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I didn’t realize people hated Agravaine bc they interpret his sliminess as creeper-ness when this whole time I’ve just been assuming he’s a villainous gay fop who loves drama. “But he’s obsessed with Morgana” yeah a lot of gay men are obsessed with dramatic girlboss divas. It’s a whole thing. Morgana is his Lady Gaga but granted she also did not ask for that

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I genuinely do not remember posting my grad project anywhere. The final result was a hardcover book

"Erec et Enide" by Chretien de Troyes

linocut

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ygraine and nimueh

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yeah i'm wlw (wench loving wench)

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Mordred lays siege to the Tower of London, where Queen Guinevere, defended by two hundred knights, is concealed. Miniature from folio 81 verso of La Mort le Roi Artus (The Death of King Arthur), an Old French prose romance belonging to the Lancelot-Grail cycle. This manuscript, produced by an unknown hand ca. 1316, is now in the British Library.

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What if I told you that in 13th century prose romance les prophecies de merlin a sorceress casts a magic beam out of her vagina what then

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evening dev sketch good for the mind

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people who hate the guinevere and lancelot affair are so boring like that’s literally the best part every day i wake up and im like thank god they had that affair

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merlin and uther meeting at like thirteen and then making each other soooo much worse

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Wall have ears. They also love gossip and having your attention 🫶✨

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merlin and uther meeting at like thirteen and then making each other soooo much worse

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Where is that post of mine that’s like god in the prose merlin after ensuring that merlin has free will to do either good or evil with his powers and merlin meets uther pendragon when he’s thirteen:

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man as microcosm & man as macrocosm

illustrations from the süddeutsche tafelsammlung, an encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and astrological-medical drawings, bavaria, c. 1410

source: Washington, Library of Congress, Rosenwald Collection, Ms. 4, fol. 4v and 5r

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" [...] Tell me, young sir, what is your mother like? Some odd stories have gone out about Morgan le Fay." "She has been very good to me," he said. "Of course, with her holdings and all her special duties, perhaps I have not been with her as much as she wished, but—yes, she has always been kind and even thoughtful. And when she is in good temper and all goes well, there's no one who can be more gay. She sings like an angel then and dances and makes jokes so funny that you crack your sides laughing." "When she is not gay, what then?" the lady Lyne asked. "Well, then we have learned to slip away. She is a person of very strong character."

— The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck

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Siedlęcin Tower fresco: Kay and Lancelot

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Why Get Angry at Helen? Genesis (3:13) // Eve, Anna Lea Merritt // Agamemnon, Aeschylus (tr. by Anne Carson) // The Tale's Worth Telling: A Thematic Comparison of Homer's Iliad and Malory's Morte D'Arthur (x) // Love's Shadow, Frederick Sandys // Guinevere, Lord Alfred Tennyson // The Winter King, Bernard Cornwell // Helen of Troy, Frederick Sandys // Guenevere, Sara Teasdale // The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser // La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Frank Dicksee // Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths, Natalie Haynes // Psyche Opening The Golden Box, John William Waterhouse