Mightybog - Your Local Bog/Otherworld

Illustrations done for the chapter "Gareth and Lynette" (that has a major Tennysonian influence but with the ending from Malory) in the 1909 book "The Children’s King Arthur: Stories from Tennyson and Malory" by an unknown author, published by Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton [x].

It wasn't meant to be.

“Cerridwen, Cerridwen, Lady of The Cauldron come see what they have done.

Stolen your Cauldron’s power, and betrayed your only son,

Your eyes wide, lips curl, anger on your face

Change your shape now, lady; be the hound, begin the chase.”

PLEASE watch this clip of the weird 90s king arthur movie that my sister and I have been quoting non stop for days

After the Quest

Knowth and Newgrange kerbstones

There's a lot of pros to this, in my opinion:

Soup and blankets for me.

I have little magic at my disposal, therefore I am capable of less.

Pushing myself may result in even more magical exhaustion.

There are tried and tested things I can do to work through it or help prevent getting into this state, e.g. breathing, music, walking, finding a crystal cave or something.

Gives me permission, where possible, to temporarily expend less magic (take annual leave, ask for help with my tasks).

That's it, I'm reframing my anxiety, burnout and brainfog as magical exhaustion.

I saw this and had to make the edit

for the @merlinmicrofic prompt "nightfall": Merlin/Lancelot, G, major character death, 100 words, AO3 link dedicated to the most lovely @thefollow-spot, inspired by her drabble "Untitled" (Dusk) midnight

This is how you'll grieve – in quietness.

Behind closed eyelids is where now he lives, in dreams, it is not merely night that falls but memories, like rockslide, and you're trapped, but oh what sweet suffocation it is.

He gifted you his nights, he held your secret in his palm, you might've given him your heart as well, and he would've kept it safe.

The veil looked at you and blinked and he was gone, and you think, did he have regrets? You recognised then love as his undoing, and hope he knew of yours.

This is how you'll remember.

Guinevere's wedding dress and chainmail veil in Excalibur 1981