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THE VOICES 🫣💢

I haven't finished reading the Odyssey and idk if they gave the suitors a proper burial,, so here's a silly concept

Deepest apologies to all people who thought I was a serious person because I'm not ✌️

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ACTUALLY MY BABYGIRL 😭❤️🫶

@cleanfreakforever I kept thinking about him until I was able to get my goddamn tablet 😩

his eyes scare me /j

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My Shayla, my Shayla 😭😭

please expand on the lancelot x gawain i keep seeing on your blog 🙏

okay sorry i took so long i decided to shower after you sent me this because i knew that if i started then i would never end up showering today. and then it was an unfinished routine so i had to lotion and brush my teeth and floss and do hair stuff too.

so, obviously, it's lancelot du lac and gawaine of orkney. both knights of the round table, etc etc. you know who they are. i hope. they're not exactly similar to their bbc merlin counterparts---lancelot is of noble birth in classic arthuriana, gawaine is arthur's nephew (though bbc merlin doesn't exactly...keep the familial relations that canon does), things like that---but i'd honestly say that their character personalities are similar enough that it's verging on acceptable! just as a reference point for you, i suppose.

gawaine has lost a fair fight only to six knights in his time, launcelot being one of them (Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Mallory. book IV, chapter XVIII) (the other five being sir tristram, sir bors, sir percevel, sir pelleas, and sir marhaus). he is mentioned to throw fights against lancelot because he loves losing to him (cannot remember the source for the life of me) and, of course, lancelot always notices when he does.

then there's this famous quote:

(vulgate II, p140) where launcelot tells galehaut (another man that he arguably has...something...going on with) that he would share with gawaine everything he loves, save guinevere, in order to have gawaine forever. gawaine then goes on to say that, essentially, he would wish to be the most beautiful woman so that lancelot would love him as a wife.

also, in Morte, which i don't have photos of because my copy is a physical book rather than a pdf like how i'm reading vulgate and i don't want to take photos with my laptop camera. there is this quote "and Launcelot with this sword shall slay the man that in the world he loves best, that shall be Sir Gawaine." which is engraved in the hilt of the red hilted sword, balin's sword that merlin encases in stone and which galahad, lancelot's son, eventually wields.

^this, also. from vulgate IV, p140. after launcelot accidentally kills gawaine's brother gareth (named here as gaheriet; all the orkneys have...many ways of spelling their names. look up a list of all of gawaine's names over history, i dare you) who was guarding guinevere's cell...he begs gawaine to forgive him and even promises to swear himself and all his men into subservience to gawaine if gawaine would only forgive him. "I want to be your companion just as I used to be." mhm...

and "I'll swear to you on 'relics that I didn't kill your brother Gaheriet intentionally" is a huge promise. swearing on a holy relic in such a deeply, fundamentally christian society was the vow that you could make. the reason why honour was so important in that time was because the grand majority of people were illiterate, so one's word was the most one could give, in the majority of situations! and here is lancelot, saying that he'll swear on a holy relic that he did not mean to kill gareth if it means gawaine will forgive him and love him again.

there is also, right before gawaine eventually dies (from a sword wound to the head from lancelot) he writes a letter to launcelot begging forgiveness for having been so horrible to lancelot before his death, and wishing he could see him before he dies, for he knows he won't live long.

And then when paper and ink was brought, then Gawaine was set up weakly by King Arthur, for he was shriven a little to-fore; and then he wrote thus, as the French book maketh mention: Unto Sir Launcelot, flower of all noble knights that ever I heard of or saw by my days, I, Sir Gawaine, King Lot's son of Orkney, sister's son unto the noble King Arthur, send thee greeting, and let thee have knowledge that the tenth day of May I was smitten upon the old wound that thou gavest me afore the city of Benwick, and through the same wound that thou gavest me I am come to my death-day. And I will that all the world wit, that I, Sir Gawaine, knight of the Table Round, sought my death, and not through thy deserving, but it was mine own seeking; wherefore I beseech thee, Sir Launcelot, to return again unto this realm, and see my tomb, and pray some prayer more or less for my soul. And this same day that I wrote this cedle, I was hurt to the death in the same wound, the which I had of thy hand, Sir Launcelot; for of a more nobler man might I not be slain. Also Sir Launcelot, for all the love that ever was betwixt us, make no tarrying, but come over the sea in all haste, that thou mayst with thy noble knights rescue that noble king that made thee knight, that is my lord Arthur; for he is full straitly bestead with a false traitor, that is my half-brother, Sir Mordred; and he hath let crown him king, and would have wedded my lady Queen Guenever, and so had he done had she not put herself in the Tower of London. And so the tenth day of May last past, my lord Arthur and we all landed upon them at Dover; and there we put that false traitor, Sir Mordred, to flight, and there it misfortuned me to be stricken upon thy stroke. And at the date of this letter was written, but two hours and a half afore my death, written with mine own hand, and so subscribed with part of my heart's blood. And I require thee, most famous knight of the world, that thou wilt see my tomb. And then Sir Gawaine wept, and King Arthur wept; and then they swooned both. And when they awaked both, the king made Sir Gawaine to receive his Saviour. And then Sir Gawaine prayed the king for to send for Sir Launcelot, and to cherish him above all other knights. (Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Mallory. book XXI, chapter II)

(vulgate IV, p139). honestly? no comment here. it speaks for itself. this bit is where the ship name remarkable comes from.

of course, this is by no means a comprehensive post, just moments i can remember off the top of my head. and a lot of this can be attributed to today's view of male homosociality and how it's changed since the middle ages, skewing our view of what could have been, by all means, a platonic relationship. however it is my personal belief and interpretation that they were in love <3 muah the end i hope you enjoyed. i tried my best to explain both story and cultural context the best i could without going into irrelevant detail...i hope this is enough!

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Literally Guinevere and Lancelot

thinking about this dynamic

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MY POOKIES 🫶🫶🫶

21世紀で鉄馬を乗り回すアーサーと円卓の騎士（と書いてバイク乗りと読む） Arthur and Riders of the Round Table (in our time)

現パロ楽しすぎる……他の円卓メンバーと愛馬（※バイク）たちも描きたいですね

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Just this 👌✨

everyone in camelot is bisexual and polyamorous we love to see it. i don't think it would have saved camelot (in my humble opinion) but the raunchy gay sex sure did help!

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Best designs ong

finally submitted my thesis project 🌝👍 here are the finals for the designs i did for it

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MY SHAYLAAAA ❤️❤️❤️

The Fair Knight of the Lake

15 years old Lancelot fresh from the lake. A practice piece from last year, I redraw it a bit.

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Galehaut literally died and ended a war for Lancelot, my shaylasss 😭🙏

Which Arthurian Couple Matched Each Other's Freak the Best

AKA the freak4freak poll

Isolde and Tristan

They're literally insane, match potion be damned, no one is doing it like them. They got intrigue, smarts, a torrid love affair, a period of time where the dude goes insane. Isolde drops dead of heartbreak when she sees that Tristan has died without her.

Guinevere and Lancelot

Crazy work. They also have intrigue, smarts, a torrid love affair, a period of time where the dude goes insane (really said copy paste). However, Lancelot brings Guinevere significantly more severed heads, and also crawls across a giant sword for her. Take that as you will. They also like indirectly/kind of directly bring about the entire end of Camelot and cause the death of Arthur at Camlann with their love.

Guinevere and Arthur

Maybe in another life they could match each others freak. For now the vibes are rancidddd. Unless you subscribe to certain retellings and bits of literature where they actually love each other, but for the most part they are so un-in love with each other.

Ragnelle and Gawain

Uhhh awooga. Literally cannot even describe their freak4freak agenda. Ragnelle got magicked into a beautiful lady because Gawain respected her, she also trolls the bejeezus out of Arthur in her quest to marry Gawain. Gawain is kind of just fascinated for most of this. So many people can explain this better than me.

Galehaut and Lancelot

Hey fellas, you ever die of heartbreak because you thought your bestie in the whole wide world died? You ever give up an entire war to spend One Night with him? You ever get buried next to each other?

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Gladly

Take him

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Antinous has no chill I fear

Odysseus: Hello, it is I, a beggar, could you please spare some food for an old man like me

Antinous:

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TELEMACHUS IS SO CUTE 😭🙏

Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus (also this is my first post on here and I do NOT know what I’m doing so hopefully this works)

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most homoerotic arthurian texts

Lancelot and the Hart with the White Foot

its got everything. lancelot trying to avoid getting married, a DOG, greek mythology gay people parallels, gawain rescues him and cares for him homosexually, gawain freaking out when lancelot is gone for 48 hours while guinevere looks on, corn? for some reason,

look the dutch went off with this one they really did.

the galehaut section of the lancelot section of the vulgate lancelot-grail cycle. here is the first part scanned by valentine lanzelet

honorable mentions go to:

–the second half of chretien de troyes knight of the cart

–the first half of the stanzaic morte

–bisclavret (gay werewolf knight gay werewolf knight)

and finally, who could forget gawains classic christmas kiss exchange, told in the famous–

greene knight, an alternate, gayer version of sgatgk knight that exists. is the poetry worse yes is it gayer also yes. god speed

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To bee’th cringe is to bee’th free

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Lancelot and Galehaut fr

Somewhere in the castle...

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please help me find names for these two

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I love them, they would’ve made the best trio

Welcome to the British Museum 

I have a lot of feelings about these guys