Lot's strategy for loose alliances against the Saxons (and England when need requires it! P) in the Orkney Islands and surrounding territories:

( in just eleven simple steps, you can be king of all the islands too! )

Dear Seventeen Year Old Agravaine I'm Writing,

No seriously, where do you get off telling the KING OF ORKNEY what the fuck he's going to do? How do you even make the leap...

I think I like your nervy little side. Nothing I haven't gotten off the older version of you in the past anyway so I guess you're consistent.

You win.

-Me

It occurred to me last night just how complex and detailed my Agravaine's history really is. And how, if I really wanted to focus on it, and find a decent place to begin telling it, I might actually have a novel about him on my hands. It's funny. Agravaine is not the one I started out drawn towards, he's never the knight I've had the greatest ( Read more... )

I wish I even had WORDS to express what is frustrating me at the moment. I suppose, in the simplest terms, I'm very annoyed with Cornwall and the connections to the Tristan story and then Camelot as such. I'm aware that this naturally is going to happen with a story that is not an original part of the Arthurian canon, and that isn't what is ( Read more... )