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Morgan Sheppard (1037 KP) created a post

Sep 4, 2026  
It's #FolkloreFriday 🦢

This week's folklore focus explores the swan in Welsh tradition. The swan is a consistently liminal creature; it belongs to the water and the air, the mortal world and the Otherworld simultaneously. Welsh swans are rarely simply birds in the old stories; they are transformed beings wearing the shape of a swan, the boundary between the person and the bird growing genuinely uncertain over time.

The protective folk belief surrounding them reflects how seriously the tradition took that liminality. Harming a swan was considered deeply unlucky, as the bird was understood to be under divine protection; something that moves between worlds deserves more than ordinary treatment.

The last quarter moon arrives today alongside a turning season. Both are creatures of the between-space, asking for a different kind of attention. 🦢

#FolkloreFriday #WelshFolklore #TalesFromWales
      
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Tiana Striplin (0 KP) rated Duolingo in Apps

Mar 21, 2018  
Duolingo
Duolingo
Education, Social Networking
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8.4 (61 Ratings)
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Easy to use. Many languages to close from. (0 more)
English to Chinese has no explanations, they just start you off with learning both the symbols and words without knowing the English translations of them. Sometimes the app freezes in the middle of a lesson. (0 more)
I use the app on a daily basis to study French. Have dabbled in Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, Esperanto, Welsh, and Gaelic.
  
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Morgan Sheppard (1037 KP) created a post

Jul 3, 2026  
Good morning, all! Today is the Festival of Ceridwen. It's a day worth marking quietly and with intention, honouring the keeper of the cauldron of inspiration and transformation, whose stories are woven so deeply into the Welsh landscape. In the spirit of today, why don't you create something, however small!

Have a Fabulous Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

#BookQuote #WelshFolklore #MythAndMoonlight #TalesFromWales #WheelOfTheYear
      
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Morgan Sheppard (1037 KP) created a post

Oct 26, 2026  
Full moon tonight, and five days until Nos Galan Gaeaf.

The Unseen Border has been October’s theme at The Story Hearth; Welsh ghosts, spirits, and the thinning of the veil treated with the seriousness they deserve. Tonight the theme feels closest to the surface. The Ladi Wen arrives on Friday; the month closes at the threshold on the 31st. Full moon blessings. 🌕🍂

#WelshFolklore #FolkloreFantasy #TalesFromWales
      
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Sarah (7800 KP) rated The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins in Books

Apr 7, 2020  
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins
Irvine Welsh | 2014 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
3
3.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Not a pleasant read
Having recently read and enjoyed Trainspotting, I decided to give this book a go as I was intrigued to see how Welsh writes when it’s not in Scottish. Sadly I think I prefer the Scottish!

This is not a pleasant read, in more ways than one. The main character Lucy is a horrendous person, which is intentional but it doesn’t make for a nice read. There’s nothing redeemable about her at all and the longer the book goes on, the more repulsed you become by her behaviour. She’s not meant to be massively likeable, but I really didn’t enjoy reading a book where the main character is that disgusting. It’s a shame as the actual plot itself is quite decent and has a lot of interesting aspects and developments. The problem though is the characters and the fact that this is far too explicit and crude, it’s entirely unnecessary. The writing style also grates a lot in this. It seemed to work for Trainspotting but in this it just seems inappropriate - why Welsh can’t write conversation and paragraphs with proper punctuation and paragraphs I’ll never know. And finally the ending in this is just laughable. After such a horrific story the ending seems so out of place and so undeserving for such characters. If you want to read Irvine Welsh, read Trainspotting. Don’t bother with this.