Ride On, Heedless Of Anything But The Thought Of Your Lady Love!

Ride on, heedless of anything but the thought of your lady love!

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.

Considering starting to derail bbc merlin posts with medieval rambling, just because I think it would be funny to reverse roles

Finished reading the quest

“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 😭