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So I found it noticeable that "horse" here is "caple," because "horse" in Irish is "capall" and I wondered if they came from the same common ancestor, perhaps a Latin one. I looked it up and apparently the Middle English "caple" is in fact suspected to derive from the Old Irish "capall." I actually never considered the idea of Middle English having Irish-derived words before, but it makes some sense. (Apparently the Irish capall probably comes from the Latin caballus, so "caple" might just be a direct derivation. But both Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary seem fairly confident it comes from the Latin-derived Old Irish word rather than directly from the Latin.)

#sir gawain and the green knight #middle english #medieval romance #medieval literature #arthuriana #arthurian literature

criwes

Portraits by Miguel Laino

It's amusing that griddlehark is obviously a way more fucked up and disturbing ship than harrianthe, but the fandom has made harrianthe's toxicity into a meme while giving griddlehark the sweet soft cuddly treatment. I am convinced this was entirely intentional on Tamsyn Muir's part.

#the locked tomb #griddlehark #harrianthe #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow nonagesimus #harrowhark the first #ianthe tridentarius #ianthe the first #tlt #tamsyn muir

hyperions-fate

The nice thing about this heatwave is that you get to feel like Gilgamesh, prince of Uruk and contemplator of the deep, lost and grieving in the sun-lacerated deserts of bronze age Mesopotamia whilst you're getting the shopping from your local Aldi.

#the epic of gilgamesh

brian-kinney-apologist

wait let’s circle back to that lestat’s millennial fledgling who had to live with him in the ruins of rue royal and watch lestat eat rats that he had to catch for him every night and after lestat throws him out he is like finally that shit is over, worst experience of my life 😩😩 and then BAM his fuckass deadbeat maker is EVERYWHERE, riding luxury cars, living in the best apartments, wearing brand clothes etc etc oh I’d be mad AS FUCK

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #the vampire lestat

transmutationisms

my only real ongoing problem with mad men is i think it has an unfortunate tendency to use its historical setting didactically---by which i mean that often the 'period' details are meant to be read not just by a 21st century audience but according to that audience's own values & assumptions. it's irritating because it robs the characters of a degree of interiority. like the obvious example is the frequent (tho it's not always) tendency to use their drinking and even cigarette smoking to signify their need for escapism or lack of self actualisation or whatever.

it warps the writing to where, like, if something is indeed a period-accurate detail, it becomes almost inaccurate in the sense that it signifies something entirely different to what it more likely meant at the time; a character belongs to the 60s so that we in 2007 can point and say "wow they sure got it wrong :)" which is just, the least interesting thing to say about the past ever. but it's also a much easier road to find yourself wandering down than one that asks you as a writer to examine the internal logic of the past on its own terms, let alone use an archaeology of this sort to problematise something your contemporary audience might be taking for granted or presuming self-evident. it's the difference between period reenactment and historical fiction.

#mad men

agoodhandwriting

The most changeling-coded Wuthering Heights character:

Heathcliff

Catherine Earnshaw

Linton Heathcliff

Other (explain)

Remaining time: 5 days 20 hours

#wuthering heights #heathcliff #catherine earnshaw #cathy earnshaw #linton heathcliff #emily brontë

charlemane

reading the classics is interesting bc sometimes you're like ohhh okay so i can see how this influenced so many other works that came behind it, but the cruel side of its legacy and its fame is that its own offspring have bled it dry, and everything about it that was revelatory at the time now feels overdone because we as modern readers simply cannot experience it with fresh eyes. and then sometimes you read Wuthering Heights and every single atom of it hits just as insane as it did that day that reviewer said Ellis Bell should have killed himself

#wuthering heights #emily brontë

nagi-kirima-style-cateran

I wrote a retelling of Tam Lin inspired by Arthuriana and The Mabinogion

I’d love to know what the Tam Lin fandom on tumblr think of it. The first third is actually taken from Thomas the Rhymer since it’s my long standing belief that the original Celtic myth incorporated both parts to the story.

#oh i like this #tam lin

finelythreadedsky

production of euripides' helen where helen wears a mask that's a mirror

#helen #helen of troy #helen of sparta #euripides #classical greece

nobrashfestivity

Francis Bacon, Blood on the Floor, 1986 Oil and pastel on canvas

taylornprice

tony-the-tigers-juicy-armpit

The UK gets a new prime minister just whenever. Completely random intervals

punkrock-bottom

It may seem random but it’s actually not! We get a new prime minister after the previous one enters a protective chrysalis after a period of relentless eating and growing, and they then dissolve into a biological soup. They then reform into the new adult prime minister. It really beautiful to see 🥰