#I’m so SO sorry to all my followers who don’t know shit abt the mechs

[deadbaguette]

Lost in the cosmos makes me very sad but I love Brian very much so have a small doodle

[totopopopo]

oh i did read the poem, it's just that, for me, in my head, arthurian caracters are more like archetypes and the tales are more a concept than a history in themselves, so i'm not really concerned with accuracy or even if different retellings discuss the same thing or have the same meaning. it's like. it's more framing than content itself? and thus anyone who takes upon them the task of retelling those stories tells their own stories and i don't mind if they are conscious of it and decide to rewire the whole thing.

also, i thought the way it went in the opposite direction of where the poem goes is fun. i read someone else a lot more knowledgeable abou this say that it's like movie gawain lives in the shadow of poem dawain - the one the kids know about and all - and can never quite live up to it and then ends up straight up not living.

i was starting to write a whole essay here on what i personally took from it but deleted because it really was a whole essay and i don't think you'd like to hear that much abt a movie you didn't like akdhakdhalud

and don't feel sorry for bashing a movie i liked! it was, again, entertaining as hell and i get why you didn't like it,

Oh I’d actually be super interested in that AJSGSSJGK like. I study this shit for school like Arthurian lit isn’t my specialty but I’ve done quite a bit with it both from a literary perspective and a religion perspective so like. Please write an essay I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Personally accuracy is usually not something I’m HUGELY concerned about especially w like arthuria and big ol stuff like that. Like just to take an example, the mechs, which if u follow me you may or may not be into?? But anyways I think their HNOC (and tbh all their albums’ interactions w the main sources) is a really really excellent example of something that isn’t all that accurate or that makes big changes but at the same time feels like it still really UNDERSTANDS the source and is like. Very intentionally engaging with the source while not being a retelling by ANY means. In fact I really really love that kind of thing and think that “accuracy” is the least important thing abt adaptations of things like mythologies and big big.. ya know… Arthurian Legend Is.

HOWEVER this movie is like. Very specifically supposed to be based around a very specific poem, and I feel like the director or whoever just had no fundamental understanding of that poem in any way shape or form. You can engage with and alter text but there should be something there that still makes it about that text and I just thought that was absolutely not true in this case???? It wasn’t just inaccurate, it threw away archetypes and themes and questions and the fundamental core of the text. Don’t pretend it was something it’s not don’t dress it as that story when it. Just. Isn’t even engaging with it. Was how I felt.

ANYWAYS if u feel like u do wanna write that essay please do I’m 👀👀 but if you’re done with my gawainposting then feel free to ignore akshssjsgsjk