#the grail of reads

[aurikku]

It's been a long time. I'm glad I got to see it through the near beginning and to the very end.

This is their story.

[xbuster]

Fate/Zero fans haven’t even seen Fate/Zero

[whichcouldmeannothing]

running blind by @thetriggeredhappy

(minnie's holy grail: 3/?)

Scout's eyes are badly damaged in battle and for some reason, Medic's gun can't fix him. Until they figure out how to heal Scout, he needs someone to look after him and keep him safe. Sniper is given the job.

this ruined my june in the best way possible. sometimes when your life falls apart, the feeling of an easy slow-burn friends to lovers kind of heals your soul. this is on queue unfortunately (4th july end of exams i wait for you) but i hope you all visit this 6 year old fic and scream with me. this fic to me is a hug, the podfic itself has made my week even through marathon study sessions and it's just. its so good.

and the podfic and thetriggeredhappy's commentary has brought so many smiles to my face, link here if youre interested!

anyway, see you all very soon and i hope this comes out on the right time! this was one of the best things i read this year! so good it rendered me catatonic! <3333

read below for extra deets

[sickfreaksirkay]

:(

[finalgirlesque]

look out galahad! the grail is pulling you in like a magnet!!! perfection is a breath away and that which becomes perfect vanishes forever from the earth!!! oh god he has airpods in he can't hear us. he's listening to box fan noise 8 hour loop oh noooooo

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

I could say that ASOIAF is a very medieval lit story at heart and you’d be like, “well no shit Sherlock, tell me something I don’t know 🙄”.

And I’d say: “Ok bet. ASOIAF’s medieval core is best exemplified through Jon Snow and Bran Stark, two distinct yet mirrored iterations of one hero-knight whose origins can be traced to Percival and his magical quest. Both are Percival (and both are potentially the grail king) but one is as close a 1:1 copy as we can get (Jon) and the other is the Percival archetype completely flipped over its head before it even begins (Bran). Jon, by the author’s own admission, is the fantasy hero in the most traditional sense. He’s Percival who was inspired by the knights and left his mother’s castle to chase after chivalric glory (Jon III AGoT), only to find out that he has a massive misunderstanding of the knight’s purpose and honor (ACOK/ASOS arcs). No one told him of the ethical dilemmas involved with being a knight. No one told him that he could meet the fair maiden and either be completely incapable of helping her (Gilly) or help her, leave her, and be burdened by her death (Ygritte). No one told him how hard it would be to have his entire world view upended and upon going back to his fellow knights and saying ‘hey friends maybe we should all re-evaluate the system in which we operate and how it might be causing us to betray the vows we swore’ he’d be met with disdain. No one told him that, like Percival, he might look back to his mother’s home and see what has become of it (and his sister whom he left) and upon making the decision to go back to it he dies before he can even get his foot out of the gate. Percival made it back home and Jon might too, but where Percival still had his mother’s shirt to remind him of his boyhood Jon had to kill the boy because the fate of the world depended on it. Jon stumbles and rises, only to stumble again. But nonetheless, he gets to be a knight. But on the other hand, there’s poor Bran! He doesn’t even get to fail at being a knight in the first place because that storyline was fucking taken from him before he could realize his dream of leaving his mother’s home. Jon at least got his call to action. Bran’s dazzling dream of knighthood doesn’t even get off the ground (quite literally). He climbs, falls immediately, and once his eyes are awakened he realizes that he is now incapable of being Percival as he’d wish to be. There’s no battling evil knights. There’s no saving fair maidens. But then he’s visited by a wizened old man who’s like ‘hey Percival, you can never be a knight but I’ll teach you how to be a mighty wizard!’ And that would be cool and all….BUT BRAN WANTS TO BE A KNIGHT GODDAMNIT! When he auditioned for the medieval lit play, he picked up the Percival/Arthur script. Yet that’s not what he ultimately got when the cast list finally got out. Because who the fuck switched it out his hero-knight script for the Merlin one??! So now he has to try and figure out how to be a knight who’s actually a wizard, and it fucking sucks y’all.”

[toonytoodles]

[reyturnofbensolo]

Saw this☝️and decided to make something😏…

[volvosandvampires]

Importantly, they both have “vicious streaks a mile wide.”

[full-of-terrors]

If you ever feel bad about a mistake just remember- John Ross misidentified an entire mountain range and in some quarters an excess of overconfidence was known as Ross-ism for years afterwards.

[flandrepudding]

guyz…... my friend got me dead tired lagoona for my birthday WITH the hydration chamber that still lights up/functions. doll people you know how much of a win this is. holy fjck idk how to even explain what I’m feeling

[whichcouldmeannothing]

up in our bedroom by @steeseman

(minnie's holy grail: 4/?)

now in hard cover and litfic paper back!

i have been hardcore riding for this fic since april i think, and everytime it updated i would be in the comments yapping my heart away, because this is what that fic inspires in me: worms.

i think that if you want a canon adjacent fic, this fic would be your best bet. because to me, this is canon. it not only references what happened in plane show but also it IMPROVES on it by fleshing out gale's character and making bucky seem so much more real and human. both of the characters come away from this fic so much richer than you could have ever imagined

i'm a sucker for bucky angst, and this fic hurts both him and gale but. god can i tell you. its worth it. you will feel like your heart's being stepped on again and again for 8 chapters straight, but hold on, because it'll be so worth it. a true love story for the ages that shows you the nuances, the heartbreaks but most importantly, what is worth fighting for

or maybe im reccing it for the smut. partly that too

anyway, i had to run to finish this as soon as i read ch 8 and ch9, so if you really want to hear my thoughts, scroll to the last chapter on ao3 and read my essay.

thank you steeseman. so much. your fic made my year actually, waiting for notifs was like waiting for a really good package in the mail <3

more details under the cut, if youre interested!

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Stardust Grail

fun space opera

a woman from a human settlement on another planet who spent a decade as an art thief, returning stolen artifacts to alien civilisations all across the galaxy, and is now on earth as a grad student trying to move on from the past (and visions of the future she’s plagued with)

when her old friend asks for help to find a mythical object that might save xyr species, and some new clues show up at her university, she goes on a quest across the universe with her cephalopod-like friend, an ex-soldier, a runaway medic bot, and her academic advisor

complex friendships between different alien species, no romance

[silverskye13]

Entirely unrelated, but in the system question you answered, one of the ones you gave for Helsknight is my boyfriend's name! Guess I have to tell him he's a knight now

Ahaha tell him I wish him luck on his next quest! Make sure he knows the Grail isn't worth it.

[nightbigail]

“I once saw the face of God, a vast and sudden silence among the noisy heavens. That evening I dreamt I listened to one side of a conversation I should not have overheard. I do not watch the skies anymore. I do not look up.”

This Galahad lives in a dark fantasy world where monsters and terrible people run amuck and where everything sucks. He supposedly ascended to the heavenly realm after he found the Holy Grail, but nobody really knows what happened to him. He’s spotted years later as a lonely, jaded man who lost his chivalric spark. Whatever it was, he refuses to speak about it. Only God knows what he went through…

[lturnips]

when the merlin fic has done its research into arthurian legend>>>>>