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luanna801 · 2 days
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Here's a genuine, good-faith question for Agravain fans: what stories of his do you like? Are there specific aspects of him you enjoy, or is it more about protectiveness over him getting blamed for catching someone else cheating?
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luanna801 · 3 days
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Oh gosh, I have so many thoughts about this!
I think Agravain plays a really interesting role in the Orkney brothers, in that he's the only one who seems to have genuinely clicked and bonded with Mordred, and the only one who ends up supporting Mordred's cause when the others side with Arthur.
Gaheris and Gareth both seem to look up to Gawain and follow in his footsteps (in the versions where Gawain is portrayed as noble and worthy of emulation, which is my preference), at least until Gaheris' random foray into matricide. Agravain is the next-oldest after Gawain, but neither of them seem to look up to him. In some versions like Vulgate, his dynamic with Gaheris is downright antagonistic. I think Agravain resents Gawain's authority as the oldest and is annoyed by how the younger two seem to just unquestioningly accept it and idolize him, while Agravain gets none of that.
Then Mordred shows up. In Mallory, this doesn't happen until Mordred is fourteen, so Agravain is presumably in his twenties. And for the first time, Agravain has a brother who fits his mold and not Gawain's, a brother that he meshes with. In the Vulgate Prose Lancelot, young Mordred is Agravain's squire (just like Gaheris is Gawain's in sources like Mallory), and that parallel alone is revealing. But we repeatedly see them paired up and later plotting together throughout the sources, like there's a bond between them that neither of them has with the other brothers.
Now, in the versions where they're played as two-dimensional villains that basically boils down to "They bonded over being evil", but I think there's room to add a lot of nuance there. Mordred is often portrayed as not starting off evil (again, see early Vulgate), and we get hints of that with Agravain too. One of his earliest chronological appearances is in Chretien's Story of the Grail, where he comes across as a bit hot-headed, but a protective and loyal brother to Gawain.
So I think you can definitely go the route that Mordred and Agravain weren't initially evil, but they bonded over being a bit different in personality from their brothers, maybe a bit more cynical in how they see the world. As someone who never idolized Arthur the way the three Gs do, once Mordred finds out the truth about his past, it's Agravain who would be the most inclined to listen and get angry on his behalf rather than automatically taking Arthur's side. While (to my knowledge) we're never explicitly shown a scene where that happens, we can read between the lines and assume something like it must have happened, since Agravain is later shown supporting Mordred's attempted coup.
And I honestly think Agravain has a solid argument to make that it's his loyalty that's exactly where it should be. That their first loyalty should have been to their brother and not their uncle. That Mordred deserves to get revenge on the man who (in several versions) tried to murder him as a baby, or at least took him from his family and sent him off to the middle of nowhere. That the crown is Mordred's by right as Arthur's son, and Agravain is only helping him get the justice Arthur denied him.
You may agree or disagree with all of those arguments, but I think they're ones which carry a lot of weight, and I think it's interesting that Agravain is the only one whose decision apparently came down on that side. I think there's endless potential to dig more into those complicated sibling dynamics, and I'd love to see a version where some of these arguments were explicitly played out onscreen rather than just being subtext.
Here's a genuine, good-faith question for Agravain fans: what stories of his do you like? Are there specific aspects of him you enjoy, or is it more about protectiveness over him getting blamed for catching someone else cheating?
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luanna801 · 5 days
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חג פורים שמח!
I made three types of hamantaschen! Poppyseed, raspberry, and lingonberry!
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luanna801 · 5 days
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Shout-out to Sefaria for this beautiful drash. This was a really sweet thing to receive in my inbox, and I thought some of you all might appreciate it, too.
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luanna801 · 5 days
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The Washington Megillah (Megillat Esther, The Book of Esther), Scroll on Parchment, Illuminated, Italy eighteenth century Hebraic Section.
Depicted in the panels at the top and the bottom of this scroll are vignettes illustrating the story of Purim.
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luanna801 · 5 days
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Purim earrings
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I made hamantaschen earrings for Purim
they have beads for mohn/poppy seed filling and the dough is felt
Happy almost Purim!
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luanna801 · 5 days
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happy purim y'all!! a few weeks back i got to be in a lecture with jordan gorfinkel where he spoke about his project of creating graphic novel adaptations of the tanakh, and showed some examples from the development of the illustrated megillat esther. the amount of research, dedication and hard work that went into it is incredible. have some photos of the finished thing
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luanna801 · 5 days
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I am very proud of my lemon curd hamantaschen this year! Homemade lemon curd, exactly enough curd for the dough, and I was visited by the Anti-Hamantasch-Blowout Fairy! It's going to be a great Purim!
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luanna801 · 5 days
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Purim starts TONIGHT! Happy Purim!!!!
Jewish Pride Always
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luanna801 · 14 days
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Gloria Holden (Dracula’s Daughter, The Life of Emile Zola)— She deserves to be alongside Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee as the hottest classic movie vampires. She was the first major examples of the reluctant vampire and the lesbian vampire and should have gone on to become an iconic scream queen. Her voice, her amazing gowns, and her EYES! I would let her eat me any day
Alma Rosa Aguirre (Nosotras las Taquigrafas)—no propaganda submitted
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Gloria Holden:
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She made an indelible impression on me in the title role in "Dracula's Daughter" as an elegantly tormented sapphic vampire failing to repress her urges to feed on women. What can I say, I'm gay.
ooooh my god. oooooh my god. She's got the cold high society woman with secret anguish thing nailed down. Also her role as Dracula's Daughter actually inspired Anne Rice. ok.
We owe Gloria Holden for the Interview With the Vampire book and the gay awakenings of baby goths everywhere.
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Her performance in Dracula's Daughter inspired Anne Rice and she's name dropped in Queen of the Damned. A queer icon, for sure. And surely this poll needs some horror movie queens?
i'm nominating her particularly for her work as a lesbian vampire in dracula's daughter (1936), which was about as overt about the concept that she was trying to suck this unsuspecting lady's blood in a gay way as it possibly could be under the hayes code
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Gifset 2: https://www.tumblr.com/junkfoodcinemas/687098898667405312/draculas-daughter-1936-dir-lambert-hillyer
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luanna801 · 14 days
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In honor of the Ides of March, my favorite Tiktok
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luanna801 · 14 days
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luanna801 · 3 months
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Wow, yeah, the current result here is UNACCEPTABLE, so I'm adding in some more propaganda for Fredric March, who is literally one of the hottest Old-Timey Movie Men of all time.
First we have his performance in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), where he's not only one of the hottest Classic Hollywood men, but arguably THE hottest fictional mad scientist of all time. Just look at him!
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And honestly, I've never even found Henry Jekyll a particularly sexy character! But holy cow, March's interpretation of him is stunning. Just look at how well he combines unhinged and gorgeous here:
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Then we have Death Takes a Holiday, where he plays an extremely sexy personification of Death, which is honestly every goth's dream?? And despite it being an old movie, there are scenes here that are SO overtly seductive and sexy, and the movie's ending (no spoilers) is gloriously darkly romantic.
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Hot damn, what can I say??
Honestly I think these two movies alone would cement March's status as sexy proto-goth Classic Hollywood icon, but not content at stopping there, this absolute mad lad also starred in what could very accurately be called Hollywood's first polyamorous rom-com, Design for Living (1933):
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(That is not in any sense me speaking in fannish hyperbole or false advertising here, I cannot stress enough. This movie explicitly ended with her happily going off with both of them. In 1933!!)
Anyway tl;dr Fredric March is sexy as hell, and a lot of his movies hold up fantastically and are also sexy as hell. This is just a brief overview of some of his highlights, but I highly encourage you to give him the vote he deserves, and then check out some of his excellent movies.
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Fredric March (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, I Married a Witch)—no propaganda submitted
Lex Barker (Tarzan's Magic Fountain, The Price of Fear)—no propaganda submitted
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luanna801 · 3 months
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Apple latkes?! Genius.
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luanna801 · 3 months
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babe wake up new ‘hanukkah’ spelling just dropped
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