Asterisoleil - Ad Astra

Dracula Daily, June 29th

we don't talk enough about Control saving an ant from getting smacked at the back of a woman's neck and placing it back into nature at the edge of a parking lot

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Some Readings on Racial and Religious Alterity in Arthurian literature

Links where they’re publically available, otherwise feel free to dm me for a pdf if you don’t have university access! I particularly recommend that if you are white and a fan of Arthuriana, you read the first article here. It’s a short read and it both addresses the Islamic inspiration for Arthurian literature and also succinctly shows why Arthuriana can be profoundly alienating to a Muslim audience.

Hermes, Nizar. King Arthur in the Land of the Saracens

Sottosanti, Danielle. The Romance of Conversion: Crossover in Late-Medieval Literature

Keita, Maghan. Saracens and Black Knights

Goodrich, Peter. Saracens and Islamic Alterity in Malory’s “Le Morte Darthur”

Hoffman, Donald. Assimilating Saracens: The Aliens in Malory’s “Morte Darthur”

Putter, Ad. Walewein in the Otherworld and the Land of Prester John.

Adams, Jenny. Colonizing the Otherworld in Walewein.

If there’s one sentence I want everyone who sees this to read, it’s this, from Sottosanti’s dissertation:

As critics such as Heng and Bonnie J. Erwin have noted, conversion stories, such as the Constance story depicted by Chaucer and John Gower, proliferated during this period as a consequence of centuries of crusading efforts in the East.

he’s too broken to be reset via prostate but having unfulfilling gay sex would give him something else to be a bitch about

I'm currently reading A&M and just finished HFH. Can I ask any fun fact or info crumb about Baal? He's my favorite, I feel like he needs to be protected at all costs. (I usually refer to him as Daddy Baal 👀).

Thank you 💜

Aaaahh thank you for reading! I love Baal so I'm glad you like him!

When Lucifer was "dead", Baal set out to conquer the Earth and rule the demons in Lucifer's name. And I've talked about this before but beyond his obsession with Lucifer, and Michael, he's also really into Asmodeus. He finds him really cool and attractive (and admires him a lot). He's also pretty friendly with Gemory! And of course he thinks Rosier is very sweet (and attractive). (He's attracted to all his friends, basically.)

Baal can be very violent, as you know, partly for himself and partly because he does a lot of the dirty work for Lucifer, like torturing demons. He does this for a lot of reasons, one of them being that he doesn't want Lucifer to dirty his pretty little hands. He tries very hard not to be jealous (and he's typically not) but he can randomly get possessive at times. He really does love Lucifer and puts up with everything for the few times a month that Lucifer is sweet to him. He likes having his hair played with and likes laying his head on Lucifer's lap.

Saint Malthus | Our Lady of Sorrows

Hilda Furacão (1998)

Christian iconography, or, The history of Christian art in the middle ages, 1851 

girl on fire and her dandelion in the spring 🌼 

happy hunger games renaissance y’all 🔥 have a rendition of how i imagined book 1 katniss & peeta in my head during my thg trilogy re-read. gosh they were so so young… 

While I do dislike the interpretation that posits Heathcliff just being Catherine’s “whip” (because I think Heathcliff is more complex than that) I must say that I like how Heathcliff’s revenge makes Catherine Earnshaw truly central to the Earnshaw/Linton family history in a way she otherwise wouldn’t be. If you want to truly understand Wuthering Heights (both the estate and the book), “Hareton Earnshaw 1500” on the entry door is deceptive, “Catherine Earnshaw- Heathcliff - Linton” is the true family history. Hareton’s real power and final victory is due to him having his aunt’s eyes, not due to him being “the true heir”.

(Of course there is a discussion to be had regarding how only a man’s love can make a woman relevant but that’s for another day).