But aside from that, this is friggin' awesome. The British Library formally released images of their medieval manuscripts into the public domain.

BRB, going nuts in the Arthurian selection.

After yesterday's post, Sam and I wandered down to Pickering Wharf to go through our (well, my) favorite antique and collectables shop. And there I scored a reproduction of J. M. Dent's 1893-94 Le Morte d'Arthur with Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations. So so so much win. And it's kind of entertaining going through it because it's clear on a few ( Read more... )

Since it is the first of May, it puts me in mind of King Arthur. You know the old story, young Arthur finds out that one of many ladies he'd spent time with (pre-Guinevere of course) was his half sister, and the resulting child born on the first of May would end up killing him. So he pulls a Herod and has all the boy babies born then killed, except ( Read more... )

LIKE I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SHIT I WANT TO MAKE I'M ADDING ANOTHER TO THE PILE.

Mind you, I've been wanting to do this for years, ever since I found this; I want to make a tier skirt, with this cross stitch repeat running in a border along the bottom part.


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Playing with the generators on Seventh Sanctum to try to kill my blockage, and I generated this concept:

The harem anime-type story where each love interest maps to the knights of the Round Table.

...I WOULD READ SOMETHING LIKE THIS IN A NEW YORK SECOND. I think I may have to play with the idea.

It's May first.

Happy Birthday, Uncle. What? I am Scottish. And where else do you think the MacArthurs claim their name from? :P

...King Arthur's Disasters. An animated series chronicling the attempts by King Arthur (voiced by Rik Mayall) to woo the lovely and vapid Guinevere, with the assistance of Merlin.

Fuck me Agnes, how could I have not heard of this series?! As some who know me know, I'm completely gay for Arthurian crap, have been for like twenty years. THOSE OF ( Read more... )