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[bigboppa01]

[march-hare01]

[caffeinatedloser]

I suck at this disorder

[luvana444444]

Every taste adds to the waist

(I need to remember that ^)

[trans-cuchulainn]

i don't have the words to articulate it at this moment but there's something about the way that people have specific expectations for "authenticity" and will dismiss anything that falls outside them as a mangled, anglicised version of the thing when actually that is the older and more traditional form of something, it just doesn't match their expectations. obviously in my personal experiences i'm mostly talking about medieval literature here especially medieval irish literature

sometimes this is as simple as spelling – i've had people argue that the name "finn" is anglicised and it should always be "fionn" to be Really Irish, but "finn" is an older spelling, glide vowels are later, if you wanna go real far back it'll be "find" (nd in place of nn is an older spelling pattern). or they'll hear someone say "ogam" and assume they're mispronouncing "ogham" due to lack of knowledge of irish and not consider the fact that medievalists tend to use the older form of the word. or they'll Well Actually you about "correct" terminology which wasn't standardised (and/or invented) until the 20th century

a lot of this is defensive and the result of seeing a lot of people ACTUALLY get this stuff wrong and have no respect for the language. in that regard i understand it, although it becomes very tedious after a while, particularly when people sanctimoniously declare something "inauthentic", "fake", or "anglicised" without doing enough research to realise it's not trying to be modern irish and is in fact correct for older forms of the language

more often however this search for the projected "authenticity" is ideological and has much larger flaws and more problematic implications. "this can't be the real story because it's christian" well... that's the oldest version of the story that exists and it postdates christianity in ireland by about nine hundred years, so... maybe question why you're assuming the only "real" version of irish stories can't be a christian one? this is especially true when it comes to fíanaigecht material tbh, but in general there seems to a widespread misapprehension about ireland's historical relationship with christianity (i have seen people arguing that christianity in ireland is the result of english colonialism which took their "true" faith from them... bro. they were christian before the "english" existed. half the conversion efforts went the other way. please read some early medieval history thank you)

however i also saw someone saying this about arthurian literature lately which REALLY baffled me. "we'll never have the Real arthurian stories only the christianised versions" and it was in the context of chivalric romance. buddy you are mourning something that does not exist. this "authentic" story you're looking for isn't there. that twelfth century story you're dismissing as a christian bastardisation is as "real" a part of this tradition as you're going to get

[lilbitchhh]

why do i still have to be so fucking fat, I can't stand myself i swearrrrr

[coffee0555]

I don't know why, but ana is like a comfortable place for me

-who get it, get it

[bequiteanddrivee]

[bigboppa01]

[march-hare01]

[ripoutmygvtz]

god i missed fasting, this is amazing

started as a 24h fast but now i'm 43 hours into an (at least) 60 hour fast

[beautifulwastelandcloud]

Feel Comfort in your ⭐️ving, It’s the only way you’ll succeed! ❤️

¡You can do it! I know you can¡

[luvana444444]

If you wanna look like them, you gotta eat like them…

[lovew4r]

that feeling when the jeans that were too tight on me a month ago are falling off of me>>>>

[lilbitchhh]

i wanna ⭐ve myself for him

[wh0r3xz]

fuck these normal reasons to be skinny i want to be skinny so if i pass out in the bath or some shit it’s not like looking at a beached whale