Yes Girl You Are So [if I Loved You Less I Might Be Able To Talk About It More] [hands Are Unbearably

Some Readings on Racial and Religious Alterity in Arthurian literature

Links where they’re publically available, otherwise feel free to dm me for a pdf if you don’t have university access! I particularly recommend that if you are white and a fan of Arthuriana, you read the first article here. It’s a short read and it both addresses the Islamic inspiration for Arthurian literature and also succinctly shows why Arthuriana can be profoundly alienating to a Muslim audience.

Hermes, Nizar. King Arthur in the Land of the Saracens

Sottosanti, Danielle. The Romance of Conversion: Crossover in Late-Medieval Literature

Keita, Maghan. Saracens and Black Knights

Goodrich, Peter. Saracens and Islamic Alterity in Malory’s “Le Morte Darthur”

Hoffman, Donald. Assimilating Saracens: The Aliens in Malory’s “Morte Darthur”

Putter, Ad. Walewein in the Otherworld and the Land of Prester John.

Adams, Jenny. Colonizing the Otherworld in Walewein.

If there’s one sentence I want everyone who sees this to read, it’s this, from Sottosanti’s dissertation:

As critics such as Heng and Bonnie J. Erwin have noted, conversion stories, such as the Constance story depicted by Chaucer and John Gower, proliferated during this period as a consequence of centuries of crusading efforts in the East.

I feel so sane so normal abt them

Why would Baal say this

What are your political views?

pretty good

regarding Dune Part 2: i am obsessed with its consistent visual theme of self-destruction. the shot of paul surrounded by his new followers seems triumphant - until the viewer remembers that each crysknife is made from a tooth of shai-hulud, and paul is standing in a circle of them, in the allegorical mouth of the worm. he orders a missile strike, and the viewer sees them fly directly through his head. every victory for the prophecy is a blow to paul himself; he's killing himself with every step he takes towards his destiny, and we know that already, and the film is screaming it, but it's a hell of a thing to watch it happen, isn't it?..

No bond stronger then between a trans guy and the horror movie they’re obsessed with

Why don’t you come be a cowboy with me now. Don’t gotta sorry about nothin’ but being a man

“The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria,” Moneo said. “The Atreides art is the art of ruling without hysteria, the art of being responsible for the uses of power.” —Frank Herbert, The God Emperor of Dune (1981) p 471

[Scott Horton]

Unreliable narrator that pretends that everything turned out the way he planned just to cope with the regret of what he had done.

Wish I was dying of end stage alcoholism in a Tunisian monastery

Saint Malthus | Our Lady of Sorrows

Hilda Furacão (1998)