"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

[elyse24601.livejournal.com]

She only wrote one- "Sword of the Rightful King" (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780152025335&itm=1). It was really good, though I didn't like her Arthur. Agravain was very well- done, I thought. He was immature and irritating yet so desperate to be a man and prove himself. Also, he had something of a spazz out when he was locked up for a bit and it was really realistic, because my brother acted like that once when he had to go sit in his room for an hour as punishment.

Oooh, I shall have to go look up Rosemary Sutcliff and find that post where you linked me to Nanni's Gawain... just looing on Barnes and Nobles online, Ms. Sutcliff writes/ wrote prolifically. >.> I shall have a lot of reading to do after graduation.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Oooo, okay. I will look that up at the library, thank you! That sounds ridiculously shiny.

Nanni's Gawain is here: girdleforakiss. And yes, yes, she does, but her Arthuriana is The Sword and the Circle, the Light Beyond the Forest (about the Grailkids), and The Road to Camlann.

[elyse24601.livejournal.com]

Aw, her Gawain is cute. desperate_fans looks like fun too, though, alas, all my favorite characters are taken. Ah well- it's rather a good thing I don't get myself involved in more rps. ^^

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

DF is madness, utter madness. XD But her Gawain is wonderful. ♥ Your favourite characters?

[elyse24601.livejournal.com]

Er, namely, I looked at the wiki and all my main fandoms (Les Mis, Pride and Prejudice, Phantom of the Opera, Authorian legend) seem to already have all the characters I would consider playing.

Though I did note that Mr. Darcy was up for adoption so I may look into that, once APs are over, since I am a major Jane Austen nerd.

How... does one join? *is so tempted to joing that historical persons rp as Robespierre because she is sad and desperate like that*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Aha. Well, sometimes people don't play their socks for a while and then you can ask if you can take them. Like Snowy was looking for Cosette a while back, but it turned out her typist was still playing her, she'd just lost track of time and hadn't been active for a while.

Oh, do!

It's not like deadmentalking, you don't have to have an app. You just make a journal that fits the criteria and then join up.