII gave it back to Spain, who abolished all the privileges that Aran had maintained during the centuries.

The dictatorships of the 20th century tried to completely eliminate all the languages and cultures that were not Spanish, including Aranese. But the Aranese people did not forget their history nor the fight for their rights.

With the death of dictator Franco and the arrival of democracy in the year 1975, the Aranese reivindicated their rights and in the year 1979 the Val d’Aran was recognised as an area with differences.

It wasn’t until 1990 that the Aranese administrative system was restored, via universal suffrage.

[Traditional dances for Sant Joan]

More on Val d’Aran here.

[pixiepsychic]

I'll have to agree with some ppl here. Even if the portrayal of Lisa can sometimes leave you with a sour feeling, that's the point of the show, a satire about basic mediocre american life and tbh, it captures it pretty well, the average american really IS misogynistic and punishes intellectualism due to his own ignorance. The Simpsons stands on a type of comedy that is not that usual nowadays, it is all show and no tell, it doesn't underestimates the comprehensive ability of it's viewers, it will show you just how society can be and it doesn't need to explain or put a character through some reivindication to make a statement. If Marge DOES leave Homer, the whole message of "mediocrity and lack of opportunities in women in small towns ,result in so many wives with carless husbands and unsuccessful marriages" gets lost. But i get where you're going, i just think the problem with the show isn't how it's done but rather how long they let it run. Because one thing is watching Lisa get punished for her intelligence a couple of times during the first seasons and other very differently is doing this through all 29 seasons. As you said the message gets a little messy. One thing that always bugged me is that the show should have ended decades ago but the producers just don't know when to let it go. They started putting financial profit over social commentary and THAT'S why the show gets so lazy and just lacks something. After all, as you said, the narrative style of a satire comedy can be only funny for some seasons, if you start overusing it with the pass of the years it gets dull and normalized and you no longer laugh about it but get concerned by it. The problem with the Simpson it's that it has been running for so long that every critic has been made and now they're just exploiting that. It's not that Lisa is shown suffering for being smart more than Lisa has been shown suffering for being smart for almost 30 YEARS and you start questioning, why?

this is long but very reasonably brutal