Did You Collaboratively Write A Work Of Fiction With Your Middle School Best Friend That Profoundly Affects

lancelot talks to lesbian nuns and investigates a murder chapter 4

god im too tired to articulate this but the consistent attention to guinevere and gawain’s friendship in the dutch texts??? hhhhhhhhhh. like it makes so much sense cause they both came to camelot as teenagers in ways which were not of their choosing, they are both very political characters, and especially in the dutch texts they’re the ones controlling the court and especially controlling arthur (which is also the case with gawain in the vulgate->malory tradition as well). but i havent seen many other instances in other traditions of the kind of details the dutch put in. in die wrake gawain steals a dog for guinevere because he thinks she would like it (this might be in the vengeance, idk, i havent forced myself to trek through the old french yet and theres no translation). in lancelot and the hart with the white foot it’s mentioned that gawain and guinevere are hanging out specifically without arthur. in walewein ende keye gawain sends his vanquished foes to guinevere and not arthur. and it also ties in to the really complex court intrigue going on in dutch camelot (which im making a more formal post about so i wont go into here) but also aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh they are frieeeeeeeends. they ARE the queer trans disney channel original movie villains we all deserve. they are mean and awful and bully arthur canonically. they own my whole heart

Poppy fields in Umbria, Italy.

“He slid into the skin of a solitary Satan as though he had never enjoyed the flourish of language, the delights of civil power. It was war, now. Naked and bloody.”

- Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake

Yeah so according to @gawain-in-green this quote from Gormenghast is very unhinged-Gawain-core (I agree). I’m not very experienced at comics but I’m actually very into this one thank you for looking at it <333 gawain…. blood…. kissing…. archways… favorite things to draw

(btw if anyone ever wants requests for art or like. writing. please send in ask box i would die for you)

Ghosts or something like that. 

Proposition: your Lancelot doing something Holy Grail Lancelot does (your choice)

*ruins a wedding* *ruins a wedding* *ruins a-

Gawain: the one I kiss is the green knight

Arthur: you can just point him out

Gawain: *putting on lip balm* I don't tell you how to do your job

its like… i totally know that doing the lineless painting thing makes my art look worse than it would normally (not that it normally looks particularly good) but i do think its important to practice and i know that 3 months ago making that drawing look at all like a human person would have been a stretch, so i am still proud even though it doesnt look good. ya know. like hey i ABSOLUTELY improved even if im not good.

After they had cut off his head, They cut off all his limbs. They so disfigured the body That neither foot nor finger was left.

(L’Atre Perilleux, ~1200)

Camelot’s Politics in the Dutch Tradition

Wanna write Arthurian court intrigue? Boy howdy do the Dutch texts have some great content for that! So here are my collected notes on the wild wild court intrigue going on in Kardoel.

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