Depictions of Gawain & Hair Color

Thinking about how Gawain's depiction either makes him a redhead or gives him dark hair (outside of the depictions drawing from the 2021 Green Knight movie), and how there's a distinct difference in characterization that accompanies each one. Personally I think I prefer the depictions of him with red hair, because of the way Chretien likes to write him as a paragon of Reason. Fighting back against redhead stereotypes and all that. Also idk, I just like gingers.

Knights Playlists Progress Check

I decided on a whim to make some playlists for my favorites of the knights, and I have mixed feelings about how they're coming along so far.

The Lancelot playlist is very short, but I think I've figured out the vibes the songs need to have on it. I'm leaning towards songs with water aesthetics (I don't know how else to describe the specific vibes they share) and lyrics about inner conflict, travel (questing), conflicting loyalties, and sin/shame. I'd like to add some songs with an edge of "but I just can't help myself," and perhaps something about fighting, but I'm happy with the progress I've made so far.

My Gawain playlist is a different story entirely. I love some of the choices that I've made in it, I think including "Witch Image" and "Call Me Little Sunshine" by Ghost were both very tongue-in-cheek choices that fit well with Gawain's character, but... something's missing and I can't quite tell what it is. I'll have to think about it more and decide whether it's just the composition of the list, or I need to pare out a bad pick, or what I should be looking to add.

If I'm being honest with myself I'm really just doing this to avoid working on fic, but in my defense, I tend to work better if I've figured out a soundtrack to write to.

...twitter

Well. It looks like there was never a better day to turn my lurking DW account into an active one.

I wish I had an icon filled with a sufficient energy of malicious glee for the occasion.