Danse Macabre

“Weeping was her most common expression, So strongly was her heart set on him.” – A Selection of Verses Concerning The Maiden of Ascolot, the Stanzaic Morte Arthur (trans. Lou G Gringolet)

It’s Elaine day! I have a very special place in my heart for Elaine, and @gringolet​ Lou’s translation of her bits in the Stanzaic Morte is AMAZING. But also :((( so tragic. This piece is kind of a mesh between the Morte story and Tennyson’s story. 

also a bonus Elaine and Gawain that i did as a warmup sketch because their friendship is VITAL to me:

Tag Yourself as Things the New Arthurian Encyclopedia Says About Gawain

a blind adherent to custom with frivolous attachments to the opposite sex

a hardened and unrepentant sinner

almost but not quite perfect

an out-and-out murderous villain

unimpeachably courteous

such a serviceable figure

by and large admirable

debased and debauched

neither a good foil nor a good hero

northern, possibly Scottish, 

im “unimpeachably courteous”

god im too tired to articulate this but the consistent attention to guinevere and gawain’s friendship in the dutch texts??? hhhhhhhhhh. like it makes so much sense cause they both came to camelot as teenagers in ways which were not of their choosing, they are both very political characters, and especially in the dutch texts they’re the ones controlling the court and especially controlling arthur (which is also the case with gawain in the vulgate->malory tradition as well). but i havent seen many other instances in other traditions of the kind of details the dutch put in. in die wrake gawain steals a dog for guinevere because he thinks she would like it (this might be in the vengeance, idk, i havent forced myself to trek through the old french yet and theres no translation). in lancelot and the hart with the white foot it’s mentioned that gawain and guinevere are hanging out specifically without arthur. in walewein ende keye gawain sends his vanquished foes to guinevere and not arthur. and it also ties in to the really complex court intrigue going on in dutch camelot (which im making a more formal post about so i wont go into here) but also aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh they are frieeeeeeeends. they ARE the queer trans disney channel original movie villains we all deserve. they are mean and awful and bully arthur canonically. they own my whole heart

arthurian characters giving presentations on topics they are too familiar with

a series of shitty drawings I found while I was cleaning my room

Elaine (Carbonek): You Don’t Have to Name Your Daughter Elaine

Morgana and Morgause: Killing Your Little Brother Isn’t That Bad

Lancelot and Guinevere: Being Hot is Really Hard

Lamorak: Gawain’s Mom Has Got It Going On

Nimue/Lady of the Lake: Why Camelot is Doomed to Fail

Dinadan: Why Courtly Love Sucks

Arthur: Why Are So Many People in Love with Lancelot?

Gawain: The Reason Everyone in Camelot is Fucked Up

Sebile calming Cerberus to enter Hell

Im trying to write but I cant stop losing my mind at leslie fishes fan haven mining commune in the middle of the arizona desert I cant do this. Looking for gem cutters and gem dealers to fund my pagan commune . We can set off rockets .... there are even bear.

grabs ur face

stop disconnecting from the thing ur making just because ur afraid it’s not good.  I know you don’t wanna get ur feelings hurt caring for a project that other people might not like but dammit that’s better than deciding not to give a shit and hiding behind self-deprecating humor and dispassionately trudging ahead!  fuck!

can someone hire myss keta to play sebile in a wlw arthurian tv show directed by bryan fuller and also starring lesley-ann brandt as guinevere with a soundtrack entirely pulled from the discography of elettra lamborghini. she doesnt have to show her face the mask is cool

anyway, whoever is in charge of making tv shows, call rey,

Poppy fields in Umbria, Italy.

been cramming all morning for my astro final and to cope i wanna show u guys pictures of dark nebulae cause they are truly the shit