#Myrddin-wyllt

[irithnova]

LMAO there's MILES of evidence of myrddins mistreatment of poc and Jewish people what the fuck do you mean "what they didn't do" @unhonestlymirror ? Did you even read the post? Or are you too loyal of a "vassal" to myrddin to even try?

Nice to know you're ok with myrddins racism and antisemitism dw we've known you were a racist since your Sinophobic China art and you making an Uyghur oc to dunk on Chinese people 👍👍

What are you gonna do? Make more half assed Asian ocs to virtue signal again?🤭

[xplr-myrddin]

Arthur finding out what Merlin’s actual birth name is:

Arthur: MERLIN! Merlin: *appears* Yes? Arthur: Your name ISN’T MERLIN?? Merlin: I don’t know what you mean Arthur: I just got off the phone with your Mother Merlin: Mmmmm, she promised she wouldn’t tell you Arthur: YOUR NAME IS MYRDDIN WYLLT?? Merlin: Ah, she told you my last name too...got it Arthur: We’ve been dating for 3 years, and you didn’t tell me??

[drlettuce]

Drunk!Merlin: lying is easy you just say some stuff like how my mom thought I was straight until I was like 16 and how you still think my name is merlin

Sober!Arthur:what.

[pyjamacryptid]

Been reading some Arthuriana and had to meme some of it, as one does

This bit never gets old

(The Fatherless Child is supposed to be Kid Merlin btw)

[coldalbion]

All right lads, time to get the Equinox gear on and not take it off til May! Merlin by Alan Lee

[vampyr-game]

not sure if i've raised this question to the symposium yet, but if the blessing of a blood god is what allows Ekons to manipulate blood (and I believe they are the only species of vampire that can) (this makes sense if they are Myrddin's chosen form of Progeny, and all other species are derivative mutations of some kind), then where do you guys think vampires' shadow powers come from? (shadow clones, shadow-stepping, shadow tentacles, etc.) (various Ekons, Skals, and Vulkods have been shown to possess these powers, though it seems not all species of vampire have access to all of them)

[ascalon-club]

Myrddin: Fear be gone! I would harm no child of my making. Jonathan, seething with open hatred throughout: This is your doing! You - made me this creature? What are you? Myrddin: I am the land. You are our champion. Jonathan: [Y dialogue choice: Why choose me?] You selected me? Chose me? Myrddin: As shall my children yet to come. Jonathan: What is it you seek? Myrddin: This age is sickly. An ancient poison, an older rage. Brewed in a cauldron newly forged. Jonathan: This has something to do with the epidemic? Myrddin: Seek truth, my champion. Defeat the serpent of knowing with iron spur. [Disappears] Jonathan, to himself: I've had enough of others making decisions for me. Pretending to know how I should feel or behave! Jonathan to himself, much more calmly: So the vampire who made me is some sort of disembodied entity? Or was he just projecting this vision in my mind? Maybe Edgar can help me with this one...

your first direct encounter with Myrddin. happens during The Sad Saint of the East End, in Chapter 3.

ah, Myrddin. love this dude. also love how any time he appears, Jonathan instantly reverts to acting like an angry teenage son. the fact that their dynamic plays out in unironic "I hate you, vampire dad!" style is hilarious to me. I keep expecting Myrddin to pat him on the head or something.

[myrddin-wylt]

no, you know what, I am NOT making this stupidly overly complicated again. 99% of the nations aren't actually biologically related to each other and the terms they use to describe each other - like father, sister, friend, lover - are entirely social.

as far as biology goes, nations are born to totally random, completely mortal human parents and there is absolutely no sign of them being anything but a mortal human until you realize your three year old child is still physically a newborn who can't raise their head. there is no pattern, explanation, or sign, it just fucking happens and it usually upsets everyone involved and the nations never actually meet their biological parent(s) because they're still babies by the time the parent(s) die of old age. this is the simplest solution I can come up with aside from waving my writer's wand like magic and please don't look behind the curtain.

[spacerangersam]

fuck it *de-anglicised your wizard*

[jurakan]

Can I have a merry fact for this miserable Monday?

I'm sorry I'm late on this! Usually I must insist on waiting until Friday, as it isn't Fun Fact Friday, but I can make an exception or loophole if your day has been miserable.

Hm.

Well.

IT'S MYTHOLOGY MONDAY AND TODAY YOU (merlin friendo) LEARNED ABOUT MERLIN'S OAK!

EDIT: from feedback I made a quick edit for accuracy's sake.

So in Wales, there is a town named Caerfyrddin, which the English call Carmarthen (because the English be doing that when they colonize places, sadly enough). The name means 'Merlin's Fort'! And in the town, in the 1600's, this teacher planted a tree on a street corner, and it became known as 'Merlin's oak.' Supposedly there was even a part of the tree that looked like a face; and with the story that Merlin was trapped in a tree (other versions say a cave or something, but a tree is a popular one) by his apprentice, this obviously have some significance to the locals and folklorists.

A local legend says that [Mr. Beaver voice] There is a prophecy, that when the tree falls, so will the town.

And then in the 1800's, some guy tried poisoning the tree? What a dick. It didn't kill the tree, and fearing their own safety the tree was protected with barriers. Then someone set the tree on fire; the tree was finally removed in the 70's. And no worries! The town is still there.

It DID suffer through horrible floods for the next few years though. Hurm.

There are pieces on public display in local museums, but there is also a new tree on the spot planted there.

Hope this was an interesting Fun Fact!

[thepinkseat-askthemoonbunny]

Insane by Black Gryph0n gives me HEAVY OG Merlin vibes, frfr

[irithnova]

Seeing as this myrddin blocked me and is now spreading baseless accusations about me being a Russian agent.

This is in reference to my post in which I explain using historical detail why it is incorrect to say that Mongols are ancestors/direct ancestors to Russians. I explain why it is not only incorrect to say this, but it also has the potential to harbour harmful rhetoric about Mongolians, Russians, and Eastern Europeans as a whole, as this pseudo-history is rooted in racial science and is used to spread slavophobia and anti Mongolian sentiment.

Here is my original post, please go and read it for yourself:

I explained that yes, the Mongols/Golden horde did have a lasting impact impact on Russian history, culture and identity, and it is important to acknowledge their contributions. But I also explained how the Mongol invasions did not include mass migration and assimilation of Mongol populations into Eastern European (compared to the other Khanates) and the Mongols were essentially a ruling elite - an outside force coming in.

I explained how people often exaggerate Mongol influence on Russia/Eastern Europe for more sinister reasons. I said how the core of Russian culture is Slavic, and how many different cultures have had an impact on the course of Russian history. I explained why it is important not to exaggerate Mongol influence on Russia/Eastern Europe to the extent that people run around saying how Mongols are ancestors to them, as it is not historically sound and is rooted in racial science/slavophobia.

The idea that Eastern Europeans in general are not "true Europeans" and are really just "Mongol mongrels" is not exactly a new concept. However there has been a surge of popularity in hurling the term "Mongol", "Mongol Hordes" as an insult towards Russians. Do you... Not see how this is a problem? Not only is it incredibly, incredibly racist towards the Mongolian people, to use their ethnic term to denote "barbaric", "backwards" or "savage", as I want to reiterate, this rhetoric has its origins in Nazi racial science, and is also slavophobic.

I said that the core of Russian culture is Slavic. Nowhere, in my post, did I ever dabble in debating on whether Russia is the direct heir or descendant to Kievan Rus', nor did I use this as a justification to label, Ukrainians as Nazis for wanting to defend their country from the Russian invasion, nor did I then go onto use this to justify a "denazification" of Ukraine.

If you take a look at my account, you can see that I am extremely critical of the Russian state.

Also I just think it's so... Typically American to accuse people you don't like of being a Russian agent lol.

In my post, I added this screenshot of someone tweeting anti-Mongolian sentiment in order to give an example of how pseudo-history and racial science gives way for anti-Mongolian sentiment to rear it's ugly head :

I was not calling a Ukrainian a Nazi for criticising Russia - this person is not even Ukrainian judging by his Irish name.

Even if this person was a Ukrainian, does that give them a right to throw around anti-Mongolian sentiment?? Do Ukrainians have free reign to hurl around the word "Mongol" like it's an insult and perpetuate harmful racial science??

I love how myrddin suddenly started Mongolia posting - pretending like they give a fuck about Mongolian culture, history and people, but then goes ahead and derails a post talking about anti-Mongolian sentiment and racial science and turns it into some fucking debate about Russia being or not being the heir of Kievan Rus when I NEVER EVEN SAID SHIT ABOUT THAT IN MY ORIGINAL POST. I EVEN SAID THAT MANY DIFFERENT CULTURES HAD A LASTING IMPACT ON THE COURSE OF RUSSIA'S HISTORY, IDENTITY AND CULTURE, AND I WASN'T TRYING TO SQUEEZE RUSSIA INTO A BOX OF "WHITE, SLAVIC" FOR THE SAKE OF MY ARGUMENT.

ALL I DID WAS EXPLAIN WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT EXAGGERATING MONGOL INFLUENCE TO THE POINT WHERE Y'ALL CALL MONGOLS ANCESTORS TO RUSSIANS WHEN ITS BOTH HISTORICALLY INACCURATE AND USED FOR OFFENSIVE RHETORIC

Myrddin - can you even read? 🤭

@myrddin-wylt

[lisawn]

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[cmrosens]

Musings on Myrddin

Chapter 1 of THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD is available to listen to for free - Season 03 of my podcast is serialising the whole novel, week by week.

Listen on any podcast platform or in the embedded Spotify link.

Introducing a Bearded Old Bastard

Ricky has mentioned Myrddin and his distrust of Welsh poets before – towards the end of THE CROWS, where in his POV he is sulking about Eglantine Pritchard and the dangers of speaking Welsh, in case some ‘bearded old bastard’ shows up. In the hardback edition, there’s a short story called ‘Gerald’, in which Ricky meets Myrddin for the first time as a 10-year-old.

In THIRTEENTH, when Ricky is severely depressed and threatened by Wes’s presence in the house, he explicitly thinks of Myrddin by his Latinised name – Merlinus Sylvestris – and complains to himself that Myrddin was a better prophet than he is.

In THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD, Myrddin makes an actual appearance. He isn’t real, exactly: the idea for Myrddin was workshopped with Robert Mitchelmore, whose poem, ‘οὐκ ἔπεφνεν ὄφιν: he did not slay the dragon’ (2010), appears as an epigraph to Part 2: Fall of the Titans.

Praise poems were meant to render their subject immortal, so that their names would never die so long as the poems were still spoken. Myrddin has, by now, so many stories and faces, that he is an immortal figure wherever his myth is known, and in that sense is no longer a man but an avatar of his own fame. That means there are baked-in limitations to his powers; he can do everything the stories about him say he can do, but according to this Myrddin, no story has been written where Myrddin saves the world from a Lovecraftian entity, so in that sense, he is powerless.

Myrddin is also not a heroic figure – he’s not a man of action, but a seer, a bard-prophet, and in the Welsh tales he was given his gift of prophecy by God to annoy Myrddin’s father, who was the Devil. Myrddin was meant to be the antichrist, but was baptised on the way out of his mother by a quick-thinking nun, which restored his free will. The infant Myrddin, now able to choose for himself, decided to devote his powers for good – mainly to aggravate his dad – and thus was given the spiritual gift of prophecy.

In my version of Myrddin, I’ve conflated his shape-shifting powers with those of Taliesin, another bard-prophet, and used parts of ‘The Battle of the Trees’ in his speeches. Myrddin is a Carmarthenshire lad, and looks a bit like an estate agent until you look more closely and see that his smart suit is just another skin he wears.

As to what Myrddin is doing there: he’s been interested in Ricky for a while, and this time he’s in our world (as opposed to the Otherworld) because one of his very distant descendants has asked for his assistance. All will be revealed in Chapter 3.

If you want to read the short story ‘Gerald’, where Myrddin and Ricky first meet, you can do so in the back of the hardback edition of THE CROWS.

I have 2 signed copies left in my Ko-Fi shop which are part of the book boxes that come with bespoke Pagham-on-Sea (sea spray and peppermint) and Fairwood House (lavender and earl grey) scented candles by Avalon Alchemy. If you tell me your favourite theme or chapter, I will do bespoke annotations for you in the margins of the hardback copy, as well as sign it.

I’ll be bringing out a collection of shorter Richard Porter fiction to go with the novella THE SUSSEX FRETSAW MASSACRE as a paperback release, which will be released as THE SUSSEX FRETSAW MASSACRE AND OTHER STORIES: AN ABRIDGED BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD EDWIN PORTER.

[pyjamacryptid]

[ID in Alt]

Absolutely giggling over this paragraph under Nomenclature on the Wikipedia page for the Merlin (kestrel) bird. It almost sounds resigned. Like “ugh no they’re not the same. Yes I promise they’re unrelated, sorry to disappoint you. Yeah.. we get this all the time.”

[unknownstarrl]

Merlin

status: ???

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After King Arthur's death, Merlin - Myrrdin Wyllt decided to live anonymously. He married and changed to his wife's last name-Hill