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sorry kitten, daddy has to complete the NYT Strands now

not now kitten, daddy's in the middle of his NYT Connections

#nyt strands #nyt connections #wordle #shitpost

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not now kitten, daddy's in the middle of his NYT Connections

#dykepulpfriction #nyt connections #wordle #i love wordle #i love connections

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rise, lesbians!

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i love when a man is fresh of getting his ass beat. it’s like a pregnancy glow

#this is why everyone wants to fuck the rugby team

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gawain post

i would survive decapitation

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Why he always doing this

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me and @dearhaunt yelling about butch knighthood for hours

I wish there was more annoying lame nerds in the butch/femme community I can't keep up talk about reality tv shows I need to listen to some dyke tell me about some stupid manga they read 15 times

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does anyone know of any aftg discords?? would love to actually talk to more people about it!!

#aftg #all for the game #tfc #the foxhole court #discord server

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consistently overestimating the general public’s level of arthurian understanding.

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PERCEVAL THE UNHAPPY, THE MISERABLE, THE UNFORTUNATE, THE FISHER KING!

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

ALRIGHT alright. so previously I did an illustration that explained the premise of all this, that it's inspired by the narrative choices that Bresson made in his film Lancelot du Lac etc

to dive in more into it (because this is something like derivative fiction. I'm putting concepts into a blender and seeing what comes out of it): the setting is haunted by the previously existing narratives that started cannibalizing each other until it regurgitates itself into the more well known narrative beats, and something else about the invasive rot of christianity and empire mythmaking into settings. it's an intertextual haunting, if you will! and this scene takes place during the grail quest narrative, but the temptation of Perceval plays out differently.

in both Chretien (and Wolfram's) Perceval narratives, what 'wakes' Perceval up (in more ways than one. desire and self actualization in one go!) is seeing knights, something his mother tried hard to keep him from. so instead of the temptation of lust & etc in the Morte narrative taking the form of a lady, it takes the form of a knight. the temptation to renounce one's faith to serve something else remains.

so Perceval still stabs himself, but instead of continuing on the grail quest in the shadow of Galahad, he becomes the narrative's Fisher King because his earlier state of being as a the grail quest hero is creeping back into his marrow. it was waiting for an opening, and stabbing yourself in the thigh is one hell of a parallel!!!

that wound isn't going to heal buddy, and the state of the setting will now be reflected on your body. sure hope that Arthur hasn't like. corrupted the justice of the land or anything. that sure would suck for your overall health.

all the red in this sequence is because in de Troyes' Perceval, Perceval takes the armor of the Red Knight and becomes known as the Knight in Red.

and now for the citations, which I will try to order in a way that makes sense!

Seeing Knights For The First Time

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

The Temptation of Perceval

Le Morte Darthur, Mallory (modernized by Baines)

The Fisher King, and Perceval The Unfortunate

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

On Perceval and Gender, etc.

Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey

On Wounds

Wounded Masculinity: Injury and Gender in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, Kenneth Hodges

The Red Knight

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

On Arthur and the Corruption of Justice

The Failure of Justice, the Failure of Arthur, L.K. Bedwell

#reading perceval right now and i had to go back and reblog this #something something placing another man above god and worshipping him instead

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i love herbert west and his radioactive testosterone 

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its nothing some ibuprofen and a blunt and 5 beers and a head injury and jacking off and killing myself cant fix

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it kills me gawain is like i am the biggest fucking dork-ass loser in all of camelot so if i die it's chill and then the rest of the text goes on to be like "gawain was thick as fuck. his thighs were insane. he was so hot. he was also the best christian in the whole wide world and he looked so pretty in his fancy armor."

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having delved into greek mythology tumblr a bit i've seen a lot of things like "transmasc dionysus" "nonbinary dionysus" etc but if i told people about my own personal perspective (transfem dionysus), most of them would probably want to rip me to shreds. which is, i think, exactly what i should be going for

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aghhhhhhh. okay I will persist

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today i offer you: gideon. tomorrow? who knows.

(close-up below)

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Grendel was such a feminist king for getting fridged for his mother's character development