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[irondad3000]

[gawrkin]

Following up on what I said about how Post-Vulgate Gawain should utterly despise Arthur - having absolutely no reason to like him - there is an additional context from the Post-Vulgate itself that I forgot to mention in the last post and should be considered:

Gawain will kill you even if you're his kin

(Also, Agravain, as his usual self, will gleefully join in the crimes if he can)

So yes, Blood Relation will not matter to a murderous Gawain, especially if the slight was done when he was a young impressionable kid (King Lot's death was when Gawain was eleven, if you recall). By Post-Vulgate's own logic, Gawain should itching for an opportunity to kill Arthur himself.

Coincidently, this cements another reason why T. H. White's The Once and Future King's Villainization of Morgause (and Morgause being evil in general) is a very BAD idea: it removes the last vestiges of any reasonable justification as to why Gawain is even a Knight of the Round Table - or even a hero! - in the first place.

In the Medieval Narratives, the reason why Gawain and his brothers are part of Arthur's Court in the first place is because of Morgause' insistence, in defiance of her husband. Morgause is a supporter of her brother, not another one of his enemies.

Without Morgause putting in a good word for her brother and actually scheming to destroy him, Gawain and his brothers will be right there working with their mother all the way.

Ironic, as one reason why many modern writers love to villainize Morgause is so that they can reframe Mordred's incestuous birth as some sort of evil scheme to usurp the throne. In reality, that's a really, really impractical, nonsensical and completely redundant rationale - Gawain, Agravaine, Gaheris and Gareth ARE Arthur's closest male relatives and therefore, legally in the best position to take the crown. And all without the taint of incest, an abominable act that would disqualify Mordred from inheritence if made known.

[marvelsgirl616]

dp & wlv // th: rag

[thefirstwormonyourcorpse]

i fear bbc merlin forever ruined my vision of the arthurian legends. i started reading t. h. white's the once and future king, and it's so good.

but then i'm like: where's young sassy merlin? where's the bromance?

but tbf i think t.h. white's merlin would've loved bbc merlin. they're like the same person in different universes.

[azzyisepik]

‘ SKELETON IN A GRAVEYARD. ’

Admittedly, this was gonna be WAY more detailed, w/ the graves having gifts beside them and Jules’ grave being set on fire, but I decided to just make it simple due to being too tired. I was also originally going to draw Scourge as the Charro Negro, but after some thought I decided that I'd rather draw Panchito as the Charro Negro, however I still drew Scourge as a skeleton nevertheless.

Anyways, enjoy this little Halloween drawing of Scourge :]]

[pumpkincryptid]

Paper ref for Devil!

[ +4 images where he's not doing so well :) ]

Design notes:

-Horns, tail and wings are all red

-Horns are usually short, but they get bigger in his more demonic form

-Wings are retractable and he can fly with them

-Sunglasses change color based on his mental state, 'cos of couse they do

-Heart necklace was a birthday gift from Will (WWPH)

-Eyes are more colorful when in Hell or under a lot of stress

-Succubi like wings and tail, as a kind of mockery of Devil's unfortunate love life

[aroomfullofbees]

"All women, indeed, are sisters under The Goddess."

-Morgaine, from The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley

[touhoutunes]

Title: sweet

Arrangement: 薄月橙華

Vocals: とーかちゃん

Album: Sweets

Circle: T.H INDUSTRY

Original: The Reversed Wheel of Fortune

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[thoughtfulfangirling]

“Morals,” said Lionel, “are a form of insanity. Give me a moral man who insists on doing the right thing all the time, and I will show you a tangle which an angel couldn’t get out of.”

—The Once and Future King by T.H. White

[abookfairy]

“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something”

The Once and Future King, T.H. White

[familyabolisher]

August 2023 reading

Books:

Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

T. H. White, The Sword In The Stone

T. H. White, The Witch In The Woods

T. H. White, The Ill-Made Knight

T. H. White, The Candle In The Wind

Articles:

Lisa Borst, Ari M. Brostoff, Cecilia Corrigan, Jon Dieringer, A. S. Hamrah, Arielle Isack, Mark Krotov, Jasmine Sanders, Christine Smallwood, Who Was Barbie?

Lev Grossman, The gay Nabokov

Yasha Levine, Immigrants as a Weapon: Global Nationalism and American Power

Sophie Lewis, Cthulhu plays no role for me

Gail Omvedt, The doubly marginalised

John Semley, Oppenheimer and the Dharma of Death

Bassam Sidiki, Severances: Memory as Disability in Late Capitalism

towardrecomp, Fidelidad En La Tormenta: Part 1

Eyal Weizman, The Art of War: Deleuze, Guattari, Debord and the Israeli Defense Force

Short stories:

Tamsyn Muir, Chew

Tamsyn Muir, The Unwanted Guest

Rebecca Fraimow, Further Arguments In Support Of Yudah Cohen's Proposal To Bluma Zilberman

Rebecca Fraimow, Gitl Schneiderman Learns To Live With Her In-Laws

[specificpollsaboutbooks]

Favorite Rewritings

Round 1

Rilla of Ingleside is a retelling of WWI, "one of the only contemporaneously written books about life on the Canadian homefront during WWI"

The Once and Future King is a rewriting of the Arthurian legend

[azzyisepik]

UNFINISHED MES DE LOS TRES CABALLEROS DRAWINGS‼️

Because I realized that these drawings seeing the light of day will be inevitable due to my lack of motivation + being busy tomorrow I figured I'd showcase these unfinished drawings of mine that were supposed to be for Mes De Los Tres Caballeros.

I might actually finish the 1st one, but it won't be for the event anymore considering how, as I've said before, I'm busy tomorrow. But, again, I am still keen on finishing it so.. Do be expecting that some time soon!! :]]

[yesterdays-xkcd]

I mean, the black-and-white stuff was running backward, but it hardly mattered to the story.

Merlin [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball and Megan standing by a train on a platform.] Megan: I'm bad at goodbyes. At some level I never think they're for real. Cueball: They make me think of T. H. White's Merlin.

[They are still standing at the edge of the platform, but the train is no longer in the frame.] Megan: Oh? Cueball: He lived backwards, remembering the future and not the past. To him, final goodbyes meant nothing, while first hellos were tearful and bittersweet.

[Zooming out, the rail closest to the platform becomes visible.] Megan: Huh - so over the years he'd forget all his friends. Megan: Must've been lonely. Cueball: Yeah. He ended up just sitting around at home watching DVDs all day. The best was the time he rented 'Memento'...

[Merlin with pointy hat and long white beard is sitting in a couch with the remote, watching TV which emits light and is clearly hooked up to a device (a DVD player).] Merlin: Well, that was straightforward.

[pumpkincryptid]

Made this as a reminder, gonna finish it later