While My Sister Is Reading City Of Bones

The Weill Cornell Medicine commencement was held earlier this month where a medical graduate from Gaza used his time on stage to condemn the university and its leadership for their complicity in the genocide on Gaza and implored his fellow graduates to stay true to their oath and stand with the hundreds of healthcare workers who have been killed by the IOF. In response the university have done everything they can to minimise this young graduate from speaking truth to power from his own graduation records by cutting away from him during the ceremony’s livestream and erasing his time on stage in the released footage.

Sha la la la la la

My oh my 

Looks like the boy's too-

What? WHAT ARE YOU JARED? 

Why won't you KISS THE GIRL???

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

Petition: Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards

The previous government proposed changes to the NHS constitution which would mean transgender hospital patients in England may not be treate

Well fucks? Get to it!

Slightly better upload of my drawing of Liss Rymore from The Bone Season (by Samantha Shannon). 

Maggie, would you say you are particularly versed in the Arthurian legend? If the answer is yes, can you recommend some books (perhaps historical, mythological, and/or fictional) a young author might use to become acquainted with it?

I’m not certain I would consider myself particularly versed, and even if I was particularly versed, I’m probably not the best source of wisdom about it as I’m quite biased. I think most of the knights range from a mite-bit-assholey to danger-danger-abort-abort-pull-plug-destroy-world-it’s-all-assholes-from-sea-to-dark-sea-out-here, with Arthur leading the dbag charge and Lancelot prancing along teaching up any stragglers in his rah-rah-banana-canoe ways.

That said, I grew up reading and watching and loving many versions of Arthurian legend, and in fact there are many parts of the Raven Cycle that are a loving homage to the parts I do appreciate. Also many parts that are an answer to the questions I think Arthurian legend got wrong (for instance all of the black knights get far better cars in my version, in my opinion).

Here is a list of just a few of the Arthurian things that I have consumed:

READ

The History of the Kings of Britain, by Geoffrey of Monmouth

Le Morte D’Arthur, by Thomas Malory

Arthurian Romances, by Chrétien de Troyes

Idylls of the King, by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation, edited by James J. Wilheim

King Arthur & His Knights, by Deirdre Headon, illustrated by Julek Heller

(I don’t remember much of the text of this one, but I remember looking at the illustrations again and again and again)

Secret Camelot, by John Matthews

The Real King Arthur, by P. F. J. Turner

The Kitchen Knight, retold by Margaret Hodges (again, lovely illustrations)

A Dictionary of King Arthur’s Knights, by Pamela Ryan

WATCHED

Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Sword in the Stone

The Last Knight

Camelot (the musical)

Looking at this list, it is such a small and silly portion of the vast amounts of Arthur material. And my understanding of Arthur is probably impossible to really pull apart from my other reading of Welsh legend and early British history. But — still, I think if you started at the top of this list, you’d figure out before you got to the bottom if and where you’d like to look further.

Or you could really just watch Monty Python over and over again.

Posting all of the pills that make you green comics here now, enjoy? I guess?

regret rates

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drawings

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An in-progress drawing of Nicklas Nygård from Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season. He's such a sweetheart. And in The Mime Order, he really gets put through the ringer. 

In other news, I read The Mime Order. The day is came out, actually. I had good feelings toward the ending, until the very last page, when Samantha Shannon delivers an evil sucker punch. I hope she's proud of herself. Truly.