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Y Ddraig Goch

by Seffi

Rated: 18+ · Book · Other · #2010700

For the avoidance of doubt... Yes... I definitely have an opinion...

Welcome to my Blog!!

Having an opinion is better than not having a thought of your own.
I have many of both....
Pull up a pew and grab a hot, steaming mug of your choice.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Joy's busy haunting

Oct 6, 2025 at 12:54pm
In response to "Oct 6 - Ancient Curses"

Funny about Florida. And I think you did hit on a fact, there.
As for curses, I do curse sometimes, my favorite curse being, "shut up!" Now there is nothing wrong with that curse, except when I say it to inanimate objects. Like this morning, to the Microwave's beeping. As to the bigger kind of curses, I think someone put a curse on my house. Not a week passes that I have to call a repairman for one thing or another.

Joy's busy haunting

Oct 6, 2025 at 12:47pm
In response to "Oct 5 - October"

I hear you. I, too, moved to FL from NY. Although it's been four decades since, it's been, as you so aptly put it, topsy turvy. FL has its many plusses but it isn't the same.

Amethyst SkellyBones Angel

Oct 6, 2025 at 4:16am
In response to "Oct 5 - October"

That's how I feel since moving to Florida from Tennessee... I lost all sense of season by being here. We usually have "fall in spring" because that's when the live oaks decide to dump all their old crusty leaves. I literally have dead leaves swirling at my feet when I'm supposed to be surrounded by irises and redbuds. Sometimes when I see a flock of geese flying I can't remember if they're supposed to be flying north or south depending on whatever season I've forgotten it is!

It was nice stopping by - I should read your blog more often. Take care!

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A Warped Witch I Be

Oct 3, 2025 at 11:19pm
In response to "Oct 3 - Australian Spring"

Sounds like you're describing a typical day for me too. It's still too warm for jeans, too cool for shorts and if I put on long sleeves, it's too warm for that and too cool for short sleeves. Always damned if I do and damned if I don't.

Joy's busy haunting

Sep 28, 2025 at 7:18pm
In response to "Sept 25 - Best companions"

I so agree with your last paragraph. I was an only child and I was quite like your description, there. To this day, I have a mind of my own. Not that it has always been to my benefit, but it is what it is.

Morticia Wednesday Megan Rose

Sep 24, 2025 at 2:37pm
In response to "Sept 24 - Place of enchantment"

Enchantment means different things to each of us. I get this. Thank goodness for our Enchantment.

Joy's busy haunting

Sep 22, 2025 at 7:08pm
In response to "Sept 22 - Tupac Shakur"

I wasn't into Tupac Shakur either, but I loved the quote.
And yes, he was probably talking about the underprivileged people of color, but the idea speaks positively to all of us, daring us to rise over difficulties, regardless of our color, background, and stance in life.

Joy's busy haunting

Sep 21, 2025 at 11:14am
In response to "Sept 20 - Friends"

So true! And you don't have a split personality. You are multi-faceted.

A Warped Witch I Be

Sep 19, 2025 at 2:05pm
In response to "Sept 19 - Freedom of Speech"

Nor did Melissa and Mark Hortman, they have children as well not just Kirk.

"I think there are many people, on both sides, that are responsible for stirring the pot and creating a very real, very visceral hatred for anyone who disagrees with their view point. I think it’s dangerous and needs to be called out. And I think the very worrying trend of “fake news-ing” things you don’t want to discuss, threatening journalists who ask tough questions, and even cancelling talk shows is going to make the problem that much worse. When you start censoring the news, what’s seen on TV you start to tread in dangerous water – the type that was wide spread in Germany 1930/40, the type that’s in China and Russia now.

We need platforms that discuss the different viewpoints. We need people who are willing to call out people in power when they say something wrong, stupid or dangerous. Satire and comedy has always been a very powerful tool to do that."

You've hit the nail on the head, censorship is extremely dangerous. What Kimmel said did not harm anyone, he drew attention to the fact there was a lot of finger pointing and the new ballroom focus for the cheeto. The cheeto is weird everyday, why would that offend anyone?

Joy's busy haunting

Sep 19, 2025 at 1:31pm
In response to "Sept 19 - Freedom of Speech"

"I am an outsider. I don’t really understand American politics."
I'm in the states and I don't understand it, either. And my opinion doesn't matter, also.
The way I see it, though, it used to be better than this, way back when.
And I learned what Kimmel said from your entry. I don't much watch or care for TV, and the internet is even more iffy.
Then, about Charlie Kirk, yes, no one deserves that. Especially not his two very small children and young wife.
Good entry.

October 7, 2025 at 7:49pm

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Oct 7 - Morgan Le Fey

Prompt: "A witch never gets caught. Don’t forget that she has magic in her fingers and devilry dancing in her blood." Roald Dahl, The Witches. Fall is a great time for witches. Do you have a favourite witch in a story or in folklore?
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Taking a mount to express my LOVE for Roald Dahl. His stories were such a big part of my childhood. I can't believe people try to ban his work... grrr

I think it's hard to find a happy story or folklore about witches, at least in the UK. They are overwhelmingly cruel and dark, with a focus of the witch trials and persecution. I suppose if I had to choose one that stands out to me, I would go with Morgan Le Fey or Morgan the Fairy.

I love the Arthurian legends. What's not to like - Kings, Knight, Wizard, Dragons, and Witches. There is a giant stone on the Gower Common in South Wales, where I grew up, that is referred to a 'King Arthur's Stone'. It's a local landmark; I am 99% sure it has absolutely nothing to do with King Authur, but why should that stop a story.

The Welsh love to claim Merlin, Authur and Morgan Le Fey. I'm surprised we haven't fought the Cornish over it to be honest. She also turns up in Irish Legend as Morrigan the Battle Goddess, so she is VERY popular. As a goddess should be.

There is a duality about Morgan Le Fey that I love; she is both malfeasant and benevolent. I think she, like most women, probably sits somewhere in the middle. I mean piss off a priestess and you are sure as Hel's fire going to know about it.

There is also a certain air of mystery around her as the Arthurian lore doesn't really include a huge amount of correlating detail about her other than being a goddess, witch, or enchantress - I guess she could be all three. The stories change from being Arthur's sibling, to his protector, and probably the most famous now, his nemesis; it's the original family feud.

Her name, Morgan, means 'born of the sea', so it's very apt that many of the legends that surround her show case her connection to water - Lady of the Lake... Within Welsh mythology there are also links to the Goddess Modron - a Welsh deity - and the myth is that she descended from her; I guess this would be the equivalent of being a daughter of Hecate. Her powers were believed to be so strong that she is said to have healed a fatally wounded King Arthur after the Battle of Camlann by taking him to a sacred and mystical island known as the Isle of Apples - I often wonder if this had ties to Eden.

Either way she is amazing. Powerful, strong, underestimated, and misunderstood.

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