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the number of swords with incredibly hyperspecific powers in Arthuriana really delights me:

Then they girded on a sword: it was such a sword that any woman in labor — even if her life hung in the balance — would be delivered of her child at once if struck on the head with the flat of the naked blade.

�� First Percival Continuation, Nigel Bryant translation

this is just a sword that Gawain is using for normal quest stuff btw

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crazy that merlin is like “despite the horrific circumstances of my birth, I choose to reject the evil destiny expected of me and instead to live an upright life” then proceeds to lead like, the most evil life imaginable

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morgause looking at gawain and clarissant not realizing they’re siblings and being like “they would make a good couple” is so rough. like girlie does not have a great track record with that

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I will be implementing DEI initiatives throughout the kingdom to make all of the knights transgender.

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have a percival wednesday 👌✨

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oresteia, robert icke / from the nebraska plant, the mountain goats / jayme ringleb, from “a little learning” / black sails / blue nights, joan didion / pentimento definition / myers’ psychology for the ap® course, c. nathan dewall and david meyers / pink, sylvie baumgartel / perforated heart, eric bogosian

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“COME GET YO MAN”

AU where Sophia is the Lady of the Lake 💛

When Merlin killed her in the lake, she regained immortality but only pertaining to her role as Lady of the Lake, destiny now intertwined for the rest of time with the prince she tried to kill

She’s a real nuisance every time Merlin shows up to the Lake of Avalon to send off another dead loved one :/ However, when it’s just the two of them for so long…

By the time Merlin sends Arthur off, Sophia sincerely promises to take care of the king until his return

This is my first fill for the @merlinbingo!

Tile T4: Sophia

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birds carrying human limbs

in "speculum humanae salvatoris", germany (augsburg), early 15th c.

source: Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1806, fol. 27 recto [detail].

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Grail Illustration // Sharon Olds // Mordred, A Tragedy - Henry Newbolt // Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk // In The Blood - John Mayer // Anguish - August Friedrich Schenck // Elektra - Sophocles // Ivan The Terrible And His Son - Ilya Repin // The Last Days of Judas Iscariot - Stephen Adly Guirgis // screens of 'mordred' are of anuerin bernard in the white queen

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i love it when two adult men have a homoerotic teenage girl friendship and falling out

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Vulgate Anonymous was really funny for this.

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lancelot just wanting to bask in the afterglow with his beloved guinevere only to find out he's just slept with a stranger AND he's been baby-trapped by her creepy father. never a moment of peace

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“she’s not evil she’s traumatized” actually she’s both. women contain multitudes

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imagine how much fun you could have if you were a peasant and could sign into ye olde reddit to argue on a thread titled “is gawain a nepo baby?”

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experts claim summer is, once again, icumen in

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excalibur’s champion, guinevere

folkbruary day 8 in march? don’t mind if i do

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I can't stop thinking about this medieval girl and her dog ❤️🥲

(Les Trés Riches Heures de Metz, 14th century)