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#pinned #I MADE THIS LIKE A MONTH AGO AND THEN STUCK IT IN MY DRAFTS NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN #OOPS

pmamtraveller

Did you ever kill anybody Father, by Frank Holl (1883)

#art i cant stop thinking about

byjove

Someone said one of the knights of the Round Table should be a samurai on my post about a knight of the week Arthurian legend TV show and I agree. Arthurian legend takes place in the 5th-6th century so several centuries before the samurai class formed fully but the setting is usually portrayed as occurring broadly in the Middle Ages so historical accuracy is nbd. I love the idea of a single proto-samurai leaving Japan and navigating all the way across Eurasia just to end up in King Arthur’s court. We’ve already got Arthurian knights who are canonically North African or Middle Eastern and I think it would be fun to add more non ethnically European knights of the Round Table while including the expectations of what being an honor-bound warrior meant to their specific culture during the Middle Ages.

#king arthur

byjove

The funniest part of A New Hope is that Luke Skywalker is a 19 year old who has not locked in yet and plays with toys and sleeps in his childhood bedroom at his aunt and uncle’s house and Leia Organa is a 19 year old with a mission to save the galaxy from fascism. Luke has never left his hometown, Leia just watched her planet be blown up. He’s peeved his uncle is asking him to do his chores, she’s imprisoned for resisting the government. You relate to them both but they’re on complete opposite sides of the 19 year old life stage spectrum.

slinky-cat

Also Luke is clearly very lonely after his crush and best friend, Biggs, went away to college

byjove

Yes! Some people have misinterpreted this as me insinuating Luke is a wimp but he’s just in a very transitional life phase that is focused on growing and maturing. His friends are growing up and moving on, he’s anxious to join them but isn’t quite ready. He has ambition and goals but he just isn’t in a place where he is able to pursue those goals, he is immature and that isn’t a bad thing. 19 year olds SHOULD be able to ponder their place in the world and which direction they want their life to take. Leia has been in the public eye her entire life, she is a princess, she has been primed for greatness and she has been shouldered with so much responsibility. Luke is just his aunt and uncle’s nephew, they love him and don’t want him to leave, he’s trying to decide what to do.

byjove

He’s like a Midwest farm boy who is dreaming of the big city and she is like an old money New England heiress who has been told since birth she will follow her father’s career path into politics and has been sent to the most competitive schools and enrolled in the most rigorous extracurriculars.

#star wars #luke skywalker #leia organa

maviyenot

#cats

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The King himself took Bisclavret inside, and closed all the doors tight; he returned when the time was done. He brought along two barons, not one. They entered the chamber, all three. On the king's royal bed, they see lying fast asleep, the knight. The king ran to hug him tight; He kissed him a hundred times that day. When he catches his breath, he hands him back all his fiefs and lands, and more presents than I will say.

— “Bisclavret,” Marie de France

#bisclavret

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Werewolf History Project- Medieval

Part 2 of my werewolf history project!

Chose to focus this era's piece on Bisclavret, or the Lay of the Were-Wolf written by Marie of France in the 12th century. It's a very unusual story for its time, where the werewolf is not a force of evil, but sympathetic and cursed. And also smooches the king.

#bisclavret