my happy is a cuddly and pornographic apolcalypse

On a topic completely unrelated to any current or near-current past events, it just occurred to me while pondering my reading is that Merlin has a very low proportion of uberangst. I mean, there is angst, but not like, the kind where you leave a story wanting to slit your own wrists in the bathtub afterward because, woe, the world is dark and all is doomed to love and despair, and even brownies soaked in chocolate fudge isn't going to help this.

...granted, this is because our (multiple) source ending is angsty as anything, so really, we're rebels and totally subverting the paradigm to synergize a new and exciting appropriation of the end game. I would like to encourage continuation of this trend.

I'd like to know if you are impressed with that sentence, too. I learned those words recently at an office meeting. I also learned you can't will yourself to death no matter how long you hold your breath. Odd, that.

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[ladyvyola]

I personally keep coming to a screeching halt at druidic fertility practices.

We need more of this sort of thing, Arthur as the embodiment of the land, much euphemistic talk of plowing and furrowing and planting, some annointing with oils....

Yes. This.

It is of vital scholarly importance. We owe it to all who come after us.

A-hem.

[seperis]

That's a dark path that ends in man-wombs, you know. Man-wombs. With the spilling of the royal seed into the ripe, furrowed chalice of Merlin's fertile man-womb. Also? Chalices are not furrowed!

I feel like I just lost a little of my life writing that sentence.

[ladyvyola]

No, no, no.

Arthur is the chalice. Merlin is the cup-bearer. All that spilling of "wine" during feasts, you know?

Also, man-wombs may just be the price we have to pay for shiny, happy apoca-fic.

Er, I mean, we may have to leverage the add-on value of masculine uterine-equivalents across the synergistic core competencies of end-game scenarios to maximize our survival in a post-crisis marketplace and ensure continuation of operations of key personnel.

...I hate you so much right now.

[seperis]

Er, I mean, we may have to leverage the add-on value of masculine uterine-equivalents across the synergistic core competencies of end-game scenarios to maximize our survival in a post-crisis marketplace and ensure continuation of operations of key personnel.

That sentence is so amazing you can almost forget it's a defense of man-wombs.


...I hate you so much right now.

I kind of hate myself.

Masculine uterine-equivalents.

Just. Wow.

[ladyvyola]

I could do this for hours. But the jewel that is masculine uterine-equivalents comes along but rarely.

Now I want to see the COOP for Camelot.

In the event that the current King (hereinafter referred to as "Uther" per Appendix A of this document, Camelot Chain of Command) cannot fulfill his duties as King (as defined per Camelot Operational Procedures Handbook [COPH], Chapter I, section I, subsection I, paragraph I), the current Prince (hereinafter referred to as "Arthur" per Appendix A) will immediately assume such duties.

In the event that Arthur is not available, or subsequently cannot continue to fulfill such duties, Camelot must kiss its ass goodbye (as defined per COPH, Chapter I, section I, subsection I, paragraph II).

THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT, JENN.

[brownbetty]

Oh man. I love this shit.

I feel we haven't fully explored the implications of the Quest for the Holy Grail as an organzing narrative for the Knights of the Round Table. Clearly, as a yonic signifier, the Grail indicates a Lacanian “lack” which the Knights are condemned to eternally seek. As the desired object, the grail may be safely inaccessible, allowing it to remain eternally desired, (the Zizekian implications are obvious and left as an exercise to the reader.)

Doubtless the Grail indicates the deferred longing for the feminine, which as knights and exemplars of masculinity, they are not permitted to embody in their gender or sex roles.

Thus, I hope I have demonstrated, grail == buttsecks.

[seperis]

That's like, almost poetic. But also, Sir Galahad totally had a man-womb. A man-womb of denial.

[brownbetty]

I believe that Galahad's ultimate attainment of the Grail must be taken to indicate that he is not constituted by a condition of 'lacking' the feminine. Which is to say, in Galahad, the "perfect knight" we have the perfect union of masculine and feminine, (as indicated by references to his beauty which may be indicative of not androgyny but hermaphroditism.) Galahad is able to attain the grail (the yoni) because it is already //within him//.

We may ask, then, what is the organising "lack" of Galahad's condition? I believe the obvious answer is the inability to fulfil the twin and opposed biological destinies of his dual nature; to impregnate, and to be impregnated, roles which in Camelot, surrounded by Knights seeking buttsecks, have no place.

There you go.

[ladyvyola]

Surprise buttsecks.

[ineptshieldmaid]

*dies laughing* Write another twelve thousand words of that and you could be published in a leading academic journal!