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Feb 25, 2019 19:14
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Jimmy Noskill posted:I read through le Morte d'Arthur for the first time a year or two back. Before that, my only familiarity with Arthurian legends was through pop-culture osmosis. I was, uh, very surprised. Ghost Leviathan posted:Like how many goddamn times is Lancelot going to have to save Guinevere from getting burnt at the stake? I'm starting to see why they have versions where Arthur openly hates her. Though I'm wondering if it's either a recycled script or variations that sprung from the same story all getting canonised like how comic books that recycle the same plot with different characters end up with all of it canon. Yeah, Morte D'Arthur is just Malory compiling every king arthur story he can find into a single english anthology because he's in prison for rape and has nothing better to do with his time.
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Feb 25, 2019 19:18
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, Morte D'Arthur is just Malory compiling every king arthur story he can find into a single english anthology because he's in prison for rape and has nothing better to do with his time. I was going to post about the oral tradition of telling fairytales around the campfire where the only goal is to tell a good yarn and you change everything to suit your needs but this probably explains it better
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Feb 25, 2019 19:54
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Half the scenes in Don Quixote are people loving with him by making up tales of chivalry on the spot At one point there's a group of people trying to trick him into coming down from a mountain where he has chosen to do penance until his lady Dulcinea notices him and a woman pretends to be a (blonde, white) princess of a part of Nigeria and forgets what her fake name is supposed to be and another guy corrects her and Don Quixote is like "ah yes, your troubles must have messed up your memory, it would happen to anyone" every time there's an inconsistency in her story Sancho Panza even thinks to himself that it's weird that this woman is white in spite of being from Africa but thinks it doesn't matter because once Don Quixote marries her and grants him a Viceroyship or whatever that his subjects will be black and he can sell them at fair market value to recoup the cost of the journey to Africa. Don Quixote promptly beats him for suggesting he betray his lady by marrying this woman
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Feb 26, 2019 03:24
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Don Quixote also contains a brilliant takedown of nice guys. Quixote and Sancho attend the funeral of Grisóstomo, who died of a broken heart after the beautiful shepherdess Marcela rejected his love. The funeral-goers accuse Marcela of being a heartless bitch who cruelly toys with the hearts of her dozens of suitors, so Marcela appears and starts dropping some truth-bombs:Marcela posted:You all say that heaven made me beautiful, so much so that this beauty of mine, with a force you can’t resist, makes you love me; and you say and even demand that, in return for the love you show me, I must love you. By the natural understanding which God has granted me I know that whatever is beautiful is lovable; but I can’t conceive why, for this reason alone, a woman who’s loved for her beauty should be obliged to love whoever loves her. What’s more, it could happen that the lover of beauty is ugly, and since that which is ugly is loathsome, it isn’t very fitting for him to say: ‘I love you because you’re beautiful; you must love me even though I’m ugly.’
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Feb 26, 2019 03:49
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meanwhile, quixote is probably making GBS threads in a bush
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Feb 26, 2019 04:51
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One thing that King Arthur Pendragon captures so well about the stories is that knights are the biggest loving drama queens. You get huge combat bonuses if something's particularly inspired you or pissed you off and there's a system for going mad and running nude into the woods (often because trying to be a drama queen backfired or worked too well) and spending a year or two as a wandering madman hanging out with hermits, woodcutters or fairies.
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Feb 26, 2019 05:15
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Unkempt posted:
This is great!
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Feb 26, 2019 05:31
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Ghost Leviathan posted:One thing that King Arthur Pendragon captures so well about the stories is that knights are the biggest loving drama queens. You get huge combat bonuses if something's particularly inspired you or pissed you off and there's a system for going mad and running nude into the woods (often because trying to be a drama queen backfired or worked too well) and spending a year or two as a wandering madman hanging out with hermits, woodcutters or fairies. You know I've never looked into this game, but I'm starting to feel like I ought to.
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Feb 26, 2019 10:54
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Ghost Leviathan posted:One thing that King Arthur Pendragon captures so well about the stories is that knights are the biggest loving drama queens. You get huge combat bonuses if something's particularly inspired you or pissed you off and there's a system for going mad and running nude into the woods (often because trying to be a drama queen backfired or worked too well) and spending a year or two as a wandering madman hanging out with hermits, woodcutters or fairies. Sounds like my friday night hur hur
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Feb 26, 2019 11:04
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unimportantguy posted:You know I've never looked into this game, but I'm starting to feel like I ought to. I haven't actually gotten around to playing the drat thing myself, though I hear the system is adequate, if a bit clunky and complicated. No more so than regular ol Dungeons and Dragons mind. (and probably better designed than half of D&D editions because at least it has a very clear idea of what it's made for) It's pretty interesting in the advancement system; characters are expected to do most of the adventuring and warring in the summer and retire to their manors for the winter phase, where they do the equivalent of levelling up as well as ageing, having kids (who can grow up to be playable characters themselves) and holding feasts. There's recently been released a spinoff game in a modified version of the same system, called Paladin, which transposes the setting to Charlemagne's kingdom. (which King Arthur heavily ripped off in the first place, bringing it full circle)
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Feb 26, 2019 12:48
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shout out to my main monk nennius
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Feb 26, 2019 22:00
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Jimmy Noskill posted:There’s also a bit where King Arthur fights a giant who has split a woman in half with his giant dong. That was strange. lol
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Feb 26, 2019 22:32
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Arrhythmia posted:meanwhile, quixote is probably making GBS threads in a bush I like the part where Sancho has to take a massive poo poo but doesn't want to alert Don Quixote so he has to sneak off and poo poo as quietly as possible and gets scolded for the stench
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Feb 26, 2019 22:34
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unimportantguy posted:I have, in fact, met a woman named Guenevere. I was 13. She threatened to kidnap me because it was "destiny." Did she live in Alaska? Have you told this story before?
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Feb 27, 2019 18:07
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No one talking about Tirant lo Blanch 
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Feb 27, 2019 18:52
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unimportantguy posted:I have, in fact, met a woman named Guenevere. I was 13. She threatened to kidnap me because it was "destiny." idgaf about this thread any more since book scans are ~problematic~ now
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Feb 27, 2019 22:04
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Doc Hawkins posted:Did she live in Alaska? Have you told this story before? I'm pretty sure I haven't told this story here before because I mostly lurk. It was at a Rennaissance Faire in central California iirc.
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Feb 27, 2019 22:08
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Pick posted:idgaf about this thread any more since book scans are ~problematic~ now Says whom
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Feb 28, 2019 03:11
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It's Vulgate Cycle, OP.
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Mar 28, 2020 18:38
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Paladinus going for the record of oldest thread resurrection
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Mar 28, 2020 19:02
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Mozi posted:king arthur was a bit hit and miss as a king, but as a flour maker, he's pretty top notch. Better name for baking supplies than King Alfred.
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Mar 29, 2020 18:01
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoJc2tH3WBw So, I didn't notice that anyone had mentioned this here, thus far. Thoughts? Other than that summer release possibly not being so likely now?
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Mar 31, 2020 00:42
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in college we read the morte d'arthur and the book we used had it all printed in cool old fashioned font and it ruled
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Mar 31, 2020 01:27
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EimiYoshikawa posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoJc2tH3WBw I'm turbo jazzed because I really like that director
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Mar 31, 2020 01:32
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EimiYoshikawa posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoJc2tH3WBw Coronavirus gtfo so I can watch this
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Apr 6, 2020 15:08
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Apr 6, 2020 15:30
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Tgdr
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Apr 6, 2020 16:59
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The Miniseries staring Sam Neil was the best Arthur depiction.
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Apr 6, 2020 17:38
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Salty Josh posted:The Miniseries staring Sam Neil was the best Arthur depiction.
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Jun 13, 2020 04:21
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