"Gaining Strength and Going Homeward..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Me: God, Rosemary Miles makes me feel unclean.
Her: What?
Me: She writes Arthuriana. It's--it's not very good.
Her: What's wrong with it?
Me: Well, like, what I was looking at to-day? She was talking about Gawain, and I couldn't believe what she'd done to him. It's just wrong; Gawain isn't like that. Gawain is--there's a reason they call him the maiden's knight.
Her: Ohhh. She made him gay?

...

Me: No! No, no, that's not it! Honestly, that would scare me less. I mean, he's just the model of chivalry and more than that of courtesy and she kind of made him into a stupid, vulgar, randy goatherd type. It was very disturbing.
Her: Oh.

Me: Ahahaha gay Gawain shhh don't tempt me.

Comments

[zero_pixel_count]

A travesty. An absolute travesty.

(If it helps even the balance? I spent the weekend RP'ing with (among others) a character named Tir, who was roughly based off the courteous-chivalrous Gawain archetype.)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

(Ooooh! That does help. ^__^ Was good RP?)

[zero_pixel_count]

Well, 'tis. (also, my reading of the Green Knight? very little to do with sexuality, a lot to do with sensuality.)

(Was very good. 'live', therefore kinda tiring, but worth it... Weirdly enough, Tir's best friend is based off a Tristan archetype, and has, completely unplanned, managed to find himself pining after his lord's wife, the world's most oblivious 'Isolde' Said lord has just died, but 'Isolde' just hasn't noticed that he's trailing around after her for reasons other than duty...)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

<3! (That makes sense. I've only had Nanni summarise it for me; I haven't actually read it myself, so I'm kind of feelering on what exactly it's about.

(Oh, Lord. XD That sounds exasperatingly awesome.)

[zero_pixel_count]

*raises eyebrow, grins* Sounds like Nanni's read the same things into it as I did, looking at her Gawain...

(It is. I keep threatening them with a screenplay of the whole mess.)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Sadly, this makes me glee. I'm glad. ^__^

(Ohoho. I hope they beware.)