gay for maid marian

also, if arthur gets to have homoeroticism with his knights then so too should guinevere with her ladies.

WELCOME TO THE MASTER POST OF

Here I shall detail various Arthurian media with apparent yuri encounters we as a fandom could stand to appreciate more! All details will be marked with links so you can read or watch the media for yourselves.

Wholesome Yuri

♡ Ragnelle/Guinevere ♡

— Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady by Selina Hastings

— Queen of the Summer Stars by Persia Woolley

♡ Guinevere/Enid ♡

— Illustration by George Wooliscroft Rhead & Louis Rhead

— The Mabinogion

— Erec et Enide by Chrétien de Troyes

— Erec by Hartmann von Aue

— Mordred a Tragedy by Henry Newbolt

— Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson

♡ Guinevere/Elaine ♡

— Knights of the Round Table (1953)

— The Birth of Galahad by Richard Hovey

♡ Guinevere/Isolde ♡

— Guenevere and Isoude Stained Glass by William Morris

— Prose Tristan

— La Tavola Ritonda

— King Arthur's Tomb by William Morris

♡ Guinevere/Bloie of Malehaut ♡

— Vulgate: Lancelot Part II

Toxic Yuri

♡ Guinevere/Morgan ♡

— The Mantle

♡ Laudine/Lunette ♡

— Yvain: Knight with the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes

— Iwein: Knight With the Lion by Hartmann von Aue

— Yvain: Knight with the Lion by John Howe

— Yvain: Knight with the Lion by M. T. Anderson

♡ Isolde/Brangain ♡

— Prose Tristan

— Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory

I just think there's more thematic meat to the concept of someone King Arthur so dearly loved (and perhaps, who loved him once too) and chose to take in, turning against him. Perhaps, depending on the depiction of King Arthur, rightly so.

For me, there's something more compelling in the concept of choice in that, versus the concept of Sir Mordred being destined to destroy King Arthur and his kingdom because "Well who else is going to do it? He's an incest baby after all! That automatically makes him destined for evil!"

A scene of Sir Bedivere and Sir Kay inspired by this moment from the 1981 movie Knightriders:

An Arthurian version of this video:

Thanks to an anonymous donor, we finally have the complete trilogy of Dutch Romances! Happy reading!

Roman van Walewein

Ferguut

William IX of Aquitaine (died February 10, 1126) is considered to be one of the earliest known troubadours by historians. Troubadour culture and Courtly Literature flourishes in Southern France.

Marie de Champagne, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, commissions the romance Knight of the Cart/Lancelot by Chretien de Troyes, between 1175 to 1189. It is the earliest known depiction of the adulterous affair of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere

Marie de Champagne is also purported to have commissioned Andreas Capellanus to pen the treatise De Amore, between 1185 to 1190.

The Synod of Verona is held on November 1184. Marriage is declared a sacrament in response to Catharic influence.

Marie de Champagne dies on March 11, 1198. Her mother, Eleanor, dies six years later on April 1, 1204

The Albigensian Crusade erupts in Southern France. from 1209 to 1229. Catharism is eradicated. Casualties range from two hundred thousand to over a million dead. Troubadour culture declines in the region.

The Lancelot-Grail Cycle or the Vulgate Cycle is composed between 1210 to 1235. The first three sections of the literary cycle are believed to be as follows: the Lancelot (c. 1210 to 1220), Queste del Saint Graal (c. 1220 to 1225) and Mort Artu (c. 1225 to 1230). The earliest iterations of Tristan en Prose/Prose Tristan are also believed to be composed around this period.

Lancelot was "born" during an era of cultural change, when attitudes towards the institute of marriage was evolving. Written as champion of Fin Amor, he experiences great popularity in the era of the troubadours and the Occitan-speaking courts.

Then, a few years after his creators die, a terrible military campaign sweeps across Occitania, devastating the region and its culture. From here on, Lancelot's story takes a turn for the worse as his heroic character (and the notion of courtly love) was called into question. It all culminates in his failure to achieve the Holy Grail and later on, triggers the collapse of the mythical realm of King Arthur.

And its perfectly fine too: it's in the medieval worldbuilding literally law of the land that knights can't harass or accost lone travelling ladies or they face punishment, unless they were travelling with a knight they can challenge to a duel.

It's (almost) that time of year again, and well I'm doing things a little different this year so I figure I'd give the prompt list a little early! Arthurian August is a yearly art/writing/gif making/whatever other creative things challenge during the month of August centered on the Arthurian Legends. In the past I've had a prompt a week for the month of August, but this year I'm trying a bingo card format, pictured below:

The idea is you can check as many applicable boxes as you want for each creation you make, so if you make one or two things you can still get a bingo, granted you include all five prompts between those creations. Of course if you only want to check one box per creation that's fine too. The goal is to kinda open this up so people who don't have much time can still complete something. (More rules and prompt explanations under the cut)

Melora: But...why?

This guy is absolutely right. How can you "reclaim" voices from a culture that's not yours?? Ancient Greek women are not from your own culture - if you even recognize that Greek culture is its own culture, separate from yours.