#its pretty clearly a joke

[gringolet]

Oh, yay! I'm pretty passionate about making medlit accessible so I would be happy to provide you with some recommendations. I saw from the other replies that you've only read about seven of the more well-known/mainline texts; I don't know which specifically you've read so I'll stick more to texts that probably wouldn't be discussed in an introductory course. I don't know much about your personal tastes nor am I overly familiar with transformers lore but here is a selection of medieval arthurian works that you might enjoy, with links.

L'Atre Perilleux or The Perilous Cemetery Is a French epigonal (post-chretien verse romance) text which explores lost/confused identity and the supernatural world in the context of chivalry. It presents Gawain as a flawed hero who must redeem himself for a failure early in the story, and is genuinely suspenseful and even disquieting in a surprisingly modern way. The academic Keith Busby has written on this text and I recommend looking up his analysis to help understand and appreciate the complex metaphorical layers of this text.

The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle Is a fairly short and entertaining proto-feminist text; the TEAMS annotations make the middle english super readable and you can get into the beauty of the language. This one you might have read already, it's pretty well known, but I thought it was a nice way to showcase the interesting gender dynamics that run through arthurian literature, in a way that contrasts chretien's work.

Meraugis de Portlesguez is one of my favourite epigonal works; the treatment of the female characters is pretty interesting and complex, and it lampshades the trope of knights instantly falling in love with women just because they are beautiful. the adventure itself is quite fun and involves a dramatic rescue using drag, fake and mistaken identities, magical boats and courtly intrigue.

Most introductory courses would focus on the mainline traditions-- English, Welsh, French, and maybe Latin-- but there are arthurian texts from German, Dutch, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, Greek, Belarussian, Scottish, Irish, Breton, and many other literary traditions. The Dutch works in particular are very fun, though you may have to look up the name spellings to see who the characters are (Gawain, for instance, is Walewein in most of them).

Moriaen is a dutch text which features an african knight as the titular hero! The teenaged morien leaves his home for arthur's kingdom to find his british father, one of the knights of the round table, and force him to return to his mothers land and marry her. He meets Lancelot and Gawain who agree to help him and they go on an action packed adventure.

Roman van Walewein is another dutch text; this is basically an adventure novel who's protagonist is gawain. its very classic high fantasy with dragons and ghosts and magic swords. the main female character in this one is very cool and fun and active, and the whole text keeps you guessing; i never felt like i knew what was going to happen next.

De Ortu Waluuanii is a latin text about the childhood and youth of gawain, where he is raised in the roman empire, fights pirates, defeats huge monsters, and seeks to discover his true parentage. very much a coming-of-age seeking-identity type story but with wild settings and plot that takes you all over a mytho-historical late roman/early medieval europe and mediterranean.

You had also mentioned not understanding how de troyes' work, particularly knight of the cart, could be read as satirical; I've linked some articles and critique below that might help provide the context and analysis of that interpretation. It's a complex and divisive text, so I don't blame you for having trouble with it, but these should hopefully shed some light. These also discuss how the work grapples with the ethics and representation of adultery, which I noticed you were also interested in critiquing.

David J. Shirt, " Le Chevalier de la Charrette : A World Upside Down?"

Fanny Bogdanow, "The Love Theme in Chrétien de Troyes's "Chevalier de la Charrette""

If you have any other questions, or want more text recommendations, just let me know! this is just a small collection of texts; the corpus of arthurian works in incredibly vast and fascinating and many works are in conversation with another, so the more you read the more you understand them as a whole.

I am in a King Arthur class where we read and analyze Arthurian legend, and I can confirm that Transformers lore is more complex, more engaging and way more powerful than any Arthurian story ever made

[cantgetworsethanthistbh]

dumping more of my stancest feels here because i cannot NOT think of them. i read journal 3 for the first time this week and its great because Ford acts like stanley's biggest hater which is pretty fking funny (if not absolutely infuriating at times because omfg stfu you smug prick)

but the moments like this get to me

Ford being blinded by his quest of grandeur, accolades and praise for world changing discoveries, so obsessed with greatness, being the first name people remember, and all the other things his npd-isms tells him he wants.

And then there's "reminds me of camping with my brother. i wonder what he's up to..."

i mentioned in my previous post that stan acts quite a lot like the anchor to ford's boat, keeping him grounded and most importantly, safe from both the bitter and the sweet kinds of evils. but he also represents something so much simpler to ford too: the simple desires he represses so much because its not "good enough" for someone special like him.

he resents stan so much because he represents a "block" against that percieved good enough success he wants, the obstacle that made it impossible to get in a fancy college, become the world renowed researcher, the one who wanted to destroy his journal's and lifes work (even though it was the better, safer option if Bill really WAS that dangerous, which he was) that could still make him famous. because if ford's not "praised and weird" then he's just "weird" and being "weird" was nothing but a pain his whole life that kept him rejected and isolated from the masses. and stan prevented him from that.

(btw "maybe he can prove himself to me" is nasty work my god ford is a douche lmao)

a lot of his projections of something greater comes through with how he treated dipper in the show (his whole spiel in damvtf) and fiddleford in journal 3 where he looks down on the happy life that fiddleford had with his wife and child and saying he was "wasting his talents" making computers. and like, we all know by the way he takes them on high stakes adventures they're not as prepared for compared to him (and end up causing more trouble than not by doing so), he's trying to fill a gaping hole left by someone else. we all know this obviously, we all know what we ship here, but what i came to appreciate the most about it is how much that gaping hole exists in the low stakes

everytime ford is thinking during the "down time" moments, his thoughts always drift back to his childhood, and one person who represents it.

childhood memories, making fun of stans favorite snack, scribbling out a design of the stan o war, whenever Ford lets his mind wander it expresses such an intense yearning for the past before he became obsessed with wanting something more. these are his most utmost and most unfiltered thoughts, which is why he scribles them away or and writes in code. and the fact that he directly says they are about NOT getting married, followed with "wondering what he's doing right now", painting the picture of what his most ideal idylic life is. wanting a return of something lost. wanting Stan back more than anything.

he finally accepts that his dream never really changed, just the same as stan's and so they saild off together for the rest of their days, in ford's own words (which ironically sounds like a marriage to me either way so tough shit ford)

[deoidesign]

just to inquire, what’s your favorite thing you sell in your shop?

i love your comic!

Oh thank you!

And my favorite thing... That's hard to answer haha

I like selling prints because I get to use my nice printer (which I love to do) and I especially love selling custom panel prints, because then I get to see people's favorite panels from my comic, which is double nice...

The most fun items to pack are the merch bundles which are themed with my books, I LOVE coming up with packaging design like this so much...

But my favorite design has gotta be one of these... Probably the patch, there.

It's really hard for me to pick!

I actually genuinely just am really passionate about product design and merch themeing, it's not only extremely fun for me but it also just really engages my brain. I love coming up with items that fit a theme, and there's no theme I love more than my own comics haha

So there's not much I could enjoy more! That's why I chose to do a merch club on patreon, it lets me get out my merch-y feelings but without overloading my storefront... Plus it's just really fun for me! I get to experiment, make little packages, and enjoy making new things.

Thank you for asking!

[sonknuxadow]

its still so funny to me that murder of sonic was supposed to be an april fools joke.. like its definitely one of the shortest sonic games ever and none of the typical sonic gameplay is there but its still a full game with an actual story thats taken somewhat seriously and clearly had thought put into the writing and character portrayals. and also i get the content i crave of sonic characters in cute little outfits and a bunch of the main and supporting characters being a silly friend group. all for free . wheres the joke here

[lethiepie]

its 2024 stop drawing willow park thin or skinny already

SHE IS A CANONICALLY FAT CHARACTER

FAT. CHUBBY. PLUS SIZED.

and we LOVE HER THAT. WAY.

[femmefitz]

Natsu absolutely refusing to acknowledge the demon thing is... well it's not quite funny but it's definitely some kind of ironic. That's not going to last man.

[guinevereslancelot]

fighting my friend's sad beige baby aesthetic by introducing the bold color of navy blue to the baby clothing for my baby shower gift 😌💙

[toonfinatic]

🙄

[stargod]

Hi, sorry, its been literally 4 months since QuintonReviews put out the Beverly Hillbillys video of all time and i'm still not over the fact that all upperclass people from urban areas were apparently so unaware of crayfish that no one knowing What They Were could b A Running Joke for like Half the Series???? How? How??? Ive never Met a person who doesnt know a crayfish. My moms from Minneapolis and she regularly went to catch crayfish in streams n creeks! Its genuinely my favorite joke I'm absolutely elated at the notion 😭🤣🤣

[succulent-pott]

I…. I can’t, I can’t…. I can’t stop hating…….. I-I don’t want a hater era…… I just can’t handle being a hater….!! (anime protagonist intonations)

[talkorsomething]

genuinely tried to Be Asleep for like two hours this time and just couldn't. I think i'm cursed [unwell]

[obsidiannebula]

Ohhh right it's Pride Month. Hang on I need to look way gayer for this funeral. If there's no family scandal I'm not doing it right

[jackass-jones]

You ever just try to laugh about something that’s happened to you with someone and then realize huh wait actually that’s not funny at all and is kinda super fucked actually 😰

[235uranium]

I get genuinely annoyed when ppl forget ann is a canon gamer + implied to like comic books. like... her idea of rebellion is catwoman and she mentions liking evil women in fiction cmon now stop pretending she's not a nerd bc she's the Conventionally Attractive Model Girl

[gibbearish]

inside you are two wolves. one is deeply paranoid about accidentally getting parasocial at people and also about trusting any internet personality anyways because so many of them turn out to be shitbags. the other is deeply paranoid about supressing its interests when it don't need to because it might have ocd and can't tell if its behavior is actually parasocial and it's just noticing it now or if this is just normal looking-up-to-someone-who-inspires-you behavior and it's just obsessing the compulsings, and furthermore thinks that with every shitbag it can think of, there's always been a trail of signs leading up to the breaking point that either got ignored or justified or forgotten, and it has yet to see a single sign or red flag despite being on high alert for them the whole time its been watching. you are a mentally ill hbomberguy fan.

[isaacathom]

my friend and i watched more eps of firefly, jaynestown through war stories, and far out man. i really like the show. its very fun to come back to it as someone who knows it doesnt get to Resolve and go 'damn. its real good though'