as an astrophysics major which stars do you think lancelot gawain and guinevere are thank you this is not an astrology question i want to know about stars or space anomalies
ALKDJF;LAKDSJFSKDJF FIRST OFF ANON THANK YOU FOR PREFACING THIS WASNT AN ASTROLOGY QUESTION BECAUSE. HHHHG. okay look there is nothing theoretically wrong with being into astrology BUT the number of people who have said “you’re an astrology major, right?” to me is so infuriating that i now hate it, perhaps unfairly
anyway. complaining about astrology over. i love this question. i have no idea how to interpret it. i dont know if you mean individual stars or class of stars? and i will go with class of stars cause thats an easier answer.
so to start off. gawain is a high-luminosity main spectrum blue star because he burns fast and bright but is extinguished before his time. he’s seen from far away, far more than many of the other characters, but all the light that reaches the viewer is dead light, and there’s nothing real or living on the other end. thats the edgiest fucking paragraph ive ever typed wow
guinevere is a red dwarf star because the life span of a red dwarf is longer than the age of the universe. she is still alive. literally you cannot fucking at me at this she is alive. but jokes aside she is a red dwarf star because her light is mostly invisible but at the same time forms the vast majority of the universe. unseen but also incredibly important
lancelot is a variable neutron star, once great and now collapsed into a high-stress ball of misery with an off-kilter magnetic field that makes him look very weird. i mean this literally, in that i do believe lancelot du lac the medieval literature character is rotating at high velocity and flings out electromagnetic radiation owards anyone who looks at him
(credit to Rey for the very good words)
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“He slid into the skin of a solitary Satan as though he had never enjoyed the flourish of language, the delights of civil power. It was war, now. Naked and bloody.”
- Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
Yeah so according to @gawain-in-green this quote from Gormenghast is very unhinged-Gawain-core (I agree). I’m not very experienced at comics but I’m actually very into this one thank you for looking at it <333 gawain…. blood…. kissing…. archways… favorite things to draw
(btw if anyone ever wants requests for art or like. writing. please send in ask box i would die for you)
anne @slingerapen requested: “Guenevere and gawain hamging out plotting murder”
i think the evil cursed sword is pretty cool
im real sick and tired so its havoc but. here is my lil pov outsider fic about gawain going batshit and setting all of france on fire on his revenge quest
Im trying to write but I cant stop losing my mind at leslie fishes fan haven mining commune in the middle of the arizona desert I cant do this. Looking for gem cutters and gem dealers to fund my pagan commune . We can set off rockets .... there are even bear.
god im too tired to articulate this but the consistent attention to guinevere and gawain’s friendship in the dutch texts??? hhhhhhhhhh. like it makes so much sense cause they both came to camelot as teenagers in ways which were not of their choosing, they are both very political characters, and especially in the dutch texts they’re the ones controlling the court and especially controlling arthur (which is also the case with gawain in the vulgate->malory tradition as well). but i havent seen many other instances in other traditions of the kind of details the dutch put in. in die wrake gawain steals a dog for guinevere because he thinks she would like it (this might be in the vengeance, idk, i havent forced myself to trek through the old french yet and theres no translation). in lancelot and the hart with the white foot it’s mentioned that gawain and guinevere are hanging out specifically without arthur. in walewein ende keye gawain sends his vanquished foes to guinevere and not arthur. and it also ties in to the really complex court intrigue going on in dutch camelot (which im making a more formal post about so i wont go into here) but also aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh they are frieeeeeeeends. they ARE the queer trans disney channel original movie villains we all deserve. they are mean and awful and bully arthur canonically. they own my whole heart
Wanna write Arthurian court intrigue? Boy howdy do the Dutch texts have some great content for that! So here are my collected notes on the wild wild court intrigue going on in Kardoel.
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