Anne @slingerapen Requested: “Guenevere And Gawain Hamging Out Plotting Murder”

you guys heard of gawain? sound of the summer

Danse Macabre

Beau got so pissed when someone stole her gold… Imagine the fury (of blows!) when she finds out someone stole her friends lol

There’s a cold breeze blowing over my soul.

sorceress queen (one day late whoops) stan sebile

as an astrophysics major which stars do you think lancelot gawain and guinevere are thank you this is not an astrology question i want to know about stars or space anomalies

ALKDJF;LAKDSJFSKDJF FIRST OFF ANON THANK YOU FOR PREFACING THIS WASNT AN ASTROLOGY QUESTION BECAUSE. HHHHG. okay look there is nothing theoretically wrong with being into astrology BUT the number of people who have said “you’re an astrology major, right?” to me is so infuriating that i now hate it, perhaps unfairly

anyway. complaining about astrology over. i love this question. i have no idea how to interpret it. i dont know if you mean individual stars or class of stars? and i will go with class of stars cause thats an easier answer.

so to start off. gawain is a high-luminosity main spectrum blue star because he burns fast and bright but is extinguished before his time. he’s seen from far away, far more than many of the other characters, but all the light that reaches the viewer is dead light, and there’s nothing real or living on the other end. thats the edgiest fucking paragraph ive ever typed wow

guinevere is a red dwarf star because the life span of a red dwarf is longer than the age of the universe. she is still alive. literally you cannot fucking at me at this she is alive. but jokes aside she is a red dwarf star because her light is mostly invisible but at the same time forms the vast majority of the universe. unseen but also incredibly important

lancelot is a variable neutron star, once great and now collapsed into a high-stress ball of misery with an off-kilter magnetic field that makes him look very weird. i mean this literally, in that i do believe lancelot du lac the medieval literature character is rotating at high velocity and flings out electromagnetic radiation owards anyone who looks at him

Lancelot and Gawain Debate Public Transport, circa 1100

wow leap year days are so weird right? blink and you miss it….

god im too tired to articulate this but the consistent attention to guinevere and gawain’s friendship in the dutch texts??? hhhhhhhhhh. like it makes so much sense cause they both came to camelot as teenagers in ways which were not of their choosing, they are both very political characters, and especially in the dutch texts they’re the ones controlling the court and especially controlling arthur (which is also the case with gawain in the vulgate->malory tradition as well). but i havent seen many other instances in other traditions of the kind of details the dutch put in. in die wrake gawain steals a dog for guinevere because he thinks she would like it (this might be in the vengeance, idk, i havent forced myself to trek through the old french yet and theres no translation). in lancelot and the hart with the white foot it’s mentioned that gawain and guinevere are hanging out specifically without arthur. in walewein ende keye gawain sends his vanquished foes to guinevere and not arthur. and it also ties in to the really complex court intrigue going on in dutch camelot (which im making a more formal post about so i wont go into here) but also aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh they are frieeeeeeeends. they ARE the queer trans disney channel original movie villains we all deserve. they are mean and awful and bully arthur canonically. they own my whole heart