Oath Of Chivalry

An aspiring knight wandering through quests and challenges of life. Sir Aurelian, at your service

[thy-golden-knight]

Greetings

This is a place of rest and healing away from the grim reality of today's world. You are welcome to roam and explore this place freely. Please, make yourself at home.

Tags List:

#code of conduct — things that inspire me to be the best person I can be; the essence of a chivalric code

#laws of the land — on the nature of my blog and who is welcome here

#knightly musings — random notes on day-to-day life from yours truly

#scholarly studies — resources to quench one's thirst for knowledge

#knightly prowess — building strength of body and mind alike

#mental wellbeing — about mental health, path of healing and disability

#knightly passions — an outlet for yearnings and desires of a starving man

#спадщина — (Eng. «heritage») a collection of posts on my homeland's history and culture

I shall be posting adult content under the «knightly passions» hashtag, — minors are forbidden from interacting with it.

May anyone who cometh here under the banners of bigotry be smitten with the holy power of block

[lionofchaeronea]

King Arthur Asks the Lady of the Lake for the Sword Excalibur. Illustration by Walter Crane for King Arthur's Knights: The Tales Retold for Boys and Girls by Henry Gilbert (1911).

[arrgh-whatever]

Hi, I have something very important to say.

12 years ago, when I was 13 my life changed forever because at that time Russia invaded part of Ukraine. Before that I have only seen war in books and on TV and now it was in my country. It was terrifying but I was able to live with that because it was still far from home.

Until 4 years ago on this day I heard the first explosions and felt it shake my house because war came to my city as well.

I was 21, I was going to finish university in a few months and finally start my life. I had plans to reunite with the love of my life that summer, marry and start living with him in the apartment I got just a few days before. Instead I was forced to abandon everything, my belongings, my plans, my future and run.

4 years later nothing got easier, I feel like my life is on pause. I feel uncertain about every day, I don't feel like I belong in the country I have to live in, I can't enjoy anything to the fullest, I can't have fun. Everything I do feels like a distraction. And I'm still terrified.

I'm scared to think of what my life will become if Ukraine loses but I just know it will become even worse. A lot of people are thinking the same thing but from home where they hear sirens and explosions every day. A lot of them are children.

But YOU CAN HELP!

So please, if anything I do means anything to you. Maybe you enjoy my comic and want to know what will happen next or you like how I design characters or my BPD comic helped you or perhaps you just like the way I draw ponies. PLEASE consider donating to Ukraine. Don't wait till things become even worse than they are now because then I might not be here at all.

(Here is a very good post to find where to donate)

[academic-vampire]

"I am tired, I have colossal need of you."

- Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares written c. June 1944

[thy-golden-knight]

Even his slightest touch, like a pat on the shoulder or a hand on my back sets my heart aflutter. How I long to take his hand into mine and press it against my lips. As a show of my deep devotion to him. What torture it is, then, not knowing if he even wishes to be with you at all.

Having one's heart awake at last from many years of frigid slumber, only to have it shattered again... that would be devastatimg.

[playpausephoto]

[bloodstainedgauntlet]

my knight you have to live you have to get up you have to put your hand over your wound and hold it there. you have to keep walking and walking and walking because you cannot lay down yet, it’s not time. wipe the blood off your breastplate and look up into the sun. lean on your sword if you need to. lift one foot after another. get up. get up. this would be a pitiful grave.

[abueloretrowave]

Forgotten Knight

[thy-golden-knight]

Even though I pride myself on being fairly optimistic (sometimes bordering on naïve, I admit), in literature I am almost exclusively drawn to books full of sorrow. The more tragic it is, the better.

Little wonder then that my favourite book of all time is Flowers for Algernon. And now, entering the world of Kafka's Metamorphosis, I can feel the same energy that both makes it almost physically hard to read, and yet impossible to stop.

It's the themes of living as a disabled person in our work-obsessed society for me. And the depression, of course.

[duknanqq]

[propalahramota]

"When you're trying to have a hot girl summer, but the governments decide to start WWIII😭😭"

Location: Bumfuck, Oklahoma

"Dying in WWIII wasn't on my 2025 bucketlist 💀🫣"

Location: Sydney, Australia

"Look at the strawberry varenyky I made"

Location: Kyiv, Ukraine

[blondebrainpowered]

Dreams (The Age of Romance, Boy Reading Book of Chivalry), 1923

Artist: Norman Rockwell

[sustainable-solarpunk]

Something I think everyone should do is write out two things (if you have the time I encourage you to do it now):

1. Your Values (Ex. Family, Tradition, Acceptance, Truth, Kindness, etc)

2. Your Morals (Ex. Fair Play, Respect for others, Admit fault, etc.)

There will likely be a lot of overlap between the two of these, and that’s okay, if anything I believe it’s important.

Knowing these allows you to make decisions that are true to who you are. Even if you don’t always make the “right” decision, you know you choose the option that was true to yourself.

To help demonstrate here are my values:

- Nature

- Sustainability

- Love

- Creativity

- Peace

- Justice

- Equity

- Wisdom

- Truth

Your values are just that, what you value, what you deem important. Don’t stress it and pick anything that feels right to you. Morals may take some more thought, and are something even I’m still feeling out.

Don’t stress it, but acknowledge it. They’re important.

[juunipupu]

Knight and Valentine / sydänystävä

[nixscriptum]

[rabentanz]

a pages caring hands

based on Solomon Joseph Solomon's "A Page Buckling On A Knight’s Armour" because that's just them

[thy-golden-knight]

First HEMA lesson down, and the instructor is already tempting us into buying a sword. The vast collection of rapiers, longswords and zweihanders in the training hall is certainly not helping. I pray my wallet survives all of this.