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recapitulation

what's your favorite of these sword-related actions/plot devices... 🎤

gifting someone a sword (especially as significant gesture e.g. betrothal gift)

drawing someone else's sword from the scabbard suddenly and without permission

using someone else's sword as a way to remember them after they've passed

you're not worthy of me drawing my sword/it's almost always left in the scabbard

sword with some measure of sentience e.g. ability to jostle/laugh/purr

emotionally significant "may I please borrow your sword" moment

plot-significant sword name change

Voting ended onJun 8

there are of course one william possibilities and im sure ive left some good ones off... feel free to tell me abt some other good ones and their associated stories 👀

recapitulation

ohhhhh really really good ones from prev:

grabbing a blade with your bare hand to stop it

pushing yourself deeper onto a sword

mutual stabbing 🥰

once-and-future-princess

Ooh! What about dramatically throwing down your sword to indicate you will not--CAN not-- fight someone. Bonus points if that person is an Old Friend. Or! Even better. That you Will Not Fight Any More. You have Retired.

wardrobeoftime

International Tiara Day Event 2026 - Day FOUR: Favourite Tiaras in Film & TV (hosted by @leonorsreign)

talesfromtheenchantedforest

the number of swords with incredibly hyperspecific powers in Arthuriana really delights me:

Then they girded on a sword: it was such a sword that any woman in labor — even if her life hung in the balance — would be delivered of her child at once if struck on the head with the flat of the naked blade.

— First Percival Continuation, Nigel Bryant translation

this is just a sword that Gawain is using for normal quest stuff btw

princesscoreaesthetics

starsinboots

holy grail textposts. thank you . goodbye

#this too is arthuriana and we must learn

apopcornkernel

the knight was like yk what? ur rude enough for it. i believe that you're kay 👍

clevermanka

Here are 543 images (1.5GB) of items at the Philadelphia Museum of Art arms and armor exhibit You're free to use them for anything, even c

the-ocean-is-trans

casual reminder that this museum has their entire collection digitized and available free for public use: https://art.thewalters.org/ and they have armor/weapons there

princesscoreaesthetics

#Felicity!!!#that's from Felicity!!!#Felicity is a patriot and not into princesses #and is also very bad at being a gentlewoman #but we'll let her have this because it is such a pretty screenshot with such pretty dresses #you can be #princess core #this one time Felicity #those are exceptionally pretty dresses

finnegeanscake

Knightposting this princessposting that WHO IS TILLING THE FIELDS

dionysiaproductions

You don't hear from the field workers because they aren't "posting"

They're serfing the internet

sydsketch

fantasy lesbians. enjoy

prints available in my store now! ✨

vinceaddams

People who try to copy historical writing styles don't say enough weird stuff in them. I'm listening to a 1909 story about a ghost car right now, and the narrator just said he honked the car horn a bunch of times, but the way he phrased it was "I wrought a wild concerto on the hooter".

bogleech

Reblog to wreak a wild concerto on a hooter

the-lonely-knight

There is a very small, sad knight that lives inside my ribcage who keeps asking when we can go see the princess to ask for her favor before the joust and I don’t have the heart to tell him that there is no princess, no joust, no castle, no brothers in arms, no helmet to hide his face, no armor to protect him, no sword to fight back, and nothing to be devoted to. The world is so much bigger than he could ever imagine but it’s not built for him.