Staidéar thar lear

Sep. 15th, 2025 07:04 pm
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B'fhéidir go mbeidh mé ag déanamh staidéar in Éirinn sa dara seimeastar!! Níor cheap mé go raibh mé abálta, cheap mé nach raibh mé ceadaithe mar chuir mé céist ródhéanach. Caithfidh mé 'brush up on' mo ghaeilge, bhí mé ag déanamh go leor Coirnise le déanaí.

Gender and Cookie Run

Sep. 15th, 2025 03:35 pm
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I think it's interesting that the Beasts are conform to traditional gender roles, especially when compared to the Ancient Heroes. The warriors are men, and the women are in more nurturing positions. While Shadow Milk is far from traditionally masculine now, while he was still a Virtue, he was an academic – a position often seen as strictly for men. (And I feel it goes without saying that he almost certainly wasn't a shapeshifter until after his fall, given that his shifting is an extension of and aid for Shadow Milk's Deceit. That means no fluidity between masculine and feminine forms.)

Compare this to the Ancient Heroes. Pure Vanilla is an effeminate male healer (often voiced by women in different languages), and there are two strong warrior women. Dark Cacao and White Lily are the closest to being gender-conforming, but they still fall short, so to say. Dark Cacao is a strong king with a noted soft side, and White Lily is a delicate woman with a thirst for knowledge. (Remember: academia and knowledge are traditionally seen as men's territory.)

Furthermore, the Beasts have a majority of men, and the Ancient have a majority of women.

I like to imagine this is has to do with the fact that the Beasts were made for their roles, while the Ancient Heroes grew up as normal people before being gifted their sacred status. When the Virtues were hand-crafted, they were imagined up as 'suited' for their designated roles in every way. But, once these attempted manifestations of perfect ideals failed, it fell to normal people. And normal people are much more variant, much more diverse. But one can argue that it is also through the Ancient Heroes' upbringing as normal people that they are able to thrive where the Virtues once fell.

Guilty pleasure foods: More food talk

Sep. 14th, 2025 09:13 pm
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Here it is again like a week before I start my period and I have all the classic junk food cravings... cookies mainly. If junk food was a drug cookies would be my drug of choice. :-p
I try not to do it much - but sometimes I eat out of boredom or stress related. When I was a teen I actually was overweight due to overeating because of depression. I have a character in my comic Promised memories I plan on writing about with a similar eating disorder. I also had a slight eating disorder when I was a late teen/early 20's where I just didn't eat because I wanted to be super skinny because I thought I looked better super skinny and it was a pretty dark time for me.

I've been trying to stay away from the ingredients of high fructose corn syrup and also corn syrup in general. It's hard - there are some foods I haven't found yet that don't have any - like Maple syrup syrup (once in awhile I like to have pancakes or waffles!). But I think I just need to look harder or just buy some all natural the next time I find it available. There are so many health risks associated to it! I know they make it, it's just a bit more expensive but well worth it.
But also sometimes I just crave some salty foods like chips. I don't eat chips much these days. The price just seems to be a bit high for how little you get in the bag.
And just crunchy is a craving I get, too. Like crackers or just good o' cheese crackers. That was a favorite of mine back from when I was a young child.
Bread is another one that I just find some comforting. Anything bread related - donuts, muffins, rolls, bagels... when I was younger and in my single days I would sometimes joke of wanting to marry a baker just so they could come home smelling like baked goods each day. ^^;
Gosh, what else... this is all making me so hungry and I need to go to bed soon. :-p
Cheese is another one that just is too delicious to pass up! And cheese with crackers and meat! sign me up! I recently made this cheder and potato soup that is super tasty. Once fall comes around I love having soup.
For awhile now I have gotten better about eating at fast food. But once in awhile I do have a fast food craving where I just go and get something little. Some places I just get sick after eating their food - like Taco bell.
At times I do like to have cake but not as much as I used to. My dad makes some of the best cake I've ever had. He usually makes homemade icing!
Brownie's are another guilty pleasure. I tend to enjoy the middle pieces more than the edge pieces. ;-)
And that reminds me of cupcakes. I love making cupcakes and have a nice collection of sprinkles for them. I have some pans for extra small ones (that are adorable) and regular size ones.
Last summer and this past summer I've had some wonderful ice cream from different places. And I've tried some new flavors which was fun. A new favorite of mine is this sea salt caramel flavor.

Okay, Okay - I think that should be it about guilty pleasure foods! I wanted to take a minute and write about something less serious than I have talked about recently. And this felt right. Do you guys have any favorite guilty pleasure foods that I have mentioned - or some completely different ones?

Giving Lucky Star a second chance

Sep. 14th, 2025 07:54 pm
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When I first watching Lucky Star, I simply couldn't get into it. I know its akin to American shows like Seinfeld where it's practically about nothing and I got behind that, but I simply couldn't got to be invested after the first four episodes. Decided to give it another go after watching clips on youtube and finding Izumi practically adorable after all this time.

Had also finished Area 88 (2004,) and despite its mild ending and how it directed itself, I enjoyed it for what it was.

Another Anime with a cute protagonist I'm trying out is The Great Jahy Won't be Defeated (or something like that,) which so far it's entertaining, and Heatguy J, which I'm sure I've watched some episodes of it before. Best way I can describe it is like Inspector Gadget if he were badass.

Will update on more progress on said titles.

Spy x Family Season 3 trailer

Sep. 11th, 2025 12:20 am
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Seems one of my top favorites has gotten its third season. Crunchyroll unveiled the trailer a day ago and was wise not revealing much in terms of spoiling it the context. I can't wait to watch it all when I can see it.


Here's the link for said trailer

Spy X Family season 3 trailer

trump the peacemaker

Sep. 10th, 2025 11:56 am
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Alright, yeah. His croonies and yesmen along with fox "news" claiming TACO is a "peace" man and abides for it, as well as pushing to give him that peace award he salivates on getting without real merit and some guy named Peter stiffly "rapping" in the oval office about how peaceful" annoying orange truly is and what he'll do to keep peace where any other person couldn't.

That make me crack up.

trump is never at peace, especially with his huge mouth spewing insults and derogatory terms to about anyone not kissing his crusty orange ass and had been first on bombing other countries during his two terms, as well as eagerly signing his infamous executive orders to continue his abuse of power unchecked, going on renaming the Department of Defense into the "department of war."

You tell me how someone like him deserves that Nobel Peace Prize.
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A day ago had an argument with Mother over the phone. Part of it due to my so called father being an ass and me taking it out on her because I know he likes being a coward, taking advantage.

She can also be difficult, but I trust her more than the man who single handedly destroyed our family and acts like he should never admit wrongdoing.

I took some time during the day to reflect on what happened between me and Mother, then called back to apologize.

Nowadays I can't afford to act like that coward of that man believing everyone else is to blame on anything. I made a life goal not being like him in many aspects.

De-anglicising Celtic studies

Sep. 8th, 2025 09:21 pm
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I've been thinking about cross-Celtic studies spaces online and how it feels wrong that the majority of them use English as the main language. And I understand that it's because English is the most-spoken language in five out of six of the Celtic nations, and because there's no other common language shared between the Celtic nations, and because the Celtic languages are not really mutually intelligible (especially between Gaelic and Brythonic languages).

As Celtic studies students, it feels wrong that we, as the new generation in the field, are discussing and making decisions on the future of our field in English. But I don't really know what the alternative is. English is a global lingua franca and I suspect that a lot of online/international spaces and communities use English.

Maybe we need our own non-English lingua franca. I briefly thought that a Celtic-based con-lang could work (maybe something combining the most common elements of Brythonic languages with the most common elements of Gaelic languages to make it as easy to learn/understand for speakers of both branches), but I doubt you could get the whole Celtic studies community to learn a brand-new con-lang. And besides, someone would have to make it first.

At my university, we can (and mostly do) talk about our field through Welsh, since it's in Wales. Or Irish when I'm around the smaller amount of people who speak Irish here. So it's possible to de-anglicise our field of study on a smaller, more local scale, but as a pan-Celtic-nation thing I'm not sure how it could work. My immediate reaction is that I don't really like having English as the pan-Celtic lingua franca.

And sure, maybe we don't need to shove all of our nations and cultures and histories under one homogenous "pan-Celtic" umbrella or to invent new spurious pan-Celtic connections such as a con-lang, but I do feel like we should be doing more in Celtic languages. Clearly we need to revive Proto-Celtic and all learn to speak that(!)

And maybe I'm a hypocrite for writing this in English, but I think another issue is that our voices and research won't be heard or seen by others if it's all in minoritised languages. A paper written in English is likely readable to most of the Celtic studies field, whereas, in comparison, a lot less people would be able to read it if it were in Scottish Gaelic, for example. I do think all Celtic studies papers should have a translation into a Celtic language, and maybe then all papers written in a Celtic language should have an English/French translation, in order to make it accessible to as many people in the Celtic nations as possible.

I do think multilingualism/multiculturalism should be embraced in the Celtic studies field, but everything always seems to have to be English when it comes to communicating across Celtic languages/nations, and I wish it didn't. And I don't know what to do about that.

What grinds my gears

Sep. 8th, 2025 12:04 am
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Everytime I watch a video of some channel on youtube talking about a cartoon or a videogame featuring animal characters and then blatantly refer them as "furries" bothers me to no end.

Especially when I feel like it's more like an insult and a jab at those peculiar people who dress up as animals and do their weird thing and an insult to said cartoon/videogame characters that have NOTHING to do with such people and their fetish.

I bet any asshole who tosses that word also does it because of that idiotic "lol furries" mocking mentality, thinking everyone does it as well.

Well bad news, the real world doesn't bother making such statements outloud, only shut ins like you do who probably visit places like 4chan and wants to be accepted by kids who take everything as a joke.

The only thing you make me do is to unsubscribe from your channel and make you feel the loss of not liking your videos.

Art Books: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Sep. 6th, 2025 07:05 am
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec

https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec

So far after all the artists I have read - I think only 6 or something? - I think Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has been my favorite. Not only do I like some of the posters he designed but I enjoy his paintings and I liked what I read about him and his interesting life. For those of you who don't know He broke both his legs early on in life and they did not heal correctly which left him with a stunted appearance. The book I was reading which was written in the 70's spoke of him as a dwarf - I'm not sure how accurate that is. He was born into an aristocracy family, if he would have outlived his father he would have inherited the family title - Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec. He came from a family of inbreeding sadly - his parents were first cousins. That may of had a-lot to do with his health problems.

He was born in 1864 and was considered a post impressionist. He spent a good amount of time in brothels and prostitutes and lesbians, showing up beautifully and naturally in his paintings. He preferred the woman in these places as opposed to plain models. Late 19 century in bohemian Paris seemed like it was quite a time and the fact that he created some works of art for us to view now makes it all the more interesting. Some of the copied prints in the book I read had women embracing and having a some form of intimacy. Others were of people in their natural environments. Henri did have an alcoholism problem and had spent some time in a sanatorium for three months and during that time he drew 39 circus portraits by memory, I find that impressive. He died at the young age of 36 of alcoholism and syphilis. His mother and art dealer kept promoting his artwork after his death.
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