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[jonjamesme]

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[bryn1000]

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[sydneywebdesign]

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[llyfrenfys]

"Fascism and Welsh Nationalism", or "Stop Fawning over the FWA you cont"

This is inspired by things I've been noticing around Aberystwyth lately while out and about.

Some mfer is putting up Free Welsh Army (FWA) stickers and I have to keep on pulling them down. Why? You ask.

Fascism.

Because of the not so subtle links between the FWA and fascist movements (of which those links are quite frankly underdiscussed) this post is necessary.

So, starting with the stickers:

This is just one of three identical stickers I've pulled down this last week in Aberystwyth. They appear more to be car stickers than anything else and must have cost a pretty penny to print and/or purchase. They appear to have been bought directly from a website using FWA imagery and slogans - yet does not claim to be the FWA (that I can see, at least). I'm not going to link to it because they don't need any more web traffic. But we will get onto why this is significant in a bit.

Anyway, returning to the stickers - I pulled down the first one off of an electric box on North Road, opposite Vaynor St in late November. I pulled down the second (pictured) also in late November on Penglais Road off the bus stop near the hospital. And in early December I pulled down the third one off of a wall near the Spar at the end of Vaynor Street. Right off the bat we can assume the guy who wasted a lot of money on these stickers lives local to where the stickers I've found so far were. So they're lazy, for one - not venturing much further than their own front door by the looks of it.

Iconography:

I've written about the iconography of the FWA before here but it bears repeating that if fascists approve of your iconography, then that's a sign your movement is already overrun with fascists.

This is the sticker design which I've been noticing about town. Top to bottom we have "Cymru Rydd/Free Wales" which on its own is fine. No qualms with that. But between the Welsh and English text is a symbol. This one:

Now, this was the symbol of the Free Wales Army. Note that I say *was* because the FWA doesn't exist any more. Yet various actors have tried to resurrect its very unsuccessful corpse over the years. These stickers seem to belong to a new organisation which is the latest to try and capitalise on the ghost of the FWA. Now, if you're like me, you'll have already noticed this design is, for lack of a better word, a bit dogwhistley. The angled, blocky, swastika-like stylisation of what is supposedly an eagle, the black and white void of any other features and the very fact it *is* an eagle depicted all seem a bit *too* similar to the iconography of the Third Reich, don't you think?

Their design choice is no accident. It is a design which appeals to fascists while also has enough Welsh cultural reference for apologists to hide behind with a plausibly deniable reason for why their eagle Looks Like That. The white eagle is a reference to the 13th C. poem Mab Darogan, in which Myrddin prophesises that "a king shall come with heroism from among the Welsh people" and that "generous men shall be reborn of the lineage of the eagles of Snowdonia". The eagle could have literally been drawn in any way. But it rather specifically was drawn like this. That choice is not accidental.

Now this new organisation which is trying to reanimate the corpse of the FWA (we'll call them EW) has incorporated the FWA symbol into their sticker. An endorsement of the failed so-called 'paramilitary' organisation on their part, to be sure. EW also have included a different style of white eagle on their sticker as well - which is blatantly stolen from Wikipedia (the copyright is expired, but 0/10 artistic effort on their part even so). Also not to nitpick but the eagle on the sticker is grey not white so that's also a fail.

Artistic criticisms aside, the sticker is loaded with dogwhistley iconography all round. The Celtic knot border isn't necessarily problematic, however, fascists and/or neo-nazis love to slap Celtic knots onto things because they associate Celticity with whiteness. The colour scheme may also be a coincidence, but it does remind me of the fascist symbol which is the 'Flag of Kekistan" which uses the same colour scheme.

Why does this matter and who were the FWA?:

The FWA were a Welsh nationalist (supposedly 'paramilitary') outfit which formed in Lampeter in 1963 and disbanded in 1969 (just 6 years of activity). They took a lot of their cues from the IRA and were effectively fanboys of them. The group was never really considered a threat and mostly consisted of middle-aged men playing paramilitary dress-up. They did claim to be funded by the IRA and that they had dogs trained to carry explosives. Their claims remain unproven.

HOWEVER - and here's where things get sticky. A lot of the issues the FWA were publicly concerned with were and are actually valid issues (e.g. the drowning of Capel Celyn, the Aberfan Disaster etc.). The problem is that fascists or fanboys of fascists love to get their foot in the door by addressing genuine issues. But what happens is that invariably a minoritised group is blamed for the existence of said issue and naturally that leads to discrimination and violence.

The police started to get a bit antsy with the investiture of then-prince Charles as prince of Wales and the possibility of the FWA doing some terrorism. So some of the FWA's leaders were arrested just prior to this. The group officially ended in 1969.

The nationalism advocated for by the FWA was of the 'blood-and-soil' type. Not just your common or garden nationalism (which still has issues but given context is perfectly able to exist in a non-fashy way). And that's why the idolisation of the FWA in years since is sus. It appeals to romanticised nationalist notions of brave men in uniforms helping free Wales - when in reality they did little terrorism and little to actually further the Welsh nationalist cause. In fact, the leadership of the FWA fell apart after they started to disagree on whether their actions were damaging the cause rather than helping it.

Julian Cayo-Evans founded the FWA and ran it with Dennis Coslett and Gethin ap Gruffydd. Gruffydd went on to found other youth nationalist organisations after he left the FWA due to disagreements with its direction - e.g. he founded the Patriotic Front in 1964 which was later outlawed by Plaid Cymru in 1966. It goes without saying names like 'Patriotic Front' are deliberate nods to other, similarly named fascist organisations like National Front.

Legacy and The Present:

FWA's only legacy is the sycophantic fanclub which ressurects the corpse of the FWA every few years to parade it around and relive the 'glory days' of paramilitary cosplay. But aside from functionally being useless, their iconography and politics are still very much under the fash umbrella and that must be resisted at every opportunity (hence why I'm tearing down their stickers - I don't want fascists to feel welcome here). Part of why people may turn a blind eye to the FWA/sympathise is that they may not be aware of the history of the FWA or see the dogwhistles laden in their work and symbols. Some may even just assume without any other context that they're just another Welsh-language preservation group and may even support them without realising the deeper nature of the organisation beyond just preserving the Welsh language.

Which brings me back to EW. I'm going to put the rest of this under a cut, I do encourage reading the rest though and reblogging to get the word out that

It is always morally okay to tear down fascist propaganda

If you see some in your town, don't hesitate to let fash know they aren't welcome here.

EW:

So, onto the latest in a long line of paramilitary wannabes who idolise a long-dead organisation from the 60s.

The EW website seems... sketch. Lots of banners and sections asking to 'donate now' and 'take action' (with money). So right off the bat this looks like a cash-grab.

Secondly, from their own 'About' section they claim that the Welsh Independence movement has "become inundated with authoritarian Marxist entryists who regard Welsh independence as merely a vehicle for furthering their own political agendas". Which is pretty bold stuff coming from an organisation trying to do The Exact Same. There's also a LOT of emphasis on youth involvement and youth nationalism.

There's also a lot of ahistorical claims in the About section too. E.g. on the prophecy of Myrddin "From this legend derives the very name of Cymru’s greatest mountains, with ‘Eryri’ meaning the ‘Seat of the Eagles’ in Cymraeg." - this is contested as there is no one agreed upon etymology of Eryri. To claim that this is The Etymology suggests that they picked this one just because it conveniently fits the version of the mythology they're presenting. They also claim that "Owain ap Gruffydd, would adopt three such eagles as his royal coat of arms" - this is blatantly incorrect as Owain ap Gruffydd lived before the Age of Heraldry and the three eagles are actually later attributed arms.

In EW's FAQ there's a section on supporting their organisation - with one paragraph saying that you can buy stickers instead "If you aren’t eligible or willing to commit to becoming an activist". Lol at 'if you aren't willing to fully commit to our FWA fanboy club you can put up some stickers instead'. Also the button to buy stickers suggests you pay via paypal "We’ll accept quick payments using PayPal and will have them shipped to you First Class" - which *totally* sounds legit (what do you bet they ask people to pay via 'friends and family instead of through business means?).

And... that's it. There's very little else on their website. It *looks* like they're trying to be a movement, but appear to lack substance (and money, judging from how many different Donate Now buttons are plastered all over the site). A hollow organisation blatantly bending history and mythology to fit their narrative, proudly using symbols designed to appeal to fascists while asking people to trust them with the future of Wales?

Dim diolch.

For further reading on why we should guard against fascism in Welsh language revival and independence, see my other post here.

Reblogs welcome for an antifascist independent Wales.

[scotianostra]

August 10th 1624 saw the death of Esther Inglis, calligrapher and miniaturist.

Inglis is celebrated for her accomplished and exquisitely illustrated manuscripts, which include tiny self-portraits – the earliest known self-portraits to be made by a female artist working in Britain.

Esther Inglis, daughter of a French immigrant, was a celebrated calligrapher. She produced exquisitely illuminated documents and little books, illustrated with flowers. Her parents, Nicolas Langlois and Marie Presot, were French Huguenots who took refuge in England in about 1569, later settling in Edinburgh. Their daughter Esther seems always to have used the surname ‘Inglis’, the Scottish form of Langlois. In 1596, Esther married Bartholomew Kello, and by 1604 had moved with him to London. They had six children, of whom four lived to adulthood. Kello, a clergyman, held a church living in Essex between 1607 and 1614. In 1615 the family returned to Edinburgh, and Esther died at Leith in August 1624.

Esther Inglis is regarded as one of the finest calligraphers to have worked in England or Scotland during the early modern period. She probably learnt her skills from her mother, who was an accomplished scribe. Fifty-nine of Inglis’s manuscripts are known to survive, most dedicated to contemporary English, Scottish and French dignitaries. She also made dedications to members of the royal family, including Queen Elizabeth, King James, Henry Prince of Wales and the future Charles I. Inglis’s manuscripts typically consist of elaborately penned religious texts, frequently decorated with floral or animal patterns. She was accomplished in the use of many varieties of script, and also practised virtuosic effects such as mirror-writing and small-scale transcription.

It is likely that Inglis’s manuscripts were produced both for financial and religious motives. She does not seem to have worked to commission, but rather presented her work to chosen patrons in hopes of financial reward. Her selection of religious texts - the Bible in the Geneva translation; the French poems Discours de la Foy, Pierre Du Val’s De la Grandeur de Dieu and Pybrac’s Quatrains - was no doubt designed to appeal to her co-religionists both here and in France. Since she died in debt, it seems likely that her patrons were less generous than she had hoped.

First pic is Esther and is in The National Gallery, the next two are of a miniature manuscript, The Psalmes of David is a tiny manuscript of about 3 inches by 2 inches with 16 pages of preliminary material followed by 310 pages of the Psalms. The next is from another miniature held by St Andrews University.

More on The Psalmes of David here

https://collation.folger.edu/.../princely-new-years-gift.../

There is also a lot more info on this web page https://artherstory.net/the-self-fashioning-of-esther.../

[supercalloutfragilistic]

Wikipedophilia

You may have seen Wikipedia’s mascot before, Wikipe-tan:

http://archive.is/KQWe4

Wikipedia proudly advertises her on their site, which is honestly creepy and pretty sexist. Why does an encyclopedia want a mascot of a little girl dressed as a French maid?

Quoting from Wikipedia itself:

http://archive.is/JSsQt

French maid is a strongly modified style of servant’s dress that evolved from typical housemaid’s black-and-white afternoon uniforms of 19th-century France. It is often used in cosplay, sexual roleplaying, and fetishism. Depending on design details, some forms can be classified as lingerie.

Wikipedia has a code on her page that users can employ on their page to get a box saying “This user’s waifu [wife] is Wikipe-tan.”:

Despite her being a fucking child.

Wikipedia confirms themselves that she is a small child and this isn’t just a stylization thing, as they refer to fanservice drawings of Wikipe-tan as a woman as “adult Wikipe-tan”:

http://archive.is/WA6Ok

Wikipe-tan is also featured on this page about visual novels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_novel

https://archive.ph/fUfyq

The vast majority of visual novels are porn games, many of them are also lolicon games where you fuck children.

A drawing Wikipedia stores of their child mascot as a fetish catgirl:

http://archive.is/a3Tap

Picture of Wikipe-tan and other child characters stored by Wikibooks on an article on moe:

http://archive.is/45fZb

Creepy moe otaku will like most pedophiles claim their attraction to children is innocent, but moe is just another word for sexual desire, often towards kids. If it wasn’t a sexual thing moe otaku would be watching cute series like Rascal the Raccoon instead of creepy pedophile shit like Mitsudomoe.

A drawing Wikipedia stores of their child mascot in a bathing suit:

http://archive.is/ebScu

Disturbing when you know what sort of porn the guy who drew it masturbates to. This also looks like a pure fanservice drawing since she’s not even playing in the water or on a beach, just standing still presenting herself in this suit.

Photoshop stored on Wikimedia depicting Jimbo Wales with three anime girls in french maid outfits next to him:

http://archive.is/bKCTN

Photoshop stored on Wikipedia depicting Jimbo standing next to an anime child drawn by a pedophilic lolicon artist:

http://archive.is/IIopx

Uhhh… does he approve of these pictures?

It was super easy to find Wikipe-tan’s creator’s childporn (note: this means that it would also be super easy for actual children to find his childporn). Wikipedia links directly to his DeviantArt, named Kasuga39, just Google that name and the first result is a porn site with a fifteen year old in bondage on it along with pictures of Wikipe-tan:

https://archive.is/WEjWu

https://web.archive.org/web/20170717232737/http://www.project-imas.com/wiki/Eri_Mizutani

Wikipedia itself says that is classified as a child in Japanese law:

http://archive.is/jASbK

The Children Welfare Act chapter 34 forbids any act of “fornication” (淫行) with children (here defined as anyone under 18 years of age).

All the Google results on the first page except for two are porn sites (yukkuri isn’t strictly porn, but a lot of it is, and a lot of yukkuri drawings also include hardcore torture), and even then the only Wikipedia link showing up is the fanservice art. Guess Wikipedia is just filled with a bunch of Wikiperverts.

This shows how bad it is for a company to collaborate with someone who draws childporn, since children can easily google their name and find it.

How come none of the people involved in Wikipedia have spoken out against Kasuga’s childporn? Is Wikipedia just full of pedophiles who like these sort of drawings?

Wikipedia allows the man who created Wikipe-tan to store his lolicon/pedophile art in one of their articles:

http://archive.is/C66ie

http://archive.is/HhKk0 http://archive.is/WbJy4

Other art by him stored on Wikipedia:

http://archive.is/r412A

This same man draws porn of kids being sold as sex slaves, mother and daughter incest, schoolgirls pissing, and pregnant children.

Censored pictures for proof:

Also, fetish art of children in guillotines:

Several idiotic users of Wikipedia defended Wikipe-tan, despite it being a child dressed in a fucking fetish outfit. Claims were made that those who objected to it were the only ones seeing anything pedophilic in regards to it.

This is a perfect example of how pedophiles operate, they try to disguise their fetish fanservice of children as being purely innocent, but if you dig a little deeper you’ll find they make porn of children being raped and tortured.

Reminder that lolicon is not an innocent thing. In Japan men are imitating the stories of lolicon manga to molest children:

https://supercalloutfragilistic.tumblr.com/post/712997246347706368/proof-drawn-childporn-incites-men-to-commit-real

Lastly… there’s also this… uh… one porn drawing by Kasuga… that looks like a chained crying baby with a fresh branding mark from a hot iron on it’s baby ass:

that feel when you learn that there’s men who masturbate to babies getting branded with hot irons

that feel when you realize Wikipedia has been hosting this man's lolicon drawings on their site for years, despite his child torture porn being easy as hell to find

(chances are people running the site knew about it)

[thenationaltreasuregazette]

Hey you feel like an expert and I've been looking for years.

Dr Chase's dress in the first film at the anniversary gala for the archives is absolutely gorgeous and I can't find anything about it anywhere. Do you know anything about the costuming of the film?

Also love the blog omg keep up the good work!!!

RE: Abigail's Dress

Hi Anon,

I am flattered that I seem like an expert, and that you've been enjoying the blog!

Unfortunately, I am the opposite of an expert when it comes to clothes, costuming, and fashion. Don't get me wrong, I love seeing other people analyze the costuming choices in film and tv, I just don't have much to add to the conversation.

That said, let's see if we can do some digging!

Digging ↓ (ft. answers!)

The first place I started was the thank yous at the end of the credits.

Right before the music credits is usually where the filmmakers thank significant contributors. For National Treasure we see a lot of places where they shot on location--the D.C., NYC, and Philadephia film offices, the National Archives and Washington D.C. public transit.

Also Knott's Berry Farm, which seems out of place until you learn that it features an exact replica of Independence Hall. This was used for some of the exterior shots of Ben carving the brick out of the wall in place of the real thing.

You'll also see Ferrari mentioned. This is for the promotional consideration of allowing one of their cars to appear in the film.

My thinking was that if the dress was designer, said designer might be thanked here as well.

But alas, no luck.

Clothes-from-film Sites

I turned to google, though from your question it seems like you've searched for this before, so I my expectations were not high.

There are plenty of sites where you can look up clothes worn in film and television, though National Treasure is old enough and, um... underrated enough that I didn't have any luck here. (Edge of History is another story. If anyone's looking for clothes featured there, you'll see plenty of results!)

Into the wilds of the web we go then.

The Miscellaneous Internet

On Anwers.com, I found this post that states the dress was made by the film's costume designer, Judianna Makovsky. (And is actually blue, not black!!????!)

The answer provides an address to an article titled "National Treasure: Diane Kruger A Dress For Action" on clothesonfilm.com.

Unfortunately, that link leads to no-no bad spam places, as clothesonfilm.com no longer exists.

However, I found that same article referenced on film clothes sourcing website spoturn.com.

A search for the article title turned up what appears to be the entire text of the article posted on a forum.

(Make sure to scroll down past the no-longer-hosted photos! The article stretches over several posts from user Lynn866)

I'll grab the bit that discusses the gala dress, but whole article is fantastic and definitely worth a read!

National Treasure: Diane Kruger, a Dress for Action by Lord Christopher Laverty 27 Nov 2009 ... Abigail on the other hand has probably spent an entire month’s salary on her outfit. The results of which are stunning: [Missing image, presumably of Abigail at the gala] Midnight blue silk gazar evening dress with matching lace overlay, fitted bodice with chiffon bow to waist, deep v-neck to front and back, full skirt with under-netting; short blue velvet jacket with flared sleeves, black high heel shoes, open toe with ankle straps; vintage ruby stone earrings. Although the dress looks black on screen it is actually midnight blue (slightly visible when Abigail leaves the Archives and backlight shines through the chiffon). This colour variation is possibly due to the demands of motion picture lighting. The former Prince of Wales, Edward VII, reputedly had two types of dinner suit on standby, a black for outdoor functions and a midnight blue for indoor. Under artificial light, dark blue can appear as black; a better black than black in fact. The dress’ luxury organza fabric is a crisp, heavy silk gazar from Paris with dyed lace to match; the jacket is blue silk velvet and chiffon. Based on an original design by Judianna Makovsky, the finished article was made by her long-time collaborator John David Ridge.

The earrings are:

Genuine 19th century Russian, they were supplied by L.A. based jewellery merchant Vicki Lynn. These earrings coolly offset the demureness of the dress, enlivening it with just a hint of glitz. That they date from the 1800s nods to Abigail’s love of history.

So. It appears the dress was custom made for the film by the costume designer.

However, if you absolutely have to have one, lizdress.com will apparently custom-make a number of film & tv outfits, including Abigail's dress.

Blue or Black?

Lord Christopher Laverty definitely knows better than I would, but just to corroborate the blue-for-black thing:

• "Rich Black" appears, well richly black, in print, but is not true black in a color theory sense.

• The Addams' Family house for the 1964 tv show was pink, because pink lended the right tone of eerie gray on black and white film.

• The Parthenon contains no straight lines to compensate for the eye's natural distortion so as to appear straight.

I'd argue that the dress was always intended to appear black, mostly based on how Abigail is framed to parallel Ben at so many points during the party/heist sequence.

This is a black tie event, and she's meant to appear as a natural part of the party's black and beige color palette. At no point is she staged as an Elle Woods type who is visually sticking out.

Conclusion

This article is a gold mine, and I'd definitely like to return to it from a character analysis point of view at some point! Thanks so much for helping me come across it.

Thanks so much for you question! Feel free to send another any time!

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Business Hours: Sunday Closed Monday 9am-5pm Tuesday 9am-5pm Wednesday 9am-5pm Thursday 9am-5pm Friday 9am-5pm Saturday Closed

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