#liminalpsych

[queer-ragnelle]

For the ship game: Galehaut x Gawain (I stumbled onto this one by accident and it’s captivating me increasingly over time)

This has potential bc they’re friends! They care about each other!!!!!! Also the extreme height difference is 😳 you could really cook with this what lovely ingredients. Thank you Vulgate 😘

[queer-ragnelle]

Okay, since apparently no one's asked yet: Galehaut!

Lancelot Part III: Galehaut's Plans and the Interpretation of His Dreams: Lovesickness and Destiny.

Send me a character and I'll reply with a Vulgate passage!

[queer-ragnelle]

Lady of Malehaut for the Vulgate ask!

Lancelot Part II: 52. The End of Galehaut's War with Arthur; the Meeting of Lancelot and Guenevere.

Send me a character and I'll reply with a Vulgate passage!

[queer-ragnelle]

Mabinogion posting for @liminalpsych

Not all of the stories in the Mabinogion relate to Arthurian Legend. However I recall you've been reading Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, and two of the stories, The Dream of Maxen and Lludd and Llefelys, tie into that. So they might still interest you!

The version I own for annotation was translated by Jeffrey Gantz for Penguins Classics in 1976. As far as I know, a PDF of this doesn't exist. But I favor it because Gantz maintained as much Welsh as possible with footnotes indicating the updated names for clarity right at the bottom of the page. Although I'll say, his poeticism is lacking. Here's an excerpt from The Dream of Maxen with the footnote added in brackets.

They went on until they could see Ynys Môn [Anglesey] opposite, and Arvon as well, and again they said, "There is the land our lord saw in his dream."

Google Books has this translation by Lady Charlotte Guest available for download. This is the first ever English translation! The title Mabinogion originates here with Lady Charlotte from way back in 1849. Her rationale was that mab is the Welsh word for boy, so she concluded mabinogi was a noun equivalent to "a story for children," and that mabinogion must be the plural of the word. While that is not a true Welsh word, the name remains.

The scan from a 1904 printing is very neat for ease of reading, features lovely antique illustrations, and even includes a guide for pronouncing Welsh names. It also translates locations to their modern names directly in the prose, but overall reads more prettily to me. Here is the same The Dream of Maxen excerpt to compare word choice.

And they went forward until they saw Anglesey before them, and until they saw Arvon likewise. "Behold," said they, "the land out master saw in his sleep."

Anyway I hope this helps! I intend to make a Kai and Bedwyr post separately from this. They deserve it.

[liminalpsych]

Moving all my Arthuriana stuff over to @onceandfuturecourt because as I've stopped using other social media, I've started getting more generalized with my main tumblr blog. Backdating everything I can for now to not flood any dashboards.

[kashilascorner]

😤🧑‍🧒

For the Arthuriana ask game!

Thanks a lot ❤️

😤Your Most Specific Nitpick About Your Fave (anything from "Gareth would not have a beard" to "this is basically a different guy")

Can't think of anything that is too specific, and I don't have one single fave + my faves keep rotating. But I'll say that to me it's very important that Arthur is, overall, a good guy or at least someone that comes off as such. This can be interpreted in a lot of ways, but what I mean mostly is that to add moral greyness and make him complex there is no need to make him a grade A douche. I feel a lot of interpretations paint him as being pretty bad or straight out awful so they can make other characters more sympathetic, or justify Guinevere's adultery, or just to make the story grittier or whatever. I understand the attractiveness in making him bad to contrast this idea that we have of him. But losing complexity is always a narrative loss IMO. Try and reconcile him being a genuinely caring leader with the May day babies thing. Now, that's interesting! Similar things could be said about a lot of other charscters TBH.

I don't see the other emojis you included in your ask listed in the game, so I'll add this one as a treat 😉

🫅Favorite Lady/Damsol/Queen

I love my girl Nimue. I even wrote from her POV. And then there's Ragnelle she's SUCH A QUEEN. Guinevere is my bestie, and I have a very soft spot for Brangaine. She was too good to Iseult tbh. I could go on but let's leave it like this.

Send me an Arthurian ask! 🤗

[liminalpsych-in-teyvat]

You can find me most places as liminalpsych (Discord, AO3, Tumblr), and what you’ll find on this sideblog is mostly Genshin content.

PFP is therapist!Nahida from this comic by lilac-cat-draws and is used with artist permission.

liminalpsych @ AO3

@liminalpsych is my main blog: mostly psychology, mental health, and chronic illness stuff

@onceandfuturecourt is my Arthurian medieval literature sideblog

Shipping preferences: Favorite ships, some that I enjoy but don't seek out, and a few that I avoid.

Character feelings: Favorite characters to play, write, identify with, etc.

Themes and squicks: Themes I’m really into reading/writing, and also my squicks/themes I avoid

Personal writing prompts list

Tags (mostly for my reference because trying to find these via the search function on Tumblr has just not been working)

my writing: Fanfic and drabbles I’ve written.

a matter of duty: All posts related to my Ayato/Thoma longfic WIP.

headcanons: What it sounds like. Things not necessarily rooted in lore and not spelled out in canon, but are how I think of the characters/setting.

detangling lore: Lore exploration, its connection to real world roots, sometimes character lore, and trying to expound on or figure out how the setting works (I’m looking at you, Inazuma government).

magic of teyvat: Playing around with building a chaos magic / pop culture magic sort of system with the Genshin setting.

fic rec: Gushing about fanfiction by other people.

liminal psychoanalyzes: Overthinking the psychology of different characters. Sometimes also trying to figure out more about their lore, history, relationships, etc. (note: not actually psychoanalysis, my therapeutic orientation is mainly Gestalt/existential psych, I’m using psychoanalyze in the pop culture understanding of the term and not the psychology field definition)

come back to this later: This is so I can ever find the tag again because Tumblr’s search function is terrible. Things I want to write about (nonfiction usually) but didn’t have the time/energy/space at the time.

on writing: Interesting stuff pertaining to the craft of writing.

writing prompts: Prompts on things to write in the future.