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🫂 for arthur, 👽 for guinevere and 📓 for lancelot?
🫂Headcanon about Arthur’s friendships:
Arthur’s beloved but not many get to liking him. He’s an ideal, a symbol, godlike in such a way that the majority of people revere him and it puts up a wall that’s very difficult to surmount and develop close friendships. There are of course exceptions: Kay, who will always be Arthur’s no-nonsense big bro; Guinevere similarly, who always tells Arthur exactly what’s on her mind whether he likes it or not; Gawain and Yvain/Owain could fall here too, although they’re young enough to somewhat revere Arthur, there’s real trust there; last but not least is Lancelot who, again, worships Arthur, but there’s a mutual understanding which many of Arthur’s other relationships lack, and that makes them very close.
👽Headcanon about Guinevere’s weird quirk:
Guinevere was raised in nobility, a pampered princess. but she’s perceptive. Maybe it’s her giant ancestry, maybe she’s just got the same special something which makes Arthur and Lancelot so good at what they do, but she puts it to great effect while at her seat of the Round Table. She’s not easily intimidated, she can sniff out her “opponent’s” weakness quicker than they can formulate a rebuttal. She’s informed and lethal. It makes her a trusted ally and even friend of Kay. Gawain refers to her as “politicking assassin.” He also has this ability, but Guinevere’s a natural. She unnerves people. Mrs. Pendragon has claws and knows how to use them.
📓Headcanon about Lancelot’s hobbies:
Lancelot loves long horseback rides with no destination. Usually in accompaniment with someone—Arthur, Guinevere, his kinsmen, Gawain, Gareth. It suits him best when adventure finds him, he just has to be in the right place for it. He doesn’t wait around for people to come knocking on Camelot’s door. He searches for the call for aid. Aside from that, he does love a good game of chess with Guinevere. Arthur can play too but it’s like facing an apprentice, the King’s just not a real challenge. Lancelot should probably be letting him win (the way Owain does) but the Queen’s Champion has never been very good at social cues…
#arthurian legend#arthurian legends#arthuriana#arthurian mythology#arthurian literature#king arthur#arthur pendragon#queen guinevere#guinevere#sir lancelot#lancelot#lancelot du lac#ask game
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Wherever the king had to go, it did not care to be apart from him; it always went along with him. He could see well that it loved him.
On the king’s own bed he found the knight sleeping. The king ran to embrace him; more than a hundred times he hugs and kisses him.
some Bisclavret for you in the style of the Codex Manesse :)
#arthuriana#arthurian legend#arthurian mythology#arthurian legends#king arthur#sir marrok#melion#bisclavret#marie de france
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it's been a long time since i've interacted with anyone on tumblr, it feels so nice to have people who can relate to you <3
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Sorry if I was gone for a while. Family business and all.
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Tumblr is so lucky to get to witness the cutting edge of Celtic Studies research in real time (me and my friends being weird about medieval texts on the internet)
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here's a fun parchment fact for you re: reusing a surface: sheepskin was often used for legal documents because it's hard to scrape out a word and rewrite without it being obviously damaged, unlike good quality calfskin where it can be undetectable that something has been altered
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@hoeratius and some others were asking for the first draft script of Troy (2004) after this post and I actually found the original link to the screenplay! Enjoy the absolute madness that is Michael Tabb’s Troy adaptation, based on the Iliad and Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. Includes fun things like:
charioteers with French names
Achilles being an old fart, with two sons named, you guessed it, Patroclus and Pyrrhus
Diomedes being renamed OCTAVIUS STRATO
Troilus watching Cressida wake up through her window every. Single. Morning.
Cressida being ‘different~’ because she’s ‘feminist~’ and because she wants a man to see beyond her pretty looks~
Cressida consuming her marriage with two broken femurs, which is fine as long as Troilus is gentle with her~
oh, and several heroes walking away from an explosion in slow motion.
I wish I was making this up.
Have fun!
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Young Merlin: King Vortigern, you should have kept Constance's kids in your care and should have been a proper regeant to them. Instead you choose to be a coward when you refused the people to make you their king.
Vortigern: oof
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I'm making this mental note to myself, because it's happened repeatedly while I'm writing this fic:
Your least favorite plot arc will always be whatever plot arc you're currently working on. One you start working on the next arc, the previous one will instantly be terrific in comparison. So just keep moving and it'll be fine.
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has anyone checked on thomas malory lately. is he okay
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dear Arthuriana fandom, today I bring you not one, but two bastards! Although very different ones
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Alas, it was Mid Evil times, where Sir Bedivere gets to chop his wife’s head off for just SUSPECTING her of adultery and still gets to become a knight at court, and they were too hamstrung by their own religious fervor and adherence to the codes of chivalry to find out that answer.
See, I've got a problem with T.H. White's interpretation, because of the hang-up about "the Law".
On one hand, Bedivere just killed his wife without trial - that's a very stupid president for legal action because it would be subject to abuse. This was something Roman Law/Lex Julia was worried about: Marriage is about property rights, not love, and anyone could lie or set up false evidence about their wives to seize their property. So, in Roman Law, only the wife's family members can kill the adulterous spouse, not the husband, and ONLY in delicto inflagrante.
On the other hand, it is this:
Why is the killing of adulterers banned?
Well's its mostly for the same reasons divorce is banned: What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder (Matthew 19:6)
And since Christianity as a religion is about Penance and Repentence, the Church would proscribe no Death Penalty as a sanction unless in very extreme cases.
The real tragedy of King Arthur, reading The Once and Future King from a modern vantage point, is that these three don’t realize what an absolutely KILLER polycule they’d make, and the throuple hasn’t been invented yet.
Like, the way Arthur and Lancelot are written in this SCREAMS “There’s something a little queer about this,” and if those perspectives and options were common, how would the outcome of the story change? Would Arthur’s rule still be doomed to fail if he and Guinevere just kind of decided “Well… the obvious solution here is that we both just bring Lancelot into our partnership.” He already confides in them both quite a lot and they all have a lot of big feelings for each other… maybe this would have been the best thing for all three of them.
Alas, it was Mid Evil times, where Sir Bedivere gets to chop his wife’s head off for just SUSPECTING her of adultery and still gets to become a knight at court, and they were too hamstrung by their own religious fervor and adherence to the codes of chivalry to find out that answer.
But damn if Arthur reaching over to squeeze Lancelot’s knee affectionately while they sit together under an arbor and watch the younger knights practice their archery isn’t stirring up the thought in my head, lol.
#sorry if its off topic#but th white's narrative gives me headaches#medieval law#history#th white#once and future king#arthuriana#lex julia#canon law
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Literally literally when mordred wheels out the fucking canons to shoot at the Tower of London. my heart just drops. like it is SO OVER. Mordred is literally ushering in the end of the age of chivalry and nothing will ever be the same again
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was just once again delighted by a Middle English man being described as "fish-hole" (= fish-whole; healthy as a fish), and I think we need to bring this turn of phrase back. "Look at that guy over there, flopping and wriggling around and gasping for air. Fit as a fish!!" Do you understand my vision
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