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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The red and white dragons of Dinas Emrys on set at Caerphilly castle. The red dragon rests upon the ground after emerging from a cave, while the white dragon emerges from the ground as if from water. Bones lay scattered upon the ground between them

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Family tree at Caerphilly castle depicting the familial relations descended from bad king John and Isabella of Angouleme and how Gilbert of Gloucester married into the english royal family. It's depicted as a tree on a green background with depictions of Gilbert de Clare and Joan of Acre beneath

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oh Neath he describes an industrial hellscape, a factorial inferno, a mire of furnaces and chimneys, where the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume, not with ten thousand men can you do this, it is folly

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

They've got cool projector displays depicting Llywelyn's assault on the castle to prevent its construction, and more fun ones showing the important, centuries long role the castle and wider region played in medieval politics

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Always very funny to me that these gargantuan edifices of conquest now fly the Welsh flag and this one was opposite a battalion of Glyndwr banners. Looks like we won, Normans

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Caerphilly castle is incredible tbf they've really spent a lot of effort into making it a fun and interactive experience with projectors playing vids of the conflicting medieval personalities revolving around the castle and the great hall is as spectacular and colourful as I could have hoped

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There's a whole generation who only knows of the country of Wales as a cute anime boy personification that they lust over and this is frightening to me and my interests

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Went to the paranormal museum in Camarthen and my favourite thing they had was this dybbuk box bound in twine to ensure the evil spirit contained within does not escape.

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyway look at this wonderful tshirt I bought from the charity shop

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's jesus giving birth to a personification of the church taken from a 13th century book of hours

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wonderful to see such an internationalist turn out for today's rally for independence. Representatives from the celtic nations as well as others fighting for independence and especially great to hear the call for an end to complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people 🇵🇸

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me ignoring the democratic will of the people of Monmouthshire to ensure Welsh territorial integrity

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Even my local hospital honours the man with a giant mural depicting him on horseback carrying his rampant lion banner which has become a common sight in Wales.

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

...images of Glyndwr were held throughout the town and castle. The spoons had an entire wall dedicated to him not to mention this giant fuck arse statue of the man himself. It's funny how national perspectives can overrule local ones, that they could present the man who burned the...

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

... by Glyndwr". On the old courthouse a sign reads that this building as well as many others were burned and many Ruthin residents joined Prince Owain in the battle for the freedom of our nation. This sign struck me as peculiar in several ways: it states that the people of Ruthin joined...

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Ruthyn is a dull town, but it possessed plenty of interest for me... as I remembered that I was treading the ground which the wild bands of Glyndwr had trod and the great struggle commenced, which for fourteen years convulsed Wales, and for some time shook england to its centre" George Borrow

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Anyway I love Julian. She's my favourite english person lol and I felt so lucky to have visited the site of her anchorite cell. It was humble and profound, it didn't announce itself with pride or arrogance. It was hidden away, almost on the verge of an industrial estate. Julian would approve

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Made it. You all doubted me but look at you now. Fools one and all

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I went to St Fagans for my birthday and all I got was this photo of the happy smiling skull in St Teilo's church

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Singing "you are the wind beneath my wings" to my best mate as she justifies and validates every bad thing I've ever done ❤️

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Another pic of me holding a bottle of beer with a castle tower behind. As is tradition

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Cardboard cutout thing depicting Gwenllian ferch Gruffudd, a woman of Venedotian royal heritage and Princess of Deheaubarth who, in the absence of her husband, led an army to combat the Normans at Kidwelly. She was defeated and executed upon the battlefield, becoming a symbol of Welsh resistance

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I went to Kidwelly castle and all I got was this stupid picture

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

When you lie so hard you accidentally on purpose create a country

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Down at the reflecting pool going "uuuhh", "unngggg", "ooooffff", "argghh"

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Look what they've taken from us! and it's the 79 pubs in Swansea city centre in 1901

Map of Swansea centre featuring all the pubs in 1901

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Now that I've finally recovered I can say I had a great time at Pride Cymru

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Wine and beer: in the fridge. Chair: dragged out into the garden. Book: obtained. Sun: glaring. Tan: immaculate. Come at me heatwave. I am prepared

A copy of Gwyn Alf Williams' The Merthyr Rising

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"Helen of Troy wasn't black!!!!!" Me, drawing the legendary "She Wasn't Real" card

Yugioh drawing a card from the show Yugioh. He's got insane hair

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"The UK is in danger!" cry the most boring, underwhelming liberals who've ever been asked to pen an article. Meanwhile me and my mates are drawing pentagrams on the floor and manifesting the collapse of the union

Simpsons meme worth one off the bouviers say in a pentagram surrounded by candles for demon shit presumably I haven't sent this episode

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Sense of impending doom aside I loathe the new Welsh constituencies. They're all too long

Constituency map of Wales with far too much reform blue predicted

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Went bookshopping today and the tiktokification of accessible literature is getting out of control. I had a choice between "horny with fairies", "horny with dragons" or "horny with vampires" and like cool but jfc an ounce of variety I beg

It's a big sign in a book shop that reads "tiktok trending"

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

For as long as I live I will never not confuse Piers Gaveston and Hugh Despenser.

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