#herne posts

[wytchoftheways]

Horned god chant: 🐐

Oh great horned god of ages past

Lord of the hunt, lord of the dance

From that place where you lie slain

Come to me return again

Across the mountains the fields the sands

Be once more upon this land

Oh great horned god of times gone by

Lord of the earth, the sea and the sky

Of the forrest and of the glade

Be with us now and for all our days

Herne, Cernunnos, Karnayna, Pan!

Be once more upon this land!

#my post #horned god #herne #cernunnos #karnayna #great god pan #pagan #paganism #witchcraft #anamist #the old religion #the old ways #faery tradition

[cirrus-grey]

TMA Dracula AU idea:

(Mostly follows Dracula canon up until this past week or so of Dracula Daily, then diverges, for anyone worried about spoilers)

Peter Lukas is Dracula

Evan Lukas is Jonathan (Harker)

Naomi Herne is Mina

Evan is called to Transylvania as both a solicitor and a distant relative, to help his great-great-some-odd uncle however-many-times-removed buy a house in London

His story mostly follows Jonathan's, except instead of three ghostly Brides there's just Simon hanging around bugging the shit out of Peter and not going away

Martin is Lucy

Instead of being Naomi's old school friend, he's her favorite cousin

Since they're related, and she's engaged, no one raises any 18th century eyebrows at a young man and woman spending a lot of time together unchaperoned

They don't share a room when Naomi visits Martin in Whitby, but their rooms are adjacent and she's a light enough sleeper that she always wakes at the sound of footsteps next door and checks to see if he's sleepwalking

Jon (Sims) fills in for Arthur, Jack, and Quincy, in that he is Martin's only suitor

Except he's not really a suitor for period-typical homophobia reasons so they're just close friends who spend a lot of time together awkwardly avoiding talking about their feelings and blushing whenever they make eye contact

Jon pours his heart out in his journal whenever he gets home

Martin gushes to Naomi, who is both amused and sympathetic

Despite filling in for three people, Jon's story runs closest to Seward's in that he is an academic and a physician who works at the local asylum

He doesn't own the place, though: he's the assistant to Dr. Bouchard, head of the asylum

Their most fascinating patient is J. Magnus, filling the role of Renfield and desperately seeking immortality

Flash forward - Naomi has gone to meet Evan at the hospital; the Tundra, taking the place of the Demeter, has crashed at Whitby; Martin has traveled to London and is getting sicker

Jon volunteers to be the blood donor and stay up overnight watching him, and here is where the plot diverges because-

Where Lucy told Jack to get some sleep on the sofa in the next room, Jon says fuck that! I don't need sleep, I'm fine!

And Martin says well if you're not sleeping than neither am I!

And they both stay up the whole night getting increasingly loopy and giggly and just talking with each other

As dawn breaks they both, inexplicably, feel that it's safe to sleep now, so Jon goes and collapses in the other room while Martin just conks out where he is

And that would have been the end of it and Martin would have been left alone and vulnerable the next night except-

When they finally wake up both Jon and Martin realize that they just spent 8+ hours in each other's company, uninterrupted, and no one questioned it at all

They're still tired and vaguely low on blood but by god, neither of them has ever been in a better mood

Jon decrees it necessary for Martin's recovery that he's not left alone at night and brings a pack of cards with him when he returns so they can play go fish

They both basically become nocturnal, staying up all night hanging out and sleeping from dawn into the early afternoon

This goes on for a week or so and Martin is looking much better

Then, one night, there’s a storm

It's fierce. The wind howls and the windows shake in their frames as though something is trying to get in

Jon stands from his chair, facing the windows with his heart beating hard in his chest

"He is not yours," he says, though he hardly knows why. "You will not have him!"

There is a crash of thunder outside. Fog seems to be slipping in around the windowpanes

"Jon," Martin chokes out, behind him. He is pale in the candlelight, and he is holding one hand to his throat

Jon turns and dives into the bed with him, slipping under the covers to hold him close, to protect him with his own body

"He is not yours!" he screams again. "You are not welcome here!"

And... the fog begins to retreat. It pulls back, through the window and away, like footage played in reverse. The storm weakens and starts to die away, the crashing booms of thunder fading into distant rumbles

Jon and Martin, terrified, exhausted, still clutching each other as though they will never let go, fall asleep in each other's arms

Nothing disturbs their slumber

In the morning they wake face-to-face, pressed together as close as possible under the sheets. And they kiss, with a silent understanding of all they feel for each other

They both suspect that it is safe to sleep at night, now, though Jon still stays over, just in case

Naomi and Evan return, and oh no, now Naomi's getting sick???

Martin's immediately like. That's exactly what happened to me! And Evan, without hesitating, goes: so the cure is I have to give her some of my blood and then stay up with her every night and watch to make sure she's safe? Done, someone stick a tube in my arm, where's the coffee?

Except suddenly Trevor Herbert (he's Van Helsing btw) throws up his hands and is like Fuck. This. Shit. There's vampires afoot, and I'm not standing for it anymore! And he just starts shoving stakes and garlic at everyone and asks if they've seen anything else strange recently

And Jon's like. Well there's this one patient at the hospital who's obsessed with consuming lives to become immortal and also he keeps trying to break into the abandoned church next door and calling for his master, do you think that's related?

And Trevor is like why the fuck didn't you say so before???

They all load up on stakes and go to the asylum to try to find Peter, dreading what they're going to see, but instead of a horror show of blood and death it's...

Jonah Magnus, half-undressed, leaning out of his window as over-sexualized as any vampire's victim could hope to be, being homoerotically fed on by Peter

They're so distracted that Trevor stakes Peter without any trouble at all, and then does Jonah too for good measure

And they all go home

By this point Jon and Martin have had a chance to talk everything over and Jon moves into Martin's home. They're not publicly together, but, well, lots of confirmed bachelors choose to live together for the company these days...

And it turns out Peter really was Evan's uncle, so once all the paperwork gets sorted out he finds himself inheriting quite a hefty fortune and a castle in Transylvania

(He and Naomi sell it as soon as they possibly can. He is quite a good solicitor, after all)

#THIS GOT LONG #anyway #the magnus archives #dracula #magnus archives fanfiction #my magnus archives stuff #my writing #the dinghy #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #naomi herne #evan lukas #peter lukas #jonah magnus #original post #dracula daily #WOOF thats a lot of tags #sorry for the lack of a readmore im on mobile #ah heck im gonna throw on a #lonely eyes #just for fun

[tired-beholding-bitch]

these days i’ve been thinking a lot about the Lonely and quiet terror.

specifically, about how silent and insidious and intensely private by definition it is, which means often it gets overlooked or written off as relatively innocuous when it’s anything but.

isn’t it terrifying how it waits, and bides its time, and it won’t take you unwilling?

it won’t drag you kicking and screaming away from the ones who love you, but it will patiently creep at the edges of your life, breathing fog into the cracks of you until you can’t feel anything at all and you are worn and thin and exhausted to the point you’re barely there anymore. it’ll whisper in your head that it’s you, it’s you, you pushed the people who loved you away and it’s your own fault there is no one left to even miss you.

it lives in past tenses - someone loved you and you were enough and there used to be someone looking at you like it mattered, once.

and it’s fickle and uncaring and it will shroud you in its protection as long as you don’t know anything else, and you’ll be safe until the day you aren’t anymore. you’ll be safe, until the day you first open your eyes to realise the comforting weight of the fog is crushing your lungs after all.

above all, however, isn’t the utter indifference of it enough to chill you to the bone?

you’re screaming and there is no one left to hear you, and more than that, even if there was, they wouldn’t care.

you have spent your whole life making yourself useful before allowing yourself to be a person, and in the end it wasn’t enough to stop them from leaving and you have no idea who you are and they aren’t looking back to find out who you could be.

you pour yourself out on the floor of an empty hotel room in a foreign city, and cry until your head aches and pulses and you feel sick to your stomach, and when you call someone you trust the phone rings and rings and rings.

you hold the bleeding, shattered pieces of yourself in your hands, and you want to go home. the road is long and winding and you’re sure you’ll get lost, because you want to go home and you have no idea where home is anymore.

but wherever it is, you know no one is waiting for you there.

#its been a while since i had Entity Thoughts but been feeling it these days #and the lonely doesnt get enough credit for how fucking. terrifying it is alright #it isnt only sad it's as horrible as more immediately obvious fears #thank you for coming to my ted talk #recently re-listened to mag 13 and boy do i still have feelings about naomi herne #tma #the lonely #tma meta #kind of??? mostly sad thoughts #tired thoughts #long post

[scavengedluxury]

Playground “So sure in love” - 1986

#playground #post punk #industrial #herne bay #1980s

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

In a time when life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for the first time in decades and Americans can expect on average to enjoy even fewer years of retirement, Republicans are considering a radical plan to shrink the retirement window.

House Republicans have been working out the details of their deeply unpopular plan to cut Social Security and Medicare in order to deepen poverty and shackle people to the labor force further into old age.

The party is considering a proposal to raise the retirement age for Social Security to 70, per The Washington Post, which means that workers and retirees would have to work an additional 3 to 4 years to receive full benefit. This proposal would mostly affect younger workers who have not yet started to receive benefits from the program.

Under this proposal, Americans could expect to be able to enjoy retirement for only about six years, if the most recent life expectancy estimates hold: In 2021, the average life expectancy in the U.S. dropped to 76 years and one month.

This is 2 years and 9 months less than the pre-pandemic average, which is a larger drop than other wealthy countries had experienced in the same period of time. It is also already harder to retire in the U.S. than in other countries, as older Americans have a higher poverty rate than those in other wealthy countries; by contrast, over a million people in France are striking to protest the government’s proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 to qualify for a full government pension.

The GOP is also considering a proposal for panels that would recommend changes to Social Security and Medicare, which are at risk of facing solvency issues in coming decades thanks in part to Republicans’ efforts to chip away at the program for years. This supposed solution would likely be crafted to ensure that the panel would suggest cuts to the program — but could be done in a way that makes it seem as though the GOP isn’t directly responsible for the cuts.

Cutting Social Security and Medicare could have disastrous consequences for middle- and lower-class Americans, who are already having trouble affording basic expenses like medical care. Social Security is the single most effective anti-poverty program by far in the U.S., even with payouts that are still too low to prevent poverty for many. Medicare is similarly an extremely effective anti-poverty program, and, importantly, helps millions of Americans afford medical care that would otherwise be out of reach.

“We have no choice but to make hard decisions,” said Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Oklahoma), who leads the Republican Study Committee, the largest House GOP caucus which endorsed the retirement benefit age last year. “Everybody has to look at everything.”

Democratic lawmakers have said that Republicans are focusing on Social Security solvency because they think cutting the program under President Joe Biden could hurt Democrats.

If they were truly worried about the funding of the program and maintaining its anti-poverty effects, Republicans could support efforts to make it so that the rich pay an equal share of their income into Social Security as the working class does, for instance; a proposal introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) last year to “scrap the cap” at which people’s incomes are taxed for the program would fully fund the program until 2096, while also upping payments by $2,400 a year.

Democrats in the House, meanwhile, have advocated for decreasing the Medicare eligibility age to 60 or even 55, which would provide tens of millions of people with easier access to health care.

Implementing a change like this would be popular among voters. Polling last year by Data for Progress found that a bipartisan majority of Americans support raising taxes on those making over $400,000 in order to fund Social Security expansion. Meanwhile, more recent polling by Data for Progress found that a majority of voters — Democrat, independent or Republican — say that Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised without cuts to Social Security or Medicare.

#us politics #news #truthout #2023 #raising the retirement age #social security cuts #social security #medicare cuts #medicare #conservatives #republicans #gop policy #gop platform #gop #republicans be like #conservatives be like #The Washington Post #france #Republican Study Committee #Rep. Kevin Hern #Sen. Bernie Sanders #us house of representatives #118th congress #Data for Progress #tax the billionaires #tax the 1% #expand social security #expand medicare #debt ceiling #national debt

[chemical-bunz]

“And then, as I found myself in the middle of that open, desolate field, I heard something. It was the strangest thing, but as I tried to run I could have sworn I heard Evan’s voice call to me. He said, “Turn left”. That’s it. That’s all he said. I know it sounds ridiculous, but that’s what he told me to do. And I did it. I turned sharply to the left and kept on running. And then… nothing.”

Mag013 - Alone

#my post #art #[my art] #digital art #painting #illustration #[my post] #the magnus archive fanart #tma #the magnus pod #artists on tumblr #the magnus archives #the lonely #the buried #lonely tma #Naomi Herne #Evan Lukas #Peter Lukas #mourning #ghost #ghosts #ghost art #magpod #magpod art #fog #mist #red and blue #the Lukas family #buried tma #ghost boyfriend

[yharnamesque]

You know what, wadda hell, list of fun facts about my Pokemon protagonist Leah just from her Kanto arc:

originally from Hearthome but she and her mother (Denise) left to get away from her overly controlling father - they now live with Denise's younger sister Dana in Pallet Town

her first Pokemon is technically a Paras (Sugar) that wandered into their garden one day and kept coming back to visit

her official starter was Squirtle but would end up trading it for an extremely anxious Sandshrew (Basil) Blue had caught when they meet in Cerulean - by this point she had also managed to catch a Pidgey and an Ekans but none of them except Sugar would obey due to her poor trainer skills and she ended up releasing them

Sugar would become Basil's therapeutic partner thanks to the effect spores from Sugar's mushrooms having a calming effect - Leah would eventually sew a pouch of the spores into a Bunneary plush for Basil so Sugar wouldn't be constantly overwhelmed

in the short time she knew him before his passing, Cedric, the elderly family Hypno, would end up being the father figure she wished her actual dad had been

after reaching Saffron City, she would sign up for an international penpal service and end up becoming friends with Bianca from Unova - her email username is sugarsectleah

the only gym badge she would end up getting was the Rainbow Badge from Erika

although she wouldn't be quite as close to him as she would become to Blue, Leah would ultimately feel a lot more comfortable with and understood by Red, the two of them travelling short stretches together through places like Viridian Forest and Mt Moon - they were comfortable and secure enough in one another that they would frequently casually hold hands

#herne talks #legit you have no idea how much thought i put into this girl her journey and her development as a person #some of her future team members like ariados zangoose and lucario #returning to sinnoh with blue and having a brief confrontation with her dad to close that part of her life #her and blue dating for a short while only to realise they have different needs and are better as friends #but also being open to trying again when they're older if there's still some kind of spark #i think writing it all out is gonna be a real fun casual project #may or may not end up posting it too who knows #also this just counts as hi i'm still alive just keeping to myself lmao

[britneyshakespeare]

Whoever it was that said William Butler Yeats was a good poet and a bad playwright: your mom's a hoe

#yeats #text post #i love my guy and his anachronistic verse plays!!!! FUCK off #reading the herne's egg today #i have a copy of his selected plays (the first edition printed in the usa!) #(a second printing from 1971) #it is SO fragile though. my boy was very loved by its previous owner #or owners. the name on the first page is a dr. schumek i think? #i read it seldom only bc i am wary abt vintage paperbacks but this one can actually handle it #the art on the cover is the sargent drawing of him 🖤 #perhaps someday i will give this one up and get something less delicate #but i do love this book and the plays within it #sadly it does not contain the cat and the moon

[autistic-fandom-trash]

hey what if naomi herne and andrea nunis. together. dating or friends or qpr i havent decided.

#tma #naomi herne #andrea nunis #mag 13 #mag 48 #im so not normal abt this actually #its abt understanding and solidarity and support and recognition of the self through the other #its abt knowing despite everything that others have suffered the same pain as u and survived #its abt defiance its abt refusing to give in even with unimaginably powerful forces working against u #its abt knowing that not caring would be easier in every way and choosing to care anyway #its abt HOPE goddamnit its abt hope #my posts

[one-time-i-dreamt]

not a dream

In early 2000s, when I was a kid growing up in Croatia, a New Zealand teen post-apocalypse show called The Tribe had everyone in a chokehold here.

The show had everything - interesting stories, diverse cast, drama, weird fashion, power and chaos, a cult, good antagonists, good and bad acting, really everything.

And it had Meryl Cassie, Monique Cassie, Megan Alatini and Michelle Ang, enough said.

Also, I feel like Tom Hern who portrayed Ram sort of looks like Brad Mondo!

Imagine the world's adult population wiped out by a mysterious, deadly virus and a bunch of kids trying to survive the aftermath while searching for a cure, learning how to grow food, take care of each other and so on?

The main cast were parts of a 'tribe' called the Mallrats (because they lived in an old shopping mall.

#not a dream #meryl cassie #michelle ang #the tribe

[voiceless-people]

Tmagp statement ideas, bc I've seen a couple others

-one of those food blogs that tells their whole life story before the receipe

-guy complaining about how he keeps finding holes in all his clothes and its really annoying, eventually finds his skin tearing open

-news article on an inside look at the illusive family in Kent, written by one Evan Herne

-guy doing a really bad corpse husband impression reading user submitted stories

-lost media song that everyone goes batshit searching for and start doxing ppl to get more info, breaking into radio stations to see if they can find it

-covid era zoom call class lecture

WILL ADD MORE TO THE POST

#tmagpposting #tmagp #the magnus protocol #magnus protocol

[ifuckingloveryoshu]

CANTO 6 PART 3 SPOILERS

Im beyond pissed, tumblr crashed in the middle of me doing this so this is going to be so much shorter than I want it to be. NON RYOSHU RELATED POST ABOUT THE HEATHCLIFF. DON'T TAKE WHAT I SAY AS FACT I AM NOT QUALIFIED FOR THIS. LOOK AT THE LINKS I CITE FOR MORE INFORMATION! You can click them when their mentioned. Im not citing in the proper format. This was done on 5 hours of sleep, two eggs, and a box of banana milk.

The Erlkonig or Erlking is this figure in German Mythology who kidnapps children. When he touches you, he kills you. This poem made by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe then adapted to this song is what you see. Erlkoning Heathcliff is trying to intice Heathcliff to die by telling him that it's his fault Cathy is dead. All identities refer to the sinner as "child" when you look into their uptie stories. Mili and the singer of the video here use the same technique of changing the tone and pitch of their voice to differntiate two characters.

The Wild Hunt is a part of Norse Mythology where Odin, mounted on his sixed legged horse Sleipnir, goes through the forest. According to norse-mythology.org, anyone who gets caught up in The Wild Hunt, spotted or seen, gets carried away. Your soul will get incorporated into The Wild Hunt. We all know Erlking Heathcliff did, the rising of the bodies. The Wild Hunt is also mostly describe as having hounds, and who was a hound? Hindleys.

From the same website, on the page of Sleipnir reads,

Also, the horse that heath rides on has a weird liney pattern on it's 4 legs that kind of look like that runestone. There's more connection here, I just don't want to type it again.

How did Project Moon mix two diffrent mythological ideas together? (Its not just two, they mixed so many more.) Meet human mistranslation and the progression of oral tradition and story telling throught time. I don't kno where to start. There was mistranslation poem when, according to ancient-origins.net Johann Gottfried Herder wrote a seperate ballad from the one I linked at the start called Erlkönigs Tochter.

The Anglo-Saxons were early German settlers. This is where things get messy because I have several more potential leaders of the Wild Hunt but here are two, King Herla and Herne The Hunter.

Herne The Hunter: Popularized by Shakespeare potentially from a play called The Merry Wives of Windsor. This man called Jacobb Grimm said that Hene The Hunter was related to Odin. Herne the hunter is this ghost. ( https://mythopedia.com/topics/herne-the-hunter ) Im trying to say there are other media that connect the Erlking to the Wild Hunt but its on Wikipedia so it makes it seem fishy. Another Link Here

King Herla: A british king who attended a dwarf wedding. When he left the wedding, the world had changed. Unbeknowst to him, 300 years had passed and he was claimed to be missing. When his men tried to get off their horses, they turned into dust so they were stuck like that. Read it here, its short. Someone better and more credible than me summed the story up better than I did, historian Chrissy Senecal. Read right here. An additional link to cross refrence if you'd like. King Herla and Odin got conflated together when really, their diffrent people

I found this other website article about Wild Hunts which kind of brings me to the next thing, the Harlequinn. They weild clubs, their devils, the image of them is popularly joyful? Maybe goofy and lighthearted? Perhaps associated with cards? Matt, or Heathcliff's portrayal of Matt. Now, I'm looking at Wikipedia and I see this section.

What do we have here? A mention of the Erlkönig, Dante's Inferno, masked, club weilding giant. Heathcliff's not giant but hes pretty tall, at least by my standards but whatever, im very short. DANTE'S INFERNO, Canto 11 and 12. What the fuck Project Moon, are you playing 5d chess?

Back on topic, Hellequin is the fairy king, and this figure pops up in German, French, Italian, and English folklore. I can't do proper research when all my search results are mixed with random junk and I'm becoming nutty. You will not normally be able to access this article without paying but here's the link anyways. Journal Article from this book on a section about horned deities made in 1922 speaks of a group of ghost riding, who are also huntsman.

And also another mention of Dante's Inferno. The name, Herne The Hunter is mentioned again.

All and all, The link between The Erlkonig and The Wild Hunt isn't as wild and unexplainable as I originally thought. It's just so cool to see all these concepts intersect. There still so much to touch upon like the headless horseman refrence and the Dullahans, RYOSHU COMPARING THE WILD HUNT TO THE PARADE OF 100 SPIRTS, something along that line, I forgot the name. I'm just not the right person to yell about this but I will anyways. The writers mixed so many symbols of death into one character. Such a wild and nutty Canto. Thank you so much Project Moon.

#not ryoshu #not ryoshu related #limbus company #lcb heathcliff #a link between The Erlking and The Wild Hunt #canto 6 spoilers

[firenati0n]

wip wednesday <3 :)

hello :) i completely forgot to post i am so sorry asjdflajsljfd thank you to @bigassbowlingballhead @priincebutt @anincompletelist @tintagel-or-cockleshells @itsmaybitheway @tailsbeth-writes @captainjunglegym @wordsofhoneydew @gayrootvegetable @theprinceandagcd @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @myheartalivewrites @sophie1973 @littlemisskittentoes @suseagull04 @zwiazdziarka @onthewaytosomewhere @tinyarmedtrex for the tags!!

here's a graphic AND a snip from crack fic #3 Herny Mountana (title pending adjfklajsldk something from a hannah montana song most likely). hope you enjoy. or don't. herny lives on either way.

graphic from the illustrious @anincompletelist my queen my icon my love my everything

snip:

Henry looks at Pez and Shaan in alarm—a break? He’s never taken a break before. He doesn’t even know what that would look like. Popstars don’t take breaks—they tour and record and film and strut until either their heart or their feet give out.  Shaan nods encouragingly. “I agree, and have cleared your schedule for a two-week retreat in Montana. Maybe some fresh air and mountains will do you good, Henry. Bring back the Fox, retire the Mountana for a bit. Hang up the wig. Herny Mountana takes Montana.” Something’s sticking in the back of Henry’s mind, making it hard for him to focus. He turns to the doctor. “How did you know about my world tour and schedule?” The doctor unbuttons his jacket, revealing a FEEL THE HERN tour shirt underneath. “My daughter and I are fans, I was actually at the concert tonight. You were radiant, as usual.” Henry gestures to Shaan, making a writing motion in the air. Shaan hands him a Sharpie and a poster.  “Here, for you and your daughter.” Henry signs the poster, adding a little note at the bottom that says, thank you for saving my life <3 my hero! “So your daughter will know who’s the real legend in the house.” There are tears shining in the doctor’s eyes. 

xoxo roop

open tag bc it's late as hell but i love y'all and herny loves you too <3 xx

#fic: herny #roop writes #my post #rwrb fic #rwrb #god this is so fucking stupid LMFAOOOOOOOO #i love it dearly

[silverthornwitchery]

My Experiences With The Horned God

Ok goes without saying but this is my own experience, my upg. Whether or not things are historically accurate is NOT my concern with this post. I am simply documenting my experiences. I am also NOT a reconstructionist, I am an Eclectic Neo-pagan that draws inspiration from NUMEROUS sources.

In my experiences Worshipping The Horned One and The Goddess, they're definetly like, the Primary Godheads/Energy Archetypes of the universe/nature.

My experiences with the Horned One aligns pretty well with Feri tradition, albeit he's a bit more Faceted for me.

I Experience Him as The Lightbringer, The Lord of the Forest, and The Royal Darkness/The Arddu. I'll go into Detail Below:

The Lightbringer - The Solar and Illuminating aspect of the Horned God. This form of him is the divine rebel, and very much into embracing the joys of life and pleasure. I Break the Lightbringer down into two more facets: The Blue God, and The Solar God. Both are relatively similar but to me the Blue God (this name stems from Feri) is the more esoteric and taboo aspects of light, and The Solar God is the more nature based and wild aspects of the sun itself.

The Names I use currently for these are Oberon for the Blue God, and in the past for the Solar God I've called upon Apollo and his various celtic forms, but I can't seem to find a name that sticks. I've also used Lucifer for the Lightbringer as a whole, but I'm trying to frame this side of my practice in English and Celtic folklore specifically for sake of ease. I am including things like Shakespeare, Arthurian Legends, and so on in this.

The Lord Of The Forest - This tends to be the popularized form of the Horned God. Fertility, Nature, Animals, Magic, the Cycle of Life and Death. He is blending of both the LightBringer, and The Arddu. The Lord of the Forest is a seasonal God. With the Oak King being his Spring and Summer forms, and the Holly King being his cthonic Fall and Winter forms, but name wise, I use three.

Cocidius/Callirius being the more human form of this God. Mostly human aside from ears and antlers or horns.

Herne is the Median between human and Animal, primal yet civilized, he is at least to me, 50/50 in terms of man and beast, but can shift between either pending what you are doing. The way he manifests to me and his energy feels is basically Hircine from TES, and I have worked with him under that name in the past.

Cernunnos to me is the Animal aspect of him. He speaks through nature itself, and is the large stag in the woods. He is cthonic, he is liminal, he is primal. He is the green forest itself in the warm seasons, and the dead and rebirthing forest in the cold. Cernunnos is the masculine embodiment of nature itself.

The Arddu - The Dark/Shadow aspect of the Horned God. He is the master of the Witches Sabbath, the embodiment of death, decay, and the shadow. Since he is death he is also rebirth and transformation. He is not malevolent, actually quite the opposite, but he is not opposed to destroying things to rebuild them, nor is he opposed to baneful workings in any ways. The Arddu as I understand him, often appears as a humanoid black goat or Stag with a candle lit between his horns. Sometimes his head is a skull, sometimes it is not. Sometimes he is more human in appearance. Regardless, The Arddu fulfills the role of "folk devil" in my own practice, though I've moved away from calling him that, as Arddu, meaning Dark One, feels more natural to me. Though I am not against, and actually quite enjoy the reclamation of the word Devil.

The Arddu comes to me in two colors, Black and White.

Black is the color of the fertile soil, which is made that way through decay. Black is the color of the shadow, the subconscious, and the taboo. That which we as people are taught to fear, but once embraced gives us immense power. In this form he's been coming to me as Arawn, but also in the past has come to me as Sathanas and the archetypal Sabbatic Goat. He dons the skull of either a Stag, Ram, Wolf, or Goat, or has those skulls for his actual face.

White is the color often associated with the otherworld, and the Wild Hunt. The White Arddu is the Light Betwixt the Horns and the winter snows. He is faery king in essence. To me he manifests in a more humanoid form, and is very fae-like. He is a trickster, a teacher, and a phantom.. to me he appears as Gwyn Ap Nudd, and I understand Gwyn and Arawn to be two sides of the same coin in my path.

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Playground “Sleeping Dogs” LP from 1988.

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David Tennant's Obscure Performances: His Involvement with Read Not Dead (pt 3) - What You Will

Okay - I promised to fill everyone in on the two unattributed plays David did for the Globe's Read Not Dead project, didn't I? So I'll begin the first never-before-talked-about-in-the-fandom play right now. If you want to catch up on the first two parts and understand a little bit of the history behind the Read Not Dead project before diving into this one, go here for the first part, and here for the second. Then come on back!

The second and third of the four Sunday afternoon staged readings David did while working with the Globe's Read Not Dead (heretofore called RND) project were written by the same author: John Marston. But before we get into the plays themselves, let's take some time to learn a little about John Marston.

Marston was an English playwright whose best known work is 1604's The Malcontent. He began writing in 1598. Much of his work was written for the boy’s theatre company Children of Paul’s and for the Blackfriars. If you went back to one of my previous posts about the Read Not Dead project and David's involvement in their staged reading of 1606's The Fleer by Edward Sharpham, you'll recall reading a bit about the Blackfriars (but if not, they were the Blackfriars Children, a theatre company wholly made up of boy actors.) Anyway, John Marston was a Blackfriars shareholder.

Marston's plays were very popular. He was a consummate satirist who made sure to include lust, violent imagery and impropriety in almost every play he wrote - his poetry was burned by church order! He even dared to satirize the King (though he had to apologize for that of course!) His satirical, critical work caused many a political scandal. Eventually in 1608 Marston was sent to Newgate Prison. After his release, he decided to abandon the theatre, move out of London, and take holy orders. He died in 1634, and to our knowledge never wrote another play. ( As an aside, I encourage you to learn more about Marston. As well as being a contemporary of Shakespeare, he's quite the fascinating character! Here's a good start.)

Okay. Let's go back to the "present" of 2002.

David was a busy boy! He began 2002 starring as Robert in Push Up, an ensemble play about ambition at work. Written by Roland Schimmelpfennig and directed by Ramin Gray, it opened 8 Febuary 2002 at the Jerwood Theatre at the Royal Court.

Push Up was a vignette-style play, and The Telegraph had this to say about it: "The meat of this 90-minute play consists of three edgy, aggressive dialogues between rivals in the firm." David played Robert, who "turns down a proposal from Patrizia for a new TV ad, identical, it turns out, to the one we have already heard described, except that the puddle is now located in New York's Central Park. The fact that these two once had great illicit sex together in Kramer's office, and were both too proud to contact the other afterwards, merely adds to their animosity."

(FYI, I've listened to an audio recording of this play, as it's archived at the British Library. It's stellar!)

David Tennant as Robert in Push Up, 2002

If you've read my previous threads, you'll recall David's first reading with RND was 1999's Edward III and his last was 2004's The Fleer. But now we're in 2002. And David hadn't done another staged reading with RND since 1999. But that was about to change.

Reviews for Push Up were very favorable. The acting was called outstanding, David's was called "a fine performance", and one reviewer said the "undertow of lust between Tennant and [co-star Jaqueline] Defferary [was] particularly riveting." Push Up's run ended in March 2002.

(Oh...I asked director Ramin Gray if there had ever been a programme for Push Up. He told me a printed edition of the play text with the cast list was available, but as far as he was aware, an official Royal Court programme wasn't made for the run. Published by Nick Hern Books, you can find it on Amazon!)

A month later (April 2002) David was treading the boards again as young security guard Jeff in Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan. Set in the lobby of a middle-income Manhattan high rise, the play presented moral dilemmas about things like culpability, justice, and the dangers of truth. Lobby Hero opened at the Donmar from 10 April 2002 to 4 May 2002, then reopened at the New Ambassadors Theatre from 1 July 2002 to 10 August 2002. During its run, the play (& DT!) got rave reviews. It earned David a Olivier nomination for Best Actor, and the play for Best New Comedy.

David Tennant as Jeff in Lobby Hero, 2002

David was probably riding a bit high. Push Up had done well and he'd immediately gone to do Lobby Hero, which was generating awards buzz. But did you notice something about the Lobby Hero dates? David had a month off between runs. And he didn't just sit around twiddling his thumbs -- nope nope nope -- because we all know twiddling has never been David's style.

So on 26 May 2002, David showed up once again to participate in RND. This time it was for a comedy called What You Will, which the aforementioned playwright John Marston likely wrote around 1601 but which was not published until around 1607. What You Will was written while Marston was duking it out (in literary-fashion) with a contemporary writer called Ben Jonson. To say the two men didn't like each other was an understatement. They traded satirical jabs and placed caricatures of each other in their plays. And oh....if the play's title feels vaguely familiar to you, you're not wrong there either! Marston pinched the name of the play from a little old thing you might've heard of called Twelfth Night, written by some fellow called Shakespeare.

What You Will was full of song, music and dance, as it had been written for a children's theatre company. It had a large number of younger parts - pages and the like, and women - for the boys to fill (as I'm sure you'll recall, at this time women's roles were played by men and boys.) In addition to the music, it was also a satire as well as a romantic comedy. Set in Venice, it tells the story of Celia, who believes her husband drowned in a shipwreck. She plans to marry, but another of her suitors, Jacomo, schemes with her family to prevent this. David played the role of Jacomo.

And here's the cast list - again, all thanks and credit for the digitized list goes to the Globe Archives!

Here's a more in-depth look at the plot, and here's a link to the full text of the play, if you're interested.

This performance was recorded, though I haven't listened to it (and sadly, the archive notes the last part of the audio is cut off.) You can listen to the recording of the performance and others from the series, as the recordings are archived in the Globe Archive and Library in London. Access to the archive is available by appointment only for professionals and academics affiliated with institutions of higher education.

So on that Sunday in 2002, David joined in to perform the satirical musical romantic comedy What You Will, directed by James Wallace. And speaking of musical parts - there was singing and dancing to do, scripts in hand. And Jacomo had at least one song to sing!

I'm sure many of you have wondered whether David's done any honest to goodness musicals during his career. Well, I'm here to tell you that while he's burst into song relatively recently and briefly with Don Juan In Soho and Good, and quite possibly with What You Will as well (I haven't listened to the recording of the play to see if David actually sang) - I can provide a partial answer to that question. In a previous interview he mentioned an early play he did in drama school called The Hired Man and said he was a member of the chorus. Yes, that's true, he was, and yes, he did sing in that 1989 production (listen here to hear him sing part of what he sang then.) So he's certainly flirted with the genre. But as I've done much research into those early days of his, there miiiiiight be a few other productions in which he sang. *ahem* I'm just sayin'.

All that comes later. For now, here ends the tale of What You Will. But don't despair - I mentioned earlier we've got one more staged RND reading of David's to explore, and I hope you'll tune in to hear about it, too!

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