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Every second I spend in this fandom I am blind sided by random factoids of information.

#ok but to this day. no clue what the source for this is. #not doubting it. just really curious

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[loudly] yeah ill basically kill anyone with my longsword. it doesnt really even matter to me. ill just slay whoever i feel like, with my longsword

#I swing both ways (with my longsword ) #yes I've done this joke before. move along. move along

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arthurian legend characters as weird things i did as a kid

Arthur: created clubs for the sole purpose of making myself in charge of them

Guinevere: played barbies, but the plot of the game was that they were fighting in world war iii

Lancelot: pretended to be an exterminator by spraying actual hornets with a hose, and somehow not getting stung, against all odds

Gawain: held stair-jumping competitions, and regularly jumped down around 10 stairs at a time

Merlin: designated a particular tree branch for reading and refused to let anyone climb this branch

Gaheris: held ‘screaming contests’ in my backyard to which invited my friends (this is exactly what it sounds like and it was banned by my mother immediately)

Dinadan: eaten spaghetti while riding a bike

Galahad: made a graveyard for bugs

Morgana: recruited a friend’s little brother to spy on said friend because she wasn’t talking to me

Mordred: accidentally made a gallon of poison

#when I was a kid. me and my best friend used to play wwii resistance fighters #she was German btw

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Another of the skulls fused with a maille (chainmail) Coif recovered from the site of the battle of Visby, Gotland, ca. 1361.

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Hello :) I have a question about Excalibur, in case you of any of your followers know. Where does the "take me up / cast me away" inscription come from? I could only find a direct reference in Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" (...on one side, / Graven in the oldest tongue of all this world, / ���Take me,” but turn the blade and ye shall see, / And written in the speech ye speak yourself, / “Cast me away!”) Are there any other references in old Arthurian texts? (Malory? Can't remember.)

Hiii <3 so sorry it took so long for me to reply to this. it's not from Malory as far as I can tell? When I checked in the arthurian name dictionary (the holy texts) it did say it was an invention by Tennyson!? I like it its fun! but if im wrong anybody can just reply to this post :)

#asks

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Wherever the king had to go, it did not care to be apart from him; it always went along with him. He could see well that it loved him.

On the king’s own bed he found the knight sleeping. The king ran to embrace him; more than a hundred times he hugs and kisses him.

some Bisclavret for you in the style of the Codex Manesse :)

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HAND IN UNLOVEABLE HAND

E.A. Robinson Lancelot / YouTube Comment / Gustave Doré Idylls of the King / E.A. Robinson Lancelot / Rosemary Morris, The character of King Arthur in medieval literature / Tennyson Idylls of the King : Guinevere / Rosemary Morris, The character of King Arthur in medieval literature / King Arthur and Queen Guinevere in BNF 10292

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he's the worst man alive he's the love of my life he's covered in blood he's weird about god and he's a lot, he's not perfect, but most importantly he's bisexual

#gawain

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was just once again delighted by a Middle English man being described as "fish-hole" (= fish-whole; healthy as a fish), and I think we need to bring this turn of phrase back. "Look at that guy over there, flopping and wriggling around and gasping for air. Fit as a fish!!" Do you understand my vision

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i dont “have ptsd” that’s all just the wizard’s curse

#orkney bros #yvain to a lesser extent. the man is freakishly well adjusted for being Morgan's son

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I need to start a collection of weird pages I've stumbled upon during fanfic writing research

#ibuprofen #next question.

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also I need @adhd-merlin TO LOOK AT MY FAVOURITE MANUSCRIPT ILLUSTRATION. its Arthur and guinevere embracing :( idk I think its so cute

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has anyone checked on thomas malory lately. is he okay

#post-war british literature?? tolkien who. #<- post war but it’s the war of the roses

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Literally literally when mordred wheels out the fucking canons to shoot at the Tower of London. my heart just drops. like it is SO OVER. Mordred is literally ushering in the end of the age of chivalry and nothing will ever be the same again

#el.txt #HELLO???

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I think part of the reason why the passage of lucans death is so effective for me is that when Malory describes battles you do usually get a real sense of. frantic speed I guess? Like you don’t really have time to register what is happening. So much of the description of Arthur’s death is about witnessing desolation and death. The details like the foaming at the mouth thing really makes my stomach turn

Hm. Was just checking something in Malory and I kinda forgot how um. horribly violent it is? u do really get the sense that it was written by someone who had seen combat.

#bizarrely I feel the same way about mordred pulling out the fucking CANONS #when besieging guinevere #like. my god. it is SO OVER.

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The description of the robbers moving across the battlefield in the moonlight is just so. eery!

Hm. Was just checking something in Malory and I kinda forgot how um. horribly violent it is? u do really get the sense that it was written by someone who had seen combat.

#and in that passage where Arthur is covered in blood he is like. fifteen. #:/ #el.txt