Designs For Various Gawains From Different Traditions/texts

Skin and feather and bone. If you could take it into your own dead hands, you would.

Gawain: the one I kiss is the green knight

Arthur: you can just point him out

Gawain: *putting on lip balm* I don't tell you how to do your job

they r having a sleepover and they love each other<3

i know its easy to think about what the ideal arthurian tv show/film would look like but for me in terms of paper media i actually think a comic series would work best to capture the meta storytelling themes that are almost required for modern arthuriana. im thinking, like– there’s a bit in Young Avengers Vol. 2 where the villain grabs the narrator’s speech bubble off the page and eats it. there’s another moment where a character hops into the space between comic panels, and another where someone rifles through different versions of themselves and picks the one they want to be. and its all visually represented using the conventions of the comic genre, twisted them and warping them and turning them on their head. loki: agent of asgard does this as well and also sandman overture– i think all these stories that have to do with perception and reputation and living traditions as meta work really well in a medium that is, in my mind, perhaps one of the most fluid and versatile storytelling venues in existence. also i think gawain should be able to read the narration boxes and lancelot should be able to travel between panels and guinevere should be able to rewrite other characters dialogue

arthurian (gawain. its just gawain.) stories summarized

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: man attempts to prove to boss that he may not be famous but at least he’s bisexual and depressed

The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle: man attempts to prove to boss that he may not be tall but at least he’s famous and sexy and a feminist

Gawain & Kay: man attempts to prove to coworker that he may be famous and sexy and a feminist but he’s also irrepressibly violent and a real bastard

The Romance of Gawain: man attempts to prove to boss and coworker that he may be a famously sexy and violent feminist bastard man but he’s also a literal serial killer and also, tangentially, into bdsm

Sir Gawain and the Turk: man attempts to prove to other, sexy man that he’s really good at tennis 

The Mule With No Bridle: man attempts to prove to nice peasant he just met that he would win a competitive reality tv show, and also that he’s the best at holding hands

Lancelot and the Hart with the White Foot: man attempts to prove to boyfriend that he is willing to engage in greek mythology roleplay… hahaha jk…..unLESS?

The Perilous Cemetery: man attempts to prove to literally everyone he meets that he is not dead. hes NOT DEAD. hes FAMOUS AND SEXY AND ALIVE

The Knight with Two Swords: man attempts to prove to other man that he should not face consequences for anything ever including murders he did which are 100% absolutely definitely his fault

He leaves the rest unsaid.

my thoughts on th white

a lot of people have been bringing up the once and future king with the whole lancelot discussions we’ve been having and i guess i just wanted to like. put my thoughts out lol.

under the cut bc itll b a bit long, and warning that its gonna be kinda negative. i know this book is like important to a lot of people and meaningful to you and thats great this is not at all to attack you lol

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But it all feels so much bigger than/ Some blame-filled, lonely break up/ Like all our narratives and mortality only distill to/ Oh my gd, we’re gonna die - “Archive” by Mal Blum

ID: A digital illustration of characters from The Magnus Archives, interspersed with song lyrics. Some are already dead (Gertrude, Sasha, Tim) while others are in danger (Martin, Basira, Daisy, Jon). The lyrics read “Oh my gd we’re gonna die/ We’re gonna die and it’s gonna be alone/ And no one will find the things we left behind/ Because/ Because we/ Because we never thought to leave a fucking archive.” At the bottom of the image is a pile of cassette tapes.

Critical Fashion - Yasha Nydoorin, modern

Statement of Jonah Magnus regarding Jonathan Sims, The Archivist.

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