in case you thought I was joking about the pop-up book. highlights include Lancelot crying because he can’t achieve the grail, the line “As pure as Galahad was, there was another nearby who was perfectly wicked” (nearby = in the same bed, imo), oh, and, on the last page, PULLING THE TAB TO MAKE MORDRED’S SWORD PIERCE ARTHUR’S SIDE WHAT KIND OF SICK FUCKS THOUGHT THIS WAS APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN
Near the place called Camlann our destinies shall meet. Grieving father and spiteful son will seal each other’s fate. Britannia’s future hangs by a thread while avarice here dwell. Arthur and Mordred, the blood of kings on this ground lay dead.
Arthurian idea of the day: In a nod to Monty Python, Bedivere has a comically convoluted test for determining someone if someone is a witch. The secret point of this test is that no one will ever actually be determined to be a witch.
remember in the mabinogion when kay had heat powers and could breathe underwater and could turn into a giant just for no reason. and these were just called “peculiarities”. i sure do
