#the death of arthur

[talesfromtheenchantedforest]

it’s all very disappointing how modern adaptations and discussions drop the ball on Guenevere in general, but in particular I do not think she gets enough credit for the part where Mordred demands to marry her, all the most powerful barons tell her that she has to, and she asks for a week to think about it and in that time she fills the tower with soldiers and food for a siege (”and if anyone asks me, why I’m having the tower stocked, I’ll tell them that I’m making preparations for my marriage feast”), and then

On the day when the queen had agreed to give her answer, and the principal nobles of the kingdom who had been invited had arrived and were gathered in the hall, the queen, remembering what needed to be done, had already sent those who were to keep her company into the tower; and they were as fully armed as they could be. And when they were all in the tower, the queen joined them and immediately had the drawbridge raised. Then she appeared on the battlements of the tower and said to Mordred, who was below and had seen that the queen had eluded him, “Mordred, Mordred, you shamefully betrayed your relationship with my lord, by trying to marry me against my will. You should never have had such a thought, for I want you to know that this will lead to your death.”

— The Death of Arthur, Chapter 17, Norris J. Lacy translation

[daliathewitch]

The whole story of Sir Gareth of Orkney be like

Just give him a break

[jbk405]

I was browsing the book shelves earlier today and I saw this great looking edition of Le Morte d'Arthur. I've actually never read it, despite being generally familiar with its content due to various research and general knowledge osmosis.

I didn't realize it was written in English, I assumed it was written in French (Cut me some slack, the title literally is in French).

I'm gonna dive in tomorrow!

[doyelikehaggis]

RJ is Reading… (April)

Merlin: The Death of Arthur

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4.5/5 stars

“I just deeply love the lengths that each character will go to for the others, but especially Merlin for Arthur, Gaius and his mother — and Gaius for Merlin. This episode is one filled with deep, unshakeable and unconditional love and loyalty.”

[mysterious-secret-garden]

John Mulcaster Carrick - The Death Of Arthur.

[prokopetz]

The real reason that genius detective characters in fiction change authors and actors so often is that without periodic hard resets, they eventually start figuring out that they're fictional characters. It's the metafictional equivalent of cycling an AI to prevent it from going rogue. For many years it was believed that killing them off in a suitably dramatic "final case" would indefinitely suspend the process, but this was later determined not to be fully reliable – as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle learned, to his regret.

[capesch-arts]

When the eldritch boi completes his own sense of identity

Also I'm team "Kayne supports John's transition but questions his name choice" all the way.

[asha-mage]

Broke: Merlin is a royalist because he is a class traitor boot licker

Woke: Merlin is a royalist because he was raised a peasant in the sixth century and he has the perspective and values typical of that time period on top of his personal experiences with Arthur to give him faith in the enlightened despotism favored by Catherine the Great and Frederick of Prussia.

Bespoke: Merlin is a royalist because anyone who had to live through both the English Civil War and Voltaire's exile to Britain would come out the other side thinking democracy is stupid.

Transcendent: Merlin is not a royalist. He is the divine right of kings in human form. The avatar of Albion and its magic. He does not believe in kings because of Arthur. He believes in Arthur so Arthur gets to be king.

[hydrus101]

The Burning of the Page

……Oscar fans how we feelin

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

mini malevolent meme dump

[moved2fshfish]

Im killing myself

[talesfromtheenchantedforest]

Gawain, the shit-stirrer

The next day, when they were seated at dinner, Sir Gawain laughingly said to Lancelot, “Sir, do you know who the knight was who wounded you?”

“No, I don’t,” said Lancelot, “but if I can find out and if I should happen to meet him at some tournament, nothing he ever did would be so promptly repaid; for before he left, I would show him whether my sword cuts through steel. And if he drew blood from my side, I would draw as much or more from his head!”

Thereupon, Sir Gawain began to clap his hands and laugh gleefully, and he said to Bors, “Now we’ll see what you can do, for the man who has threatened you is hardly a coward, and if he had threatened me that way, my mind would never be at ease until I had made my peace with him.”

When Lancelot heard these words, he was astonished, and he said, “Bors, was it you who wounded me?”

Bors was so anguished that he did not know what to say, for he dared not admit it and could not deny it. Instead, he said, “Sir, if I did it, I’m sorry, but I shouldn’t be blamed for it. For at the time Sir Gawain says I did it, you — if you were the one I wounded — were disguised so that I would never recognize you with those arms, for they were those of a new knight, whereas you’ve been bearing arms for twenty-five years. That’s why I failed to recognize you, and so it’s my opinion that you shouldn’t hold it against me.”

And Lancelot said that he would not, since that was the way it had happened.

— The Death of Arthur, Chapter 4, Norris J. Lacy translation

[morganafayes]

because at the end of the day it’s about how love and hate will destroy you equally. it’s about the fact that merlin and morgana both lost themselves because they became so consumed by their love and hate respectively that it made everything else not matter. because merlin loved arthur so much he hollowed himself out for the sake of it and morgana hated uther so much it ate her alive and became all she was

[ughmerlin]

MERTHUR WEEK 2024 Day seven ▸ What went wrong? (Merlin's version)

[nataliabdraws]

Pale White Horse

[saladscream]

I guess this has already been done before, but I couldn't resist. 🤭