#camlann spoilers

[benzedrine-calmstheitch]

Camlann episode 6 sure was a fun surprise

#I thought of this when it first came out but yknow things happen #this looks nothing at all like I pictured it and it bothers me that I can't find what I want to make it #BUT NEVERTHELESS this was a really fun shift in setting #camlann #camlann spoilers

[ottovanvonveen]

Oughgjhgjghghh

#camlann #camlann spoilers #lb

[smallmediumproblems]

Camlann really does hit all the emotional highest highs and lowest lows of archetype fiction. What if an Arthurian knight liveblogged the final four days of his life. What if there was a dog and he was so so good. What if one of you saw the path forward clear as day but the other was the one who had to muddy their shoes on it. What if Odysseus was a gay yacht pilot. What if you were the most pivotal character in every story you know but also you're just a little guy. What if Morgan le Fay and Queen Guenivere ki-

#camlann #audio drama #i kid i have no idea if that's where theyre going with gwen #it just. seems like it's there 👀 #camlann spoilers #tried to keep it as vague as possible but yknow

[fairandfatalasfair]

Dai Thomas | Myrddin

from @Camlannpod - Dai you little shit, "I'm basically a wizard!" indeed. "Welsh and bi and funny in the head", a ray of sunshine who has been worn down by 9 months of seeing everything he cares about going to pieces but is still clinging to faith with his fingernails, believing in a better world.

#my art #Dai Thomas #Camlann #fanart #Camlann fanart #Perry is still my favourite but I can't identify that hard with Perry and NOT love this little fucker #He does owe Morgan a fucking apology though #Camlann spoilers #for people who haven't listened to ep 7

[fyeahaudiodrama]

oh…

#cries in wooden overcoats #camlann spoilers

[lucifer-kane]

Tried desperately to not cry into the cookies I was making in the middle of that Camlann episode. Got very close. Another phenomenal ep

#camlann liveblog #camlann spoilers

[bi-biscuit]

Top 10 pictures taken moments before disaster /j

#camlann #camlann spoilers

[camlannpod]

Character Playlist: Gwaine Turner

You can find character playlists for Dai, Morgan, Perry and Gwen already posted on our blog (and at the links on their names here).

The last of our main character playlists! Episode 5 is Gwaine's episode, of course. Let's get to know him a little better.

First Class by Rainbow Kitten Surprise

I say I'll be damned if we can make it out of this alive But is this what you want? What you wanted? Do you need love? Am I enough for you? In time you'll find I've got my baggage too

A lot of Gwaine's story is about the tension he feels between what other people expect of him and who he actually is. The Knights want him to be one version of himself, in the way that the rugby team and his friends at university did. Dai wants to be a different version - but the version Dai wants is one which surrenders everything from the other side. Gwaine is caught between all these people who think he's beautiful, who want him and want to use him, and very few of them remember that he too is just a man who's as traumatised and grieving as everyone else is.

2. The Quittin' Kind by Eleisha Eagle

There's a corner you painted yourself in I'm not sure what was your intention Now you're trapped alone on an island And you can't swim, no you can't swim

Gwaine left Dai, Morgan and Perry in the middle of the night in the haunted wilds of Bannau Brycheiniog after they made their escape from the Knights. He stole half their supplies to make it back and he didn't leave a note, knowing they'd assume he'd been killed by something in the night. Obviously, this wasn't a great thing to do to them - especially to Dai. But as we learn in the series, Gwaine did it because he was being pulled back by Arthur's song. And when he got back, he realised he was no longer the only popular jock in the one small group of queer weirdos who understood him. He was alone.

3. Look Alive by Guster

The sun came up The world began to shake Fault lines exposing All my own mistakes If I could do anything Then this wouldn't be happening It's been a long time Since I've felt courageous

Gwaine is extremely frustrated with his own conflict between wanting to be comfortable with his sexuality and also wanting to be everything that everyone wants him to be. He knows that the popular, charismatic man who was drowning in friends before the Cataclysm was not a man that anyone wanted to be bisexual, so he just pretended he wasn't. He was 'straight-passing' (I hate this phrase, it's a core part of Gwaine's character arc), and he hid. And he hates that he hid.

4. Scared of the Dark by Lil Wayne, Ty Dolla $ign, XXXTENTACION

I ain't never scared and I ain't never horrified I just look down at my Rolex, it said it's the darkest times I ain't never terrified, I ain't never petrified You know I see dead people, I just tell 'em, "Get a life"

After the Cataclysm, Gwaine has an even bigger reason to be nervous about opening up about his sexuality to the Knights given their general bigotries. But he also, like Perry, has a job to do. He's a Knight. He protects people. He's the person who rides out alone in the night to go fight the monster everyone else is scared of. Before he left, he took half of the protection duties from Perry for looking after Dai and Morgan. And with the Knights, he's one of a band of brothers protecting what they're pretty sure are the last few hundred people left alive in the UK. So every day, he gets up, and he faces the monsters, because someone has to.

5. Growing Pains by Layup

I walk this world with broken toes From my missteps and told you so's I learned my way, breaking every bone Now I see all these aches will make you grow And every fall has a rise, every burn has a flame From foolish to wise, we all bruise the same

Slowly but surely, left alone with very little decent company among the Knights and no one who really understands him, eating himself alive with worry about what's happened to Dai whilst also begrudgingly reassuring himself that Perry would never let anything happen to him, Gwaine has a lot of time to think, and grow. He starts to get a bit of clarity about the man he wants to be, and starts to learn from his mistakes. He decides to stand up to the men who've backed him into this corner, and for the first time in his life, be something other than what everyone wants him to be. Himself.

6. To the Desert by Branches

I came out to the desert To find what I lost in your eyes I filled my lungs with the sunset And walked out into the night

Gwaine leaves the Knights for Dai. That's not a lie. He wasn't sure whether Dai was even alive before he found him on the radio, but he'd decided months or years walking through the wilderness looking for the love of his life was better than merry bullying in Camelot. He walked into the wasteland.

7. Our Kingdom by Hugo Barriol

If you choose the red, and I choose the blue We can share the green, we can share the green When I've lost my words, looking at you I didn't know your name, I didn't know you could- Change what I see Change the way I feel I was far away from me I wasn't listening

Gwaine knew he was attracted to men before he met Dai - he'd messed around with a couple of people in various ways. He did not know that he could love men before he met Dai, and it's part of why Dai is so important to him. For Gwaine, the nights spent staying up til 3am playing video games were just as important as the drunk hookups he pretended didn't happen. Dai never really realised just how much he meant to Gwaine - he always assumed he was just a passing fancy to him.

8. Gawain by The Trials of Cato

In crashing blows there is no game But when the Emerald Knight begins again I risk my life to make my name

Our Gwaine is determined not to be remembered as a coward. He doesn't want to be cruel, and he doesn't want to hide from who he is or his love of Dai. He's entranced and enchanted by the story, which pulls him in, playing on these tendrils of his desperation for acceptance and catharsis. He so badly wants to prove that he's brave enough to be worthy of a man like Dai. It's an easy opening to exploit.

9. Blood Upon the Snow by Hozier, Bear McCreary

It's not my arms that will fail me But this world takes more strength than it gave me The trees deny themselves nothing that makes them grow No rain fall, no sunshine No blood upon the snow

You get it.

#gwaine turner #camlann #camlann podcast #camlann spoilers #sir gawain #Spotify

[ellie-the-awesome-11]

Camlann ep2 spoilers!

They way that I immediately clocked that the mystery horse was a kelpie and yelled at Dai to get away from it, as if he can actually hear me through the podcast

#camlann #camlann podcast #Camlann spoilers #horsie is not friend! she is very much not friend!!! #but good lord that whole drowning scene was terrifying

[ashes-in-a-jar]

I KNEW HE WAS MERLIN I KNEWWWWW IT !!!

#dai you idiot #camlann #camlann spoilers #oh boy oh man every episode is gdjdjdheksndjdndndhfjdjs i cant even

[thatrandombookworm]

Finally listened to the new Camlann ep and i have Thoughts (nothing bad i promise)

Putting them under the cut so i dont spoil

Ok so I know Dai is technically Nameless cause he doesn’t have an Arthurian name, BUT, hear me out, there is a (folkloric) story with a David (Dafydd is the Welsh form of David)

David and Goliath

A story where someone who is fairly defenceless goes and takes on someone much more powerful than himself

I think that Arthur is gonna be Dai’s Goliath

We know from this episode that Nameless people are pretty much helpless when it comes to resisting Arthur’s magic compulsion thing so there’s already that comparison/connection.

And I know that Perry said that the apocalypse doesn’t apply to any religion that they know of, but would you try to go up against Arthur if you knew what he could do/what he could make you do? Especially if you don’t have sufficient backup? No. So why would someone, especially someone who’s Nameless, ever try that?

And also, since its not 1:1 David vs Goliath like the other legends we’ve seen, it technically wouldn’t be a religious thing

My theory is that eventually something (idk what yet) is gonna happen, and Dai will have no choice but to go up against Arthur, David and Goliath style

(Also i just think it would be really cool to have a Jewish story be featured)

The only thing that works against this is that its not Welsh, and Camlann is about Welsh legends/stories

#sorry i didnt expand more #but its 2:30 am #i just had to get this out of my head #might expand on this later #might not #who knows? #camlann spoilers #camlann podcast #camlann #camlann theory #camlann pod

[benzedrine-calmstheitch]

new facecast for Dai based on that end of ep 7 reveal

#camlann spoilers #camlann ep 7

[trisshawkeye]

Odysseus so lost he ended up in an Arthurian podcast

#camlann podcast taking an unexpected turn this week #camlann #the odyssey #SO intrigued as to whether this is a side story or if odysseus and ariadne are going to bump into our main protagonists sometime #camlannpod spoilers

[utilitycaster]

This is not only about FCG, but it is definitely about FCG.

Something I've always found incredibly attractive about fantasy narratives is that it's a safe space to explore heroic sacrifice. In real life, dying for a cause, even if justified, is rarely so fitting and poignant, and it usually involves ponderous discussions and arguments and above all, paperwork. And as with all things death-related, it's simply easier in fiction, where the grief comes with the knowledge that you can and always will be able to access every moment you had with the deceased.

I'm far too tired and halfway into my cocktail to split the hairs of what is suicide vs. heroic sacrifice, and if they're different, and why; but on a high level the difference is conviction.

I think a lot of people are really uncomfortable with or even scared of conviction, even in fiction. It's come up in some talks about Midst. It comes up when people are suspicious of the Volition, more so than the Vanguard. It comes up with Orym. It comes up in D&D whenever people shy away from paladins, who are built upon this as a premise.

One can argue FCG died a paladin; one can argue he always made, in some ways, a better one than he was a cleric. It comes up when people question the motives of the Volition. Perhaps it's the confidence that shakes people, the idea that these characters can't be molded into an easier, more comfortable ideology that suits the viewer. Perhaps it's a different take on the Trolley Problem than mine.

I do think in real life, at least most of the time, there are more options - often very boring and unglamorous but ultimately more effective one. In fiction, however, the heroic sacrifice isn't just rife with dramatic possibility - which is, in fiction, far more important in my mind than having a clear moral or telling the audience that they're good and smart little children - it's also a chance, as Matt says, to redefine the stakes and reframe everything that's been going on, because one character decided what their stakes were. Perhaps that's what makes people balk: the amount of power it grants you despite the prohibitively high price.

#it's not limited to d&d but like. the scenario set up in this specific combat really can only exist in d&d #and i think if you don't like this sort of scenario you'd be better served and happier by finding other stories #tw suicide #cr spoilers #god. camlann had a great episode about this too this past week with a great twist #and daggerheart's death system is ultimately almost built on this

[fyeahaudiodrama]

[looks at the cast list on the latest camlann]

[looks at the content warnings]

#camlann spoilers #camlann podcast

[lucifer-kane]

Camlann episode 8 is going to be stuck in my brain for a million years. It was so good

#camlann spoilers #camlann #camlann podcast #camlann pod #my art #you know another country? thank you to that for me to reference for the two drawings on the left