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A common way of offering a drink is to ask the equivalent of Will you have a drink? This involves the possessive phrase Tá... ag (has) which you saw in the previous unit, but with future beidh instead of tá. e.g.
Tá deoch agam cheana. I have a drink already.
An mbeidh deoch agat? Will you have a drink?
Beidh. Yes (lit, I will)
Ní bheidh. No.

Note also, using Cad? (What?)
Cad ad bheidh agat? What will you have?
Beidh pionta agam. I'll have a pint.

Vocab:
buidéal - bottle
gloine - glass
leathghloine - half-glass
pionta - pint
leathphionta - half-pint

And of course the next grammar point is the one I just noticed, which is that leath-, half-, causes lenition. Yay pattern recognition!

The numeral aon is used in the sense of 'any.'

Aon scéal? Any news?
An bhfuil aon scéal agat? Do you have any news?

Another way of saying any is to put ar bith (at all) after a word
An bhfuil scéal ar bith agaibh?

It is necessary to use either aon or ar bith when saying that you haven't got something. Notice that aon causes lenition.

Níl aon charr agam. I don't have a car.
Níl aon phost aige. He doesn't have a job.
Níl post ar bith aici. She doesn't have a job.

So, um. The preview for Once Upon A Time in two weeks has me thinking only two things. One, this is going to suck. For once, possibly not in the bad way it's been sucking. And two, I'm pretty sure Robert Carlyle went roaming around other people's back lots looking for more scenery to chew. Goddamn. About this week's Once Upon A Time we will not say a word. It didn't happen, and no one can convince me it did. If plot advanced even in the micrometer steps it seems to be advancing, it did so offscreen where actions happened that no one saw because this week's episode didn't happen. Except for Gold rolling his eyes and sighing his, as Anna called it, "I can't believe I got you elected" sigh. That was pretty priceless.

But I got some stuff done this weekend at least! Some cleaning, a lot of cooking, a good half-batch of minestrone because I didn't have all the veggies for it. A batch of cream of tomato soup with some spinach ground into it because of reasons, I discovered a good marinade in which to soak the beef to make it even more better for stew, and made the stew again, and omfg the whole damn thing was incredibly, incredibly tasty. I am inveencible! And I want more stew. And I cooked up half the chicken, the other half will get cooked up tonight since the rest of Sunday evening was devoted to discovering mold balls the size of golf balls in our bag of rice that we just fucking bought. Ugh.

Not as much writing done over the weekend, but some. Still not quite sure why but it had better damn well quit it, I have shit I need to get done. Still, today may or may not be light once I get the weekend backlog done, there's no incoming to speak of.

Oh, and I've been rewatching New Amsterdam. I'd forgotten how awesome that show was, I kind of miss it now. And Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has the most adorable little accent slips now and again. And now of course I want to write fanfic of it, which, excellent! There's a prompt on Yuletide for it. I tried to floss my brain with that sometime this weekend, it didn't quite work, maybe today.

... Oh. Also, the Muppets are awesome.

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Flashes of brilliance seem to happen most in the shower or in the middle of the night. Something about the brain getting time to process everything on the back burner, I suspect.

If the curse hinges on finding Gold's True Love, they're going to be spending a looooooooong time in Storybrooke. And if Emmahas to kiss Gold, oh dear. I imagine she'd sooner kiss a cactus than him.

I was wondering that myself. The most obvious answer is the final battle between Snow and the Queen, but I don't think that's what he meant. Some folks have been tossing around the idea that Rumple wants to bring an end to magic, period, and if that's true he could be referring to the final battle between magic and non-magic users. But I'm still not sold on the "he wants to end magic" theory, so I don't know about that one.

I suspect so, yeah. Final pieces sliding together.

Uh-huh. Although Kiki suggested that Emma just has to kiss someone in his bloodline because the curse might be tied by blood. Assuming my theory about the stranger being Bae is correct. But yeah, I can't imagine Emma ever kissing Gold. Or relations between the two of them ever coming to resemble anything like love, let alone True Love (tm).

Me either. Either the Snow vs Queen battle or the he wants to end magic theory, although he certainly has reason to be bitter about magic. But he seems less bitter about the existence of magic and more bitter about people who use it as, heh, the magic bullet to end all their problems. Sort of a, dammit, people, do the damn work and stop waving around magic wands, thing. Which is remarkably sensible for someone that psychotic.

Oooh, true. Though I wonder why Gold would build that into the curse on the off chance his son decides to show up, but then again, precognition.

Which makes sense. I mean, look at Cinderella-- there's probably something she could have done to escape her situation eventually, but she wanted to escape it now. And go to the ball and marry the prince, no less. Not asking for much there are you, Cindy? Given how badly things went for Rumple when he tried to use magic to solve his problems, I'd be more surprised if he didn't want to face palm every time another sucker wished for wealth, beauty, power, etc.

The Queen's mother has been cast! http://www.spoilertv.com/2012/02/once-upon-time-barbara-hershey-cast-as.html

Precognition, maybe just a longing to see his son again. Wishful thinking. Or the bloodline cause was a side effect of something.

Yup. Cinderella, the King could have designated an heir or adopted rather than call on a magic fixer. Etc. Whereas Snow only wanted to save her people and/or find a way to stop the pain of heartbreak, which being a widower he can probably empathize with. If he remembers that at all, by that point, though. And Snow knew there would be a price and accepted it. And he, when he was human, just wanted to save his son and maybe all the children who were dragged off to war. And STILL got in way over his head.

Ohhh dear. Cora, huh? Hmm.

Yeah, I'm guessing that whole "Stop the Ogre Wars!" plan didn't pan out once he turned evil. I think that would have involved too many abstract concepts and emotions he's just not capable of (or capable of sustaining for long periods) as the Dark One.

Not whining about the price seems key to getting into Rumple's good graces. Though, from Snow's perspective she didn't give much-- a lock of hair and her baby's name would seem like a small price for peace of mind.

She's supposed to be a good actress. I haven't seen anything she's been in, but I've got high hopes. I still kinda wish they'd gotten Angelica Houston though. She was masterful at being a bitch in Ever After.

I'm thinking not. Possibly also because he had no real plan for it other than rarr powerful magic. He didn't know what he was ... heh, that's another thing. He had no idea of the value of the power he was getting. The former Dark One just sort of dangled it in front of his head all "Look! Power. Magic. You could be powerful." and he was all "GIMME GIMME." Admittedly out of desperation, but still. It didn't seem like the kind of power that could move mountains. Or ogre armies.

Even with the whole names have power schtick? Then again, she was pretty desperate, too. And I think on some level she trusts Rumplestiltskin, maybe just on the level where she trusts him to be what he is. Which is still more trust than he ever gets.

That would have been hilarious. Probably too expensive, though. And they must already be running low on budget or something, the CGI in the episode that didn't happen was just terrible.

That's another thing. Like a genie, it seems to me that Rumple's a conduit for greater magic that he doesn't have access to outside the bounds of a contract. I mean, we don't know how much power it takes to obliterate a fairy, so he may well be a powerful being in his own right, but nothing he's done so far suggests that. Of course that could just be another instance of him not wanting to throw magic around when there are subtler ways of achieving his aims.

I remember the guard mentioning that to her, but without any magical experience I'm not sure Snow, or anyone who didn't use magic for that matter, would fully appreciate the implications of giving Rumplestiltskin their name. And like you said, Snow appreciates Rumplestiltskin for what he is. As long as you don't try and screw him over (as Charming wanted to do), you'll get what you want.

Yeah, not their best work. In fact the first thing my sister said when the scene cut to Leopold's court was, "Oh, look! A green screen!"

A bit, yeah. Probably fairy-obliteration doesn't take as much as entire-land conversion, but that's probably the most powerful thing we've seen him do so far, otherwise it's been conjuring potions and clothes. Then again, as you say, not throwing magic around when nudging and manipulating people works well enough.

Mmm, true. And, heh. Yeah, Charming did completely blatantly lie to his face. Which was a dumb thing to do. Snow seemed genuinely... something. Sad, pitying? It's a little sad how little respect he gets, both along the lines of basic respect and the idea that, woudln't you be respectful of an unrepentant fairy exploder?

Pretty damn much. The whole episode was full of fail on so many levels. All the levels that didn't involve Carlyle or Eion Bailey, really.

I know! People treat him like crap, but if a guy with that kind of reputation showed up on my doorstep, I'd roll out the red carpet treatment for him. My sense of self preservation says it's best not to be a dick to someone you can snap your neck with one hand.

It was a complete waste of film. I don't even care about Sidney's character, and this episode did nothing to change that. We should've skipped from last week's to Skin Deep.

You would think. Except obviously they wouldn't.

We really should have. Although I'm kind of glad for the advance warning, that's just one extra week I have to freak out about seeing Rumplestiltskin like that. And Gold beating people to death with his cane. And so on.