Sir Gawain Fucks the Green Knight
Hereβs a tale ripe for telling. Canβt say where I heard it firstβin pretty French or Dutch. Perhaps as a young lady walking βlongside the Rijn. Iβll spin it for you in an English tongue, fine as frost on lace, sweet as malmsey wine. So it goes that young Gawain, strength kissed into his limbs, fresh as the bright dawn, comes trembling down to the Green Chapel. Youβve heard this tale, I know. His breath makes peach fuzz in the air, fear into him like worm to apple. Christmas Morn is too soon, time is short. You have your own life to save, he says, picking through thorn and bough to an ivy-clad cave.
The creature is the Jack Oβ the Glen / forest prince / the woodβs own laughter. Beard of lichen and eyes like dark elder. I need not repeat their exchangeβmy boyβs flinching heartβa songbird in a rattled cage. It is after the blows are dealt, he asks, what god is worshipped in these green trees? Boy, the Knight replies, boy, were you not just down on your knees?
The Knight is the tang of sap / bark rough and petal soft / everywhere leaves scatter / easily crushed / Gawain clings / hardly knows what he clings to / he is the forest and the flower / a turmoil of roots / where god and tree meet and melt / the birch the oak the fern the deer / mushroom maggot crow / here Gawain is branch and bud / blow returned for blow
This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so:
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05.03.2026 18:32
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Weird Al Yankovic is a Lesbian: a PSA
YouTube video by Oddball Artist
Looking forward to seeing this kid on a future season of Smartypants Society tbh
youtu.be/jzT8YOqIp9o?...
07.03.2026 12:47
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Yet another mf banger
06.03.2026 19:03
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Gimme scenes of Obi Wan Kenobi struggling to help Anakin with Algebra 2, pls
05.03.2026 01:13
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I just want a series that tells me about the world building in specific relation to standardized education and also did the cast Baldur's Gate 3 know math
05.03.2026 01:09
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Okay look
I want to watch or listen to a very specific podcast or YouTube series
I want it to be about which fictional characters did or did not know math
Did Anakin Skywalker know math
Did Aragorn know math
Did Chani from Dune know math
Did Daenerys Targaryen know math
05.03.2026 01:07
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I'm just saying. www.wired.com/story/everyo...
25.02.2026 23:19
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Sword of Grutte Pier (Big Pier).
Pier Gerlofs Donia (c. 1480 β 1520) was a Frisian farmer, rebel leader and pirate.
He is said to have been 2.15 meters (7 feet) tall.
25.02.2026 23:27
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Fucking diabolical
26.02.2026 00:00
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Well, now theyβre coming for the prosthetics, wheelchairs, and oxygen tanks.
25.02.2026 23:42
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It's over. Time to nurse a migraine and read up on the Counter SOTU event that was happening. Maybe I'll get some writing done. Maybe I'll just quietly leave my mortal shell and sleep among the stars for a few hours.
Idk homie. Idk.
25.02.2026 04:07
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I know the YouTube quality for this Livestream (I'm watching CNN) but it's still genuinely uncanny how airbrushed he looks compared to everyone else. Like a hungry ghost that has taken possession of the event.
25.02.2026 04:00
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Glad we're wrapping up - this SOTU was utterly impossible to follow or retain, as usual.
It's wild to think that most of the people in this room believe that they share the same traits for heroism as a WWII veteran. And tbh, he's endorsing them so maybe they do.
25.02.2026 03:58
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He keeps leaning away from the mic and I keep dissociating, so someone got the medal of honor and that's all I know
25.02.2026 03:53
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He's praising the helicopter like he's narrating a mf Chuck Tingle novel jfc
25.02.2026 03:49
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This is wilddddddd why did we do this??????????????
25.02.2026 03:47
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Why is the kidnapping of Maduro a success? Feels like a dangerous precedent to be setting.
25.02.2026 03:46
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Watching the Dem resolve to silently dissent evaporate as they struggle to maintain a united front. π© Tlaib and Omar deserve medals.
25.02.2026 03:45
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Sorry is that person asleep? Are they in thought? Because they looked VERY asleep.
25.02.2026 03:41
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More people working than ever before? Are you......sure?
25.02.2026 03:40
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Wait how will they do that if their nuclear weapons were obliterated? It only took them six months to build back up? That's remarkable.
25.02.2026 03:38
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Since when does he give a fuck about protestors
25.02.2026 03:37
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Wait if Iran's nuclear weapons are obliterated, why are we going to war
25.02.2026 03:36
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He just mumbling beside the microphone. I can't hear a gd thing. What is HAPPENING
25.02.2026 03:35
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The genocide in Gaza. You mean the genocide in Gaza.
25.02.2026 03:32
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These deaths are tragic, but I am good with moving on. I'm not acknowledging these and ignoring the state supported murders.
25.02.2026 03:31
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He could narrate anything and turn it into a horror story tbh
25.02.2026 03:28
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I'm interested in the numbers he keeps throwing out regarding crime. I will never see them, but I'm still interested.
25.02.2026 03:24
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The graphic language that he uses to describe violence against innocents is buckwild. But they know what they're doing and the target demo is eating it up
25.02.2026 03:24
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Obligatory Charlie Kirk jackoff
25.02.2026 03:19
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