favorite character meme: 5 outfits [5/5]
It is the
mother’s not the lover’s lust that rots the mind. It is that which condemns the
tragic character to his walking death. It is Jocasta, not Juliet, who dwells in
the inner chamber. It is Gertrude, not the silly Ophelia, who sends Hamlet to
his madness. The heart of tragedy does not lie in stealing or taking away. Any
featherpated girl can steal a heart. It lies in giving, in putting on, in
adding, in smothering without the pillows.–
“Queen
Morgause,” said Guenever thoughtfully, “must have been a strange
person. […] I expect she ate Mordred, Agnes, like a spider.”
The Once and Future King, by T. H. White
As has become a tradition, I say goodbye to the year using the Pantone’s colour of the next year. And such a lovely colour it is. But given the awful year, personally and worldwide, I felt the only true subject for ‘Greenery’ is the Green Knight, waiting for the next beheading game.
Coats of Arms of (some) Knights of the Round Table from a 16th century French manuscript, including most of our favourite Merlin knights.
From left to right:
Galahad, Percival, Lancelot du Lac, Bors
King Arthur, Gawain, Tristan, Lionel
(H)elyan the White, King Bagdemagus, King Edern, King Rience,
King Carados, King Clariance, Duke Chaliens of Clarence and (H)ector de Maris.
I just stumbled on this and I thought it belonged here: youtube com/watch?v=RVRlEeJIOoE It’s Promis cest jure subbed, which I hadn’t seen before
Ohh the song translated! Thank you!
Arthur seeing Lancelot for the first time like
Arthurian Legands characters react: Tumbler
Arthur: So….. You watch people fall over? (Is a total old man. still writes letters.)
Lancelot: Who’s Duckland Trampstamp? What’s a me-me? (Smol fluffy kitty)
Guinivere: I know what a tumbler is. It’s like having a joust for every person in the kingdom, and whoever gets the most clapping wins. (Not really, but she gets it.)
Morgana: I don’t believe in the internet. (This bitch still uses a crystl ball)
Mordred: *Hipster trash* I don’t use tumbler anymore. it’s too mainstream.
Merlin: Tumbler lord. I have all the followers.
Nimue: I don’t watch tv.
Another sketches of mine ^^ I’ve done a fan art for White’s Once and Future King, who was one of my favourite books ^^
This sketch is inspired by this quote >
[…]Desdemona robbed of life or honour is nothing to a Mordred, robbed of himself—his soul stolen, overlaid, wizened, while the mother-character lives in triumph, superfluously and with stifling love endowed on him, seemingly innocent of ill-intention. Mordred was the only son of Orkney who never married. He, while his brothers fled to England, was the one who stayed alone with her for twenty years—her living larder. Now that she was dead, he had become her grave. She existed in him like the vampire. When he moved, when he blew his nose, he did it with her movement. When he acted he became as unreal as she had been, pretending to be a virgin for the unicorn. He dabbled in the same cruel magic. He had even begun to keep lap dogs like her—although he had always hated hers with the same bitter jealousy as that with which he had hated her lovers. [The Once and Future King, A Candle into the Wind, T.A. White]
(sorry for the crappy quality of my scanner tbh)
Kindra Nikole, ‘Nimiane’, 2015
“Full image of my rendition of the lady of the lake, Nimiane, emerging from the water with Excalibur. This was the first image I shot for my new series, Árísan, and is my personal favorite. I’ve been wanting to capture it for at least two years now and am so happy to have it out of my head and into a tangible form finally.”
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kindranikole/24284418153/
Character Aesthetic: Morgan Le Fay
“Well,” he said, “suppose that Morgan is the queen of the fairies, or at any rate has to do with them, and that fairies are not the kind of creatures your nurse has told you about. Some people say they are the Oldest of All, who lived in England before the Romans came here— before us Saxons, before the Old Ones thelmselves—and that they have been driven underground. Some say they look like humans, like dwarfs, and others that they look ordinary, and others that they don’t look like anything at all, but put on various shapes as the fancy takes them. Whatever they look like, they have the knowledge of the ancient Gaels. They know things down there in their burrows which the human race has forgotten about, and quite a lot of these things are not good to hear.” (T.H. White; Once and Future King; The Sword in the Stone)
Arthurian Legends 