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Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

patrochilles-or-bust

Yes, nonblack people can reblog. I'd appreciate it, in fact, if y'all took the time to vocally support your Black friends/fans in fandom.

ofroseandivory

"dulcinea" is such a perfect name for her.

i know that tasmyn muir is damn good with words, but this naming is honestly next-level; maybe i'm reading too much into it, but i love it anyway.

"dulcinea" just fits her so well. it shares a beginning with "dulcet" - something sweet, pleasant, and usually referring to sound (and we all know dulcinea loves to yap, lol). the ending of the name brings to mind nature and femininity, because the suffix "-inea" is latin (as a lot of terms in tlt tend to be, at least in root) and refers to both feminine nouns or animal subclasses. dulcinea as a character is sweet and chatty and feminine and also vaguely animalistic - dripping with blood and smiling through it.

daydreamhoneybee

I'm sorry to burst your– bubble, but I'm afraid Dulcinea is more likely a direct reference to Dulcinea del Toboso, a fictional character within the fictional world of Miguel de Cervantes' classic novel Don Quixote. She is the imagined damsel in distress that Don Quixote wants to save and then wed, nevermind that she was invented by him and has no plans to begin existing anytime soon. From Dulcinea del Toboso then emerged the French word dulcinée. Vulgarly, dulcinée means fiancée, bride-to-be, or even bride/wife. However, in the abstract (and owing to its literary origins), one's dulcinée is the woman that, from one's perspective, one ought to save or ravish, and then wed as a matter of course (falling in love preferred but optional). The dulcet etymology is of course correct, and I suspect Miguel de Cervantes had much the same line of thinking when he came up, but I have every reason to believe Muir was referencing the character directly rather than its Latin roots.

Now circling back to Don Quixote, the novel was a satirical spin on the courtly love (or fin'amor) genre of literature wherein a noble knight spends ungodly amounts of time pining for "his lady" (his dulcinée, one might say). Said lady is usually already promised/wedded to the knight's lord; and the knight's love is thus never meant to be, nor will the knight ever attempt to do anything untoward– well, towards his lady. In lieu of courtship, which would be tantamount to high treason towards one's lord, the knight will set out to accomplish nebulously defined exploits, which he will dedicate to his lady– or better yet, to his lady's honor, in the hopes that she will notice him, so to speak, and acknowledge his love (which is as frisky as it gets before polite society begins to frown at the noble knight). The knight will then ideally die honourably in quest or combat with his lady's name on his lips. As mentioned, actually courting one's lady is the biggest taboo there is in fin'amor – although stories like Tristan and Iseult suggest that this ideal of the pure courtly love might not have been all that and a bag of potato chips – given how jovially that story shatter that taboo by having the knight actually court and win the heart of his lady, whom in turn cheats on her husband (which is way more agency that a woman ought to have, thank you very much).

[Aside within an aside within an aside, but since we're in good company, I want to point out that Tristan and Iseult is almost surely the blueprint and whole root cause to that trope wherein a lesbian knight wins the favour of her lady (and oftentime gets to have raw euphoric cataclysmically cathartic sex as a reward) after years and years of emotional repression and pining and dedicating exploits and feats to her— now where did I hear all this again? OH RIGHT, FRONTLINE TITTIES OF THE FIFTH (still not a real publication).]

Friends, It is with no little dread that I break the news to you: cavaliers and adept pairs are spiritually French. Cavalier (french word meaning horserider and often conflated with chevalier– literally knight) and necromancer (no etymological link to lady, I'm afraid) are to form a pair wherein each person works for the other, and both people work as a whole. A delicate balance of love and affection and mutual respect and fusional codependency in which romance and sex are taboo. From what we know, Marta was the perfect cav, and so would she have been an exemplary fin'amor knight. Judith, ironically, is the secrelty immensely horny lady of the lesbian knight trope (the juxtaposition of which makes that pair particularly delightful). Camilla and Palamedes are straight from a milder variety of lesbian knight trope, and Gideon has no regard for courtly etiquette, but she makes for a very solid knight protector (not fin'amor tho, not towards Harrowhark), not that Harrowhark is much of a lady at all although they both score full points for repression. It's no always so straightforward as to be a one-to-one equivalent, though: whatever the Third or the Eighth have going on is not like to fit in any permutation of any of these archetypes anytime soon, so let's not jump to conclusions.

Let us, however, finally pay off this whole setup: under this lens, what archetype would Dulcinea be? To whom? What would Cytherea be? Here's my take:

To Dulcinea, Palamedes is her Tristan and Camilla is her noble knight, maybe her Tristan also.

To Camilla, Dulcinea is her lady, no questions asked.

To Palamedes, Dulcinea is his dulcinée.

To Gideon, Cytherea is her lady, and they make for the perfect fin'amor pair on the surface, but in reality... Well by now you surely get that "Dulcinea" is her very own Dulcinea del Toboso.

Sorry for making y'all learn French literature

the-bedheaded-league

It’s 2025. BBC Sherlock ended 8 years ago. The last season was so bad the fans didn’t even want to talk about it when it came out. Occasionally a post resurfaces where we all laugh at struggling to plug our phones in and being called alcoholics. Every time, there are more and more people in the comments who don’t get the joke. There are two currently airing Sherlock Holmes audio dramas that both portray a queer Holmes (as well as several other excellent queer characters), and one of them now has Holmes and Watson in a canonical romantic relationship. There’s an adorable crowdfunded short film where Watson plans Holmes’ birthday party and they flirt with each other, share a bed, plan their retirement, and kiss on the mouth. A video game about retired beekeeper Holmes just released where he arranges a romantic picnic so he can finally tell Watson how he feels. A popular graphic novelist just released the first part of a queer comic book retelling of the complete Holmes canon and had to do several rounds of preorders because she kept selling out too fast. Sherlock is garbage and here’s why has 15 million views on YouTube. Nature is healing. ❤️🐝

Edit bc I forgot to drop the names: The podcasts are Sherlock & Co and Fawx & Stallion aka @224bbaker (the one with the canon gay relationship.) The short film is called The Adventure of the Furtive Festivity and it's on youtube. The video game is @beekeeperspicnic and it's on Steam. The graphic novel series is by Molly Knox Ostertag, aka @contact-guy) Please feel free to drop any other queer Holmes adaptations I may be missing.

dorkymirage

i held my pen and my heart said… phyuri

ink-the-artist

the long awaited sequel

ink-the-artist

just-your-average-shiz-student

❝You make me melt. Those eyes are greener than the trees that give me oxygen to breathe, yet leave me breathless…❞ – I M U R

i-know-the-enddc

what I fucking love is how tvl was written in the 80s and lestat is constantly sayinf shit like “as the kids say 🤪 that’s so rad!!” or whatever, and to me, reader of the vampire lestat in this modern age, that does NOT register the way anne rice intended it.

like it is supposed to feel jarring and insane. it is supposed to feel like lestat has been violently submerged in modern young people trends and culture and is now repeating all the new words he learned like a beautiful fresh baby. but because the book is from 1985, all I think is oh interesting huh I didn’t know that slang term even originated in the 80s how vintage how retro how lestat wow he’s so embarrassing aw aw so cute.

but amc in all their incredible genius decided that honoring anne rice’s original vision of writing an extremely modern and weird book that fully embodied the era it was written in was more important then bringing back the 80s nostalgia thing that streaming services love and it’s incredible to me. now I get to listen to lestat say shit like “labubu FOMO cosplay reddit discord Gen Z more like gen SNOOZE 🤪🤪🤪 safe space pronouns donald trump labubu tiktok dance 🕺🏻” and suddenly I understand what it felt like to be a young anne rice reader in 1985. God…. I understand.

kimwxller

I am the vampire Madeleine Eparvier. And my immortal companion is Claudia. My coven is Claudia.

maybemayii

Jacob Anderson talking about the icons that shaped his Louis — Grace Jones & Eartha Kitt (Part ll)

esarity11

how daniel molloy feels after trying to conduct an accurate interview about vampires, but his subjects are louis de pointe du lack of information, lestat de lyingcourt, armanipulator, and claudead.

prettysheepy

Daily reminder to protect and love your gender non-conforming, gender fluid, agender, trans and any and all genderqueer partners, mutuals and friends. You just have to, they need us more than ever.