#character: grail

[goatfellaa]

Lovin these guys.

Highly recommend watching Spamalot it’s hilarious.

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Vriska: Tis 8ut a scratch. Terezi: 4 SCR4TCH?! YOUR 4RM'S OFF! Vriska: No it isn't. Terezi: WH4TS TH4T TH3N? Vriska: I've had worse. Terezi: YOU L14R!

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

I could say that ASOIAF is a very medieval lit story at heart and you’d be like, “well no shit Sherlock, tell me something I don’t know 🙄”.

And I’d say: “Ok bet. ASOIAF’s medieval core is best exemplified through Jon Snow and Bran Stark, two distinct yet mirrored iterations of one hero-knight whose origins can be traced to Percival and his magical quest. Both are Percival (and both are potentially the grail king) but one is as close a 1:1 copy as we can get (Jon) and the other is the Percival archetype completely flipped over its head before it even begins (Bran). Jon, by the author’s own admission, is the fantasy hero in the most traditional sense. He’s Percival who was inspired by the knights and left his mother’s castle to chase after chivalric glory (Jon III AGoT), only to find out that he has a massive misunderstanding of the knight’s purpose and honor (ACOK/ASOS arcs). No one told him of the ethical dilemmas involved with being a knight. No one told him that he could meet the fair maiden and either be completely incapable of helping her (Gilly) or help her, leave her, and be burdened by her death (Ygritte). No one told him how hard it would be to have his entire world view upended and upon going back to his fellow knights and saying ‘hey friends maybe we should all re-evaluate the system in which we operate and how it might be causing us to betray the vows we swore’ he’d be met with disdain. No one told him that, like Percival, he might look back to his mother’s home and see what has become of it (and his sister whom he left) and upon making the decision to go back to it he dies before he can even get his foot out of the gate. Percival made it back home and Jon might too, but where Percival still had his mother’s shirt to remind him of his boyhood Jon had to kill the boy because the fate of the world depended on it. Jon stumbles and rises, only to stumble again. But nonetheless, he gets to be a knight. But on the other hand, there’s poor Bran! He doesn’t even get to fail at being a knight in the first place because that storyline was fucking taken from him before he could realize his dream of leaving his mother’s home. Jon at least got his call to action. Bran’s dazzling dream of knighthood doesn’t even get off the ground (quite literally). He climbs, falls immediately, and once his eyes are awakened he realizes that he is now incapable of being Percival as he’d wish to be. There’s no battling evil knights. There’s no saving fair maidens. But then he’s visited by a wizened old man who’s like ‘hey Percival, you can never be a knight but I’ll teach you how to be a mighty wizard!’ And that would be cool and all….BUT BRAN WANTS TO BE A KNIGHT GODDAMNIT! When he auditioned for the medieval lit play, he picked up the Percival/Arthur script. Yet that’s not what he ultimately got when the cast list finally got out. Because who the fuck switched it out his hero-knight script for the Merlin one??! So now he has to try and figure out how to be a knight who’s actually a wizard, and it fucking sucks y’all.”

[c-rowlesdraws]

kindling hope in my heart for Mass Effect: The Next One to show some more variety and open-mindedness with regards to alien friends and romances by reminding myself that BioWare went from incredulous that players could actually want to romance Garrus to making and selling an official body pillowcase of him. They can be taught… they can learn & grow

[taliesin-the-bored]

Arthurian characters I interpret as acespec:

Galahad, the Grail Heroine, and Bors: They generally have no apparent trouble or qualms with the eternal chastity thing (except Bors when he gets cursed, but he gets cursed).

Brangaine: In La Tavola Ritonda, she tells Gouvernail that she never wants to have sexual relationships, and in a text I haven't yet read or been able to identify, she apparently stops Kahedin from sleeping with her by using a magic pillow to make him fall asleep, a role which is Camille's in Kaherdin and Camille.

Dinadan: In LTR, they call him the Wise Man Who Does Not Love, and while he has a romantic interest in LTR, their relationship isn't sexual. To the best of my knowledge, he has no other romantic interest and no sexual relationship in all of medlit and pretty much always scorns both concepts. Usually aro, demiromantic in one text, and always ace.

Lucan: It's not anything he says or does, but unless you count the actions of Lucano the evil half-giant half-lion in LTR, he doesn't have any romantic and/or sexual relationships in any medlit I know of. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but in my mind, he's on the aro and ace spectrums.

Happy Ace Week to all who celebrate!

Edit: I had somehow left out Dinadan, who I originally meant to include a picture of. I guess you could say he's implicit. Truly one of the aroace icons of all time. He ran so Jughead could also run.

[evedaser]

look i know this is meant entirely literally because they're talking about jousting but COME ON. THIS SOUNDS LIKE A EUPHEMISM.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Stardust Grail

fun space opera

a woman from a human settlement on another planet who spent a decade as an art thief, returning stolen artifacts to alien civilisations all across the galaxy, and is now on earth as a grad student trying to move on from the past (and visions of the future she’s plagued with)

when her old friend asks for help to find a mythical object that might save xyr species, and some new clues show up at her university, she goes on a quest across the universe with her cephalopod-like friend, an ex-soldier, a runaway medic bot, and her academic advisor

complex friendships between different alien species, no romance

[pocketslook]

He's done dirty by the fandom

[bubblyernie]

They eat ham and jam and spam a lot!!

I got the chance to make a poster for Spamalot for a project — this was one of the most ambitious drawings I've done in a while ^^; enjoy!!

art tag // commission info // prints

[sigyn-foxyposts]

''Before they fought for the grail''

Guys.. We finally have a Narfi. I COULDN'T RESIST THE URGE OKAY??!! Also hello Hel, good to see you girlie 😭

[velvetdarkarts]

Dior Lachance ✨

The last Scion, ender of Daysdeath, the Holy Grail

[300iqprower]

Honestly, your criticism of Barghest feels rooted in gender-essentialism. Muscles=masculine. Muscles can be feminine too.

That...was literally the point I was making. My point was that FGO's constant gender-essentialism means it feels a need to apologize for making a remotely buff female character by constantly emphasizing her femininity (she wants a lover, she like cooking, she's constantly drawn in aprons and blushing timidly, everything about her second ascension exists and her third ascension is more focused on making her sexy than making her intimidating, etc) and explicitly doing so in a way that portrays her muscles as something monstrous to be ashamed of.

This is most of the official in game art for the "first real buff woman" in fgo. I think it's self demonstrating.

And while you can argue that, yes, just because a woman has muscles doesn't mean she can't have feminine interests and/or aesthetics, it IS an issue when the piece of media the character is from ONLY has those kinds of female characters to begin with. You can't have "a bit of column A and a bit of column B" if you never even set up column B in the first place.

[paladin-tourney]

Round 1, Side B - The Black Knight (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) vs. Pallegina mes Rei (Pillars of Eternity)

Propaganda:

The Black Knight (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

'Tis but a scratch.

Pallegina mes Rei (Pillars of Eternity)

She's a bird-woman! She's rebelling against the order she gets her paladin-ness from! she flirts with a giant shark-woman barbarian

[cesarescabinet]

💐Flower Festival Freebie💐

Another (belated) offering for @queer-ragnelle's May Day Parade! Since there was no specific theme, I tried to nail down some character designs with varying success (mainly a parade of characters who I either love or want to study under a microscope. Or both!)

[catacini]

personally i think morgan should be as obsessed with summoning systems as amakusa is with wish granting devices. now that she knows she can do it, the only thing stopping her from resummoning her entire kingdom is a moral compass she plainly does not possess when it comes to britain. i want guda to come back from the movies to see that both amakusa and morgan have made it into Chaldea's storage room like two kittens climbing over a baby gate, and calmly eat leftover popcorn while they fight over the same grail. amakusa is promising infinite popcorn and morgan is swearing she can build 40 theatres all she needs is some land five minutes and this cup she just found. guda has no opinion, because no matter who they side with da vinci is going to kill all of them the moment they leave this room

[dullyn]

Father-Son Relationships in Arthuriana

I think that various versions of the Arthurian legends lend themselves to rather complex father-son relationships. I am drawing mostly from Le Morte d'Arthur as that's the one I read most recently. Like obviously there is the Arthur-Mordred relationship which is so famous and comes from "sinful acts" so it is doomed and whatnot because of Arthur sleeping with Morgause. Gotta love the multitude of Catholic influences in Malory's work and all that constitutes being virtuous (sarcasm). But I am more intrigued by Lancelot and Galahad. Galahad was not conceived out of love but out of trickery and a need to fulfill a prophecy (at least on his mother's and grandfather's part). And so that already would make the relationship a bit rocky (even though children are not responsible for the deeds of their parents) and I feel like it would be rockier considering that Lancelot and Galahad did not meet until Galahad was an adult. Plus add in the whole "Galahad being better than Lancelot in every way, ESPECIALLY because he is chaste and pure and a perfect knight and whatever" and it makes a super complicated puzzle as to the basis of Lancelot and Galahad's relationship. Because basically Galahad is better than Lancelot because he does not have Guinevere (and Lancelot loooves Guinevere). So would Lancelot love his son?

I just wanna know other people's thoughts about it.