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In the Shadow of the Sword: My Unhealthy Love Affair with Arthurian Legend

Look, I don’t know what they were putting in the water back in medieval Britain, but something about knights, swords, and love triangles gets me every time. There’s this foggy, dramatic world where chivalry clashes with betrayal, magic meddles with fate, and everyone’s either nobly dying or making wildly bad romantic decisions. Naturally, I’m obsessed.

Give me Camelot, give me Arthur (the himbo king with a destiny complex), give me Merlin muttering cryptic nonsense in a cave somewhere. And Guinevere? Queen of tragic love and complicated feelings. It’s basically a mythological soap opera with chainmail.

But here’s the thing—these stories aren’t just dusty old legends. They still hit. Hard. Arthur’s idealism, Merlin’s weird wisdom, Guinevere’s heartache—they’re all just medieval stand-ins for our modern messes. Love, power, sacrifice, the occasional magical sword—it’s all still painfully relevant.

So yeah, I keep coming back to Avalon. Not because I’m looking for answers (spoiler: nobody has those), but because getting lost in all that drama and destiny is half the fun.

These images were inspired from this passion