The Blood Inside Maple Trees

[redbrunja]

zahrawithaz  has a post on the arthurian legends and how they developed over the centuries that is hugely helpful.

I find it especially timely because I've been trying to remember where I got my ideas about these legends. I remember liking Guinevere prior to reading The Mists of Avalon (one of the major reasons I hated that book was Bradley's treatment of her), although Bradley's novel is first I can recall reading about the arthurian legends; it was shortly followed by Child of the Northern Spring and Queen of the Summer Stars, though I did not read the third book of that trilogy; one of the thick, famous, books about Merlin( ETA: okay so I asked my mom about this, and I read The Crystal Cave and The Hollow Hills and I have never read ); and I Am Morgan Le Fay and I Am Mordred).

Basically, I do not recall a time when I didn't know the basis of these legends.

[ETA: From quizzing my mom, I am pretty sure that at least half but probably more of my early exposure to these legends was her telling them to me.]

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

nd basically saying that she was unfaithful to Arthur because "a queen must have her knights."

Umm, okay, I guess? *giggle*

And like, reducing the entire Arthurian mythos to "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah women were oppressed and I hate organized religion in all forms" (and your made-up "Druidism" is...?) and it tends to be badly written on top of that.

Definitely too easy. You read one of those books and you're set for life, and there are many, many versions of that story out there.

*purplest smut I have ever read: "She felt herself grow wet with joy." Wait, is she feeling joy 'cause she's growing wet? Or is she "wet with joy"? Either way, WHAT.


It sounds like she pissed herself. Seriously.