So while this whole “who is worst Chris? Chris Pratt” stuff is going on. I think it’s also important to talk about Best Chris. And it’s Chris Eccleston.
Reblogging and adding these tags because I didn’t know that and it makes the “lots of planets have a north” scene hit different!
Today, we have a drink and think of the best Chris.
O wow the new “prince of Wales” has decided to visit on Owain Glyndwr day (the day we celebrate and remember the last Welsh prince of Wales. He also led the sadly unsuccessful fight for our independence from the English)
They’re not even being subtle about the fact they want to subjugate our people and erase our culture and history - if they really cared about us they’d relinquish the title and leave us the fuck alone
If you wanna know more then look up
King Henry VIII’s Laws in Wales Act, abolishing our legal system and banning our language
All the anti-Welsh propaganda pushed particularly in the 17th century when there was a revival of our language (seriously look up Wallography it’s really fucked up)
The English and Scots in the Industrial Revolution building their heavy industry pretty much exclusively in South Wales and channelling all the money from our work into England and large southern Scottish cities
The Welsh Not (an actual attempt to beat children so our language would die and we’d stop fighting against the English)
The focus of the English on the beauty and natural resources of Wales while degrading the people
The fact that until 1881 the Welsh weren’t represented in politics (up until that point any politicians from Wales had to speak English and almost all of them were just English
The fact that in 1905!!! Prime minister H. H. Asquith literally said “I would sooner go to hell than to Wales”
Liverpool’s creation of the Llyn Celyn reservoir in Wales without Welsh permission - to do this, they full on flooded a village which was a stronghold of Welsh culture and one of the last Welsh language only communities, Capel Celyn, and to make matters worse 35/36 Welsh MPs voted against the flooding and it still happened - This was in the 1960s
Also Liverpool didn’t apologise for this blatant disregard of our rights and the forced eviction of an entire village until 2005
The Welsh language wasn’t given equal footing to English until 1993 and even now English is compulsory in schools and Welsh isn’t
The continued disdain shown by English cultural icons to the Welsh people and culture (seriously look up what Jeremy Clarkson has said about the Welsh before, particularly about abolishing the Welsh language)
How the English are killing our villages and towns by buying up our homes for “holiday homes” (really shouldn’t be allowed at all but that’s a different point) - this is killing business as these homes spend most of the year uninhabited (also it’s not just a few, there’s entire villages owned by the English which are now unlivable)
The mass strop the English media threw in 2019 when the Senedd was first allowed to refer to itself in Welsh officially, and as a parliament officially (instead of an Assembly)
Also the continued appropriation of our mythology (chiefly King Arthur but appropriation of Celtic history and mythology is a much wider issue perpetuated by a lot of people)
“Even if you come home late and I’m already asleep, just whisper in my ear one little thought you had today. Because I love the way you look at the world. And I’m so happy I get to be next to you and look at the world through your eyes.”
