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elodieunderglass:
gurguliare:
Orlando Furioso is so fucking funny because there are images in it that I just… didn’t know existed in 1516, like, I didn’t think humanity had the mental technology to compose them, for example: a superpowered man kicking a donkey so hard it flies into the sky and, visually, dwindles to “the merest speck.” I don’t know WHY I didn’t think this was a comic shorthand people could resort to in 1516. I just didn’t. It didn’t occur to me.
I wasn’t expecting to see Orlando furioso / Orlando innamorato discourse on Tumblr, but I would like to submit for your further consideration the fact that everyone in 1495-1516 was ready for Bradamante in the exact same way that people in 2018 are for Gwendolyne Christie.
Everyone, in a sort of Greek chorus: Bradamante is so precious! Her eyes are adorable! Cupid’s arrow has rendered me, tbh, a very deep gash. She is the sweetest little wee muffin and I loved her instantly
Bradamante: (carving a walking stick by whacking at a branch with a fuckin sword) okay
Everyone: God! She’s so tender! So fair! So sweet!
Bradamante: (belligerently chasing down a hippogriff with a stick) if you say so
Everyone: GOD! Have you ever seen a more gentle maid?
Bradamante: (killing twenty knights and causing lesbian revelations in at least 5 sorceresses) Yes. Yes I have actually
Everyone: What a precious flower of graceful womanhood! I wish she’d just. lay on my back in full armor. and crush me,, into the ground.
elodieunderglass:
gurguliare:
Orlando Furioso is so fucking funny because there are images in it that I just… didn’t know existed in 1516, like, I didn’t think humanity had the mental technology to compose them, for example: a superpowered man kicking a donkey so hard it flies into the sky and, visually, dwindles to “the merest speck.” I don’t know WHY I didn’t think this was a comic shorthand people could resort to in 1516. I just didn’t. It didn’t occur to me.
I wasn’t expecting to see Orlando furioso / Orlando innamorato discourse on Tumblr, but I would like to submit for your further consideration the fact that everyone in 1495-1516 was ready for Bradamante in the exact same way that people in 2018 are for Gwendolyne Christie.
Everyone, in a sort of Greek chorus: Bradamante is so precious! Her eyes are adorable! Cupid’s arrow has rendered me, tbh, a very deep gash. She is the sweetest little wee muffin and I loved her instantly
Bradamante: (carving a walking stick by whacking at a branch with a fuckin sword) okay
Everyone: God! She’s so tender! So fair! So sweet!
Bradamante: (belligerently chasing down a hippogriff with a stick) if you say so
Everyone: GOD! Have you ever seen a more gentle maid?
Bradamante: (killing twenty knights and causing lesbian revelations in at least 5 sorceresses) Yes. Yes I have actually
Everyone: What a precious flower of graceful womanhood! I wish she’d just. lay on my back in full armor. and crush me,, into the ground.
