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didn't think i'd been on cohost for almost 11 months

I think my first webring is ready to launch!! This post is pretty much a copy-and-paste of the webring page on my site.

The Modern Celtic Languages Webring aims to:

• Promote the active use of Celtic languages online.
• Connect Celtic language speakers across the web.
• Resist the globalisation of English/Anglo-American culture and English-language hegemony, which replace and erase our own cultures and languages.
• Assert our existence as minoritised peoples, whose cultures and languages are still here and alive.
• Show the world that an "inclusive society" doesn't mean we should all be made to speak English in order to make the English monolinguals feel included - we should instead be proud of our cultures, and show the world that differences are good and should be celebrated across the world and online. Differences do not divide us. The world and the internet should not be a homogenised, English-speaking culture.

Requirements to join:

• Websites only. There isn't a way to embed the webring widget on social media like Twitter, Facebook, etc.
• You must use at least one of the six modern Celtic languages somewhere on your site, i.e. Cymraeg, Gaeilge, Gàidhlig, Brezhoneg, Gaelg, and/or Kernewek (note that any orthography for Kernewek is fine). You do not have to be a fluent speaker, just someone who is willing to use the Celtic languages on the web. Your entire site does not need to be in a Celtic language, but ideally your Celtic language content should be obvious and easy to access from your homepage.
• Your site does not have to be focused on just Celtic-related things. The content of your site can be pretty much anything: from Celtic language resources, to personal blogging, film reviews, and whatever else it is that you do. 18+ websites are allowed, as long as your homepage has a clear warning that you have adult content on your site. Sites containing hatespeech and bigotry will not be allowed.

How to join:

1. Embed the following code into your homepage, or somewhere else easily accessible on your website like a links page. The webring won't work if the widget is hard to find.

2. Fill in the form below and reply to this post with it! (Or e-mail it to me at twitchcoded@gmail.com)

• Your name/nickname:
• Site name:
• Site address:
• Site description:
• Link to site button:
• Celtic language(s) your site is written in:

i always think the clocks go back at the end of september.... it's the end of october lol

i think it's weird how people seem to assume that the celtic nations have always had some sort of ancient, unbroken celtic identity that stretches back thousands of years, and that we've always had some sort of sense of "celtic connection" between us that is similarly ancient and unbroken. when to our best knowledge, no one from the modern celtic nations was describing themselves or their languages as "celtic" until george buchanan in the 1500's and edward lhuyd in the 1700's, and that the relationship between the brythonic languages, gaelic languages, and older continental celtic languages wasn't recognised or labelled as "celtic" until then either. it is as best strange and historically inaccurate when people act like our cultures have always had some sort of strong, unbroken, ancient celtic identity, and at worst romanticises our cultures by painting them as ultra conservative, traditional, ancient, and somehow more inherently in-touch with our past. and potentially has weird white supremacist connotations with the fixation on the "ancient"/"traditional" aspects of it all and the emphasis on our "ancient heritage"/"ancient identity".