#queen of arturus

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Some Poptropica motherly figures, cause it's Mother's Dayyyy

Which one is your favorite?

[comical-icicle]

Here is the Red Queen! (Again-)

I finally got a sprinkle of motivation to finally finish this up, and I am in love. She’s so fun to draw imo, and I wish we knew more about her.

Her little comment about the astroknights make me want to know more about her connections and how this ties in with some islands. Since at least some of the astroknights are from Arturus, does that mean the kingdoms dislike one another or at least the royal families? Fairytale island has magical properties and beings while Astroknights island became more tech based. Sure, Mordred had a hand in that, but the kingdom still uses it.

Anyways, just a quick thought I needed to get out and it happened to go with the drawing. Kind of.

Another topic, but am I seeing things or does the Red Queen’s spaceship look like the ones Binary Bard sends out to attack Arturus? Structure-wise, I mean. Change the red to green, remove the crown, and you got the ships from Astroknight island. Maybe something maybe nothing, but that’s an oddly specific space ship design to use, especially for royalty when they could have gone with a rocket instead or something similar. Maybe it wouldn’t fit in with the airship, but that spaceship design is so specific to Binary Bard’s design!

Where am I going with this? Simple. Either Binary Bard built the spaceship for the Red Queen or someone stole their blueprints for it and used it to make the spaceship for her.

[gengar-pixel-2]

"After saving arturus, The kingdom threw her a celebration. The king and queen watched from afar, Seeing the child full of joy and happiness. Their kingdom was safe and so was their daughter, And kela was happy. She's been knighted. ..Well, Not.. Officially, She's an honorary knight. But.. Don't tell her. It makes her happy and the king and queen go along with it. (she's ten, they just want her to be safe!)"

Just a small doodle of kela in the heart armor, A bit scuffed from battle with mordred, However. :(

[crossover-enthusiast]

Also Rebral tried to steal from the queen of Arturus

I am a Malhare (harvey and bard) shipper

Bard is from Arturus and wants it destroyed

I'm just saying

Oooooo

[shatterstarfire]

poor Lance lmao

The Once and Future Queen

[demisexualnathanvuornos]

Ace!Lance in The One and Future Queen (chapter 3 & 5) [could have done without the arophobic ‘robot’ comment re: being alloromantic in ch. 3 pic 7]

[moriaen]

a small collection of modern young adult arthurian stories & retellings

 *i haven’t read most of these but i tried to add people’s general thoughts on them

legendborn by tracey deonn (legendborn series) : follows sixteen-year-old bree matthews adjusting to new life at college following the death of her mother. one night, she witnesses a flying demon feeding on people and is exposed to a secret society of “legendborn” people: including the heirs of arthurian characters and a mage called “merlin” with the ability to erase memories. she soon suspects they may have had something to do with her mother’s death — this one isn’t directly a retelling but more just uses arthuriana as a jumping off point for its own worldbuilding. it also takes a lot of inspiration from African spirituality! the main character is Black and there’s some lgbt+ representation from the side characters too

once & future by amy rose capetta (once & future series) : ari helix is an immigrant of an arab-settled planet. one day, she crash lands on old Earth and pulls a magical sword from the ground, which turns out to be Excalibur and reveals her to be the 42nd incarnation of king arthur. she soon meets backwards-aging now-a-teenager merlin; together, they must break the curse affecting arthur’s reincarnation and defeat the corrupt government to ensure freedom throughout the land  — have not read this one but most people seem to find it flawed but enjoyable with lots of poc and lgbt representation :)

the guinevere deception by kiersten white (camelot rising series) : amidst a kingdom crawling with magic, merlin has instead sent a changeling (whose true identity remains a secret) as princes guinevere to camelot in order to wed the king arthur and keep him safe.  — a female-focused arthurian story + female!lancelot

the once and future queen by adam p. knave : graphic novel featuring chess prodigy rani arturus who pulls the sword from the stone.  — king arthur reimagined as a multi-ethnic teenage girl + lots of other poc and queer representation

enjoy !

[robthesentinel]

Inks for some fanart I’ve been wanting to do of Rani Arturus from the comic The Once and Future Queen. The book is a lot of fun and I’m digging Nick Brokenshire’s art. This was all done digitally in Photoshop, and I enjoyed inking it up! 

[lgbtincomics]

Gwen and Rani Arturus | The Once and Future Queen #2

[dailyindiecomics]

Rani Arturus | The Once and Future Queen #2

[guiltyidealist]

An In-Depth Interpretation & Analysis of the Binary Bard’s Dream on Super Villain Island

(Spoiler warning for Poptropica’s Astro Knights Island and Super Villain Island)

Also, warning... there’s a lot under the cut.

To start off, you might want to read these screenshots. We’ll use them later. However, I’m going to summarize and explain them when we get there, so you don’t have to read them. It could be helpful, is all. Screenshots taken from Dreammoods.com.

Several important symbols are present in Binary Bard’s (Mordred’s) dream, which your player is entering to obtain his “totem of evil,” in hopes that its removal will remove the evil from him. When you enter his dream, he is sitting on a tall chair beside a door that opens and shuts rapidly, blocking any access. He wails to you (something along the lines of), “I’m trapped in this room. This door seems to have a mind of its own!” When you freeze time, he exclaims that you are brilliant and yeets through the door. You then make your way through more of those doors and some floating platforms (the background is spacey here) until you reach him for the boss battle. You see him complete his transformation into the Binary Bard in the center of a large clock, and you must freeze time when the clock hands are at certain positions in order to electrocute and defeat him. He fades away and drops his astrolabe totem. 

What does this mean? Well, if you don’t know the lore and backstory behind Mordred/the Binary Bard, or need a refresher, go check it out on the Poptropica Wiki. I’ll still summarize it for you below.

♠ Mordred was a brilliant scientist and inventor in the Kingdom of Arturus. One day, he began experimenting with combining animal DNA with robotics, creating animal-robot hybrids. Most notably, he created Merlin the owl, his closest companion. The king and queen of Arturus found his work obscene and blasphemous and banned such practices, and then jailed him. Mordred escaped, however, and continued his work in secret until the royal forces discovered him. He then fled to space, leaving everything behind, and was thought dead. ♠ Flash forward several years. At some point, Mordred had attached robotic parts to himself and took on the name Binary Bard, and was universally known for attacking planets. The princess of Arturus joined a secret society of Mordred followers/worshipers who believed Mordred was still alive and had been right in his experiments. She began exchanging letters with Mordred, now known as the Binary Bard. The Binary Bard sent five space crafts to attack the kingdom and kidnap the princess, and was successful, leaving Arturus princessless, distraught, and in ruins. The king and queen sent out three knights to seek out the princess, but they never returned. ♠ Shortly after this, your player (who I will call Bronze, after my own character, Bronze Hamburger) arrived in Arturus and was tasked with bringing the princess and the knights home. Bronze found and befriended Merlin and managed to get into space. There, he met aliens who warned him of the Binary Bard and equipped him with a ship that would carry him to three particular planets. After visiting each and rescuing the knights there, Bronze discovered an asteroid that housed the key to Mordred's Fortress, a temple in another dimension. He traveled there, and the Binary Bard pretended to be the princess to steal Bronze’s weapons. Fortunately, Merlin betrayed the Bard and helped Bronze save the princess. Bronze, Merlin, the Princess, and the three knights departed from that place, locking the Binary Bard alone in his extra-dimensional prison forever.

So, using the context of Mordred’s past, we can extrapolate a meaning to his Super Villain Island dream. As a refresher: When you enter Mordred’s dream, he is sitting on a tall chair beside a door that opens and shuts rapidly, blocking any access. He wails to you (something along the lines of), “I’m trapped in this room. This door seems to have a mind of its own!” When you freeze time, he exclaims that you are brilliant and yeets through the door. You then make your way through more doors and some floating platforms (the background is spacey here) until you reach him for the boss battle. You see him complete his transformation into the Binary Bard in the center of a large clock, and you must freeze time when the clock hands are at certain positions in order to electrocute and defeat him. He fades away and drops his astrolabe totem.

► The presence of the door (I’m using the third paragraph of the door section here) very clearly symbolizes Mordred’s anger when the monarchy of Arturus banned his innovation and jailed him for carrying it out. This is the simplest of the symbols to analyze, so we started here. Get ready to dive in. ► To interpret the aspect of freezing time, I had to extract elements from the section on time and the section on “frozen” and combine them. A frozen something represents either a coldness/bitterness toward that something or the repression/denial of that something. Time represents fear of not being able to cope, aging, or anxiety [about time running out]. Everything I could think of in this regards related to him having a refusal to move forward. I have a few takes on what this could mean specifically. [1] It reflects his refusal to move on from his blasphemous experimentation in spite of the monarchy’s laws; perhaps out of some fear (fear of the unknown? Fear of letting go? I wonder where that developed, if anywhere at all...), but perhaps not. He held onto his experiments and even applied them to his own body. [2] It reflects a fear of growing old. We do not know precisely when or why the Binary Bard made himself half-cybernetic, so it’s possible that he did this to extend his lifespan. This may have been so that he could have more time enact his revenge on Arturus. [3] It reflects his grudge-holding. After being jailed, his intentions turned dark. Even after fleeing Arturus, he continued to take out his rage and terrorize other planets; the residents of Pewter Moon attribute their state of ruin to an attack from him that was made prior to the one on Arturus, and cite that he is a well-known space terrorist. All of these ultimately fall under a “refusal to move forward” umbrella. ► Okay, the clock ties in somewhat with the frozen time. It signifies anxiety about time progressing/running out, deadlines, rut, lack of progression, or -- most interestingly -- the human heart/emotional side of life. There are a lot of facets to this, so I’m gonna try to keep each one short. I already covered the anxiety about time passing in the paragraph above, and deadlines ties into that closely. The rut part is something to dive into, but I will come back to it. The human heart/emotions part is particularly noteworthy because the scene featuring the clock is the scene in which the Bard completes his transformation from human to half-human. Dreammoods.com specifically states that “clocks symbolize the ticking of the human heart and thus is indicative of the emotional side of your life.” I am lead to believe that this clock -- taking into account the fact that he transforms inside the clock and that the clock is his demise -- reflects that Mordred is repressing his true emotions (possibly hurt, betrayal, etc) and replacing them with feelings of rage and lashing out at the world.  Now, back to the rut. According to Dreammoods.com, a backwards-moving clock “parallels the way that your life is going. Instead of moving forward and progressing toward your goals, you feel that you have not made any significant accomplishments. You feel you are stuck in a rut.” Allow me to first point out that the “moving forward and progressing” aspect ties right back into my analyses of frozen time and of the clock, affirming the hypotheses. In the 10/10 segue of the century, I’m going to analyze this along with the electrocution. ► It’s when you electrocute the Bard that the clock hands reverse their direction. Electrocution represents impending disaster, fear of consequences for one’s actions, and a lack of awareness of one’s surroundings. When electrocution, reversed clock, and the circumstances are put together, this is what you’re left with: Binary Bard’s own fears, self-importance, and narrow-sightedness are getting in the way of his progression as a person (of his moving on) and will lead to his demise in the end. ► I ended up going a bit out of order, because I started to debate whether space was really relevant; it could just be a reflection of his lore in a literal sense. However, it’s worth noting that space represents independent thinking, which could tie into the narrow-sightedness/lack of awareness of his surroundings from the electrocution symbol.

Put in the context of his lore/backstory, everything within Mordred’s dream makes sense from a character standpoint. The symbols align with his position, internal conflict, and emotions. 

And this is just my take. You don’t have to believe that dreams mean any of this stuff; you don’t have to have interpreted it the same way I did (I’d love to hear y’all’s interpretations of things!). I love this character a lot. On many levels, I relate to him-- high intelligence, being repressed by others, trouble letting go of grudges, covering up own emotions, and being nonbinary (that’s canon to me. Let me have this in peace without quarreling about it). My love for both this character and psychology (the analysis of dreams especially) are what prompted me to dig deep into this topic. I’d be happy to know what you think, how you interpret it, and whatever else you have to say!

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

um..... she does not look sad at all

in fact, she looks almost too happy

um... ok, Sir Pelleas XD

fiery dude, aren’t you?

[poptrippin]

And here's an asshole of a boyo known as Arlotto Roland!

He is like the fourth knight you can see on Astro Knights Island and serves the Arturus Kingdom. He close with the other 3 knights, but is distant with the royalty.

Anyways, his whole plot is is that he ends up dying by a black knight that had recently become a menace. Everyone mourns for his death, but the black knight still continues to fight the kingdom. The knights are captured by the black knight and reveals himself to be Roland and that his death was fake. He then hypnotizes Gawain, Cador, and Pelleas into becoming apart of the black knight's armada, and the team of knights go to the castle and take over the kingdom. Roland banishes the king, queen, and princess Elyana to 3 different towers and crowns himself king.

So yeah, he bad. He is also full of himself and believes he deserves to be king.

[infectedpaul]

i like hairy girls okay elayna, once becoming queen of arturus, used what she learned in the order to create a new kingdom where sciences and arts collided. soon ships were flying out of arturus to planets across the galaxy to trade, learn about each others cultures, and create relationships that could benefit the galaxy. in a crash landing onto a rocky planet, the right upper part of her face was brutally damaged, partially damaging her brain and losing her eye in the process. she was repaired with cybernetic enhancements. they dont make her immortal but they did greatly improve her overall health.

[fuckyeahasexual]

The Once and Future Queen (2017)

Rani Arturus is a chess prodigy with no plans to be a leader of any sort, let alone QUEEN. After she pulls the legendary sword Excalibur from the stone...well, no backsies. Now she must form a new round table made of friends and family to protect the Earth from an invasion of Fae, who'd like a new planet to call their own. It's magic, romance, adventure, and excitement as old myths reveal themselves to be fake, and new ones cause trouble for everyone!

Was this your fav comic of 2017 you can vote for it in the Ace Choice Awards! Or find other ace filled media here~

[thedeadflag]

Hey, I know genderbend is transphobic and harmful, however, is it always? I ask because, being the comics fan that I am, I've come across a new comics series called The Once and Future Queen, which is a reimagining of the Arthurian myth, and, among the many changes (I haven't read it yet, not even sure if it's out already, so not sure on details), is that Arthur is actually Rani Arturus, a girl. Is that type of genderbend also harmful?

There’s often a tiny bit more flexibility in cases where the ‘canon’ is myth and there’s no set record of the original character/person. But yeah, it’d still be transphobic. King Arthur was a man, so any trait that was changed in such a genderbend is essentialized as female and being asserted as required to be female. And that’s transphobic/cissexist. As I’ve said in past posts, a story can empower one group while harming another, this would be one easy example of propping cis women up while harming trans folks.

Like, almost no media content out there is pure and perfect. You have to decide if it’s worth engaging in. If it’s a series you’re interested in, you wouldn’t be a horrible, heinous person if you check it out. Just remain mindful and openly critical of the issues with it, recognize that harm, and move forward.