#Cymblr

[llyfrenfys]

Yo! A mate of mine is doing a survey for their PHD based on Welsh speakers and the contexts in which they feel comfortable speaking Welsh, I figured I'd send it along as it may be of interest to you and some followers? Diolch yn fawr!

https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=VUxHxiOpKk2b1OzjcUjbsislyVxFZm9Asu7rF11HsxRURTVSSjM1QVFZV0NONkIzUElPRFFCNE5WUC4u&web=1&wdLOR=cAA1F7410-25D3-44E5-A145-8E1737F31A54

Oh neat! Yeah I can share this. Diolch am rannu!

#cymraeg #welsh #ymchwilio #cymru #cymblr #ask #gofyn #cwestiwn #queerlyhalloween

[crynwr-drwg]

*this is aimed mostly at people who live in or are from Wales/Cymru, but anyone can give their thoughts.

Would love to hear reasonings from either side with it in the tags or replies

In reference to this petition:

#cymblr #cymru #wales #welsh #cymreig #cymraeg #welsh politics #welsh langauge #uk #crynwrdrwg #polls #senedd #senedd petition #senedd petitions

[creatrixcymraes]

more door signs ready to sell! these will be listed online if there are any left after Aberystwyth Pride this weekend 😇

#come in #go away #welsh #cymraeg #cymblr #home decor #artists on tumblr #creatrix cymraes #my artwork #myart

[eternal-moss]

Oh yeah question for cymblr, I was asking my dad this and he didn’t know, I was wondering if it was well known or not- I think most saints are called ‘Sant []’, but Saint David always seems to be ‘Dewi Sant’, is there a reason for it being the other way around? Is this way more common than just him bc I can’t think of any besides him. If anyone knows the answer I’d be interested :)

#Cymblr #cymraeg #Cymraeg tag #cymru #Dewi Sant #(If I’m wrong about anything here please tell me but be nice my Welsh is incredibly weak)

[03josten]

does anyone have any welsh language tv shows recommendations????? the few i've tried in the past have absolutely bored me but i need the practice

#cymru #cymraeg #cymblr #welsh

[cythraul]

#tymblr, I am currently putting together plans to visit Wales in 2025. We're still brainstorming destinations.

If folks have recommendations, I'm super eager to hear them!

#tymblr #cymblr

[blodeuweddschild]

Message to welsh tumblr we need to start going by cymblr right now this is not a request it is a demand

#cymblr #please I need it <3 #I am so glad it seems to be getting picked up at least a little I have wanted this for like a year

[escxelle]

dydd gwyl dewi hapus!

in honour of dydd gwyl dewi/st david's day, i wish to share this banger with you all that i used to sing all the time every year! it's called "Mis Mawrth Unwaith Eto" which means "March the first again"

the lyrics are under the cut! (both welsh and english translation with annotations!)

Cymraeg:

"Mis Mawrth unwaith eto*, a'r gwanwyn wedi dod;

Dydd Gwyl Dewi ydw hi.

Mis Mawrth unwaith eto, a'r gwanwyn wedi dod;

Dydd Gwyl Dewi ydw hi.

Dewi Sant, Dewi Sant, cofiwn Dewi,

Cofiwn am y pethau bach a'r pethau mawr**.

Dewi Sant, Dewi Sant, ffrind y bobl, ffrind y plant,

Rhaid i ninnau fod fel Dewi'n dda bob awr***."

English translation: (by me, pls correct me if i'm wrong!)

"March the first is here again*, and spring has come;

It's St. David's Day.

March the first is here again, and spring has come;

It's St. David's Day.

Saint David, Saint David, we remember David,

We remember the little things and the great things**.

Saint David, Saint David, friend of the people, friend of the children,

We should all be good like David all the time***."

*Dydd Gwyl Dewi/St. David's Day is celebrated on March 1st every year!

**This is in reference to Dewi Sant's most famous quote: "Gwenwch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd."/"Do the little things in life."

***Literally 'bob awr' means 'every hour'.

#happy st david's day! #dydd gwyl dewi hapus! #cymraeg #cymru #cymblr #wales #welsh #st david's day #dydd gwyl dewi #welsh music #cerddoriaeth gymraeg #escxelle #elle's interests hyperfixiations and shenanigans #Spotify

[amewinterscreates]

(via "Be With My Trees" Pullover Hoodie for Sale by amewintersart)

There is a Welsh phrase: Dod yn ôl at Fy Nghoed. Literally 'coming back to my trees', it carries shades of the English phrase 'returning to your roots' - coming back to the place (physically or metaphorically) that you came from, and returning to a more balanced state of mind.

#findyourthing #redbubble #cymraeg #cymblr #mindfulness #nature #welsh #support a small artist #welsh artist

[siaradwast]

what was that post on about that's so incomprehensible to me

also why were they going "this is what wales is like" and a bunch of queer welsh people were like "That's a massive generalisation it depends where you are" and they just went "ur all white & spreading government propaganda" . like hello??

having an interest in a country is not the same as lived experience of being there

#cymblr #im assuming most welsh tumblr ppl have at least heard abt this

[llyfrenfys]

PLEASE TELL US ABOUT Y DDRAIG TRAWS!

Certainly! I'm more than happy to oblige.

First though I'm gonna need to tldr: the history of Y Ddraig Goch before we get onto the (accidentally) canonically trans part.

A brief history of Y Ddraig Goch:

(The modern Welsh flag)

Y Ddraig Goch first appears in the tales of the Mabinogi (Charlotte Guest version) in the tale of Lludd and Llefelys where it is fighting a white dragon. The fight is also described/expanded upon in the c. 829 AD text Historia Brittonum (attributed to Nennius) - where the red dragon represents Wales and the white dragon represents the Anglo-Saxons. In the story the red dragon triumphs over the white. Of course, Geoffrey of Monmouth also covers the story c. 1136 in Historia Regnum Brittaniae in which he introduces the concept of the red dragon heralding the arrival of King Arthur.

Geoffrey of Monmouth claims Arthur used a banner featuring a golden dragon. But we also know the accuracy of Monmouth can be questionable at times. Owain Glyndŵr did use a banner with a golden dragon called Y Ddraig Aur - raised in 1401 at Caernarfon - Glyndŵr chose this banner as a nod to the supposed banner of Arthur and his father.

Later on the Tudor monarchs (being a Welsh family) adopted a red dragon on a white and green background in their heraldry. Eventually Y Ddraig Goch on a white and green background became the official badge of Wales in 1800. The design became the official flag of Wales in 1959.

Y Ddraig Traws:

Now for the thing you're all here for -

So, as outlined, the history of the dragon as a national symbol of Wales goes back a long way. If we're just talking post-1959, there's some interesting implications for Y Ddraig Goch's depiction.

This is what the Welsh flag (and Y Ddraig Goch) looked like in 1959 when it was officially adopted as the flag of Wales. It looks broadly the same as the first flag and has some common features - such as not having a penis (or, as in the correct heraldic terminology - a pizzle). Meanwhile, in the arms of the Tudors (specifically Henry VII)

(Tudor dragon with pizzle) vs (dragon on the flag of Cardiff - pizzleless)

the penis is almost always included. So much to the point that the present royal family still includes the penis. While pretty much 0 depictions of the dragon in Wales include a penis. So you could interpret this as the dragon is seen as male only by the British royal family and as female everywhere else (which kinda implies that at some point the Tudor dragon had an mtf transition in Wales and she keeps getting misgendered by the royal family every time she is depicted in (mostly) England).

So much to the point that in 1995 this pound coin was made by the Royal Mint featuring the pizzle on the dragon with all four feet touching the ground as opposed to standing up (passant rather than rampant).

But in Wales you'd be hard pressed to see a pizzled dragon anywhere. Ergo, we can only conclude Y Ddraig Goch is trans and she transitioned in Wales and keeps getting misgendered in England.

[note: This is mostly tongue in cheek - but I do think it's fun to extrapolate that the Welsh dragon is trans because of the differences in depiction between Wales and England. Like many things Welsh, it is misrepresented by England and the idea of the Welsh dragon being misgendered only in England is, I think, a good metaphor for a whole lot of English treatment of Wales.]

Unrelatedly, there is a gay Welsh flag held at the National Museum of Wales which has a very wonky dragon which I find very endearing.

(cleaned up version I made)

So much so I made it an emoji in my Welsh bilingual LGBTQIA+ Discord (requirements for joining are - be 16+, either speak or are learning Welsh and identify as LGBTQIA+ in some way. Dm for link!).

(triaist ti 'you tried' emoji)

~ Completely unrelatedly ~ never forget the time someone was trying to homophobic to me by suggesting that I was disrespecting all the soldiers who died 'for the Welsh flag' by making it rainbow colours and not red - arguing that any change of colour of the dragon was disrespectful. Reader, my bus pass at the time for Mid Wales Travel had a purple dragon on it.

#cymraeg #welsh #cymblr #cwiar #trawsryweddol #traws #trans #trans dragon #y ddraig goch #welsh dragon #welsh history #dragons #wyverns #last tag because technically Owain's golden dragon is technically a wyvern

[crynwr-drwg]

If you can, please come check us out in Trefforest! If you need more information, check the tweet, or just ask!

#cymblr #wales #welsh #Cymru #cymreig #Palestine #msf #treforest #trefforest #welsh underground network #wugn #wun

[creatrixcymraes]

This is a message for my West Wales honeys :

I will be at Aberystwyth Pride this weekend!! I'll be trading with the main market area in the Pavilion (on the promenade)

Hopefully see some of you there 💖

#aberystwyth #pride in aber #pride #pride weekend #west wales #cardigan #cardigan bay #cymblr #Cymraeg

[chaosintheavenue]

My brother has just had his mind blown by the melody of the song My Country Tis Of Thee. Can't wait to double whammy him with the anthem of Brittany/Breizh.

#stuff #cymblr if any of you happen to be here: #try listening to the breizh anthem and singing along #'but how will I know the words to sing?' you'll know. just trust me on this one #there are a few places where you'll sing the same word at the same time #and idk if it's just me but it feels very special that there's that little bit of connection

[queerlyhalloween]

dont like being that 'cymblr' (excellent play on words surrounding welsh users [cymru = wales, "cym" rhymes with "tum"]) means that in English phonetics it is very much spelt "CUMbler"

#welshposting

[montyshistoryblog]

Oh god Cymblr found me

I don't even speak Welsh