#disappointing
‘Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought.
Useless and disappointing.”
- A Cinderella Story, 2004 -
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i know we’re all excited for crystal kingdom to come out (i am too!!) but when it does, please keep in mind:
- the artists for the fanart gallery were originally offered $100 which, from a bestselling publishing company, is unacceptable. we would never have been paid more if people hadn’t spoken up about it.
- we submitted our work in mid october and were told we would be sent our contracts within two weeks. i was finally paid less than a month ago.
-some people still haven’t been paid.
- personally, this was hands down the worst freelance i have ever done. the level of stress and anticipation and not-knowing was awful and i know i’ll question working for any major company in the future.
-this is not the mcelroys’ fault, however first second has a history of not treating their artists with the respect and professionalism we deserve and it clearly hasn’t gotten any better.
Yo, this sucks to type and I was hoping I wouldn’t have to keep waiting beyond this point, but I have yet to be paid for my contribution to the TAZ gn, and I have no idea why.
All the paperwork was processed back in June. I assumed it would take at least a week to distribute all the payments. And I was moving apartments at the time, so it wasn’t a high priority focus. But when the beginning of July rolled around with no change, I thought, “this isn’t adding up.” I emailed one of the directors at First Second to ask about it, but that was right after the 4th of July, and I got an autoresponse that said that the office was closed for the holiday. Which was disappointing, but I thought, “Okay, I’ll wait a few days and try again.”
I sent another email last Friday, which got another response that the director would be away until the 13th. The emails of their assistants were included in that one, so I sent an email to one of them first thing this morning. I am still awaiting a response. So. Yeah. My excitement has been pretty severely dampened because of the whole deal.
They couldn’t even look at Lil Nas X or Orville to find gay cowboy slut couture…
So why does everything always go to shit?
Me: Haha look at this gifset from City Hunter (1999) that heavily features fanservice of a big hot dude! That looks like a fun little romp!
City Hunter (1999): Would you like a shitload of transmisogyny perhaps
John Matthews starts off with the claim that Gawain was originally the champion of the Goddess. I could accept this as an extension of Gawain’s connection to the various realms of Faery, and his obvious otherworldly connections, so I was interested to read the book. Unfortunately he lost me almost immediately when he started presenting evidence - from stories about other knights. It’s true that there is some confusion over names and spelling in many of the old texts, but there’s usually at least a family resemblance. When He started trying to convince me that adventures attributed to Lancelot were actually Gawain originally, I started getting skeptical.
He rarely backs up his claims with any textual evidence, instead relying on increasingly hypothetical situations that stray farther and farther from the Arthurian canon. In many places he bases an argument on a story he guesses must have existed at some point but was lost to time or was never written down. That’s just… not how scholarship works.
There were a few interesting tidbits about the Grail Quest, which was also the only time Matthews actually started backing up arguments with primary sources, but most of the first two thirds of the book was just speculation as he tried really hard to fit the stories to his theory. Gawain was often associated with damsels, with powerful queens and sorceresses, and with courtesy to ladies, and he could easily have written a book about Gawain and the Goddess from this perspective. Gawain is the knight with perhaps the clearest non-Christian roots, and has often been associated with the realms of faery and of death, and also with solar gods, as his strength waxes and wanes with the sun. The assertion that Gawain was associated with the Goddess is not totally outrageous, though it is a bit of a stretch. John Matthews, however, did not argue his case convincingly.
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