colleendoran:

No, Sir Galahad is not in the Bible, and I never said he was.

OK, so in my series of posts and lectures about my work on Neil Gaiman’s Chivalry, I pointed out that Sir Galahad’s first appearance in Arthurian fiction was in the Vulgate, and that his name was originally spelled Galaad. Therefore the spelling in Neil Gaiman’s Chivalry is correct, and Galahad is a later variant spelling.

Someone recently took me to task for saying this meant that I claimed Sir Galahad was in the Bible, and yet Sir Galahad appears nowhere in the Bible.

I never said Sir Galahad was in the Bible.

I said he was in the Vulgate.

Vulgate means “common version” in Latin.

The confusion here stems from the word “vulgate” which often refers to the 4th century Latin translation of the Bible commonly known as the Vulgate Bible.

But “vulgate” is also a term used to refer to The Lancelot-Grail Cycle, a 13th century French Arthurian cycle which is also known as the Vulgate or Vulgate Cycle -i.e. common version. Later translations of this work are known as Post-Vulgate.

Specifically, Galahad or Galaad appears in the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal.

Happy to help.

Chivalry is available wherever fine books are sold, and you can come see me at the San Diego Comic Con Museum on October 4 where I will be signing and lecturing and showing art. Thanks.

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sandmandaddy69:

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tonysbabe29:

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manywinged:

manywinged:

the decline of practical effects in horror movies is one of the greatest tragedies of our time. we need to make horror wetter and more organic again.

a good horror film used to look like you could crawl into it and fuck it. they took that from us.

kawaiite-mage:

256gb:

256gb:

thanks to unity’s downright evil new pricing model that charges per-install (including reinstalls), it will now be impossible to sign a deal with a publisher for your unity game because i can guarantee there are zero publishers who are willing to lose money every single time your game gets downloaded and installed.

great news, are you a marginalized game dev? awesome. now 4chan can organize a mass uninstall/reinstall hate campaign and bankrupt you in minutes. unity claims they have fraud protection but i must stress that it’s literally not possible for them to determine where an install came from, the intent of the install, what storefront the install came from, or even if the install was from a pirated copy or not.

if a dev gets targeted by revenue bombing it’s now on the developer to file a dispute

they also are just guessing lol

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arunima:

obsessed with youtubers who just recount the plot and call it an analysis. yeah bro i was there

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postmodernismruinedme:

obserbolisk:

zagreus:

cackling at this, can NOT believe it’s a real, actual quote. it reads so much like one of those clickhole pieces

He also said this about the snake.

All of this is hilarious, but a gorgeous quote from the same interview:

 “In all seriousness, this discovery is humbling. It’s a reminder that there’s still so much to learn about our wild world — and that humans are one small part of an impossibly vast biosphere. On this planet, all fates are intertwined, and right now, one million species are teetering on the edge of oblivion. We have an existential mandate to mend our broken relationship with nature and protect the places that sustain life.”

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abalidoth:

gayforcarstairsgirls:

“came back wrong” but it’s food that you heated up in the microwave

OK SO

For anyone who hasn’t heard my Microwave Rant:

Microwaves are designed to be used at a broad range of power levels. If you’re getting bad results reheating your food, and you’re doing everything on full blast, try a lower power setting! 50% power for twice the time, just give it a shot. It gives the heat time to spread evenly, and prevents overcooking of parts that are exposed to more radiation.

People complain about reheated pizza a lot – that’s bc overheating the crust makes it tough and chewy. I usually do pizza on 30% power for THREE times as long because it’s especially vulnerable – and my crust always comes out nice and tender.

I think there’s a good metaphor for Came Back Wrong here too: if you actually take the time to do your necromantic ritual and/or unholy experiment right, and don’t rush it at 100% power, you’re likely to get better results.

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prokopetz:

prokopetz:

It’s probably the old-school Dungeons & Dragons fan in me talking, but I love historical polearms that try to be every polearm at once. Like, it’s a pike and an awl and a glaive and a billhook and it has an iron-banded haft for parrying and there’s an extra spike on the butt-end in case you ever need to stab the guy standing behind you. Fucking “this is the thing they killed Medieval Shinzo Abe with”-ass weapons.

I need you to imagine this on the end of an eight-foot pole and take your best guess at what it’s intended to fight.

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