The-beginning-of-somewhere - Just For Fun :)

Feed them grapes cut in half!

Need to be mindful for our feathered friends!

The I Claudius fandom has like a total of three people, without counting me, and I love imagining what it would look like if suddenly this old book/series would get the popularity of GOT/HOTD or something like that.

So here are my theories:

Tiberius would have a fanbase and would be considered a “poor little meow meow”

People would make girlboss fancams for Livia

Messalina apologists

Herod would be the fandom bicycle

Herod/Castor would be one of the top 10 ships on AO3

Herod/Claudius would also be up there on the top 10 ships.

Some people would also ship Agripina/Tiberius and they would be deemed as problematic

Agripina/Germanicus Girlboss/Malewife

Edits of Antonia and her children to “I bet on losing dogs” and other Mitski songs

Fan casts for all book characters that didn't make it to the show.

YouTube compilations of “Caligula being a mood”, “Caligula being Caligula”, “Caligula being a menace”, etc.

til chopsticks (the piano tune) was written by a teenage girl

It amuses me just how unhinged Merlin is as Dragoon, he gives zero shits and fears no god and it shows. Sassy boy becomes an even sassier old man and roasts people with the confidence of a youtube commenter who knows they have the benefit of anonymity

Same

Today my wife texted me this, and then immediately called me to make sure I got it because it was “an urgent message”.

I’m the original question asker, but I couldn’t find a way to tag joyousgard in a comment so I’m reblogging from them to say thank you. This answer is so encouraging, thank you so much for writing this out. I’m super excited to dive deeper into Arthuriana now :D

Hi! I’m a teen, and I’m really interested in Arthuriana, but I’m not in a position to take college courses on it or anything at the moment (hoping to in the future tho!!!). I’m trying to read and annotate SGatGK, but I have a host of executive dysfunction problems (and starting college) that make it difficult. My question is, how do I make sure I don’t seem like I’m pretending to know more than I am when I tell people about it (I just get so excited!!)? And at what point can I say I know a lot about it (this one is just to motivate me to finish the book lmao) ? Anyway, thank you for reading this :) your master list of the texts is very useful :)))

Firstly, I’m so glad my list had been helpful!

Secondly, PLEASE do not worry about this. You don’t have to pass a test or read a certain number of texts to be able to tell people about a cool thing you are excited about!! Arthuriana is so vast, no one can know anything. Theres so much I don’t know and tons of texts I haven’t read yet, which is awesome I think! Theres so much out there!

As far as being a self proclaimed “arthuriana knowing about-er” goes, like, youre reading medieval literature for fun. you are already beyond general knowledge of arthuriana!

Also, you dont have to read tons of texts to enjoy arthuriana or engage with it! You dont have to read quickly, read untranslated, etc if that isnt what is fun/doable for you. I read a lot but i also really struggle motivating myself to read when im doing it because i feel like i *should*, not because i enjoy it and am interested. so go at your own pace!!

People: “what happens after death? Must we truly be judged for an existence of afterlife with but a measly 80 years of Earthtly-experience? Could heaven truly be so unfairly tailored?”

All other animals: I pissed on that so it’s mine. I love to shit!!!!!

Thank you for your contributions to society... oh wait! You have done nothing! In fact you have probably made the earth a worse place. Congratulations!

Knowing for a fact I made at least a few million folk in this world smile is good enough for me <3

Bochur fell asleep on his siddurim during shiur :,((

statler and waldorf aka the two old gay men from the muppets but what if they were old jews following me around and heckling me when I'm late for shabbat

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