#mrs galahad

[martianbugsbunny]

cursed with "desperate need to ship that old man"

[cosmos-fudge]

Galahad needs to kiss me riht now actually

[arrowheadedbitch]

An interaction I just KNOW happened off screen:

Jenkins: Mr Jones, why are you listening to Katy Perry?

Ezekiel: Why do you recognize that it's Katy Perry?

Jenkins:

Jenkins: Touché, Mr Jones.

[vermutandherring]

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[computerram]

Arthuriana-inspired sketch dump and design notes

[sparrow-eats-kats]

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Mr. Gaiman!

I'm an English teacher, and I'm going to teach my senior class your short story "Chivalry" as part of a unit on Arthurian legend. I wondered if you might share with us some insight as to why you wrote the story, your favorite part(s), or just something you want to mention to students reading and studying it!

Thank you so much!

I wish I had something to add to it, but really everything I wanted to say is in the story. I wrote it immediately after finishing Good Omens with Terry, and I remember how nice it was not to have to be funny, except in a gentle sort of way, and I put a lot of my mother's mother, Pearl Goldman, into Mrs Whitaker, and her house is my grandparents' house on Parkstone Avenue in Southsea.

Galaad was an early spelling of Galahad.

[wistfulpoltergeist]

“That was. Pretty rude, Galahad,” Sherlock noted, still keeping his smile on. “Scandalous.”

“This world is rude for people like me, Mr Holmes,” the islander snorted and snatched a bread stick from the basket in the center of the table.

“And it shouldn’t be like this,” Sherlock replied with a sigh.

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[what-even-is-thiss]

So obvious spoilers ahead for an old-ish book series.

I figured understanding the ending of the Witcher series would probably help me understand the games seeing as they’re kind of official post-series fanfiction. So I straight up just looked up the ending.

I thought the flashbacks in the Witcher 2 to Geralt’s “death” were just a reference to the isle of Avalon from Celtic mythology.

No. It’s literally Avalon. Geralt and Yennifer get killed or seriously injured (depending on your interpretation) during a riot and a random boat shows up and brings them to Avalon. Like from the King Arthur legends. Ciri ends up talking to the literal Sir Galahad after she wasn’t allowed in to Avalon. Also implying that she speaks either old English or Welsh. Ciri went to Britain.

They literally. Go. To Britain. To vaguely Celtic mythology King Arthur land.

I refuse to read this as the literal afterlife. I think they’re there. Right now. You find the mythical isle of Avalon, you find King Arthur and you find Mr. The Witcher from the Witcher series. The games are not canon to this in my mind. They can’t be. I have to believe that Geralt and Yennifer are there right now getting drunk with King Arthur and Morgan le fey. Whenever Artie comes back during Britain’s greatest hour of need expect there to also be a white haired asshole with cat eyes involved. He’s getting forcibly pulled into Arthurian court politics against his will.

You know, everyone lied to me about this being a serious gritty fantasy series. This entire experience I’ve had exploring the Witcher series keeps going more and more off the rails and often ends with me laughing at things that probably weren’t meant to be funny.

[thatmoththoth]

If Mr. Mosley has 0 fans assume I’m dead.

Anyway if I had a nickel for every time there was a character in a piece of fiction which had very little information on them available, leading to me just Making Shit Up about them and growing attached, I’d have two nickels. First Galahad from High Noon Over Camelot and not this guy. I’ve seen approximately zero fan art of this guy and it’s a bloody shame because he is peak character design. Also like, are we all going to ignore the fact it’s most likely cannon that within The Glass Scientists worldbuilding the earth is hollow? There are just, so many implications, and so much room for exploration!

I’d give my left arm for a spin off series entirely dedicated to this guy’s misadventures within the earth.

Fortunately I’m a writer and an artist, so I can just make that myself, which I’m in the process of via the rp Blog i made @mister-mosley

[martianbugsbunny]

btw Jenkins tucking Ezekiel in after the whole natural gas near-death??? cutest thing I've seen in my life

[dogfancier]

Some prize winners from the Victoria Poultry and Kennel Show, 1901

1. Widford Galahad, english setter owned by Mr. A. R. Clarke. 2. Battle Royal, bulldog owned by Mr. F. Nash 3. Barry Lord, st. bernard owned by Mr. G. Angliss 9. Ch Melbourne Bluestone, fox terrier owned by Mr W. Beilby 10. Plevna, borzoi owned by Dr. C. Ryan 12. Mostyn Lubra, cocker spaniel owned by Mr. T.W. Jones 13. Sandringham Theo, basset hound owned by Mr. W.G. Brown 14. Tim Flaherty, poodle owned by Mr. J. Kett 15. Team of Irish setters owned by Mr. L. Langslow 16. The Dane, greyhound owned by Mr. J. Meredith

The birds are: 4. Golden pencilled hamburg hen, 5. White leghorn cockerel, 6. American bronze turkey cock, 7. Dorking cock, 8. Plymouth rock cock and 11. Light brahma cock.

[cressidagrey]

I didn't know we were allowed to speculate about the foal. Ok let me get my spread sheet of baby horses and their names. I personally have a list of over 40horse names for my potential future horse.

As the naming convention of important horses with long lineages go, it's a mix of Poth parents names. If the sire is Glamordale and the Dame is Blanche Fleur the foal would be something like:

Blanchedale or Glamour Fleur or we can pick something similar to Fleur and name the baby GlamorSugar. Glamorblanche is also an option.

If we want to go by color, we have so many options. Some here are from my own list of horse names. Also we can name the baby after things that remind is of max and Belles love.

Midnight paramore - secret paramore (secret boyfriend max) - silver lullaby - Sentinel spots ( if we have dapple gray and Sentinel is an old type guard that protects the seat and castle walls and not the Lord if the castle itself.) Winter solstice - midwinter hope /midwinter love - diamond dust - Temperance - solstice miracle - midnight promis - black Fleur - black sugar - obsidian butterfly - obsidian sun - always remember - return to home

I doubt max would go that far but honestly he could name the horse something like: unleash the lion - Belle 33 - Leo Belle - always remember or just go as far as calling the horse: Mrs. Belle Verstappen's engagement gift.

I am insane. I know. When it comes to horses and naming conventions I am crazy. Also I bet it's going to be a midnight black little boy who will grow and shed until he's a light gray like his mama. And I predict he will be one for those vey load vocal horses that sound like V10 engines.

There are so many more names I could think off but I think I've embarrassed myself enough for now.

I actually looked up naming conventions, because when I bought my horse she needed a name with the same name first letter as her sire. But I have seen thoroughbreds named after both parents like you said.

Selle Francais, French warmbloods, don’t seem to have either of these rule but seem to be named whatever with the name of the breeders farm at the end. At least the 10 or so I looked up seemed to be named that way.

Glamourdale himself is the son of Lord Leatherdale, so takes the -dale part of his father but his mother is Thuja, so nothing in his pedigree that calls back to Glamour as far I can tell.

Ngl, I wa thinking of naming the baby Galahad or Genevieve, taking the G from Glamourdale, because Arthurian legend and Blanchefleur is also an Arthurian character.

(Max wants to name the foal Unleash the Lion, isn’t allowed to because the obvious stable name would be Lio or Leo, which is either the name of Victoria’s son or of Charles’ dachshund and then buys himself a yacht to name that instead 😂)

[dnickels]

John Irving Poem Playlist

I love the hype around Davechella and wanted to do something a little different- a mixtape of poems, with commentary (desperate self-justification) and bonus poems below the cut

I.

The Lamb, William Blake

The Pilgrim, Sophie Jewett

Self-Dependence, Matthew Arnold

The Light of Stars, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Wanderer, Unknown, trans. Roy M. Liuzza

Up-Hill, Christina Rosetti

Sir Galahad, Alfred Tennyson

II.

They Could Not Tell Me Who Should Be My Lord, Edwin Muir

God gave a Loaf to every Bird, Emily Dickinson

Ancient Text, Louise Glück

I Find no Peace, Thomas Wyatt

A Secret Told, Emily Dickinson

Mary Magdalen, James Elroy Flecker

Because I Liked You Better, AE Housman

III.

A Better Resurrection, Christina Rossetti

The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Leonard Cottrell OR trans. Len Krisak

Batter my heart, three-personed God, John Donne

At Least to Pray, Is Left, Is Left, Emily Dickinson

'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend", Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, (LXXXIV- LXXXVI) trans. Edward FitzGerald

I Shall Know why- when Time is over, Emily Dickinson

IV.

Sudden Hymn in Winter, Joseph Fasano

Fable and Decade, Louise Glück

Love (III), George Herbert

Of Molluscs, Mary Sarton

Dark Night of Soul, Juan de la Cruz, trans. E Allison Peers

He Touched Me, So I Live to Know, Emily Dickinson

The Finder Found, Edwin Muir

V.

The Plate, Anthony Hecht

Prospice, Robert Browning

Pietà, Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Jessie Lemont

DEATH THE COPPERPLATE PRINTER, Anthony Hecht

The Gold Lily, Louise Glück

Futility, Wilfred Owen

Flock, Billy Collins

"What, no Wild Geese?" spiritually Wild Geese is here, tucked in section IV, which might a well be subtitled "The soft animal gets a treat", same with Song of Songs and so many psalms I couldn't pick one. I wanted to try to play with poems that were either new to me or a little further off the beaten track (although there are still some obvious picks but come on was I not going to get some Donne in there?). Frankly, this entire list could have been Emily Dickinson start to finish, it's not yet accepted historical fact that she was an inexplicable psychic witness to the sufferings of the Franklin Expedition but I am submitting my findings to journals as we speak

(sorry Jirv for all the Catholics and extremely suspect Anglicans!!)

I. SEEKING

Whenever I invoke "The Lamb" please know I am reading it with the same menace and sense of foreboding as Patti Smith. Given the vibe I'm trying to cultivate you'd think there would be more Blake, but I think Jirv has such a profoundly different experience with Church Authority and his own conversion experience that he and Blake hardly seem like they share the same faith. Even in a scenario where he managed to unclench, I can't see him espousing a sentiment like The Garden of Love. Maybe if he survived to reflect on his encounter with Koveyook he might groove more with "[Christ] is the only God ... and so am I and so are you."

The only section that has at least a few poets I think Jirv would actually read, namely Matthew Arnold-- the only poem on here that I think isn't very good, I'm sorry to Mr. Arnold but there we are, they were right to light your ass up in Punch. He's here however because I think his work captures a very clear and immediately accessible sense of the early Victorian man striving to be himself, in the sense that he can flower fully into the model of upstanding sober bourgeois middle-class manhood which isn't always attainable for later birth-order sons in a navy overcrowded with officers. The real life Irving's letters touched me very much in that he is both looking for a deeper connection with God, a better version for himself, and in the material world, a way to make enough money to establish himself as capital-R Respectable in a way that swashbuckling at sea or derring-do in the colonies doesn't really allow him. I actually don't know if the years line up for him to have read Longfellow but this stanza:

O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know erelong, Know how sublime a thing it is  To suffer and be strong.

Is such a classic mid 19th century "making yourself miserable for ideological reasons" motto. Shades of "Invictus" (which for some reason I don't know if Jirv would vibe with, maybe more of a Crozier poem).

I think you could also call the first section "Voyages", I was struck by how often the real Irving was compelled to relocated to try and make a place for himself in the world in the literal, material sense, and the few letters we have are largely his thoughts on his spiritual seeking-- I was very surprised not to find a settled and secured ticket-to-Heaven holder but someone who still considers himself a student, is still wrestling and grasping and looking for something.

Prithee, Pilgrim, go not hence; Clear thy brow, and white thy hand, What shouldst thou with penitence? Wherefore seek to Holy Land? Stern the whisper on his lip: Sin and shame are in my scrip.

It feels a little much to say 'Jirv is the Galahad of their doomed Grail quest' but frankly, given that no one succeeds, I kind of like the idea of a failed Galahad. It's slightly ahistorical to invoke but once we get into the 1860s and the mid-Victorian chivalric revival Galahad becomes a potent symbol for a kind of chaste imperial knighthood in service to God/Queen/Country. At least one young office who died in WWI was named Galahad, not just a PG Wodehouse joke christening.

II. CRISIS

Obviously there are ten thousand things that could torment the evangelical protestant mind and bedevil one's self-worth and it doesn't have to be "hopelessly in love with your best friend" but I wasn't going to miss a chance for some Housman, was i? Wyatt gives us the money couplet:

I desire to perish, and yet I ask health. I love another, and thus I hate myself.

I had included Flecker's We That Were Friends but felt it was just slightly too self-aware, ditto Rosetti's Winter: My Secret.

III. STRIFE

I think these are all pretty self-explanatory. I could have added ten more Emily Dickinson poems because she is the only one on this earth who gets it (me, the deal, the whole of existence). Hopkins I think is more concerned with the sins of the world than the real life Irving (who, based on the very limited material shared, must be the most laid-back and chill evangelical in human history? Or maybe I spent too long among the Baptists) but I can see Jirv wondering, in the God-proof bunker of his diary, why the wicked are flourishing while he is losing his everloving mind and threatening to lock up ABs for being afraid of ghosts.

Here is the excerpted Khayyam so you don't have to go looking (although you should because its wall to wall bangers) (context: the narrator is standing in a potter's shed, and listening to the vessels talk amongst themselves)

LXXXIV. Said one among them— "Surely not in vain My substance of the common Earth was ta'en And to this Figure molded, to be broke, Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again." LXXXV. Then said a Second—"Ne'er a peevish Boy Would break the Bowl from which he drank in joy; And He that with his hand the Vessel made Will surely not in after Wrath destroy." LXXXVI. After a momentary silence spake Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make; "They sneer at me for leaning all awry: What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?"

"Did you make me just to smash me, God?"

Runners-up for this section included Rossetti's The Three Enemies, which only didn't make the cut because I think its slightly uneven compared to the rest of this work and this list has become pretty Rossetti-heavy. Ditto De Profundis.

IV. ACCEPTANCE

Also pretty self-explanatory. Mystical union with Christ or a very special sergeant of the marines, or both! Is it canon? No! But I like to think that even just one time...

If you read any poem on this list please read 'Love (III)' and 'The Finder Found', the latter of which is my 'Wild Geese'. It seems self-serving to say I cried when I read it but I did. Meanwhile Herbert is goated and his entire work could be listed here but hearing Love (III) read aloud made me understand what poems could do.

I cheated putting two Glück poems for one but given that they were published together in that magazine I think its ok. Here's even more cheating: The Undertaking would be in there if I could squeeze it on the same line. "The darkness lifts, imagine, in your lifetime" PLEASE

Runners-up here were Larkin's First Sight, which just doesn't quite fit but I love for the sense of spring coming to someone who doesn't know there's anything other than winter deprivation, and A Shropshire Lad XI (On your midnight pallet lying) which I LOVE but again doesn't quite jive with the theme, but I do imagine it as a bridge poem between this section and the last...

V. DOOM

A little bit of Browning, who might squeak in under the line of plausibility (though perhaps not this poem) as Jirv sets out on the death march with waning faith that is not, in fact, a death march but then his journey ends in Stabtown, population: YOU. "The Plate" in this case would be that faith and knowledge of being loved that remains even after hardship and the final lost battle, maybe even literally in the meat from his stomach. But misery and death put all the men on the rack and instead of salvation they are essentially tortured to death, often long enough to crush/squeeze out any semblance of humanity and leaving the animal capacity for violence.

"Futility" could encompass the whole sorry venture but in specific the shot of Jirv's body after all the effort to make contact with someone would could help. Was it for this? "Exposure" also a strong contender for "the long slow process of freezing to death for unclear reasons".

"Flock" of course-- God needs martyrs.

[astraea802]

My Avalon High Training Has Paid Off...

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So in the new TNT series The Librarians: The Next Chapter, the immortal caretaker of the Belgrade Library Annex is called Mrs. Astolat.

Most people might overlook this. But if you know The Librarians lore and you know Arthuriana-related works like Avalon High, your antennae should absolutely go up.

(Spoilers below)

So, for context, The Librarian films have Excalibur has a major sentient artifact in the Library's possession.

On top of this, in The Librarians (2014), the Seattle Annex caretaker Jenkins was revealed to be Galahad, while the Big Bad of Season 1 was revealed to be Lancelot. Morgana also turns out to be roaming around in modern day.

Now, if you know your Alfred Lord Tennyson (or you know, read the original Avalon High novel), you know of the lesser-known figure Elaine of Astolat, aka the Lady of Shallott, who died from her unrequited love for Lancelot.

I first heard of the poem through Ellie Harrison (who became Allie Pennington in the Avalon High film) being named after Elaine by her parents, which... she understandably did not appreciate.

So, considering the number of Arthurian Legends characters that have turned up in this franchise, that last name can't be a coincidence.

But dang if it doesn't make me curious how Elaine of Astolat may have gone from a young, tragic unrequited lover to a no-nonsense middle-aged caretaker at a magical library. And I appreciate them digging into the lesser known figures since the legends do NOT have great female representation.

I look forward to finding out, if I'm correct.

[peterwimseyopinions]

superintendent kirk’s attributions

“So," said Peter, "Galahad will sit down in Merlin's seat."

Mr. Kirk, on the point of lowering his solid fifteen stone into the chair, jerked up abruptly.

"Alfred," said he, "Lord Tennyson."

"Got it in one," said Peter, mildly surprised. A glow of enthusiasm shone softly in the policeman's ox-like eyes. "You're a bit of a student, aren't you, Superintendent?"

“I like to do a bit o' reading in my off-duty," admitted Mr. Kirk, bashfully.”

Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy Sayers