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doodlebuggity · 5 years ago
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OH MY GOD IM SO READY FOR A TATENNANT REUNION
BBC One’s Big Night In - 23rd April 2020
For reference, this is what happened last time DT tried to teach Lauren Cooper
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doodlebuggity · 5 years ago
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🚨UPDATE🚨
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David Tennant & Catherine Tate will be live tweeting via @LockdownWho !! All others on their individual Twitter accounts!
#SUBWAVENETWORK
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doodlebuggity · 5 years ago
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- You’re not mating with me, sunshine!
- “A” mate. I want “a” mate.
Doctor Who | 4x01 - Partners in Crime
Original air date: 5th April 2008
Written by: Russell T. Davies
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doodlebuggity · 5 years ago
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A moving dedication to those whom we have lost. Hozier singing 'The Parting Glass', on The Late Late Show last night. An originally Scottish song which now in Irish tradition, is the last, bittersweet drink offered to a departing guest as they leave for travel.
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doodlebuggity · 5 years ago
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What a year March has been
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doodlebuggity · 5 years ago
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Happy Crowley’s exile from Ireland day! Don’t forget to drink some toxically green beer today!
(I have no idea how inaccurate this miracle is, I know next to nothing about christian saints and st Patrick’s day only started being “celebrated” here about 10 years ago)
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doodlebuggity · 5 years ago
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Oh my god. NO. marycp2011 what. NO. JFC do some research for yourself before spouting off random bullshittery please.
First. The term ‘Celtics’ with regards to people who lived in Ireland is not a thing. We had 'Celts’, if that’s what you mean. I’m going to assume it is.
Patrick as a 'saintly, pious, totally good man’ is about as accurate a narrative as the 'Culturally Genocidal POS’ one. Which is to say, not accurate and you sound like an idiot for framing it in a black-and-white context.
Hi, I’m Irish. I really like Irish history. Here we go.
First: Patrick was a product of the time he lived in: he was enslaved as a child, taken from his home and dragged to Ireland. Many argue that this was done by a dude called Niall Noígíallach (Or Niall of the Nine Hostages, if you want the anglicized version) who was an early Celtic King. Niall didn’t get along with the Scots or the Picts and back then, when you didn’t get along with people, you tended to bribe, pay, fight, kill, raid or take hostages until they admitted defeat. That sort of thing. So he launched a bunch of raids, took some royal Picts hostages until they said 'yeah fine, we give in’.
Niall was a bit of a dick, but he was also a product of his time. So he did this hostage thing to the Picts and he did it to the Scots until he’d amassed himself some allies and on one such raid he yeeted a kid called Maewyn Succat out of Britain and took him back to Ireland, as a slave.
This kid, Maewyn Succat, would later be known as Patricius, or Pádraig. Modern day: Patrick.
So anyway, young Patrick was about 16 when this happened and he led a shite life while he was here, all in all. Out on the mountains, minding sheep. Not much of a nightlife out there, cold and dark and damp and alone. Anyway, he was a slave for approximately 6 years and while being a slave in Celtic Ireland wasn’t as bad as it might have been in some places (debatable). It was still understandably horrible. Because. Y'know. Slavery. 
Anyway, after 6 years or so of that shite he decided 'I’m out’ and escaped. Popped back to Britain, then went east, onto Europe (presumably to get as far away from Ireland as possible and who could blame him at this stage?) to study and stuff.
Now, Patrick said that the voice of God told him to come back to Ireland but I personally suspect he had been eating something dodgy at the time. So did the Christian church btw, who never made Patrick officially a saint. That’s right, no pope ever canonized Patrick. They didn’t really like him until much later and then they kind of forgot anyway. He was a bit too Irish, in some ways.
So Patrick, years later, came back to Ireland. Then historians confused him with Palladius for a while, who was a completely different lad and had been there before Patrick. Palladius had already set up shop and was already halfassing the Christian-izing of Ireland before Patrick came along.
'Grand,’ said Patrick, 'Christianity’s already here, so I’ll just go and anoint some priests.’
And that’s what he did. He anointed some nuns as well. Predictably, the locals didn’t always get along with him. At first, they were like 'fuck off??’ and Patrick was like 'No U’ and they were like 'listen, we’ll bribe you to fuck off’ and Patrick was like 'nah, but how about I bribe you to convert?’ and they were like ’….we’re listening’.
So, did I mention the church didn’t like Patrick? Patrick liked paying kings and druids and such to convert and accompany him around the country to get others to convert. It was The Done Thing in Celtic culture. Accepting or giving gifts was accepting or giving ties of kinship, fosterage and affinity. It was Important.
But the church didn’t approve of that and so the church was like 'this is some hella financial impropriety’ and Patrick was like 'lol wait a thousand years, it’ll catch on.’
(Patrick may or may not also have accepted some bribes himself, which may or may not be part of the problem here. According to his Confessio, he Definitely Did Not Accept Bribes and We All believe Him.)
Anyway: Patrick largely got along grand with the locals. And sometimes he clashed with them, but it generally wasn’t over religion. It was over customs and small stuff. And even then, he knew the local customs and could actually speak Old Irish really well (due to being a slave and all, who knew that would come in handy?) so by-and-large he was able to wriggle around them.
Some people might have died after he showed up.  But people also definitely died before he showed up and not a lot changed in society or in terms of killings when Patrick was around. And no, there were no mass genocides when Patrick went about converting Ireland to Christianity because he didn’t actually. Do. That.
He didn’t actually do nearly as much as he said he did, according to the vast majority of historians and scholars. When Patrick died, Ireland was STILL largely pagan. Like, seriously, deeply pagan. REALLY PAGAN. He converted some people, he definitely had an impact on some kings and when their sons would accompany him across their lands (as was custom) he had success with their sons. He was more popular with the youth. But he did this largely by introducing a 'new’ god to the traditional Celtic pantheon, and not by proclaiming the old Irish gods as defunct.
He had the help of local Kings sometimes, or their backing at least. Which was a bonus and helped him to convert more of the locals. But he didn’t have an army. He wasn’t nearly as successful as he claimed, basically.
Bit of a fibber, was Patrick.
Muirchu maccu Machtheni was an early Irish bishop who wrote Patrick’s hagiography during the seventh century. This was the earliest reference to Patrick outside of his own writings and it was still written two hundred years after Patrick’s death. He was the one who wrote of Patrick’s less savory practices, his clashes with local druids and kings and the like.
In one such account he says of Patrick: 'Faced with these disgruntled pagans, Patrick converted one instantly, threw another druid up in the air with the power of God and crushed his skull against a rock, and summoned an earthquake to kill the majority of the rest.’
So yeah. Power of god to kill all the pagans and Super Strength!  Patrick was The Hulk. If you want to believe Muirchu then you might as well believe the Gospel of St. Peter as being absolute fact as well. You don’t get to cherry pick here.
Muirchu belonged to the monastery of Armagh near the Hill of Tara and at the time there was a serious divide between the northern church and the southern church on the island. So Muirchu being the wily old snake that he was, wanted to prop Patrick up and proclaim his greatness in some good old fashioned propaganda (Patrick was said to have founded the monastery at Armagh) for further conversion of Christianity in Ireland, so he started harping on about Patrick being the shit and such.
It was only by around the 7th century (200-300 years after Paddy’s death) that serious conversion really kicked in, in Ireland.  And it was only during this time that Muirchu and others like him started to twist pagan traditions and take over pagan sites and build on them or disavow pagan traditions as being evil and bringing about misfortune, with the aim to convert pagans in Ireland. In fact, Muirchu writes that the Celtic society around him was still  "aggressively pagan". But if society at that time was “aggressively pagan”, then Patrick had definitely not converted nearly as much as he (and Muirchu) claimed.
So, which was it?
Spoiler: Muirchu was also a bit of a fibber eitherway.
There is no proof that Patrick was ruthless, just as there is no proof that he was kind and good. There’s barely proof that he existed at all tbh. He really does often get confused with Palladius, who (again) was a different guy. There’s also the issue that the druids and Celts in Ireland didn’t write things down. So there’s no written proof on their end about Patrick either (no, Patrick didn’t burn their books, I’ve read that nonsense too. THEY WROTE. NO. BOOKS.) Theirs was an oral tradition, a very, very important and profound oral tradition which continues right up to the Seanchaí that we have in Ireland to this day. Though only a few of them remain now.
Do you know why and how that tradition survived in Ireland to this day? Because after the coming of Christianity, the druids gradually moved away from being priests and onto being poets, and historians, and judges (filid, senchaidi, and brithemain).
Basically: the conversion of Ireland happened gradually and over time. It wasn’t a mass genocide. As much as you’d love those internet brownie points, it wasn’t anything as dramatic as that.  It was far more of a Culdee style of change. Slow and boring.
So kindly ditch the BS and do a bit of research next time.
If you want to talk 'culturally genocidal’ with regards to Ireland, you really want to look at the 1600s and start at Cromwell. Not Patrick.
Also: HI OP, I AM SORRY FOR DERAILING YOUR LOVELY ARTWORK. IT IS GORGEOUS AND FUNNY AND I LOVE IT, AS I LOVE ALL YOUR STUFF! Carry on being amazing please! I love Patrick + Crowley jokes!
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Happy Crowley’s exile from Ireland day! Don’t forget to drink some toxically green beer today!
(I have no idea how inaccurate this miracle is, I know next to nothing about christian saints and st Patrick’s day only started being “celebrated” here about 10 years ago)
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doodlebuggity · 5 years ago
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Some progress pictures of the Aziraphael/ Michael Sheen bust I made a while ago, including me for size reference haha
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doodlebuggity · 5 years ago
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I’m astounded by the privilege of people who disdainfully look at me at say, “I don’t like relying on pills.”
Yeah, well, me either but I don’t have the luxury of being able to survive without them.
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doodlebuggity · 5 years ago
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my new favourite thing is italian regional presidents and mayors absolutely LOSING IT at people violating quarantine. here’s a eng subtitled compilation for y’all. (the president of campania region; the mayor of messina; the mayor of bari; the mayor of gualdo tadino; the mayor of tutolo.)
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doodlebuggity · 5 years ago
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How to Write During a Pandemic
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Hi all, Normally I keep this blog focused on writing advice and steer away from politics, but with the COVID-19 pandemic raging and all the accompanying uncertainty about our future post-climate change, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be a writer on a rapidly changing planet. What’s our responsibility in a time like this? What kind of stories do we need right now? Is it even possible—or desirable—for our individual creativity flourish when we’re scared for our very lives? With that in mind, I wanted to offer my thoughts on how to renegotiate your relationship with your writing during this crisis, as well as some proposals for how to navigate the changes to come.
WHY IT’S HARD TO WRITE RIGHT NOW
Did you think being stuck at home, underemployed, and/or socially isolated would translate to more time spent on your writing… Only to discover, um, it didn’t? You’re not alone. While shutdowns, quarantine, and self isolation may be theoretically creating conditions that give you lots of time to write, many writers are more blocked than ever right now. Here’s why.
You’re Terrified. Even in the best of circumstances, writers under capitalism are regularly paralyzed by the fear that spending time on their writing is “unproductive” (read: non-income producing), frivolous, or even reckless. So it makes sense that it would be difficult to put time into a purely recreational creative activity given the heightened survival fears arising from these extreme circumstances.
Your Stories Suddenly Seem Irrelevant. Even if you can get yourself to sit down and write right now, crisis conditions can create an existential angst that causes you to question whether what you’re writing is still relevant, important, or helpful to others. Personally, I haven’t been able to write in days. Prior to this outbreak I was working on a darkly whimsical fairy tale about a monkey and a bear that escape from the circus. I thought it was relevant and deep—the story deals with themes of feminism, transformation, and survival under capitalism. But under the bright light of a viral pandemic, stories that once seemed deeply significant can suddenly feel like irrelevant fluff.
You Don’t Know How to Do Anything Different. Let’s face it—your pre-pandemic writing life was created to work well with your pre-pandemic life life. Now that your life has changed, you need to change your writing habits, too… But you don’t know how to do anything different. So you either freeze up and get nothing done, or try to ignore what’s happening and charge ahead like nothing has changed. Neither of these techniques work well, though. Now that your life is different, you need to do something different with your writing.
HOW TO KEEP WRITING DURING A PANDEMIC
Warning: I’m not going to urge you to stay the course and push ahead with your normal writing life against all odds. I don’t think that advice is realistic, and frankly it’s not responsible, either. Creative people are the vanguards of social change. If shit is going down, it’s our job to innovate and pivot, not to cling like barnacles to the status quo.
Keep reading
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doodlebuggity · 5 years ago
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So this is how you catch a cat..
Bonnie and Clyde
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doodlebuggity · 5 years ago
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We can't get rid of slavery, the economy will collapse!
We can't get rid of child labor, the economy will collapse!
We can't have 8 hour work days, the economy will collapse.
What? The workers want TWO days off a week? Don't they know the economy will collapse?
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doodlebuggity · 5 years ago
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Keeping America Great etcetcetc.
Do ppl know about trump actively trying to buy the company that’s currently working on a covid vaccine and wanting to keep it to American use only or is this a Germany only headline
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