#Arthurian saga

[bkworm5]

Really love that Arthur is the Once and Future King because we imortalize him. We keep bringing him back through our stories. 

#just storytelling as a path to imortality #arthur pendragon #arthuriana #arthurian legend #arthurian literature #vulgate cycle #le morte d'arthur #post-vulgate cycle #heather dale #bbc merlin #camelot musical #there are so many modern arthuriana stories i cannot possibly list them all #monty pyton and the holy grail #avalon #the once and future king #the pendragon cycle #arthurian saga #mine

[ancientorigins]

Did the dark Arthurian character of Mordred really exist? Join us as we dive into the complex world of this legendary character’s mystique, and the hazy lines between history and myth in the Arthurian saga.

#King Arthur #Arthurian legend #saga #knights

[mousermayhem]

Ok ok so like. I know Donnie is The Smart One and all but… I like to think that Raph is quietly really smart too, but his focus is on different things than Donnie and are less like. Immediately useful in terms of the situations they’re in.

Cause Donnie is the tech and science guy. Raph I think would have an incredibly in-depth knowledge of art and history, especially where those intertwine. He can rival or even surpass Donnie’s own technobabble when he gets going on the extensive history of textiles that he knows. He can rattle off all sorts of plants and insects and the color of dye they were used for during what time periods. He can dissect a book or poem piece by piece to truly understand what it is trying to say. He presents himself as a casual fan of art but love just. Digging into it.

#tmnt raph #raph has read the icelandic sagas and arthurian legends change my mind (you cant)

[knightsofsomethingorother]

This happened.

They rode the world's oldest salmon.

They RODE the world's oldest SALMON.

THEY RODE THE WORLD'S OLDEST SALMON, GUYS.

#arthurian shitposting #arthurian meme #arthuriana #the world's oldest surviving arthurian saga is also the best #culhwch and olwen is fucking goofy and it's amazing #kay #gwrhyr #btw Gwrhyr is a guy mournfully absent from modern works who can speak any language including the animal ones #queue

[what-life-is-really-like]

Me, reading/watching any medieval fantasy fiction: Wow, getting my period there would suck more than it already does.

#bbc merlin #game of thrones #George R.R. Martin #ranger's apprentice #john flanagan #lord of the rings #tolkein #the witcher #the crystal cave #the hollow hills #Arthurian saga #mary stewart #the chronicles of prydain #lloyd alexander #westmark #earthsea #ursula k le guin #traitor's blade #sebastien de castell #fantasy #fantasy books #fantasy movies #sir gawain and the green knight #le morte d'arthur #the quest of the holy grail #the odyssey #the iliad #the last apprentice #joseph delaney #The wardstone chronicles

[hanzajesthanza]

i loveeee being in a fandom where the work of media in question is complete. it's finished. it's done.

we don't have to wait around for the next book or watch as the series gets dragged out and beaten like a dead horse for a neverending amount of cash flow.

the creator had a vision, he stuck to it, he executed it, and now we have "the work"—an established body of canon which we can talk about and discuss, without having to say "unless this gets changed or modified in future installments." there is a set number of short stories, a set number of books. asides from the comments of the author himself said in interviews and opinions remarked upon in essays and other works, there is nothing more we have to be prepared to risk everything on. the story is complete. it has been told. everything we know has already been written down.

i know some, or more likely, most people cannot stand it when there are no new or upcoming additions to the work of a fandom, nothing to "look forward to." but i love it. please don't give me any more, this was more than enough to deal with, i'm still working on this, honestly. rather, what i'm "looking forward to" are interpretations, analysis, and other work from fans from which we can generate—ourselves—ongoing discussions and arguments which will last us forever.

i don't want hype. i want love.

#filed under: my posts always sound pretentious but please i really am not trying to be pretentious this is just how i think to myself #txt #the witcher books #everybody say thank you sapko for finishing the series and not giving up halfway through the saga and abandoning it #also the fact that it's One Guy as the author makes it so much more easier and straightforward #however there are like Ten Million References which you need to read Every Fantasy Series to get so. there's your homework #i'm joking but really 'getting a degree in arthurian literature to read the witcher' is a good idea #and 'getting a degree in european history to read the hussite trilogy' is also a good idea #if sapkowski were to announce another 'witcher' work i would accept it (generally; within reason) but i would also be like: #'what are you doing. let the dead sleep.' #let geralt rest on the island of avalon he deserves a peaceful retirement don't keep bringing him back for small tasks #HOWEVER if you would like to write something with ciri in the world of arthurian legend... i'm down for that

[lesbicastagna]

next cringe gay book they should adapt is c4ptive prince or whatever its called i have not read it and i'm mainly speaking bc from the like 3 things i know about it i think me and @bubble-astronaut would have a blast watching it together

#we could read the book honestly but thats a lot of time to just waste on the bit. idk #i know we would get So cringed. it would slay. last time we watched an awful arthurian saga movie and cried

[pitch-and-moan]

The Birth of Myth

A period piece about the composition of Y Gododdin by the Welsh bard Aneirin. While the film is almost entirely about the development of old and middle Welsh poetry, the end of the film teases the Arthurian legend as one stanza obliquely references King Arthur, setting up a series of other films about literary references to the character.

#bad idea #movie pitch #pitch and moan #king arthur #arthurian legend #arthur pendragon #arthuriana #arthurian mythology #arthurian literature #welsh #british #british history #english history #english literature #medieval literature #saga #poetry #welsh bard #bard #y gododdin #aneirin #mythology #old welsh #middle welsh #period film

[holly-poly]

Pinch Hits: Post-Default Deadline

The default deadline passed about a day and a half ago, and there were five new pinch hits posted to the google group yesterday evening, one of which has already been claimed. We also still have one lingering initial pinch hit (#4) that is proving hard to fill - if you know anyone in any of those fandoms please help spread the word to them if you think they might be interested or might know someone else who would be. All five six outstanding pinch hits are below. More specific information can be found by clicking the links. Right now, the deadline for these pinch hits is the regular deadline of January 9, but if they linger more than a day or so we can definitely negotiate. 

If you’re interested in claiming any of these pinch hits, send an e-mail to [email protected] with your AO3 name.

#4: Last Cloudia (Video Game), Romancing SaGa 3 (Video Game), Romancing SaGa Re;univerSe (Video Game), 明日方舟 | Arknights (Video Game), Emperors SaGa, Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song (Video Game), The de Burghs - Deborah Simmons, Granblue Fantasy (Video Game)

#16: CLAIMED - Marvel Cinematic Universe, Leverage, Doctor Who, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015), Mr. Malcolm's List - All Media Types, Shadow and Bone (TV)

#17: CLAIMED - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Numb3rs (TV), Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

#18: CLAIMED - Banana Fish (Anime & Manga), DCU (Comics), The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015), Castlevania (Cartoon 2017-2021), KinnPorsche: The Series (TV), Sense8 (TV), 绅探 | Detective L (TV), 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)

#19: CLAIMED - League of Legends & Related Fandoms, Arthurian Mythology, ちはやふる | Chihayafuru (Anime & Manga), Overwatch (Video Game)

#21: CLAIMED - 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games), Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Anime & Manga), Hardy Boys - Franklin W. Dixon, バチカン奇跡調査官 | Vatican Kiseki Chousakan | Vatican Miracle Examiner (Anime)

Collection: https://ao3.org/collections/holly_poly_2022 Tag Set: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/12906 Tumblr: https://holly-poly.tumblr.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/holly_poly_ex

#holly poly 2022 #pinch hits #dcu #shadow and bone #harry potter #pride and prejudice #doctor who #marvel cinematic universe #arknights #the deburghs series #last cloudia #romancing saga #granblue fantasy #kinnporsche the series #castlevania #banana fish #the man from uncle (2015) #sense8 #league of legends #arthurian mythology #overwatch #the great ace attorney chronicles #pretty guardian sailor moon #leverage #detective l #numb3rs #word of honor #hardy boys #vatican miracle examiner #mr. malcolm's list

[bright-thehawksflight]

Ok but can we talk about how the vikings are still seen in pop culture as brutish unwashed barbarians bringing chaos to England and burning monasteries and whatnot but at some point they must have become just... People? Helgi from across the river who gave you a bargain price on that piglet, Rymenhild who always chats you up on market day, their children who play outside with yours, and in all this at some point there was enough trust that some of them began telling stories from their homeland and someone listened. And this someone thought that a hero retrieving a sword from an ancestor's tomb and seizing their destiny with the blessing of their lineage was pretty fucking awesome actually and our hero should do something like that too only he's getting capital-B Blessed instead and a few brief centuries later the sword in the stone is so deeply embedded in Arthurian myth and pop culture????? Like????? It's almost like we are beings of creation and our best work is done when we come together. Or something.

#lisa says the things #once again this is barely coherent #but im in my feelings about philology on this fine day and you'll suffer for it #king Arthur #arthurian mythology #the sword in the stone #vikings #norse #Norse sagas #philology

[thequietesthing]

Love is the only prayer I know.

- Marion Zimmer Bradley ( The Mists of Avalon )

#marion zimmer bradley #the mists of avalon #quotes #book quotes #daily book quotes #books #books and libraries #fantasy books #avalon saga #avalon #morgana le fay #morgan le fay #merlin #arthurian mythology #love #love quotes #booklr

[beaftlynatures]

Here's some of the @jstor articles I've found really interesting in this line of study:

From my gender/sex variance studies

Erecting Sex: Hermaphrodites and the Medieval Science of Surgery

Mary or Michael? Saint-Switching, Gender, and Sanctity in a Medieval Miracle of Childbirth

The Image of the Androgyne: Some Uses of a Symbol in Earliest Christianity

Transvestites in the Middle Ages

Two Cases Of Female Cross-Undressing In Medieval Art And Literature

Concerning Sex Changes: The Cultural Significance of a Renaissance Medical Polemic

Relating to disability

Sitting on the Sidelines: Disability in Malory

A Dwarf in King Arthur's Court: Perceiving Disability in Arthurian Romance

Disability and Dreams in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas

The Disabled and the Monstrous: Examples from Medieval Spain

Relating to sexuality

Sexual Fluidity “Before Sex"

The Disclosure of Sodomy in Cleanness

"Be more strange and bold": Kissing Lepers and Female Same-Sex Desire in "The Book of Margery Kempe

I will continue to update this list of sources as I find pertinent articles!

Your mileage may vary on these, not all of these have the most tactful or respectful dialogues but I found them interesting.

#unsorted #from HQ #medievalism #medieval studies

[aetherdecember]

Look, I love BBC Merlin and how they told the lore, but I’m a sucker for the relationship between Arthur and Mordred in the mythology. Specifically, I love how Mary Stewart (author of The Arthurian Saga**) and Nancy Springer (author of I Am Mordred**) wrote about the father/son relationship between them. So naturally, my brain has been conjuring up how I can include that in my Flipping the Coin au.

Since the main premise is Merlin died/Arthur lives, and now Arthur is the one waiting for Merlin to come back, things would stay consistent with canon up to the last episode (when Merlin flips the coin of their destiny and sacrifices himself so Arthur can live and thus stop Camlann from happening altogether). Which is where this idea will start:

Gwen is barren. She and Arthur never have kids. Eventually, everyone Arthur knows and loves dies. He can’t rule Camelot forever, and after Gwen’s death, he no longer wants to, so he fakes his death and wanders off figure out why he’s still here. He never gets an answer for that. Arthur spends the next millennium waiting. He keeps living. He meets people, experiences things he’d never experienced before, and learns things he’d never dreamed of learning. He can’t stay anywhere long, or else suspicions will rise, but he gets to see the world change, how technology advances, and witness humans continuing to be humans. When war breaks out, he joins the battle. It’s familiar. The rush of adrenaline is the same whether he’s wielding a sword or a gun. Only, he can’t see the enemy’s face anymore.

Peace comes again. At some point, he sleeps with a woman, and she happens to become pregnant. Bisexual disaster that he is, he’s had all sorts of partners from both sexes, but has never had this happen, even before the advent of reliable birth control. Later, he’ll learn her name is Morgause. She doesn’t look like the Morgause he knew before, nor does she act like her, but her name haunts him. After the baby is born, she gives him to Arthur, says she has no intentions of being a mother, and leaves. The last thing she had said to him was the baby’s name.

Mordred.

That night, Arthur holds Mordred and weeps.

There is irony in his son being named Mordred. First, in that the legends surrounding him, Merlin, Camelot, the Knights of the Round Table, and all of it, had long ago decided Mordred was his son. And two, in a retelling of that legend, it had aptly phrased what he sensed was happening now. Granted, he isn’t a sorcerer, he doesn’t have magic, so he can’t support his feeling with anything other than he’d been around a long time and knew to his very core that it was true. Mordred’s birth is a signal of the beginning of the end.

Fatherhood brings him a new sense of purpose. Gone are the days of loneliness and drudgery. Every day with Mordred brings a new light into his life. Each smile is a miracle. Seeing Mordred experience things for the first time brings a new appreciation. Being there to watch him grow makes time fly like it never has before. But Arthur is afraid. He doesn’t want to be his father. He doesn’t know how to be a father, or what the right way to do it is. In all the years he’s been on the Earth, he’s never known a man who could concretely say, “This is the way to raise a son,” and actually reap the fruits of their efforts. Too frequently, he’d seen sons grow outside of the visions their fathers molded for them and receive only disappointment and disdain in return. So he was afraid, because he too had been that son.

*cue a series of fluffy father/son one shots of Arthur raising Mordred until Merlin comes back, takes one look, and is is like WTF????? No, I won’t have Mordred for a step son >:(*

**Mary Stewart and Nancy Springer have several other works, not just the stories I mentioned. The ones mentioned are the ones I’m pulling inspiration from ^^

Additional notes below the break:

Guinevere’s barrenness is not a headcanon I typically subscribe to for BBC Merlin. My headcanon is that after Arthur’s death, Gwen gives birth, and their child eventually succeeds her as ruler.

I’ve always seen Mordred’s appearance as the harbinger of Arthur’s downfall. Thus, the reason for the plot bunnies in my brain going crazy with this idea of how I could bring him in, still remain mostly canon compliant with BBC Merlin, and build off some of my favorite parts of the lore. (Mandatory disclaimer: for BBC Merlin, I don’t headcanon Mordred as Arthur’s son. But for the mythology, I do wholeheartedly support that canon.)

Arthur’s choice to participate and live once Camelot is gone is a decision to contrast my headcanon of how Merlin handled it. I don’t think Merlin thrived. I think he stayed busy, and tried to remain hopeful, but I think he was anxiously consumed with the anticipation of wondering when Arthur would come back. In this au, Arthur may or may not know that Merlin is supposed to come back (I’m still working on that detail), but he’s always been around others. I think he would seek camaraderie, and companionship, and that he would connect with others but only to a superficial level. I don’t think he’d exist in a void of loneliness. Plus, he doesn’t have the guilt of knowing he failed because the pressure from the prophecy is very one sided *coughcough*causemerlinnevertoldhim*coughcough*

Anyways, that’s enough rambling from me about this. I’ll probably share some snippets of writing next because there are some fantastic scenes coming together in the draft so stay tuned! ;D

#bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #mordred #flipping the coin #my drabbles #arthurian mythology will always be my jam #you can tear this au from my cold dead hands but it will live on #merthur #for the Merlin not wanting Mordred as a stepson joke the last Mordred he knew turned on them to join Morgana #as far as Merlin is concerned they’re the same person #he’ll come around eventually once Arthur fills him in on everything #btw Arthur’s son Mordred is unaware of all of this #he’s having to process his dad - who has never really been interested in anybody for any reason - is completely besotted with some guy #once he learns this ‘some guy’ used to be his father’s servant it does not make things better #but by then he’ll have learned enough that it does clear things up #he’s actually a big fan of Merlin #he just wasn’t prepared for love sick puppy dog Arthur 24/7 now that Merlin’s back

[koitosoup]

your art is SO gorgeous (especially your Laois Galahad painting omg?? as a Arthurian saga FREAK I was FEASTING!!!) if you dont mind me asking, what brushes do you use? how does your drawing process look like? I'm so curious!! also you're SO so talented, I wanna show the whole world your art for some reason so that they also get as much serotonin as I haha. Best of luck with all your endevours!!!

ahhh thank you so much!! these 2 are my most used brushes currently, the 1st for sketching/lineart and the 2nd for painting! you can download both sets for free :] i used a couple of more painterly ones for the background though but those were just some default procreate brushes :’) if you’d like i can post the speedpaint on tiktok/twitter too!

#koitosoup brushes

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played PENDRAGON ?

By Greg Stafford

You play multiple generations of Knights covering the entire Arthurian saga. Only a small portion of the game is quests and combat, there are also social feasts, land management, raising children, and romance

#ttrpg #tabletop rpg #poll #poll time #usa #1980s #pendragon #pendragon ttrpg #pendragon rpg

[maniculum]

Pinned Post, or, What Is This Blog Exactly?

Given the recent influx of new followers, I figure I had better make us a pinned post so people know who we are and what we're doing. Because, as much as I enjoy just posting whatever, this is a podcast account and people should know that. Especially if they like weird medieval stuff, as that is our whole deal.

The Maniculum, available wherever you normally get your podcasts, is a show where we read medieval literature, make jokes about it, and then suggest ways to adapt it into TTRPG material (or other forms of storytelling). We try to pick especially strange medieval texts, most of which you would be unlikely to come across in your typical medieval-lit survey course, though we have done a few well-known ones (most notably our series on Egil’s Saga).

It’s hosted by Zoe and Mac. (This is Mac typing now; I do most of the Tumblr posting. Zoe sometimes posts as @meanderingmedievalist.) Both of us are medievalists with like degrees and stuff, so we at least kind of know what we’re talking about when we discuss medieval literature. Mac is in grad school, most of the way through a PhD. Zoe finished her MA a few years ago and got a job working on video games – she did narrative design on Pentiment, if you’re familiar with it.

The general structure of the podcast is that one of us (we take turns) chooses a text and reads / paraphrases / summarizes it for the other, who responds to it with comments & questions & jokes & digressive tangents. Then we close with a series of segments where we pull interesting features, ideas, etc. from the text for potential use in your TTRPG / storytelling projects.

If you want to check out the show but don’t want to start at the beginning where you have to listen to us figure out what we’re doing (the audio on the first handful of episodes is a bit rough, for instance), here are some suggestions:

Our 2022 Halloween special (link here), where we read a selection of medieval stories about undead creatures.

An episode (link here) about the dragon Fafnir and the famous slaying thereof.

The Story of King Constant (link here), a fairly short and obscure tale from medieval France. (The episode is still a normal length; the story is short enough that the full text fits comfortably into a single episode with no summarizing needed.) I include this one because I feel it’s a good self-contained representation of what we do.

The first episode (link here) of our two-parter on the Peasants’ Revolt, released to commemorate May Day 2023.

Lanval (link here), one of the most widely known stories by Marie de France. This is also good as a self-contained episode, and it's a story that may be familiar to you already.

And if you want to jump into a series:

The first episode (link here) of our seven-part series on the highly-regarded Icelandic text Egil’s Saga, about a Viking warrior-poet who is also kind of a dick.

The first episode (link here) of our ten-part series on Perlesvaus – our longest series on a single text so far, wherein we work through what might be the weirdest Arthurian romance out there.

If this just popped up on your dash, sorry for the long self-promotional post. Hope you come check us out. New episodes every other week.