blog to dump my arthuriana thoughts (Ciaran, 19, any prns pref he/him)
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His true power is audacity
galahad seeing a object that will bring grievous harm on anyone that trys to acheive it and isnt the best knight (ex, the siege perilous, his sword from the floating rock, his shield from the abbey, the grail, i mean geez galahad i know its your destiny but-):
arthurian retelling flowchart completed.
links to read provided. med lit list forthcoming.
“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets.
Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”
–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.
It's so hard to pick one but I'm leaning towards when he got rejected and ran away to complain to Guinevere, and she just bullied him for it. Also when he brought her that little dog
everyone tell me ur favorite gawain moment. mine is when he literally rolled up and was like "yo yvain. uncle arthur needs you back" and then yvain literally forgot about his fucking wife 😭
Gawain at all times
I think Self Shippers need to kick it up a notch and have Fictional Enemies, make a self insert whose life goal is to beat the shit out of a canon character
it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.
Ride on, heedless of anything but the thought of your lady love!
This is the funniest shit
I've seen all the posts about Lancelot being pathetic, and I kept thinking "Oh he's not that bad," but now that I'm reading the vulgate I 100% understand
This dude is so lame and sad someone come pick him up and take him home
This is how I imagine the grail knights talking
Call her a flashbang the way I um. She. Um. Sorry guys it’s a bit embarrassing
just seen someone criticize the divine comedy by saying that it's not relatable which is of course incommensurably stupid because relatability should never be the only criterion through which one can judge the validity and quality of a piece of work &c but also. just because you tedious unimaginative losers have never been on a journey to hell and purgatory with your long dead favorite writer doesn't mean others haven't. happened to me
Considering starting to derail bbc merlin posts with medieval rambling, just because I think it would be funny to reverse roles
btw be warned that i AM insane and i will block people for being gawain critical in the tags. watch tf out. this is a gawain apologist safe space his murders were all fine and legal and i dont care
An army of gingers, and Gareth. Honestly mad respect to literally all of the orkneys being menaces in different ways.
ok what’s your florence + the machine song. mine is rabbit heart (raise it up)<3
"average knight kills 50 people a year" factoid is actually just statistical error. Average knight kills maybe 2 people per year. Manslaughters Gawain and Murder-In-The-Third-Degree Lancelot, who live in Camelot and kill hundreds of people a week, are outliers adn should not have been counted
Lancelot and Gawain's polar opposite reactions to being faced with their sins is so funny to me. Lancelot has a total breakdown, but Gawain goes "Hm. I'd repent, but then I'd have to feel bad, and I don't."
Really proud of myself rn
