#Pan Celtic Solidarity

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Featuring an English translation, an explanation of the current twitter storm around Ash Sarkar.

[revoevokukil]

Is the reason why it’s commonly repeated in the Witcher fandom that the Witcher is based on Slavic mythology and not European Mythology in general ( a lot particularly from the British isles) is that when it came out in the 90s it was marketed that way due to the cultural Zeitgeist at the time in Poland

Or is it just something that became a thing after the games came out and it was just people in the English speaking world saying “oh it’s from Poland it must be based on their mythology” and Polish fans are fully aware that it has just as much of not more references to the Arthurian legend than it does to Slavic culture

Hey, anon!

I just reblogged something in relation to this, so you might want to check it out (and the several reblogs).

I think if we want to trace the creative influences from the fantasy genre, then it makes no sense to employ umbrella terms with The Witcher. It's Polish fantasy a Polish author with all the particular sensitivities of a Pole wrote. Does the history of CEE inform the writing? Yes, absolutely. Do the cultural attitudes, linguistic peculiarities, and humour? Of course.

Slavic, though? And, moreover, Slavic alone? Well that's a bit preposterous, because Slavic does not designate something "specific" in the first place. I'm a particularist, I'm sorry. And while I am not even a Slav, I can relate to the outlook and "voice" of the characters in The Witcher instantly, because we live in the same neighbourhood. (The neighbourhood has very different corners with equally shitty beaches, you don't usually understand what your neighbour is trying to say to you, and body language can go overbroad just as frequently as overt familiarity is not appreciated.)

Slavic or Celtic or Indo-European or what have you are umbrella terms. They are totalising and their nature overlooks the cultural diversity that the terms draw upon: Celtic, for example, should be divided into insular and continental branches, and the insular Celtic groups, again, could be linguistically divided into Brythonic (Cymraeg/Welsh, Kernewek/Cornish, & Breton) and Gaelic (Gàidhlig/Scottish, Gaeilge/Irish, & Gaelg/Manx). Ditto for Slavic, starting from the East, West, South divide and going more intricate from there.

The lore changes the closer you get with your looking glass. These are not unified categories, even if they are used to generate broad solidarity for good or bad purposes, or to simplify and refer to some broadly received meme (but, for example, your quintessentially Slavic Baba Yaga likely derives from contact with Finno-Ugric and Siberian peoples with their stilt-hut building style, tucked away in the middle of forests, so tell me more about how a legend can "belong" to one people alone).

I guess what we should ask is when and why does it matter who lays claim to these things, and why Slavic? Why not Polish in particular and pan-European in general? I guess it depends on who you are and what you want to do with your statement. Yes, it's that banal.

Because intellectually, when sniffing out the history of its ideas and the flavour of them, The Witcher is incredibly diverse. The author has also been very open about it, referring in detail to a vast amount of literature he has come in contact with in fantasy canon. Generally, that includes authors from Western Europe and Northern America (but his literary influences do not stop with those alone of course) and the thing about, for example, Northern American fantasy is that it has a penchance to romanticize the British Isles (followed close behind by Germanic and Greco-Roman world). It is not without reason that Sapkowski considered Arthuriana the bedrock of Western fantasy - it really was one of the first "medieval fantasies" that was being written and re-written throughout medieval Western Europe already at the time. The PR that memefied the entire enterprise of Arthur and his Brythonic roots has been chugging away for a VERY long time, cross-fertilized by lore from all over the place. But its roots stretch back to the Isles. Because that's where history related to him took place - at the forgotten outpost of the crumbling Roman Empire, which had been colonized before the Romans and would be colonized again after the Romans (and would eventually go on to colonize peoples far and further away from the European peninsula).

The thing is, Arthuriana is like a gateway into the myths of the people among whom he was likely born, and the actual bedrock of various Celtic mythological traditions is much more varied and has a wholly different vibe than the most popular French monks' agendas with Arthur. You could similarly consider Geralt's and Ciri's story a gateway into the folklore and history of the peoples among whom they were brought to life and among whom they first proved popular and "homely"; a signpost leading you into finding out more about the part of the world that birthed them. But CEE, to my knowledge, does not have a fantasy genre tradition with that strong of a PR that would derive from a semi-political legend stretching back a good thousand years, acting as a kind of unifying fairy tale for the various people among whom its figurehead proved popular and drew its tale from. Scratch the figurehead; there just isn't one particular tale as such that would have risen into prominence above all others.

And to split the hair even further, Geralt and Ciri are not semi-historical. Not semi-mythical either, even though Sapkowski tries to lift them into that status by the end of the Pentalogy. They are already composites or subversions of broader fantasy traditions, which have mostly been heavily Western European-centric. The Witcher, however, takes this Western European tradition, traces the roots of its underbelly, and gives its own interpretation. While keeping in spirit intact the lived experience, mentality, and speech of its characters, which are - if you like - the most Slavic features of the tale.

It popularises a lens the like of which there was little of in the Fantasy genre at the time.

(and yes, the games' PR - as a market-oriented enterprise - obviously would try to find the broadest possible common denominator that is still specific enough to ring as novel and sexy in the world-wide market and proud back at home)

[brookston]

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Instant Replay, by The Monks (Album; 1969)

Lego Masters (UK TV Series; 2022)

Loaded Weapon (Film; 1993)

Love My Life Away, by Gene Pitney (Song; 1961)

Modern Times (Film; 1936)

Mother and Child Reunion, by Paul Simon (Album; 1972)

No Deposit, No Return (Film; 1976)

Otello, by Giuseppe Verdi (Opera; 1887)

Patton (Film; 1970)

Peter Pan (Animated Disney Film; 1953)

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Today’s Name Days

Agatha, Albuin (Austria)

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Agathe (Denmark)

Aet, Agaate, Aita, Ita, Iti (Estonia)

Asser (Finland)

Agathe (France)

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Agathe, Agathi (Greece)

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Agate, Ågot (Norway)

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Agata (Romania)

Agáta (Slovakia)

Ágata, Águeda, Felipe (Spain)

Agata, Agda (Sweden)

Agatha (Ukraine)

Agatha, Chanel, Chanelle, Chantel, Phoenix, Shantel (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 36 of 2023; 329 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 5 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 15 of 28]

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Islamic: 14 Rajab II 1444

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Julian: 23 January 2023

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

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Season: Winter (Day 47 of 90)

Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 16 of 30)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 2.5

Holidays

Adlai Stevenson Day (Illinois)

Aerial Victory Day

Belle Starr Day

California Western Monarch Day

Chama Cha Mapinduzi Day (Tanzania)

Cheongwoldaeboreum (Folk Festival; North Korea)

Constitution Day (Mexico)

Crown Princess Mary Day (Denmark)

Disaster Day

Full Moon [2nd of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Bony Moon (Cherokee)

Budding Moon (China)

Daeboreum (Great Full Moon; Korea) [1st Full Moon of Lunar Calendar]

Eagle Moon (Traditional)

Grain Moon (South Africa)

The Great Fifteenth [Lunar Calendar]

Hunger or Hungry Moon (Alternate)

Ice Moon (Celtic)

Little Famine Moon (Choctaw)

Naval Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)

Raccoon Moon (Traditional)

Snow Moon (American Indian, North America, Traditional)

Southern Hemisphere: Barley, Corn, Dog, Grain, Red, Sturgeon, Wyrt Moons

Storm Moon (England, Neo-Pagan, Wicca)

Trapper’s Moon (Colonial)

Hank Aaron Day

Kashmir Solidarity Day (Pakistan)

Lailatul Quadr (Night of Power)

Liberation From the Alberoni Occupation (San Marino)

Longest War Day (3rd Punic War ended in 1985 after 2,131 years)

Move Hollywood and Broadway to Lebanon, Pennsylvania Day

National Fart Day

National Shower with a Friend Day

Nones of February (Ancient Rome)

Othroktide (Elder Scrolls)

Pikachu Day

Primrose Day

Runeberg Day (Finland)

Unity Day (Burundi)

Weatherman's Day (a.k.a. Weatherperson's Day)

Western Monarch Day

World Animal Reiki Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Bartender’s Cup

Chocolate Fondue Day

World Nutella Day

1st Sunday in February

British Yorkshire Pudding Day [1st Sunday]

Dump Your Significant Jerk Day [1st Sunday]

Freelance Writers Appreciation Week begins [1st Sunday]

Homstrom (Burning of the Straw Man; Switzerland) [1st Sunday]

National Day of Prayer for the African American & African Family [1st Sunday]

New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church (Sunday nearest 2.7]

Scout Sunday [or Sunday before 2.8]

St. Ives’ Feast (Cornwall, UK) [Sunday nearest February 3]

World Cepelinai Day [1st Sunday]

Independence Days

Arkazja (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Abraamius, Bishop of Arbela (Christian; Martyr)

Adelaide of Vilich (a.k.a. Alice; Christian; Saint)

Agatha of Sicily (Christian; Saint)

Avitus of Vienne (Christian; Saint)

Benedict Arnold Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint) 

Bertulf (Bertoul) of Renty (Christian; Saint)

Doodle Day (Pastafarian)

The Fornacalia (Goddess of Furnaces) [until 17th]

The Goat (Muppetism)

Ingenuinus (Jenewein; Christian; Saint)

Martyrs of Pontus (Christian; Saint)

Pirate Garb Day (Pastafarian)

Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson (Episcopal Church USA)

Scopas (Positivist; Saint)

Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Anglican Church in Japan)

Vasant Panchami (Hinduism)

Wyrd’s Day (Celtic Goddess of Fortune Telling)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [9 of 71]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

The ABC of Hand Tools (Disney Cartoon; 1946)

Bear Country (Disney Cartoon; 1953)

Crazy Heart (Film; 2010)

An Education (Film; 2010)

The General (Film; 1927)

Instant Replay, by The Monks (Album; 1969)

Lego Masters (UK TV Series; 2022)

Loaded Weapon (Film; 1993)

Love My Life Away, by Gene Pitney (Song; 1961)

Modern Times (Film; 1936)

Mother and Child Reunion, by Paul Simon (Album; 1972)

No Deposit, No Return (Film; 1976)

Otello, by Giuseppe Verdi (Opera; 1887)

Patton (Film; 1970)

Peter Pan (Animated Disney Film; 1953)

Prode and Prejudice and Zombies (Film; 2016)

She’s Having a Baby (Film; 1988)

Sunday in New York (Film; 1964)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Film; 1988)

Today’s Name Days

Agatha, Albuin (Austria)

Agata, Dobrila, Goran, Jagoda (Croatia)

Dobromila (Czech Republic)

Agathe (Denmark)

Aet, Agaate, Aita, Ita, Iti (Estonia)

Asser (Finland)

Agathe (France)

Agathe, Albuin (Germany)

Agathe, Agathi (Greece)

Ágota, Ingrid (Hungary)

Agata (Italy)

Agate, Agra, Ardis, Selga, Silga (Latvia)

Agota, Birutė, Gaudvinas, Ilona (Lithuania)

Agate, Ågot (Norway)

Adelajda, Aga, Agata, Albin, Izydor, Jakub, Jan, Justynian, Paweł, Piotr, Strzeżysława (Poland)

Agata (Romania)

Agáta (Slovakia)

Ágata, Águeda, Felipe (Spain)

Agata, Agda (Sweden)

Agatha (Ukraine)

Agatha, Chanel, Chanelle, Chantel, Phoenix, Shantel (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 36 of 2023; 329 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 5 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 15 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Jia-Yin), Day 15 (Jia-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721(until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 14 Shevat 5783

Islamic: 14 Rajab II 1444

J Cal: 6 Xin; Sixday [6 of 30]

Julian: 23 January 2023

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 8 Homer (2nd Month) [Scopas)

Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 47 of 90)

Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 16 of 30)

[pysksos]

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[somecunttookmyurl]

so re: speaking non-local languages in local accents-

heh, I've had the opposite experience. I'm from a Very Indian family, have never so much as set a foot outside my country all my life, and certainly look the part too. And yet I've been told more than once that I speak Telugu "with a foreign accent".

(Which makes no sense because my English is pretty evidently Indian-enough tho.)

Language is just. Weird.

oh noooooooo

solidarity though bc my accent is somewhere between scottish and irish (@scimmymunkeh calls it "pan-celtic") and will also just. randomly float about? every time someone asks me where i'm from - which is every time i open my mouth -and i tell them "london" BECAUSE I AM they straight up do not believe me

buddy i only sound like i'm from london when i am actually there my accent is a chameleon on crack leaf me alone

[bocceclub]

really iconic and sexy of me to have irish welsh and scottish ancestry but not a drop of english blood in my body