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::blushing so much::

Thanks, sonnet009! I can't tell you how much this makes me want to work like crazy on the next installment! :)

So, guys, I really think you should play this.

Part 1 of a planned 7-part series by newarcana, Long Live the Queen is a great introduction to an ambitious and rich interactive novel series based on the Arthurian legend.

As far as love interests go, Guenevere can feel the pull of...

Okay, I have to confess that I had NO idea how popular the Guenevere/Morgana romance would be.  Over the past few days I've gotten a ton of wonderful messages from people telling me how much it meant to them that the game includes that path. It's been exciting and humbling, on the one hand making me feel happy that I've been able to create something people have found so meaningful, and on the other making me a little sad that there isn't lots and lots more interactive fiction with queer themes.

The odd thing is, the Morgana romance was never any more or less a part of my plan than anything else. It's not like I woke up one day and said, "I'm going  to make a game where Guenevere and Morgana can get together!" On the other hand, when I had the idea to make an otome-game-for-grownups, and to make it Arthurian, for some reason Morgana was, to me, as obvious a romance option as Lancelot.  I have no idea why, but there was never a moment when I thought, "Oh! I could also add a Morgana romance!" That was just part of the way it obviously had to be, right from the beginning.

So I want to say again that I'm sorry the Morgana path in Book 1 came out more understated than the Arthur and Lancelot paths. That's partly a function of her personality, but partly a function of me just not having any idea that so many people would want to play that path. My plan all along was to give a lot more room for the Morg/Guen romance to develop in Book 2, but I'm more committed than ever to doing the very best I can with it.

Thanks again to everyone who has sent messages about the game!

Guen patch is live! Just please keep in mind there’s no new content, just little tweaks to the existing stuff. I’d be grateful if ace!Guens could tell me what you think. In the meantime, I’ll be trying to start Michaelsmount, finally! ^-^

Good Luck! by RizaLa

fan-commissioned Guenevere art! I love it!

[Commission] Flutter Skies by LindaRoze

Another gorgeous Guenevere fan commission!

"Wow, the new King Arthur movie is a Fresh take on a boring, overrated old legend! It is so Gritty and Realsitic and the characters aren't Boring Goody Two-Shoes Knights in Shining Armor, which is TOTALLY unheard of, automatically making it So Original!"

T.H. White: Lancelot is bisexual and in love with both Guenevere and Arthur, also he's ugly as a monkey and has sadistic tendencies he's deeply ashamed of, and his whole motivation for becoming the Best Knight Ever is that he's been wallowing in self-loathing ever since he was a child. Both Mordred and Agravaine have an incestuous obessession with their mother, mainly born out of Morgause's emotional manipulation and abuse. Also, Mordred is an albino with some big Issues, but also a charimastic political leader, a nationalistic Scostman and the trend-setter of Camelot. Merlin literally defies the rules of temporal progression by existing, and his relationship with Nimue isn't al that bad. Kay exists, and so do Sir Ector and Sir Pellinore and Palamedes and the Questing Beast. It's raining anti-totalitarian political allegories and social discourse, Hallelujah!

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Morgana is a sympathetic (Wiccan-)Celtic priestess, and she didn't actually plan to have Arthur's kid. Morgana is Mordred's mom but Morgause still exists and she's the one who raises him. Arthurian women are important and deserve POVs.

Phyllis Ann Karr: There is a sad lack of Kay sass. To fix this, Kay investigates a murder mystery with Mordred in order to save Guenevere and sasses people while he's at it.

The Librarians: What if Galahad was immortal and lived in a modern setting as a middle aged guy fighting against supernatural threats and preventing the Apocalypse-or-something-like-that-at-least with his younger colleagues all the time?

Once Upon a Time: Okay but what if MORALLY AMBIGUOUS ARTHUR

Fate/Stay Night: Okay but what if GENDERBEND ARTHUR IN MODERN SETTING

Camelot 3000: Okay but what if REINCARNATED GENDERBEND IN SPACE

Mordred, Bastard Son: What if gay

The Knights of Camelot series: Seconds that^

Merlin - L'enchanteur désenchanté: Vivian dropped out of magic high school when a Viking got her pregnant, but then she finds love again with Merlin, who's supposed to teach Lancelot how to find the Graal. Morgana helps Vortigern fight Arthur because she's still bitter Arthur likes Guenevere better than her. Lancelot gets briefly turned into a girl. Nothing makes sense but it's okay, kind of.

... and these are just the first ones I could think of off the top of my head tbh

“One explanation for Guenever, for what it is worth, is that she was what they used to call a ‘real’ person. She was not the kind who can be fitted away safely under some label or other, as 'loyal’ or 'disloyal’ or 'self-sacrificing’ or 'jealous’. Sometimes she was loyal and sometimes she was disloyal. She behaved like herself. And there must have been something in this self, some sincerity of heart, or she would not have held two people like Arthur and Lancelot. Like likes like, they say – and at least they are certain that her men were generous. She must have been generous too. It is difficult to write about a real person.”

— The Once and Future King by T.H. White, writing what may be one of the finest defenses of a female character I’ve ever read in a novel

just T H White casually altering my brain chemistry three times in three totally different ways