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Hear me out: Muppets Bloodborne
It's about uncovering the truth about Lady Maria and the Doll, who is played by Anya Taylor-Joy
Everyone else is Muppets
Miss Piggy is Eileen
Gonzo is Gerhman
Kermit is the Hunter
Beaker is Micolash
Fozzie Bear is Master Willem
I am glad to have contributed to Beaker as Micolash in this discourse on Bluesky. I am 10/10 enamoured with this idea, Sony and Disney should give us the money and licenses to make this happen
The fun thing about Queer as an identifier is they cant chop you off or reorganize you into obscurity. Queer is for everyone. You cant cut the T off of a Q.
Legitimately this is exactly why “queer is a slur” is a TERF dog whistle. They don’t want people reclaiming queer because queer is too inclusive for them to easily exclude people
This is the fucking energy I love. Pretty much a reason I started using Queer as a general descriptor for myself, being trans and bi. I will fight the terfs. They can try to divide us, and they will fucking lose that fight.
MJQuigley published a post on Ko-fi
I present my third chapter for Alchemist of the Red Rose. Like the last chapter, it is filled with snark and sarcasm. Two people forced together by the state, a girl who hates her handler, will he be able to win her over? or will she continue to be frustrated with his antics. Their hunt for the Philosopher's stone will soon begin in earnest.
This is sort of my transgender answer to an manga I loved. FMA, has been a massive influence on this.- The dynamics, top notch, the politics, well, I put them on my sleeve.
MJQuigley published a post on Ko-fi
Sharing some more stuff, this was a bit of flash fiction I worked on based on the prompt in the image. The Words are Hard prompt deck from freewrite is fantastic, and has been a great way to mess around and experiment with ideas. I can recommend it. This piece, focuses on a mecha pilot, having a battle while she only has 3 minutes of oxygen in the suit.
Alchemists of the Red Rose
So I had this idea and starting writing a prologue, with concepts borrowing form FMA, a Manga and Anime Series I absolutely adore.-
"She dulled the lights in that secluded basement, an artificial twilight to shroud the actions she was about to commit, breaking unjust laws. Her hand traced over her leather-bound journal, months of alchemical research, months of hiding it, now to see if it could finally be done. She took several steps into the centre of the room, now standing at the centre of the circle that she spent what felt like an age drawing out, making sure it was perfect.
She gazed into the mirror that stood against the wall she faced from the centre of the circle, staring at an imperfect reflection, an illusion hiding the truth of the person that stood before it. She cautiously cast aside her robe, to be greeted by a nudity that indicated the very opposite of womanhood, the discomfort from that very notion constantly filling her with a great sadness, but now that would all change."
I did something with this, which was actually write the whole prologue and make it available on KoFi. It was described by a writer friend of mine as intense and an interesting choice for an opening. But I want to share this with the world, and will hopefully be serialising it.
https://ko-fi.com/post/Alchemist-of-the-Red-Rose-Prologue-D1D2LE1EB?fromEditor=true
MJQuigley published a post on Ko-fi
Time for another reblog on this, I've got the first chapter edited and polished.- And now that is up on KoFi for people to enjoy. Julis, our protaganist finds herself languishing imprisoned for a bullshit offence. She is presented with an offer for her freedom, is the price worth it?
MJQuigley published a post on Ko-fi
I give you another reblog of this thread, as it gets longer and more obnoxious. But behold, Chapter 2 is now available on my KoFi, its snarky, anti-monarchy and has the most obnoxious man in existence, a blonde entitled pretty boy. Julis may just begin plotting to murder him if she has to listen to him harp on much longer. Feigned pleasantries will become a pillar of their relationship.
Alchemists of the Red Rose
So I had this idea and starting writing a prologue, with concepts borrowing form FMA, a Manga and Anime Series I absolutely adore.-
"She dulled the lights in that secluded basement, an artificial twilight to shroud the actions she was about to commit, breaking unjust laws. Her hand traced over her leather-bound journal, months of alchemical research, months of hiding it, now to see if it could finally be done. She took several steps into the centre of the room, now standing at the centre of the circle that she spent what felt like an age drawing out, making sure it was perfect.
She gazed into the mirror that stood against the wall she faced from the centre of the circle, staring at an imperfect reflection, an illusion hiding the truth of the person that stood before it. She cautiously cast aside her robe, to be greeted by a nudity that indicated the very opposite of womanhood, the discomfort from that very notion constantly filling her with a great sadness, but now that would all change."
I did something with this, which was actually write the whole prologue and make it available on KoFi. It was described by a writer friend of mine as intense and an interesting choice for an opening. But I want to share this with the world, and will hopefully be serialising it.
https://ko-fi.com/post/Alchemist-of-the-Red-Rose-Prologue-D1D2LE1EB?fromEditor=true
MJQuigley published a post on Ko-fi
Time for another reblog on this, I've got the first chapter edited and polished.- And now that is up on KoFi for people to enjoy. Julis, our protaganist finds herself languishing imprisoned for a bullshit offence. She is presented with an offer for her freedom, is the price worth it?
MJQuigley published a post on Ko-fi
Last year I wrote a short story about Mordred and Morgan Le Fae, it was intended to be submitted to something but I missed the deadline, but I have been pretty happy with it. So I've shared it on KoFi,
Alchemists of the Red Rose
So I had this idea and starting writing a prologue, with concepts borrowing form FMA, a Manga and Anime Series I absolutely adore.-
"She dulled the lights in that secluded basement, an artificial twilight to shroud the actions she was about to commit, breaking unjust laws. Her hand traced over her leather-bound journal, months of alchemical research, months of hiding it, now to see if it could finally be done. She took several steps into the centre of the room, now standing at the centre of the circle that she spent what felt like an age drawing out, making sure it was perfect.
She gazed into the mirror that stood against the wall she faced from the centre of the circle, staring at an imperfect reflection, an illusion hiding the truth of the person that stood before it. She cautiously cast aside her robe, to be greeted by a nudity that indicated the very opposite of womanhood, the discomfort from that very notion constantly filling her with a great sadness, but now that would all change."
I did something with this, which was actually write the whole prologue and make it available on KoFi. It was described by a writer friend of mine as intense and an interesting choice for an opening. But I want to share this with the world, and will hopefully be serialising it.
https://ko-fi.com/post/Alchemist-of-the-Red-Rose-Prologue-D1D2LE1EB?fromEditor=true
I am lowkey obsessed with Nosferatu right now, I saw it around a week ago and it just has been stuck on my mind. Every shot in that film was beautiful and artistic, like Robert Eggers really knew his vision.- It has like drawn me back into wanting to read more gothic fiction, and immerse myself in that area of liteature and write more gothic stories about being transfem
Returning to Tumblr proper
So its been a while since I've been on Tumblr, but I have been thinking about making more use of my blog here.- Posting more long form stuff and just posting more in general, like extracts of my writing that I wanna share, my thoughts on writing and being trans. As for the past like year and a bit, I have been focusing on getting my draft of my Novel Humanity's Grave ready for editing and refining, as this is the year I want to achieve so many things with writing and one of them is to finally be on the road to publishing. So I want to share that journey a bit more Also AMA me, no limits really,
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I am lowkey obsessed with Nosferatu right now, I saw it around a week ago and it just has been stuck on my mind. Every shot in that film was beautiful and artistic, like Robert Eggers really knew his vision.- It has like drawn me back into wanting to read more gothic fiction, and immerse myself in that area of liteature and write more gothic stories about being transfem
I know adverbs are controversial, but "said softly" means something different than "whispered" and this is the hill I will die on.
I shall never get the controversy around adverbs in creative writing, they add flavour and texture to the writing.
Alchemists of the Red Rose
So I had this idea and starting writing a prologue, with concepts borrowing form FMA, a Manga and Anime Series I absolutely adore.-
"She dulled the lights in that secluded basement, an artificial twilight to shroud the actions she was about to commit, breaking unjust laws. Her hand traced over her leather-bound journal, months of alchemical research, months of hiding it, now to see if it could finally be done. She took several steps into the centre of the room, now standing at the centre of the circle that she spent what felt like an age drawing out, making sure it was perfect.
She gazed into the mirror that stood against the wall she faced from the centre of the circle, staring at an imperfect reflection, an illusion hiding the truth of the person that stood before it. She cautiously cast aside her robe, to be greeted by a nudity that indicated the very opposite of womanhood, the discomfort from that very notion constantly filling her with a great sadness, but now that would all change."
Last weekend, I came out to my parents as a trans girl. So now it's all about moving forward, getting hormones, dealing with publicly presenting as feminine, but it does feel like a great pressure has been lifted.
The thing I love about Arthurian mythology is that it's basically entirely made up of fanfiction, and nobody seems to grasp exactly what that means.
Look, as far as we know, the first King Arthur accounts were at least slightly meant to be historical. So either there was a guy named Arthur at around that time, who may or may not have been anything like the Arthur of legend, or some monk couldn't remember who really fought in that battle and just went "well, Arthur's a nice name. And, let's see, he killed... 900 men."
And then people started writing RPF about this guy, and Geoffrey of Monmouth's version got so popular that people started writing fanfic of that specifically, and then some of that got so popular (particularly with new OCs like Lancelot and Galahad) that they started writing fanfiction of that, and it all just spiralled from there.
And the thing nobody seems to get is that this means that there is no canon.
Like, technically you can't claim that any piece of writing about Camelot is more valid than any other, because there's no single, accepted, 'true author' and there's no original text (at least not one that contains everything everyone would like it to) and the entire thing is just a fucking mess of people enjoying themselves and writing about these characters because they like them and they can.
So like, Gawain and the Green Knight is canon, but so is BBC's Merlin. And the Vulgate cycle. And Disney's Sword in the Stone. There is genuinely no reason to claim that any one of these is less 'canon' than the others, because there is only fanon here.
Seriously, you could go away right now and write a fic in which Lancelot fucks a dragon, and if enough people like it then it will just become canon. It will just be an established fact of Arthurian mythology that Lancelot fucked a dragon (à la Donkey from Shrek) at some point.
And I really don't know why we don't take more advantage of this.
Okay but, BUT the reason behind this is really fascinating.
The Catholic church had declared novels to be immoral. If you wrote a piece of original fiction then you were sinning and therefore going to hell.
So what do you do? You don’t write a new novel, you “discover” an “old tale.”
So you had the accounts of “King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table” and now, whenever you want to write a story about a knight going on a valiant quest? Well, just make him one of Arthur’s knights, and if none of them fit just say that it’s a different knight no one else had found the legends of before.
Robin Hood was the same way, the story was designed to sound like it was a plausible tale that had been buried or forgotten and recently rediscovered.
First, the censorship of books by the Catholic Church wasn't a thing until around 1559 with the first Index Librorum Prohibitorum. You have to remember that we didn't even have widespread publication until after Gutenberg's printing press in the late 1400's. The majority of English speaking people couldn't read the books that were in Latin, Italian, French, German, etc.
Second, novels as we know them today weren't really prevalent until around Georgian England (we're talking Jane Austen era) and were considered something for women (because real men™ read and write poetry!)
The story of Robin Hood started out as folk ballads about a local hero. Scholars still debate about whether he was a real person or not. The first accounts we have (mentioned in "Piers Plowman" and most famously in several versions of "A Geste of Robin Hode") he was closer to "middle class" (i.e not upper class Robin of Locksley knight), and was an outlaw.
OK, now that we've gotten that out of the way, it is unlikely that contemporaries of Geoffrey of Monmouth believed his Historia regum Britanniae was to be taken as true history. There are also (gasp!) several different versions of the text (215, btw), so even when you pick up a copy today, that's only a selection of Geoffrey's writing, or shall we say, canon. The work itself is similar to Vergil's Aeneid, which Caesar Augustus commissioned to cement the Roman people's origins and rights to Italy. Geoffrey, likewise, wrote patriotically about the history of Britain's kings, after the death of Henry I. Even the great Icelandic sagas attempt historicity by listing off generations of lineages to solidify their "truth". It is far from uncommon during this period to embellish; in fact, it is a stylistic choice. The French Song of Roland (considered one of the first chason de geste, medieval romance) plays with historical realism in it's telling of the days of Charlemagne. The Castillion Song of Cid is based on a true story as well. It's a style, not an attempt to make stories to get around censorship. Geoffrey, by the way, was a Catholic cleric and in Historia says an archdeacon gave him some of his source material.
Back to the OP's point, there isn't one canon in Arthurian legend and everyone copies off each other, right Steinbeck? And you too T.H. White! Mark Twain! Self-insert OC? I see you, Chrètien. That's one of the many reasons why Arthurian studies is so broad, exciting, and there's always something new to study!
This, exactly this, is part of the goals with my Arthurian legend retelling. To mess with the canon and get it totally accepted, a tale of identity, romance and hot knights. No one can say, that it isn't a valid interpretation, cause we have no actual idea about whether these knights were real people.
Some people are going to have some really hot takes about my work in the end, but it is going to be glorious and messy. Mordred, shall be my disaster knight and urgh, I cannot wait to start writing this.
