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Lancelot: I have come to rescue the queen! Everyone who he encounters, unrelentingly: couldn't get here by yourself though, could you, passenger princess?
I fear thinking of Lancelot as a "passenger princess" has changed my brain chemistry, thank you so much, I love it.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Thomas Malory is not and should not be treated as the be-all and end-all of medieval Arthurian literature.
OK, I have redacted my last name and school email address for the Tumblr audience. I will give that information to those who reach out here on Tumblr with inquiries. Essentially, I'm working on my PhD, and for the final element I want to speak with some fans, regardless of their educational background, to see what they think and feel about some Arthurian or Arthurian-adjacent themes and texts.
While I can't compensate anyone for participating, the focus group(s) would be an hour on Zoom. If you message me with interest, I can give you some examples of the kinds of questions I'd be asking, some texts that I might consider, etc.
I've got a small digital footprint these days, so if you know anyone who meets the two qualifications (likes to read fantasy/sci-fi and is queer/LGBTQIA+) please share! It's for a good cause (I'm a year out from submitting my PhD dissertation). This project has been approved by my university's ethics board, and I have informational documents and a consent form for those who will participate. The dates are flexible as of now, I'm hoping for end of June or early July, and after DragonCon (first week of Sept) with a second group.
Thank you!
I had the incredible privilege to design this year’s Pride Shirt from Critical Role! It features our beloved Blue Boi Dorian Storm on hos steed Coriolis. I snuck in a little favour of his lover, tied to his arm, and some sneaky Latin: “Amore fiunt homines” is Latin for “It’s love that makes people.”
You can find it in all the CR shops! I’ll be offering prints, too. https://shop.critrole.com/collections/new-products/products/how-do-you-want-to-slay-this-t-shirt
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I hate the videoification of everything. If I have to hear one more video of someone speaking closely into their shitty mic and I have to have all their yucky wet mouth noises and plosives and nose whistles and throat clearings and sniffles I am going to dig a vertical hole the exact dimensions of my body and I’m going to slither in head first
hey can everyone do me a favor and put in the tags why they chose their name? even if you don't go by a chosen name irl, you can put why you chose your online name.
Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.
pack it up lads, i've made a social blunder
No because there's really something in this ending, right?
"I fucking love you brother, yeah?" As the last positive interaction they had together in the prison scene before the weight of too many occluded truths buries them both prematurely.
It's the thing he's saying as confession and indictment, as in: "You said you loved me, but you fundamentally betrayed me. How can you love me? But also, I do love you. It only hurts BECAUSE I love you."
It's the rage and attraction both. Foreplay and violence? Did he INTEND to kill Niall, in the end? Maybe? But also, the first two major acts of violence did not end in death, maybe he didn't intend it to go that far. He was clearly riled up, though, and the scene was shot like it was a sex scene as much as it was for the assault it was. And that's what the show has done so well all along, blurring the line between abuse and love, living in the ambiguities and trusting the audience to come on the journey instead of providing clear cut explanations.
It was a love story. It was a tragedy. And it was incredible. From the writing and acting, which Jamie Bell and Richard Gadd are both rightfully praised for, to the music selections made by the composers, and what I don't see enough love for are the two directors? Like many of the framing choices etc are directorial. Gadd wrote the script but directors bring the images to life and Jesus Christ that final scene especially? Eshref Reybrouk did the last three episodes and Alexandra Brodski the first.
What an achievement. I'm gunna be fucked up on that for a long time.
Yes, yes exactly:
It can only be betrayal if the emotions are real, and it's so important that it IS betrayal, back and forth, a consistent attempt to dominate, to eke out a position in the other man's life as driving force, as pride of place.
No because there's really something in this ending, right?
"I fucking love you brother, yeah?" As the last positive interaction they had together in the prison scene before the weight of too many occluded truths buries them both prematurely.
It's the thing he's saying as confession and indictment, as in: "You said you loved me, but you fundamentally betrayed me. How can you love me? But also, I do love you. It only hurts BECAUSE I love you."
It's the rage and attraction both. Foreplay and violence? Did he INTEND to kill Niall, in the end? Maybe? But also, the first two major acts of violence did not end in death, maybe he didn't intend it to go that far. He was clearly riled up, though, and the scene was shot like it was a sex scene as much as it was for the assault it was. And that's what the show has done so well all along, blurring the line between abuse and love, living in the ambiguities and trusting the audience to come on the journey instead of providing clear cut explanations.
It was a love story. It was a tragedy. And it was incredible. From the writing and acting, which Jamie Bell and Richard Gadd are both rightfully praised for, to the music selections made by the composers, and what I don't see enough love for are the two directors? Like many of the framing choices etc are directorial. Gadd wrote the script but directors bring the images to life and Jesus Christ that final scene especially? Eshref Reybrouk did the last three episodes and Alexandra Brodski the first.
What an achievement. I'm gunna be fucked up on that for a long time.
niall coming out to ruben and after their back forth ruben says ‘let them call us gay and proud’ immediately making niall’s sexuality about the both of them. it’s never just you or i. it’s we. it’s ours.
Reminds me of the previous episode when Ava asks him about his sexuality, and reminds him that "everyone important knows" like her and Lori, but Niall says "I don't know" emphasizing the I. He doesn't know how to accept himself sure but also, it's Ruben that doesn't know, that he can't tell. In a real way, he really doesn't know himself, because how could he, when "I" and "we" are the same?
I find it very telling that Tamsyn Muir, who came up through this hellsite, wrote books where the evil emperor starts out as a basically okay leftist millennial tumblr user.
What makes the villain the villain (inasmuch as it's useful to examine TLT characters through that kind of simplistic lens) is that when the chips are down and he has to choose, his priority is punishing the wicked, not saving the people left behind.
I would invite anyone whose engagement with their cause consists of finding the 'correct' group of people to hate, to consider whether 'evil emperor' is the next career move you see yourself taking, and if it isn't, to gently suggest disembarking from the hate train.
Because no one wants their God King to be a tumblrina called John.
If I could directly implant this understanding into the brain of every TLT fan, by jod I would
i've never played dragon age and don't know anything about it but what i do know is that that solas guy looks exactly like if astarion and wulbren bongle had a baby
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“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”
— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“
My husband and I took a much needed vacation to the upper northeast, hitting Acadia National Park in Maine, and Fundy and Kejimkujik Nation nal Parks in Canada. We saw deer, a juvenile moose, frogs, a groundhog, a salamander, some lighthouses, and had an excellent time. Then we ended with a day in Bangor, Maine. Apparently Stephen King lived here, but it's also the same name as where I got my MA (Bangor, Wales at Bangor University) so I got my knuckles tattooed. That was the next tattoo on my list.
