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do not ever separate them again <3
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Happy INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE SEAL! I made some GIFs to celebrate the occasion.
Tokkari Centre featuring Takuma
Wild seal blocking the dock (original source lost)
Seal Rescue Ireland featuring Cassiopeia
Wild seal waving
Tokkari Centre featuring Yuuta
Aquarium seal mirrors visitor
Please, always keep your distance from wild seals!
#seal#seals#pinnipeds#Tokkari Centre#Seal Rescue Ireland#International Day of the Seal#International Seal Day
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I have adopted a seal from Seal Rescue Ireland. Meet my void-eyed daughter Grian, whose name means sun in Irish
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Big news in the world of sealaficionada today!
#seal rescue ireland#grey seals#one common seal though#babies!!!!#they were SO small!#and i got to feed them!
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Seal Rescue Ireland, in co. Wexford. We saw some adorable baby seals, fed them fish and then also adopted some of them to help fund this wonderful conservation project! The only seal rescue center in all of Ireland. You can adopt a seal via their website, and then they send you seal updates via email, and who wouldn't want that?!
My seal daughter Grian was successfully rehabilitated and returned to the wild ^^
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got to rescue a seal today 😊
#we are part of the SEAL RESCUE NETWORK so when a seal pup is in distress they call whoever’s closest and you go check it out#and they said best to take it to the center so you have to herd it into the crate and you relay drive it to the rescue center#this is with seal rescue ireland btw with the amazing seal names#btw i should add as a psa this is with the training and approval of sri so if u see a baby seal etc don’t go near it keep ur distance
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June 6, 2022.
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LOVE this seal so much. have you seen the seal rescue ireland page they're one of my favorite instagram accounts
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Song of the Sea: A Criticism of Bronagh
Bronagh is probably my second least favorite character in the entire Irish Folklore Trilogy by Cartoon Saloon (nothing can beat Oliver Cromwell, but at least him we're supposed to hate). It's not that I hate her, but I do think she's a terrible person who didn't deserve her family, because the only reason she had them was to use and lose them. So in this essay I will explain how Blue Diamond pulled a Pink, but in Ireland and with pinnipeds.*
Who is Bronagh? A Recap
For those unfamiliar with Cartoon Saloon's Song of the Sea, Bronagh is the mother of Ben and Saoirse, the protagonist and deuteragonist of the film respectively. She is a selkie, which is basically the Celtic version of a mermaid. She can shift between a seal and human form, and is considered to be part of the fairy (or fae) race. She wears her seal coat at all times, which allows her to move between land and sea at will.
On the night her second child, Saoirse, is born, Bronagh falls ill while in labor and is forced to permanently return to the sea, allowing her newborn to wash ashore for her father, Conor, to find. Bronagh's departure traumatizes both Conor and Ben. Conor believes his wife has abandoned him and has no idea why, and he's left in deep depression, especially on Saoirse's birthday. Meanwhile, Ben develops aquaphobia because he believes his mother drowned at sea. He wears a lifejacket wherever he goes for this reason.
Bronagh remains absent for six years, until one Halloween night when Saoirse, embracing her selkie heritage, sings the titular Song of the Sea, opening a pathway for all fairy kind to travel to Tír na nÓg, the land they originally came from. Bronagh does not stay long, however, and bids her family farewell for the final time, taking Saoirse's seal coat so that the girl can stay with her human family. They never see Bronagh again, and are honestly happier for it.
As they should be. Because frankly, Bronagh is a grifter.
Selkies
The legends surrounding selkies typically involve either humans or selkies seducing one another (usually men of either species seducing women of the other species), resulting in an inter-species marriage. If a selkie woman marries a man, this is usually because the man found and hid her seal coat, preventing her from transforming back into a seal. When she finally finds the coat, she returns to the sea forever. In one legend, a selkie maiden willingly takes a human husband, and when he goes out to sea in a storm against her warnings, she's forced to rescue him. But because of the specific rules established in her legend, she is then unable to transform back into her human form, and has to remain at sea, separated from her family. In some forms of the legend, the selkie is able to hide their identity from their lover, out of fear they will lose their seal coat and be trapped on land forever. But in these legends, the selkie is always forced to return to the sea by one circumstance or another, thus having to abandon their lover.
The gist of all this is that selkie-human marriages always end in a broken family. And the selkie frequently leaves behind children.
Bronagh's Secrets
Now, in SotS, it's established that Bronagh and Conor are happily married, with seemingly no coercion from either party. Bronagh is free to wear her seal coat all she likes, and Conor knows she's a selkie. It's only when Saoirse is born that Conor makes a habit of hiding away the seal coat for fear of losing her like he did her mother, resulting in Saoirse becoming mute without it. It comes as a shock to Conor when Bronagh returns permanently to the sea, abandoning him and their children. Obviously he was previously unaware that Bronagh could not continue living both on land and at sea, and that she would eventually have to return to the sea.
But this isn't the only secret Bronagh kept from Conor. As one party in selkie-human marriages is wont to do, Bronagh was using Conor for her own gains.
We learn from a group of fairies that a selkie is needed to open the way to Tír na nÓg by way of her singing. Saoirse specifically seems to be the selkie required to do this. Because Saoirse is half human, she thus represents a connection--a bridge--between the human realm and the fairy realm. Ben did not inherit Bronagh's selkie magic, so even though he is technically half selkie himself, he's unable to become that bridge. There's also an implication that Bronagh knew that in order to assure that Saoirse had selkie magic, she would have to birth her at the expense of her life on land. Saoirse is the product of Bronagh's real goal; to create a bridge and open a pathway for her kind to their realm. For this she needed herself a patsy.
Enter Conor.
The Grift
Conor is a gentle lighthouse keeper. He is strongly introverted, has a love of the sea and doesn't let his overbearing mother dictate his life. He is well aware of the legends of selkies and is determined to not be that kind of husband. But he doesn't know everything he needs to know about them, and that suits Bronagh just fine. What he doesn't know can't hurt her, right? So Bronagh tells him all about where she's from, and together they dream up an idyllic life split between sea and shore. But what she doesn't tell him is that she wants him for his DNA, and once she gets what she wants, she's outta there. She leaves him bereaved and confused, with two children to raise on his own, both of whom can be read as having special needs because of their trauma and/or the circumstances of their birth. And one of those children she only produced to be a tool, just like Conor.
All this, of course, leaves poor Ben in the painful and unfair position of having to repair his entire family practically by himself at ten years old.
While I can understand that Bronagh would be hesitant to tell Conor exactly what her mission was, the fact is that by not telling him, she was exploiting him and their children. Conor was just a cog in Bronagh's machinations. She didn't marry him out of love, and she basically captured him and held him captive. Which makes her no different from any other selkie legend, except this time it's the wife doing the exploitation rather than the husband.
Basically, Bronagh is not a good person.
Consequences and Conclusion
If Conor had known the truth about Bronagh's mission, there's certainly a decent chance that he would've opted out. But what if he hadn't? What if he was so in love with this seal maiden that he agreed to help all her people? Had that been the case, he could've better prepared his children for not only the day Bronagh had to leave, but also for the day Saoirse would fulfill her purpose and open the path to Tír na nÓg. And he would've been better prepared himself. Bronagh could not have foreseen that her actions would ultimately lead to the main antagonist Macha's redemption, and the fairies whom Macha had turned to stone being set free after Ben was forced to confront his own trauma and the emotions that came with it. So Bronagh pretty much just traumatized her son because she wanted to keep her secrets. The trouble and pain she caused did ultimately have a greater good come out of them, but that was certainly not her doing.
Now, while I don't think Bronagh is a good person, I do think she is an effective character. As I said, her actions ultimately lead to all of the fairies being freed and Macha being redeemed and reunited with her son MacLir. Had Conor been completely on board with Bronagh's plans, there might not have been as important of an impact on Ben, and he wouldn't have been in a position to help Macha. So from a story writing perspective, Bronagh works quite well. But as a wife and mother, Bronagh fails utterly. As a selkie, she's so typical it hurts.
Moral of the story: Don't marry a selkie unless the contract includes an ironclad absolutely-no-secrets clause. Or just...don't marry a selkie, period. Save yourself the heartbreak.
#Cartoon Saloon#Song of the Sea#Bronagh#selkie#Ben#Saoirse#Irish Folklore Trilogy#*Go look up Bronagh's voice actress#Steven Universe
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Not the usual seal stuff but an important post from Seal Rescue Ireland (link above). Follow proper information if you see a seal pup you think may be alone or in distress. Main thing is to not approach them, no matter how cute they are.
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I wrote to Seal Rescue Ireland asking who the naughtiest, most feisty seal currently being rehabilitated is so I can adopt them.
After Cloudberry (aggressive biter), Atria (multiple escape attempts), and Flare (independently discovered direct action) I feel I need to keep my streak up.
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Holidays 5.20
Holidays
Be A Millionaire Day
Beating of the Bounds (Old England)
Behcet’s Disease Awareness Day
Blue Jeans Day
Botev Day (Bulgaria)
Clinical Trials Day
Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)
Discovery Day (Cayman Islands)
Doctor Day (Indonesia)
Eliza Doolittle Day
Emancipation Day (Florida)
Empire Day
European Maritime Day (EU)
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day
Fire Festival (Elder Scrolls)
501 Day
520 Day (Valentine’s Day; China)
Flower Day
Flying Solo Day
Frigga Blot (Slavic Pagan/Asatru)
Go Fly A Kite With the Kids Day
Hari Kebangkitan (Indonesian Awakening Day)
Hats for Headway Day
Indonesian Doctor Day (Indonesia)
International Clinical Trials Day
International Gator Day
International Heritage Breeds Day
International Human Resources Day
International Red Sneakers Day
Josephine Baker Day (NAACP)
Lafayette Day (Massachusetts)
Love Feast Under the Gospel Elm (Wicken, UK)
Mecklenburg Day (NC)
National Anger Day (Cambodia)
National Awakening Day (Indonesia)
National Band Director’s Day
National Day (Cameroon)
National Day of Hatred (Cambodia)
National Eli Day
National High Heels Day
National Jase Day
National Orderly Day
National Rescue Dog Day
National Rio Day
National River Cleanup Day
National Seal Product Day (Canada)
National Streaming Day
National SugarBee Apple Day
National Women in Aerospace Day
Norman Rockwell Day
Paw Day
Pick Strawberries Day
SI Redefinition Day
Stop the Bleed Day
T’veer Chong Kamhaeng (Day of Remembrance; Cambodia)
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [26 of 57]
Weights and Measures Day
World Autoimmune Arthritis Day
World Bee Day
World Meteorology Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Alfalfa Day (French Republic)
Dark Lord Day (Three Floyds)
Food Revolution Day
International Sweet Tooth Day
Morel Mushroom Day
National Cold Pizza Day
National Quiche Lorraine Day
Pick Strawberries Day
Tap Water Day (California)
3rd Saturday in May
Armed Forces Day (US) [3rd Saturday]
Barricade Go Topless Day [3rd Saturday]
Culture Freedom Day [3rd Saturday]
Do Dah Day (Alabama) [3rd Saturday]
Europe Day (Ukraine) [3rd Saturday]
International Restaurant Day [3rd Saturday] (also Feb, Aug & Nov)
La Corsa del Ceri (Race of the Saints; Gubbio, Italy) [3rd Saturday]
National Drawing Day (Ireland) [3rd Saturday]
National Heritage Breeds Day [Saturday of 3rd Full Week]
National Italian Beef Day [3rd Saturday]
National Kids to Parks Day [3rd Saturday]
National Learn to Swim Day [3rd Saturday]
National River Cleanup Day [3rd Saturday]
Orval Day [3rd Saturday]
Plant a Lemon Tree Day [3rd Saturday]
Preakness Stakes [3rd Saturday]
Stationary Shop Saturday [3rd Saturday]
World Fiddle Day [Saturday closet to 19th]
World Whisky Day [3rd Saturday]
Independence Days
Cuba (from US, 1902)
East Timor; (from Indonesia, 2002)
Lopezia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Samizdat (a.k.a. State of Samizdat; Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Abercius and Helena (Christian; Saint)
Alcuin of York (Christian; Saint)
Aurea of Ostia (Christian; Saint)
Austregisilus (Christian; Saint)
Baudilus (Christian; Saint)
Bernardino of Siena (a.k.a. Bernadine; Christian; Saint)
Edward II Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Ethelbert, King of the East Angles (Christian; Saint)
Fats Waller Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Feast of Mjollnir (Feast of Thor’s Hammer; Ancient Norse)
Find a New Fetish Day (a.k.a. Fetish Day; Pastafarian)
Firefighter Jackson (Muppetism)
Francis Cotes (Artology)
Frigga Blot (Pagan)
Grudie Rosnoe begins (Lavic Pagan/Asatru sacrifices to Rod for good harvests)
Henri-Edmond Cross (Artology)
Ives, An Honest Lawyer (Christian; Saint)
Ivo of Chartres (a.k.a. Yvo of Chartres; Christian; Saint)
Lucifer of Cagliari (Christian; Saint)
Media Ver II (Pagan)
Mjölnir (Old Germany; Celebration of Thor’s Hammer)
Sanctan (Christian; Saint)
Trajan (Positivist; Saint)
Visakh Bochwa Day (Buddha Day; Cambodia)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [31 of 71]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [28 of 60]
Premieres
The Abominable Snow Rabbit (WB LT Cartoon; 1961)
Balls, by Greg Nettles and Peter Golenbock (Sports Memoir; 1984)
Beatlemania (Musical Play; 1977)
Becoming Bond (Documentary Film; 2017)
Beverly Hills Cop II (Film; 1987)
The Color and the Shape, by the Foo Fighters (Album; 1997)
Day of the Dead, by Various Artists (Grateful Dead Anthology Album; 2016)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Film; 1994)
Every Breath You Take, by the Police (Song; 1983)
Fourteen Hours (Film; 1951)
Godzilla (Film; 1998)
Harry’s House, by Harry Styles (Album; 2022)
His Bitter Half (WB MM Cartoon; 1950)
Lady Dynamite (TV Series; 2016)
Midnight in Paris (Film; 2011)
The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz (TV Movie; 2005)
Naughty But Mice (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)
The Nice Guys (Film; 2016)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Film; 2011)
Poodle Hat, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 2003)
The Quarto, Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Book of Poems; 1609)
Rock Around the Clock, by Bill Haley & His Comets (Song; 1954)
Russian Rhapsody (WB MM Cartoon; 1944)
The Scapegoat, by Daphne du Maurier (Novel; 1957)
The Scotswoman, by Inglis Clark Fletcher (Novel; 1955)
Unplugged (The Official Bootleg), by Paul McCartney (Album; 1991)
A Very English Scandal (Film; 2018)
Viva Las Vegas (Film; 1964) [Elvis Presley #15]
Willow (Film; 1988)
You Made Me Love You, recorded by Harry James (Song; 1941)
Today’s Name Days
Bernhardin, Elfriede, Mira (Austria)
Bernardin, Lidija, Zlata (Croatia)
Zbyšek (Czech Republic)
Angelica (Denmark)
Liili, Liilia, Lilian, Lilja, Lille, Lilli (Estonia)
Karoliina, Lila, Lilja, Lilli (Finland)
Bernardin (France)
Bernardino, Elfriede, Mira (Germany)
Lead, Lidia, Lydia (Greece)
Bernát, Felícia (Hungary)
Anastasio, Bernardino (Italy)
Prieca, Salvis, Sibilla, Venta (Latvia)
Akvilas, Alfreda, Eidvilas, Vygintė (Lithuania)
Bjørnar, Bjørnhild (Norway)
Anastazy, Asteriusz, Bazyli, Bazylid, Bazylis, Bernardyn, Bernardyna, Bronimir, Iwo, Sawa, Teodor, Wiktoria (Poland)
Lidia, Talaleu (România)
Varvara (Russia)
Bernard (Slovakia)
Baudilio, Bernardo, Orlando (Spain)
Carola, Karolina (Sweden)
Bernadette, Bernardina, Bernardine, Bernetta, Bernita (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 140 of 2024; 225 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 20 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 7 of 28]
Chinese: Month 4 (Ding-Si), Day 2 (Wu-Yin)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 29 Iyar 5783
Islamic: 29 Shawwal 1444
J Cal: 19 Bīja; Fiveday [19 of 30]
Julian: 7 May 2023
Moon: 1%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 28 Caesar (5th Month) [Trajan]
Runic Half Month: Ing (Expansive Energy) [Day 11 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 62 of 90)
Zodiac: Gemini (Day 31 of 31)
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From collector Harry Coffman jr. This is his Gijoe convention haul -
“…My better late than never JoeFest Toy & Comic Show haul
Thanks goes out to
JE Russell
Matt Stevenson
Tony Lin
Tracy Isenhour
Todd Henderson
ROMA Collectibles
Matt Collins
Brian Kossin
The Toy Department
Matt Ruskin
Ryan Smith
David Croft
Don Johnson
And any others
Really happy to have this stuff.
Yes I opened the plastirama Glider. I wanted to know what figure was inside. Was surprised when I got 2 Blueprints and 2 figures.
The Serpentor mail away is the 2 dagger variant and it has a white back filecard. Got to compare the daggers because it might be the dagger I could not place in other post about knives. The air Chariot has a bronze tone to it but not like the later made in Ireland mail away.
The apc is the dark top mail away. Ryan Smith got a camo top mail away different from the Estrella s.a. mail away. So that's at least 3 mail away apcs. I bet there is more.
The funskool rescue set is sealed. Some of the merchandise is the same but different packaging. I found a couple reversed rivets rr at the show but only bought one and Ryan came through with a flash. Heard there was others.
I bought the moc 1993 Mutt to open, which I did in front of some people to show that the Indonesia version came with an all hard shiny junkyard. The 1993 china mutt came with an all rubbery shiny junkyard. Probably gonna open the lifeline and alley too.
Lots of International stuff there this year. Very happy to be able to get some of that. I had to pass on alot to and I probably shouldn't have.
Well enjoy. I did and will.
Thanks so much all of you.”
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I love Seal Rescue Ireland's updates.
Also here's a closeup of Selkie:
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If you’re still doing the writing questions!
3, 7, 25?
I will always answer questions, because I am always avoiding other things!
3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?
I don't actually have a writing ritual, which is probably a curse by itself. I remember being in a writing class in college and the teacher asked that very question, and literally everyone else had these intricate, complicated rituals - what music they had playing, had a cigar on their left and a chianti on their right, what direction they sat facing, and then I went last and my only requirement was "I have an idea". I scribbled in notebooks, I wrote key phrases on my shoes, I talked to myself imagining dialogue in a scene I wanted to write as I went between classes, I would theorize on AIM (that's dating myself) with friends in the wee hours of the morning. But there were also HUGE lulls - when I didn't feel like watching or reading or writing anything, and then it would be like living in a world without sound.
7. What is your deepest joy about writing?
No one will ever write the same thing twice. Even if it's the same premise, same characters, same time period - everything is influenced by the You Now, and what you've done to get here. It's like a roadmap of who you are, and even when everything else is the same, the end result is different because you have changed.
25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?
I have to answer this as fandom specific because my original characters change all the time, and what was once irrelevant will probably (or already is) a major plot point. Thomas Magnum is a shark afficionado and spends his off hours when he doesn't feel like being social doing marine animal rescue off the coast of the islands, and he's been doing it since he was really young in Mexico, which is why he was so good at the aquatic part of being a SEAL.
For original characters, literally just remembered one: in fictional Ireland based story I work on occasionally, one character has an obsession with exotic teas. The fruitier the better.
#games we play#asks answered#can you tell I'm avoiding work#and have no current things to watch or read?#But games are fun#I like games
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[ad_1] Six women who spent hours trapped in the back of a refrigerated truck have been rescued in France after sending distressed text messages to a BBC reporter.The six women, four of whom are Vietnamese nationals and two from Iraq, boarded the truck, which was carrying bananas and sealed by an iron bar, believing it was on its way to the UK or Ireland.However, the women, who spent over 10 hours inside the vehicle, later realised the direction of the truck had changed based on location data on their phone and texted a BBC reporter on Wednesday in a panic. “It’s so cold, it [the cooler] keeps blowing,” one of the women texted reporter, Khue B Luu. Ms Luu, who was based in London and did not know the women, had earlier covered the deaths of 39 Vietnamese nationals in a UK lorry in 2019 – a tragedy she said was still “fresh” in her mind when the request for help came through.The young woman on the truck sent Ms Luu two videos, including one which showed the women crammed among fruit boxes, with only a few dozen centimetres of space to sit. A woman could also be heard coughing and saying “I can’t breathe” in English.One of the women was able to share her live GPS location with the reporter, who reached out to colleagues living in France to help contact the closest police station.At one point, location sharing was interrupted and the young woman texted Ms Luu saying the air conditioner had been turned off.“We’re so suffocated,” she wrote.French police later tracked down the location of the women and managed to intercept the vehicle, which was actually heading to Italy.French prosecutor Laetitia Francart said the truck had a temperature of 6C and the driver was not at fault.The women told investigators “they climbed aboard the truck thinking they were going to England because of the Irish registration plates,” Ms Francart said in a statement, as perABC News.“After several hours on the road without a stop, they realised their mistake and alerted a journalist.”All six women were briefly detained in France before being released. Four of the women were told they have 30 days to leave France, while two have been permitted to stay in the country pending asylum requests, according to the BBC. The incident comes almost four years after the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated in the back of a truck in Essex, London in October 2019.A Romanian man, who was part of a human smuggling ring, was sentenced to over 12 years in prison over the deaths of the 39 men, women and children in July.Four other gang members were imprisoned in 2021 for manslaughter and another 18 people were convicted in Belgium. [ad_2]
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