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you have found: a weird dissociative autistic little girl and her troupe of imaginary friends and talking stuffed animals! add her to your inventory?

audhd, ace, postcringe freak, plural/dpdr-adjacent, trans, otherkin, agere, public universal middle sister, friend of bluey, around seattle (am pastəd). autistically longwinded

if you follow us, expect:
~ middleposting, littleposting, siblingposting, cglposting, dollposting, petposting
~ stuffed aminals (esp my bunnie stuffie bluebell)
~ my current spins/fixations (medieval stuff, old english/middle english, folk art/music/tales, storytelling and poetry)
~ kink (am mostly ace so stuff won't be that spicy. but i like hypno/mind control, and cgl/siblingplay. also i'm probably not gonna cw casual mentions of kink. this profile is already you're warning i am just Weird in a way that resents being slotted into categories of "kink" or "sexual" or being asked to taxonomize or hide myself)
~ drawing
~ drugs
~ occaisonal writing (read my sci fi cgl short story weavers or my essay about age regression, hypno, and spirituality!)

i'm new here (or actually, returning. i used to be on fedi alot since 2017 but stopped using it when cybre.space shut down), and i'm looking for fellow weirdos and freaks to be friends with, so if you're a freak plzzzzzzzzz follow me and let's be friends!!. also although we feel childlike, our body has seen many more than 21 winters, if you care about our literal age
avi - banner.

pronounsfae, it, they, she, þey/þem
website (in beta)https://elfwine.neocities.org/
partner@iliana
im not joking btw you NEED to get in on this grift while you still can, it's LITERALLY FREE
i made bluebell some kandi so that she wouldnt feel left out and so that we could match c::

oh to be a bunny bundled up in bed, reading poetry on a cool fall morning

(don't get it scrambled in the bramble, she DOESN'T enjoy chaucer, but she loves posing for pictures and looking pictures)

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(note, i am not a scholar, i could get things wrong) "blow, northerne wind" is a middle english lyric in a mid-14th century manuscript (Harley MS 2253), tho it may be older than that, and might have been a popular folk song.

Ichot a burde in boure bryht,
That fully semly is on syht,
Menskful maiden of myht;
Feir ant fre to fonde;
In al this wurhliche won
A burde of blod ant of bon
Never yete y nuste non
Lussomore in londe.
Blow northerne wynd!
Send thou me my suetyng!
Blow northerne wynd! blow, blow, blow!

it is a secular love song, and i'm enamored with it because it tickles a very particular interest of mine. old english poetry was primarily built on alliteration, rather than rhyme. most preserved old english poetry uses an unrhymed line of four beats (the exact syllable count didn't mater), where at least the first and third beat MUST alliterate, and there's a brief pause in the middle. "FO ic under FOT, (pause) FUNDE ic HIT." in alliterative verse, alliteration isn't a decoration, it's rather part of the rhythm of the poem.

i have rly wondered what music based on this alliterative meter would sound like, but, although its possible that at least some OE poetry was performed to musical accompaniment, there's no actual preserved old english music. i even experimented with writing my own song using the meter, but i honestly struggled with the pause in the middle.

anyways, blow northerne wind (which is, at latest, from three centuries after the end of the "old english"/"anglo saxon" culture) uses a very cool aaabaaab rhyme scheme, but it ALSO has alliteration which is so pervasive as to tickle the "structural alliteration" sense i get from full on alliterative verse poetry. the alliteration happens on at least two of the four beats of every single line, although it's very free with which beats alliterate. but it just sounds soooooooooooooooo pretty and also startlingly similar in feeling to my experimental alliterative song.

it also has some really pretty lyrics.

Hire lure[18] lumes[19] liht,
(her face illumes light)
Ase a launterne a-nyht,
(as a lantern in the night)
Hire bleo[20] blykyeth so bryht,
(her colors shine so bright)
So feyr heo is ant fyn.
(so fair she is and fine)

like i just think thats sweet. i love "as a lantern in the night".

here is me shoddily singing the words to an improvised melody. note that NOTHING about this melody is historically informed in ANY WAY. in fact, i can almost guarentee you it would have sounded nothing like this, because this melody is in 5/4. for reasons. also my middle english pronunciation is probably very inaccurate. sorry.

here is an exerpt of the poem on wikisource https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Oxford_Book_of_English_Verse_1250-1918/Blow,_Northern_Wind

and in this blog post, they talk about a cool extra verse thats not in the wikisource version but comes from the manuscript, and they do a much more historically informed speculation at what it might have sounded like https://annatam.co.uk/blow-northerne-wynd/