so six years later i'm back on my 'the old guard' bullshit. i'm thinking about biphasic sleep and immortality. it's something so mundane most people just forgot that's what we did for thousands of years before electric lighting normalized sleeping the whole night through. would they change with everyone else during the industrial revolution? or would they not even realize anything had changed, until nile joins them
andy has a sleep schedule beyond mortal comprehension. lies down for the first sleep at sunset, sleeps for like 3 hours, gets up and starts wandering around. if it's a good (define "good") night she'll go out and stargaze. if it's a bad night she'll compulsively check her gear and care for her axe. if it's really bad she'll run
joe and nicky never adopted monophasiac sleep specifically because the those hours in the middle of the night have been their Special Alone time ever since they met up with andromake, neriko, and lykton. essential when they're on a mission and don't have time to themselves during the day. they have strange, winding, half asleep conversations in multiple languages. if there's anything that's been troubling them, that's often when they talk about it. i think they first realized they were having the same dreams during one of these conversations
booker stays up until 4 am reading encyclopedia Britannica articles and getting increasingly drunk. nile teaches him to use google earth and he becomes mildly obsessed. he likes zooming out to look at the whole planet and then zooming in on france
nile goes to bed on time with military precision and sleeps for eight hours the whole night through. the others find this mildly disconcerting. joe and nicky debate whether she's unwell somehow (''we don't get sick, my heart" "it's not like there's a rulebook, nicoló"). the rare occasion comes when nile gets up in the middle of the night. she encounters, in quick succession:
joe and nicky, having a bizarre conversation full of non-sequiturs, pidgin, and intricate, centuries-old in jokes. their eyes are still closed, and they're still spooning. it honest-to-god looks like they're still asleep
booker, massive bags under his eyes, pouring another glass of gin, britannica article for the Napoleonic wars open full brightness on his laptop
andy, sitting at the kitchen table in the dark, sharpening her axe with a whetstone. scraaape, scraaape, scraaape
nile quietly tiptoes back to bed and never mentions any of it
While looking for A Knight's Tale fanfic, I just discovered Where There's A Will, There's A Way by herebewyverns and hoooooboooy, YES. Yes. It is good. If you haven't read it, go now.
365 Day Challenge | Favorite Characters | 10. Geoffrey Chaucer | A Knight's Tale
"I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity."
William Thatcher, A Knight’s Tale (2001)
VS.
Sir Lancelot, BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012)
Propaganda
William Thatcher, A Knight’s Tale (2001)
Portrayed by: Heath Ledger
Defeated Opponents:
- King Arthur [Charlie Hunnam], King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
- King Vortigern [Jude Law], King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
- Frodo Baggins [Elijah Wood], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)
“13-year-old me had such a HUGE crush on Will Thatcher / Ulrich von Liechtenstein, and you know what? 13-year-old me was RIGHT (and had much healthier taste in men). He's a dreamer, he's sweet (except maybe when you're dismissive about jousting...), he gives to others despite having little himself, he has the most charming, contagious smile. And to play us out... he's blonde! He's pissed! He'll see you in the lists! Lichtenstein! Lichtenstein!”
Sir Lancelot, BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012)
Portrayed by: Santiago Cabrera
Defeated Opponents:
- Sid [Luke Youngblood], Galavant (2015-2016)
- Chu Hun [Peter Ho], Double World (2020)
- Sultan Alauddin Khilji [Ranveer Singh], Padmavaat (2018)
“THE MOST PERFECT LANCELOT TO EVER LANCELOT. Sorry I don't make the rules. He's got pretty hair and kind eyes and a killer smile and he's brave and noble and gorgeous and idiotically self-sacrificing in every aspect of his life and he's got hidden chaotic depths and everyone falls in love with him a little bit!!!!!!! And how can they not!!!!!!!!! How could you ever resist that intensity of loyalty and gorgeous brown eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Additional Propaganda Under the Cut
Who is the Hottest Medieval Man?
William Thatcher [Heath Ledger] (Left)
Sir Lancelot [Santiago Cabrera] (Right)
Voting ended onApr 13, 2025
Additional Propaganda
For William Thatcher:
“HE'S SO CUTE AND BRAVE AND STUPID AND DETERMINED AND FUNNY AND POETIC AND HE HAS BIG BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES AND FRECKLES AND HE'S BISEXUAL-CODED HE'S MY BOY I LOVE HIM SO MUCH”
“The only man that could have pulled off a David Bowie dance scene within a medieval ballroom.”
For Sir Lancelot:
“He's just so pure and kind and romantic and also god*damn* his face is *literally* flawless and he's got those big brown eyes you could just fall right into and its an actual travesty that they only had him on the show like once a season he should have been a lead, that man deserves justice. For further propaganda I would like to submit the entirety of S2E4, which absolutely rewired my brain chemistry.”
“Hot as the dorky lowborn night with fluffy hair and as the evil, come-back-from-the-dead temptation.”
“Pretty much the whole of Camelot falls in love with him”
SANTIAGO CABRERA as LANCELOT in MERLIN 2x4: Lancelot and Guinevere
(To Trent Ikithon) May I say before you go, I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people; it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential; it's love that saves them. And you would know that, but you have none around you. You said so yourself, you surround yourself with lies and deceptions. And I wish for you in the future to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully
-- Caduceus Clay, Critical Role C2E110
bought some cheap colouring pens earlier so i thought i'd try drawing uhura because i've been thinking about the gif set i rb'd of her laughing all day and i love her 🫶
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