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That time Arthur met The Questing Beast

Dream of the Endless

I started reading The Sandman over the holiday and I'm obsessed and needed to get this out of my head.

with specifically the highlights and colors being hues that compliment each other, don’t distract from the scene, and make it more interesting/visually appealing

cohesive but still contrasting

This kind of talks about color and composition

This is a bit about landscape specifically

Values & composition

Contrast in composition

Balance in colors & values

This one's more for palette building but I think it's useful and can be applied to the other ones

Cohesion within compositions/lighting

"Chromatic fringe" - I also see people using this with shading, they bring in a transition color that is a different hue than the base color or shadow, it makes it so that less vibrancy is lost and it doesn't get muddy!

This one specifically has a lot of process behind the style of painting you're looking for!

Also one of my favorite artists who makes bright and colorful art like this is Not Sorry Art on TikTok & YouTube, her website is here and it's<3 my fav. She has some videos where you can see her process

If you're wondering about Mr. Gurney's chops:

“oh god I had a really big epiphany about love and personhood but I’m too drunk for words”

After taking a class on King Arthur, I've been thinking more about the story from the cultural side, specifically of the author's in each Arthurian story. The major Arthurian stories were not written by Welsh authors; for ex, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Malory, and Chretien (there are many more but these were the main ones that came to mind). That made me think more about the sorcerer trope in fiction, and what its Arthurian roots looked like.

**disclaimer: I took one class on King Arthur. I definitely don't know every single story in this genre so someone correct me if I'm wrong.**

From what I've read, a sorcerer was only trustworthy when working with a king - if he wasn't, he was a madman in the woods who was untrustworthy and unstable. I think one interesting angle to take from this is how perhaps the non-Welsh writers needed to graft unfamiliar social infrastructures from the Druids onto their own familiar hierarchy of rulership - or even just with their own conceptions of power - in order to feel comfortable incorporating it into their story. Like "ok, this Druidic power looks really cool, but I think it needs to be contained within our own boundaries we've drawn." Like you can see in other basically infinite ways throughout history, there was an idea that if you understood something, you had power over it. And you can see that subtly playing out in BBC Merlin with how Merlin works *through* Arthur. Merlin doesn't go mad (actually you can see that a bit when Merlin is Dragoon and lives in a hut in the woods), but Morgana is def an example of that. Though with her, you could very well say she's a victim of the madwoman/witch stereotype.

Next point -> Another differentiation between Merlin and Morgana is how they lead: either through fear or through love. Thinking about that popular idea that those are the two most significant emotions, I really like how as the show went on, it became less focused on good/evil as the major dichotomy and more on fear/love. For example, it's much more interesting to me if you look at Uther's reign as fearful rather than evil. Fear *can* create evil, but I don't think it's the source in this case. He was afraid of losing Arthur and Morgana. He was also afraid of magic because of who had harmed him with it and the fact that he really didn't understand it. I think the last few episodes with him demonstrated that well. Magic is a tool just like a sword is, but Uther was more familiar with the latter.

Roy is an absolutely PHENOMENAL cook

On the other hand, Isaac can’t cook for shit like my guy burns water EXCEPT for breakfast foods. Isaac makes the best pancakes, waffles, French toast, etc.

Ted and Higgins both go to pride every year and wear a “Free Dad Hugs” shirt

When Frozen came out, Phoebe forced Roy to watch it so many times that he could’ve probably quoted it word for word (he took her to see Frozen 2 and ended up running into Trent and his daughter)

Whenever Trent’s daughter plays pretend with him and hands him an imaginary phone, he always comes up with the WILDEST scenarios for their game

One time at team karaoke (which became a pretty regular thing after the Everton F.C. match), Jamie and Colin sang Agony from Into the Woods and Jamie did the choreography (he definitely didn’t learn it because he rewatched the musical so. many. times. because he had a crush on Chris Pine *wink* *wink*)

Ted made the mistake of showing Me Before You at a team movie night one time and the entire team was sobbing by the end

Bumbercatch is the jumpiest mf ever but LOVES horror movies

One of Jamie’s favorite movies is Dead Poets Society and his favorite character was Neil (he was inconsolable when he watched it the first time and Neil died)

Beard knew about Trent’s crush on Ted and teased him about it every time he got flustered around Ted

The only times Roy isn’t the princess when he plays Princess and Dragon with Phoebe is when Jamie plays with her (Roy has SO MANY pictures of Jamie dressed as the princess on his phone and one is his wallpaper)

We all know that Jamie’s bi awakening was Roy and Keeley but Will’s was Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher in the Star Wars movies

Will was raised by a single mom who he loves more than anything (I saw someone else hc this and it makes so much sense)