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diioonysus · 5 months

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tender love + art

#painting is by mark english dont know the title #couple kissing at piano bench but cant find the artist #i think the artist is ron hicks but i cant find anything to confirm that #no title but by joseph lorusso #no title but by andy virgil #hans markart “musikalische unterhaltung”#love under the desert sky by unknown artist #at the verbena by cecilio pla #the art of love by ron hicks #wedded by frederic leighton #tristan and iseult by gaston bussiere #tinkerbell by gustaf tenggren #romeo and juliet by gaston bussiere #tristan and iseult by unknown artist #dont know the title but its by frederick goodall #dont know title but its by hubert-denis etcheverry #love amongst the ruins by edward burne-jones #umarmung by wilhelm list #tristan and isolde by marc fishman #lancelot and guinevere by donato giancola #romance painting by franz paul maria guillery #cupid and psycho by baron francois gerard #the new bracelet by henryk siemiradzki #idyll in pompeii by jozsef molnar #bridal love by tom lovell #dont know the title but its by howard forsberg #april wedding by harry fredman #marriage proposal by albert wenzell #dont know title but its by edoardo tofano #i cant find title nor artist

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taliesin-the-bored · 3 months

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When you realize that Tristan, Iseult, Dinadan, Palamedes, and Mark are basically the stock cast of a sitcom…

#tristania #arthuriana #sitcoms #tristan #he’s the melodramatic main character #iseult #she’s the love interest #dinadan #he’s the snarky best friend #palamedes #he’s the melodramatic rival/frenemy #King Mark #he’s the jerk #or the guy who everyone hates for no reason #depending on your perspective #Would Iseult Blancmains be a character? I don’t know #I feel like this could be a thing if it weren’t already a thing

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gellavonhamster · 10 months

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la tavola ritonda liveblogging(ish) 4/4

whenever Mordred is casually referred to in the text as Arthur's son, I start wondering whether it is because it's assumed that the audience knows or because the characters (as in everyone, not just his parents) also know

the Lady of the Lake has just kidnapped Tristan, Lancelot, Isolde, and Guinevere and faked their deaths... to let them spend some time together? What is happening

Arthur addressing Isolde as "my daughter" :')

interestingly, here it is Pelles's wife who arranges that Lancelot has sex with her daughter to conceive Galahad, not her daughter herself and/or her nurse

"Know that Palamidesso was a good knight: bold, gentle, courteous [...] one of the four boldest knights of the Tavola Ritonda."

Lancelot has a daughter? Apparently??? She appears briefly to fetch Tristan to save Lancelot and other knights from prison and then disappears from the narrative again. No name for her is given

the recluse that Perceval visits here is his sister instead of his aunt

Perceval's sister (not the hermit, the one that goes on the quest) has a name here for a change - Agrestizia

I'm pretty sure the other versions of the Grail Quest mention that the lady who had leprosy needed the maidens' blood to wash herself with it or something? Because here she needs to drink it

Brangaine dying of sorrow... oh no :(

Hector just yeeted Tristan's shield into a pool, because he wanted to be a bitch, I guess

"O courteous Palamidesso, today our feud is over. O bold Lancilotto, today we are no longer companions." 💔

Mark's end is some scary shit

weird as fuck for Gawain to be the one to uncover Lancelot's affair with Guinevere. In general, he's like part-time Agravaine here (Agravaine is also here but he barely does anything)

when Mordred took the throne, people were loyal to him due to his "great joyfulness and courtesy"

"Don't do me such courtesy," said Lancilotto [to Gawain], "for I am going to treat you just like I did your brothers." oh my god

Mordred kills Arthur but survives, and is then killed by Lancelot

look, this is the Gareth Survives AU. Only Agravaine and Gaheris are mentioned to be killed by Lancelot when he's found with Guinevere. Of course, then it is also mentioned that "almost all of the knights errant" died in the battle with Mordred, but it is not said that Gareth specifically died. Ergo, I can pretend he didn't.

#this text was very uhhh rushed? but entertaining #definitely more to my liking than bédier's tristan and iseult that i read before it #talk talk talk #gella talks arthuriana #arthuriana #arthurian legends #tristan #isolde #mordred #king arthur #palamedes #lancelot du lac #gawain #king mark #gareth

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oneshoulderangel · 8 months

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I cannot with this book. We’ve got Cinderella 3 levels of extra going on here.

King mark was just enjoying a peaceful day playing chess and suddenly this man hurls himself out of his window and tries to play it off like he fell asleep. I can’t believe I was ever worried that I was making my interpretation of the Cornwall gang too ridiculous. These people live by looney toons logic, I swear.

#shoulderangelcomics #arthurian literature #arthurian legend #arthurian mythology #arthuriana #sir tristam #sir tristan #tristan and iseult #tristan and isolde #sir kehydius #king mark #le morte d'arthur

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yugiohz · 1 year

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I expected Tristan and Iseult to be more tragic tbh, like it def is tragic but also very funny

#when Marke accidentally gives away Isolde and is too pussy to fight the other guy #so Tristan does and he calls his uncle to get a fucking grip #see that’s when Iseult shouldn’t been able to divorce him

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youjustwaitsunshine · 1 year

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uuuh seb lancelot mark gawain?

#hit me with other arthuriana thoughts pls i mostly just think that seb slaying mark and mark forgiving him for it.#or seb is iseult hehe. we already have a mark. only need a tristan

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orangerosebush · 1 year

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High on a rocky ledge lives a Mädel, Edelweiß Shy as a shadow, lovely as lace, and cold as ice High on a rocky ledge, I pledge my love to her Ev'ry time I climb up to Paradise

How many times I've been up to see her, goodness knows Huffing and puffing, dressed in the warmest climbing clothes How many chances would be taken in my Hopeless pursuit of the Schnee-Mädel-Edelweiß

Then spoke a spirit, "If you would win your Lady Love There's only one way: fall to your death from high above You will begin to grow in snow beside the one You have waited for to be mated with"

Now, I'm an Edel, vice to my Mädel, Edelweiß Dying to be with her wasn't any sacrifice We're so deliriously happy on our ledge Where I pledge my love to my Lady Fair

You who are climbing breathless to see me and my love Snow flowers growing fonder on Lover's Ledge above If you've the yen to pluck, then pluck us both For we who have lived as one wish to die as one

#If you've the yen to pluck #then pluck us both #For we who have lived as one wish to die as one #reminds me very much of Bedier's tristan et iseult:#When King Mark heard of the death of these lovers #he crossed the sea and came into Brittany; and he had two coffins hewn #for Tristan and Iseult #one of chalcedony for Iseult #and one of beryl for Tristan. And he took their beloved bodies away with him upon his ship to Tintagel #and by a chantry to the left and right of the apse he had their tombs built round. But in one night there sprang from the tomb of Tristan a #strong in its branches and in the scent of its flowers. It climbed the chantry and fell to root again by Iseult’s tomb. Thrice did the peas #but thrice it grew again as flowered and as strong #Spotify

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joemerl · 1 year

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I feel like she lost the right to that title when she abandoned the king to go boink his nephew.

#Why is she even still alive? Mark is supposed to be ''evil'' but he won't even execute his adulteress.#Arthurian legend #Tristan and Isolde #Tristan and Iseult #Isolde #Iseult #King Mark #Sir Tristan #Tristram #Sir Tristram #Arthurian mythology #Le Morte D'Arthur

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oforkney · 2 years

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uncordially invited to king mark's court

#the entire byelorussian tristan is so funny so far #mark and his relatives are truly off the rails in this one #he has already tried to kill him two times pre-iseult #tristan and isolde #byelorussian tristan #oforkney.txt

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gringolet · 1 year

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rating whether polyamory would solve famous love triangle plots

Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot (Arthuriana): no because Mordred and Agravaine would not be let in on the mutual consent and would still try to catch Guinevere cheating

Tristan/Iseult/Mark (Tristania): absolutely not because Mark is Tristan’s uncle

Tristan/Iseult/Palomides (Tristania): absolutely yes because between Palomides and Iseult all of Tristan’s most unhelpful impulses would be balanced out

Peeta/Katniss/Gale (Hunger Games): polyamory alone cannot defeat an authoritarian dystopia

Cyrano/Roxanne/Christian (Cyrano de Bergerac): solves every problem in the first 3 acts, solves no problems in the 4th

Wesley/Buttercup/Humperdink (The Princess Bride): while Wesley would be happy living as buttercups side piece, the problem is no amount of mutual consent will fulfill prince humperdinks emotional need to be at war. so no

Orsino/Viola/Olivia (Twelfth Night): most of it yes as long as Sebastian fucks that pirate

Heathcliff/Catherine/Edgar (Wuthering Heights): Technically yes but they all have so many emotional issues that new problems would immediately arise and Catherine would still die of being stressed out by the whole thing

Mark Antony/Cleopatra/Caesar (Antony and Cleopatra): well vibes-wise they were probably all fucking in real life and clearly polyamory alone did not save the Roman Republic

Menelaos/Helen/Paris (The Iliad etc): polyamory alone CAN stop the Trojan war as long as the Greeks know Menelaos tops

Florence/The Russian/Svetlana (Chess): polyamory alone cannot stop the Cold War

The Dutchman/Sente/Erik (The Flying Dutchman): solves every interpersonal problem but would actively damn the Dutchman to wander the seas forever

Mathilde/Julien/Mme de Renal (The Red and the Black): a rare case where polyamory would make everything WORSE! Fucking two people at the same time would make poor asexual Julien even more miserable and more people would die. Mme de Renal’s guilt would be even more destructive. Mathilde would suicide bait everyone else involved.

Raoul/Christine/Erik (Phantom of the Opera): probably not but i want to say yes because its such a funny concept

Jacques/Severine/Roubaud (La Bête Humaine): no! Jacques would just sexually commit TWO murders

#arthuriana #arthurian legend #cyrano de bergerac #shakespeare #wuthering heights #the iliad #der fliegende holländer #the red and the black #le rouge et le noir #la bête humaine #emile zola

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gellavonhamster · 10 months

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on Brangaine, Constance Bonacieux, and devotion

La Tavola Ritonda / The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas / Iseult and Brangaine (1970) by Salvador Dalí / Tristan and Isolde discovered by King Mark (1883) by August Spiess (detail) / The Musketeers (2014-2016) / Prose Tristan / Warming Her Pearls by Carol Ann Duffy / Detail of the illustration for Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde in The Victrola Book of the Opera: Stories of One Hundred and Twenty Operas with Seven-Hundred Illustrations and Descriptions of Twelve-Hundred Victor Opera Records (1917) by Samuel Holland Rous

#'is the lesbian poem really necessary' yes it's a load-bearing lesbian poem.#arthuriana #arthurian legends #brangien #brangaine #isolde #iseult #the three musketeers #alexandre dumas #the musketeers bbc #the musketeers #constance bonacieux #anne of austria #my stuff #gella talks musketeers #gella talks arthuriana #talk talk talk #mine: compilation posts

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oneshoulderangel · 9 months

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You know, all throughout this version I was thinking “Mark isn’t so bad. He genuinely loves Tristan as his own son and actively wants him to be his heir. He trusts his nephew and his wife (though he shouldn’t) and just seems a kind, forgiving (if not terribly effective) king. Then you go and pull this nonsense and now I can see why Malory dragged him through the mud. Mark, baby, what the actual hell?

#arthurian literature #arthurian legend #arthuriana #king mark #tristan and isolde #tristan and iseult #sir tristam #sir tristan

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bean5prouts · 16 days

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So I know you like Tristan and Dinadan but what are your thoughts on other Cornwall gang/Tristan support cast folks? (ie Brangeien, Kahedrin, Mark, Palomedies, Dinas, Lamorak, anyone else)

i love them ALL so much omg. the characters all complement each other really well! i should have said this in my crackships ask, idk why it slipped my mind, but in a perfect world i think tristan, iseult, palamedes and bragwaine/brangien/brangaine/however her name is spelled should be in a polycule. bragwaine is the only braincell in this operation. because of tristan there’s a negative braincell total anyway. it would be utter chaos and i live for it

i forget about kahedrin and dinas a lot but i like them too!!! when i think of dinas all i can think about is that one episode where his girlfriend leaves him and takes his dogs, and he’s more upset about the dogs than his girlfriend. based.

lamorak isn’t one of my absolute favorites but i like him a lot too! i like to meme on him. he’s into milfs and i love that for him. honestly me too buddy

i love palamedes a lot actually, he’s another one of my faves. just love a guy who goes and cries by wells. deeply relatable man. in touch with his feelings

this got very long LOL these are my scattered head cold thoughts, my head currently feels like it’s filled with cotton balls so my thoughts aren’t exactly coherent lol

#asks #i think this is long enough to count as a #beans.txt

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sweetbrier2908 · 23 days

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tristan and iseult but lucifer as iseult and mc as tristan and diavolo as king mark

wait is it me or the play in og! obey me literally has TRISTAN AND ISEULT VIBE???

#obey me #tristan and iseult #obey me lucifer #obey me diavolo #obey me main character

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dakukabi · 9 months

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PUNCHING YOU IN THE JAW

TRISTAN. FATE AND ACTUAL MYTHOS. GO

the fate one is shockingly incredibly accurate to just how weird tristan is!!! it’s also one of the better tristans I’ve seen in general because for some reason, arthurian writers like to make him mean/rude/abusive and he would never be like that (looking at you, TH White).

they do a great job at making him a total weirdo who runs on his own logic while simultaneously allowing him to be a serious character. especially in lb6, where even when he’s being silly, they have little details to remind you that he’s still, at his core, a man who’s lived his life unable to ever fully relax out of fear of potentially being attacked (mostly due to his uncle, probably). unfortunately, however, in events, he tends to get reduced to a womanizer and adulterer. those kind of memes/jokes fit tristan moreso than lancelot for sure, but even so, he’s more than just a man who chased after his uncle’s wife!!

just in general, tristan’s one of my favorite knights. he’s been through a lot - loss, betrayal, abandonment - to the point that even upon being born, his mother gave him a name that reflected the fact that his life would be full of sadness. in le morte d’arthur, at least, his story is partly about him trying to learn and accept that his uncle (his only family, as he was essentially disowned by his father) is someone he needs to cut out of his life, but even so, his undying loyalty to the one who took him in after his father threw him away and belief that mark might become better causes him to continue to return to mark and eventually be slain by him.

despite all that, tristan continues to be his usual gremlin self (other than when he went berserk that one time and ran around naked in the woods except when he would eat other people’s food. berserker tristan when, fgo? berserkerlot needs a friend and who better than the man he kissed over 100 times in life???). everything is clearly affecting him (the whole iseult of the white hands situation doesn’t help), but he continues to do his best!!! and play sick songs on his harp for his girlfriend and the random guy whose girlfriend he stole and he can’t possibly comprehend why said guy might hate him.

by the way I know this has been me rambling about how much I love the complexities of tristan but I just want to add on as a final line: the halloween 2 event where tristan jumps out a window and flies using his harp is a thing tristan would actually do. he does that in one point in le morte d’arthur but it’s him jumping out a church window and off a cliff after beating up a bunch of guys because he suddenly realized that he was naked and was embarrassed because people saw him, not because he was caught in bed with his uncle’s wife. by the way, he did not have his harp and it is not explained how he survived jumping through a window and off a cliff. tristan is simply just that powerful

#fgo #by the way they should keep putting him in situations. it’s funny

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polarisdelphi · 4 months

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Another Knight I worked on my Arthurian concepts, Sir Tristan. One of my favourites again blaming the 2005 movie for that and accidentally looking like a ranger :)

Also accidental Jesus Christ as well, I only realized after I coloured his face *puts on clown makeup*

Everything is rounded and wavy with him - even with his sword, I opted for more rounded shapes to give Tristan this air of softness. He is known for his love of Iseult, so I'm taking the route of "this man is a menace, but is filled with kindness in his big golden heart".

Same goes for the flowers all over. They are to point that soft side of his but I also searched a little bit about Kernow, found out about Cornwall, and decided to incorporate those flowers into his design.

As a counterpoint, we have his sharper facial features and scar, indicating that ~menacing~ part of his, I guess hahaha

Once he ended up falliing more to the ranger side on my design, I also opted for leather armour instead of full heavy stuff. His build is more athletic but not bulky yes, yes, Lancelot is the heavy hitter fighter in the team, who would've known and he has this sense of ~movement~.

And, of course, sad droopy eyes and forget-me-nots in his hands.

As always, I'll leave more explaining and fangirling over Arthurian characters under the cut, where I'll tell al little more of my version of these characters!

SO TRISTAN, MY BELOVED.

Like I said, I became a Tristan fangirl after the 2005 King Arthur movie thanks to Mads Mikkelsen but I only went downhill from there. We all know the story of Tristant and Iseult, and he always ends up being one of my favourite characters.

Therefore, when I was reading Bernard Cornwell's Enemy of God, I almost died when I saw the phrase "because that was the summer of Tristan and Iseult" and went NOOOOOOOOO I'M NOT READY FOR THIS PLEASE LEAVE MY TRISTAN ALONE.

Alas. He wasn't left alone.

As there are many iterations of his tale, I had to decide which one to go with in order to get his design going. I like the tragedy of having him being Mark's son, as prince of Kernow, and falling for Iseult - the young woman to be married to his father, the King of Kernow.

Why? Because I'm a dramatic bitch, that's why.

Jokes aside, I think it opens many options for character development and counterpoints. By choosing Tristan to be Mark's son, I can develop them as being opposites in basically everything.

Unlike Lancelot and Galahad, who are opposite sides of the same coin and can work together despite how different they are, Tristan and Mark cannot. Tristan is brave while Mark is a coward, Tristan is gentle while Mark is harsh, Tristan is kind while Mark is cruel. All his softness, beauty and knightly courage is reflected as cruelty, uglyness and cowardice in his own father.

And by uglyness I mean more than just what we consider beautiful in aesthetic terms - it would be a putridness of heart, a rotting of the soul. Tristan's beauty comes from his capability of showing mercy and love, from having rough hands but wielding the softest of touches, from knowing how to hunt but also how to preserve the world around him to keep it in balance. Starkly different from his father, from his own blood.

That's why I think his design took a more ranger route. I wanted him to have that sort of Aragorn quietness and gentleness mixed with an imposing but quite relaxed aura of when Aragorn first appears as Strider - the Ranger of the North.

Ok peeps I won't dwell much on this because I FREAKING LOVE RANGERS. Ever since I discovered RPGs in my life, when I was a little kid playing Ragnarok online, I'm a ranger, I can't choose a different class, they are awesome and yesterday even I was fangirling over how awesome I feel with my ranger only dialogue in Baldur's Gate 3 and how badass my ranger character looks, thank you very much, I'm accepting Tristan into the ranger family AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON ARAGORN-

Ranger Tristan it is.

And the theme seemed to fit him nicely. Like I said before, having him as the son of King Mark of Kernow - which, as my knowledge goes, is Cornwall - I wanted to use his colours as black and yellow. But they didn't work with him at all. Testing some other similar colours, I ended up with forest green and everything fell into its proper place - so the black/yellow theme will probably be his father's, to be another counterpoint to him.

If Mark is full on his posh and noble clothes, Tristan will be simple and wearing only a few things to identify himself as the prince of Kernow - hence the Kernow flowers engraved on his gear.

On my Arthurian world, then, Tristan and Iseult fall in love willingly, no love potions involved. For Iseult knew only obligation and fear with Mark until she was treated with utmost kindness and love with Tristan - sealing her fate as soon as he kissed her hand for the first time as an act of courtly decorum. And Tristan... He met in her the same kindness he always had inside of him but was never extended to him. Having, for the first time, someone care and worry about him, someone who offered him gentle words instead of cruel ones.

They were, unfortunately, meant to be - and their hearts knew they couldn't be together, but a love like this cannot be tamed or ignored.

Regarding his looks, the only thing I really wanted him to have was droopy eyes - reflecting that internal sadness in his soul. The longing he carries for something he doesn't quite know or understand, until he sets his sad eyes on Iseult.

And that's why he is carrying forget-me-nots. As a foreshadowing of his and his beloved's fate at the hands of his cruel father - myosotis, as I always heard them being called, are a pledge to never forget your loved ones, a vow of faithfullness, during all life and in death, remembering the adoration for those who aren't among the living anymore.

And I think it fits Tristan and his tragic love for Iseult quite nicely.

him looking like ranger Jesus Christ wasn't intentional I SWEAR

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