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Ah my favorite trope—Petulant Royal and Steadfast Knight to Lovers

#knightcore #royaltycore #romance trope

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Oh, to run my fingers over your scars on a lazy morning. I am grateful you are home.

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When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genre’s subversion of traditional femininity. We weren’t just fainting maidens locked up in towers; we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.

But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.

As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.

The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork.  In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.

That can be so revolutionary to those of us stuck in our towers who fall prey to thinking: Nobody would want to visit; nobody would want to listen; nobody would want to stay.

#lis's fantasy wishlist #staranise original

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My fav thing about innkeepers is when they say their last room only has one bed...

#innkeeper #only one bed #medievalcore #medieval #medieval aesthetic #medieval fantasy

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[Image Description: A couple laying in an autumn forest. One is in late 14th century harness, with the visor of his helmet held up by the other. He’s laying with one knee up, and his hand rests on his thigh. The other is up on her knees leaning over him, with one hand holding his visor and the other resting on his breastplate. She’s wearing a particolor kirtle, a hood, and a red torse.] 

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The Angel With The Flaming Sword - Edwin Howland Blashfield

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anthy himemiya from revolutionary girl utena as John Everett Millais’s Ophelia! please full screen….i’m begging you….i painted so many leaves

prints available here, and as always, follow me on twitter for more art!

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Vampire in Armor!  Rhodes River Ranch Lunch Show - May 18, 2019

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Myra on the path (part 2/?)

Pictures by Corvideo (on FB)

Once again - detail shot is so classy and my gear looks just fabulous on it.

Group shot just screams "you've come to the wrong forest" or something.

And the bottom picture is just fun - Myra might have a lot of patience for the hatchlings, but it doesn't mean it's endless ;) Sword got pulled away though so that dagger will go back into the belt, for now.

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Marta Cors | links | instagram | prints

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buckhead1111

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Laura Chamberlain on Instagram / Etsy

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wizard with an orb earring

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Red Knight by Ami Thompson

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Paladin's Rest. more of DndLando

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Stourhead, Wiltshire (various, IG)