#bedikay

[grail-lifesupport]

(from Idylls of the Queen)

[pgwodewose]

A scene of Sir Bedivere and Sir Kay inspired by this moment from the 1981 movie Knightriders:

(It's a great movie by the way, and I highly recommend it, and you can view it for yourselves over the Arthurian Preservation Project)

[daliathewitch]

This is Kay.

Kay loves his personal space.

And this is Bedivere.

He also loves Kay's personal space.

[queer-ragnelle]

Vulgate: The Story of Merlin | More quotes at Arthuriana Daily

[onepuzzledpigeon]

Kay & Bedivere related Culhwch & Olwen illustrations by Jan C̆erný my beloveds 😭😭😭 from Vladimír Hulpach's "Spiegel der Vergangenheit: König Artus und seine Ritter".

[kayleidoscopic]

I think about Cai and Bedwyr so much, I'm going insane. My beloveds.

I love them dearly, and I wish modern media did too, in the right way.

I'm greatly saddened by the miscarachterization that dawned on them (and several other characters that either got villainfied or erased: Morgan, Mordred, Llacheu ecc) in later centuries, and wish modern authors could understand the roots of the ancient myth without necessarily twisting it.

Still gotta see a version where these two are actually done justice and are written as they should be (a pair, the interpretation of it is then up to the author.)

I want to see their bond, and I WANT to see the original Triad (Arthur, Cai and Bedwyr) display an actual closeness, they were said to be his closest friends, where did that go?

The arrival or romances erased the epic roots in it, these characters went to wars and probably were born into war periods, they were tempered, they fought death and gods and awful beasts, usually against things beyond human, but they were just.

Yet these great epic heroes got reduced to shadows of themselves, boorish and easy to defeat. It's saddening. It gives me pain. They were beloved by the people who first wrote them and read them, respected, and their roles were intact and important.

Therefore I want to see more of them.

[sickfreaksirkay]

Sir Kay, Seneschal of King Arthur's Court, Harold J. Herman / Illustration from the Mabinogion / The Quest for Olwen, trans. Gwyn Thomas and Kevin Crossley-Holland / The Story of Merlin, trans. Rupert T. Pickens / Illustration from The Quest for Olwen, Margaret Jones / Wace's Roman de Brut, trans. Eugene Mason / The Mabinogion, trans. Lady Charlotte Guest

a collection of sir kay and sir bedivere: companions/lovers/worse, for @queer-ragnelle's may day parade

[quidam-sirenae]

Idk the reason I like kay and bedivere so much is bc it's like "local asshole that everyone hates has loving relationship behind the scenes. Now back to his regularly scheduled Being A Bitch"