sunrise on a recursive world

gawain (they/them)🗡🌿 I write a lot, though I spend more time thinking about writing. Icon by @littlestpersimmon, header by @otomokatsuhiro

[corvidfeathers]

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Hi, I’m Gawain! I write original fiction and plays, and sometimes dabble in fic and visual art. I also do swordfighting and printmaking, and occasionally post about them. I love when a piece of media deals with complicated systems of devotion or fealty, weird death situations, or both.

my writing tag

my arthurian work

ao3

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[resismedievalmenagerie]

Here we have a caladrius, who is a sort of mythical bird who lives amongst kings and can heal them by making eye contact and flying toward the sun. Bad news for this dude lounging beside him, though, because they won't look at you if your illness is fatal. Seems kind of rude to me, but that's birds for you. This comes from the 1175 Bestiary.

[yvesdot]

I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted. She was insane, incurably insane from reading novels.

-- an anonymous pastor in 1864, on the greatest threat to young women

[vulcan-moon]

i love you lalah

[wigglybunfish]

"Sorve"

[chacha-tortuga]

wanted to make a mockup of the dvd sleeve i plan on printing but i think i really really like that sketch

[avoicefromgaza]

From a Computer Engineer to Fighting for Survival: Please Do Not Scroll Past My Urgent Appeal 🥺💔

Before this crisis, I was a Computer Engineering graduate from the Islamic University of Gaza. I had a house, a car, a promising career, and a life full of dreams. Now, I am a brother carrying the heavy responsibility of keeping my entire family alive.

I sacrificed absolutely everything before turning to this campaign. I spent my entire life savings and sold every single thing I owned, including my laptop. Out of pure desperation to feed my family, I took a grueling heavy-lifting job that my body couldn't handle. My back broke under the weight, leaving me hospitalized for an entire month.

Today, I am broken and in agonizing pain inside a tent, unable to even stand up on my own feet.

I feel completely helpless because my campaign is moving extremely slow—it doesn't even cover the cost of basic food for my family right now. We are starving, and the slow support is leaving us stranded on the brink of survival.

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Help for Mahmoud and his family

Hi, my name is Max and I am raising funds for Mahmoud and his family who are living in Gaza. Please read his story below:

[ddeck]

when will they invent doctors appointments that dont feel like psychological torture

[corvidfeathers]

feeling deeply distraught over some bullshit that does not matterrrrr

[studentofetherium]

[tyrian-red]

my erotic fanfiction is more historically accurate than yours. here it claims that shes moaning 'yes,' however classical latin didn't have a word that corresponds to Modern English 'yes,' i.e. an affirmative answer to an interrogative. You could have easily avoided this glaring implausibility by allowing her to moan plus, 'more'—as exemplified in my critically acclaimed fic with an unprecedented number of kudos (eleven). I recommend that you log out of AO3 and return only after acquiring satisfactory knowledge of the subject matter.

[mereologic]

classical latin did in fact have an affirmative answer to an interrogative (sic), it's just not a cognate with modern english "yes" which is Germanic. but you probably recognize its modern descendants, spanish sí, italian sí, etc.

anyway how this is relevant to this post is that when Dido commits suicide in book 4 of the Aeneid she says "sic, sic! iuvat ire sub umbras" or "yes, yes! with joy i pass beneath the shadows" while stabbing herself, the allegory of penetration accompanied by shouts of ecstasy leading unto death being an interpretative exercise best left to the reader.

[ellevante]

angel

[deboracabral]

A little reincarnation au to lighten things up

I can’t decide if Gavroche is going to cause a third accident and they’re all going to meet there, or if they’ll have to keep crossing that street until they’ve all met, your pick.

[deboracabral]

I’m working on something but I don’t know if it’s going to be ready on time. Have this from two years ago in the meanwhile.

[strawberry-seal77]

time loop with two people in it but one person refuses to acknowledge the loop and pretends to be looping with everyone else. meanwhile the other person is freaking out

[coast-modern]

isn't it kind of crazy that for any moving vehicle you need to wear a seatbelt but then on buses they're just like fuck it stand up whatever

[apostateapologist]

sometimes two characters are codependently, toxically enmeshed, doomed to mutually define and haunt each other forever. and not fucking.

[medievaljournalist]

i don't mean to alarm ye but i just got word there's about 100 evil as fuck skeletal wizards approaching your location

my ultimate warrior will defend me no matter what