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My dealer: got some straight gas. This strain is called “Camlann”, you’ll be zonked out of your gourd.

Me: yeah, whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 mins later: dude I swear that was Twrch Trwyth.

My buddy Dai, pacing: Gwaine is lying to us

Anyway go listen to Camlann. Post-apocalyptic queer found family audio drama based on Arthuriana and Welsh mythology. Great music too.

Cinnamon roll meme ft. Camlann

Looks like a cinnamon roll, could kill you: Gwaine

Looks like they could kill you, is a cinnamon roll: Perry

Looks like a cinnamon roll, is a cinnamon roll: Dai

Looks like they could kill you, could kill you: Morgan

(Obviously this is purely vibes, it’ll probably change as more eps come out)

Felt appropriate

No but seriously who hurt these people because I will find them and I will kill them.

I don’t know how to express how much I adore Camlann and it’s only been two episodes so far. There's a feeling I get when I'm listening that I don't know how to put into words, there's a familiarity to it, a thing of. Home? Rightness? I'm deeply enamored with it so far, that's the other thing, it's phenominal! The start of episode two with that monologue gave me chills and it was just fantastic. I think it's just a thing of wanting to live in this world in a sense? Plus the music and sound design, obviously so fantastic. But everything about the story and the world, it feels. Right. That's the only thing I can say that comes to mind currently is. Right.

me minding my own business, scrolling through my fandom tags: hmm I wonder what everyone’s up to

incredibly well made and beautiful artwork that perfectly captures character and vibe: hello there!

me, sobbing: it’s so pretty! and so perfectly them! holy hell how are people this talented!

Oh noooo. @camlannpod istg if you hurt Gelert. If not for my sake for Morgan, Perry, and Dai’s sake! They’ve been through too much to lose the dog.

Anyway now I’m terrified. Thanks.

Loving that there is a dog in @camlannpod

😊😊😊

Remembering the original story of Gelert 😥

Hey, have you wondered if the apocalypse in @camlannpod isn’t just Arthuriana? Like I wonder if there’s Robin Hoods and Perseus and Sigurds running around.

So. I think I’ve connected some dots about Arthur and his band of morons. And it’s not good news. (cw: misgendering)

My evidence is as follows:

At the end of Perry and Kay’s talk on the radio, Kay calls Perry ‘brother’ (ep. 3). Now this in itself is a dick move, as Perry says themself, ‘I am not your brother.’

Now this gives us two options - either Kay is misgendering Perry deliberately, or Perry didn’t start using they/them until after they left the Knights. I’m inclined to think it’s the former, since Perry has ‘thought a lot about who [they are]’, and ‘that hasn’t stopped or changed because of the Cataclysm’ (Perry, ep. 2). To me that suggests that Perry started using they/them before the Cataclysm, so Kay would know, since our trio spent some time with the Knights before we meet them (I think - we don’t have an exact timeline yet). Already I hate this guy. But wait! There’s more!

We’ve seen the Knight’s attitude to Names. They view Nameless as ‘lambs to the slaughter’ (Kay, ep. 3), and seem to believe that there is no separation between Name and person. We see this in Kay referring to Morgan as ‘the witch le Fay’ (ep. 3). Morgan a) is being referred to by her Name, showing that Kay believes them to be one and the same, and b) hasn’t actually done anything wrong (that we know of), but is being blamed for her Name’s crimes. There is no freedom to create your own story, you are stuck to what your Name decides.

In Perry and Dai’s fight, Perry says ‘You know what it was like back there. For me, for you. For Morgan.’ This tells me that our trio had a shitty time of it back there, so much so that hiking through the Welsh wilderness, being attacked by Phenomena every other day, was preferable. Makes sense for Dai and Morgan, right? Dai’s Nameless, Morgan’s Name is a villain Name, and with the Knights’ attitude to Names I can’t imagine either of them would have a great time there. But Perry? Perry’s a Knight, the great Sir Peredur. What reason would they have to leave? What was so bad for them there that they left their nice cushy job being hero-worshipped by 900 people as someone with a Name (Named?) in favour of wilderness camping in Wales? Well, I think I’ve figured it out, and I don’t like it one bit.

I think that, since the Peredur of myth used he/him (edit: my evidence for this is google, I claim no proper knowledge of arthuriana), that the Knights insisted on misgendering Perry because the Knights’ belief in no separation between Name and person would mean that Perry would “have” to use he/him (heavy air quotes, the Knights are dicks and wrong) because Peredur of myth used he/him.

Aaagghh I hate it so much but it makes more sense the more I think about it! Seriously when I find those Knights they better be ready to catch these fuckin hands.

Anyway if you’re reading this that means you got to the end of my mini essay. Well done! Thank you!

Keep the home fires burning

Episode 3 of @camlannpod meme:

“Hey, hey, look at me. Talk to me about the Mabinogi”

ASDFHJFKLFD OMG SOBBING

Thinking, thinking about this part. It implies that Dai could do something to not get attacked by Kelpie. For me it sounds like Dai has some magic, apocalypse related powers here but they don’t understand how they work. And putting @ellie-the-awesome-11 and @bookofmac theories about Dai being a storyteller, narrator, bard, what if he is capable of changing some parts of the story? But the price for averting one danger is something worse happening. So in the hypothetical situation Dai saves himself from Kelpie but Perry is torn to pieces by dogs. You can’t have a story without danger or tragedy, someone has to get hurt or die, so the plot could go on.

Perry: So, apparently the “bad vibes” I’ve been feeling are actually severe psychological distress.

And also

Gwen: How many kids do you have?

Perry: Biologically, legally or emotionally?

And

Perry: Please, I’m begging you, go to a doctor

Morgan: I’m sorry is this OUR stab wound? Stay out of it

And

Morgan: You’re my best friend and I would do anything for you

Dai: Eat three full meals a day and have a healthy sleep schedule.

Morgan: Absolutely not.

About to listen to Camlann ep. 5.

I’m scared.

Hey, Camlann pod folks, look at me, did Gwaine get the sash? It’s important, did he get the sash, folks? Stop laughing like a villains watching our misery from a corner for a moment, and tell me did he get the sash?

She’s menacing us even after the credits.

Oh my god.

So...you liked episode 5 huh?

Among all the crying and screaming, can I say how cute Morgan and Gwen are together in this episode??

Vivian, also known as Ninianne, also known as Nimueh, also known as the lady of the lake.

The one who had a romance(?) plot with Merlin.

Like this Vivian was involved with Dai.

DAI IS MERLIN

meanwhile.....

what do you mean this isn't what happened

I just discovered the @camlannpod character playlists…

I’m so normal about these characters I promise.

On Board?!?! Blood upon the Snow?!?! Battle Cry!?!? Pyrokinesis, It’s Called: Freefall, Selkie-boy, The Quittin’ Kind, Mile Magnificent!?!?

AAAAAAAAAAADGHGRSKFGH