#gawain icons

[cesarescabinet]

The best part of that one story where Gawain goes to China is the realization that I can now make him and Hua Mulan besties. They bond over cool swords and show off their horses like parents do baby pictures. Their sparring sessions are absolutely insane.

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[solradguy]

Good morning I was going to make a post about how Granblue robbed us of yet ANOTHER big sword dragon man that could have had lizard eyes but doesn't (SOL BADGUY GUILTY GEAR STRIVE), but then I kept scrolling

They at least glow :) I'll take it

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Dinadan: Galehaut, I know you snuck out to see Lancelot last night. Galehaut: If you tell Gawain or Percival, I swear I’ll murder you, and they’ll never find the body. Dinadan: Five bucks? Galehaunt: Fine.

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Gawain (Fate/Grand Order) icons

268 100x100 icons of Gawain from the Fate/Grand Order SE.RA.PH manga (chapters 1-25.3)

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[tiodolma]

Gawain's trademark is really to be covered head to toe in blood (not his own)

[choices-and-voices]

I can’t with this man Goodbye, Arthur Pendragon / chapter 17, part 10 / the final vision

[liliesandthemoon]

Silly question

what colours do you think would be "more related" to Gawain? (like a main asthetic, more fitting to the character,the one that he looks the best in...etc)

For reference:

[theprinceofliones]

List of MY OWN PERSONAL LGBTQ 4KOTA/NNT HEADCANONS PT1/?

(Again, for those who can't fucking read, this is MY OWN PERSONAL headcanons and NO ONE ELSE'S! You do not have to agree or like my own personal headcanons, but please respect them thank you besties 🤪)

(ALSO! I will say that there are some flags that I made sure to look up and research to make sure everything is accurate! But, if something on here is NOT accurate nor used correctly, I'd love it if you guys could let me know and keep me educated! Thank you!)

Tristan

My boy is transfeminine and a PROUD bi-mlm (bi w/pref for men) icon 🥰 While he was born with male pronouns, he's very feminine leaning but doesn't really mind any pronouns used for him, so he's a little agender as well. He's found that he is attracted to both genders but most definitely prefers men (COUGHS LANCELOT COUGHS).

2. Lancelot

GAAAAAY!!!!! This is a one hundred and twelve thousand percent GAAAAAAAY man right here. But, in saying that, he's is ALSO aromantic as he has an extremely hard time forming a romantic bond with another person whatsoever. Sure, he'll go out and have fun with other guys from time to time, but he's never felt any romantic feelings for another, everything is just purely sexual whenever he has these 'encounters' (...enter one Tristan Liones. and Lancelot's whole world is flipped upside down).

3. Percival

AAAAA Percy my beloved 🥰 my boy is proudly Pansexual! He'll find himself being attracted to anyone no matter how they identify! All that matters to him is what's in your heart. But, he's also demisexual as he very rarely forms sexual attraction to those around him. He DOES have a big fat ginormous crush on Naisens though! Although he doesn't really realize it lol.

4. Gawain

GAWAIN MY BUTCH LESBIAN ICON!!! She's VERY much into women and women ONLY! She's never had an attraction to men, in fact she thinks that the whole world would be better if there were only women (oml same queen). She's not a very feminine leaning lesbian which is why I assigned her the butch lesbian flag! She prefers to present more masculine-like as she wants to be seen as strong and dominant, but does not identify nor use male pronouns.

5. Naisens

That kid is non-binary all the WAAAAY and Nakaba PLEASE you have the chance to do the funniest thing ever and make it canon with Naisens PLEEEEAAAAAASE. Post-time skip Naisens uses they/them pronouns and dresses more neutral to not assume either or any gender. They're also pansexual! Any gender, any sexuality works with them as long as your name is Percival LMFAO

Part 2 will come soon! I want to try and do as many characters as I can! Stay tuned and I'd love to hear your guys' OWN headcanons as well!

[bu4ch]

a reimagining of a piece from a few years ago that's still near & dear to my heart

inspired by the green knight (2021), dir. david lowery pieces the beheading of saint john the baptist (1869), pierre-cécile puvis de chavannes american psycho (2000), dir. mary harron [horsemen and hounds chasing fox across english countryside] (1796), anon halo from an icon cover (10/11th cent), anon forest interior with a painter, civita castellana (1825-1830), andré giroux [sir gawain and the green knight], cotton nero a.x. manuscript (14/15th cent), anon (known as the "gawain poet") kjv1611 typeface

[gawrkin]

WAIT- if Le Morte De Arthur isn't the original thing to read first when beginning arthuriana, which one is🤔? since I've seen people complain about malory and some of his changes to characters such as lancey

I would recommend to you Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the big pseudo-historical chronicle detailing the history of Britain and her rulers. Link to a Translation HERE.

More specifically, if you just want read only about King Arthur's reign, Books 9 to 11

You can also read Books 6 and Book 8, if you want the entire narrative to include the deeds of Uther, Merlin, Aurelius Ambrosius and Vortigern. Book 7 is this huge political prophecy Geoffrey wrote and really isn't relevant to the story.

You can read all of Historia if you want to, but the earlier books don't really factor into the Arthurian narrative, so skip onwards to Book 9 if want this to be shorter than Le Morte.

The reason I would recommend you Historia Regum Britanniae first is because:

Historia is the ground zero of the Arthuriana. This is where King Arthur and his story caught on with storytellers; there are other older stories and folktales but this where a large majority of the popular tradition unfolded from.

Arthur is the main character here. The spotlight is completely on him without other characters (coughLancelotcough) stealing the word count. So you'll get a hang of his initial character before later stories altered it.

It will give you the basic chronology of Arthur's reign in a simplified manner. You wont find the adventures of the knights like Gawain and Lancelot here - those are the later additions and reading Historia first will help in grasping the basic skeleton of Arthur's story and personal timeline.

It will allow you to spot all the later changes made to the story and characters when you start read the other works. It helps with analysing and comparing the stories and characters.

The English Translations (the ones that I can find online) of Historia are much easier to read than the Old, Medieval English of Le Morte.

Afterwards, you can go read the Romances of Chretien de Troyes (Erec and Enide, Cliges, Knight of the Cart, Knight of the Lion, Perceval and its Continuations) intermixed with whatever romance catches your eye (I recommend the welsh story Culhwch and Olwen). Chretien is pretty much the Father of the Romances and the inventor of nearly other important elements, like Sir Lancelot and the Grail Quest.

From here on, your set to read everything else in whatever manner you can choose, especially the Big Bad Monster-Truck-of-a-narrative called Vulgate Cycle.

**Note: Historia Regum Britanniae, as well as some of Chretien works recommended above, also have adaptations and variants that altered and introduced some elements not found in the original source. Famously, Roman de Brut, an adaptation of Historia by Robert Wace, introduced the iconic Round Table, which isn't found in Geoffrey's original.

[smokerswifey]

What if you rated nnt/4kota ship names lol

Like not based on how much you like the ship just on how good the ship name sounds yk 😶‍🌫️

Lmao I love this ask, it's creative af.

My answers might be puzzling for some but pls remember that I have a very weird taste so sorry in advance .

Ok here I go !

12. Languin is last cause I'm sorry but I hate the way it sounds, not even the ship lmao, the name is just so ugly I can't-

11. Persiens my beloved, love the ship but the name isn't pleasant to say in my ears...idk why

10 . The fact that the fandom chose Geldris instead of fucking ZELDA will always be confusing and enraging to me like I get that it could be confusing in the tags but stiiil.

9. Again love the ship Trislance/Triscelot/Lancetris but the the combo of their names isn't pleasant to me idk...

8. Kiane is weird but in an iconic way, like I love it and I hate it at the same time 😭

7. The medieval vibes are strong in Melizabeth tbh it sounds really cool and simultaneously ridiculous for me .

6. Escalin is meh too me . It's okay .

7. I like Gowdja, Gowdja is cute !

5. Banelaine is so pretty, so soft, I love this ship name a lot tbhh..

Isoljade is iconic, isolde and jade are both beautiful names so it's only logical the ship name is gorgeous too .

I looove Trisolde, the name is so romantic coded idkkn like if I didn't know who tristan and isolde were I would still know their ship would be incredible due to the name ! It gives off even stronger medieval and royalty vibes than Melizabeth!

Do i even need to explain why Sunbomb ( Isolde x Gawain ) is number one ? The creativity *is chefs kiss* also it just occurred to me that all my favourite ship names have Isolde in it ! Which is valid cause her name is awesoooome . So princess coded which is fitting cause she is a princess !!

Thanks for the ask @rissa-ris3255 it was super fun and keep sending them asks everybody 🩷

[adhd-merlin]

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[queer-ragnelle]

Hi! Your flowchart is amazing, and I'm so excited by the literature list you made. However, I was wondering if you know which book is best to start reading more about Arthurian legend? I have only collected knowledge through osmosis, so I have no clue where or how to start learning more. Thank you for your time and have a nice day!

hello!

thank you, i'm glad they're helpful for you! i did answer a similar ask about what medieval texts to begin with here and link to free resources, but the formatting is hard on the eyes, and now that my own collection is available, i'll reiterate. all suggested translations are available on my blog.

le morte d'arthur by sir thomas malory: you'll get the most mileage out of this book as malory sourced a broad spectrum of stories to incorporate them into a single text, which includes arthur's conception, pulling the sword from the stone, receiving excalibur from the lady of the lake, marrying to guinevere, young gawain's knighting and first quest, tristan and isolde's romance, the grail quest, final battle at camlann etc. plus malory himself invented some of the most iconic stories, such as gareth's time as the kitchen boy, beaumains. with this book alone, the majority of retellings will make sense to you. but be warned it can be extremely dry (and confusing timeline wise, calogrenant dies twice bc malory couldn't keep his own story straight!), i recommend the keith baines translation as it's rewritten into prose like a novel.

the vulgate cycle: it's 10 books. i know it's 10 books. but it's simply the best. the truncated nature of malory's le morte d'arthur leaves the majority of characters reduced to singular traits (orkney bros the mindless killers, priggish grail knights etc.) which has negatively influenced many retellings since imo. this is not an issue with the vulgate where everyone has a little more nuance and depth, even the bad guys, but especially the characters we're supposed to root for like lancelot and gawain. many fun characters who were cut from le morte d'arthur are fully developed here like half-giant galehaut and gawain's baby mama the lady of lys. i'm putting it high on the list bc i simply think more people should try it. i recommend the translation edited by norris j. lacy. he's incredible and i love all of his translation work. footnotes right in the margin will remind the reader of past references and explain language subtleties lost in translation (like puns) or indicate what was changed for ease of understanding (sometimes the scribes made mistakes and named the wrong character, which lacy will fix and then note he fixed). so if one can get past the sheer volume of text, it's a wonderful read, and i even have specific stories within it i could recommend. but i digress...

sir gawain and the green knight: it goes without saying this poem is iconic. the pearl poet (as the anonymous author is called) wrote beautifully and the version of gawain here is a much kinder portrayal than what he appears in the post vulgate, which was a major source for malory's le morte d'arthur. the beheading exchange/game is the focus here, although this motif will appear in many other texts, such as perlesvaus, and the sgatgk story appears in the majority of retellings that include gawain, so it's a must read. i recommend the j. r. r. tolkien translation (the audiobook version of this translation is phenomenal, like music).

four arthurian romances + the story of the grail by chrétien de troyes: except you can skip cligés bc its mediocre at best. really what you'll need from this is knight of the cart (the first ever story in which lancelot appears and he's very pathetic and weepy and insane and lovable haters dni), knight with the lion (gawain's cousin yvain gets a pet lion, fights a dragon, gets married, gets divorced, goes mad, recovers, gets married again...), erec and enide (worst husband in the universe), and the story of the grail (perceval and gawain adventures). a version of these stories were adapted into le morte d'arthur and the vulgate (except for yvain's lion which is a bummer!). i recommend the nigel bryant translation of perceval and william kibler translations for the rest. when you reach the end of the story of the grail and it cuts mid-sentence...well, sadly we don't know what happened to poor chrétien that kept him from completing his story. but there are four continuations written by other people, plus the german parzival is great as well (and has one of my favorite of gawain's wives, the haughty maiden of logres, orgeluse).

the mabinogion: some of the same stories as chrétien but of welsh origin plus extras. haters will try to pit two bad bitches against each other, but these texts go hand in hand. i like the whimsical vibes of this version and the magical powers given to the characters, such as kay's ability to grow to the size of a tree and set things on fire with his hands or bedwyr's ability to strike faster than all other knights despite having only one hand. it also gives owain (welsh version of yvain) an army of ravens that kill people in addition to his lion, arthur has an invisibility mantle (also referenced in the welsh triads), and the whole gang fights the demon boar twrch trwyth to steal the golden comb off his head. good stuff. i recommend the translation by lady charlotte guest.

the wedding of sir gawain and dame ragnelle: obviously this has to be included. i'm biased but at the same time, it is supposed that sir thomas malory actually wrote this poem! which i think is pretty neat. additionally, 99% of retellings include ragnelle as gawain's wife. in fact, excluding the ones in which he doesn't have a partner at all, i can only think of one in which he marries someone else. dame ragnelle is the people's darling, all of us arthurian authors agreed that in spite of our differing opinions about everything else in the stories, she is the wife of all time. and we're right. a thing of beauty. this text does not have a translation, it's just in middle english, which can be challenging to read. this version edited by thomas hahn has footnotes to help or otherwise i recommend the version retold by selina hastings and illustrated by juan wijngaard, it's gorgeous, and includes all the fun supporting cast like kay and guinevere.

this was a long list with probably more explanation than necessary but it can be difficult to narrow down a single place to begin with arthuriana as each story builds on the literary tradition that came before. everyone is sharing and influencing one another so stories and motifs are repeated, each author writes for their time, slightly altering the technology and culture to reflect their own lived experience, so the narrative evolved as the centuries passed into what we have today. thanks for this ask and hope you enjoy reading!

[forthegothicheroine]

What are some of your favorite bad fantasy movies that you’d recommend? The world wants to know

Sure thing! Some of these I found or are also shown on MST3K or Rifftrax (I'll put asterisks on those), some through my own strange film journey.

Hawk the Slayer*: A very D&D movie, if your DM included silly string as a weapon alongside scenes that were supposed to be dramatic. The lengths you had to go to before The Princess Bride and Lord of the Rings for a D&D movie!

The Sword and the Sorcerer*: Sleazier than the above, containing the iconic and nonsensical Triple Sword, one of the dumbest weapons in all of fantasy fiction!

Sword of the Valiant: This "adaptation" of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is on here for one reason and one reason only- Sean Connery as the Green Knight with holes cut in his armor to show his nipples. Just as the Pearl Poet intended!

The Magic Sword*: Both Rifftrax and MST3K have done this, because it has Basil Rathbone and Bert I. Gordon's terrible special effects and a hero who has to keep being saved by his mom. Watch either the original or the Rifftrax version for the whole company of knights with different bad accents!

Prince Valiant (1954): Another iconic Gawain movie, where Texan-accented film noir actor Sterling Hayden plays an incredibly loveable Gawain in a relationship with his squire so homoerotic that my husband and friend and I kept pausing the movie to look at each other and go "We're all seeing the same thing, right?" It's more cheesy than outright bad, as another bonus.

Cave Dwellers*: You could start with the supposed first movie in the series, Ator the Fighting Eagle, but the character is completely retooled into a barbarian engineer genius between movies and the lore is literally made up from one scene to the next, so just start with Cave Dwellers.

Deathstalker: On the one hand, this movie makes me fall over laughing. On the other hand, it is about as gross and sleazy as you can get outside of actual horror or porn. The sequels, Deathstalker II and Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell* are more accessible, but for better or for worse, not as jaw-droppingly awful.

Jack the Giant Killer*: "Seize the bone!"

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Gawain (Fate/EXTRA CCC Foxtail) icons

227 100x100 icons of Gawain from the Fate/EXTRA CCC Foxtail manga (volumes 1-11)

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