#ynys môn

[mouth-almighty]

Ynys Môn am byth!

#ynys môn #Cymru #Cymraeg #yr iaith gymraeg

[invisible-goats]

Ynys Môn is now on kindle!

Monsters and mythical figures return to the land of King Arthur, centuries after his death. The spirits of Arthur and his Knights are brought back to keep darkness at bay and conquer evil. Unfortunately, their vessels are three aimless sixth formers from Anglesey.

If you like arthuriana, the Mabinogi, Wales, nonbinary characters, urban fantasy, you will like it!

#we're open to putting it other places just don't know where beyond kindle #we're also considering making it available as paperback #ynys môn #arthuriana #writers on tumblr #tymblr #the mabinogion

[llyfrenfys]

Since the post I reblogged didn't actually link to the petition

#please reblog for reach #ynys môn #Anglesey #last tag purely to cover bases #môn #welsh language #yr iaith gymraeg #cymraeg #tafodiaith

[rowynnellis]

I’m just a fancy little goblin out for a walks ✨

#Ynys Môn #anglesey #caernarfon #castle #wales #Welsh

[hyperions-fate]

My favourite genre of Anglo clickbait articles are the ones about how demonic Welsh, Gaelic, and Irish speakers are trying to annihilate British history and identity by using traditional, non-English place-names. Commentators with names like 'Tabitha Kingsworth' and 'John Foxly Bull' are perplexed that people might have their own linguistic heritage and wish to support it.

#Ynys Môn

[lymphomalass]

Today I thought I'd share with you why this one's extra special.... "Space Hopper Racing at Trearddur Bay" is a watercolour painting I literally waited years to paint! I really wanted to create this piece showing the great fun New Years Day racing in aid of the RNLI (our local voluntary sea rescue service) but I also wanted it to be realistic, so I had to wait through Covid lockdowns and Welsh government restrictions till it was legal for the races to run and for me to go and see them! It was well worth the wait! What had started a number of years ago as a small family event, has morphed into a massively popular red letter day in the calendar for the local community and many of Trearddur Bay's visitors. To me it's possibly the very best of community ventures! It was hilarious, with youngsters bulging the start line outwards to get a competitive advantage, some of the children earnestly hopping all the way, others just picking up their space hoppers and running and children refusing to leave the track when it came to the adult races! No winner was announced for any of the races, because by coming together on the beach on this cold January day, every one of us was a winner! I hope my delight in that day communicates! I'd love to know it you've ever seen or experienced something similar to this space-hopper racing. Please do tell me in the comments... Thanks! Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#trearddur #bae trearddur #trearddur bay #space hopper racing #space hoppers #anglesey #anglesey coast #ynys môn #ynys mon

[yvelou]

So it turnsout that the lovely couple I photographed recently walking hand in hand on the pretty island of Ynys Llanddwyn also photographed me!!! 😆 (Talk about synchronicity!)

Having just taken a photo of him and his wife walking hand in hand up the hill, i was just coming from my spot an saw a man (Kev) taking a landscape shot.

So I think that I’ve just ruined his shot completely by walking right into his frame & say something along the lines of “So Sorry!! Don’t you just hate it when someone walks into your frame!! (Not feeling that photogenic in five thousand layers of jumpers and coats!) 👀

Well it turns out, we both walked into eachothers frames on this day and we got some awesome pictures to share as keepsakes in the process! 📸❤️

We just took photos of eachother!.. 😆 I mean, you can’t make this stuff up, this is pretty cool! I’m so made up that he shared his take from the day as I absolutely love the photo & he also told me that he and his wife both love the pictures I shared of them too!

What a coincidence! 😊📸🌅

#anglesey #earth #photoart #y #ynys llanddwyn #ynys môn

[i-just-watch-the-sea]

Porth Tyn Tywyn, Ynys Môn (Anglesey)

09/08/23

#waves #coast #sea #beach #shore #shoreline #irish sea #anglesey #ynys môn #rhosneigr #porth tyn tywyn #sun #summer #august #awst #haf #yr haul #môr #traeth #op #wales #cymru #gogledd cymru

[dissociative-disaster]

Just nice photos of the sunset on Ynys Môn from my walk yesterday

#photography #sunsets #anglesey #ynys môn #cymru #wales #i know this kind of photo is trite but i choose not to care.

[thesilicontribesman]

Prehistoric Axehead With Reconstructed Wooden Handle, Oriel Ynys Môn, Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales

#ice age #stone age #bronze age #copper age #iron age #neolithic #mesolithic #calcholithic #paleolithic #prehistory #prehistoric #wales #axehead #axe #reconstruction #archaeology #relic #Anglesey

[invisible-goats]

not amazon recommending me my own book

but also we've only sold 8 and don't get a royalty payout until we pass £100 so hey, go ahead and email people about it i guess, you cheeky megacorp you

#ynys môn

[llyfrenfys]

So quick post since I just woke up- but this is a psa to everyone really (but especially to people outside Wales) to be careful about how you express support for Welsh language preservation. I've censored the name of the reblogger here (this is a screenshot of a reblog of my post about the petition to use only Ynys Môn for the island instead of Anglesey) and I will say, while I (and many others in Wales) appreciate the support from overseas, its important not to accidentally use white nationalist slogans in doing so!

No animosity directed at the commenter, I feel like it was an innocent mistake. But "Keep Wales Welsh" is a white nationalist slogan and we don't do that here.

I can see where the mistake has happened. In English there are no separate words for Welsh (language) and Welsh (person) while there is in Welsh- 'Cymreig' means Welsh in the sense of being of Wales (e.g. 'llaeth Cymreig' is Welsh milk), while 'Cymraeg' means Welsh in the sense of the Welsh language (e.g. 'Ydych chi'n siarad Cymraeg?' means do you speak Welsh?). The commenter probably intended to mean 'Keep Wales Welsh' in the sense of 'Keep Wales Welsh language'. However, white nationalists use that slogan to mean 'Keep Wales ethnically* Welsh'. Which is a big nono around here and on this blog. We don't do that here.

[* There is no such thing as ethnically Welsh either, but it's a line trotted out by white nationalists in Wales to justify their ethnonationalism.]

There are many non-white Welsh people and also many non-white Welsh speakers. Being Welsh and the ability to speak Welsh are not in any way connected to race or ethnicity. Welsh nationalism ≠ white nationalism - there's no justification for using racist, white nationalist arguments to secure Welsh independence. An independent Wales should be a diverse independent Wales - an independent Wales inclusive of all races, nationalities, disabilities, sexualities and genders.

Annibyniaeth Wrthffasgiaid.

#cymraeg #cymreig #cymro #cymraes #cymru #antifascist #anti white nationalist #not dictionary related #annibyniaeth #welsh #Wales #welsh language #welsh nationalism

[angiethewitch]

Niwbwrch, Ynys Môn

#angie talks #wales #cymru #cymru am byth #niwbwrch #newborough #anglesey

[queer-ragnelle]

Mabinogion posting for @liminalpsych

Not all of the stories in the Mabinogion relate to Arthurian Legend. However I recall you've been reading Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, and two of the stories, The Dream of Maxen and Lludd and Llefelys, tie into that. So they might still interest you!

The version I own for annotation was translated by Jeffrey Gantz for Penguins Classics in 1976. As far as I know, a PDF of this doesn't exist. But I favor it because Gantz maintained as much Welsh as possible with footnotes indicating the updated names for clarity right at the bottom of the page. Although I'll say, his poeticism is lacking. Here's an excerpt from The Dream of Maxen with the footnote added in brackets.

They went on until they could see Ynys Môn [Anglesey] opposite, and Arvon as well, and again they said, "There is the land our lord saw in his dream."

Google Books has this translation by Lady Charlotte Guest available for download. This is the first ever English translation! The title Mabinogion originates here with Lady Charlotte from way back in 1849. Her rationale was that mab is the Welsh word for boy, so she concluded mabinogi was a noun equivalent to "a story for children," and that mabinogion must be the plural of the word. While that is not a true Welsh word, the name remains.

The scan from a 1904 printing is very neat for ease of reading, features lovely antique illustrations, and even includes a guide for pronouncing Welsh names. It also translates locations to their modern names directly in the prose, but overall reads more prettily to me. Here is the same The Dream of Maxen excerpt to compare word choice.

And they went forward until they saw Anglesey before them, and until they saw Arvon likewise. "Behold," said they, "the land out master saw in his sleep."

Anyway I hope this helps! I intend to make a Kai and Bedwyr post separately from this. They deserve it.

#arthurian legend #arthuriana #the mabinogion #mabinogion #welsh #liminalpsych #resource #my post

[ansicred]

LECHAN YN Y GWAED | welsh (+ welsh descendant) ocs | part one: bleddyn

I think we'll start this little series with my Welshest character: Bleddyn Ellis. He was born and raised in Gwalchmai, which is village that's smack in the middle of nowhere on Ynys Môn, having been born in a farmhouse just outside the village itself. The island, like most of North Western Wales, is a very very low-income, Working-class area - his specific area is very agriculture-heavy because of its very rural location... His mother was a homemaker and part-time laundress, while his father was a quarryman who worked at Dinorwig quarry and would often leave the home for weeks at a time, sending a good portion of his pittance of a wage back to the family on the island via the post. Both his parents were Welsh and spoke very little English, which means he grew up mostly speaking his native language of Welsh at home and with most people he came across while growing up. He didn't learn English until he was in his third year at primary school (around 7/8 years old) and didn't fully gain the ability to code-switch his heavy North Western Welsh accent until he was about 22 and he'd been living in London for four years. He is a very proud Welshman, making a point of saying so whenever he gets the chance -- especially when he's in discussion about his writing work. Though his most popular/famous writing is in English, he does have work published in his native Welsh including a book of poems entitled: Beth Am Yr Ysbryd? (What Of The Spirit?) which is full of poems he wrote about his time living in London and feeling like a fish out of water, and a three separate novels entitled: Hunllef (Nightmare) which is a horror novel, Fasiwn Stâd (lit.: Estate Fashion, contextually: What A State) which is a 'slice of life' novel, and Malu'n Racs (Broken (Into Pieces)) which is a dramedy-romance novel -- he will bring them up whenever an interviewer asks about his first English book and refers to it as his first ever book because it isn't, his first ever published book is BAYY?. Blaidd is a regular competitor at the Eisteddfod, usually submitting his poems and prose by post, and has won a total of 2 chairs. He has mixed feelings about the festival, given that it tends to favour Southern Welsh people and/or people of higher class than Bleddyn is/was growing up (ie: people with a lot of money). He has also recited his Welsh poems at various writing events across the UK (not that they got much praise outside of his homeland). His all-time favourite (Welsh) bands are (Yr) Anrhefn and Datblygu, and he often listens to them for inspiration. He has successfully gotten his non-Welsh friends into both... Mostly by accident. He has made a point of speaking Welsh to his daughter, Begw, in a bid to keep the language alive and to teach her about her heritage. He believes that it's important for her to learn the 'mamiaith' so that she can have easier access to her history, culture, and be able to communicate with family on the Ellis side of her family tree. In doing that, though, he's gotten ire from English parents and he's found his (reluctant) respect for English people slip more in recent years because of how he's been treated for the great sin of speaking to his child in a language that's more natural to him. Bleddyn was alive for a lot of the more recent-memory Welsh history, such as the drowning of Tryweryn, Cymdeithas Yr Iaith protests, the arson attacks on English-owned summer homes in tourist-heavy areas/areas of dire housing crisis due to tourism, and is pro-devolution (or pro-a Welsh Assembly, which is now known as the Senedd/Welsh Government -- something that operates separately from the UK Government in a majority of areas, including (minor) law-making, international relations, health, education, etc. and came to be in September of 1997, Blaidd's story is set between January 1997 and September 1997) & pro-independence. He wants to see a free Wales at some point in the future, but currently settles for openly talking about his culture and using his language so as to be sure it won't be lost to time.

#ansicredocs #watdverse #bleddynwatd #bleddynwatdlore #welshoclore

[lymphomalass]

"When you can't change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails." (H. Jackson Brown, Jr)

I saw this saying on a mug designed as a gift for sailors recently and thought it was just wonderful!

Yes, many of us have an idea of what we want in life, but sometimes we need to change tack for a while to keep safe.

You may want to be a full-time artist, or be an entrepreneur and run your business full-time, or just retire early.

But if the sales aren't coming fast enough or the energy bills are too high, there's no shame in taking on a job for a while, part or full-time.

It might even bring some unexpected benefits like some new friendships and you might actually enjoy it!

It doesn't mean your life-plans aren't valid or aren't achievable in the end.

Taking a detour now might even give you extra experience, or planning and preparation time, that helps you get to where you want to be more easily!

Sometimes the things that are outside our control just have to be taken into account, and that doesn't mean you won't still get to where you want to go, eventually.

And who knows what new ideas or contacts you may pick up along the way!

This art's available printed-to-your-order, with minimal wastage at: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/56061010 And everything's 25% off, but not for long.

Thanks!

Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

#adjust your sails #sailing #sail #sails #sailboat #sailing boat #sailling boats #sailboats #myth #bae trearddur #trearddur bay #trearddur #ynys môn #ynys mon #anglesey #hwylio #cymru goggled #cymru #north wales coast