mordred lover

I finally got the deeply underwhelming Mongolian inspired fantasy off my bedside table and picked up The Wolf And His King. I don’t know what I was expecting from the medieval gay werewolf book but it is a. Very medieval in tone but upfront about not being accurate in a way only a medievalist could be (“Brittany was a barony not a kingdom but it’s called a kingdom in the 12th century poem that inspired this so forgive me”) b. Has a very interesting PoV/chapter structure doing some fun stuff with tenses and so on and most importantly c. The handsome young king has met the scrungliest most pathetic wet man in existence and gone “god I want to climb him like a tree”

That sounds really promising but Brittany was never a barony, it was a duchy and even a kingdom from the middle of the ninth century until the middle of the tenth century when the ruler swore allegiance to the french king for his help defending Brittany against the vikings

How to become a knight—delete—how to become a knight and get a sword—delete—how to get a liege—delete—knighthood near me—delete—yearning to be a knight how to stop—delete—help I have a sword now what—delete—nearest blacksmith—delete—knights kissing—delete—liege who needs a knight near me—delete—how to deal with liege and knighthood withdrawals

i eat a lot of bread because it’s soft and i deserve it. also i am gorgeous

[ID: A photo of a pigeon. It does, in fact, look gorgeous.]

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

once again i am going crazy thinking about how elaine of corbenic is like barely a character and more a plot device and almost exists as an extension of lancelot. like what an insane intersection of sexism, medieval attitudes toward sex and marriage, and the fact that galahad is a character that reasonably shouldn't exist but does now anyway

like i think "lancelot asexual reproduction" takes are kinda corny most of the time but like. truly it's an option that could be explored seeing as elaine of corbenic mostly exists because galahad needs a mother, and who else could it be if not a random woman taking advantage of lancelot, something that was already well codified by the time galahad was created. like that's most fair unknowns.

most of the substance there is to elaine of corbenic comes from either the horror of her actions (which are not unique to her) or from earlier versions of the grail maiden archetype. there's leftover bits of blanchefleur and percival's sister but that's it. it's all archetype. there's religiosity, i suppose, but that gets dwarfed by her son and her father and even lancelot to a degree. all she has to offer is echoes.

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws