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⚔️ Arthurian Asks ⚔️

Arthur: What do you like most about yourself?

Avalon: If you had the opportunity to be immortal, would you take it?

Balan: What is your favorite thing about your best friend?

Balyn: Do you have a temper?

Elaine: What is one thing you could spend all day talking about?

Excalibur: What was the most thoughtful gift you ever received?

Gaheris: Do you have any regrets? What are they?

Galahad: What’s your favorite story about yourself?

Gareth: Which fictional character do you relate to most?

Gawain: Who do you admire most in the world?

Guinevere: What do you think makes you beautiful? Or how do you define beauty?

Kay: Do you have any siblings? Or what do you think of your family?

Lady of the Lake: What is your most prized possession and why?

Lancelot: If you could change anything about yourself, would you?

Merlin: What is your favorite book/who is your favorite author?

Mordred: What is your greatest fear?

Morgan Le Fay: What would be the title of your memoir?

Percival: Are you religious?

Tristan and Iseult: Have you ever been in love?

Uther: What is an epithet you would want to follow your name?

 Ask me some of these or whatever else you’d like! ♥️

Favorite literary technique in the Bible?

repetition, not necessarily parallelism though. a prophet splits a river, his fellow prophet splits a river. a form is severed into twelve pieces here, and here, and here. a king is refused, a king is refused, a king is refused (repeat until assyria ends kinghood)

do you have any spiritual thoughts on blood? pomegranates, periods, prophecy-- does what comes out of me monthly and hurts me so horribly mean anything at all besides that familiar pain no one will help me with?

the priests feared it for a reason

what if every Tumblr user suddenly looses their mouse?

I'm not Catholic in the, "burn the gays-christian nationalism-close-minded-fire and brimstone" way. More so in the, "to study any field of science is to study Gods creation and is religious devotion." way.

Any recommendations on where to start for someome who wants to know about Robin Hood?

Sure thing!

The thing about Robin Hood is that, because what we have are later written recordings and remixes of an older oral tradition, the sources are somewhat spread out between multiple texts. So what you want is a good collection of different sources, and preferably one that's a modern translation with regularized spelling (unless you like struggling with Middle English).

Waltz' The Gest of Robyn Hode: A Critical and Textual Commentary is a good place to start, because it not only has a modern translation of the Geste (the earliest written text of Robin Hood), but also a wealth of context and analysis.

Knight and Ohlgren's Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales also has a good selection of the Robin Hood ballads that introduced important characters like Guy of Gisborne, Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, and so forth to the narrative, as well as some of the 16th and 17th century Robin Hood plays that were responsible for the whole shift from the yeoman Robin Hood to the noble Robin (or Robert).

I can also recommend Ritson's Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant Relative to That Celebrated English Outlaw, which was the first scholarly attempt to collect and collate and make sense of the disparate historical texts and attempt to fit them into a coherent narrative.

Finally, you should probably read Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, which is the work of meta-fanfic that made Victorian medievalism the massive fandom that it was.

NO ONE knows how to use thou/thee/thy/thine and i need to see that change if ur going to keep making “talking like a medieval peasant” jokes. /lh

They play the same roles as I/me/my/mine. In modern english, we use “you” for both the subject and the direct object/object of preposition/etc, so it’s difficult to compare “thou” to “you”.

So the trick is this: if you are trying to turn something Olde, first turn every “you” into first-person and then replace it like so:

“I” →  “thou”

“Me” →  “thee”

“My” →  “thy”

“Mine” →  “thine”

Let’s suppose we had the sentences “You have a cow. He gave it to you. It is your cow. The cow is yours”.

We could first imagine it in the first person-

“I have a cow. He gave it to me. It is my cow. The cow is mine”.

And then replace it-

“Thou hast a cow. He gave it to thee. It is thy cow. The cow is thine.”

I am really enjoying the driving polls because my dream vacation is to get into my tiny yaris by myself in los angeles and drive to Maine over the course of like three days then stay at a campsite for a week and drive back.

It is a very bad thing that living in the US basically requires a car to function, but also I just genuinely love driving and find it relaxing and am good at it.

There's scenery! There's stuff to explore! You find weird bugs at rest stops! You turn off the highway for a second to take photos! You see lots of fun people! Truck stops have neat stuff!

That's a huge part of why I do the whole "get myself lost on purpose and find my way home" thing. Huh! Fun restaurant! I never would have found that if I hadn't gotten lost in Long Beach. Huh! nifty roadside art! Glad I took a wrong turn and ended up in ridgecrest! Wow! This is a really pretty drive! I have no idea what road we're on but we're going south so we'll get home eventually, and until then check out the dirt devils chasing the power pylons! Look! Horses!

painted some of this with my fingers.

for authenticity?

no. I didn't want to wash my brushes