#they're irishisms

[heinous-bitch]

can we talk about Hozier's Anything But's double sense??? it can mean "if I was the Death, I'll let you live forever. if I was a stampede, you'd get unhurt. you don't deserve anything bad from me" BUT IT CAN ALSO MEAN "christ you're so fucking awful I wouldn't touch you with a hundred meter stick. you don't even deserve the worst of me, you waste of time" ugh his mind

#hozier #unreal unearth #anything but #im not making this up #he explained it in a recent interview #they're irishisms

[canisalbus]

Building on the favourite animal ask, another Very Important Question: favourite PREHISTORIC animal? And why? (I've always loved gorgonopsids and pterosaurs like anurognathus, but a new favourite is aquilolamma the eagle shark. They're just very cute).

I feel like my top favorites are pretty pedestrian, but I like prehistoric deer a lot!

Megaloceros giganteus aka Irish elk

Sinomegaceros ordosianus & Sinomegaceros yabei

Eucladoceros dicranios

Cervalces scotti

#they're so big why are they so big #imagine seeing an irish elk in the wild #or a herd of them #I also like long-horned bison #it's hard to imagine the good old mammoth without experiencing some type of awe and reverence #a few years ago there was a a lot of talk about spinosaurus possibly being a good swimmer and I really loved that idea personally #the looong torso & tail short limbs and quadrupedal posture made it look so sleek and crocodilian #I have no idea if that theory holds any water but I think they'd be my favorite dinosaur in any case #answered #anonymous

[sanctus-ingenium]

Ooo!! What's the dragonriders of pern???

NOT to contest the claim of trekkies everywhere, but Anne McCaffrey of Dragonriders Of Pern fame invented sex pollen and omegaverse in the 60s. Whether or not this is a good thing is up for interpretation

Dragonriders of Pern is a series of sci-fi novels that started in the 60s about human settlers on the planet of Pern who live in a pre-industrial era. Every few hundred years, their planet comes under fire from Thread, an invasive rainfall shed by a nearby dwarf planet that destroys all organic matter it touches. To fight Thread, humans have genetically engineered dragons which breathe fire to burn the Thread before it harms anyone. The series starts during an unusually long lull between Threadfalls, and in the centuries people have neglected their dragon riders and dragons to the point where when Thread does inevitably fall again, they are completely unequipped to fight it. Nearly all common dragon riding genre tropes originate from Pern!! Anne McCaffrey was the blueprint. I adore this series, but my favourite part is how as the series go on, the characters slowly uncover the truth that they are aliens in this world, dig up ancient technology, learn to use it, and progress as a society. The genre shift from fantasy to sci-fi is one of my favourite things to experience and, as the reader, slowly realising the forgotten truths that the characters themselves are unaware of is great. In this regard, a big inspiration for my Siren setting.

The series contains scenes of sexual assault and a weird adult/minor love story so I can't in good conscience recommend it without pointing this out. It should be considered a product of its time and approached with a critical lens. It was also one of the first books I ever read with normalised gay side characters and gay sex (not any of the main characters) so that was cool. For anyone wondering my fave is obviously F'nor.

#also irish travellers as actual characters.. somewhat stereotypical but they're among the first dragon riders #ive never read another fantasy or sci-fi book that explicitly includes travellers

[mangokabuto]

Some dance + real-world-equivalent-ethnicity headcannons :)

Some more little bits i be thinking abt for those who want more dance content: (under the cut)

Usopp with his salsa fundamentals and luffy with his vague memories of samba end up, at some point, coming up with their own much more chaotic combo of the two. They r spinning around so fast its insane. Luffy is about to launch them into the sun. They're having a great time.

Sanji being absolutely miffed when the only other ppl on the crew who know how to couple's dance with him are Usopp and Luffy. He gets over it ofc, being able to actually dance with another person quickly overwhelms the "I wanted to tango with a beautiful lady" grief

Sanji being able to help Usopp re-learn salsa and them bonding over their moms abt it 🥲Luffy is a lost cause tho he's not learning shit /j

BaroqueWorks Robin and Bon Clay bonding over ballet Q_Q

Brook inventing the most INSANE new dips/twirls/transitions because he no longer has muscles or skin or whatever in the way

Also I firmly believe Usopp listens & dances to anything made by Spice, Mr. Killa, and Yung Bredda, but he refuses to let the crew know this. He's not embarrassed or anything he's just fairly sure Sanji would have a heart attack and die if he heard the lyrics

Sanji listens & dances to Rodrigo y Gabriela he's in love with their story

Zoro is one of those freaks who has no desire to listen to music at all but he won't turn it off if it's on, yk?

As made obvious above I think Usopp and Sanji are the 1st and 2nd most versatile dancers, but neither of them dance more Often than Franky

If i had to rank them based on how often/readily they will dance its....in the order I placed the pictures, with chopper between brook and nami. Luffy is only so low cause he'd usually rather be eating, and brook cause he'd rather be playing, and zoro cause he'd rather be drinking/napping

Robin will readily dance with you if you ask her but she's not going to initiate

If you love dance like i do and want to see some specific choreographers/dances i had in mind while drawing these, that will be the rest of this bullet list!

Sanji is doing Derek Hough's little solo bit from his pasodoble choreo on dancing with the stars. look it up it is so peak

Dancing with the star (chopper <3)

In my head Usopp is perfectly capable of dancing any choreography by Latrice Kabamba (west african steps), Tricia Miranda (dancehall), or Yeifren Mata (mostly male solo salsa)

For Franky I think some old way choreos by Nastya Batrachenko or Dashaun Wesley (he mostly does fem now but he has good old way stuff) r good

#my art #dancing HCs #they're all transgender if you didnt notice btw <3 #wano is such a clear and intentional allegory for isreal/palestine and zoro's family came from there. he has some brown in him i stg!!! #i know oda said Brook was from austria but oda is wrong <3 brook told me so himself in a dream i prommy #sanji is apparently french. his birth parents are clearly german royalty. his real father is irish. why is he french /hj #chopper is canadian ofc but he is also. a deer

[thatuselesshuman]

So i just watched the Ramshackle pilot on yt and....

MY LANKY IRISH BOY

LOVE HIM ❤️❤️❤️

#Also yes I'm aware he's 16 #I don't mean romantically love ya weirdos #His voice is 🤌🤌🤌 #I need more Irish accents you don't understand #They're so pleasant to listen to #This man is a win for Irish people all around #ramshackle #ramshackle pilot #stone ramshackle

[lionmythflower]

hc that peter knows a bunch of languages bc he already grew up knowing 3 languages (both of this parents know languages other than English) and he picks up languages really easily, so a bunch of his friends will all be speaking in theyre first languages and Peter will just casually respond in the same language and they'll js have to do a double take for a moment

#Peter and Barty both know a bunch of languages #And the languages that they're friends don't know is the ones they talk to each other in :) #peter pettigrew #peter pettigrew headcanons #marauders #slytherin skittles #Languages #italian barty #Canadian Evan #french regulus black #french sirius black #German peter #Irish peter #French peter #Arabic James #welsh remus lupin #evan rosier #regulus black #james potter #barty crouch jr #lily evans #remus lupin #sirius black #Partyvan #dorlene #jegulily #pandalily #marylily #wolfstar #rosekiller

[sweatermuppet]

went crazy with painting tonight!!! gonna have my roommate photograph some of them & maybe I'll offer them as prints? if i keep going this way ill probably sell some originals because i will not have space for em

#they're just acrylic on (repurposed) cardboard so if i did sell originals they'd be pretty low in price. idk. getting ahead of myself #having fun :-) #i made a parm chicken pasta dinner & then listened to irish drinking/rebel songs & painted

[finnlongman]

POV: You're making a PowerPoint presentation for a paper about 15th-17th century Ulster Cycle tales

#cu chulainn #help help they're eclipsing all the lenited consonants again #irish #gaeilge #anyway early modern irish was a mistake

[quatregats]

Also I realize that the answer is probably just reading enough period sources but as a linguist I really do need to pick Patrick O'Brian's brain about where in the world he got his different speech patterns from

#mostly just fascinated because they are mostly not based on modern speech patterns #and maximum respect to him for that period pieces should be in period language and that includes different sociolects/dialects #but i'm just really really interested what he took them from. like i want to read the source material #also as someone who knows virtually nothing about irish english i didn't notice most of stephen's irish speech patterns #until after reading the golden ocean which makes them much more obvious #but i'm curious if (1) they're recognizably modern and/or period irish and (2) what the irish people here think of them #generally inclined to trust him on it because it's unexpected enough that i feel like it's probably at least slightly based on sources #i just have no frame of reference for it #anyways when i say that i need to talk to patrick o'brian you have to understand that this would be minimum 50% of the conversation #the other 50% would be asking him about the catalan references because i am nothing if not predictable #perce rambles #aubreyad

[trans-cuchulainn]

one of the reasons i object to the random assignation of words like "mythology" and "folklore" to some medieval literature (and by random i mean interchangeably and with no real consideration of what they mean) is that when you look at what gets called mythology and what gets acknowledged as literature, it's very othering, it's very noticeable that english and french material generally gets to be literature* and lit in celtic languages is folklore, and it often obscures the actual historical context of that material. in particular it obscures the literate, learned institutions that produced that literature whether courtly or ecclesiastical in favour of attributing it to some nebulous voice of the people that ignores the complex web of influences and powers that shaped those stories

if chaucer isn't folklore then a fourteenth century irish text isn't either. if shakespeare isn't folklore then a sixteenth century irish text isn't either. etc etc. the anonymity of the author does not make it any less a self consciously literary production within a learned environment with influences from classical and contemporary literature written to support political aims or to respond to contemporary events

folklore exists, and is not these texts (it does a disservice to folklore and folklorists to assume you can approach them in the same way methodologically tbh!). mythology exists, and is a difficult-to-discern thread that runs through some of these texts (i find the dindsenchas elements particularly convincing as mythological, but otherwise it's hard to identify what's what, particularly when authors are making classical allusions all the time). but what the majority of these texts are, at face value, is literature. the way that they get othered and made out to be somehow more primitive and magical just bc they're in celtic languages and (usually) anonymous really pisses me off

*arthurian material is the exception but this usually relies on some vague notion of celtic origins so it's actually the same phenomenon wearing a different hat

#oh yeah this is definitely discourse sorry #reblogs OFF replies ready to be shot on sight #there are uses of terms like myth that are more grounded and sound than these uses #they're not the ones i'm talking about #i'm talking about the arbitrary description of any and all irish literature as 'celtic mythology' and/or folklore #and like. not to vagueblog ao3 but. also ao3's garbage tag wrangling contributes to this #i will continue to stubbornly tag my shit as medieval Irish lit #it is not ancient religion and lore. it's a fucking fifteenth century text my dude

[vyorei]

3 calls for a ceasefire, let's go, chop chop the rest of yiz

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #New Zealand #Canada #Australia #Ceasefire #Lmao at telling hamas to stop what they're not doing #Tell Israel to stop using Palestinians as human shields. Jackass.

[tytodreams]

chilchuck gives his girls a treat before dinner ( don't tell mom )

#dungeon meshi #chilchuk tims #chilchuk dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #mayjack chils #flertom chils #† tyto draws #is it really 'chilchuk' without a 'c'???? #i'm only tagging it this way for viewing purposes #i don't care what the official spellings are #or what the anime says #in my heart it's chilchuck with a ck #and it's torden siblings instead of touden #they're fantasy nordics let them have the thunder! #on another note: #going off the headcanon that half-foots have a shorter gestation period than tall-men #i thought it'd make sense for mayjack and flertom to be irish twins #i also gave mayjack freckles ( and chil to a lesser extent ) #but they didn't turn out very visible.......... :/ #you can tell that i completely gave up when i got to the background

[irelandseyeonmythology]

"We need more complicated female characters" people literally haven't been able to handle Gráinne and Medb for over a thousand years

#people still can't handle aífe and blathnát #and they're literally rape victims #irish mythology

[hella1975]

all hate to tiktok for taking 'having a space to more openly and actively talk about different cultures' to mean 'cultures are NOT to be shared and we must be vigilantly defensive of our cultures for fear of appropriation, a word that can be applied to any multicultural interaction'. like of course cultural appropriation is a very real problem but ive seen with the access to global multicultural conversation that tiktok provides it's made people TERRIFIED to even interact with cultures other than their own for fear of 'doing it wrong'. like at some point you have to acknowledge that in the real world of the great outdoors, the majority of people are eager to SHARE their cultures. yes there are ignorant questions and biases but also... how do you think those things get unlearnt? i dont understand how deciding that multiculturalism is an elephant in the room instead of a normal thing that should just be talked about and lived with is supposed to benefit anyone? and kids on tiktok are CONVINCED that it's a time bomb of a conversation to have and therefore must be avoided at all costs but like. people generally LOVE their home and their culture and are PROUD of it and want to share it. how have we made it so that showing genuine interest and a desire to understand something so integral to a person's identity is now feared and borderline demonised?

#thinking about this a lot lately. thinking about how fun it was comparing cultural differences in america #thinking of how when i was homesick one thing i found a great comfort in was talking about my home #and how it differed and i really loved and appreciated it when people would ask me about england #in a way that they genuinely just wanted to learn about it and not to take the piss #thinking about how the kitchen at work has chefs from all over europe. we have an irish chef and a spanish chef and an italian chef #and one of the kps is from eastern europe (i havent actually been able to find out where yet) etc and the way they banter with each other #like usually chefs are Problematic bc their humour is VERY abrasive and usually offensive #but this is one instance where it's actually to their benefit bc they're so unafraid to ADDRESS THE FACT THEY HAVE DIFFERENT CULTURES #i feel like the tiktok gen are so petrified of even acknowledging other cultures let alone discussing them #that it's actually sending the conversation backwards. like how does hoarding your culture and pretending it's not there benefit anyone #LET ALONE YOU AND THE CULTURE IN QUESTION. idk it just baffles me a bit that something that started as people on tiktok #genuinely spreading information and talking about the BAD side of this where people DO culturally appropriate or invade spaces that arent #theirs has now become 'for fear of speaking bad about it we will not speak about it at all'. and they'll crucify you if you do. like what #even at uni my best mate is indian and she's too scared to join the sikh society on her own so i regularly go to the events with her #and im typically one of the handful (or the only) white non-sikh there and i get SO welcomed each time #like there's such a genuine excitement to share the culture with someone who is effectively a blank slate #and like yeah ill ask 'dumb' questions or i'll have different experiences (tried a samosa for the first time at one of these events #and the moment that info got out i had like five STRANGERS trying to give me different samosas to try and it was genuinely such #a laugh bc yes they were TEASING me bc 'how have you never had one' but they were also really eager to share MORE as a result) #ugh idk what im saying. i just think it's a shame to watch this happen in real time on the internet #when if people would just go outside and actually TALK to people from other cultures they'd realise 9 times out of 10 the interactions #are actually really really nice for BOTH parties. and actually refusing to talk about this stuff is long-term pretty fucking detrimental #and it also goes the other way!!! like imagine if i - citizen of colonisation motherland herself - didn't interact with other cultures #and didnt ask questions or hear their opinions on whatever shared history we have from THEIR POINT OF VIEW #imagine the kind of shit id be internalising bc i only hung out with other white british people. it wouldnt matter if i was doing it #to be woke or 'respect their culture'. it would still be fucking ignorant. like half my interactions with other cultures #see me as the butt of the joke bc of this like aforementioned irish chef at work VOCALLY slates the english all the time #but it's done in an environment where we're FRIENDS and it's poking fun at each other while still addressing a very serious history. like?? #idk if any of this is worded in a way that makes sense but yeah. i have thoughts #cant believe i got inspired to make an actually serious post bc of the CHEFS AT WORK. embarrassing. no one let them see this

[aquitainequeen]

Me, so physically exhausted that I am basically the equivalent of sloshed, stabbing the table with my finger for emphasis:

The point is. The point is. The point is. Everyone's always adapting Greek and Classical mythology, and Norse mythology. Maybe Egyptian, if you're lucky. More Chinese mythology now, that's good. But. They never do Irish mythology. Where's my adaptation of The Táin/The Cattle Raid of Cooley????? I want to see Cú Chulainn use the belly spear!!!!

#my life #funsies #this whole rant did happen but it's also a fumble on my part due to the exhaustion #Instead of Cú Chulainn I'd really like to see something based on The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne #Or Deirdre of the Sorrows #Or the Children of Lir #They're the stories that we grew up with #However The Tain is basically the Irish Iliad; sooooooo

[telleroftime]

Since I'm currently experiencing major John Silver brainrot, here's some general headcanons I've been thinking about:

He's deaf in his right ear, if he even has a right ear remaining. With the mechanism that's part of his cyborg nature it'd be highly unlikely he could hear anything on that side. His ear is gone, replaced with the cogs that by my understanding allow him to control his cyborg prosthetics. If he could hear anything it'd be the constant whir of the machine as it turns like a steam engine.

He has a bear tail. I mean, he's described to be of a bearlike race so what's stopping him from having a tail. Maybe it's tucked away under his shirts - we'll never know. However it's still fun imaging his tough and impeding exterior with a little button tail.

He'd say he's terrible with children but would then proceed to tell the best bedtime stories. The art book itself states he enjoys storytelling and we all saw how quickly he melted into that father-figure role in the movie.

On the topic of storytelling, he'd be happy if people came to him for stories. I feel like he'd always make time to ramble about his adventures and would even have a voice for each character he talks about.

He can't swim. With the setting of the story - being described as 70% traditional and 30% sci-fi - he'd be very prone to rust. No matter how good he was at swimming before implementing his prosthetics, he can no longer go into water without risking damaging the metal parts. Not just that, they may be heavy enough to make him sink.

Okay, I think that's everything I have for now. I'll probably think of some more later.

#john silver #treasure planet #these are probably common headcanons #but hey - they're fun regardless #my brain could have picked the hot cat lady to fixate on but no #it had to go and pick the irish cyborg pirate