#arthurian
Anyone still around?
I haven’t been around Tumblr for years (life happened) and I have probably been forgotten (fair enough) but I have carried on with my obsession about the arthurian legends (on and off). Is Tumblr still the best place (still seems pretty active from a quick glance) to be for that or should I poke my head somewhere else?
NaNoWriMo is around the corner and I’ve decided to finally (finally!) write that Orkney brothers story I’ve been planning to write for years.
So I just thought I’d log back in here and get a dose of inspiration as I return to the world of the arthurian legends.
I probably won’t be active much on here (again life and too many other things going on) but I’ll most likely lurk around and post bits and bobs of my ongoing writing (possibly).
Side note, I’m tip toeing back into the world of podfics (I blame She-Ra and the Princesses of Power for that). Any short (this being the keyword) fanfictions I haven’t read (I haven’t read any in years) that you’d like a podfic of? I might as well bring some life back into arthurian-podfics while I’m feeling all inspired and all (I can’t promise this will last).
Anyway… Hi everyone :)
Morgause and Mordred are my favourite arthurian characters so here, both of them in a time when neither of them was overly creepy yet
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Siege Perilous
The perilous seat. The Siege Perilous is so strictly reserved that it is fatal to anyone else who sits in it and all those who sat before it have perished. Reserved for those with strong ties to the Otherworld and the cauldron of rebirth, chosen by Ceridwen herself. They must be born pure of heart and gallant
They say children have a stronger tie to the paranormal and their minds and hearts so pure that they can see and communicate with spirits because they have not yet formed the bias that adults carry that such things are nonsense and illogical. Quick trivia – anything that the dead interacted with in the movie “The Six Sense” were often red and there’s a very good reason why Galahad is often painted wearing red in her child version.
I saw you guys liked the last Ceridwen and Galahad picture! I’ll give you a little more information regarding this version of Galahad who’s one of the characters I have in a story I’ve been working for eons.
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Name: Questing Beast, Beast Glatisant (Barking Beast)
Area of Origin: Britain, Arthurian Legends
The Questing Beast is the subject of numerous quests undertaken by such famous knights as King Arthur, King Pellinore, Sir Palamedes and Sir Percival. Out of these figures, Pellinore was the one known to have endlessly hunted the thing. The beast has the body of a leopard, the back end of a lion, the feet of a hart or deer, and lastly, the head and neck of a snake. Its name comes from the noise it emits, a barking likened to many hounds questing. The term ‘Glatisant’ is derived from the french word glapissant, meaning ‘yelp’ or 'bark’. The creature is a variant on the mythological medieval view of the Giraffe. It is revealed by the great wizard Merlin that the beast was born of a human woman, a princess who had lusted after her own brother. After sleeping with a devil with promises of her brother’s love, the devil manipulated her into accusing her brother of rape. The siblings’ father had the brother torn apart by dogs as punishment, but shortly before the brother’s death, he prophesied that his sister would give birth to an abomination that would make the same sounds as the dogs that were to kill him. The Questing Beast appears to King Arthur in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d'Arthur after he has an affair with his sister Morgause, though the two were unaware of their familial relation when the act occurred. The act resulted in the illegitimate birth of his son Mordred. Arthur sees the beast after waking from a disturbing dream that foretells Mordred’s destruction of the realm. The Questing Beast has been solidified as a symbol of the incest, chaos and violence that ultimately destroys Arthur’s kingdom.
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Morte d'Arthur.
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine.1864.
Vintage magazine.But she, that rose the tallest of them all and fairest, laid his head upon her lap.
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The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1917
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I’ve just spent a few months cycle touring and very regularly this story kept creeping up at the forefront of my mind. So now that I’m back, I’m getting down to business and it’s now all about the planning.
Let’s get this thing ready for NaNoWriMo (but quite possibly earlier).
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I miss you all Arthurian people. So after deserting Tumblr (for no apparent reason that I can think off other than laziness), I am tentatively making my way back here.
*waving timidely from the back of the crowd*
I should really be posting more things on Tumblr.I just don’t know how to tummmblllll T^T
A few sketches of a questing beast. The first one is a little stiff, but it was more of a proportion/realistic study ._____.” whatever I just need to draw more NOT dragons….
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The Conflict of Guinevere
I’ve spent the last 12 years boycoting BBC Merlindespite being very much into all things Arthurian - and by “boycoting” I mean: I had the most groundless, pettiest hatred for the show. Like guteral reaction dislike without ever having seen an episode. Despised it for it’s premise and, to be fair, parts of it’s fanbase. I am now proud to say that I have overcome this particular feud and have watched the first two episodes due to quarantine. And it was… fine? Like I don’t think it’s very good but I can see why people enjoyed it. It might even turn into a guilty pleasure if it gets better further along.
Why am I telling you all this? In parts to amuse you with my pettiness. But mostly because I genuinly spend the last 12 years not knowing that there was actual magic in the show and had to pause the pilot episode to scream into a pillow when I realised that most of the queer readings I hated on for so long actually had a point because the way they portray the surpression of magic users is a text book example for queer subtext. So I guess what I learned this quarantine season is to actually watch things before I call bullshit on them.
