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Image form wikimedia user corgidino - link here.
Thanks to everyone who looked at this in chat, including, but not limited to MrWrong, Levi, A Random Day, Rimple, Soulless, ChaoSera, and Cony.
Thanks to Tuomey for providing me with an early version of the title.
Explanation: In Welsh myth, fairies used to ride around on corgis. Now, they've modernized.
EDIT: And it's 100! Woo! Thank you all so much. Grady loves all of you dearly.
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My goodness. This is the perfect combination of entertaining and WTF! Made my day, thank you. +1
Per me si va ne la città dolente, per me si va ne l'etterno dolore, per me si va tra la perduta gente. Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore; fecemi la divina podestate, la somma sapïenza e 'l primo amore. Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate'.
-Dante Alighieri
It may be a quibble, but it's bugging me that you can see the corg's right flank in the image. Upvoted for all-around wonderful and weird.
Behind the right side of its face and chest (viewer's left) a portion of its right hip and probably its tail are barely visible. If I didn't think I saw the tail I would have chalked that up to being the start of the subterranean bit.
Whoops. Did …not spot that - thought it was a leaf. Oh well.
Sorry, I have a bad habit of pointing out minor details in photos of dogs. People try to get me to stop, but I'm incorgigible.
Wait a second… Corgis don't HAVE tails…
What did you SEE!?!?!
(x-files theme plays in the background)
Some Pembroke Welsh Corgis are born with tails. Some aren't. Some have their tails docked. Some don't. However, in this case, what it looks like Lackwit saw isn't the tail, but the infamous fat corgi butt.
When I heard this being discussed in chat I was afraid the novelty would be lost in execution, but it's a really lovely look at how fairy folk adapted to the modern day and has a lot of heart without losing some of the darker things about the fae. I like the Three Portlands reference and appreciate the fact that you found an opportunity to put in a crosslink. Strong +1!
Is the Three Portlands just the new thing now? If so, I am somewhat in favor of it. But I need context for it, I think. Can some be provided.
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But I need context for it, I think.
This is, I think my biggest issue with the article. The Three Portlands reference is just shoehorned into it without context or any apparent reason beyond "Three Portlands is a weird place full of weird things and this is a weird thing." Which, well, is entirely missing the point of Three Portlands. It's a bit like shoehorning an AWCY? reference into an art skip on the grounds of "AWCY? are artists and this is about art." It dilutes the concept you're shoehorning in, and weakens the the skip overall.
I included it because I figured - "hey, Three Portlands is a hub for anomalous activity, and a but of a refuge and dwelling place for many members of the magical community. Why WOULDN'T there be a stop that goes to Three Portlands?"
Yeah, it's one of the new things floating around lately. This tale does a pretty good job of summing it up, really, but check out the Third Law stories for more in the same vein. The short version is that the Three Portlands are sort of a truce zone where the masquerade is totally suspended; the kind of place where you can pass a cyborg wizard selling alleged good luck charms to a talking bear without anyone batting an eye.
L O N G C O R G
I love how the corg is as adorable as it is. I also wonder where its poo comes out. It obviously has a lot of storage space, but you should probably make that clear.
Well, I mean… there is a tail end? But he doesn't eat, so.
10/10
Edit: Oops, forgot to edit this after I finished reading. So here's my qualms with this piece:
It feels so weird. What? Gnomes in a corgi? It's relatively well-handled, at least.
Here's the positives:
CORGI.
The exploration is really good.
Worth a +1 to me.
The dogs just keep on getting longer and it is just adorable. +1
My next article will be a 30,001 kilometer long dachsund.
L O N G H U N D!!!!
(also are you doing this only so you can say that your weiner is 30,001 kilometers long)
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