emstantinople:

It is New Year’s Day at King Arthur’s court, and a mysterious knight in green arrives at the holiday feast with a peculiar demand. He challenges anyone present to strike a blow against him with his fearsome great axe – but on the condition that, in one year’s time, he may deliver the same blow in return. 

The Green Knight Kickstarter is live! Help me put my comic in print:

kickstarter.com/projects/emilycheeseman/gawain-and-the-green-knight

The print edition of Gawain and the Green Knight will be a 64-page, 8 x 8” hardcover book with 64 full-color interior pages, with a clothbound cover inspired by vintage storybooks (and stamped in green foil!) A digital PDF of the complete story is available to all pledge tiers, and I’m also offering other rewards like stickers, a gold foil print, and a mini comic of another story starring Gawain.

Your support is greatly appreciated! If you’ve read the web version of the comic or you’re a fan of Arthurian stories, check out the project or spread the word if you can! I have 30 days to reach a goal of $7000 to produce these books – this has been a passion project over a year in the making and I’m super excited to see it go to print. Thank you!!

http://kck.st/2o62bG0

I NEED THIS : D

ladysparrow01:

I have this really odd false memory about how Guinevere and Lancelot met/fell in love in the Arthurian Legends.

I could have sworn that ages ago I read that Lancelot was on his way to Camelot to join up with Arthur’s Knights and happened across a tower where Guinevere was being held prisoner by an evil Knight. He and the Knight jousted until Lancelot killed him and then he rescued Guinevere. The two promptly fell in love on their way to Camelot but when they arrived it turned out that Arthur was already betrothed to her or something so she married him?

I don’t know. The ending is a bit muddled but I could have sworn this was how it went down. But apparently not??? Because I found my old book of King Arthur stories and it turns out that isn’t how Guinevere comes to Camelot in it. So, like, where did that come from then? Very strange.

I think this is from the movie The Knights of the Round Table? I haven’t watched it in a while but I remember Lancelot saving Guinevere from a tower… and then later, finding out that she is marrying Arthur.

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