h. struggletweets

@drosselmeyer

orb floating above desert

they/them

bad social theory + fake princes + birds

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h. struggletweets @drosselmeyer2/25/2024, 9:07 PM

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schaf @malymin2/25/2024, 7:47 PM

This person's Arthuriana fanart and meta is potent stuff, to me. There's something about the idea of characters within a constantly-retold narrative being aware of how their world warps as new storytellers with new agendas add and remove things, but being powerless to stop it, that just gets me. The drift of characterization turning a sibling, a lover, a friend into a stranger. A fanwork can be a way of interacting with and talking about that shift at an emotional level.

https://katabay.tumblr.com/post/723210967027204096/king-arthur-and-the-body-of-sir-cei-god-kay

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#god.#analysis #folklore tag #do you remember who you were before they wrote you into something different? do you feel yourself changing?#can you still recognize yourself in the mirror? can you recognize anyone around you?#and the fact that retellings can literally cut characters out and replace them whole cloth. what's that like.#do you remember that the person was there or do you just get a vague sense something is missing #retold folklore is so stranger (the magnus archives) coded. I'm going to be ill.