på gatan där jag bor except im coping and making up post canon alan wake scenarios
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so I've focused in on Perceval and Bors before, and I've done Perceval and Gender (for more on this specifically, see: Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey) and did a whole comic that leaned into some subtext™ on temptation, but actually let's throw out the subtext! let's bring Augustine into this!!
Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)
introduction to Confessions, Augustine (trans. Sarah Ruden)
so for perceval a knight is both the gender he wants to perform but also something that is expressly compared to god, and if god is a lover that seduces. well. does this not also apply to knights as well?
Homosexuality in the Renaissance: Behavior, Identity, and Artistic Expression, James M. Saslow
and while galahad might be the obvious choice, I think perceval's relationship with bors during the grail quest narrative is more interesting. it's not god that transforms perceval, it's the sight of knights for the first time. something in here specifically is incredibly intriguing to me, but there's a different text I need to finish reading to fully form some thoughts on it.
le Morte d’Arthur
and finally! tentatively. I think I might slowly start turning this idea I had a couple years back into a fully formed comic. we'll see! I had most of it blocked out, but halfway through reading augustine's confessions, I think was when perceval finally clicked for me as a character in a later narrative cycle setting. I think I might have to spend a lot of time doing some visual research first because my god I cannot consistently draw armor to save my life......back when I lived in new england, there was a museum with a wonderful medieval armor collection I could visit.....alas.........I will have to hit the books (literally, I have a collection of books on medieval armor but this is apparently the one thing I can't visualize properly in my imagination. save me, museum collections, you're my only hope)
⭐️ credits for the collage panels! (all open access or public domain, etc.)
-Saint George and the Dragon
-Saint George and the Dragon (different one lmao)
-Pages and Knights, Frontispiece for "The Man at Arms"
-Cloisters
⭐ if you like my comics and have a couple bucks, I have a tip jar (ko-fi)!
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Is your elf friend fading or did they just forget about ✨ the sun ✨?
As grandiose as our elven friends can seem to be, it’s easy to forget that they are simply verbose, slightly stabby, house plants. As such their physical and mental well-being being is drastically dependant on how much time they exposed to any natural light source.
(One would think a being with such requirements would make it a priority to schedule regular times outside but I suppose Eru put us here for some reason)
So if you find your elven friend singing sadly in the corner of a dark room, he may not be buckling under the weight of eternity, he may just have forgotten how days work and that living forever doesn’t mean you can go without sleep. No, not even if you’re in the middle of making something important, it’ll still be there tomorrow
This PSA was brought to you by Hurin Thalion and for the sake of the Allfather Fingon, you’ve been sitting at you desk for almost a week now. Get outside, touch some grass! The world isn’t doomed, there is still good in it worth fighting for and it’s literally two feet you your left on the other side of the tent flap. Gods preserve us, you scared the life out of me I thought you were dying
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Wei-Bor Chu
朱為白 CHU WEI BOR (Taiwanese, 1929-2018)
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This one looks so olddd now ;-;
I know there was a bonus joke panel in response to someone. I think I've lost that file tho
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Reflection, Vogue Czech, 2018 - by Lucian Bor (1980), Swiss
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