Are there any poems that inspired TSV? I know I asked a similar question about plays, and I really loved the ones listen!
Well, there's a huge amount of Seamus Heaney in the landscape and vibes of TSV (particularly the bog-sacrifice poems for obvious reasons, the early Death of a Naturalist work trying to make sense of his childhood and parents, and his Buile Suibhne translations), and generally speaking we're sort of riffing off symbolist knight-errant narratives which includes poems like Faerie Queene.
They're almost too obvious and famous to be called influences, but I don't think you can write anything about religious and apocalyptic dread without feeling the looming shadow of The Waste Land, The Hollow Men and The Second Coming, and I think there's a lot of buried Rime of the Ancient Mariner homages in Carpenter's story (like one who on a lonesome road, etc) and Kubla Khan in Faulkner's.
the secret to life is to always use more spinach and less rice than you think you’ll need
you are not unloveable you are just sad and a little bit angry. let’s go have some soup
I saw a fanart by @alisaall_comic on instagram and couldn’t resist redrawing it with Merlin
I am tired. I will be there.
Illustration made by Frank Godwin in 1927 for a book titled, "King Arthur and his Knights: Based on Morte d’Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory" compiled and arranged by Elizabeth Lodor Merchant. Published by The John C. Winston Company. [x]
I wonder, what secrets of the universe is he peering into?
imagine being the cuck in ur own story for centuries and then all it takes is a magic twink with drinkable eyes and all of a sudden there’s thousands of stories where you’re the main love interest, getting it in every which way. happened to my friend arthur pendragon
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