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Merry Christmas, Happy Yuletide
Dec. 26th, 2017 08:20 amWe are spending Christmas in Maui with my dad's family! This side of the family is really great and while there is inevitable DRAMA between the older members of the family, the rest of us just mostly roll our collective eyes at them. And Maui is great and the beach is great!
The awesomeness of this vacation was somewhat marred by our Christmas tradition of getting deathly ill. First me then E got really sick (it felt like flu but probably wasn't the flu because we only spent one day feeling like we were about to die, though several days after that feeling not-great), and D got sunburned because if he forgets even one spot when triple-coating himself then it's game over (A seems to be fine... so far), so we have spent more time napping and staying in our room than we would generally have done, but on the other hand that's what vacation is about too, right? :)
ALSO. I got this amazing awesome Yuletide present, you guys, and I know it is totally relevant to the interests of some of you. (In fact I kind of wonder if one of you wrote it...) I asked for Llyfr Taliesin, particularly the Battle of the Trees, and I got what is basically a missing episode from the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion that slots right in after Gwydion and Gilfaethwy's rape of Goewin and before the whole Llew Llaw Gyffes episode, and this story makes more sense of everything -- Kat Godeu is given structure and sense by its function in the episode, and the episode itself draws in elements from the Fourth Branch that, darn it, should have been there! Anyway I adore it and it is seriously worth reading.
When the Trees Were Enchanted (4673 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Llyfr Taliesin | Book of Taliesin, Mabinogion (Myth)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Gwydion (Mabinogion), Gilfaethwy (Mabinogion), Rhiannon (Welsh Mythology), Arawn's Wife (Mabinogion), Arawn (Mabinogion)
Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Character Death, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, The Battle of the Trees
Summary:
The awesomeness of this vacation was somewhat marred by our Christmas tradition of getting deathly ill. First me then E got really sick (it felt like flu but probably wasn't the flu because we only spent one day feeling like we were about to die, though several days after that feeling not-great), and D got sunburned because if he forgets even one spot when triple-coating himself then it's game over (A seems to be fine... so far), so we have spent more time napping and staying in our room than we would generally have done, but on the other hand that's what vacation is about too, right? :)
ALSO. I got this amazing awesome Yuletide present, you guys, and I know it is totally relevant to the interests of some of you. (In fact I kind of wonder if one of you wrote it...) I asked for Llyfr Taliesin, particularly the Battle of the Trees, and I got what is basically a missing episode from the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion that slots right in after Gwydion and Gilfaethwy's rape of Goewin and before the whole Llew Llaw Gyffes episode, and this story makes more sense of everything -- Kat Godeu is given structure and sense by its function in the episode, and the episode itself draws in elements from the Fourth Branch that, darn it, should have been there! Anyway I adore it and it is seriously worth reading.
When the Trees Were Enchanted (4673 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Llyfr Taliesin | Book of Taliesin, Mabinogion (Myth)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Gwydion (Mabinogion), Gilfaethwy (Mabinogion), Rhiannon (Welsh Mythology), Arawn's Wife (Mabinogion), Arawn (Mabinogion)
Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Character Death, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, The Battle of the Trees
Summary:
How Arawn King of Annwvyn pursued Gwydyon after the death of Pryderi, and how Gwydyon called up an army of trees to fight for him.
