#gwyll

[artsyld]

I know this is a little late, but Happy Mother’s Day from the Mums and Mum Figures at @vowcomic . You moms out there have a calling worthy of honor and respect, and I hope you all had a great day!

#the vale of wales #lucy talks #happy Mother’s Day #ocs #Happy Mother’s Day 2023 #Queen Eirian #Queen Mabb #Ellyllon #Afanc #Nesta #Gwyllion #Gwyll #Linette Rhys #VOW #Linette

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

feel free to ignore if you're tired of talking about things like this, but one of your recent asks about Welsh accents reminded me of the TV series Hinterland. if you've seen it, do you remember how accurate the accents were? (it's one of those broody detective bbc murder mystery shows, I watched it several years ago so I have no idea when it aired)

Very! Hinterland was originally a Welsh language series, so every actor in it is both Welsh and a Welsh speaker, complete with their own authentic accents. They filmed every scene in Welsh first, then English. It aired on S4C in Welsh as Y Gwyll, and then BBC later in English as Hinterland

The BBC edit was also masterful, actually - rather than playing it exclusively in English, they spliced the footage so that the newly-arrived-in-Aberystwyth main character is Cymro di-Gymraeg, but everyone else is a fluent first language speaker. This meant the bulk of the episodes were in English, because he can't speak Welsh, so everyone uses English to talk TO him - but, when they spoke to each other, or any incidental sentences/characters, they'd speak Welsh and subtitle it. The result was this beautiful portrayal of bilingual rural Wales that was fucking great.

But sadly the version that got ported to Netflix was entirely in English. Or so I'm told. Make of that what you will.

#I should watch it again actually because it was also Fucking Great #hinterland #y gwyll

[ex-textura]

Literally can't stop thinking about that gif of Gale and Wyll kissing. It's altered my brain chemistry. It's so good.

#gale dekarios #wyll ravengard #gwyll? #wale? #wyall? #these ship names suck 🙃 #help #bg3

[qualityrain]

dumping these here because god knows if i dont do it now these wont see daylight ever

#can u tell the mariletta one was for when bf shut down butbahshajsjskks #anyway mariletta my first omni 🥺🥺🥺🥺 #brave frontier #my art #doodle #doodles #nooo u dont understand how mych of a clown i am #i checked gwylls symmetry like 5 times #and yet #Hi funfact #i wrote fic about suizen when ep 4 of liminal end released #i rewrote it twice #is it still rotting in my notes? yea #is it finished? no lmaooo #istg #mademoiselle mariletta #suizen stormlost echo #gwyll waning eclipse #bf mariletta #bf suizen #bf gwyll #yknow i was a dumbass that merged all gwyll layers tgt thinking it would safe space on my phone #then i realised how fucking uneven it is #rip man #the g in gwyll stands of gaslight gatekeep

[preservationofnormalcy]

Paralegal Jim here, got a request for Chronology that can't go through usual channels. We've got a time traveler on our hands who entered into a blood debt while they were timehopping. Out last Monday afternoon, arrive next April, get in trouble, standard contract to get out of it, back last Monday morning. (My head hurts.)

The other party is trying to cash in now. They say the debt has been in force since Monday morning because there's week-old signatures on a contract that won't exist for another twelve months. (My head hurts even more.)

We're fighting it of course, haven't lost a blood debt case yet, but we've never had to deal with time travel. Not-asking-for-legal-advice you-are-not-our-lawyer, but if you had a personal opinion about whether we've got a shot that'd be great. I've spent the past seven hours on Westlaw and let me tell you they got nothing.

Hoo boy. I’d have to double check with Relativistic Scheduling but my understanding is that all agreements undertaken (contracts, debts, etc) while engaging in nonstandard chronology must be agreed to under a system of informed consent.

Meaning that our time traveling friend must have informed the holder of the debt that they were engaging in nonstandard chronology in order for the agreement to have been valid at any point in chronological time. This could render the contract null and void since one party was not informed of the complication, but that party can now seek restitution for blood debt fraud. You may want to tell your client that.

Not-a-legal-professional but I’d contact Foras, Gwyll, and Zendion-1 & Associates. They specialize in all kinds of extranormal law.

Hey, Alanna, it's Jenny. I was wondering, I'm trying to plan a pride thing for my job, and I wanted to get some musical acts. Do you still talk with Billie? No, I realize all sirens aren't related, but she's literally your cousin.

#office for the preservation of normalcy #ask #advice #fae #demons #nonstandard chronology

[pfhwrittes]

previous part here

tags/warnings: implied minor character death, implied child death, nightmares.

–

a man shivers in a rain so fine it could be called mist and stares at the map in his hand.

a woman follows a soft lilting voice promising to return her to her walking group. 

a child skips at the side of a woman dressed in funny old clothes and calls her mam-gu when asked. 

the man lets the damp paper flutter to the mud. 

the woman steps off the path. 

the child asks “how much further mam-gu?” 

the man wanders, his shoulders chafing under the weight of his rucksack. 

the woman feels her foot sink into a bog up to her shin. 

the child clings to a black woollen skirt and cries. 

–

you wake with a gasp and press a shaking hand to your mouth to muffle your heaving breaths. 

safe. i’m safe. i’m not with her and i’m safe. you repeat the mantra over and over in the privacy of your head and the grey pre-dawn light creeping through the shitty curtains of your room. you lie there in sweat soaked sheets and listen to the sound of the bin lorry rumble and screech over the sound of blood in your ears. safe. away from the mountain and the fog and - 

no. no more of this. 

you jerk upright and wrench your mind away from memories dreams to focus on the tasks of the day. shower, coffee, cats, laundry, work. safe. 

–

a radio drones on from a cramped kitchen. four men sit around a table littered with newspaper clippings and other oddities listening intently.

“powys police and mountain rescue today are continuing their search for lost austrian tourist -” 

the radio clicks off and a steely blue gaze lands on the closest man. 

“load up. we have a gwyll to hunt.”

#haearn a gwaed #tw implied death #tw child death #how much welsh can i sprinkle into this? who knows! #but i'm sprinkling it in anyway!

[fragmentedink]

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴍᴇ:

HULLO. I am a queer 30 year old writer who loves writing stories about faeries and magical creatures from inspired by different cultures AS WELL as including a lot of represention of all kinds of queer and disabled characters

I am always up for tag games or talking about my ocs. my inbox is always open for everyone as long as you're kind and respectful

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴍʏ ᴡɪᴘꜱ:

ꜱɪʟᴠᴇʀ ᴛʜʀᴇᴀᴅᴇᴅ ꜰᴀᴛᴇꜱ

Story follows a lesbian single mom, half daimon - half dola who gets thrust into politics in a urban fantasy fantastical world after the kidnapping of her 3 year old deaf son

ᴋᴇʏ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛꜱ:

disability rep: deafness, chronic pain, audhd (pending), bipolar disorder (pending), anxiety, muteness (pending), cptsd

poc rep: Black, Hispanic

queer rep: lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, trans-masc (pending), demi-romantic rep (pending), nonbinary

inspiration: Slavic, Welsh, Norse and Irish mythology

Urban fantasy. Mythological creations such as dola (inspired by the slavic Fates), Gwyll (the death kissed), faeries, daimons, pheonixs and the Greydr (inspired by norse draugr)

Found family, complicated blood relation dynamics

ɪʀᴏɴ ᴡʀᴏᴜɢʜᴛ

Story follows several queer faeries in multiple kingdoms. Main protagonist is a cranky bipolar half faerie - half human young gay guard as well as a faerie knife lesbian princess

ᴋᴇʏ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛꜱ:

disability rep: bipolar disorder, anxiety, adhd, blindness, dyslexia, cptsd

poc rep: Hispanic, Persian

queer rep: gay, lesbian, aroace, bisexual

Inspiration: traditional fantasy (medieval), Slavic, Irish, Hispanic mythology. Pulls from various versions of afterlife/ Underworld /Otherworld mythology. mucho faeries

found family, complex blood relation family

note: contains content such as sexual abuse

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #writing community #original writing #diversity #silver threaded fates #iron wrought

[dailygale]

We all know about bloodweave but is there a name for wyll and gale ship? I think Gale ans wyll are a better couple and astarion and gale don't block me please lol

Hey, Gale/Wyll is a perfectly valid ship and deserves more attention. We love Gale here, end of story. We don't war over ships.

As for your question, the only name I've really heard for their ship is BladeWeave. I'm partial to it myself, but it can ring a little close to bloodweave if you're not a fan. Otherwise there's Gwyll but that's. Hmm. I don't care for it lol.

#bg3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #wyll ravenguard #bladeweave #asks #anon ask #bg3 shipping #gale/wyll #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate

[shu-of-the-wind]

shows you need to watch to understand my brain

again, i'm not guaranteeing the quality or likeability of any of these things. they are foundational for me, but they may not be to your taste. check for cws because i don't feel like listing them but i will make special note for things i find especially triggering for me personally.

Mononoke | モノノ怪 and its origin in Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales | 怪 〜ayakashi〜 Japanese Classic Horror, the Bakeneko story [化け猫] (severe cw for rape, sexual assault, kidnapping, imprisonment, murder, and gore in Bakeneko Story)

Apostle

Crimson Peak

Kingdom | 킹덤 (congratulations to kingdom for being the only zombie show that i will ever give a fuck about)

Hinterland | Y Gwyll (cw for a cop show)

Pacific Rim

Black Butler | 黒執事

Paranorman

Princess Tutu

And Then There Were None (2015)

The Great Queen Seondeok | 선덕여왕

House of Flying Daggers | 十面埋伏

Granada's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Copper Beeches (the entire show is incredible but like. i love the copper beeches it's my favorite holmes story of all time because it includes This Spectacular Sequence:

which is the best scene of all of holmes imo)

Derry Girls (all seasons)

Harlots (ONLY SEASONS ONE AND TWO because then they kill off my favorite character and i lose all interest)

Jeeves and Wooster (cw for period typical racism) (the link is to the pilot but the entire fucking show is a goldmine)

Shetland (cw for another cop show)

Geraldine McEwan's Miss Marple and David Suchet's Murder on the Orient Express (do not FUCKING talk to me about kenneth branagh i hate every single thing he's done with poirot with every fiber of my being)

Penny Dreadful (seasons 1-2 only, season 3 sucked, and city of angels does not exist)

Sailor Moon R: The Movie | 劇場版 美少女戦士セーラームーンＲ

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Netflix's Daredevil (all seasons, yes, even s2, i'm obsessed with elodie's elektra)

Chobits (don't @ me i love my sweet robot children hideki doesn't fucking matter)

i'll add more as i think of them.

#alix's tv recs #looking at this list and i'm like wow. how much horror and mystery do i consume on the daily

[glyphreader]

Gwyllion Hedge-Mage (Eventide No. 89, Illus. Todd Lockwood)

Gwyllions are another type of creature that suddenly appears on Shadowmoor. Are they Kithkin? No. Elves? Nope. Goblins? No. They're hags. No idea where they came from ... they're just here now.

There are two varieties of hags on Shadowmoor: The Gwyllion, who are aligned with white and black mana (Gwyllion Hedge-Mage, Harvest Gwyllion, Nip Gwyllion, also shown on Disturbing Plot), and the more monstrous, green-and-black-aligned versions that are just called hags, no further specification (Stalker Hag, Hag Hedge-Mage, Desecrator Hag).

Gwyllion and Hags (like many Shadowmoor creatures) originally come from British folklore, where they are female fairies "of frightful aspect." Gwyllion is apparently the plural form of the word (the singular being Gwyll), but in Magic, it's also used to refer to individual specimens.

Shadowmoor Gwyllion, while definitely not friendly or pleasant to be around, seem like the sophisticated variety of witch figure on the plane. I could still see tjhem showing up in a dark fantasy film aimed at a somewhat young audience. The green-black hags, on the other hand, are the man-eating variety of witch that firmly belongs in a horror or slasher movie.

In this card illustration by Todd Lockwood, the Gwyllion almost feels like a autumn or winter spirit, with her big mane of hair resembling withered branches. Judging by the crude puppet head she is clutching, she seems to specialize in voodoo-like magic.

Just like Noggle Hedge-Mage, the composition of the piece makes it feel like you are in direct confrontation with this creature. She too has this kind of stare that hints at some form of intelligence - but she's not "human" enough for you to be able to read her intentions. Make one wrong move, and she might drive her nail into the puppet's head, causing you to succumb to an agonizing headache.

How would an encounter with this Gwyllion play out? What role do they play in Lorwyn/Shadowmoor? How do they interact with the other creatures on the plane? These are the kinds of things I'd love to see explored in official MtG fiction (or fanfiction).

#mtg #vorthos #magic the gathering #eventide #shadowmoor

[dracolichbitch]

Wip Thursday

Yeah so i totally spent most of yesterday thinking it was tuesday until i was at work and couldn't post to realize it was wednesday so I'm late again! good thing no one actually cares about the exact day LOL Heres some more from fallacy of the damned

tagging @lucien-lachance @trickstarbrave @baneschosen @illumiera @mightymizora and whoever else might want to do it!

Vinari huffed before reaching up and removing her visor, showing her unsettling black and crimson eyes now. She was distinctly aware of the fact this was the first time the two of them saw her real appearance and not her disguise. “I am many things but I do not believe cute is one of them.”

If either of them were shocked by her glowing crimson eyes, bloody hair, pointed fangs, or corpse-like grey skin, they didn’t show it. It genuinely surprised and confused her. Most people reacted with horror when viewing one of the less human looking Voidborne. Why were they any different?

“Aren’t Voidborne considered ridiculously attractive in Nishoku?” Cyrus grinned as they popped their fingers. “You’re cute to someone I’m sure.”

Vinari just shook her head. “Anyway, what’re you two doing here?”

It was Zemira’s turn to gape at her.

“We came to help you of course. Why else?”

Vinari shook her head. “No, I understand that. I mean why would you help me?”

Zemira stared at her and then looked to Cyrus who just shrugged their shoulders and tossed their hands up in a universal “I don’t know” gesture before returning her gaze to Vinari. “Because we’re friends? And friends help each other? You are familiar with the concept of friendship, aren’t you?”

Vinari tightened her grip on Nishka. Now that she was asking, Vinari actually thought about it. Gwyll helped her because she was duty bound to serve her when they were in the Vidrus and Gwyll never dropped that mindset no matter how Vinari tried to convince her to. Nishka stayed with her because she was literally her undead pet that Vinari resurrected for companionship. Nocturne was… Well, Nocturne. Their bond went deeper than any that mortals had words for, and would be insulting to describe their relationship as mere friendship. And then there was her crew aboard The Blood Wolf. Most of them were undead she created, possessed by the spirits of fiends wishing to see Noxus themselves and assisting her with her piracy for the opportunity to do so. They were bound by the letter of their contracts, and even though she liked them and trusted them with her life, she wouldn’t say that they were friends. And then there were her contacts in the underworld. Sure there were some she wouldn’t turn a drink down from after business was concluded, but their relationships only lasted as long as they were mutually beneficial. So when it came down to it, no, she didn’t have any one who stayed by her side and assisted her just for the sake of doing so. Why would anyone? People weren’t willing to just help a Voidborne with no questions asked.

Were they?

She shook her head slowly.

“I suppose you have earned this bit of honesty. No, I am not. I cannot even begin to comprehend your motives.”

#wip wednesday #the fallacy of the damned #oc: vinari vidrus

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

would love your opinion of the newest episode of DW, if you get the chance.

HAHAHAHA YES I HAVE MANY THOUGHTS

Alright okay so

I only have one complaint, which is that that wasn't a faerie ring. You could still have the shamble, no problem, but it should have been over the top of an actual faerie ring, which should be a mushroom (or, at a push, stone) circle. Not some cotton that would blow clean off the cliff edge in three minutes.

HOWEVER

This is the first time I've seen Doctor Who do a time travel story using, not Doctor Who time travel lore and rules, but Welsh faerie rules. (First time I've seen anything do it, in fact.) In Welsh myth, people who enter faerie rings or get entranced by the music become suspended in time, out of sync with the real world. They think they danced for a night, but when they return it's been 100 years, and they crumble to dust as soon as they eat/drink/step on land/etc.

In this case, this is what I think happened to Ruby. She spent that time in Annwfn, seeing what would happen if the binding on the ring was broken. When she 'dies', she returns to the spot and lasts long enough to give her younger self the warning, then crumbles to dust.

But, a time travelling Ruby is not the woman who follows her throughout the episode. That, in fact, is a gwyll.

The gwyllion were hag faeries, usually of mountain tops (though Pembrokeshire's liminal cliffs are 100% from Welsh mythology - it was said that if you found a faerie ring on one but only put one foot in, you could see the faerie islands in the sea. And that faeries used to visit the human markets in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion. So while gwyllion are unusual there, it's not an impossible relocation.) They were malicious and sometimes vicious faeries who delighted in making people lose their way, could strike an uncontrollable and ungodly terror into travellers, and who feature in more that one myth as an old woman that someone tried to approach, but they always appeared at the same distance away, impossible to catch up.

CAN YOU SEE THE PARALLELS

And the best part!! Is that this is why she defeats UNIT!!!

Kate tells Ruby that her agents have necklaces of silver and salt to keep out the supernatural, but that's just generic fairytale shit. That doesn't work on gwyllion. Salt drawn in a line would provide a barrier, but the UNIT soldiers aren't trying to trap or block the gwyll; they're trying to capture her. What works, very specifically, is a knife. Iron or steel for preference of course, but it needs to be a knife.

But UNIT has no Welsh employees and the soldiers have guns, not knives. And so they all become entranced.

(This is also what I think the gwyll 'says' to everyone to turn them against Ruby. She doesn't say anything - she sings.)

This is also the first time I've ever encountered any mainstream media doing Welsh faeries and understanding the tone to strike, which is 'unknowable, unstoppable and fucking terrifying'. I think I've only ever read it in Catharine Fisher books, and she's a Welsh author so... yeah, obviously. But I basically vibrated with delight and excitement for the entire episode.

Oh my god, hang on, Roger ap Gwilliam! Okay, I have two theories about him.

My weaker theory and the one I don't like is the kind of boring and obvious one, which is that he is himself not human. A lot of Welsh folklore features the devil, and I get that vibe from his role in the story. But, I'm not keen, because I can't see the link to the gwyll.

But my strongest theory, and the one I have chosen to believe, is that he's a human who made a deal with the Fae for power, and then reneged. There's a Metric Fuckton of stories about humans fucking up Fae gifts in some way, and the punishment is usually something ironic but always results in the loss of the gift. It could be a faerie harp that makes everyone dance, and the Fae tell the giftee not to abuse it, but they cruelly force everyone to dance so long and so hard that the faerie returns, takes back the harp, and then takes the human's ability to ever make music again, so example (by taking fingers or eyes or tongues as well, often.)

So I think Mad Jack strikes a bargain for power - but, then tries to abuse that power (nuclear war). But part of the bargain is that the Fae cannot approach him directly ever again. In the real world, they therefore tempt him into the faerie ring and bind his soul there, problem solved - until the Doctor accidentally lets him out, and gets his own soul stuck. Ruby, therefore, becomes the instrument through which they manage to take that power away once again - and then, her final Fae gift for her service is that they use the temporal anomaly of the faerie ring to send her back, at the end of her life, and give her a second chance. This time, with Mad Jack's soul left bound in Annwfn.

The fun part is, RTD is a writer who understands the power of not explaining everything and leaving some things up to the viewer's imagination, so none of this is ever going to be explained lol. But yeah, that is a gwyll. The moment she appeared, I said out loud "Oh holy fuck, gwyllion." That was a gwyll.

As a final observation, I loved seeing Siân Phillips, and I choose to believe they filmed those scenes in a pub because they could only get Siân if they agreed to just come to her local. The woman is a queen.

#asks #wales! #closed for cleaning on mondays #doctor whom #doctor who spoilers

[gothicwidowsworld]

Midsomer Murders

Luther 

Endeavor

Death in Paradise

How to get away with murder

Dublin Murders 

Dickensian

Redwater

Unforgotten

Happy Valley

Whitechapel

Poirot

Y Gwyll (Hinterland)

Lewis

Father Brown

#crime drama masterlist #crime drama x reader #crime drama imagines

[kinggregthethird]

WE NEED KING GREG X BRIAN PROSET FROM Y GWYLL

CMON

We know you mclove it

AN AMAZING SUGGESTION FROM A FELLOW CITIZEN!

Will complete in due time.

————

King Greg the Third

Fanpage

[anaverageminiaturepainter]

A dog and a rabbit-riding goblin walk into a masquerade party hosted by Gwyll...

#tabletop miniatures #malifaux #gaming #tabletop gaming

[preservationofnormalcy]

Hi! I wanted to ask if you could recommend a lawyer specialized in dealing with fae-related conflicts?

Thanks a bunch in advice.

If you’re in the states and especially the east coast, you’ll want to contact Foras, Gwyll, and Zendion-1 & Associates. I have my Unliving Will with them. Gwyll herself is a member of the fae community, and is an expert at these matters. On a more generic note, if you check a lawyer’s credentials, you’ll often see that they’re cleared to operate in fae court, and if they’re also licensed for Higher Courts that’s a big helpful bonus because of the interaction between the Old Court and Paradise.

And you’d find that in “P”, “practicing lawyers.” Oh don’t give me that look.

#office for the preservation of normalcy #ask #advice #fae #angels