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dykesynthezoid · 1 year ago

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Not to immediately alienate the majority of the tumblr arthuriana community but it is soooo weird to me how most people talk about it on here. Like it’s a franchise, and not a literary tradition. For a website that loves analysis and web weaving and motifs there’s always surprisingly little of that going on in any of the arthuriana tags. Instead it’s all just like. “Which knight is your blorbo.”

And that’s not to say we shouldn’t be connecting to those characters, bc after all, they’re how we’re able to experience the story in the first place. But it is strange to act like it’s some sort of marvel universe of knights, or like any of said knights have ever had one, singular pan-characterization. “Well MY favorite is Sir Skrunckleunklepuss” girl that’s 50 different people! That’s an archetype!

And then those people watch or read some specific modern adaptation and get all pissed because “that’s not MY Sir Skrunckleunklepuss!” Ok, well, your Sir Skrunckleunklepuss is somebody that literally only exists inside your own head. You gotta let it go

#it was sooo insufferable when the green knight came out actually #there’s legitimate criticisms of that movie but so much of it was instead just ‘that’s not MY Gawain’#like ok I’m taking Gawain away. I’m putting Gawain up on the shelf #until you can actually figure out how to engage with the story on its own terms #‘how dare arthuriana change and adapt itself to the contemporary culture’ c’mon now. c’mon.#it’s just so obvious that a film that invested in the landscape of its own story was not made in bad faith #it’s not king arthur blockbuster retelling number 56. it was a legitimate attempt to engage with the material #and you don’t have to like the end result of that but just saying ‘they didn’t adapt it right’ is soooo!!!!#anyway. this isn’t even rlly about that movie at all I’m just 😩

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