A Lyric's vid of Heather Dale's Mordred's Lullaby, written from Morgan's POV and using the tradition of Morguase as his mother and Arthur and Merlin killing hundreds of babies and toddlers and not managing to get the one they were after in the first place.

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It is an earworm. Such an earworm.

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I wrote The Benefits of Conmen (as you can see, titles are not my strong suit) a Cindy-centric White Collar fic forzvi.

And I received an excellent Ygraine centric Arthuriana fic (Mallory based),  The Monstrous Crying of Wind.  (Clearly,  my gifter is better at titles than me.)

This is an Arthuriana retelling from the POV of Mordred, called Medraut here. It's a book I really really liked, and then I really really didn't ( Read more... )

The Knights' Tales is completely unrelated to Morris's The Squire's Tales series, despite natural character overlap as both are based on Arthurian legend. Despite the overlap and sharing an author, the characterization of the shared characters, while having a similar base, is very different in the two series. TKT is aimed at a much younger audience ( Read more... )

There are I think 2 books in the series that I haven't read yet because they're not out in paperback. Morris's Squire's Tales series is a usually-lighthearted, frequently-cynical (that's the default, actually) MG retelling of various Arthurian legends, usually avoiding the best known parts save as subplots. (Also, I can't remember if Merlin was ( Read more... )

Remember that 90s Merlin miniseries that I (re)watched a while back/  The other that was fun and had possibly the most bearable version of Merlin, but also had some really iffy gender stuff?

I RETRACT ALL MY CRITICISMS (ok they're still there but so much less...ragey) COMPARED TO THE SEQUEL, IT IS A MASTERPIECE!  (Uhm...both in terms of good ( Read more... )

You know, if the point of the last 2 episodes was to show what an incredibly horrible person Arthur is and how he makes a terrible king and how he and Merlin are incredibly sexist and have serious spikes of hypocrisy, I could understand these two episodes. As it is, I'm pretty sure we were supposed to see Arthur as strong and brave and a great ( Read more... )

Ok, first of all, this is Amazon's description of Phyllis Ann Karr's The Gallows in the GreenwoodEveryone knows the Robin Hood legend, but for this retelling, Phyllis Ann Karr has found a historical precident to create a female Sheriff of Nottingham and suddenly the whole myth explodes, taking on new meanings that resonate deep within contemporary ( Read more... )

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I see what you did there re: Uther-Ygraine-Merlin-Morgan-Uther.

I’ll let you know what I think of it after we see how it plays out.

So, basically, this episode was about how Claire Forlani is hot and a fabulous actress, and how the show should be about Morgan and Ygraine.

( spoilers )

Wow, some of this was actually almost good. Though, if they kill Ygraine at the end of the season (which I suspect they’re leading up to) I’m probably gone. While Morgan is unsurprisingly my favorite, I’m judging the show more harshly when it comes to Ygraine, and having her still be around for the main story and not just disappearing after giving ( Read more... )