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mooremars · 9 months

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Having finally finished The Once and Future King, I feel the need to share the incredible reasoning for why Guenevere can never actually love her husband and falls for Lancelot instead:

She thinks Arthur is "so old" and on the "verge of senility" because she is a little baby 22 and he is a decrepit, ancient 30. Which yes is exactly how a 22 year old should feel about a 30 year old trying to be in a relationship with them but also is just deeply hilarious to me. T.H. White did not have to go so hard and I respect him for that.

#it's also hilarious how he presents the idea of being able to love two people in different ways #like it's all 'women can love their husbands and children and men can love their wives and still wanna fuck other women'#sure Terence #i have no problems with this framing #Charlotte for ts #I cut out like four chunks of my big ramblings posts for space #and one of those chunks was about Genny's age and how it was smart to obscure it #which i stand by #however it would've been funny if sorkin just decided to throw this sort of thing in #sacrifice arthur not looking like a creep just to make fun of how old 30 is #This Barbie can't shut up about Camelot

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