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[itonje]

so it’s the month of may huh?...well if you replaced the ‘m’ in may with ‘g’ well...you ‘may’ be surprised at what you find 😏😏

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[itonje]

guy who has only read medieval literature experiencing anything: getting a lot of medieval literature vibes from this

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[itonje]

girlboss baby. is that anything

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[itonje]

hi...i just have to say if you’re questioning your gender and you think you might be trans but you’re a gay guy/lesbian and you feel like transing your gender is some sort of betrayal to the gay community well just know that it’s not. you are who you are, i know it’s hard to go from thinking you’re gay all your life to realizing you may be straight but, but it’s okay. being straight isn’t wrong, you aren’t wrong for loving who you love.. you don’t have to censor and closet yourself to please other people. you deserve to be happy you deserve to be who you are

#finny.txt #i get it ive been there...literally like the two worst gender months of my life when i realized that i may be a heterosexual guy instead of #a lesbian...but i felt very free when i realized that yes i was a man :)

[itonje]

men who fall asleep are gay as hell..what do you need to sleep for? to dream about men? to be held by another man in your bed?

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[itonje]

gawaine (:

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[itonje]

english is a language

#finny.txt #speaking of which its time to ritualistically watch smack barm pey wet again

[itonje]

and is your 'poor little meow meow' in this courtroom?

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[itonje]

if cisgender people refuse to read between the lines and pick up as characters as trans just because they dont make it the most explicit subject ever i’m going to do the same with ‘cis’ characters. ‘but they had kids!’ oh well do you know if they carried the kid? ‘we’ve seen them naked!’ they could have had srs!!! ‘we’ve had flashbacks of them as children!’ sometimes kids can come out early 

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[itonje]

i know that it’s twitter but here’s the best thread i found on information about ma’khia bryant, the sixteen year old girl murdered by police in columbus ohio. she was just a girl. she was just a baby and she called the police for help and they murdered her. 

edit: there are currently protests going on in columbus on this, this is a link to the columbus freedom fund jic there are arrests tonight

#finny.txt #if you have any resources please drop them in the notes or something #police brutality #antiblackness #child death #also be careful when perusing twitter or other sites because i know that some people are posting the video which...yeah #this thread doesnt post it though

[itonje]

were the knights of the round table the anime sexymen of medieval times

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[itonje]

some medieval english arthurian texts

with the green knight (2021) coming out today i want to talk a little about other arthurian english works because i find them interesting and entertaining <3 these were medieval arthurian texts written in english, not translated into it. all of these are in middle english, though many were written in different time periods and in different dialects. if you’ve read sir gawain and the green knight, many of these have similar plot beats, feature our beloved sir gawaine in a major role, or are alliterative in the same wonderful way sgatgk is! many these come from the university of rochester’s camelot project and it is an invaluable resource! however a lot of these texts are also written in a style that may be archaic or inaccessible- i will try to link more modern translations and reworkings if i can. 

the avowing of king arthur, sir gawain, sir kay, and baldwin of britain: in which the four title characters go to inglewood and, as stated, swear on various vows. 

the adventures of arthur at the tarn wadling: this is actually about gawaine, as most arthurian texts are. featuring ghosts and a duel! what could be better? there are several copies of this texts in manuscripts, including one where it’s in a collection with avowing (see above), said manuscript being the only copy in which avowing survives. 

layamon’s brut: by layamon, of course. this is a pseudohistorical text, going off the account of wace who went off the account of geoffrey of monmouth, but is longer than both and focuses almost solely on arthurian content (including a lot of merlin if you like him). if people want to read history of the kings of britain but don’t want to get through a lot of stuff that isn’t arthurian, i really recommend this. as another draw i will say this features baby gawaine (walwain) and modred. iirc this is the oldest text on this list. 

of arthur and of merlin: a text first about the background and story of arthur’s birth and early reign, including a variety of numerous battles. very merlin heavy. has a fair bit in common with the prose merlin. the copy i linked might be a bit hard to read, sorry. like layamon and aforementioned PM, also features baby gawaine (wawain) and brothers!

sir launfal: by thomas chestre, based off of lanval by marie de france. in which lanval has a secret romance with a magical woman. in this version it’s more implicit than the original lai, but guinevere is canonically homophobic <3 love loses 

sir perceval of galles: a...i would honestly call it a borderline parody of the typical perceval story. this one is deranged. in a fun way! 

ywain and gawain: based off of yvain by chretien de troyes, has the same basic plot beats. very fun even if you’ve already read yvain though, especially (imo) for the rhyming. 

sir tristrem: based off thomas of britain’s french tristan, the latter of which survives only in fragments. based off the tristan and iseult courtly branch. have not read this so i can give little opinions on it. 

i thiiiink lancelot of the laik belongs on here iirc the text is english but it’s from scotland and has scots influence. it’s inspired a from the first part of the lancelot-grail cycle-the poem itself is incomplete. 

the stanzaic morte arthur: poem about the fall of camelot as from the prose cycles. i really like this one, if you don’t want to read le morte darthur for it’s heaviness, i recommend this instead. it has all of the longing and eerie finality of any death of arthur story, even amplified in this work imo. elaine of astolat fans will enjoy this one, she features fairly prominently in the first part. 

the alliterative morte arthure: poem about the fall of camelot, taking mostly from the pseudohistories. i’ve jokingly said i like this as an iliad fan before, but if you are intrigued by the arthurian portions of british pseudohistories, and you like modred (oh my god i really recommend this for people who like modred) you will really love this one. it’s very entertaining! fair warning if you don’t like battle scenes or duels in other arthurian works you will...not enjoy this one. but i love it <3

the prose merlin: OUR FIRST PROSE WORK YES! based off of robert de boron’s unfinished merlin poem and parts of the lancelot-grail cycle, like arthur and merlin, tells of merlin’s birth, life, and the early reign of king arthur. this features a lot of battles and a lot of gawaine and his brothers! i think in this edition of it i’m linking, there are parts cut out, fair warning. i really like this one as well. 

sir gawain and the carle of carlisle: this one is similar to the avowing of arthur. gawaine and co (the same in avowing barring arthur, actually) arrive at a castle for refuge for the night during a storm whilst hunting, and the lord within gives them various tests of chivalry and integrity. this one is fun- a text i recommend after reading sir gawain and the green knight if you liked it for the plot and so on. if you read them concurrently you can imagine that gawaine repaired his reputation post sgatgk. 

if the above text is a little too unreadable for you (which is fair), i also recommend the carl of carlisle, a more condensed version which tells the same basic story with some minor differences (there’s a beheading in this one :3)

the marquis of bath’s manuscript of a latin account of the kings of britain: now, you may be saying, that said latin! well, i guess whoever wrote this decided that for arthur’s portion he would write it in english verse as opposed to latin prose? this one is fairly obscure, but, again, tells a plot similar to other arthurian portions of pseudohistories. 

the jeaste of sir gawain: i think this one tells the story of gawaine’s son, ginglain, the fair unknown, and combines it with gawaine’s romance with the lady of lys from the first continuation of perceval. i haven’t read this text, but i know the plot of gawaine and the lady of lys ditty, and i...do not like it. and i feel like i’d like this one less. 

the wedding of sir gawain and dame ragnelle: everyone’s familiar with this one. the archetypal story of the knight who seeks to figure out ‘what women truly want’. i enjoy this one and i feel like i’ll come back to it in the future analysis wise. ragnelle is a girlboss, etc. may have been written by sir thomas malory. speaking of which...

le morte darthur by sir thomas malory: will let its notoriety speak for itself. amazing work, though long to get through. if you like gawaine, and are looking at this post for gawaine content, while he is probably presented at his worst and most repugnant here out of any other story on this list, honestly this is one of my favorite versions of his character, and that’s the main reason why this text is even going on here in the first place (it’s popular enough, and borderline modern imo lol). 

anyways, happy reading, and happy a24′s the green knight release! summer of dev patel, summer of gawaine, etc!

#finny.txt #arthuriana #arthurian legend #arthurian romance #gawain #okay. be nice to me. i didnt put on stuff like the turke and sir gawaine or the greene knight cause like #theyre like. borderline modern ill talk about the percy folio eventually but #i wanted to make this for people if they want to get into english arthuriana...some basis cause theres alot of fun stuff #that i think is usually overshadowed by sgatgk and le morte #and i understand why sgatgk is so popular it is one of the best constructed just technically #but. other stuff is good too!

[itonje]

hi take my quiz on what your hands were meant to do

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[itonje]

whenever people bring up criticisms of ‘cottagecore’, or rather, the romanticization of ‘returning to the land’ (whose land?) and living a rural lifestyle there is always the inevitable ‘but i want to go start a farm in europe! isn’t that better since there isn’t any places to colonize in europe?’

 well number one, indigenous people very much exist in europe (see the sámi people of sápmi for example) and yes, their land can be and currently is actively colonized (there are also many other examples of colonization in europe, of course). 

number two, rural gentrification is a very present issue as well. like i don’t think you’re doing like, poor farmers working their generational land any favors by socially displacing them via eating up all the affordable housing and land (here is an article discussion rural gentrification in scotland, a nation that is itself an imperial subject). 

number three, just because you don’t believe you’re doing active harm by enacting the ‘cottagecore’ fantasy in europe (which i have contested in my two above points) does not mean the ideology of ‘‘returning to/living off the land’ and living an idyllic rural lifestyle (occasionally paired with a desire to escape the evils of industrial urbanity)’/frontier living romanticization’’ (to put it in the best words i can) is something that is now devoid from criticism or examination. the general notion of a terra nullus is a colonial untruth, a concept used to justify land stealing and displacement of native peoples, and it is a dangerous idea to apply to anything or anyone, the desire to ‘go out and start a farm via settling new land’ is harmful no matter where the land is. 

number four (which is marginally more related to number three than the others),  the romanticization, or should i say, fetishization of the general ‘idyllic country life’ is also untrue (something you’d know if you spoke to any farmer) and the pastoral genre, which has a lot of traction and literature invoking it from europe, has been criticized since its advent. 

number five, pastoral movements themselves, even, and honestly, especially in europe, have had many links to white supremacy (white supremacy being intrinsically linked to colonization of course). a strong example of this is the ‘blood and soil’ ethnonationalism ideal of nazi germany, itself fueled by the völkisch movement, the belief in the adoption of rural values and the call to ‘return to the land’ (not coincidentally, this was paired with the decrying of the ‘evils of urbanity’, evils that in this ideology, came from jewish people), the land mystically tied to ‘true’ german blood. the ‘blood and soil’ slogan was also a major during lebenstraum, when germany colonized (more examples of colonialism in europe) eastward, displacing and brutalizing the native slavic ethnic groups there, and reasoned these actions with the need for ‘living space’ to create farms and rural areas for german settlers. 

now, i am not saying that those who support ‘’cottagecore’’ (god, i wish there was a better word for that) are colonialists, gentrifiers, or nazi sympathizers, but i am saying that the common defense against criticism of ‘cottagecore’ being colonial by nature, ‘well, i’m only applying this to europe!’ is a flimsy excuse, untrue and in fact, incredibly dangerous. 

#finny.txt #anti cottagecore #nazi ment #antisemitism #colonialism #<- for blacklist

[itonje]

be masculine as a woman you get seen as gay appreciate masculineness as a man you get seen as gay maybe masculinity in general is just incredibly gay 

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guinevere getting hate by modern arthurian media consumers makes me so mad because a lot of arthurian media. makes the exact opposite point about guinevere shes the one who controls the court shes politically and socially savvy shes very cunning!! shes just as important to the camelot microcosm as arthur or gawaine if not more so. and even when she does take an antagonistic role or commit wrongdoing (which isnt even in every arthurian story lol) even the narrative tends to be very forgiving to her so why cant modern audiences do the same lol...but no people literally think her entire character is just being a [derogatory term here] evil hag who cheats on her poor widdle husband and fucks lancelot it's like okay meleagrant ass...

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