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ascolotl.bsky.social
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@ascolotl.bsky.social
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PhDing on Anglo-Welsh Arthurian Romance @ Cambridge; recovering theatre kid, socialist, cyfarwydd • 🇨🇦 • he/him
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This word gets borrowed into Welsh in the Third Branch of the Mabinogi! It is attested in medieval Welsh as both ‘cordwal’ and ‘cordwan’
November 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Good luck 🤞 !
November 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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(It got maybe 2 likes)
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
ascolotl.bsky.social
One of my all time biggest disappointments on the old place was posting “ladies and gentlemen: sidhe”. Big Ls everywhere for 21st century appreciation of fairy lore
November 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Can’t wait for the Henn lecture!
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Congratulations!! 💜
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
ascolotl.bsky.social
This too on swearing is particularly lovely
A photo of the same book, with the first sentence slightly cut off (because it isn’t relevant). The visible section reads “selves to the reader.” And then continues “I have been hampered by the convention of not using impious and impolite words, because the whole shape of our discourse was conditioned by the use of such words. The very repetition of them made them seem litur-fical, certainly deprived them of malice, and occasionally, when skilfully disposed, and used according to established but flexible tradition, gave a kind of significance, and even at moments a dignity, to our speech. Sometimes their juxtaposition in a sentence, and when expressed under poignant cir-cumstances, reached real poetry. Because of publication, it has been necessary to consider conventional susceptibilities. Some such expressions have nevertheless of necessity become part of the form this writing has taken. Quite obviously they do not constitute blasphemy in any theological sense, and that is all I would consider. Private X's tirade of oaths means no more than 'I do not like this Vale of Tears'; whereas Flossie's 'O, bother!' would waste a countryside had she an efficacious formula. I say more: the 'Bugger! Bugger!' of a man detailed, had often about it the 'Fiat! Fiat!' of the Saints.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Published in 1937, to get ahead of some of the obvious comments. He’s talking about technology through the lens of the weaponry of WW1, but “creatures of chemicals” seems to presage the uncanny valley theory
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Tbf he does look quite 💅slay💅
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
ascolotl.bsky.social
I would quite like to see this pigeon
October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
ascolotl.bsky.social
High praise!
October 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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This is perfection in every way
October 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM