quinoa

i really needed somewhere to yap / side blog

[queer-ragnelle]

Praise for THE MOONLIT KNIGHT!

THE MOONLIT KNIGHT, my first book in the ELEGY OF AN EMPIRE series, is coming out 1st July 2025!

The Lady of Ruby was a beautiful dream from which Sir Gawain never wanted to wake. King Arthur's famous nephew, Sir Gawain of Orkney, Knight of the Round Table, is known by many names: Hawk of May, Dawnbreaker, Maiden's Knight. With great acclaim comes even greater expectation. When a challenge from Persian knight Sir Gromer Somer Joure draws Gawain east of the Mediterranean Sea, a new confrontation arises from Gromer's outspoken sister. The Knight of Maidens' reputation could be his undoing. Zoroastrian widow Osti Mahtab, granddaughter of Iran's revolutionary Mobed Mazdak, detests violence. And the men who make names for themselves through it. While long resigned to her devout life within the Old City's walls, she would sooner die than admit her little brother's challenger to the inner sanctum uncontested. Yet by forestalling this game of blows betwixt paladins, has Mahtab inadvertently entered the fray herself? In this retelling of The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, Persian mythology clashes and mingles with Arthurian to create a new and exciting tale of romance, self-discovery, and fantasy. THE MOONLIT KNIGHT marks the first installment of the ELEGY OF AN EMPIRE epic that promises to entice old and new fans of the legends for years to come.

Pre-order your copy today!

Announcement Post / Tropes

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Cover art by @mortiscausa

Read The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

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[arthurianpreservationproject]

THE ADVENTURES OF SIR GALAHAD (1949) is now available on MEGA Drive & Internet Archive!

IMG ID: Poster for the show The Adventures of Sir Galahad (1949). It features Galahad in armor, the Lady of the Lake in her pink dress and jeweled crown, Merlin with a long white beard. There are other smaller scenes painted along the side of knights on horseback and the Lady of the Lake's hand extending out of the water holding the sword Excalibur. There's also a square image in red showing a screenshot from the first episode with Merlin using magic to enchant a tree to hold Galahad prisoner.

[fuckyeaharthuriana]

Arthurian list of everything

Hello!

Some of you know I have been working on arthurian lists of stuff for the past… a lot of years.

OPEN FILE HERE

OPEN THE FILE HERE (old file, I don’t have access to this email anymore so no updates will happen there)

I finally decided to put everything on a excel file, easy to navigate.

The list is divided in:

Initial page (please, cite this blog or the links in that page if you use the list or the information extensively)

Old Texts (every arthurian text from the beginning of time to 1900, with download links, dates and language) 

Modern novels 1900-2020 (every arthurian novel from 1900 to 2020, with dates, characters, ships, reviews of the ones I’ve read and lgbtaq+)

Modern novels post 2021 (to make it easier to list books, I separated modern novels. All the new post 2021 novels are here)

LGBTAQ+ characters in arthurian media

Comics for all arthurian comics and webcomics, with dates

Movies, tv and webseries with dates, characters (to add), my personal score/review, lgbtaq+ characters

Music, musicals and opera (with spotify or youtube links)

Podcast and radio drama

The file is always updating. Here is what is missing:

OLD TEXTS: links to full texts that I could not find, information on some characters

MODERN NOVELS: a lot of new post 2019 novels, characters, ships and info for novels I have not read

MOVIES etc.: imdb links, characters for each movie

Last update: 01/10/2024

[quinoascreams]

i find out about galehut NOW?? NOW?? NOW???? SOMEONE GET ME LANCELOT-GRAIL IN MY HANDS RN???

[quinoascreams]

does anyone know where i can get an epub of the percy folio PLEASEEE 😭😭😭 crashing out

[wolf-tail]

Maybe if either Guinevere or Arthur had gotten Lancelot pregnant he wouldn't have done all that. Maybe he'd calm down a little bit.

[sickfreaksirkay]

possibly the greatest tragedy of modern life is that you have to do something important to get knighted. i miss when you could just find a knight wandering around a field and ask him really nicely to knight you and he would just be like yeah why not

[medraut-pen-draig]

i'm very passionate about arthuriana. disclaimer: these characters are extremely inconsistent across time and history, so the versions withi

first uquiz!

[quinoascreams]

oh (wanted to be lancelot so sososos bad. but i’ll take it)

[gloamglozerglam-deactivated2022]

only the true king could remove the sword from the stone…. no one else could…… they didn’t have…. arthurization

[m3dieval]

Zac Evans

[chunkysoup22]

[motorizedduck]

Just today I got to see a chess book that I remember reading as a little kid. While it didn't give me a lifelong passion for chess, it did give me a lifelong passion for fantasy for its artwork.

The book is "Chess for Young Beginners" from 1975, and here's some of the artwork:

Like, this artwork goes hard. I especially appreciate the colour scheme for the black pieces, with its browns, bronzes, reds and oranges.

This artwork is amazing, evocative, exciting and dramatic. I recommend giving it a look if you have a chance - you can probably scrounge up a PDF of this thing with a bit of searching.

[toorumlk]

— The Scholar and her Knight

[fuckyeaharthuriana]

This looks so good

[oldpaintings]

The Spider, 1884 by Nikolaos Gyzis (Greek, 1842–1901)

[adhd-merlin]

[sickfreaksirkay]

“no rapping tonight"

why?

"you rap about arthurian knights everytime, it's embarrassing"

ok

[after one beer]

uh oh y'all i go into a trance a lot