#SGGK

[beheadinggame]

A year and a day.

#sir gawain #sir gawain and the green knight #arthuriana #sggk #merry christmas everyone #pray for my boy today

[erosyrup]

Happy Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Day!

#i unearthed this sketch from ages ago phew #never gonna finish this so here it is! #sir gawain #sir gawain and the green knight #sggk #medieval literature #syrup art tag

[rubiatinctorum]

you agree to play a stupid game of chicken at your popular uncle's giant ass christmas party. a year later you are roped into a bdsm relationship with the guy you did a scene with last year at the party, who is also an aspiring cuck, and his wife who wants to make you break your no nut november. both husband and wife are in on the bit. they set up an elaborate game so you can kiss both of them and then missus feeling like having a little secret with you, all to herself. so she gives you her belt. it's not like she gets to whip you with it anyway when all you give her is kisses. you keep it. secrets are cute and fun right! anyway her husband is in on the bit and you have to do another scene with him because last year you said you would and its his turn to be the dom now. fair. you go do it and he's like man be honest because communication is key or something and you kneel below him submissively as he draws your blood with his axe. and you're all friends thereafter. you are sir gawain.

#rubia speaks #sggk #sir gawain and the green knight #sir gawain #it's a kink thing your honour

[gothicanglicana]

I want a Countdown to Christmas chart but it's just Gawain moving closer to Hautdesert. Or maybe a giant axe.

Just 28 days till the beheading!

#gawain #arthuriana #sggk

[apollon-emos]

Pearl poet.. save me. Pearl poet. save me, Pearl poet

#sir gawain and the green knight #sggk #medieval manuscripts #the archives #merry christmas

[evenaturtleduck]

Wayne and Bert (The Winter Knight) being the coziest knights 💚

#blorbos from my phd #the winter knight #jes battis #sggk #favorite books #currently reading #my art #wayne: why yes i think i will play your weird castle sex game

[merrymorningofmay]

hmm. very normal about this

#mari reads #sggk #i need to. check out burton raffel's translation

[abandonedtennisball]

Hmmmm if die hard is a Christmas movie so is the green knight any other questions?

#the green knight #dev patel #sggk #Christmas

[likeniobe]

Most attractive was this man attired in green, With the hair of his head matching his horse. Fine outspreading locks cover his shoulders; A great beard hangs down over his chest like a bush, That like the splendid hair that falls from his head Was clipped all around above his elbows, So that his upper arms were hidden, in the fashion Of a royal capados that covers the neck That great horse’s mane was treated much the same, Well curled and combed, with numerous knots Plaited with gold thread around the fine green, Always a strand of his hair with another of gold. His tail and his forelock were braided to match, Both tied with a ribbon of brilliant green, Studded with costly gems to the end of the tail, Then tightly bound with a thong to an intricate knot Where many bright bells of burnished gold rang. No such horse upon earth, nor such a rider indeed, Had any man in that hall before thought to see with his eyes. His glance was lightning swift, All said who saw him there; It seemed that no one could His massive blows endure. 

happy gawain season, currently appreciating the description of the green knight’s horse’s braided tail with bells on the end as a figure for the stanza form of the poem

#sggk #sp

[lefresne]

heyy if ur interested I'd love 2 know all ur thoughts on the film the green knight that was released a few years ago! I felt like I didn't really get it when I watched it also bc I wasn't familiar with the source material then. I'm rlly curious what ur assessment is since u really are familiar with the work

Hiiii! This is such a fun question, thank you! I seem to be in the minority on this website, but I genuinely enjoyed it! It had some issues, for sure, and I will go into them in a bit, but overall, but I thought it touched on quite a few things I really enjoy about the poem, and I also commend a film that despite being relatively mainstream experiments with narrative form. 

I felt like it actively engaged with the question of ‘retelling’. Instead of a strict adaptation of the poem, I felt like it was more of a retelling of the poem, whose key features were reorganized in a dream-like manner. The film’s attempt to slot a large part of its action within a lacuna from the original poem (Gawain’s journey to Hautdesert) really echoes the ways in which retellings worked in the medieval period and this sort of endless deferral of closure that is associated with it. 

The film’s attitude to ‘merveille’ or the sudden intrusion of the supernatural into everyday life. This being inherent to the world in a way that feels very jarring to a modern audience but is quite consistent with how it is depicted in medieval romance – the film really leaned into that!

The library at Hautdesert, hinting at a concern with intertextuality that is also present in the poem. In the poem, it sometimes feels like Gawain has wandered out of his own romance and is confronted with a reputation that isn’t his (yet or at all) and in the film it is clear that Hautdesert is similarly ‘out of time’, with its hugely anachronistic interiors and costumes. I think the 'camera obscura' also hints at this, and this interest in doubles and reflections leads me to:

The uncanniness: the repetitions, the ghosts, the abjection (the feeling of being confronted with the porosity of the human body and the feeling of shame or repulsion associated with this). I feel like the poem is very interested in the inside of bodies and how these can spill out, I have always been really struck with the poem’s descriptions of mouths (and the things they do! Laughing, eating, kissing) as a symptom of this broader interest in the abject. The film also dwells on the more unpleasant aspects of having a body and on how no amount of pageantry and ritual can save you from toothache, and, er, from other things but I think it misses out some key aspects of SGGK by toning down the hunting / seduction parallel. like to me that is the thematic core of the poem and if you're going to engage with it in any meaningful way you need to reflect quite deeply on what those scenes might mean. the film does not do this.

Concern with matrilineage – Gawain claiming in the poem that his only honour is that he has Arthur’s blood, completely forgetting that Arthur’s blood is also the blood of his mother. Gawain is bound to Arthur through the women he so despises. Gawain’s relationship with his mother in TGK genuinely compelled me. I often felt that the film was rather ‘joyless’ but the fact that the only genuinely joyful moments we see are Gawain with his mother and Gawain with his horse……<3 

Middle English <3

I think the film’s treatment of gender and sexuality is probably the worst part of the film ? I'm sorry I can't articulate this any better but: If I were being particularly cynical, I would say that before setting out to deconstruct something (such as chivalric masculinity) you BETTER have an EXCELLENT grasp of the source material, or it is really going to fall flat. Like I guess it all kinda worked in the context of the film, I just feel like the director REALLY misunderstood a lot of the poem’s subversive powers especially in relation to gender and sexuality. He seemed to never really know what to do with the few elements he did try and include? They’re just kind of….there. What is it even trying to say? Maybe I’m dense but I’m increasingly wondering if we might have lost some good material when the film was re-cut during the pandemic. 

tldr enjoyable, could have been weirder and queerer.

#wrote this is a fevered haze bc im very not normal abt SGGK and TGK #asks

[beheadinggame]

I think it's very fascinating that a lot of medieval gender was directly tied to your position in the bedroom and whether or not you were filling your respective gender roles - so much so that one could argue being a virgin was an entirely different gender identity. There was a lot of anxiety surrounding sexual encounters that could be construed as "deviant" regardless of hetero or homoeroticism.

I find this even more fascinating when it comes to negotiating Gawain's gender in SGGK.

#sir gawain #art goals #SGGK #sir gawain and the green knight #This is of course an oversimplification so take it with a grain of salt #But there is certainly a valid argument to be made for a trans or genderfluid Gawain in this story and several others

[bellshazes]

if i had a nickel for every painstakingly detailed backstory i concocted out of a sparse narrative but i repurposed the central absolutely defining green growing thing metaphor to be vaguely red-coded instead for inescapable character reasons and also clamp was there. i would have two fucking nickels. because everything is the same forever

#peter posts #clover au vs how i planned to finish sggk au for christmas uhhhhh 2016. lol lmao lol #i was gonna do a black cauldron bit in that one. #clover au i at least can do dogs instead of birds even though it changes. the entire thing and undermines the whole Singing motif but.

[rubiatinctorum]

still mortified that i didnt realise that some pdf viewers keep a file's original download name instead of whatever it's changed to so for two years i thought i was saving my ass by changing the file name of my sir gawain and the green knight essay from "sir gawank and the greeb knot" and then found out TWO YEARS LATER that my prof could probably very much see that and still didn't fail me in a subsequent course i took with him. man i am so sorry

#rubia speaks #resulting in him being sent a document called 'washable lavable lanval infallible' for that other course a year later #sir gawain and the green knight #sggk #i'm never living down sir gawank and the greeb knot that shit haunts me to my grave #my sir gawank prophecy came true though i mean we all saw what happened in the green knight right with the—

[werewolf-transgenderism]

need to watch the green knight seven or eight times and be in my green knight era again now that I can actually do digital art

#do you know how many drawings and paintings I have done of Dev Patel Sir Gawain from Dev Patel Summer of 2021 #imagine what I could do if I rekindled that for the digital art era I'm in rn #gonna be reading sggk again in a little bit because it's on my comps and I want to be back in Gawain Mode

[liebeli]

thinking about the landscapes in the green knight, the expanse of land and the strangeness that comes with it, a world that is not fully understood yet, the imposition of order on the cycles of nature, and how everything is entangled beyond recognition

#sggk is a tale of survival. of silk and embroidery. of shrubbery and deer entrails.... #its about knots and textures! #<<< someone who has a normal amount of thoughts about this #the green knight #mine

[rudy-redd]

I love when people tag whatever media is mentioned. Doing their best work for the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight fandom

#not even a general arthurian tag. specifically gotta organize out Sir Gawain and the Green Knight #for the SGGK fandom <- saw somebody shorten it like that too