Monsters, Kings & Saints

Sàga // 30 // Queer Celticist // Lover of Monsters // Raiser of The Dead // Writer of Nonsense // They/Them main: deadkings-x

[deadkings-x]

[deadkings-x]

the thesis is going fine why do you ask?

[deadkings-x]

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Theodore Roethke, from “Straw for the fire.”

[dark-romantics]

~ Shakespeare, Macbeth

[deadkings-x]

[baltimorerat]

a 12th century monastic scribe drawing dragons and creatures in the margins while laying on his stomach with his feet kicking in the air like a middle school girl

[shynestar]

[deadkings-x]

There’s a non-zero chance that once I get this dissertation out of the way I’m going to go on an unhinged deep dive into Bricriu and he’s going to become my idiot son and I can SEE it happening. It’s on the distant horizon. I’m not there yet. But I know.

[he-i-mean-they]

sure part of the queer experience is being othered but an even bigger and more powerful part is belonging to the othereds

[dracu-loser]

someone finally put it into words. yeah. being socially alienated is upsetting but it is an entirely unique feeling to look that alienation and say “actually, no. i’m the one rejecting you. i have my own space full of the other people you alienated and it’s even better than what you have going on.”

the sense of belonging you can gain from a group of socially alienated people coming together feels so much like a rebirth that it may as well be one.

[cloudeddemonthoughts]

[deadkings-x]

[deadkings-x]

but what if i just embraced my stupid little idea that the last kingdom series could be* read as a medieval foundation myth and just wrote a whole load of papers on it and made zine or something??? what if??? huh????

*for funsies

[deadkings-x]

So will you wait me out, or will you drown me out?

[huariqueje]

Spirit   -   Mia Bergeron , 2021.

American, b. 1979 -  

Oil and wax on panel ,  10 x 8 in.      25.40 x 20.32 cm.

[langivi]

biggest language wtf moment is when you can understand every single word of a sentence but you still have no idea what it actually means

[deadkings-x]

Who died and made you king of it all?