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Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Original Work Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Original Characters, Original Non-Human Character(s), Original Monster Character(s) Additional Tags: Fantasy, Elemental Magic, Alchemy, Human Experimentation, Dark Magic, elemental kingdoms, Cross-Posted on Toyhou.se, Knights - Freeform, Witches, Wizards, rated t just to be safe, Xenophobia in Later Chapters, Pirates, Ninjas - Freeform, Ngl I added a lot of concepts in this story, Little in the Romance Department, Found Family, Redemption, Angst and Drama, Humor, Tragedy in later chapters, inspired by avatar the last airbender, As well as a bunch of other things, I just realized that now, A bunch of trauma and drama in later chapters, Even though I don't own a violin, Eldritch curses and stuff, Celestials and Gods, Halloween Motifs later on, Fae & Fairies, An Attempt at incorporating music in a text-based story Summary:
In a realm tore by mistrust between the 8 kingdoms, it is now thrown into war by The Pale Queen. It’s up dishonored knight Sir Stradivarius, who has been assigned by the Goddess of Hope to find the Chosen One, who will put a stop an eldritch curse. However Sir Stradivarius might play a bigger role in this than he thought…
Hey, which one of you leaked my search history?!
sexy knights. sexy wounded knights. sexy wounded weary knights. sexy wounded weary knights in the rain. sexy wounded weary knights in the rain pledging their loyalty to you.
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This gives me many ideas! Here's how I picture the BBC Merlin knights in each scenario!
Somebody talking to Merlin about Gwaine or Lancelot
All of the knights (plus Arthur) while simping over Merlin
All of the knights after meeting Merlin for the first time
Definitely Gwaine and Lancelot talking about what they would do with a kneeling knight emoji!
Gwen and/or Merlin with Lancelot
Gwaine talking to Merlin about why he should bring him on the quest to the Perilous Lands!
I just love the dynamic of all of the knights looking at Merlin and going "hell yeah, that's our little buddy! :) And if you hurt him we'll disembowel you! :)"
I've been seeing a lot of knight posts recently. pretty great
Me, a Merlin fan, seeing the gnomes/wizards vs knights trend on instagram:
Stained glass by Heaton, Butler & Bayne, depicting the female knight Britomart from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, at Cheltenham Ladies' College.
A post of mine from several months ago about the Perlesvaus self-rearranging forest just wandered across my dash again and made me think about it some more, so I wanted to talk about it a bit.
Perlesvaus, for those who don’t know, is a 13th-century French Arthurian romance. It’s intended to be a continuation of Chretien de Troyes’s Perceval, but it’s mostly known for being completely batshit when it’s known at all. (There’s an old book on Arthurian texts that dedicates a chapter to Perlesvaus and repeatedly speculates that the anonymous author had Something Wrong With Him. This is the longest scholarly treatment of Perlesvaus I’ve been able to find & read.)
Anyway, there’s an odd worldbuilding detail in the text. See, it’s a Thing in chivalric romances that the questing knights happen upon castles & lords & damsels & such that are unfamiliar to them and have to be explained. You know, “this is the Castle of Such-and-Such, where the local custom is as follows. It’s ruled by Lady So-and-So, whose character I shall now describe to you.”
This is a genre convention that largely goes unquestioned, but it’s a bit odd if you think about it. All these knights are at least minor nobility. They don’t know the other nobles in their region? They don’t know what castles are where? Don’t they have, like, diplomatic relations with these people or at least attend the same tournaments? Even if they’re all fully committed to the knight-errant lifestyle and don’t really engage in courtly diplomacy, you’d think they would share information with each other and get the lay of the land. But instead, to use TTRPG terminology, it’s like they’re all on a hexcrawl that was randomly generated just for them to have these adventures.
The author of Perlesvaus decides to address this. In what’s kind of a throwaway paragraph late in the text, he explains that God moves things around so knights always have new quests to do (and, presumably, is also making sure they always arrive at the right narratively-significant moment). So the reason they’re always encountering people & places they have no knowledge of is because those people & places really weren’t there yesterday. They didn’t know about the Castle of Such-and-Such because it’s normally a thousand miles away and the forest path they followed to get there used to lead somewhere else.
And I think that would be a really interesting thing to stick into a novel or a TTRPG or something. When a knight rides into the forest with the intent of Going On A Quest, at some point they go around a bend in the path, cross an invisible barrier, and wind up in the Forest of Narrative. This is a vast forest with no set geography, filled with winding paths and populated almost entirely with questing knights, damsels in search of questing knights, friendly hermits, strange creatures, and allegorical set-pieces. Then, at the narratively-appropriate time, they cross back over the invisible barrier back into the regular world, and find themselves wherever the Narrative has decided they need to be. This could be a different country, a different continent, or a different world entirely.
Whether anyone involved is actually aware that this is how it works is… optional, really. Though if it’s not a Known Phenomenon, the people whose jobs it is to handle trade & diplomacy & god forbid, maps, are going to end up tearing their hair out in frustration.
The knights as YouTube comments, No. 1
I can’t decide which knight is saying this, but it explains a lot.
( A comment on “i accidentally read the worst book of the year so far” by The Book Leo, beginning with a quote from the video)
Edit: Never mind. Knights kiss all the time in some texts. Most of the Arthurian texts I’ve read are weird and random (Gawain plays tennis, Galahad gets married, Guinevere’s mother’s ghost issues prophecies of doom…) and gave the impression that being turned into a murder-dog was more common than physical affection.
It’s time for Knight Posting
When mages keep creating homuncului out of dead knights, they’re eventually gonna become their own whole species, & someone’s gotta take care of ‘em. That’s where the Knightrearers come in!
Knight Bite Ratings based on this
Tarot girlies and bros! Please help?
I have a deck that i shuffle as a stim and occasionally try to channel from, and lately ive been getting the same (absurd amount of) cards over and over even when just absently shuffling. Im so bad at interpreting meanings, ive tried googling it and i just cannot understand. Any input would be apreciated!!
Of the major arcana, in order of frequency, i keep getting: wheel of fortune, death, heirophant, magician, justice, empress, and high preistess
Of the minor arcana, in order of frequency, i keep getting: ace of cups, swords, and pentacles, knight of cups, swords, and pentacles, page of cups, and seven of cups
That seems like far too many for a message, but each have jumped out at least three times and some every single time i pull out the deck! Is it something stupidly simple, like those cards are ever so slightly bent or something? It feels so ominous, like this thing is speaking to me loudly and frantically in a language im not fluent in.
I feel like the amount of repitition (aces, knights, cups) is important but i dont know what it means. Same with the major arcana, it feels like its speaking in all caps but i cannot read it.
All of the doodles harbored in my bag from the past 2ish weeks
I am aware there's like 3 different drawing styles that's just how it roll
Prompt #5
You‘re a knight of the ruler of your country. Together with your comrades you‘re sent out to kill a dragon housing in the mountains. But your team comes into a blizzard and you somehow get split up. Alone in the mountains the dragon finds you. But instead of killing you, they help you and you soon become friends.
That’s when your team finds you and things get complicated...
I’ve been playing this game for nearly a year, so I figured it was about time I made some fan art
Anyone up for a fun round of galavanting with me?
PSA: bot comments are taking over ao3
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Basic rundown:
They are all 3 sentences long
Perfect grammar, capitalization, and punctuation
Like absolutely flawless English teacher-style writing with only a single exclamation mark, ever
No mentions whatsoever of character names, settings, situations, or anything that could be tied to the story
The usernames may be identical to people who exist on ao3, but the name is not clickable, and no profile is associated with it EXCEPT when you directly search for that name. What this means: the comments come from an unregistered (not logged in) reader, bots scrape the site for real usernames, attach that to the comment, and post
Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly
There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate
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Dudes being pals. Birthday gift, fineliners and markers on cotton paper.
Had a friend show up to swordfighting last week and when I went up to face her and some of her allies she pointed her spear at me. I had never seen this spear and it had a pink end with... Kirby's face on it? So I double blink and go "Kirby?" and then she stabs me