#The Squire's Tales

[onaslansside]

Look, I know, I know, finishing the Squire's Tales requires reading The Legend of the King and having all the tragic finale part of the Arthurian Legends in one book. But consider: you get to read the beautiful trial scene.

#yes I will be crying about this for probably the rest of my life #it's not just a fixitfic version of a scene that's usually pure tragedy #it's such an EXTREMELY PERFECT use of Arthur as a Messianic Archetype #book recs #Arthurian legends #The Squire's Tales #Gerald Morris

[joemerl]

Medieval sources on Lancelot's backstory: His parents were the rulers of a French province called Benoic, and the family were the only survivors when their castle was attacked by the evil King Claudas. His father died of grief, and baby Lancelot was spirited away by the Lady of the Lake, who is either a fairy or a powerful sorceress. He was raised in her underwater kingdom with two of his cousins and a bunch of other magical ladies. He grew up in only three years, then went out to discover his true identity and join King Arthur's court. The Lady of the Lake gave him a bunch of magical weapons, and she or her damsels occasionally show up to help him on his quests.

Modern stories on Lancelot's backstory: He's French. We'll explore this by making French jokes.

#Seriously why don't retellings go into this more?! #Arthurian legend #Arthurian mythology #The Squire's Tales #Camelot #Camelot musical #The Once and Future King #didn't tap that goldmine either but I don't think it made any French jokes. #Lancelot #Lady of the Lake

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood book #poll #the secret seven #the squire's tales #the seventh tower #sweet valley high #city spies #the cat ate my gymsuit #magic shop #the curse of the gloamglozer #school of fear #igraine the brave

[ladyminaofcamelot]

I’m going to cave. I have to do it. I have to recommend a book series to all my Squire’s Tales pals out there, because I’m almost certain you will like it. So, without further ado, the Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan is AMAZING and I need you all to read it. It’s like a medieval buddy cop story, except they’re not cops, they’re the best thieves in the country, I just say that because their relationship is top tier. Hadrian is a wonderful golden retriever of a man and Royce is like the scraggly wet cat he found in an alley but their dichotomy makes them no less a single unit and it’s adorable and amazing and I promise you will fall in love with them from scene one and continue to love them throughout their adventures.

There’s also an amazing cast of female characters who are so complex with their own little cares and joys, and it’s incredibly refreshing to read. The power of friendship between women saves the day on several occasions and they all go through their own character arcs and yes, some of them are cool warrior women, but some of them are just nice. Like, being genuinely tender and nice and compassionate is what makes them special and it’s so important to the plot and who they are and changes so much for the better.

And as if his character writing wasn’t cool enough, Sullivan also has a very fun, well developed medieval fantasy world that feels like it has a deep history and a history that is, perhaps, not the one the characters in the book think they know, which is amazing, but it’s also under the surface enough that the books are easy to read and don’t get bogged down, they just have this extra layer of richness.

Is this recommendation made selfishly in part because I’m working on a Squire’s Tales/Riyria/Narnia crossover fic and I want more people to enjoy it than just me? Yes. Do I genuinely think that people who enjoy Terence and Gawain’s relationship dynamic and the way Morris writes female characters would like Riyria? Also yes. I love this series and I fully believe you will too.

#The Squire's Tales #Riyria #Riyria Revelations #Royce #Hadrian #Terence #Gawain #Gerald Morris #Michael J Sullivan #Book Recommendations

[mizumisty]

theyre in love your honor

#hello aem fandom #ae mysteries #adventure escape mysteries #the squire's tales #the squire's tales fanart #the squires tales #the squires tales fanart #ae mysteries fanart #adventure escape mysteries fanart #cedrick fanart #martin fanart #cedrick x martin #cedrick x martin fanart #haiku games #haiku games fanart #%.art

[gellavonhamster]

White we’re talking about Gareth, can I just say that the only thing about the way the characters of Arthuriana were written in The Squire’s Tales that I absolutely hated is making him this shallow annoying asshole... like, I may not like the idea of Morgause being the main villain, but I get that “well, everyone made mistakes and did something bad even if they weren’t inherently bad” is probably less fitting for an adventure series for younger readers than a clear-cut villain, and I get that in this context Gaheris would be a good guy, and I honestly get why one would write Tristan and Isolde as shitty people - they kind of are sometimes, a little bit? But what on earth did Gareth, of all people, do to deserve this

#i mean i love this series i really do #it's funny as hell and it has palamedes and dinadan survive the fall of camelot and ride into the sunset together #but all orkneys except for gawain in it... choices were made and i can see why even if i don't agree EXCEPT FOR GARETH #arthurian legends #the squire's tales #gerald morris #gareth #gella talks arthuriana #talk talk talk #arthuriana

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Gerald Morris’ Squire’s Tales series: a lot of people are very stupid and a lot of traditions are very stupid but we have to do them because it’s polite and it makes people happy, and it’s better to make people happy by being a bit silly than to upset them. 

8-year-old-me: yeah I’ll integrate that into my worldview

#the squire's tales

[butterflyslinky]

So now that I'm back on my Squire's Tales bullshit--

I don't know if anyone else realized this, but Gerald Morris's timeline is fucked.

Nothing about it adds up. I'm sure this is probably him not giving a shit about continuity, but also it makes things really confusing.

Specifically: Luneta and Beaufils/Guinglain.

In book 7, Luneta is explicitly 16 years old. Her parents got married at the end of book 3, which explicitly takes place after the seven year time lapse in book 2, which takes place 4-5 years after book 1; let's call it four. Which means between books 1 and 7, at least twenty-five years have elapsed.

However, this presents a problem when we come to book 8. Beaufils is estimated to be about 17 years old. Now, this number could be wrong, since no one can remember, but no one gives any indication it isn't correct--not Beaufils, not Gawain, not Ganscotter. Gawain is the important one, though. Beaufils gives his age as 17 when he comes to court, and Gawain states that he could be his father from 18 years ago.

BUT Gawain met Lori and pledged his love to her at the end of book 1, and the whole point of that book was Gawain being force-fed Respect Women Juice, and the Maiden's Knight isn't going to cheat on his One True Love.

Which means either Guinglain is especially baby-faced and Gawain forgot to account for his seven-year gap quest, or Lori gave Gawain a free pass to fuck around in Camelot until they got married, or else book 7 happened sometime in the middle of book 8, which makes even less sense because at least a year goes by in book 7 and Gawain's movements are accounted for in both books 7 and 8, and book 9 explicitly starts six months after the events of book 8.

So somehow, Guinglain is either a year or two older than Luneta, or else he's 25 and looks like a child.

Or again, Gerald Morris just doesn't give a damn about continuity.

#the squire's tales #meta

[twofoursixohjuan]

tried rereading the squire's tales and realised some things: one dinadan is surprisingly heavily gay-coded and two i am still not immune to the legend of the king. crying at work. very awkward.

#the squire's tales

[iheartbookbran]

I’m obsessed with GRRM’s new not a blog post because he’s basically like “I need to hurry up and finish that pesky Winds of Winter thingie so that I can move on and concentrate on what’s really important… the Dunk and Egg novellas!”

#i’m not even judging him or anything #like HE’S SO RIGHT #you get to do your passion project king #what are the dumb tall teenager and his little shit of a squire gonna do next? #honestly jon snow can stay dead for another 20 years or whatever i wanna see bloodraven be horrible on purpose #duncan the tall #aegon v targaryen #dunk and egg #asoiaf #akotsk #twoiaf #a knight of the seven kingdoms #a song of ice and fire #tales of dunk and egg #grrm

[evilasiangenius]

Sneak Preview: The Canterbury Tales Roadtrip

Aziraphale carried Crowley into the inn. The demon was still dead asleep and wrapped up – even his face was entirely hidden in the folds of Aziraphale’s hyacinth-colored cloak, and the angel resisted the temptation to push that fur-lined wool back just a little bit so that he could stroke the demon’s dark curling hair.

“I’m sorry, you can’t bring in anyone sick!” the innkeeper began, moving to block the way.

“Oh no, he’s not sick at all. He’s quite healthy, through and through. I doubt the plague could even touch him. Besides, this. This. Er, this is…” Aziraphale panicked for a moment, trying to think up an excuse. “This is…erm, this is…this is my son!”

“I’m not his son,” Crowley’s voice was muffled from beneath the enshrouding cloak.

“Ha ha, that’s exactly the kind of backchat a son would say. My son. These young folks and their jests, really. Now now, my child, behave or I might accidentally drop you.”

“You wouldn’t dare.”

“Quiet, child. The adults are talking.”

Crowley gasped in outrage.

“Anyhow, the poor child fell asleep on my horse, which reminds me, if you could send someone to make sure my palfrey’s watered and fed, I’d appreciate it. I can handle the grooming myself–”

“Did you say horse?” The innkeeper’s ears pricked up at the suggestion of wealth, and then he inspected Aziraphale a little more closely, from the cream-colored silk velvet of his long calf-length pleated houppelandes, the sleeves fashionably scalloped and trimmed with the same pale blue-gray fur lining of the hyacinth cloak to the low slung belt with elaborate metal ornaments of gold-chased bronze and hanging tassels of silk, among which hung a heavy purse. “Come in, come in! Please, did you want a room? You’ll be wanting a room, we got the very best rooms for a man of your standing, Sir…?”

“Ahem, if you must know, I am a knight. Sir Aziraphale, a knight of the crown,” Aziraphale said, resting his hand upon a hilt made of white horn and bound with golden silk cord. “As you can see by my sword.”

“Oh, so that’s what was poking my back,” Crowley said softly, just loud enough for Aziraphale to hear.

Aziraphale went bright red. “And my son who is my squire.” He drew Crowley a bit closer, and whispered into the demon’s ear. “Don’t make me drop you.”

“Yes, I’ll behave. Daddy,” Crowley laughed, looking up into Aziraphale’s flustered, consternated face.

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziraphale and crowley #aziracrow #aziraphale is a knight #crowley is his squire #canterbury tales crossover #writing in nearly every single character from the prologue #crowley hates the 14th century #coming soon to ao3 #aziraphale and crowley in fancy medieval clothing #i'll probably start posting this story next week #mistakes were made

[heckyeahponyscans]

In the MLP ‘n Friends episode “Tambelon”, its established that Grogar’s dark city of Tambelon exists in a different dimension;  every 500 years it phases into the ponies’ dimension. Unicorns can get stuck in Tambelon before it even appears, as their winking (aka teleporting) briefly takes them through other planes. 

When Tambelon physically materialized into Ponyland, Grogar captured every pony, plus magic users like the Moochick.  But Megan and the ponies defeated Grogar, sending him and Tambelon back to their original dimension.

Then there’s the other G1 series, MLP Tales, which is a mundane world. The ponies drive cars and attend school, they’re all Earth ponies, and there’s no magic . . . or IS there?  

MLP Tales has two mystical occurrences: the ghost of Squire appears and the magical Glow ‘n Show ponies (three pegasi and one alicorn) rescue Patch.

So what if Grogar came back 500 years after Megan & friends defeated him?  And what if the new generation of ponies once again defeated him--but THIS time most ponies were unable to escape the city before it dematerialized.  Perhaps only a few Earth ponies remained in Ponyland, gradually repopulating it.  And as the years went by, unicorns, pegasi, flutter ponies, etc, became little more than myths.

So my theory is that another 500 years have passed and Bright Glow and her Glow ‘n Show friends have managed to escape from Tambelon before it fully materializes and are now scouting, looking for information and allies to free their trapped friends and defeat Grogar once and for all.

#My Little Pony #MLP Tales #My Little Pony 'n Friends #G1 #fanon #Tambelon #Grogar #Squire #Patch #Glow 'n Show ponies #I found this in my drafts and have no memory of writing it #but I agree with myself #this would be cool

[joemerl]

#The Squire's Tales #I finished this series yesterday. #Meme

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood book #poll #preliminary round #ingo #dear america #the royal diaries #liesl and po #red planet #the secret seven #the bridge home #the squire's tales #the seventh tower #sweet valley high

[ladyminaofcamelot]

Secret marriages are one of my most favorite tropes. All the sneaking around and tension of adultery with none of the moral clutter. (well, almost none. There’s still the lying thing, but y’know, that can be played off for laughs if so desired) It’s hilarious. It’s adorable. The tension’s built in. They’re so in love, they’re constantly pining, they’re utterly loyal even when others think they’re available. It’s just *chef’s kiss* so much FUN, you know? 

#The Squire's Tales #terence x eileen #terence #eileen #star wars #anidala #yes I know they had issues #but watching them try to keep their marriage secret was funny #Please if anyone knows of any other good secret marriages #recommend them to me #I need more

[jt1674]

#yes #yes band #tales from topographic oceans #the revealing science of god #steven wilson #steve howe #alan white #chris squire #jon anderson #rick wakeman #roger dean