#Adam Crown

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Last book of the Pendragons... and it ends on a pretty sloppy note... feeling very rushed.

[louismoncher]

— Loumand + failmarriages in media

[mysharona1987]

What a time it was.

[inubaki]

splinter fractures

“Is the something capable of biting me?” Lucifer’s asked, pretending at wariness. “I’ll love anything you give me but it’s unsporting not to warn me.” 

In response, Adam held out a hand and concentrated, eyes going sharp and focused. His hand lit up golden, sparks like chips of sunlight glimmering into being in a swirling motion, tracing the outline of something before flowers bloomed in front of him. Camellias, roses, asters, hibiscus, and forget me nots twined around in a woven crown. A far cry from the messy, chaotic ones he’d made in Eden, but no less colorful. No less heartfelt.  -splinter fractures-chapter 38, story by @writingfromabox and the art by wafflecaramel, a store from Etsy.

I ordered three commissions from three different artist to draw a section of this stunning story with my description alone. This is the second one. I was informed the last one should be done by the end of the month. Here’s a link to their shop and writingfromabox’s amazing story down below.

[antiradqueer]

I think we should all start calling radqueers “PRATs” (predatory racist ableist transphobes) 👍

[goated33]

Cult of the lamb au where Lucifer is chained and the overlords (who answer to the other bishops) take over his cult. Charlie borrows her father’s powers in order to save their former people- and eventually, Lucifer himself.

[msclaritea]

Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman to Lead 'War of the Roses' Remake

"The Roses’ is a wildly funny, bigger than life, and yet deeply human story,” said Searchlight president Matthew Greenfield announcing the project. “With Jay at the helm, and Benedict and Olivia and Tony, we have a dream team bringing it to life.”

So Matthew Greenfield at Searchlight is dirty...BEYOND dirty. No comment on Olivia Colman as of yet, but we all know now that actors and actresses usually have NO SAY I'm the projects they're currently put in. This film should not be made. It's another horrible, cruel joke to play on the fans of Benedict Cumberbatch and the people pushing it are on the same level as that jackal Jay Z and the NFL This is pure, sick, Freemason, ancient bullshit. Also, how is it this project is STILL in development, when it's BEEN in development since 2017?

And Benedict, if you go along with this project, it will be revealed to the public that you are going along with your own public humiliation, in order to enrich human traffickers.

Was Clarence really not enough for you?

Or Eric?

How about pissing on yourself in Louis Wain?

AND HEY, DISNEY...BIG FUCKING MISTAKE!

[doctorcatastrophe]

Look, I know it was Velvette that said I'm that hashtag bitch- but the more I think about it, the more I'm sure that the title would go to Adam. Queen Bitch, if you will. Or Queen of the Bitches. Same diff.

[babybirbb]

a couple of dentist visits ago i was sitting in the chair for a few hours and i was in pain and not having fun but this was when i had just started obsessing over marvey so to cope i came up with a fic idea while i was there...

ive been having tooth pain again but i hate going so to cope again all ive been thinking about is this marvey fic idea again where hurt!mike has to go to the dentist so im gonna force yall to hear about it too

the gist is that yes even though mike is an adult, he hasn't been to the dentist in a hot second (ie since high school) bc he just didn't have enough money for it to be a priority

anyways he starts dealing with some general issues: toothache, headaches, sensitivity, disrupted sleep, etc. that just gets bad enough to the point where it's obvious that something is wrong

harvey can tell he's not functioning at full capacity: is avoiding certain foods, looks like he's in pain sometimes, and just generally seems more irritable as of late

eventually it reaches it's breaking point and harvey confronts mike and has to force him to go to the dentist cuz he's fed up (also cuz he cares about mike obvi but he's not gonna say that)

mike has general dentist anxiety (he hasn't been in a while and he's also definitely worried about the copay even tho i imagine this law firm provides dental insurance lol) but harvey’s nice enough to be there for him

anyways after finally going and figuring out the issue, mike's set up for a procedure (tooth extraction? root canal? idk yet), and after said procedure harvey has to deal with gassed up mike who's either woken up from the sedative or just heavily anesthetized

basically just harvey taking care of mike from then on, giving meds and comfort when the pain becomes too much after the anesthesia wears off. i just want harvey to be all soft and sweet with equally soft and loopy mike

i have hopes to write this at some point (my depression is kicking my ass rn) but anyone else is welcome to take inspiration from this! i encourage it cuz i'd love to see what other people come up with! <3

[queer-ragnelle]

i’m new to arthuriana but love your posts nonetheless

i am just curious about the many references to gawain sleeping with so many people when, to my understanding, in sir gawain and the green knight he specifically breaks this promiscuous behaviour and makes sure he doesn’t sleep with the wife of the duke

(i apologize if this is a stupid question!)

hello anon!

welcome to arthuriana and thank you so much for the kind words. this is not a stupid question at all! the truth is gawain is nothing if not inconsistent between texts haha. he's different from other knights such as lancelot who pines solely for guinevere across text after text, in that it seems every author wanted to create their own special gal for gawain. he therefore has numerous women attached to him, and when readers try to reconcile those many texts into a single story thread, it gives the impression our mans gawain gets around! (and he does!) i have several examples here to illustrate this so i'll put it below a cut.

for all the textual variance, sir gawain and the green knight is the exception that proves the rule—meaning that it's perhaps the only text in which gawain is abstinent. we know this because one of the five virtues attributed to the five points of his pentacle crest on his shield is chastity.

furthermore, on the wife's second seduction attempt, gawain pleas his own inexperience with "love" (ie: women).

whether or not that's true is up for debate, but it's worth mentioning, as it's a departure from other texts where his virile prowess is well-known, and in the knight of the two swords, he openly boasts about his own attractiveness and popularity. (humble guy, that gawain!)

there are several examples of gawain's reputation with the ladies preceding him and actually benefitting his odds of getting laid. one of my favorites is from lancelot part II in the vulgate. gawain had just cured his brother agravaine of an illness and agravaine's amie basically wingwoman's her sister.

goated of her. so gawain pencils it in on his calendar. later, he locates the castle, sneaks in, and succeeds in bedding the maiden. she's not named here, although malory later refers to her as "the lady of lys," and accredits her as the mother of gawain's three sons, (although the couple never formally wed).

among the strangest of examples is the middle english text the carle of carlisle, in which the carle brings gawain to the bedchamber and orders him to make out with his wife. but things quickly heat up...

so the carle stops gawain from outright cuckholding him, then leads gawain to his daughter's chambers, gives them his blessing, and locks them inside. at the end of the text, gawain marries her.

now i would be remiss not to mention my beloved the wedding of sir gawain and dame ragnelle. i think it's notable that ragnelle specifically asks for gawain by name, much like the lady of lys did (according to her sister and her warm reception of him).

now the conclusion of this poem brings us to another theme of gawain's which ties into his many partners, and that is his consistent subservience to ladies. he breaks the curse on ragnelle by granting her "sovereignty" in the relationship. this seems to be another aspect of character which sets gawain apart from other knights, as this is not a chaste expression of courtly love, but a precursor to fornication, and draws the attention of strong-willed ladies, such as ragnelle, with whom he is "a coward," or according to the translation notes, "submissive."

then again in roman van walewein, he's already famous by the time he meets his ladylove, ysabele, and whilst tied up in her father's prison, he leaves the decision of his own life in her hands.

which then results in their coming together because this is a gawain story and he always gets the girl.

even in the post vulgate, which we can all agree portrays every single character at their absolute worst (and is therefore invalid<3), gawain's choice of words consistently upholds the lady's desires above his own. at first, gawain intended wingman for pelleas by pretending he, pelleas, was dead to begrieve arcade. he discovers instead that she's elated by pelleas's supposed passing, so she and gawain fall in love. but even after admitting his feelings, he still takes great pains to frame the final crossing of that line as her choice, and only relents when she makes her intentions plain.

he might also just like it when women boss him around if his treatment from orgeluse in parzival by wolfram von eschenbach is any indication.

similarly to the knight of two swords, in parzival, gawain is aware of his fame, fosters it, and then employs his orgeluse brain worms as a motivation for sparing lives instead of like...morality.

i think what's particularly interesting about gawain's relationship history is that many of his partners are named, whereas it's pretty common for damsels and maidens in medieval texts to exist without identities of their own. there are so, so many named, interesting, fully developed women linked to gawain, it's actually pretty awesome! here are a few more:

lunette in yvain: knight of the lion by chrétien de troyes...

amurfina in the crown by heinrich von dem türlin...

bloiesine in the 4th perceval continuation by gerbert de montreuil...

marjorie in gawain and marjorie by oscar fay adams (if we extend our search through the 20th century!)...

and on and on forever! so in conclusion, gawain has been pulling bitches for many hundreds of slutty, slutty years, and from what modern retellings i've read, authors have no intention of interrupting this trend. i hope that helps clear things up somewhat. thanks for the ask!

[javsarts]

Been meaning to post this, cuz I thought doing the challenge might be fun lol. Anyway! Here are the LIs that made me spend the entire summer on my bed.

Most of them are from the amazing IFs and games that hooked me so far ehe~

Xelef is from A Tale of Crowns by @ataleofcrowns

Lucas Koh is from the Love Island the Game (yes this brain rot of a game)

Sebastian is from Stardew Valley

Grayson Black is from Mind Blind by @mindblindbard

Adam du Mortain is from The Wayhaven Chronicles by @seraphinitegames

Morkai is from The Soul Stone War by @intimidatingpuffinstudios

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

A very generic cover... also it is interesting how much these books all crossover, like pretty much NONE of them are off doing their own things entirely... all of them have to either tie in with a US hero or into one of the other books or most often, both...

[asgoodeasgold]

(🔊 on) After an exhausting week, I didn't get a chance to make an edit, so I am reposting this video I made for YouTube last year in celebration of Matthew's adorable quirkiness.

He does this thing where he rests his head on his folded arm (sometimes two!). I know, it's a bit niche but any excuse for a goode video right? 😁

🎶 Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):

https://uppbeat.io/t/vens-adams/adventure-is-calling

License code: J6WS8JHRQJK0LOII

📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited (2008), Netflix The Crown (2017) s2, Leap Year (2010), Burning Man (2011), Al Sur de Granada (2004), Imagine Me & You (2005), Silent Night (2021), Birthmarked (2018), Sky/Bad Wolf A Discovery of Witches (2018/2021) s1-2, BBC Dancing on The Edge (2013), Chasing Liberty (2004)

Also on my YT channel:

[mobiblackout]

I think I've seen this film before

And I didn't like the ending

I'm not your problem anymore

Who am I offending now?

[jhsjykwpdw]

you look at me and, babe, I wanna catch on fire