Kay

Dark Academia Tolkien Enjoyer

[quidam-sirenae]

Ok this may be a very unpopular way to interpret this dynamic but I've been really into trans!Percival/Galahad because you have the normal Catholic guilt but you also have the fear of being perceived as a woman or perceived as submissive on Percival's side. Maiden Vs knight, rejection of courtly love, guilt from being seduced by a man in the Mallory episode, the whole shebang. Especially you have an interesting kind of Percival who does not have physical dysphoria perse but specifically dysphoria when it comes to interpersonal relationships. On the flip side you have Galahad dealing with the intersection between two different kinds of taboos for him, along with his genuine friendship for Percival. You can also make this his gay awakening for even more spice. Idk ive been reading who's afraid of gender recently and gender is so many things that can make a relationship interesting

[grail-lifesupport]

I like Culhwch ac Olwen I think more people should read it hehe

[gawrkin]

I don't know about you but...

Regardless of whether it was right or wrong of Guinevere to have an affair, or your own personal opinions on LanceGwen as a storyline, it must be said:

(Source: Vulgate Cycle - Death of Arthur)

(Source: Post-Vulgate Cycle - Death of Arthur)

(Source: Le Morte D'Arthur, by Thomas Malory)

...Gwen did her job as Queen right.

And it does ultimately save her (and the Benoics) in the end.

[the-king-and-the-druidess]

Don't like when Mordred is portrayed as dark, odd and unpleasant just because he was born of incest(like in Storm over Camelot) Just because he was born from a taboo relationship doesn't mean that breaking the taboo corrupts his personality in a mysterious way or ultimately makes him a doom. It's stigma. Similar things used to be said about children born out of wedlock, but no child is to blame for what their parents did, no child has to carry their guilt. Incest isn't a magical curse that rots the soul, but a certain risk of genetic errors. Biology.

[gawrkin]

The other day I came across one of those song mashup videos on youtube. It was one of Complicated, by Avril Lavigne and We are never ever getting back together, by Taylor Swift.

And my Arthurian tumblr brain immediately thought "Yep, that's definitely the Morgwen song".

[kulttuurinkurittama]

Kei is one of my favourite knights and I want to draw him more, but good lord is it hard to nail the "I'm surrounded by idiots" aura I like to portray him running around the kitchens with. Also bro like 20 in this and Is already getting grey hairs, dealing with everyone's shit while trying to keep the castle running is stressful.

[adhd-merlin]

king arthur has been dead for 1481 slutty, slutty years

[donottrustsistergoldenhair]

1484

[cesarescabinet]

Thinking about it, my somewhat (?) controversial Arthurian take is that I wildly prefer Sir Mordred being King Arthur's nephew/foster son over his incest baby bastard any day.

I just think there's more thematic meat to the concept of someone King Arthur so dearly loved (and perhaps, who loved him once too) and chose to take in, turning against him. Perhaps, depending on the depiction of King Arthur, rightly so.

For me, there's something more compelling in the concept of choice in that, versus the concept of Sir Mordred being destined to destroy King Arthur and his kingdom because "Well who else is going to do it? He's an incest baby after all! That automatically makes him destined for evil!"

If you want to keep the idea of King Arthur's sins coming to roost and destroying the kingdom, you can easily do that without the whole Bed Trick/Incest Baby/May Day Massacre debacle. He's still a medieval warlord, and as much as I love him as a figure he's very easy to write as a massive bastard in his own right.

[grail-lifesupport]

first few pages reading a yiddish story about Gawain and he gets beaten and kidnapped by the Emperor of China and after they get back to china the emperor immediately starts stripping to his undergarments to prove he's really the emperor...

[grail-lifesupport]

Gawain has married the emperor's daughter and has become the emperor of China however after an expedition goes wrong and he's robbed by some bandits he abandons them for 17 years. His son, after growing up, decides to seek his absentee father and he takes 2 loaded pistols with him

[grail-lifesupport]

arthur isn't even phased by this shit anymore...

[grail-lifesupport]

does anyone want to see a clipping from a fic that I'm writing about Sir Gawain? Its based of the story where Sir Gawain gets kidnapped and becomes the emperor of China but instead of just Gawain getting isekaied back to china he takes a few legendary heroes from China with him for a ride...

[rilke]

Newly presented Lancelot-Grail cycle of the Arthurian legend — Master of the Liège Apocalypse, France, 13th c

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE. 

[odos-bucket]

Lancelot: I have come to rescue the queen! Everyone who he encounters, unrelentingly: couldn't get here by yourself though, could you, passenger princess?

[odos-bucket]

Arthur: I'm so glad we can all be together as a family for christmas :) Guinevere: your nephew just cut a guy's head off

[cottoncandiescupcakes]

'Elves are gay'

Yes but NOTHING is as gay. I repeat, nothing is as gay as Celeborn chosing to not go to the undying lands WITH HIS WIFE GALADRIEL, who instead went with Elrond but instead

Get this

Deciding to hang out in the woods WITH KING THRANDUIL for literal years

Sorry but what. Your wife is like 'I am going to Valinor darling please join me so we can be reunited with our daughter. Elrond is also coming to be with his wife'

But he's like, sorry entire family, I'm going to hang out in the woods with King Thranduil to merge our Kingdoms together, not like through marrying our sons and daughters but just two middle-aged men frolicking in the meadows and then presumably leaving on the last ship to Valinor together

????????????????????????????? All the 'cheating' Galadriel did doesn't compare to this honestly that's fully insane lol also this is actually canon as in Tolkien wrote this

[byjove]

Middle Welsh lit King Arthur: We’re playing a drinking game, if me and my band of roving knights with magical powers outdrink this giant, he has to convert to Christianity.

[nadacarcan]

my drafts keep growing…