twitch of twitch.cymru

also someone was claiming that england is "actually celtic" and that they "just need to accept it" like what is that supposed to mean!! yes they had history of celtic-speaking pepples there, but celtic identity today is mainly focused on if there is a modern celtic language spoken there, which england does not have!! (cornwall is not england 🖤🤍) so many places in europe from ireland right over to parts of western asia used to have celtic languages spoken there, but it doesn't make any of those places celtic now, unless they have a modern celtic language!!. modern celtic identity isn't about things that happened that long ago. i'm going to lie down.

redownloaded tiktok to check how the celtic studies misinformation is going iver there bc i'm half-thinking about making tiktoks to debunk a load of the god awful things people say on that app (and also elsewhere pn the internet and irl) and god it didn't even take me 30 seconds to stumble into a genetics tiktok with someone commenting about "celtics and germanics are the superior master races" i think these people are too far gone. i didn't look very far bc honestly a lot of stuff about celtic nations online is upsetting for me bc of how much blatant misinformation and mangling of our languages and cultures exists, i just don't think i'm strong enough to tackle celtic studies misinformation on tiktok. celtic studies must be one of the only fields where people outside of it think it's ok to peddle theories that no scholar in the last 40 years would ever support, and when you tell them they're wrong they accuse you of trying to erase "celtic culture" or something. not to mention the absolutely bizarre idea that celtic peoples can't be christian, bc i just saw another comment claiming that the op "couldn't possibly be celtic" bc they had "an english username and a christian cross in their bio" whatever that's supposed to mean!!

moved into my new place finally! very happy to be out of university accommodation

many people hate the term "british isles" for a variety of reasons. but what else to call it? as a celtic studies student i see "the atlantic archipelago" used in academia, but that feels a bit awkward to use in every day speech, to me at least. it does sound a bit formal and academic. "britain and ireland" is ok but i feel that excludes all the islands that aren't the big two. "britain and ireland and the surrounding islands" is something i've found myself saying a few times, but it's a bit long i feel. "the lands around the irish sea" is something my irish granny says. i'm not really sure what we should call this archipelago, but anything feels better than "the british isles".