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Spreading the love! #arthurianapril
alexbledsoe.bsky.social Alex Bledsoe @alexbledsoe.bsky.social · Apr 2
(Meant to post this yesterday; my bad.)
So thanks to @natania.bsky.social I learned it was Arthurian April, which is something I can TOTALLY get behind. I thought I'd start by highlighting my favorite Arthurian novel, Mary Stewart's THE WICKED DAY.
April 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
natania.bsky.social
I’m traveling, so it’s pretty much impossible to record #arthurianapril in an airport.

Instead… well, you know the drill.
April 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
meredithpraed.bsky.social
New review! 😍 #Logres #TheFutureKing #ArthurianLegend #booksky #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #ArthurianApril #IndieApril
April 1, 2026 at 1:58 PM
natania.bsky.social
Today’s Arthurian April video is about two Orkney brothers often mistaken for one another (and admittedly, I even struggled once or twice) Sir Gaheris and Sir Gareth! #arthurianapril #mythology

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Arthurian April | Day 7: Gaheris and Gareth
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April 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
natania.bsky.social
It’s #arthurianapril, and I’m doing my best to post daily about my favorite genre! Yesterday was all about King Arthur’s own fool: Dagonet!

I’m posting these to the clock app and IG, but also YouTube!

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Arthurian April #1 - Sir Dagonet
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April 3, 2025 at 3:36 AM
natania.bsky.social
And here we are finally. #arthurianapril

Morgan le Fay! Or, Morgen as I like to call her. Wise woman, healer, seductress, crone? All and then some.

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Arthurian April | Day 16: Morgan le Fay
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April 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
phadedsky.bsky.social
I know it’s a little late, but celebrating #ArthurianApril by reading Queen of Fury by @natania.bsky.social !
April 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
natania.bsky.social
If you’re in the mood for some more #ArthurianApril, today I’m talking Chretien de Troyes, arguably the most essential founding scribe of the canon.

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Arthurian April | Day 21: Chretien de Troyes
YouTube video by Natania Barron
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April 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
lsauclair.bsky.social
I am all in for #arthurianapril 🗡️
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Painting by William Waterhouse featuring the red-gowned Lady of Shalott seated at her weaving loom.
April 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
meredithpraed.bsky.social
somehow I wrote 3,400 words today. I guess Gwenhwyfar & Lancelot just write themselves 🙃 #WIP #TheFutureKing #Pendragon #KingArthur #ArthurianApril #Arthurian #BookSky
April 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
tonimargarita.bsky.social
Celebrate #ArthurianApril by preordering THE CHOSEN QUEEN!
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April 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
solarisbooks.bsky.social
Welcome to #arthurianapril, the perfect time to start @natania.bsky.social's QUEENS OF FATE trilogy! Explore a new interpretation of Camelot through the eyes of it's queens, long silenced and pushed aside, but no more...

Preorder book 3, QUEEN OF MERCY, out in July: geni.us/queenmercy
Against the background of a garden, a hand holding up a stack of the three QUEENS OF FATE books by Natania Barron: QUEEN OF NONE, QUEEN OF FURY and QUEEN OF MERCY.
April 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
solarisbooks.bsky.social
To celebrate #arthurianapril and the forthcoming release of the final instalment in @natania.bsky.social's #queensoffate trilogy - #queenofmercy - this July, you can grab the first two books - #queenofnone and #queenoffury - for just 0.99 each!

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Against a background of a medieval door, gold text "ARTHURIAN APRIL EBOOK SALE." Below, two eReaders with the cover art for QUEEN OF NONE and QUEEN OF FURY by Natania Barron. Below, in the middle, a gold circle topped by a crown with white text "0.99". The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner.
April 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
meredithpraed.bsky.social
"Whipping" up a quick snippet for the word "whip" from the next book in The Future King series #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #ArthurianApril #KingArthur #Arthurian #IndieApril #Author #BookSky
Emily thrust her phone towards Gwenhwyfar’s face. Jerking back to avoid being hit, Gwenhwyfar had half a second to see a photo of Lancelot on the train, and then the phone was whipped away. ‘Looks like they crossed the channel this morning,’ Emily continued, oblivious to the panic striking Gwenhwyfar, ‘Vi says they’ll be in school today.’ She tapped out a response to the group chat. Gwenhwyfar heard the message send. ‘They’re on their way right now!’ ‘Let me see.’ Gwenhwyfar took Emily’s phone with a frown. She skimmed the message Viola sent just over an hour ago, Finally in the UK, see you all soon!, eyes landing on the photo of Lancelot in the train carriage, his brown hair mussed, his attention held by a tatty paperback. Next to him were two large rucksacks, while a takeaway coffee cup stood on the table before him. Gwenhwyfar tried to ignore the flutter of excitement stirring in her chest. Emily snatched the phone away before she’d had her fill.
April 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
meredithpraed.bsky.social
Another day, another split lip for Lancelot #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BookSky #ArthurianApril #KingArthur #ArhturianLiterature #TheFutureKing #Pendragon
‘It can drive them further apart. I’m just saying,’ Gwenhwyfar added, ‘With everything we’ve been through, surely now’s the time to—’ ‘Lance, no!’ Gwenhwyfar spun around at Emily’s outcry. Her stomach flipped. Lancelot had appeared and was dressed in the charcoal-black Young Moral uniform, the beetle-like red eye-cross and Young Moral variation on his chest and his arm. He looked neat, he looked deadly, and had a thunderous expression to match. The entire sight was unnerving. Gwenhwyfar wanted to ruffle the starchy collar and pop the buttons on his charcoal shirt, yet was afraid to go anywhere near him. Then she saw the split in his lip and the bruising around his cheekbone. Gavin’s mouth hung open. ‘Dude, what happened? ‘Your face—’ Viola began. ‘You’re Young Moral suddenly?’ Bedivere exclaimed. ‘You could have bloody told us,’ Gavin objected. ‘Seriously Lance, what happened to your face?’ Lancelot glowered as he pulled out a chair and sat in it mindfully. Gwenhwyfar felt his presence burning next to her like the heat of a bonfire. ‘I don’t want to talk about it,’ he glowered. Gwenhwyfar stared at the ripe plum marks across his face, at the ruby split in his lip. She suddenly realised how long it had been since she had last seen him like this, knuckles bruised by somebody else’s face, his eyes dark and troubled and his shoulders hunched. She wanted to reach out to him and smooth his hurts away. ‘What happened?’ she asked. He faced her momentarily. ‘Nothing happened. I’m Young Moral, now. Just like everybody else.’ ‘But you were the last of the resistance,’ Emily complained. ‘Literally the only guy in school not in uniform.’ Gavin scowled. ‘Which troop?’ ‘Arthur’s.’ ‘Your troop did this?’ Viola asked with concern. Suddenly she was looking for Tom.
April 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
meredithpraed.bsky.social
Too many goodbyes in my book; too many goodbyes this year #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BookSky #KingArthur #Arthurian #ArthurianApril #TheFutureKing
Gwenhwyfar emphasised how her friends were her life, her ride or die, determined to make her mother understand just how looked after she was. She would be OK. That’s all she wanted to emphasise. That everything would be OK. She didn’t know it yet, but in six months she would wish she had used this time better, would wish she had forgotten about the practicalities that needed discussing, wished she had disregarded the trivialities of the fleeting day to day and focused instead on asking her mother something to know her better. Tell me about your childhood. What is your favourite memory from it. What is your favourite memory of when I was young. What were you like in school. What was dad like when you first met. How did you feel when you realised you were pregnant with me. Do you have any regrets? How she would yearn for voice recordings of all these things. Instead she talked about school, about the League, about Arthur, about Viola, about their photoshoot, until it was finally time to go. They all embraced, and then the bravery that Eve had demonstrated throughout wavered, and she turned to Gwenhwyfar with a slight frown on her brow. ‘Have you heard from Richard?’ At first Gwenhwyfar shook her head, thinking she would lie, thinking it could be a small morsel of hope for her mother in the hours to come, but she knew it would be false, and the shake turned into a nod as the smile she forced wobbled. ‘He said he’s already doing everything he can.’ Eve nodded. Her eyes were now glassy. ‘Everything he can?’ ‘Everything he can,’ Gwenhwyfar repeated, knowing it wouldn’t be much. He throat felt dry, like a burr was stuck in it, like she wanted to press something, say something, state the obvious which sounded something along the lines like so this is goodbye but couldn’t, instead swallowed the dry feeling down and said, ‘When we know where they’re sending you, we’ll come visit,’—as if they could, as if it were possible.
April 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
solarisbooks.bsky.social
Tomorrow is the end of #arthurianapril & the end of our #queensoffate eBook sale!

Snap up the first 2 books in @natania.bsky.social's trilogy for 0.99 each, by 11:59pm BST 30th April. Then you'll have May to catch up before the release of #queenofmercy in June! geni.us/Solarissale
Against a purple fabric background, a flatlaid paperback copy of QUEEN OF MERCY by Natania Barron, with a crown laid on top. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner. Against a background of a medieval door, gold text "ARTHURIAN APRIL EBOOK SALE." Below, two eReaders with the cover art for QUEEN OF NONE and QUEEN OF FURY by Natania Barron. Below, in the middle, a gold circle topped by a crown with white text "0.99". The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner.
April 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
fuzzybydesign.bsky.social
The Fish King #1.6!

As a comic artist I’ve always found gutters really limiting (and I’m completely useless when it comes to rulers), so I love breaking out of them and coming up with wacky compositions like this whenever I can.

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Part 1 of 3 of a black and white fantasy comic. Arthur sees a monster over his shoulder. Part 2 of 3 of a black and white fantasy comic. The monster/lion jumps over him and attacks the dragon. Part 3 of 3 of a black and white fantasy comic. Arthur is relieved to see Yvain burst out of the woods. Yvain admonishes his pet lion, Lynette.
April 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
meredithpraed.bsky.social
King Arthur as you’ve never seen it. High school. Rebellion. And the famous love triangle against a backdrop of resistance. Fighting for their Camelot #ArthurianApril #IndieApril #ArthurianLegend #TheFutureKing #WritingCommunity #BookSky #KingArthur #Dystopian #YACrossover #Arthurian
"Surveillance isn't just about spying on you, Merlin. It's about controlling you. You know that." - Arthur "I saw police ofiicers shoot down civilians. And now the New Morals are snatching people from their homes. You had people to stand up to them-you had over five thousand. You still have people loyal to you, who are waiting to follow your lead." - Gwen "Do you have any idea what is happening right now? Do you? Or is this just some game that you and Arthur can play when you're atyour secret little club? This is real, Gwen. It's real life and it's fucking dangerous!" - Lancelot Arthurian - Dystopian - YA Crossover - Near Future - Political
March 24, 2026 at 11:15 AM
fuzzybydesign.bsky.social
The Fish King #1.7

Shoutout to all the Arthuriana/Shakespeare nerds out there! I hope all 5 of you appreciate the tiny reference to King Arthur originally being a Roman general here.

#arthurian #webcomics #comics #fantasy #art #dragons #kingarthur #yvain #arthurianapril
Panel 1: King Arthur desperately hugging his friend Yvain begging for him to save him from the dragon. Yvain responds “Aw, there there.” Panel 2: Yvain reassures Arthur and says “So sorry I’m late, but don’t worry Arthur. I’m here now.” Arthur responds “Oh thank God!” Panel 3: Yvain rolls up his sleeves and prepares to face the dragon. He says “Just wait right there and I’ll sort this whole thing out. Panel 4: The lion Lunette is biting the dragon’s tail and wagging its own tail happily. Yvain admonishes Lunette by saying “Lunette! Let go of that dragon right this second!” Panel 5: The lion lifts up Lunette by its tail while Lunette continues to happily wag its tail. Yvain address the dragon directly and says, “And you, dragon….” Panel 6: Yvain grabs King Arthur and points at him while angrily addressing the dragon, “Did you forget who your opponent was? This here is King Arthur and he’s going through a lot right now so you’d better give him a good fight. Got it?” Arthur is chagrinned and tries to stop Yvain from pointing at him while thinking to himself “Et tu, Yvain?”
April 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
fuzzybydesign.bsky.social
The Fish King #1.8

Kids, this is what happens to your comic when you listen to too much Dashboard Confessional.

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Black and white comic showing King Arthur hiding behind a fallen tree while a dragon looks for him. Arthur says “Thank God I finally managed to find somewhere to hide. I can’t believe they’re really making me fight a dragon alone.” Next panel of the black and white comic showing King Arthur in self doubt. He says: “How can they think I can do this by myself? I’m not a knight, I’m barely a king! I was just a kid when I pulled the sword out of the stone. Then I got married and everything was just…treaties and alliances and politics all the time. I’ve never had any time to myself, let alone been on a real adventure before!” Final panels of the black and white comic. Arthur feels the all too familiar weight of expectation on him. He says: “It’s happening again, isn’t it? Everyone’s going to think I messed up again, won’t they?” He fusses with the kerchief around his neck, revealing an ominous “G” cross-stitched into it.
April 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
phadedsky.bsky.social
Since it’s still #ArthurianApril I’m going to recommend High Noon Over Camelot by the Mechanisms. It’s Arthurian mythology on a space station with a western twist!

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April 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM