#chretiens

[emi-vrn]

Illustration

[jloisse]

🇮🇱 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗘 | Israël veut fermer les églises de Jérusalem en les accablant d’impôts et en bloquant leurs comptes

Israël réclame 150 millions d'euros d'arriérés aux Églises de Jérusalem, sans quoi ils seront expulsés !

[o-p-s-c]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJR7BzcvYtY/?igsh=MWppa3E0eXNpOGFhMQ==

[tankampascal]

N'attendez pas d'être fanée avant de venir chercher votre époux à l'Eglise Car les chrétiens aussi aiment les fraiches et bonnes choses !

[atukaworld]

Wazalendo-FARDC : en rupture déjà ?

“Voici les services de nos patriotes pour la population :Un FARDC a été capturé par les Wazalendo, en train de piller et de voler des motos (…)” C’est l’information qui nous parvient ce matin.   Nous intégrerons ici un lien vers le support vidéo publié sur WhatsApp. Maintenant, nous, chrétiens congolais, que disons-nous du tandem FARDC-Wazalendo ? Sommes-nous au courant que la CODECO aussi…

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

Lancelot in the vulgate cycle

[maniculum]

Hit Points & Chivalric Romance

So one of the bits of D&Discourse I find popping up perennially is the “hit points are unrealistic” thing. Or, at the least, that they shouldn’t represent actual wounds, but instead more of a fatigue/morale abstraction. Combat actually consists of each participant taking repeated sword blows to their body, while they shrug it off & keep fighting, only to then recover with simple rest or a healing potion? Nonsense. Ridiculous.

But if you read old chivalric romance — Chretien, Malory, the undiagnosed author who wrote Perlesvaus — that’s absolutely how knights carry on. Regularly you get descriptions of combat that involve Sir Protagonist and Sir Encounter d’Random fighting ankle-deep in their own blood for like an entire afternoon. Then they go rest in a hermitage until they’re better or — more often than you’d expect — are healed on the spot with Unspecified Ointment. Which is still ridiculous, but it’s ridiculous with a literary pedigree now.

The ointment is usually depicted as rarer than your D&D-style ten-for-a-platinum healing potion, but it’s there. The healing through rest isn’t as handwave-y: it’s usually weeks, not overnight, and the text generally does imply that the hermit or whoever is treating their wounds, not just letting them crash in a spare bed. (Though the fact that it’s often a hermit also gives credence to the “clerical healing” thing.) And there are instances of an injured knight later succumbing to his wounds despite the rest, so you know. It’s not quite as abstracted as D&D healing, but the bones are very familiar.

Which leads me to my proposal for a fantasy TTRPG mechanic: hit points are real, but only if you’re a knight. Along with the title & the fief & the obligation of fealty, you also get a new box on your character sheet that makes combat work differently for you now.

[mortiscausa]

I wish to make brief mention of an acquaintance which was made in private between the moon and the sun. Do you know of whom I mean to speak? He who was lord of the knights, and who was renowned above them all, ought surely to be called the sun. I refer, of course, to my lord Gawain, for chivalry is enhanced by him just as when the morning sun sheds its rays abroad and lights all places where it shines. And I call her the moon, who cannot be otherwise because of her sense and courtesy. However, I call her so not only because of her good repute, but because her name is, in fact, Lunete. Yvain, or the Knight of the Lion | Chrétien de Troyes

for some reason this little friendship/flirtation has always stuck in my mind and I've wanted to draw something for it for ages. i just like the idea of Gawain having lots of gal pals haha

march to camelot #3: kinship

[mordredpendragon]

obviously i have my biases, but i'm just curious.

a bunch of knights go through grail quest, but what i want to know is your preference for the GRAIL HERO specifically. bonus points if you tell me why!

as a refresher, here's all of the relevant texts they show up in and undergo grail quest

Percival

Peredur (Welsh) Y Seint Greal (Welsh) Perceval + Continuations (French) Parzival (German) Parceval (Norse) Perchevael (Dutch) Prose Perceval (Middle English) Perlesvaus (French) Merlin and the Grail by Robert de Boron (French) Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory (Middle English) The Quest for the Holy Grail (Vulgate) (French) The Quest for The Holy Grail (Post-Vulgate) (French) La Tavola Ritonda (Italian)

Galahad and Bors

Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory (Middle English) The Quest for the Holy Grail (Vulgate) (French) The Quest for The Holy Grail (Post-Vulgate) (French) La Tavola Ritonda (Italian)

Gawain

The Crown by Heinrich von dem Türlin (Diu Crône) (German) Perlesvaus (French)

Lancelot and Arthur

Perlesvaus (French)

links are supplied by the Arthurian Preservation Project!

[cowabummers]

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[liorlenn]

(Spoilers for KCD2 romance)

One thing that really surprised me about Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (particularly the Hansry romance) was the direct reference to Galehaut and Lancelot (let me tell you I CHEERED), so I wanted to start talking about some other queer medieval Arthurian texts and Arthuriana adjacent texts.

I’m by no means an expert (I focus more on Welsh poetry and prose) but medieval Welsh literature includes some Arthurian literature, so I know a little about Arthurian Literature in general. Most of these stories are either Old French or German and about 13th century. SGATGK is 14th century.

For one, I want to say that the tale being referenced in the game is the Vulgate Cycle or the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (the Vulgate Cycle itself is multiple parts, with Lancelot’s (The Story of Lancelot/Prose Lancelot) being the largest). It’s a big ol’ mash up and retelling of a huge part of the early tradition + new stuff. There’s also the Post-Vulgate which is itself a retelling of the Vulgate Cycle. This is NOT the one you want if you’re looking for Lancelot and Galehaut.

Another thing of note about the Vulgate is that Galehaut and Lancelot are not the only ones I would give the old side eye. Gawain says (about Lancelot even!), “If God were to grant me my health… I’d immediately wish to be the most beautiful maiden in the world, happy and healthy, on condition that he would love me above all others…” Come on man.

Now, for other queer texts!

First up, I have to plug my best friend and my silly rabbit: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Thanks to the movie (which was good but fairly different) this one is a bit more well-known. I could talk endlessly about the moral of the original story and I think the Gawain Poet is incredibly talented at weaving together imagery. I also appreciate Gawain’s willingness to kiss women AND men. Some argue that it’s not queer because of differing social norms but personally I think Gawain wanted it. And by it, haha well let’s jusrt say—

Next we have Parzival/Percival (referencing the German “version” by Wolfram von Eschenbach here. Each iteration of a “Percival”, including Chrétien de Troyes’ earlier (and unfinished) Story of the Grail, all have their own differences). This one is even more up to interpretation than SGATGK. There’s a very explicitly performative aspect to Parzival’s presentation (his gender is “knight”), focusing distinctly on clothing and the role clothing plays in others’ reactions to him that I think is very relatable. I don’t have much else to say about this one unfortunately. I read parts of it once years ago but it was super interesting and there has been scholarship done on Parzival and gender so…. take what you will from it.

The next stories are Arthurian adjacent (as in, medieval stories about knights). First off: Le Roman de Silence is either about a woman knight or a trans knight who is… sighs. Forcibly outed. Interesting read but definitely a bit of a downer if you interpret Silence as a trans man.

Yde et Olive, however is very explicitly about a trans man! Happy ending too! I was incredibly surprised to read a 13th century story about a trans man getting magical/miraculous top and bottom surgery (yes, forreal).

And to cap off this small list, here is some medieval Welsh literature. This one is just me being a little wistful, but let me tell you about Blodeuedd/Blodeuwedd and the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi (Math fab Mathonwy). This one is…sad. It’s not a good ending for Blodeuedd, but I could wax poetic about her: how she was fashioned from flowers to fulfill a gendered role. How she failed to do so and was punished.

There are plenty of other stories with queer interpretations in Arthuriana and other medieval literature (do not get me started on Guinevere and Morgan le Fay’s whole… thing. Also Luned and her Lady…) and there are plenty of modern/early modern retellings that are explicitly queer. I just wanted to stick to medieval texts for this and also limit myself to a select few among that even.

[o-p-s-c]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLF7EZ4tRRJ/?igsh=a2ptZWduMGc2ajMz

[an-ruraiocht]

i love when medieval texts break off to be like "and a shout-out to my patron who paid me for this, pray for him maybe" but it's even funnier when they're like "well my patron wanted me to write a story about this specifically and i want you to know i'm not into it. but she asked and she's paying me. so i guess we're doing this but i'm just putting it out there that i don't condone any of this"

people haven't changed

[cesarescabinet]

Note: This is just for fun and because I'm nosy. I realize the timeline for inspiration is not always simple and can be a bit muddy.

[gringolet]

gawain sitting out tournaments so that he can watch lancelot. which could mean nothing

[maniculum]

I present to you the following excerpt from Chretien de Troyes’s Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion (c. 1180).

I also present the following image from The Powerpuff Girls (1998-2005).

Draw your own conclusions.