I Really Appreciate That The Alliterative Morte Arthure Is Giving Kay A Solid 45 Lines To Go Full Batshit

"You don't know me. I'm not the same person anymore."

"That's okay. I'll get to know you again."

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.

Sorry I'm late, I got added to the Wild Hunt last night and ran and reveled with them for what felt like 100 years plus a day until I landed the killing blow on a stag with bronze antlers then suddenly woke in my bed, willow leaves in my hair, a nameless song echoing in my ears, and my hands still bloody, so yeah, totally missed my alarm and stuff.

Elaine, the Lily Maid of Astolat by Sophie Gengembre Anderson

now 2 beanie baby dragons are crossing your dash together :3

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

i cannot hate myself into a version of me i will love.