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being into fitness n exercise n that sorta junk. ig it’s kiiiiind of transmasc thing too but still.

what is your cishet male trait mine is being a car fan

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chaos spirit

( looks down at myself )

“i’d say i’m more on the ‘true neutral’ side, but eh, checks out.”

Guys what is your worm name, mines Cryptic Jewel

All credits go to @airahvee

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I heard you all like works in progress?

Again, I won't be able to post the finished pieces of this project for probably another year, but these little glimpses into the stages for some of the birds might help tide you over. This is, or will be, a Black Drongo - I'd say it's around 50% complete at this point.

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the suffering never ends

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!!!

People of tumblr

nobody likes the ui changes, they’re twitter-fying tumblr with each passing day so to speak out, I propose a

Riot

we don’t want to be passive, we want to be VIOLENT. Flood every official staff accounts posts with brick, fire, rocks, tnt, etc, VIOLENT EMOJIS. make it CLEAR AS DAY we do not want these changes. A social media stonewall if you will.

disable any badges. Bought, gifted, earned, I DO NOT care, disable them. blaze 0 posts. NOT EVEN THIS ONE. ESPECIALLY NOT THIS ONE. don’t buy anything from the tumblr shop. Do not give these fuckers money AT ALL. we need to make it clear that this is OUR figurative land and we need to stop changing it. Organize and riot, as that’s what we do. speak out. put ONLY negative feedback in the feedback box or whatever it’s called. WE RIDE IMMEDIATELY NO TIME TO WASTE

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1) i HAVE to read king artus now

2) this reminded me of a character i have who’s essentially sir gawain/gwalchmai, but muslim. and as i discovered after picking up a copy of le morte d’arthur, gawain ( or at least LMdA gawain ) is kiiiiiiinda islamophobic? so i’m kinda struggling with how to deal with that part of the story where he fights and subsequently converts a muslim character to christianity ( eugh ). anyone got any pointers or anything?

also got reminded of another group of characters of mine who started out as essentially a buddhist/dharmic adaptation of characters in the fenian cycle! started with my headcanons that certain characters were brown, indigenous, whatever ( which in turn was influenced by 1) me being me and 2) the fact that there are canon brown characters, though they’re kinda minor ), kinda spiralled into its own thing.

you tend to write about irish mythology but at the same time you seem knowledgeable about other myths, so i was wondering if you could answer a question? my question is, would be offensive to create a version of arthurian myths but with most of the christian elements removed? christianity seems heavily baked into each and every arthurian story so i was wondering if it would be wrong, or outright offensive, to remove it?

i don't think it would be OFFENSIVE (christianity being a dominant religion so it's not like erasing a minority culture; the texts being literary rather than for religious purpose themselves means it's not like using canonical religious material – people share a belief system with the stories rather than believing in the stories themselves, barring probably a very few outliers; plus it's definitely been done before, tons of modern retellings don't engage with the christian aspects although frequently this is done in a boring way)

arthurian literature comprises a huge range of stories written over a huge time period for a variety of purposes. some of them are super duper christian. some of them are just kind of culturally christian because they're being written by christians within a christian context and that's what they know. some of them only have a light touch of it and some of them are dripping with it

i think whether it can be done effectively without leaving you with a story that no longer bears any resemblance to the story you started with depends very much on which stories you decide to retell. for example, a lot of the lancelot-grail stuff is extremely bound up in christianity and removing it without patching the holes is probably gonna weaken the story. now, you might want to reimagine them entirely within a new belief system. i would consider that to be patching the holes, as long as it's done carefully and effectively as with all worldbuilding. but just taking the story and excising the christian elements and not doing anything else is probably gonna undermine the story a lot

on the other hand there are other stories, particularly some of the romances (knights getting up to shenanigans in a self-contained story within an arthurian setting) where christianity is just the set dressing, and taking it out isn't going to leave such massive gaps; these would be easier to rework in a new context without needing to develop an entire belief system for the characters to be operating within. although tbh the whole of chivalric literature does rely on some pretty specific assumptions about hierarchies, loyalty, obligations, righteousness etc that are often bound up in, though not synonymous with, medieval christianity, so even there you do need to think about what is going to replace it

i would say if you're trying to keep a medieval western european setting, you can't really take the christianity out (of the setting, and really of the characters too in 90% of cases) without making it completely ahistorical. so it also depends if you're trying to retell it as in "i am reworking this story in a world and context of my choosing" (sure, do whatever you want) versus "I am producing a version of this text to introduce people to this story" (taking the christianity out makes it far less accurate and misrepresents the text, maybe don't do that)

i would also say that medieval christianity is much more exciting and weirder and often very different from modern christianity, and a lot of modern engagement with those aspects overlooks this fact and makes it boring and staid. but actually a lot of it's batshit and adds some fun colour to the stories in a way that can be enjoyable regardless of your personal beliefs about any of it. taking it out as many modern retelling seem to do often just makes the story more boring, so something interesting needs to fill the holes imo

so tl;dr. morally wrong, no, not in my opinion. narratively wrong, depends on the story and your purposes.

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i NEED to check this out good lord

have a feeling it could be a lot better than yeats & moore’s diarmuid & grania. or a lot worse.

I feel like there needs to be more awareness of Lady Gregory’s play Grania because that play contains the ULTIMATE manipulate, mansplain, malewife Fionn. 

[text description: Excerpt from the play Grania, where Fionn and Gráinne confront one another shortly before Diarmaid’s death. 

Grania: I have a great wrong done to you, surely, but it brings me no nearer to you now. And our life is settled, and let us go our own course. 

Finn: For my life was as if cut in two halves on that night that put me to and fro; and the half that was full and flowing was put behind me, and it has been all on the ebb since then. But you and I together could have changed the world entirely, and put a curb upon the spring-tide, and bound the seven elements with our strength. /end desc.]

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Michaela DePrince in Swan Lake

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Non-Boring Environments that need Fantasy Representation

Tropical Rainforests

Scrubland/Dry Forests. For extra effect make them the sort that burn very often; some native plants never germinate until after a fire, and some animals not only rely on fire to smoke out prey, but may even start them themselves.

Savannas/Tropical Grasslands

Temperate Rainforests. I almost didn’t include this bc New Zealand is covered in them, and that’s where they filmed Lord of the Rings. But tbh, no one really knows about them, so it belongs here

Taiga Forests

Barren Tundra, perfect for some extreme seasonal dichotomy

Polar Ice Sheets

Desert-Grasslands (arguably the same as Scrubland but Australia’s good at adding its own twists)

Barren Desert

If you like Cacti, look at American Deserts like the Sonoran

Salt Flats

Soda Lakes and Alkaline Lakes

Madagascar’s Karst Limestone Formations

Madagascar’s Spiny Forests

Madagascar’s Baobab Forests

Madagascar’s Subhumid Forests (Madagascar is cool as hell ok)

Danxia Landforms

Badlands/Mountainous Deserts

Steppes and Highland Prairies

Flood Basalts

Newly-Formed Islands, still rife with Volcanic activity

Now for Underwater Environments, sure Coral Reefs are cool.

But there are SO MANY other kinds of environments for aquatic settings, it’s unbelievable:

Seaside Cliffs

Archipelagos. Not just Tropical Island chains like Polynesia (Moana anyone?) but also Coldwater Archipelagos like the Aleutians.

Tidal Flats

Bayous/Cypress Swamps

Tropical River Basins, AKA Seasonally Flooded Rainforests

Mangrove Swamps/Deltas/Beaches

Kelp Forests

The Open Ocean

Coastal Seabeds

Rocky Beaches with Tidepools

And there are a LOT more I could name but this post is already obscenely long as is, if you’d like to toss in your own go right ahead, but my point is if you limit yourself to European Deciduous Forests you’re a wimp.

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personally, i go heck-a-tee.

iirc that’s like… followin greek phonetic rules?

it’s like “calliope” or “aphrodite” or whatever

How do y’all pronounce Hecate is it “ Heh-cate” or “ Heck-a-tee”? And also is there a right way to pronounce it? because I’ve been saying “ heck-a-tee” because that’s how I people on tiktok had been saying it but every time it comes up during Macbeth everyone says “Heh-cate”

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ABSOLUTELY

My whole class keeps going “ yeah they’re just ‘’’’best friends’’’’” every time we talk about Hrothgar and his bestie and in living for it!!

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My whole class keeps going “ yeah they’re just ‘’’’best friends’’’’” every time we talk about Hrothgar and his bestie and in living for it!!

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reblog to give your mutuals a djungelskog

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Caer Comes to Aengus by Night By Joanne Findon  1996 

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Angus

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pantalaimon? is that you?

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