Enjy the Butterfly

Now, the thing about Wales is that *by law* all official government communication must be bilingual. Which means that in Wales, everyone got 2 alerts: one in welsh, and one in english.

Unfortunately, by law the welsh must happen *first*, and so the whole of wales got the fire alert in Welsh: A language that approximately 5% of the population speak well enough to actually understand what was going on.

So imagine, the emergency alert noise goes off. You open your phone. And the most *incomprehensible* collection of letters appear to you. You live in wales, so you know what Welsh looks like, but this is not the vocabulary that you usually see at the train station or on the letter from the council. And it's the emergency alert system. It's probably both Important and Urgent

So people all over Wales are using google lense or whatever to try and get a translations of this alert because this is clearly something Life Threatening. A frantic five minutes for the whole country.

And then the alert arrives in English.

Of course, now the joke is that this is how they force the Welsh Language on people: by making it clear that only Welsh Speakers will be saved from the atom bomb.

what do you mean the other sundered houses have all been in an arms race this whole time. while she's out here puttering around and trading wine and fruit.

as of the night of the massacre on the villa aurora aranessa is at least a level nine sorcerer.

brennan described her as more powerful before the doors to faerie closed.

I know the ep got posted a small while ago but the decision by Liam O'Brien to use the phrase "defang our play" just has so many layers

There's a top three

Firstly, just the phrase itself is incredible- the way the candescent creed is trying to disarm the minds of dol makjar by taking the fangs out of a play and molding it to their story

Secondly, the fact that Hal's last name is Fang ties in so well to how the candescent creed's "notes" gutted his story like a fish and completely got rid of the heritage that he has as a Runjani

Thirdly, the way it also shows the other Fang, Thjazi, and his rebellion and personality being erased with what was probably a big historical source of hope for him as well as the ways that his story and murder were mirrored in the play being taken out, completing the half of the defanging with his brother just goes down so smooth

The choice to portray both the attempted suppression of Halandil Fang's history and also the effort to take away the tools for rebellion by using a play on words like defang is just so

Hooked from the very start.

There is so much to forgive, but you do not know how to forget. When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you are the reason it has become so mangled.

Spare Arms, Hands, and Bones

Auguste Rodin. Undated.

Can your hear the Falcon's cry? Have you heard the Lion's roar?

I feel like I've been in a bit of a fugue working on this. What a showing.

San Sebastián by Aurelio Cabrera y Gallardo (1870-1936).