#kashilascorner

[queer-ragnelle]

Now that you've read all three Yvain, Owain and Iwein... Which one do you like most? (or what parts of each scratch your brain the right way?) 👀

Hi friend!

Oh this is gonna be tough...each one has its charms! I can definitely say Iwein is the weakest of the three. While Hartmann von Aue's writing is funny, the narrative over all is plainly an inferior version of Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain. I acknowledge that Hartmann went in specifically adapting an existing story for his German audience, that's a feature not a bug, and he did so successfully! It's not bad. It just gets a little....repetitive.

I love that Hartmann named more women than his predecessors. (Such as the lady who restores Iwein from his madness, named the Lady of Narison.) Hartmann's Arthur and Guinevere were very sweet as well. This is adorable. Perhaps my favorite aspects of his work is his Arthur.

I just wouldn't reach for Hartmann over the Mabinogion or Chrétien, personally. One detail about the Mabinogion I love is that the cure to Owain's madness is a treatment for his heart.

Chrétien treats Yvain's brain, and the damsel is actually chastised for treating his full body lol

I also like that Yvain is recognized by his face scar, which Hartmann carried over for Iwein as well. Mabinogion didn't have that but I still like that one a lot and favor that spelling of the character's name.

Thanks for the ask! (Not me saving this to my drafts and forgetting to publish....sorry buddy!)

[violetcancerian]

19, 26 and 27 for the band ask thing ☺

19. Which band position is the hottest- vocalist, drummer, guitarist, bassist?

I WANNA SAY ALL OF THEM??? like they each got their own little magic for me to be heart eyes over (plus them just getting lost in the music, I love that) jdksbsnbs

26. Out of these decades, which had the greatest bands- 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s?

AAHHHH definitely the 70s and 80s, not only for like, American and British music (mostly I've been in a classic rock kick, shocker!) But for Latin American bands that I love as well!

27. Similarly, which decade had the worst bands- 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s?

Don't do this to me, I don't wanna say, because all of my favorite bands came out during these decades hdjshaghah

[valsansretovr]

rules: shuffle your song playlist and create a poll from the first five songs

Thank you @scandalouslamb for the tag! This is my on repeat playlist on Spotify ehehe I tag @keeperofsecretsunderthehill @kashilascorner @thatthingilovewith and @coryo x

[leemeanhoe]

was tagged by my fellow mimo enthusiast taylor @linoyes 🤍

put your spotify on shuffle and post the first five songs that pop up and see which ones your mutuals think best represents you!

i don't really trust my shuffled music to represent me well but here goes

tagging @rogerdeakinsdp @emberdune @ghostpunkrock @mooninagust @kashilascorner 🫰🏻

[forthegothicheroine]

I can't get ennough of your Orkney Girls vignettes, they are so good!

Thank you so much!  I’m a little stalled right now because I need to finish the Maleagant section in a way that isn’t just “Gowain and Gracia reduce him to a flat cartoon silhouette” (don’t want to steal Lancelot’s big moment)...

[redarro]

📻 Fave song currently

📻 Favorite song currently : Either Blackandwhite by Left At London or Northern Lights by Death Cab for Cutie

send me an emoji and I will answer a question!

[permets-tu-not-permettez-vous]

You are so pretty omg????

Thank you so much? I’m just having a rough day so don’t mind me, I do not look like that today.

[wouldyouliketoseemymask]

Idk if you already spoke about this but here I go. I was not following DC for a while so I knew about Rebirth and all, but it's now that I am reading some stuff. Are you following any of the new series? If so, do you recommend any? :) I have a feeling that people are enjoying Rebirth much more than they did with the New 52, and I'm curious about your opinion

Hello! Unfortunately I am very behind on Rebirth so I can’t recommend much for it--I’m actually really, really behind on all current comics! I had some unexpected things occur in the past few months and it distracted me from my comic reading. So far what little I have read I like far more than New 52, but I should mention that I’m very biased because I strongly disliked most of New 52 save for a few arcs like The Court of Owls and Endgame. 

However, there is one that I started reading that is very good that I definitely recommend! It’s called Batman: White Knight and so far the story has featured Joker having a sort of weird redemption arc after being forced by Batman to violently ingest numerous psychiatric medications and he becomes Gotham’s “White Knight” to rid the city of Batman. The art is gorgeous too! :D 

[siegeperilousgalahad]

@kashilascorner tagged me on 9 books I want to read in 2021. Thank you!!

I'm tagging: @consulting-detective-with-a-box , @like-tears-in-rain-storms , @appleinducedsleep , @threshold-of-revelation , @ladysibyl , @mlle-julies-paper-cutter .

[deathvsthemaiden]

Tagged by @chiiquitita to describe myself using pics on my phone! (thank you Eva, this is one of my FAVORITE tag memes ever 🥺🌹💞🕊!!)

Tagging: @pinkafropuffs @noblyphantasmic @dionhysus @chaliceandsword @las-enamoradas @581d00 @snailmailthings @thebodykeepsscore @hotsharkgirl2000 @ijaazat @fuinle @irithyllians @fatallist @fithragaer @netherites @natalya-romanova @nikolailantsovswifey @ursulakleguin @fruit6at @kashilascorner @florrdemaga @dilfgirl @honeytuesday @loveofdetail @acafethatslove @h-isforhome @chaandajaan @tricketra @dearorpheus @k-amui @figtorte @acrostic @kimmalyn @juliecoopersdeadwife and oh my god I always forget ppl but this is turning excessive so, as always, free and fair game for all! Def tag me if you do this! You’re tagged in spirit no matter who you are 🪄💌

[queer-ragnelle]

Morgan for the vulgate quote 👀

The Merlin Continuation: 39. Yvain Stops Morgan from Killing Urien.

Send me a character and I'll reply with a Vulgate passage!

[violetcancerian]

1, 2, 17 and 24 fot the book ask 🥰

Howdy! Thank you for the ask @kashilascorner!!

How many books did you read this year?

IF I can remember, I only read 2 books since I got a bit busy 2022, but they were definitely worth the read! "Of Crowns and Legends" and "The Witch's Heart"!

2. Did you reread anything? What?

I reread "The Shining Company" by Rosemary Sutcliff! It's such an amazing book!

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

Of Crowns and Legends made me cry, I got really emotional at the end, and was not expecting all those twists.

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

The reason is the bane of my existence when it comes to reading, but...time

I DNF...

A River Enchanted by Becca Ross

Hall of Smoke by HM Long

The Lost Queen by Signe Pike

Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman

and lots of others

[parisetoilee]

THE CLOUDS — A WIP INTRO.

wip by @parisetoilee​

GENRE: YA coming of age, general fiction, contemporary

POV: third person, past

STATUS: drafting

SETTING: Australia in the mid-late 80′s

SYNOPSIS: Ten kids end up in a small town in south-eastern Australia over Christmas all in order to attend math lessons. Drawing on different opinions, backgrounds and cultures, they try to find their place in this world and define themselves as individuals.

THE CLOUDS is a is a modern novel about the gradual growth during youth and the exploration of the little things that make up life. After the outbreak of the sexual revolution and with the Cold War in its final moments, vindictive spirit moves the young masses. Teenagers struggle to be heard and helped at a time in history where any aspect is open to question. The techno age is indeed starting now. Basketball hoops and street games are being replaced by a fledging coorporative called Atari; teenage movies are popping up on cinema screens with no stop; and frayed jeans are the only garment adquisitive in the new malls. Reagan wins the 1981 elections and the conservatives expand their bases to cover all corners of America; communism is shattering into small pieces of dreams and freedoms that blur on paper. It is up to young people to rise up and fight, in the struggle for the world they were promised time ago in the hay and under the roof of the barn; praying on knees and crying out as the foundations of something called society slowly burn.

(excerpt and tag list under cut)

EXCERPT:

The gloom allowed him to observe, from the magnificence of his window, the gradual dwarfing of the city’s life. A city that became a plaything in its wake. The last few lonely cars that drove through the streets with their headlights on; the houses where the candles were being consumed. No one is saved, Mike thought. The night does not know the beautiful and the rich, the weak, the ugly; the wretched pygmies. She shows herself pompous as always; like a ship arriving at the harbor; the competent women and businessmen say goodbye behind the curtains, from their boastful houses with marble floors and fireplaces fitted into the wall. But so do the factory men and the laborious women; the hapless faces and the scruffy clothes. Amidst the bleak woods and the dire hills, night and death gather, and with no distinction, they hunt whoever they find; it is like a wheel that never stops turning. No one is spared from both; neither is so benign and so certain to listen; to observe; to regret. The night is not as different from death as we think; both are cold; both are stony; both are eternal.

TAGLIST:

(send an ask/dm to be added)

@kashilascorner @maidollanganger

i’m tagging some writeblrs who inspire me, if you want to be removed, let me know

@sautrns @morgan-s-writes @amurderoffoxes @cass-j @rhyaxxyn @sleepyblossom @gardenfolk @cinnamonboba-writes @alejwrites @dulcua @whatheangelsdreamof @mistowrites @calliopaes @rcvolutions @azrance @caelum-writes

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thanks for reading !! <3

[leemeanhoe]

wonderful lena @rogerdeakinsdp tagged me so let's gooooooo 🤍

put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for their favourite!

tagging the lovelies @emberdune @linoyes @mooninagust @kashilascorner @rosesvillage @ghostpunkrock 🫰🏻

[forthegothicheroine]

Convenience store woman is AMAZING I loved it too, the psychology of the main character was amazing but, as a sociologist, I found her way of analyzing society to be so interesting and actually full of concepts!

It is!  It was this quiet little story, alternately sad and gentle, and I believed so strongly in the heroine that I really wanted and rooted for her to work in a convenience store for the rest of her life, a sentence I can’t say about any other character in any other work.

[epic-summaries]

Tagged by @kashilascorner

🌟) last song listened to— Black Swan by BTS

🌷) last movie watched— Walking Tall, it wasn’t very good.

🌟) currently reading— The Triads if the Island of Britain. Wait Am I only reading one book right now?!

🌷) currently watching— the Office kind of (it happens to be on a lot), Demon Slayer, Konosuba and taking my time with the Mandalorian

🌟) currently craving— So I’ve been craving a Big Mac since the second wave started. Yeah... that’s September and it’s now December.

🌷) currently working on— WIPs and my project which hopefully will be mostly finished tonight

🌟) currently playing— 98% done Age of Calamity, Link to the Past, Majora’s Mask, Animal Crossing and Shiny Hunting Rayquaza in Pokemon Sword... okay that’s may be why I’m only reading one book atm.