Two Halves Of A Whole Idiot

Hi there, from one Arthuriana enthusiast to another.

I have enjoyed the great privilege of doing the adaptation and art for Neil Gaiman's short story CHIVALRY in graphic novel form.

In this tale, a little old lady finds the Holy Grail in a charity shop.

Then Sir Galaad, noble knight of the Round Table, comes calling.

For those who don't know, in the original spelling, Sir Galahad was Galaad.

It is my favorite of all Neil's stories. It is one of my favorite short stories of all time.

It comes out in March. In several countries, I think. It is published in the USA by Dark Horse Comics.

I very much hope you like it!

You may preorder from any major bookstore, online bookstore like Barnes and Noble or Amazon, or from your local comic shop.

I’ve lived in a 3 adult household my whole life. My parents and their best friend. This was never weird to me, even though everyone my age thought it was because the media never portrayed these kinds of housing arrangements. As far as i was concerned, I just had an extra non-blood parent.

According to my parents, it was very common in the 70′s-80′s to buy houses with your friends, because it was financially smart to do so (so long as you were certain they were close friends who wouldn’t fall out with you and fuck everything up). Houses and house payments are much more manageable when you split the bills 3-4 ways instead of just two.

Millenials aren’t the first to think it’s a great idea to just shack up with friends. That’s housemating without the hastle of living with strangers. It’s still a good idea to shack up with people you’ve known a long time so you know how you’ll get on living together, but still. In the current economy, it’s pretty much now our only option for affording anything.

I think, and I’m not researched on this, but I think conservatives probably tried to suppress images of non-nuclear families because they likely thought it would encourage ideas of polygamy, polyamory, open sexual relationships with or without marriage, as well as other relationship types they thought of as un-christian or unsavoury. I could be wrong, but that shit wouldn’t surprise me.

(And i want to make a note that there’s also a disturbing amount of asexual denial around that makes people go ‘if they’re living together they HAVE to be banging because why wouldn’t they?’ and that shit both creeps me out and annoys me no end. People can be in relationships without sex. People can live together without sex. Sex is not the be-all and end-all and people being taught to think it is really need to stop).

The notable exception was my grandma, who was just like, “oh, yes, when we were young my sister and I decided to move cross-country together and it was lovely.”

With only two working-age people in the house, it’s very difficult to make ends meet without one of them (or increasingly, these days, both of them) working away the vast majority of their waking hours to earn enough money to support the household. The other person, if they aren’t also working similar hours, is there to support that working person, full time, with unpaid labour.

The end result of this is that nobody has any time or energy to spend together properly, and they just end up tired and miserable and shackled to their work, throwing money at their problems because it’s all they can do. It’s very easy to convince tired, miserable people to spend their money in the ways you want them to, and it’s also very easy to manipulate and oppress people who don’t have the energy or the means to fight for their rights. Convince a whole nation that this is the way the world is supposed to work, and you’ll be well away.

Except she realizes she’s already following me.

Turns out, she was one of the avid fans of a fanfic I had written. Commented, voted, everything. Fast forward three years of us becoming super close friends and she’s telling this story at my graduation party in front of a hundred people (calling it “short stories online” not fanfiction).

Lancelot: no, we can't lose you! I will go instead

Gwaine: guys, guys, you're both too valuable to risk. It should be someone expendable, like Arthur

12 Days of Tropemas 

Day 1: Coffee shop AU

Patroclus: Just put pressure on it.

Achilles, to his finger: If you don't go to war, nobody will remember your name, but if you do-