#luned

[chiropteracupola]

For anyone who wears the ring / upon his finger can’t be seen / by any man, however keen / his eyes, just as you cannot see / the wood when bark grows on the tree. Yvain Knight of the Lion, Chrétien de Troyes trans. Ruth Harwood Cline

[lunete, yvain, and the ring of invisibility, for @mortiscausa’s march to camelot, for the prompt ‘divine.’]

[larkoneironaut]

Luned‘s and Banal‘ras‘ updated looks because I‘m currently writing the chapters with them 👀 Sethra’s parents are making me emotional, that‘s all I can say without spoiling the fic 🫣

[caer-gai]

Long time no art post anyways heres Lady Luned from The Knight of the Lion

2/31

[february-face]

It was only on my somethingth re-read of The Lady of the Fountain that I realised Luned and the Lady are described with the same features and clothes (except Luned wears a frontlet of gold).

This is when Owain is trapped by the portcullis and sees Luned:

And later when he sees the Lady:

So Owain looks out the window and falls instantly in love with a woman who looks identical to his bestie. Yes, I’m convinced they knew each other and were friends before all this, not just because of the way they talk to each other but also later we have this:

I’m already feeling totally normal about all this so I go and look up the meaning of Luned’s name because I also think it’s very very interesting we have her name but not the Lady’s. Seems like it’s derived from ‘Eluned’ meaning ‘image, likeness, idol’ - not a coincidence that these two women look almost identical, then?

So if we’re meant to notice all the similarities, the one difference stands out and begs the question: why does Luned, the handmaiden, wear a gold frontlet on her head, but not the Lady?

My definitely-very-normal-about-all-this headcanon is that Luned was in fact (unhappily or perhaps unwillingly) the Lady of the Fountain, and when she heard her husband had been defeated tried to escape, which is why she was by the exit when she came across Owain. She had left her identical looking handmaiden in her place hoping nobody would notice, but forgot to give her the frontlet.

[gingersnaptaff]

Definitely think both Pwyll, Pryderi, and Cai would do numbers on tumblr. Pryderi starts a flame war with Gwydion over his pigs, and Pwyll tries to give people tidbits of wisdom disguised as shitposts (which backfires massively when he passes off Arawn.) Cai live blogs the various quests Arthur drags him along to and gets passed off when Arthur mocks him with a song. Gwalchmai has to step in when Cai tries to beat Arthur up and Cai snarls that Arthur's 'a second-rate bard.'

Manawydan's one of those chill bloggers. Sometimes he collabs with Lleu Llaw Gyffes on how to cobble shoes. He and Rhiannon run a photography blog.

Gwenhwyfar has a secret group chat with Enid and Angharad. She doesn't post on tumblr but does scroll through her dashboard.

Luned and Owain share a blog where they post wildlife photos. It's well-known that Owain loves corvids. He gets a follow from Bendigeidfran and loses his shit. Luned posts fun facts about bugs. They share custody of the lion.

(Definitely think that Cai and Bedwyr engage in a years-long flirtation through anonymously sent questions. Not cuz they're scared, just cuz it's fun.)

[inukai]

some cleric/nun oc's i made.

luned is the cultist counterpart to ophelia ^_^

[gaheriskinnie]

I forgot Lunette and Gawain were a sorta couple. Kinda funny that Ywain's wingman and anti-wingman are sweet on each other.