"Gaining Strength and Going Homeward..."
May. 4th, 2007 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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.
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Date: 2007-05-08 02:50 pm (UTC)(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.)
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Date: 2007-05-11 01:56 am (UTC)(Ooooh! That does help. ^__^ Was good RP?)
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Date: 2007-05-11 07:31 pm (UTC)(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...)
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Date: 2007-05-13 01:53 am (UTC)(Oh, Lord. XD That sounds exasperatingly awesome.)
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Date: 2007-05-14 05:27 pm (UTC)(It is. I keep threatening them with a screenplay of the whole mess.)
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Date: 2007-05-16 05:03 am (UTC)(Ohoho. I hope they beware.)