Listen Now Buy the book The Chapter Heading Explained For the chapter heading of Chapter 5, I used a line from Taliesin's Cad Goddeu, (Middle Welsh: Kat Godeu] The Battle of the Trees, from an old and not great translation by W. F. Skene, available here. It's definitely worth reading in its entirety and in… Continue reading #EldritchGirl S03E06: Another Battle There Is, In His Eye-Socket
Neurodivergence in The Day We Ate Grandad I wasn't deliberately writing Ricky and Wes (and Mercy in The Crows) with ADHD. It's just that I gave them all the things that I struggle with, and all the traits that I wanted to examine in different situations, and it organically developed from there. I didn't even… Continue reading #EldritchGirl S03E05: things left unfinished
Words of Power That little phrase, 'old words make old things come out', is based on a specific concept of language and the power inherent within a language that I'm playing with in the series. Ricky refuses to speak Welsh (established in The Crows) but has a fluent command of Old English which he feels… Continue reading #EldritchGirl S03E04: Old words make old things come out
Unger Point - Devil's Drop Most places have somewhere called Devil's Drop, I'm willing to bet: we called the quarry something like that. In Pagham-on-Sea, that place is Unger Point, mentioned from Carrie's POV in The Crows, but she's not a local. I wrote a thing about Devil's Drop/Unger Point for Monstrous May last year,… Continue reading #EldritchGirl S03E03: Devil’s Drop
What the pest is he doing here?Ricky Porter Introducing a Bearded Old Bastard Ricky has mentioned Myrddin and his distrust of Welsh poets before - towards the end of THE CROWS, where in his POV he is sulking about Eglantine Pritchard and the dangers of speaking Welsh, in case some 'bearded old bastard' shows up.… Continue reading #EldritchGirl S03E01: What the pest is HE doing here? Musings on Myrddin
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