Apolloing their Art

He/She- Canadian Artist (no commissions)- History, Gaming, Mythology, musical theatre and dnd - KCD2, Dragon age, BG3, Skyrim, Fallout - Gothic Literature, Fantasy, and alternative history. French Revolution 🤤🤤🤤

[apolloarting]

Why are you so gay and disturbing?

Instead of answering, here is a picture of Henry and Hans passionately making out but they are pirates

[maxispaxis]

RAGEBAITER VS RAGEBAITEE

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I hate joining fandoms and not having ships I fw

[freysai]

:(

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... I'm buying the book now

[autiacorart]

anyway

[pollsforadults]

You get transported into the universe of the last media you consumed. How are you doing?

This is better than my real life

I'm doing well

I'm doing fine

I'm not having a good time

I'm absolutely cooked

There is nothing different about this universe and my own

Voting ended onMay 29

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Ac2? So like im probably fine if I dont die from disease and don't get involved with the whole assassin templar war

[plantemane]

Fandom troubles: When people take Criticism as Hate.

I’ve been in many fandoms and whatnot over my many years being on the internet, and this is just one of those things I’ve seen too many times. It’s comically stupid when they misinterpret criticism as hate for whatever media it may be that is the topic of discussion. It’s fine to like whatever you like with your whole heart but it’s another thing to take personal offence to valid criticism. It’s pretty important to think critically on what you love, because all media is made by humans who aren’t perfect.

Like how I love Assassin’s Creed Unity. Great game, I love the setting… BUT there is some issues I have with the story. Does that mean I hate it? No. Actually I find the choices kinda funny and it adds to the entertainment. I mean have you seen how they characterize Saint Just? COMICALLY EVIL SJ REAL!! Him and his HUMAN SKIN jacket (whyyy??? LMAO) They didn’t even really give him a personalized model lmao, the poor guy. Not to mention Robespierre… that is not my Robespierre. Why’s he so tall??? At least he’s got his stupid (affectionate) little outfit. Along side all this, you are forced to be friends with none other than Napoleon (🤢/j) dun dun dunnnnn!! The point is, I still like this game despite that all.

Look, the internet is a wild and sometimes stupid place. Sometimes you just gotta realize some people are just full of shit. Don’t take their shit, there’s plenty of normal people out there.

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In your heart shall burn in a nutshell

[telumendils]

and fuck THIS fuckass hinterlands fade rift in particular!!!!

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I thought my party was strong enough for it.

They were not

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Sir Tristan's Hunt

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Mmm dragon age 🤤🤤🤤

[what-even-is-thiss]

So many people who wanna argue with me about King Arthur clearly haven’t read the actual medieval texts. I know this because if they actually read the source material they’d know that when it comes to King Arthur, everything is made up and the points don’t matter.

[what-even-is-thiss]

“King Arthur couldn’t have fought the Roman Empire”

Try telling that to Geoffrey of Monmouth.

[what-even-is-thiss]

“You can’t just add in new characters”

Try telling that to Chrétien de Troyes. Aka the guy who invented Lancelot.

“Arthurian canon isn’t French”

Clearly you don’t own an air fryer. Also clearly you haven’t read literally anything written after the Norman invasion.

“Arthur needs to be a knight in shining armor”

If he lived at all he lived almost a thousand years before widespread adaption of plate armor.

“He can’t be in plate armor because that’s anachronistic”

Try telling that to Thomas Mallory.

“The fairy stuff is leftover from Celtic myth/Celtic gods)

A lot of that stuff including the lady of the lake wasn’t added until the 12th century actually. Centuries after England was christianized. It was also mostly added by the French poets.

[what-even-is-thiss]

God, I sure hope so.

[theseafaringotaku]

Generations from now young readers will be in awe reading the tales of King Arthur and his trusty coconut-wielding servant, Patsy.

[honzlovci]

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[amphibimations]

I have been reading more arthurian stories but the thing i’m most obsessed with is Perceval by Chrétien de Troyes.

Perceval is like…. what if you had a medieval knight but he was a stupid teenager with ADHD who is also a mary sue that can kill everyone in a single hit and is the best at being a knight with zero training. He gets scared of the sounds of metal armor and thinks its demons coming after him. He doesn’t know his own name until like 3,000 lines into the poem and even then he’s just guessing what his name is and somehow gets it right. He seems to love his mom and always talks about her but he also saw her faint one time and was just like ‘oh well, that’s probably fine. I’m leaving.’ ..???????

Ive only seen like 5 posts on tumblr about perceval i need everyone to read perceval i am begging you please please please please please please please please please plea-

Online english translation (rhyming): https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/DeTroyesPercevalPartI.php

Online pdf of english translation (non-rhyming): https://dl1.cuni.cz/pluginfile.php/1073652/mod_resource/content/1/Chrétien%20de%20TROYES%2C%20Perceval%2C%20The%20story%20of%20the%20grail%3B%20Raffel.pdf

[plantemane]

So it’s come to my attention that Saintjustitude is stalking my account? I have them blocked for a reason, cause like they’re awful. And like my friend said they like spreading lies? Why is he starting beef with me, if it just cause I don’t think they should harass people online? Apparently he’s bullied a ton of people out of the fandom. But I won’t let some sad sack bully me out of my interests. As it is said: if you don’t trust their advice why would you trust their criticism? I don’t need approval from somebody so hell bent on harassing somebody who has nothing and wants nothing to do with them.

I take bullying and harassment very seriously. I come from a family of social workers, I also have personal experiences with bullying in fandom spaces. When I was in high school I also lost a loved one to bullying. It’s something I never want to experience again. I really love this fandom and this person is clearly harming its vitality, so maybe we should have a conversation about this.

[gawrkin]

(Source: Peredur son of Efrawg)

I think it's interesting to note how in other versions of Percival, the first set of knights Percival meets are merely random riders he assumes are divine beings (to highlight how sheltered young Percival is).

But in Peredur, the knights encountered are the major characters of Arthur's court, with the first person Percival/Peredur talks to being Ywain/Owain, the protagonist of Knight of the Lion/Lady of the Fountain.

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I love sir Percival so much