#Rountables

[arabiclanguageday]

Arabic – the Language of Poetry and Arts.

 On December 18th; The celebration of World Arabic Language Day 2023 will be held from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. This year’s commemoration coincides with the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of Arabic as one of the six UN official languages. To pay tribute to the poetic and artistic brilliance of the Arabic language, UNESCO will bring together researchers, academics, youth, and heads of international institutions. The UNESCO organizes round table discussions and cultural performances. Applicants to the Prize for Arab culture must have contributed significantly towards the development, dissemination and the promotion of Arab culture in the world.The winners of the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture will be announced. The event will serve as a solid platform to delve into the discussions on the Arabic language's influence on shaping knowledge, societal transformations through poetry, and its impact on the arts, while fostering cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue. The Roundtables within this initiative will center on:

Philosophy and Poetry: The Contribution of Arabic Poetry to Knowledge Shaping and Social Transformations

Arabic Language and Arts: Broadening Scopes of Cultural Diversity

‘Arab Latinos!’: The Arabic Imprint in Latin America and the Caribbean

Side Event: Additionally, as part of this initiative, a side event will be organized to reflect on the initial outcomes and highlights of the forthcoming publication focused on the role of Arabic in social inclusion and its preservation within the Arabic-speaking communities of Europe while promoting their integration into host societies. To register, please click here

[ladyjuquia]

I still think about Summer Tristan…

[thistoowillpasss]

I've been vibing with roundtable knight gear this week.

[sscorpiiio]

another endearing thing about pedro is that you KNOW he knows their work. he’s watched it alone in his jammies at 9:30pm, breathlessly laughing and murmuring things out loud to the tv, completely engulfed. he appreciates the art and the people that make it. he never misses a “i just wanted to tell you how much i appreciate you” moment.

[indiemovies]

ngl i supported kaz brekker even when i thought he did bury that little kid alive

[safyresky]

me listening to the monday morning meeting: you are all. so boring. and so busy. at the same time

[benwillbonds]

TAYLOR HALE | BB26 Jury Rountable

[that-nerd-who-writes-fanfiction]

BBC Merlin fic rec

The Time Merlin and Lancelot Almost Destroyed Camelot (as told by the Knights of the Rountable) by CaffeinatedFlumadiddle

Words: 16,279 Chapters: 3/3 English

Summary:

"It's true then?" Elyan frowned as he peered out the door into the hallway Lancelot had just exited through. Gwen bit her lip before nodding. "Damn. What would Lancelot and Merlin even argue about?"

"Please," Gwaine rolled his eyes before flicking his hair out of his face "This has got to be some new battle strategy. Maybe Morgana is trying to throw us off with this so we won't notice when she tries to invade again." He shrugged. The others seemed to consider this.

"That somehow makes more sense." Percival muttered. Gwen wrinkled her nose before putting down the basket with a sigh.

"I'm telling you," She said "George heard them both yelling. It sounded very intense."

"Maybe they were having sex. Sometimes people yell during sex." Gwaine suggested. Everyone turned to him.

"Is that more likely than having an argument?" Leon asked dryly. Gwaine pointed his glove at him.

"Between Lancelot and Merlin? Yes. Absolutely, you ignorant fool."

Or

Lancelot and Merlin get into an argument. All of Camelot loses its goddamn mind trying to figure out what's going on.

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Merlin and Lancelot friendship, the knights getting up to shenanigans, poison ivy as an apology gift, everyone freaking the fuck out when Merlin is spotted without his emotional support Lancelot

I honestly love this so much, go read it.

[glimeres]

" Listen, this musical was about alcoholism. Deep, dark alcoholism. And a love story, but riddled with this third player, right? So it wasn’t for everybody. I knew that it wasn’t the most commercial thing. It was an art piece, and I was so proud of that, actually. And we’re lucky that it had a space on Broadway for even a minute. But what killed me is that I felt like the population that needed it — us all being the daughter or having had that mother or knowing that father or whatever it was — I was worried that we hadn’t reached them. I sometimes worry that the business can be very formulaic, especially in how we sell things. And I was concerned that we weren’t reaching the audience, the whole new generation of sober-curious people, and people that don’t usually come to theater, or whole organizations that thrive and survive on sobriety or that need to have the conversation constantly or to see themselves in a story.

We were being told to sell it as a love story. We were deceiving people as they walked in the door, and I’m saying this out loud because it was one of the most painful parts of the process for me — to be doing that much, to be giving that much of my heart, and being so satisfied by the performance, and then I would literally have someone every single night come and see it and say, “Oh, I had no idea it was about alcoholism.” I jumped back on social media when we got the closing notice and started trying to promote the show, sweating, just to get more people in front of this beautiful piece of work. And I felt sad and angry because there was a time when that wasn’t your job as much; your job was to do eight shows a week with all your heart. But it felt like, “Gosh, I should have been more of an influencer. I should have been having things on the sidewalk [like Hamilton did].” And I started to get desperate because when you work on something for 20 years, and you know how special it is… But then you have to check yourself and say, “It’s special to me, and that doesn’t always translate to special to the larger community.” But it’s painful. When you’re in something that means the world to you, and it’s closing, it’s heartbreaking because it feels like a death."

Kelli O'Hara talking about the early closing of "Days of Wine and Roses" in the annual The Hollywood Reporter Tonys Rountable

[lowbudgetmovie]

who would yall pick as the new rountable host?

[oneknightstand-if]

How would the gang react to MC being (the rountables version of Ushiwakamaru from FGO)

Like they catch MC coming back from some where covered in blood and holding a katana in full armor like is clearly an armor from the roundtables knights mixed with samurai armor before saying finally got rid of our tail before falling back with a splash into a river to wash away the gore still on them.

How they'd react depends entirely upon what part of the plotline has been reached. If this is during the first book of One Knight Stand while civilization still exists and people are unaware of the demons and the fae... that ain't gonna go over too well.

Merlin: (repeating themselves from Chapter1-7) I feel I must remind you that civilization and all its lawful peculiarities is still functional at this time.

Adrian: WHAT. THE. *&%*

Arthur: *still too asleep to be taking part in this conversation*

Percy: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Perfectly normal.

4̸0̷4̸ ̵E̴r̸r̵o̴r̴ ̸N̵o̶t̷ ̵F̶o̸u̴n̵d̴: *still too busy trying to kill you to take part in this conversation*

Cassandra: *someone really wants to be arrested it seems* I see... perhaps you wouldn't mind going into exact detail regarding what just happened here?

Gwen:

Vivian: *still too Sealed Away to be taking part in this conversation... not that she'd care*

Lorelei: *someone is getting a weapon pulled on them right now*

Broderick: *pretty sure he's hitchhiked two states away at this point*

[ladyjuquia]

Sir Tristan is truly the coolest Knight of the Round Table!

[jestersloverre]

MIDST ROUNTABLE AT 7PM PST TODAYYYY

[bballlvr8]

i think p living in the same house as drew’s mom and her son had some influence on how she acts and speaks and i think she just heavily invested in basketball culture hence the aave.

miss girl said in an nil rountable that “you have one group that don’t know nothing and another group that dont know nothing and just a whole bunch a people that don’t know nothing.” she was dead serious too i’m sorry after i heard her use “nothing” instead of “anything”i realized girl is not not faking anything that’s just how she speaks

yeah! paige has been that way since i’ve started tuning into her. To newer basketball fans they think she’s cosplaying but i knew that was never the case because it just seemed too authentic lol.

[risu5waffles]

Roma Issues Rountable Round 2!

This is just a heads up to let folx know that @alicerulerofwater will be joining us once again to head a roundtable on Roma issues. This go we'll be digging a bit more into media (mis)representation, and how we got here. Yes, we'll be talking some about that WoD splat.

Like last time, stream will start regular time (8p UTC +9), i'll spend the first hour myself in LittleBigPlanet 3 create mode to give folx time to filter in, have my usual first break. When we come back (9p UTC +9), discussion will begin. If that sounds like an interesting time to you, please do drop on by!

Things went pretty darn well if i do say so myself last go, so i have high hopes this will be the same. Deep thanks, once again, to Alice for being willing to head this up and do a lot of the heavy lifting for the community's benefit. And a thanks, as well, to The Empty Room community for being willing to make this space, and for being such respectful participants.

[katyspersonal]

Roderika and Nepheli are really cute as a ship imo. I love how Nepheli mentions her in one of her dialogues, meaning that they at least interacted at some point. I know it's a small detail to base a ship around, but I do think they might be very neat together. What are your thoughts?

It IS a cute ship! I have not seen it very often, actually but it is probably because all two of my ER mutuals reblog either Finlenia or Yura x Eleanora sdfhfd I am sure it exists somewhere, because Nepheli acknowledging Roderika is very good at perceiving spirits "unlike her" not only implies having interacted, but also points out how they are different. I really love ships in which characters are 'opposites' in a way that complete one another, whereas being similar at their core, big fan. And? They are fitting the description! Nepheli is a strong, tough warrior that points out she can't even feel the spirits, let alone see them, whereas Roderika is naturally drawn to them and good at spirit tuning whereas having "never held a sword in her life"; but at the same time they are both sensitive and vulnerable emotionally while trying to be strong! Roderika says she is 'just a coward' for being scared of the idea of her limbs being cut off, Nepheli says she is 'pathetic' for being heartbroken about her father betraying her... There is just something similar to this, the whole vibe of having enough emotions but not being "weak" for that I keep trying to grasp (because I LOVE it).

🦅 Nepheli though rolls into blaming herself for Gideon being the worst father ever, as if she "failed" him and it served her right, while also hesitantly seeing through his injustice, and I feel like Roderika would be the one to recognize this pain and detrimental effect Gideon can have on psyche of even very strong and level-headed people and try to approach her about it? They DID interact, right. Roderika IS anxious and hesitant, but also has very good intuition for good and evil it seems, so Nepheli's strong appear as this... barbaric, no-bullshit warrior would not intimidate her. She'd see Nepheli's kind and good heart beneath it even before once talking to her! Basically, I feel like their talk happened from Roderika having been concerned, in the 'Sorry if that's not my business but do you need to vent' manner!

🎐 In fact, the contrast between Nepheli's "he betrayed me and killed and oppressed the weak but it is probably my fault... right" vs Roderika's "I sense very bad vibes from a person all the opposite way in the Rountable who is not even physically here" feels like a nearly-comedic potential for me! x) Roderika is good at identifying the bad guy, when Nephelis is good at taking the bad guy down! I just imagine Roderika being like "Get 'em, baby!" in the duo, sending Nepheli to obliterate the bastard with her axes fsdhdf They could've done so much combining their strenghts and compensating for each other's weaker points hahaha. Dangerous duo (in a good sense)

🦅 They are THE "She asked for NO pickles!" meme and you KNOW it, lol

🎐 Lowkey sad though that this ship doesn't have enough 'breathing room' within canon: Nepheli gets her spirits lifted up because of a bird spirit ash and not Roderika (sure she'd credit her for help and not only Tarnished otherwise) and is always off to travel, whereas Roderika is pretty much glued to the Roundtable... It is all videogame mechanics restrictions. SO yeah, we need an Elden Ring anime where useful NPCs do not have to be area-restricted and after Roderika feels more qualified, she and Nepheli can become wandering girlfriends that get a lot of adventures and appear to help Tarnished when it is plot-convenient x) (for some reason, all my suggestions for more interaction boil down to 'if ER/BB was an anime, ...')

🦅 Roderika is rather eloquent, when Nepheli is a woman of a few words, so I am sure they fall for the dynamics of 'wall of text vs just listens and smiles' too! Nepheli would not understand all that many of Roderika's interests personally and she is not the type of an ethusiatic listener that asks many questions or always has something to add, but, she would remember every single think Roderika shared and care about it (some times, even more than Roderika herself). Nepheli is a type of a partner to remember a thing Roderika said 'casually' like months ago, or get her something she mentioned liking as a gift.. Roderika would not really know how anyone is able to navigate in how many things she's sharing so easily :')

🎐 Nepheli might be really stoic person, actually, capable of swallowing so much grief and loss and get up after everything that happens to her, but Roderika would sorta get through this attitude. Like, Nepheli would absolutely LOSE it if someone hurt Roderika. I feel like Nepheli might even worry a little upon realizing that with all the friends lost in battle or slain by enemies she had to grieve in a lifetime, losing Roderika would actually destroy her. She'd wonder if her identity as a warrior gave a crack for that one, at first! It is just scary to get so 'open', when a warrior must be self-sufficient and prepared to lose friends and comrades by default! And love is a bit... different. But I think the girls would be capable of communicating about it, and Nepheli would accept that she found someone to hold as dear as to have her life (mentally) depend on them... Not without insisting that Roderika gets at least SOME training in battle, so she can stand for herself IF Nepheli can't be near. Be an archer or a wizard if she can't hold meelee weapon at least!

🦅 Going back to Nepheli having her perception blurred when the enemy is not apparent, with Roderika having intuition for bad vibes. I imagine if Nepheli mentioned Gideon's friend, Seluvis, Roderika would be instantly able to reveal to her that "hey, that actually was a creep behavior"... They have a base for accidentally uncovering bad experiences (if not traumas) Nepheli never even realized consciously yet still took psychological damage from, and getting through them together. There would be certainly a bunch of cans of worms upon how Gideon was raising her, but not just that. "It was emotional abuse / creep behaviour" are the WORST realizations, but also with a right person it could help to heal some things that were bugging you for years but you just.. could not point out. I also imagine Roderika would be the one and only person that ever saw Nepheli cry - from one of such talks..

🎐 I think Nepheli actually holds Roderika in higher regard over the fact that Roderika is anxious, and can even be very cowardly and undecisive by her own admission, yet finds resource within herself to forgive her weaknesses and "atone" for indecisiveness by being useful otherwise. Nepheli would normally condemn the trait of giving into fear and hesitating when something important should be done (which I imagine is Roderika's consistent flaw and not just 'I am scared of being literally chopped to pieces because it is a normal thing for Soulsborne NPC to say' sdfhfhdfsdh). But Nepheli could see the internal struggle and wish to still persist, flaws or not. THAT mattered. She was quick to respect this attitude; in fact, she DID find it comparable with someone realizing they are not physically fit for melee fight and opting out to help in other ways, as healer or archer or something.

🦅 I am kinda diving into Psychology TM a lot here, I just think ER characters are written with particularly a lot to work with (Martin was that your effect? xd). But as for RELATIONSHIP-relationship, they both can't be less interested in sex. Undecided whether they're asexual or just 'too into spirituality / battle to care', probably both of these, but yes, overall it is just hugs and kisses. I just can't help but imagine their mutual attraction being mostly 'god I would LOOK the hell out of you' xd I think Nepheli would really like to hug Roderika, not only to share affection but sometimes because it is her emotional support spirit-tuner x) But Roderika is more 'kisses' person. She especially likes giving cheek or forehead kisses.

🎐 Overall, I think they are doing QUITE healthy and good for people that did not have real relationship experience prior? Nepheli was just not the type to take it further than blushing when she'd see a pretty girl and.. that was it. Well, maybe a couple of times, when she was little, she'd try to "flirt" by slaying a scary monster and bringing it's claw/tooth/etc to the girl she'd try to court, which they really did not get xD I picture Dolores being around and that little Nepheli would ask her what she was doing wrong... Dolores would say that it was a "perfect" way to flirt but the girls were just too young to get it yet, and Nepheli was too ahead xddd Roderika would attempt relationship as a teen a couple of times, and quit both of them upon hesitating and estimating she was not good enough for that person. Low self-esteem was hitting her harder in younger age. What I am saying is that sometimes when the first 'real' relationship only happens in adulthood, there are plenty of conflicts to wade through as people don't know what to do... but these two I imagine clicked naturally, and things went rather swell?

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Thank you for an ask! Sorry it took some while, I tend to be sorta slow at the answers ъ_ъ"