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gringolet · 1 month ago
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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
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cantgetworsethanthistbh · 2 months ago
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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
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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.
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(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.
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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)
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deoidesign · 4 months ago
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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...
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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...
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But my favorite design has gotta be one of these... Probably the patch, there.
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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!
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sonknuxadow · 8 months ago
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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
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lethiepie · 3 months ago
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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.
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femmefitz · 8 months ago
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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.
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0-k-4 · 26 days ago
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my mother will show me pictures of the most mid men ever and go "isn't he pretty though". mom he looks like the models from google stock images or alarmy pictures
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crunchycrystals · 6 months ago
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fall guy brain rot time !!!!!!! i was wondering why i enjoyed this more than free guy despite me thinking objectively free guy's plot has less holes in it so i do consider the plot objectively better, but then i realized like fall guy just feels so much more sincere to me. every aspect of it is coated in this love for film and tv making and the medium as a whole
#crunchyposts#movies#i love them both dont get me wrong im just having a fall guy moment rn !!!!!#i left the theater and realized damn none of the jokes i could really remember punched down on anyone#meanwhile cough cough gamer sock joke in free guy. i hate that joke lol#i think free guy's a pretty sincere movie too just like. you know what im getting at right#the emotional beats of fall guy just feel so much more intense than free guy thats a bit of a trade off for reynolds' sarcasm and stuff#like i do not buy his more dramatic moments but guy's one of his more sincere characters !!!!!! its all just kinda coated in#this vibe that like. corporational???? the love is for original and creative art and general#but not really video games specifically the way fall guy is to movies#i love free guy btw i just cant really express my thoughts well rn#also bc free guy fumbled the romance bag at the end a bit lol its a good ending just not as well executed as it couldve been imo#meanwhile it is the Heart and Soul of fall guy no matter what its the most important part of the movie#the free guy soul is like clearly the outside world scenes w keys and millie but reynolds is the main guy so like. they have to#take a bit of a backseat#am i making sense sorry lol im turning of rbs of this my thoughts are not in order#ill rewatch both at some point and get it together !!!!!! ive planned on rewatching both anyways#maybe im a bit biased rn bc im in the midst of a minor fall guy hyperfixation but to be fair i was also in a free guy hyperfixation#briefly#post over this will go forever if i dont stop rn lol#tfg
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g8d · 7 months ago
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i tried so hard to be kind and sweet and all of these things that are supposed to be good? and valued? but im alone again and i dont think ill ever not be
#if you recently asked me how i am doing. sorry#i do remember and value that. its just very hard to trust that as something i could ever actually lean on#like even to say that feels like maybe i am overstepping. so. yeah thats where im at haha#ive just gotten burned way way too many times at this point#forged in fire??? burnt to ashes#i used to think phoenixes were relatable but not really anymore#the vibe has changed completely#and really im on my way out. not in like a super depressing way im not about to kill my body but when i say#im transitioning to a p zombie its . not a fucking joke im done here#my support group of all things went to shit yesterday too so i really have nowhere to stand im just breaking breaking. breaking. breaking .#dissolving. dying. and im like kind of hurt that nobody even cares enough to know these things about me#but how can i blame people for not knowing that asking me how im doing is not enough#or like how can i blame people for not caring#ppl got their own lives or whatever idk how this shit works.#man im just so so so done.#my friend told me about some future worries today and i was just sitting there like man. how do you even.#talk like you will have a future#like anything matters like any of this is real#because to me it's pretty clearly not#i didn't say that shit to him obviously#id like to keep a friend or two around just in case idk#someone to go on a walk with#sometimes he asks me what i think about stuff#i like listening to myself talk. so i benefit from that#anyway the point of this post was that while im done being a self im also very fucking done being selfless#acting like i think i can help people or something. i cant. i dont want to. i dont care.#i just dont fucking care anymore.
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guinevereslancelot · 9 months ago
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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 😌💙
#i was looking at her registry and no joke the ONLY COLOR was navy blue#for like two solid color shirts#also all the clothes were solid color im pretty sure#all of them are beige white or grey its so so depressing#but there was a solid blue onesie someone else got#and a solid blue hat#i waited until all the clothes were gone and then got a cute set that had some navy blue with a bear on it and some navy and white checked#also there's anfew beige and white ones in the set so it shouldn't offend her vibe too much#its not overtly disrespectful#but at least there's a bit more color and some pettern now#also its bear themed to go with the little baby teddy bear and the corduroy books i got :)#its not super busy pattern wise since she clearly likes everything as boring as possible#it's still respectful of her vibe#but i managed to get some color and pattern and cute bears in there#anyway this poor baby#is going to have such a dreary colorless childhood#but i'm doing my part 🫡#we're gonna get some whimsy in there or die trying#oh i also got one of those adorable fluffy bear onesies it was like ten dollars!#it could be classified as beige but its more of a warm yellowy brown so its not too depressing lol#anyway i dont get the sad beige aesthetic at all#im not even 100% sure she did it on purpose idk she has absolutely no taste lol#everything she wears is also neutral colors and her home is generally decorated extremely boring and colorless also#possibly because neutrals go with everything? or maybe she just hates color idk#and also all patterns and shapes#and that's fine for an adult but kids need mental stimulation and like....fun lol#so im trying to introduce some as subtly and inoffensively as possible lol#bc her registry was so sad#even the sheets were gray and the diaper bag was black#but the blue i picked matches the hat and the other blue onesie perfectly so its an approved color and im just trying to include more of it
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toonfinatic · 2 months ago
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#can i stop seeing the 10000 gazillion calories big and greedy twitter post here!#yes i do think its a bit funny and i understand and am not mad when people find it funny! but it just...#rubs me the wrong way........#like... why is someone saying that to someone who is obviously eating disordered.....#YES its clearly meant as a joke and the op of that thread made an unnecessary calorie estimate post#but STILL even if someone is being stupid its not ok to purposefully trigger them#a comment like that will likely NOT make a disordered person realize theyre being dumb. theyll just get triggered#that thread does not trigger me and i consider myself recovered and dont want to ever be in that disordered hellhole mindset again#but like goddamn. why is it not widely recognized yet that eating disorders arent helped by snarky comments. no mental illness is!#EDs are very similar to addictions yet funnily enough a lot of progressives at least pretend to care about addicts' wellbeing#but then theres this notion that if someone has an ED theyre morally abhorrent and agree with toxic beauty standards#often eating disorders arent about vanity. theyre about having control over your body and food intake#you can get severely addicted to that control and pretty often it kills you because you cant stop#god these tags are a miserable read lmao. im alright! just tired of that post and tired of feeling ashamed of once having a mental illness#if youve reblogged that post this isnt like a personal thing towards you btw. i see it allll the time and im tired of it and feel like#people dont really... think about how its a bit fucked up#vent#i guess??#am i just being weird here. i dont know honestly !!
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stargod · 3 months ago
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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 😭🤣🤣
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succulent-pott · 4 months ago
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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)
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talkorsomething · 5 months ago
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genuinely tried to Be Asleep for like two hours this time and just couldn't. I think i'm cursed [unwell]
#100% секретный дневник левы НЕ ЧИТАЙ#feels pretty much like the first night i got sick (remember that breakdown? lol) except this time i have Overcome the illness#mostly anyways.#but yeah i'm just. augh. not only do i have to deal with literal nightly thoughts of sh now i can't even sleep?!#my curse of Hearing Things immediately working against me the moment i can't hear things clearly#cause ... now i REALLY don't know whats going on#like i know it's not my business and shouldn't be my business but a) i live here and b) i have to hear it either way.#just ... yeah. now that we're probably as settled in as things are gonna get i REALLY do not feel like i'm meant to be here#not in general; as in this physical actual space. there's no thought that something should be made for all of us since they have work#& i ... well i do but [redacted]. so it's the work i make for myself mostly. but yeah so it doesn't matter if nobody sees me eat breakfast#(dont care about that anyways) and it doesnt matter that nobody sees me eat dinner (maybe i care A Little ok) because the whoooole rest of#the day is nebulous Lunch Time. and oh boy let me tell you. i'm not having that either#cause uhm. 'you can eat our food' only means so much until money comes into the equation#like BOY if i thought i was messed up about that before let me tell you: it has become Worse#i dunno. i try to have good days and yet the moment its Asleep Time i am someone completely different#like ... it's like seasonal depressiom but WORSE because theres SUNLIGHT and i LOVE SUNLIGHT#no yeah i think that's exactly the sort of thing i can liken it to now that i think of it#cause i always have like... seasonal issues when it starts gettin dark around 4-5ish range. except right now its summer so its NOT#wish i knew how to really be normal. then maybe at least if i wouldnt have good music making material i could like. meaningfully contribute#to my existence as a roommate#'i'm doing great' says man who is somehow Still Not#relatedly i think my next public facing breakdown is either gonna be about this still or about spinning in the pride parade. time will tell#....i can hear them AGAIN i know why IM up why are THEY#/bangs on wall Go To Sleeeeep leave me alone to also sleep T_T#that's ... that's a joke by the way i'm not doing that. i do feel more tired now so maybe i will have somewhat restful sleep. hopefully
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obsidiannebula · 6 months ago
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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
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hecksupremechips · 6 months ago
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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 😰
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