PERCEVAL THE UNHAPPY, THE MISERABLE, THE UNFORTUNATE, THE FISHER KING!
Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)
ALRIGHT alright. so previously I did an illustration that explained the premise of all this, that it's inspired by the narrative choices that Bresson made in his film Lancelot du Lac etc
to dive in more into it (because this is something like derivative fiction. I'm putting concepts into a blender and seeing what comes out of it): the setting is haunted by the previously existing narratives that started cannibalizing each other until it regurgitates itself into the more well known narrative beats, and something else about the invasive rot of christianity and empire mythmaking into settings. it's an intertextual haunting, if you will! and this scene takes place during the grail quest narrative, but the temptation of Perceval plays out differently.
in both Chretien (and Wolfram's) Perceval narratives, what 'wakes' Perceval up (in more ways than one. desire and self actualization in one go!) is seeing knights, something his mother tried hard to keep him from. so instead of the temptation of lust & etc in the Morte narrative taking the form of a lady, it takes the form of a knight. the temptation to renounce one's faith to serve something else remains.
so Perceval still stabs himself, but instead of continuing on the grail quest in the shadow of Galahad, he becomes the narrative's Fisher King because his earlier state of being as a the grail quest hero is creeping back into his marrow. it was waiting for an opening, and stabbing yourself in the thigh is one hell of a parallel!!!
that wound isn't going to heal buddy, and the state of the setting will now be reflected on your body. sure hope that Arthur hasn't like. corrupted the justice of the land or anything. that sure would suck for your overall health.
all the red in this sequence is because in de Troyes' Perceval, Perceval takes the armor of the Red Knight and becomes known as the Knight in Red.
and now for the citations, which I will try to order in a way that makes sense!
Seeing Knights For The First Time
Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)
The Temptation of Perceval
Le Morte Darthur, Mallory (modernized by Baines)
The Fisher King, and Perceval The Unfortunate
Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)
On Perceval and Gender, etc.
Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey
On Wounds
Wounded Masculinity: Injury and Gender in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, Kenneth Hodges
The Red Knight
Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)
On Arthur and the Corruption of Justice
The Failure of Justice, the Failure of Arthur, L.K. Bedwell
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Hey pasta, I saw your updated post about the impasta and I was curious so I went back to your original post and clicked on the link to their blog.
The blog is still up and they are active right now. Like they just posted something 5 minutes ago. So maybe they just blocked you? Either way I wanted to make sure you were aware of that
This wasn't what I thought it was referring to, so I figure I can respond. Yeah it looks like they blocked me and not deleted. They're still active and posting stuff, although I can't see it, so thank you for the heads-up (the other people who'd checked from me were also blocked so it appeared deleted across multiple people)!
Honestly at this point, all I want is two things - that people not steal my shit, and that the impasta leaves me alone. This time they denied being the impasta, and you know what? I don't care one way or the other. They still stole from my fic, stole work that wasn't theirs because, in their words, 'I just thought it was a good line and didn't think there would be a problem'.
I'm so tired of people stealing from my work when I invest this much effort into it. This is, roughly, the 5th time I've had to deal with this, since even before the Impasta saga I've had people try to plagiarize TRT. It's tiring.
If they want to keep that blog up now that everyone's aware they're a plagiarist, that's their choice. Not what I'd do but then again I wouldn't have plagiarized in the first place. What I'm hoping now is that they'll leave me alone, and they'll stick to their original work. Literally all I want.
(edit: as stated, what i want is for them to leave me alone and stick to their own work, now that their stolen works are down, you can stop messaging them.)
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WHY DO PEOPLE PUT CW: BEFORE THE CW IN THE TAG
JUST PUT THE TAG
PLEASE JUST PUT THE TAG
When that stupid Saw X crap was going around I blacklisted every possible configuration of "gore", "blood", "saw", and other similar or related words that I could think of, but not once did I think to put CW because...I mean???
ISN'T TAGGING IT AS THE THING THE CONTENT WARNING???
Why not put the content warning in TEXT at the TOP, and just put THE THING in tags?
Like so!
Title: CW: Gore, [post title]
Subject
Tags: #gore
Seriously, the image above that I cropped out so nobody else would have to see it is graphic as hell and is EXACTLY the kind of thing that sets off my fucking fight-or-flight in the worst possible way, and because of the stupid "cw:" before "gore" in the tags, Tumblr put it through because I don't have "cw: gore" specifically blacklisted. SO EVEN THOUGH I HAVE LIKE 90 DIFFERENT VARIATIONS OF "GORE" BLACKLISTED
The fact I don't have "cw: gore" blacklisted let it through.
Why did I not have "cw: gore" blacklisted you ask?
BECAUSE I DIDN'T THINK ANYONE WOULD FUCKING PUT "CW: GORE" IN THE TAGS INSTEAD OF JUST PUTTING FUCKING "GORE" IN THE TAGS.
Excuse me while I go blacklisted a million variations of "cw: gore" including EVERY POSSIBLE CAPITALIZATION COMBINATION AND MISSPELLING I CAN THINK OF just so some other motherfucker can put "cw - gore" or "content warning: gore" or "warning: gore" or SOME OTHER SHIT LIKE THAT instead of JUST putting "gore" like a sensible person.
Jesus, have to blacklist absolutely every single possible combination of words, acronyms, shortenings, misspellings, and alt-spellings just to be fucking safe on this hellsite.
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part four - part six
➪ Charles hasn't paid much attention to you after your daughter was born but a certain Brit does.
➪ you're just as bad if not worse because maybe after all it was just in your head
➪ established relationship mom!reader x dad!Charles x lando
➪ 😈 - bob is lando ;) || google translate is my best friend
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Hannahh have a great off season you three!
charliecharlie finally some charlesy/n content, I was getting worried 😫
joris__throuche maman et papa pendant leurs grandes vacances ❤️ (mom and dad on their big holiday)
↳ charles_leclerc tu nous manques fils (we miss you son)
y/nusername nous reviendrons bientôt (we'll be back soon)
manon_roux couldn't have tucked me into your suitcase?
↳ y/nusername sorry 😔
hannahh squeezing those cute little baby cheeks 😍
charlessix10 mom and dad, dad and mom? 😭
noellepicard babies 🥰
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norry4 MOTHER YES
julieeeexo you're such a beauty 😍
leondewitt jesus christ how did that kid bag this woman?
charlos16 I wanna be like you when I grow up..😩
charles_leclerc mon dieu, j'ai vraiment tellement de chance 😍 (my god, I'm so lucky)
↳ carlandooo were back to publicly simping for each other, war is over..all is good 😭
matthiasn lucky bastard
norrizz lando get out of here, acting like we don't see you liking all y/n her stuff, boy you're not subtle with it 💀
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thurthur Charles and Arthur trying to cook? Interesting
norrizz not the zoë snow angel, stop my heart 😭
bott_ass take me with you guys next time pls I'm begging :(
joris__trouche combien de vestes différentes as-tu emballées, j'en ai compté au moins 4 différentes jusqu'à présent 🤪 (how many different jackets did you pack, I counted at least 4 different ones so far)
↳ y/nusername t'inquiète pour tes propres affaires, laisse-moi tranquille (worry about your own things, leave me alone)
charles_leclerc je dois acheter plus de valises 😂 (need to buy more suitcases)
manon_roux nous savons tous que Charles emballe le plus de vêtements ici. (we all know charles packs the most clothes here.)
charles_leclerc coupable 🤷♂️ (guilty)
charliecharlie dad charles dad charles dad charles dad charles dad charles dad charles dad charles dad charles dad charles dad– 😭
charlesgirlies so much charlesy/n content lately 😭
↳ leclec16 we keep winning! 😍
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