#I'm sure that literally everyone is going to do gawain and the green knight for this one. but at least I'm one of the first

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

submissive and beheadable *kneels down at the chopping block and looks up at you so sweetly* x

for the prompt 'quest' in @mortiscausa's March to Camelot

#I'm actually doing the thing that I said I would do! suck it adhd #I'm sure that literally everyone is going to do gawain and the green knight for this one. but at least I'm one of the first #also I've never done one of these colour palette challenges before so idk if you're 'allowed' to blend colours #but i literally can't not blend colours. I love unblended art styles but it could never be me #i mean.. ive also never really done any digital art. not for like 7 years at least #march to camelot #my art #< woo i can have a tag for that now #gawain and the green knight #gawain #gwaine #bbc gwaine #< this is technically based on eoin macken but take it for what it is #arthurian legend #arthuriana art #the green knight

[petruchio]

book recs!!!!!!! okay you never have to rec contemporary fiction ever if you prefer something else. i love some contemporary stuff but weird and strange pre-1900 fiction IS what we want and need. and so is early 1900s stuff like -- idk, virginia woolf. who can also be pretty strange, esp considering orlando. also genre fiction? ya and mg? yes. go for it! some of us are simply too cool to only care about cool books

OOOH yes i love some virginia woolf like you def have to be in the right headspace to read it but its so amazing if you can really get into it!! like once i read the waves on a flight and i had no distractions and the lights were low but it was so comforting and the hum of the airplane was buzzing all around me and i swearrrr i had like a transcendental experience reading that book like GOD

and YEAH you're so right!! i always feel like i get stuck telling everyone to read homegoing and there, there because those are the two pieces of contemporary lit that i read and i liked but i also feel like are ~cool enough~ to recommend to people BUT YEAH there is just so much out there to read

the problem is a lot of the things that i like reading, i feel like i like reading in a classroom setting or i like reading them for like really specific reasons that i'm not sure translate to "i think other people should read this too"

like ok for example i always say i love reading this translation of sir gawain and the green knight because it maintains a lot of the alliteration from the middle english and it really helps you understand why alliteration as a form is so unique and special SPECIFICALLY for the linguistic structure of english as a language. but that isn't me saying like "i think people should read this for pleasure" like i mean you CAN and i think honestly it's one of the more entertaining pieces we have from early english lit (like ok sure we've all read beowulf but sir gawain is a great poem TOO) and yeah like i love it but it's not necessarily something i would bring up as like a book rec??? idk if that makes sense but that's why i struggle to have coherent recommendations because i feel like the things i like are very context dependent

then the other problem a lot of the stuff i read in college was just like, the canon, which is terrible to recommend because 1 its the canon so everyone knows about it and 2 it upholds white male western supremacy in english lit and i DO support trying to dismantle that and the reason i ended up reading so much of it was because i was specializing in shakespeare so it just kind of happened that way (and plus i do think it was good for me personally to get at least some sense of the canon, i do think it's hard because so many modern works use those works as a frame of reference and so whenever you're trying to dismantle it it's frustrating because you end up still needing to read it -- it's like how you kind of have to know at least some basic bible stuff to get a lot of references in british literature even if you don't necessarily want to uphold that christian structure, you just kind of end up needing to know a lot of it. so it's so hard anyway this is just me rambling at this point so i will stop lol, but basically my point is i feel like i've spent the past few years doing more of a broad education in canonical literature so i wasn't really reading a lot of books that i feel like people wouldn't have heard of already. and when i was it was like weird offshoot works from the 18th century that were just bizarre)

anyway a book i read for pleasure recently that has like absolutely no significance or coolness but i just liked how it was written was a book called "miss you" by kate eberlen and it was just a fairly typical romance novel about these two people in italy and the uk. and it was cute that's literally it i didn't have any further thoughts about it i was just like that was nice! and i moved on lol

#answered #anonymous