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[ladyminaofcamelot]

Squire's Tales Couples as Tow'rs songs

Parsifal & Connie- River (On these banks of clay/ Carved by waves and sunny days/ I sat beside you/ It was all I needed, all I knew)

Guinevere & Arthur- The Kitchen (Tell me once more, speak to my chest/ I wanna bleed all the words you said/ Call us the dawn, a shadow of grace/ You don't say you love me, so I'll do the same)

Guinevere & Lancelot- Revelator Man (I walked a line line line between/ A lovely ghost and the real thing/ Oh, what a mirror mirror mirror I praise/ Giving new names to old ways)

Gaheris & Lynet- Going (You were something I once knew/ All the years the changes drew/ I have learned a thing or two/ Wherever I'm going I'm going with you)

Luneta & Rhince- Autumn Leaves (If tomorrow the sun feels it'll show its face and shine/ And the sparrow sings a song I don't recognize/ And I go on by the skin of my teeth/ I'll be fine as long as you're next to me)

Ariel & Piers- Liminal (I wasn't looking but she found me/ I wasn't listenin' but she spoke/ In her affection I am sinking/ It's while I was sleeping that I woke)

Kai & Connoire- Pink Confetti (And all my cards are out on your table/ These days I have less to prove/ I'm trying to be the man I want to be/ Before the lesson of a hindsight view/ For you)

Gawain & Lori- Consolations (Give constellations new consolations/ The shadow you cast continues/ But a silver lining, silver lining/ Wraps itself around you)

Terence & Eileen- Baker's Dozen (I wanna listen to your chest beating/ We don't have to talk about anything/ All your half-drunk cups of tea/ Smell of bread and the fruit flies buzzing/ Time with you is a baker's dozen)

[lankira]

you, lanki

tell me about your ocs

I HAVE SO MANY. And they're from D&D and other RPGs, so here goes... (Note: some of the other characters that come up are played by some of my mutuals, who I'll let self-identify only if they want to. So, expect to see reference to numbered mutuals. Also, ongoing games are marked with a + at the beginning of the paragraph.)

From Star Wars (the Fantasy Flight RPG), we have T'lara Kest, a stronk purple twi'lek who fled Ryloth to avoid being sold. She took various jobs, from working security at clubs and bars to full-on mercenary work until she wound up with the crew she adventured with (she may have also done some, uh, "adult modeling" to help make ends meet before meeting the crew). During their adventures, she lost her legs to cybernetically enhanced nexu, joined the Rebellion, saved her special agent boyfriend from a zombie-infested Imperial ship he'd infiltrated, and survived a lightsaber to the gut. She also had a hella crush on one of our party members (Kidan, played by Mutual 1), but the leg loss led her to actually get together with her will-they-won't-they guy of something like 5 years. ALSO, she discovered at one point that she has a connection to the Force thanks to accidentally opening a Sith Holocron with fuckin' Darth Nihilus' consciousness in it.

+From Call of Cthulhu, we have Lori Jones, former TV personality turned occultist (and also straight-up cultist). She started off as somewhere between Jean Gray, John Constantine, and a daytime TV host. She then (accidentally) married Hastur, joined an occult investigative group, helped thwart some of Nyarlathotep's plans (some of which included her best friend of many years and the best friend's family), killed someone with a mind control spell, got sent back in time from 1991 to 1921 with the rest of the party, converted from Catholic to Jewish in order to marry another party member (Aldous, played by Mutual 2), and is currently heading up part of Hastur's cult in London while going through more investigative stuff and helping the party figure out how to get back to the 1990s. Oh, and she's plotting an assassination of a member of MI5.

From Pathfinder, I have two major OCs, with a third who is considering the leap to D&D.

Morana is a human Inquisitor of Pharasma whose teacher/father figure was possessed by the BBEG. She was going through A Lot, including adopting a 16 year old werewolf girl who became her squire. You know, I actually forget a lot of the plot of that game, but absolutely loved playing Morana because her personality was fun and Mutual 1 and I had a shitton of AUs to talk about her in. Because there's something to be said about a Pharasmin having a Thing for a dhampir. (I have reused Morana and her squire as NPCs because I love them so much.)

Jacinth Haf aka Jace is a half-elf and former sex worker who was raised in a brothel, then became a cleric of Sarenrae. Because it's a popular module that I don't want to spoil for anyone, I'll just say that, plot wise, she ran through Rise of the Runelords with a rather interesting party, including another of Mutual 2's characters. Jace is a firm believer that everyone is created equal and that equity is needed in order to give everyone the chance to succeed. While the party made some choices she didn't agree with, personal choice and free will are important to her, so she didn't physically fight them on any issues even when they released a pair of demons into the world rather than sending them back to the circle of Hell they belonged in.

Slaine Caellach is an elf ranger who, together with their black panther Straif, was on the run from their homeland to avoid being sentenced to death. Why would they be sentenced to death? They killed a human noble who'd trespassed into their territory and killed some animals Slaine was protecting. Then they escaped prison, avoiding being turned over to the human authorities who planned to kill them. Slaine also made the mistake of making deals with an eldritch being and wound up with something like Hermaeus Mora as a passenger in their brainpan. Until a TPK happened.

Aaaaaand now for the list of D&D OCs...

+Most recently played is Mara Lantos, who's a member of Team Ponderance (obligatory plug for our official artist, @thedovahcat, who did some great art of Mara and the rest of Team Ponderance and is an absolute delight to work with!). The Ponderance crew is currently working on thwarting what appear to be world domination plans being enacted by someone who should be long dead. Before adventuring, Mara was a member of a traveling performance group, The Wandering Oddities, who took her in when her family home was destroyed, killing her parents and (she believed) her elder brother. Within the Oddities, Mara was adopted by Pa, a Drow male follower of Eilistraee, and Da, a male wood elf, both of whom are skilled tumblers. With her birth family (heavily based on the Belmonts...), she had trained to be a monster hunter from a young age. So, she's the first fully multi-classed character on this list as a Bard/Fighter. The rest of Team Ponderance includes characters from Mutuals 1, 2, and 3! (Added note: 10/10 highly recommend Bard College of Lore paired with almost any Fighter subclass. Especially Battle Master or Echo Knight.)

While she was only played briefly, Razira Fein is one of my favorite characters to date. She is a female drow who came to the surface after losing her girlfriend, who'd been trying to leave the Underdark to join a conclave dedicated to Eilistraee. After joining the conclave and feeling her training with them was near-complete, Razira traveled as an entertainer. She still used some of her prior (read: drow raider) skills to take security jobs guarding merchant wagons and the like until she (and the rest of the party) were informed that they were destined to save the world. The thing that was most enjoyable about Razira was that she was a character who was entering the last phase of her arc as the game was starting. There wasn't much character growth she would have seen, but there was a lot of character growth in the party that she could have aided in. Hers, she felt, was a story of redemption and finding peace, and she believed others could do the same. She felt guilt when Nym, a male half-drow party member played by Mutual 3, left after she refused to let him start a fight with the Evil Army (not their real name) in a town square. She blamed herself, but also had felt that her action was the best choice rather than letting him get killed. Also, she was a Fighter (Echo Knight) with the Entertainer background, which made for a lot of fun for RP.

OK, OK, I'm gonna lump two D&D characters together here back-to-back because they're all followers of the Raven Queen. As a note, my DMs and I have tended to play the Raven Queen as a hybrid of her 4e and 5e versions.

Oswin Blair was a Paladin of the Raven Queen who formed an entire knightly order, the Order of the Raven's Crest at the end of her adventuring life. She had at one time led a group of soldiers to their doom, all of whom were raised as undead, their names emblazoned into her skin until she laid them each to rest. When she died, two names remained. She'd had to make a choice at the end of the adventure: let the BBEG go, or fight him nearly alone, which would have killed her and the child she had just discovered she was pregnant with. Her husband, Dane, was a healer and leader among a Druid Circle, so he split his time between her home and his enclave. In her time adventuring, Oswin and friends got up to some crazy shenanigans, though her biggest mistake was making a deal with a fae that inadvertently led to a few hundred years' worth of dead followers of the Raven Queen being resurrected. Oops.

+Mithvari Dresia is the character on this list with the most titles and the most to learn. A shadar-kai of only about 150 years, she was raised in a clerical school run by her father, Zunas, who is the younger of two sons the Raven Queen had before she ascended. He was harsh with her and still holds her to exacting standards she's unsure she will ever meet. She's only been on the Prime Material Plane for the last three years, with most of that time spent either being coddled by a temple that knew of her origins OR wandering as much as possible and discovering, essentially, a love of sex, drugs, and Rock & Roll (or Bardcore, I guess?). While she was being coddled by that temple, though, she did meet a paladin of Pelor , Randall, who she had a brief relationship with. Here we are two and a half years later, and Mithvari and Randall have been reunited by circumstance. She refuses to commit to a serious relationship unless he asks for one because she's spent so much of her life being told what she wants, she doesn't know what she actually wants. And also because she wouldn't mind the excuse to sleep around some more. She's basically one of those overly sheltered kids with really strict parents who lets a little too loose their freshman year of college.

[butterflyslinky]

So now that I'm back on my Squire's Tales bullshit--

I don't know if anyone else realized this, but Gerald Morris's timeline is fucked.

Nothing about it adds up. I'm sure this is probably him not giving a shit about continuity, but also it makes things really confusing.

Specifically: Luneta and Beaufils/Guinglain.

In book 7, Luneta is explicitly 16 years old. Her parents got married at the end of book 3, which explicitly takes place after the seven year time lapse in book 2, which takes place 4-5 years after book 1; let's call it four. Which means between books 1 and 7, at least twenty-five years have elapsed.

However, this presents a problem when we come to book 8. Beaufils is estimated to be about 17 years old. Now, this number could be wrong, since no one can remember, but no one gives any indication it isn't correct--not Beaufils, not Gawain, not Ganscotter. Gawain is the important one, though. Beaufils gives his age as 17 when he comes to court, and Gawain states that he could be his father from 18 years ago.

BUT Gawain met Lori and pledged his love to her at the end of book 1, and the whole point of that book was Gawain being force-fed Respect Women Juice, and the Maiden's Knight isn't going to cheat on his One True Love.

Which means either Guinglain is especially baby-faced and Gawain forgot to account for his seven-year gap quest, or Lori gave Gawain a free pass to fuck around in Camelot until they got married, or else book 7 happened sometime in the middle of book 8, which makes even less sense because at least a year goes by in book 7 and Gawain's movements are accounted for in both books 7 and 8, and book 9 explicitly starts six months after the events of book 8.

So somehow, Guinglain is either a year or two older than Luneta, or else he's 25 and looks like a child.

Or again, Gerald Morris just doesn't give a damn about continuity.

[cheshirelibrary]

10 YA Books Without Romance to Add to Your TBR 

[via Epic Reads]

Friendships over romantic interests! Stories about family! Horror! Thrillers! Give me a main character who will go to unimaginable lengths to secure their ambition. Give me a heroine who starts believing in herself, and not because a prince told her to.

Children of Ragnarok by Cinda Williams Chima

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson

Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis

Squire by Nadia Shammas, illustrated by Sara Alfageeh

Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee

Sadie by Courtney Summers

[crisrf1986]

Libros recomendados Premio Literario Amazon Storyteller 2022

Libros recomendados Premio Literario Amazon Storyteller 2022

¡Hola, holaaaaa! A principios de Mayo se inició el periodo de inscripción del PLAS 2022, en el que se han inscrito cientos de libros. Bueno, me he tomado la libertad de hacer una lista con los que más me llaman la atención y me atrevo a recomendar para que leáis. Todos los libros participantes en el Premio Literario de Amazon están disponibles en eBook, papel y GRATIS en Kindl Unlimited, por lo…

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Lord Soberbia (La hermandad de los malditos Lores 2) - Lory Squire (2022)

Lady Carlisle es una mujer viuda y con una hija que se ha adaptado a su vida y se siente muy cómoda con ella. Lord Kendall es un héroe de guerra que ya no se siente tan héroe, sino un hombre fracasado que no dispone de un futuro por delante. Ella no quiere enamorarse. Él no esperaba hacerlo… Descargar Lord Soberbia (La hermandad de los malditos Lores 2) – Lory Squire (2022) PDF Y EPUB GRATIS

[peregrin-tookish]

Despite loving the original Gawain and Ragnelle, I prefer Gerald Morris’ version. I always thought it was just because I read it first or because it’s written in a modern style I’m more familiar with for love stories, but I just realized why I actually like it so much. It’s because the choice scene happens before they get married. It’s still got the beautiful tension and the impact while allowing them to decide to get married on their own.  Idk I guess I just like a romance where the participating members get married because they want to and not because of a threat to the king.

[treefey]

I love the addition.

I'd also marry Gawain if we both weren't already married to the love of our lives. He's one of my top fictional crushes 💚

who is lady ragnell?

Called Dame Ragnelle in the source material (”The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle”), a fun fairy-tale-ish bit of Arthuriana and one I read in retold form as a kid and have loved ever since.

So King Arthur kills a deer while out hunting in a land with strong mystical connections, as one does when one is a legendary king. A knight appears, by the name of Sir Gromer, and objects to this life choice. He tells Arthur that in a year’s time, he has to return to the same spot with an answer to the following question:

What is it that women most want?

If Arthur doesn’t have an answer–the right one, mind you–Sir Gromer will cut his head off.

And Arthur, because he’s an honorable fellow and it never occurs to him to say “fuck that, peace out, I’m the king of the land and if you want my head you can come fetch me,” instead says “oh shit” and goes home, where he kind of broods about it.

Into this story walks Sir Gawain–he of The Green Knight fame, one of Arthur’s core knights in the legend (and Arthur’s nephew in many versions of the tales)–and he asks Arthur why he’s so sad.

Arthur tells him, and Gawain sensibly suggests traveling around asking various women what they desire most, which is at least slightly more useful than sitting around brooding, so they do it! The survey results, as one might imagine, are inconclusive when they compare notes, because even a millennium ago dudes didn’t seem to realize that women are distinct human beings with different desires and ambitions even when those dudes are a king and a knight who are legends for their nobility BUT WHATEVER.

Anyway, they’re fucked.

And when Arthur rides out into the woods to brood about this, into the story walks Dame Ragnelle, The Ugliest Lady Arthur Has Ever Seen. (In other versions of the tale, because there are non-Arthurian versions, she’s called The Loathly Lady.)

She tells him she has an answer to his riddle, but she’ll only give it to him if Sir Gawain consents to marry her.

Arthur is feeling pretty desperate, so he brings it up to Gawain, hating to ask it of him, but knowing Gawain is loyal and will do it. Gawain says yes, even when Arthur says “seriously, buddy, when I say The Ugliest I mean it,” so when he goes out to meet Sir Gromer and Ragnelle stops him on the way and says he’s in trouble unless he tells her Gawain is hers to marry. Arthur feels pretty shitty about it, but Gawain said yes, so he relays this answer, to Ragnelle, and she gives him an answer:

Choice. Women want the power to make choices about their own lives and selves.

It’s better than any other answer the survey returned, so Arthur relays it to Sir Gromer, who says “god damn it, my sister gave you that answer but it’s legit so I guess you keep your head THIS TIME” and lets him go free.

Arthur goes back to the palace, and there’s much rejoicing, but Arthur isn’t rejoicing too much, because now his nephew has to marry The Loathly Lady, who shows up and insists on the bargain being met.

Gawain, being a stand-up guy, marries her, and after their wedding feast, where Arthur’s whole court pretty much stares at her very rudely, takes her back to their chambers, where he vows to himself to treat her as if she were desirable, which … go you, buddy? I guess? And when he looks up at her after deciding that, suddenly he’s looking at the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen.

Ragnelle explains she was cursed to wear that form all the time until a good knight would marry her, but that now, for half the day, she can be beautiful. She puts the choice to him: would he have her beautiful at night, in their bed, and have the court make a mockery of their marriage by day? Or would he have her beautiful by day, when everyone could applaud him for breaking her curse, and ugly at night?

We all know the answer, of course, and so did Gawain: he told her, in the end, that it’s her life, her self, and she should be able to make that choice for herself, not him.

Which, of course, in the way of fairy tales, is what breaks the spell, so she can be her beautiful self all the time.

And they all lived as happily as anyone ever manages in Arthurian legend.

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Best of 2022

as always, this is stuff I loved in 2022, not necessarily stuff that came out in 2022 (in fact, it's mostly not!). and there'll be a more detailed post on Patreon.

BOOKS & COMICS

Squire, Sara Alfageeh & Nadia Shammas

The Argonautika, Apollonius of Rhodes trans. Peter Green

Scout Is Not A Band Kid, Jade Armstrong

Bestiary Dark, Marianne Boruch

Antigonick, Anne Carson/Sophocles

Flint and Mirror, John Crowley

Devil House, John Darnielle

Universal Harvester, John Darnielle

Vita Nostra, Marina Dyachenko

The Hatch, Joe Fletcher

Averno, Louise Glück

Job: A New Verse Translation, Edward L. Greenstein

The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett

Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert 

Iliad, Homer trans. Caroline Alexander 

Skin Folk, Nalo Hopkinson

Uzumaki, Junji Ito

Moon Witch, Spider King, Marlon James 

Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Fady Joudah

Ulysses, James Joyce

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carré

A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine

Salt Fat Acid Heat, Samin Nosrat

The Bull from the Sea, Mary Renault

The Persian Boy, Mary Renault 

Normal People, Sally Rooney

Grief Sequence, Prageeta Sharma

A Frog in the Fall, Linnea Sterte 

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

A Secret Vice, JRR Tolkien ed. Dimitra Fimi

MOVIES

Loser, Urzila Carlson

Everything Everywhere All At Once, Daniels 

Saint Maud, Rose Glass

Promare, Hiroyuki Imaishi

My Neighbor Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki

Withnail & I, Bruce Robinson

Jenny Slate: Stage Fright, Gillian Robinson

Demon Slayer, Haruo Sotozaki

Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky

Sk8 the Infinity, Hiroko Utumi

Barbarella, Roger Vadim

MUSIC

The Dream, alt-J

Renaissance, Beyoncé 

Hounds of Love, Kate Bush

“Lakes of Canada,” The Innocence Mission

The Loneliest Time, Carly Rae Jepsen

Dance Fever, Florence + the Machine

Mashrou' Leila, just like, in general

“Children of Light II”, Meg Myers

Leak 04-13, Jai Paul

Scheherazade, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Rostam & Sohrab, Loris Tjeknavorian

MISCELLANEOUS

Getting an agent

Homemade baba ghanoush 

Seeing Drawfee live

Attending Tristan und Isolde

The work of Salman Toor

Guesting on The Spouter-inn

[ladyminaofcamelot]

*at McDonald's*

Gawain: *pays for the food of the person behind him* Tell her I think she's beautiful.

Employee: okay

Employee, to the next person in line: your food was paid for by a man named Gawain Orkney. He says you're beautiful.

Lori, rolling her eyes: He's my husband, but thanks.

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[androgynouscardinal]

This 100% happened in Squire's Tales and Terrence will never respond to being called "young squire" again

How to tell time back in the medieval ages

[cowboyjen68]

Billy Squire came on the radio. I turned it up.

Lori looked up from her phone and said “why?”

Good question...muscle memory?

[crisrf1986]

Novedades Roca Editorial - Marzo de 2019

Novedades Roca Editorial – Marzo de 2019

Libros de marzo 2019 en Roca Editorial Después del éxito de su trilogía El día que… y de publicar el diario sobre veganismo y estilo de vida, El cuaderno del bosque, Dulcinea vuelve para cautivarnos con una nueva serie: Luna. La primera entrega de esta biología, Suenas a blues bajo la luna llena, estará disponible a partir del 7 de marzo. La segunda entrega, Si la luna nos viera tocaría nuestra…

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Castigo divino (Castigo Divino 1) - Lory Squire (2021)

«Oh, dioses, ¿era esto el amor? ¿Me estaba enamorando? ¡No podía ser! ¿Y ahora qué? ¿Qué se suponía que debía hacer uno cuando se enamoraba? Y lo que es más, ¿sería yo solo el que tuviera esos sentimientos?». Cupido es el gran dios griego del amor, pero lleva siglos jugando con los corazones de los mor-tales. Se ha convertido en un joven egocéntrico y caprichoso al que solo importa su propia…

[peregrin-tookish]

Friendly reminder that Guinevere and Arthur had their wedding feast interrupted by Gawain's love life.