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Chun Ouyang, Star car 2009

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A part of being an adult is living with regret and not allowing it to consume you. The older you get, the more mistakes you’ve made, opportunities you’ve missed, people you’ve disappointed. And every day you have to remind yourself to be kind and forgiving of yourself. You accept and love the you from the past and understand that it’s all a part of the process. Then you move on and live your best life, knowing now as old as you feel today, you’ll never be this young again.

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Sacra di San Michele  X-XI century, Piedmont (northwestern Italy)

It is situated on the south side of the Val di Susa. Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose” was inspired by this monumental abbey.

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4 shades of blue captured in a single image in Antarctica

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Is that a trebuchet in your pants or are you just happy to siege me

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ode to the knitting hubris

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Back on my bullshit

(Ignoring all my wips and starting a new shawl)

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So, how do we engage with this demographic? The first thing is knowing who we’re talking about and then finding a name for them.

THE THICK OF IT | 4.02 

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a few days ago i was exploring an abandoned mansion and i found an overgrown swimming pool with computers in it

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FLEABAG (2016) Created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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griffith observatory / hubble’s ultra deep field

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photography by  Bao Tran Trung

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The Shark Nebula

The Shark Nebula, LDN 1235, is a faint cloud of interstellar gas and dust located approximately 650 light-years from us in the constellation Cepheus. The image spans about halfof its actual length of about 15 light years.

Telescope: 16″ f3.75 Dream Scope Camera: FLI ML16803

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I am awaited. I am awaited in Valhalla! MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015) dir. George Miller

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i think everyone needs to get into wildlife identification it's like a minigame for real life

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Simon Bang (Danish, b. 1960, Denmark) - 1: The Blind Spot, 2022  2: Between the Lampposts, 2022  3: Die Blaue Strasse, 2022  4: The Incident, 2022, Paintings: Acrylic on Canvas

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PERCEVAL THE UNHAPPY, THE MISERABLE, THE UNFORTUNATE, THE FISHER KING!

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

ALRIGHT alright. so previously I did an illustration that explained the premise of all this, that it's inspired by the narrative choices that Bresson made in his film Lancelot du Lac etc

to dive in more into it (because this is something like derivative fiction. I'm putting concepts into a blender and seeing what comes out of it): the setting is haunted by the previously existing narratives that started cannibalizing each other until it regurgitates itself into the more well known narrative beats, and something else about the invasive rot of christianity and empire mythmaking into settings. it's an intertextual haunting, if you will! and this scene takes place during the grail quest narrative, but the temptation of Perceval plays out differently.

in both Chretien (and Wolfram's) Perceval narratives, what 'wakes' Perceval up (in more ways than one. desire and self actualization in one go!) is seeing knights, something his mother tried hard to keep him from. so instead of the temptation of lust & etc in the Morte narrative taking the form of a lady, it takes the form of a knight. the temptation to renounce one's faith to serve something else remains.

so Perceval still stabs himself, but instead of continuing on the grail quest in the shadow of Galahad, he becomes the narrative's Fisher King because his earlier state of being as a the grail quest hero is creeping back into his marrow. it was waiting for an opening, and stabbing yourself in the thigh is one hell of a parallel!!!

that wound isn't going to heal buddy, and the state of the setting will now be reflected on your body. sure hope that Arthur hasn't like. corrupted the justice of the land or anything. that sure would suck for your overall health.

all the red in this sequence is because in de Troyes' Perceval, Perceval takes the armor of the Red Knight and becomes known as the Knight in Red.

and now for the citations, which I will try to order in a way that makes sense!

Seeing Knights For The First Time

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

The Temptation of Perceval

Le Morte Darthur, Mallory (modernized by Baines)

The Fisher King, and Perceval The Unfortunate

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

On Perceval and Gender, etc.

Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey

On Wounds

Wounded Masculinity: Injury and Gender in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, Kenneth Hodges

The Red Knight

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

On Arthur and the Corruption of Justice

The Failure of Justice, the Failure of Arthur, L.K. Bedwell