#thanks for sticking around folks

[a2zillustration]

Brain was working overtime trying to solve this one ahead of time so I could make good choices

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[doki-doki-lesbians-club]

Sometimes, when I'm really down in the dumps, I question whether keeping up with this blog is worth it at all. Whether I'm getting noticed or people care at all that I do this.

But I remember that this blog has a few hundred followers. Followers who wanted more DDLC on their dash. Followers who see my reblogs come along, whether they interact or not. Followers who cared to add a dash of DDLC to their lives.

And I remember that when I do make original posts, there's people who interact, and chat, and reblog, and contribute ideas. I remember people whom I've met (and consider friends) thanks to this blog.

I remember the artists that maybe only have a couple of notes, who got posted from my queue and get a boost, hopefully so that people can go follow them and enjoy all of their art!

And I remember that it's all worth it in the end :3

[daily-folkpunk]

DAY 100: DAYS N DAZE - 1984

[polarolds]

your art is so beautiful!!!

UR BEAUTIFUL ANON!! 🫵 🫵 you are too kind 😭😭💖

[shroudkeeper]

✨🌈SEND THIS TO OTHER BLOGGERS YOU THINK ARE WONDERFUL. KEEP THE GAME GOING🌈✨

Thank you kindly my sweet anon friend!

[quotes-from-oz]

Once again I'm waiting to be reunited with my books, but due to an uptick in followers and the holiday season, I'll be queuing some of my favorite quotes from the 1939 Wizard of Oz film.

[front-facing-pokemon]

Now i know this blog is obviously for.. well. Front facing pokemon, but your tags are always super interesting. I think your opinions on pokemon are pretty neat

i've gotten a few asks like this so far, and it's always nice to see that folks aren't annoyed about how much i talk in the tags. i have lots of opinions on lots of things! and i like to talk a lot. the reason i started talking more in the tags is actually because of asks like this—folks saying they liked seeing what i had to say on particular pokémon has encouraged me to actually talk about my thoughts more (although if you regularly read my tags, i tend to get off-topic pretty quickly. i queue these up very early in the morning, as soon as i get up, and i'm usually a little delirious), especially compared to my first early posts on this blog which didn't even have any tags at all, beyond the names of the pokémon. you're one of the like 4 ffp-mod likers how's it feel

[swingstep]

woag. urlswap!

hihiii testing out another url!  voidlighting ==> swingstep!  everyone say thank you voidlighting for your service <333

[newhavenrp]

[smashwolfen]

Who are you and why are you all here?! XD

[silvermun]

apologies for major lack of art lately i am in the midst of prepping for finals 🥲

[horsemage]

Happy one year anniversary to me fucking up so badly I accidentally deleted my blog of 7+ years 🎉😁✨🥳🎊😍

[bingobongobonko]

a review for ME. total rating. 6/10. good coloring, better understanding of color theory n stuff, no longer strictly sticking to lineart. not enough hassan de ruyter. that is all...

[askyourpalbendy]

Love your art, keep up the good work 👍

[celestial-kestrel]

It's that time of year again where Mari Lwyd starts to be talked about and shared around and an INCREDIBLY misleading post gets shared a lot. As someone who grew up with Mari Lwyd I wanted to clear some things up.

Also hello, if you are unaware who Mari Lwyd is. This is about the Welsh tradition of the horse skull who visits houses during the Christmas to New Years period in Wales asking for alcohol.

First off and probably the most important one:

Mari Lwyd is not a cryptid!

I can not emphasise this enough. She. Is. Not. A. Cryptid. There is no story or mystery about a ghost or zombie horse roaming the Welsh valleys. She's not even supposed to be a ghost or a zombie. It's just a horse skull on a stick with a guy under a sheet. She's a hobbyhorse and a folk character used to tell Welsh stories and keep songs alive. When people spread the misinformation that she's a cryptid, it's the equivalent of saying Kermit the Frog is a cryptid.

She is actually only one character in a wider cast of characters who go door to door or, in more modern times, pub to pub. The cast of characters can change town to town and village to village but there are some common ones I see time and time again. The Leader, the Merryman, The Jester and The Lady are just some I see regularly. Punch and Judy used to be more popular a few years ago but I haven't seen them in a while as their tradition has mostly fallen out of popularity. In most cases, almost the whole cast will be played by men. Even the characters are considered and referred to as female. Though this again depends and varies by which group is partaking in the Mari Lwyd tradition.

This point also goes onto my second point,

Mari Lwyd does not rap.

I think this comes from a very common misunderstanding of what rap is vs spoken word. Rap is a very specific style of music originating from the African American communities of the USA and has it's own structure and motifs unique to it. It's a lot more complex than people give it credit for as a style of music and just flippantly assign anything similar to it as being rap. If someone is talking fast or reciting poetry, it is not rap. Or anything that is an exchange of words between two people is not a rap battle. Mari Lwyd does not do rap, actually something that gets left out of these posts is the fact Mari Lwyd does not even speak. It's actually the Leader, who does all the speaking and song based banter between the house/pub owner for entry. Mari Lwyd just clicks her mouth, bites people and bobs her head around.

I think Mari Lwyd is a really beautiful and unique part of Welsh culture. She's not actually as wildly celebrated as a lot of the posts make her out to be. Actually, I think most Welsh people themselves learn about Mari Lwyd through the internet as well. Her popularity is increasing thanks to the drive of local groups wanting to keep the traditions alive and a renewed desire to document Welsh traditions before they're gone. Which is why it's such a shame that she's turned into something she's not to earn horror points on the internet. I think this is why it bothers me so much to see the misunderstandings of the culture and the folk tradition. Mari Lwyd's origin is very hot debated as well as how long it's been going on for. But I think it's thanks to a lot of traditions like this that the Welsh language and our stories weren't lost forever. Welsh culture is recovering as is the language. But it's still in a very fragile place. I think it's why it's important to document and correct information when it's spread.

Anyway, if you want to see the tradition in action, here's a lovely video from the Cwmafan RFC going to one of the pubs for charity. It includes the song exchange with the pub owner for entry and the whole pub singing and joining in once Mari Lwyd and the rest are inside.

As well with another video from St Fagan's showcasing the more traditional and door to door form with the larger cast.

[sleepvines]

updated my pinned post 👍