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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

How to Tell You're Celtic-Obsessed

We all have our interests, or even obsessions. Take Celtic stuff, for instance. Many people are fascinated with the history, culture, and languages. The question is, how do you know if you're simply interested in a concept, or outright obsessed with it? Well, thanks to this handy-dandy list, now you can know.

  1. You spent hours on a travel website for world-building purposes, and found so much cool stuff that you created a file titled 'black hole of world-building' for all your notes. And it's seven pages long now.
  2. You realize just how much Celtic stuff was around you, previously unknown to you, and you're amazed by it.
  3. When typing things into your internet browser, its automatic predictions often suggest Celtic-related webpages.
  4. Your YouTube playlists look like this.
    YouTube playlists of Celtic music, totalling over 350 songs.
  5. Your stories involve lots of Celtic world-building.
  6. You invented the term 'Celtic-flinging' because you do so much of it, and added it to the Writers' Dictionary.
  7. Notes for your stories, blog posts, and other things sometimes involve random Celtic words.
  8. You meant to write "today", but due to hitting wrong keys, it ended up being "rodau". And upon seeing this typo, your brain automatically wants to pronounce it according to the rules of a Celtic tongue.
  9. You had a major nerd attack upon discovering some wordplay on a website.
  10. Random, obscure references keep appearing in your blog posts.
  11. Filler text and placeholder titles for your posts sometimes look like this.
  12. It haunts your dreams.
  13. While compiling a list of phrases from other languages, you had to make an effort not to overdo it on the Celtic phrases.
  14. On April Fools' Day, someone on Discord changed their screen-name and profile pic to match yours, in order to confuse you. And at some point, the two of you wind up changing your screen-name to random things just for the fun of it. And things like this happen.
    Help, I'm an owl! My love, Gronw, is dead! Killed by my husband!
  15. You keep joking about a "flower-faced owl".
  16. When you open Google Translate, it's usually set to a Celtic tongue.

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