#gweneviere

[gracewight]

Ohhhhhhh I think I’m casting Gwendolyn Christie as my Gweneviere faceclaim I just she’s just I mean yes partially because she’s tall and I’m nodding to the Gweneviere’s giantess heritage but not even she’s just so LOOK AT HER LOOK AT THIS WOMAN

She’s so pretty and warm and sweet looking and then you add in the brains and the desire to do right by her people and the murdered son who WOULDN’T overthrow Camelot for this lady???

[punkffunk-fire-and-desire]

Teena Marie

Teena Marie albums:

Wild And Peaceful (1979)

Lady T (1980)

Irons In The Fire (1980)

It Must Be Magic (1981)

Robbery (1983)

Starchild (1984)

Emerald City (1986)

Naked To The World (1988)

Ivory (1990)

Passion Play (1994)

La Doña (2004)

Sapphire (2006)

Congo Square (2009)

Beautiful (2013)

Rest In Peace Teena Marie.

[borrower-merlin]

It's dangerous to go alone, take this

[inalandofmythandmerthur]

Hogwarts Houses

Merlin: Slytherin

Arthur: Gryffindor

Morgana: Slytherin

Gwen: Hufflepuff

The Knights: Gryffindor

Gaius: Ravenclaw

Uther: He's basically Uncle Vernon with Voldermort's power

[gracewight]

oh NO i LOVE the idea of Gweneviere being in her early fifties. Forty one, when she marries Arthur

She is beautiful, yes, tall and golden and graceful—but more importantly she’s a politician, born and bred, she nows how to present, how to carry herself, how to smile and flatter and council with honey—always with honey—she knows how to get people to love her, to get them to listen to her.

(I want to buy her that t-shirt that says “just another day in my supervillain origin story”)

Arthur is not her first husband, he is in fact her fifth, and though she must nearing the end of her ability to bear children Arthur falls head over heels for her like every other newly Knighted princeling who passes through her family’s court…

And on Arthur’s side of things Merlin encourages the match, because so many knights and kings alike are are either brothers or cousins or sons (born or sworn—she’s always liked children, she’s everyone’s favorite aunt regardless of blood) to Gwenevier—marrying her unites half the country in one act!

Gwen agrees, because Arthur is young and idealistic and a little naive, but his heart is in the right place, and she is old enough to remember darker days, and she believes in what he’s trying to do. A united Mars is a noble goal.

But then she can’t seem to get pregnant again. And if Arthur can’t produce a blood heir, all of this was for nothing…

So she contracts with Lisanor/Silvia, a surrogate from the Guild of Mothers who looks enough like her to bear Arthur a child they can claim is hers—

But then she can’t bear to send the woman away, having been parted from all her own children, and lets her stay in as the Borre’s nurse.

Loholt comes along as a happy surprise a couple years later, and Gwen has no idea Arthur is secretly having an affair with Lisanor/Silvia until the woman gets pregnant again…

And Arthur tries to hide it, but his daughter looks just as much like him as his son does, there’s no denying she is his child.

Truth out, Gwen’s marriage falls apart. She agrees to remain Arthur’s Queen, because she still believes in uniting Mars, but she has been passed around her whole life—she is old and she is tired and she is angry—she is not going to be the wife of a man who loves someone else. She was faithful, he was not: she wants a divorce.

They divorce as quietly as they can—not such a scandal in a world that doesn’t really care about such things, marriage is a celebration of love, divorce is just a sad thing that happens when people grow apart—

But the problem is no matter how they try to keep the political scene stable, the fact is, in the eyes of both court and of the people, there is now a difference between her children, Mordred and Loholt, and Arthur’s children, Borre and Seleucia (not sold on those names tho…but arthurian “canon” is so vast I have options)

Slowly Camelot grows divided in its loyalties, and all around the Golden King and the White Queen circle those who see the children of the one as a threat to the claims of the children of the other…

And then she finds out Arthur ordered the murder of Loholt, because of the rumors he was really Lancelot’s son, and Gwen is done playing nice.

[punkffunk-fire-and-desire]

Gweneviere

Mickey Boyce and Penny “PJ” Johnson

Rest In Peace Mickey Boyce.

[punkffunk-fire-and-desire]

Rick James

Rick James albums:

Come Get It! (1978)

Bustin' Out Of L Seven (1979)

Fire It Up (1979)

Garden Of Love (1980)

Street Songs (1981)

Throwin' Down (1982)

Cold Blooded (1983)

Glow (1985)

The Flag (1986)

Wonderful (1988)

Kickin' (1989)

Urban Rapsody (1997)

Deeper Still (2007)

Rest In Peace Rick James.

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