#Belleu

[lenoblepierreuniverse]

Pour un Flirt Chorale Not' en Choeur Pierre Lenoble report

[skubri30]

BELLEU - Aisne

Le courrier n'arrivera plus à l'heure

[classygivernight]

[roundtabletea]

Is Lancelot a queer icon? A character analysis!

Hello noble readers, and buckle up for a long post. This time, we’ll be talking about Lancelot du Lake–arguably one of the most famous knights of the Round Table. Normally when we talk about Lancelot, we’re talking about his devout, somewhat insane love affair with Guinevere. But instead of that, we’re going to discuss a particular story in which Lancelot goes through some queering events. This post is about Sir Thomas Malory’s “The Noble Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake”, and all the ways in which Lancelot is characterized as a queer character.

First up, we have to talk about the scene with the four queens in this story. If you’re unfamiliar with it, this is the part where Lancelot is just sleeping in the woods (???) and these four beautiful queens basically kidnap him, bring him to a castle chamber, and force him to take one of them as his lover. That’s not the weirdest thing to happen in medieval literature (looking at you, Wheel of Fortune), but the weirder part is Lancelot’s response. He says that he would rather die than choose one of them. Refusing women when they offer themselves to him is significant; he’s the most famous knight in the land but, time after time, he keeps on saying that he doesn’t want to take a wife or lover. An important side note here is that his relationship with Guinevere has not been established yet–in this story, he’s a single man! Lancelot choosing to reject all four of those beautiful, powerful queens is an important queer aspect of his character; he is alone and unattached even though he has the opportunity not to be.

This leads into our next point–Lancelot explaining why he doesn’t want a wife or even a paramour. He first says that all the rumors about him shacking up with Guinevere are completely false. Then, he adamantly states that a wife would only hold him back from participating in tournaments, jousts, battles, and adventures. He also says that having a paramour just feels wrong to him and would only make him a worse knight. Basically, Lancelot says a lot of not-so-nice things about women here; they’ll only hold him back, he’s stronger without them, etc. But if we combine that with his refusal earlier, the queer aspects of his character start to add up. He will actively refuse women over and over again because, unlike basically every other knight out there, he doesn’t see the need to have his own wife. It leaves him in a weird position; he isn’t acting like any of the other knights we so often read about–he isn’t even acting like the version of himself we’re familiar with from other iterations of Arthurian stories. In those, he is devoted to Guinevere; he fights battles for her, gives her presents, and constantly has to prove his love. Here, he’s a lone knight, wandering from battle to battle–his more significant interactions are with fellow knights, leaving women behind entirely.

This leads into our final point about Lancelot’s queering in this story; his interactions with male characters! Towards the beginning of the story, Lancelot seeks shelter for the night in a random pavilion (basically a tent). Unbeknownst to him, the pavilion belongs to Sir Belleus, who misrecognizes Lancelot as his lady and starts to kiss him as Lancelot is sleeping! This one is just plain obvious; Lancelot was both misgendered and was kissed by another man. If that’s not a sign of literary queering, then I don’t know what is, so let’s move on. Later, Lancelot spends the night with Sir Kay–while their sharing of a bed may seem like queering, this was actually commonly done and totally nonsexual, so we’ll skip it. The more important part of this glorified sleepover is that Lancelot switches his armor, shield, and horse with Kay. These are all essential to masculinity, so sharing armor is a somewhat intimate thing. Based on what we've already seen with Lancelot, this level of trust and intimacy is something he doesn’t want with women and can thus only have with men.

So, we’ve talked about the queer aspects of Lancelot’s character in this story. He rejects women who offer themselves to him, hates the idea of being bound to a wife, and seems to have his closest relationships and interactions with men. It’s certainly different from the Guinevere-obsessed Lancelot we’re used to. Lancelot comes off as eccentric and even weird in this story–we didn’t even mention the part where he strips down to his underwear to climb up a tree. But since, in many other Arthurian stories, a knight’s masculinity seems to be supported by his lady, this separates Lancelot from others. In this story, at least, his gender construction doesn’t stay strictly within the binary and his motives and actions become harder to understand.

First image: Thomas Mackenzie, 1920

Second image: Miniature of Lancelot and Guinevere, north-eastern France or Flanders (St Omer or Tournai), 1316

[withbirmingham]

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[woniscene]

❤︎ SERENITY CLUB BINGO

The last mission as a student! 👩🏻‍🏫

ⓘ This post was made to ful-fill HeartandHallways last mission and there's nothing to do with Jeong Woni or RESCENE.

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Dear, Serenity Club

The best home ever! ❤︎

Kalau misalkan surat untuk teman, aku pasti bakal bilang kalau Serenity Club itu temenku sekaligus keluarga aku. Aku cuma mau bilang ke semua students kalau kalian sangat amat baik! Semoga kalian selalu dikasih hari hari yang bahagia ya. Semoga kalian selalu dapat hal hal baik di hidup kalian. Entah dimanapun kalian setelah ini. Aku harap aku sangat amat terus berteman sama kalian.

Ayo kita banyak banyak syukuri apa yang kita punya di dunia ini, entah apapun itu. Ayo kita lebih sayangi orang orang disekitar kita. Dan nanti kita bakal ngerasain bahagia yang lebih lebih lebih lagi. ❤︎

[nyang-belle]

Hello, this is author of Belleu speaking.

Since today there is a mission from Lassdorz, i will be Kim Mingyu for 24 hours. This won’t last long, so I ask you not to get confused or mute this account, Thank you

[conte-et-raconte]

Conte et Raconte………..raconte !

 ·         Samedi 29/04/2023 à Laon ESCAL 63 rue Serurier à 18h  «Scène ouverte mensuelle »

·         Dimanche 07/05/2023 à Merlieux Géodomia 12h « Fête des plantes »

·         Dimanche 14/05/2023 à Laon rempart Saint Martin à partir de 12h « Fête de la nature »

·         Samedi 27/05/2023 à Laon ESCAL 63 rue Serurier 18h « scène ouverte »

·         Dimanche 04/06/2023 à Vauxbuin 396 rue de la Villette Maison blanche de 16 à 17h « Rendez-vous au Jardin »

·         Vendredi 09/06/2023 à Pinon 18h30 « Balade contée » S’inscrire auprès de accueil2@picardiedeschateaux.fr ou 0323523740

·         Samedi 10/06/2023 à Septvaux 15h « Balade contée » S’inscrire auprès de accueil2@picardiedeschateaux.fr ou 0323523740

·         Samedi 24/06/2023 à Laon ESCAL 63 rue Serurier 18h « Scène ouverte mensuelle »

·         Samedi 08/07/2023 à Belleu 15h « Balade contée S’inscrire auprès de Office de tourisme du Grand Soissons au 0323631737 ou officedetourisme@agglosoissonnais.com

·         Jeudi 24/08/2023 à Soissons St Jean des Vignes 20h « La vie tonitruante des moines »

[muslim-flint]

everybody say heeeeeyyyyy mx carter

ok to rb (he/she)

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

By the way, on my soirée into the fascinating world of King Arthur, I learnt many things. One is that Lancelot is just inherently a ridiculous character. Don't believe me? Allow me to tell you the story of how Sir Belleus joined the Round Table...

(Source is Phyllis Ann Karr's Arthurian Companion, which itself cites Morte d'Arthur)

So, Lancelot was riding along one day, it was getting a bit late so he was getting tired. He comes across a pavilion, kind of like a portable bed the nobility used carried around by servants. There doesn't appear to be anyone around, so Lancelot just... gets in the bed. Apparently this was a thing he keeps doing in Mallory. Lancelot I think you have a bit of a problem.

So, it turns out that, shocker, the really expensive bed lying in the middle of the road actually belongs to someone, namely a Knight named Sir Belleus. He comes back from his business, sees someone sleeping in his bed, and assumes it's his wife, which leads us to two conclusions:

Sir Belleus is blind and can't notice the person in his bed is clearly a man

Lancelot is such a Bishonen that he's easily mistaken for a girl, as evidenced by the fact that this KEEPS HAPPENING

(in case it's not clear, I'm hoping for the latter)

So, Belleus gets into his bed and starts spooning with the person he thinks is his wife. Lancelot (who in this equation is the little spoon, this is canon, fuck off) responds by 'no-homo'ing so hard he STABS BELLUS IN THE STOMACH. WOW. THAT'S LIKE GREEK TRAGEDY LEVELS OF MISUNDERSTANDING MY FRIEND.

Fortunately for both Belleus and the reader, Lancelot is spared another soliloquy about how sorry he is at killing somebody by the timely arrival of Sir Belleus' wife, who has several questions:

Who the fuck are you.

Why the FUCK are you in my husband's bed.

OH MY GOD WHY THE FUCK HAVE YOU STABBED MY HUSBAND!

Lancelot, in that great British tradition, starts compulsively apologising for everything he's ever done, and Belleus himself says that 'this knight is a good man', which is kind of a leap given the only interaction you've had with him is him stabbing you, but okay. The lady, being naturally sceptical of the man who just stabbed her husband, demands to know his name, and even though Lancelot is travelling incognito (because for some reason no one wants to fight him once he introduces himself as Lancelot) tells them his real identity, and the lady*, being a shrewd businesswoman (because this is the Middle-Dark Ages and every noblewoman is a shrewd businesswoman) tells him that they'll forgive the stabbing thing as long as Lancelot agrees to make Belleus a Knight of the Round Table. Lancelot, who is very familiar with the fact that people have been made Knights for worse reasons, agrees, and they both part ways.

Now, I'm not saying that this wouldn't be out of place in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but I know it wouldn't be because it isn't:

Again I must bring up: one of the Pythons was literally an Arthurian scholar. This, rather ironically, makes The Holy Grail one of the most accurate depictions of at least Le Morte d'Arthur in modern cinema, and that will never stop being hilarious.

*she's never named, although, this being the Arthurian mythos, there's a non-zero chance she's called Elaine

[gawayne]

so belleus went and sat on his bed without noticing at all that lancelot was in it. was lancelot like totally under the covers. blanket right over his head like some sort of grub

[exercise-of-trust]

le morte d’arthur readalong notes, book 6

i am very fond of lancelot, really i am, i just wish malory weren't quite so obvious in the narration which knights he likes best. it tends to make me like them less. i like lancelot! but i would like him more if i didn't have malory singing his praises nonstop

...is the vulgate the thing i have to read if i want to understand what the fuck is going on with lancelot's family tree? i'm still new to this and still very confused

okay t h white is a coward for omitting the kissing in the whole mess of lancelot crashing in belleus's pavilion and almost killing him. that makes the story so much better, holy shit

i realize it's absolutely ridiculous for me to expect any kind of timeline consistency here, but i feel obliged to point out that unless time has been passing in really, really weird ways, it seems a bit of a stretch for mordred to be a knight yet, and yet here he is?

"and sir mordred brake a spear upon him, and sir launcelot gave him such a buffet that the arson of his saddle brake, and so he flew over his horse's tail, that his helm butted into the earth a foot and more, that nigh his neck was broken, and there he lay long in a swoon" i fully acknowledge the futility of asking this, but at this particular point in the already dubious flow of this timeline is this in any way a reasonable - oh never mind. i fucking give up.

for all the rumors that are apparently circulating about lancelot and guinevere and how they're so obviously in love with each other, we still haven't gotten any proper on-page interaction between them and i don't know if malory is trying to build suspense or if he just doesn't think it's important but i really, really wish he would stop presenting us with conclusions before he's gotten around to the evidence part

it's really difficult for me to be objective about the lancelot of the text? because t h white rewrote so many of these lancelot stories so closely to the originals, and malory gives so little information about what's actually going on in lancelot's head that it's very difficult not to just project all of the extra modern complexity onto him just for a break from all of the monotone rescuing

this last point ended up being way too long to fit in the list format so it gets its own paragraphs. i keep trying to write out what, specifically, is bothering me about it, without much luck, so i’m just going to leave some disjointed thoughts here and hope they make sense to other people, or they’re enough of a reference for me to rewrite from later when i feel like a human being again.

so, i don't really like what lancelot does in the whole incident where he takes out the three knights pursuing kay, and makes them surrender to kay, and runs off with kay's armor in the middle of the night. because, and i think this might just be a side effect of too much rosemary sutcliff as background noise during last night's knitting vigil from hell, it feels like a kind of fundamental stomping all over kay's pride? thats not quite right but it’s close. anyway a lot of sutcliff's writing focuses on relationships built around people standing on their dignity to varying degrees, but a common theme is "some people will not thank you for helping them, even when you are able to fix the thing in question, because you will have hurt their pride."

and with malory it's weird because he seems perfectly fine with young knights taking on challenges too big for them and then refusing to back down because Honor and Chivalry and also pride, and he also seems to attach some degree of moral value and, again, Honor, to things like "number of times you've been knocked off your horse" or "number of fights you've won/lost." basically, whether, and to whom, and under what circumstances you yield all seem to be Important, in some way that seems at least partly connected to your honor and reputation as a knight. but malory doesn't have a problem with lancelot making decisions about that kind of thing for other people; kay doesn't get a choice in whether or not he's credited with the defeat of the three knights who came after him, or any of the other knights lancelot defeated in his armor. and malory doesn't even tell us how kay feels about the situation, because the story is about lancelot, and lancelot is the hero, and therefore all his decisions are good ones. disregard any concerns you may have about the agency or desires of other individuals involved i guess.

(there’s a 20% chance i’m onto something here and an 80% chance i’m going to reread this later and think “what the blithering fuck” so we’ll just have to see how that shakes out)

[claudiocosta]

Bucólica, como diz @zeca22 em #Belleu's #trip com @ameliaprocopio #igersminasgerais (em Belleu's)

[kellycr]

Belleu

“Posso não saber usar todos os 4 tipos de “por quês”. Mas te amar eu sei.”

— Planteador (via expurgar)

[nyang-belle]

Love letter,

For Adam & Eli;

hi abang.. teteh.. gimana rasanya udah mau pisah sama hoodlums? sedih apa seneng yaaahh? semoga sedih please :< hehehe.. seneng banget gw kepilih jadi anak lu, dulu gw selalu chattin kalian pas puasa tau! menemani jaman-jaman sahur, this is belle islam.

sangat senang banget bisa kenal sama caretakers yang baik ini :3 soalnya without you guys, we’re nothing!! semoga kita bisa jadi temen ya, walaupun posisi bukan ct-members tapi temen-temen. jangan terharu baca pesan dri gw yaaa? gw selalu sayang kalian kok! see you when i see youu ❤️

For Hoodlums;

eh sedih banget, aku rasa kita belum banyak ngobrol! padahal kita udah 30 hari bersama, tapi gak mau pisah kaya urat nadi. 🙂‍↔️ (mas anies mas anies), gak nyangka ya bio HOODLUM akan segera dihapus sama kalian. seneng banget, bisa kenalan sama kalian! walaupun sedikit ngobrol tapi seneeeeengg bangeeet. ♥️ gehehe semoga kita masih bisa banyak ngobrol, walaupun bukan sesama hoodlums lagi, tapi aku berdoa yg terbaik buat kaliaan!

see you when i see you,

with love,

belleu ❤️

[eightfourone]

so Lancelot and Sir Belleus totally fucked right?

lancelot just happens to get into his bed and then belleus 'mistook' him for his lover and started kissing him, and then they had a "swordfight" before the actual lover returned??

"Milord, why are thou so sweaty? and who is this stranger?"

"Why uh... this is Sir Lancelot and- uh, well I thought he wert thou and so we got in a fight, which is why I'm all sweaty. We got in a swordfight and he beat me, but he was very chivalrous about it and treated my wounds after."