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I think it would be so funny if there was a show about King Arthur and the knight of the Round Table where a different knight(s) joins the Round Table every episode and it gets to the point where the cast is like 500 people and absolutely no one is acknowledging that there are like 400 people in this court. Like a gratuitous amount of knights. The plot randomly pivots to knight or knights of the week and then back but it’s not an anthology exactly. Some of them die the same day they join, some randomly disappear from the story and others are technically there for the rest of the series but doing fuckall. Occasionally Arthur will be like “Where has Sir Whatever gone?” and everyone will shrug. Very important quest surrounding the major knights you’re expecting and a minor knight no one has seen for 5 seasons randomly joins in. You need a knightly spreadsheet to join in.

This is all handled very dryly by all the other characters, except for Arthur who occasionally breaks the 3rd wall, addresses the camera and says something like “This is all very confusing.” when the plot hits maximum ridiculousness.

There are several knights who do not speak Welsh and this is depicted by them speaking various dialects of old French and Gaulish and Brittonic splinter languages with a bar at the bottom that just says ‘I do not know what he is saying.’

Sometimes Arthur will be like “Where has Sir Whatever gone?” and someone is like “He has become a saint.” or “I believe he has become king of Dumnonia.” and there’s a random quick montage of this random knight getting up from the Round Table, riding out of Camelot and having religious visions or conquering an entire kingdom or drunkenly wandering all the way to Constantinople for no particular reason with the implication that this was all occurring while the other knights were debating a riddle or something asinine.

There is exactly one Jewish knight. Arthur is confused as to why this knight is different from all other knights.

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Last Song: "Anti-Hero" by Taylor Swift

Favorite Color: teal

Last Book: currently reading Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb, last finished book was Calculated in Death by J. D. Robb, last finished book not in that series was Do Let's Have Another Drink by Gareth Russell (I've read 40 books so far this year and approximately 300 since the start of 2021, so I can chat about books forever!)

Last Movie: Queen of the World (2018), which is quite possibly the weirdest royal documentary to watch now because so many things have changed in less than seven years

Last Show: Rewatched a couple episodes of Game Changer with my husband, almost done with Dimension 20: The Unsleeping City S2, with The Apothecary Diaries on deck

Latest Obsession: I'm frantically working on the latest draft of Princess Imperial so I can publish book one later this year as planned, spent five hours working on the back cover text last night, and am still not over my visit to France so... my own story and France, I guess? I'm also following the Sentebale drama like a hawk because I love mess

Looking Forward To: finishing writing this novel, getting my book cover from the designer next month(!!), hopefully getting promoted at work sometime in the next couple months, my husband being done with his freaking differential equations class, finishing my Baldur's Gate 3 game with my husband and starting a new one with my sister-in-law

Tagging: @pocket-size-cthulhu, @widowsresolve, @colonelcaroldanvers (who also gets an evil boop), @feifalik, @andiatas, @cambridgemadness, @duchess-of-lara, and anyone else who wants to do this!

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