Medieval Literature, Gay Werewolves and Porn

Caught your interest with that title, didn't I? And, yes, I meant that without the Oxford comma.

Well, hopefully you won't be disappointed.

For those of you who haven't read my introduction (or have already forgotten) I am a university student. I study English/Creative Writing so many of my classes are English classes (duh). One of my favorite places to collect ideas is from my classes.

Today I had my medieval British literature class. We are currently reading The Lais of Marie de France and were laughing hysterically over the bird men that apparently live in Wales and the werewolves that bite noses off their wives. In my mind, these tales are the equivalent of porn-y fanfiction. Seriously, Marie goes on about God telling her to write them and then obsesses over adulterous naked men for half the book. It's like Medieval Fifty Shades of Grey. (There was also brief mention of Canterbury Tales pornography, but that's something else altogether!)

Now, you have to admit, it's not a huge leap to gay werewolves with the bromance going on between the king and the wolf in "Biscalavret" and I started wondering if those mightn't be some good stories to do retellings of (since retellings are my favorites to write) with LGBTQ+ themes. On that same note, after reading The case of Pierre Burgot and Michel Verdun, an instance of two men accused of being werewolves, my professor said "I think that they were doing something else with that oil and then, when they were caught, just said: 'oh, yeah, we're werewolves . . . that's what the ointment is for <.<  >.>'"

In the same class we talked about the (apparent) power granted to women in these stories. We viewed images of medieval depictions of them, noting the positioning of the men on their knees praising beautiful women. Of course, my mind went to Medieval BDSM, dynamics, and Femdoms. I realize that this is a leap, but that's the thing about writing: it doesn't have to be realistic.

Well, those are my ideas for today, I hope you enjoyed reading them!


Recap of Ideas and Prompts:

1. Retellings of the Lais of Marie de France 
2. LGBTQ+/MOGAI themes in classical tales (such as The Canterbury Tales and The Lais of Marie de France)
3. Medieval BDSM and Femdom

Welcoming Inspiration

As a writer, I know that one of the things that I'm always searching for is inspiration for my next story. Whether that comes in the form of a prompt, a picture, or something so simple as a word or a scent. there is inspiration everywhere, you just have to know how to look for it!

On this blog, I hope to achieve two things. The first is to write down my ideas and inspiration for stories so that I can keep track of them and maybe share the process with my readers. The second is to show you how to amass ideas, find inspiration, and make use of them for your own creative endeavors.

A note regarding the use of this blog: I will be posting my own ideas and prompts on this blog. You may use them for your own stories (including commercial works) with the understanding that you are not the sole owner. Other people are also free to use these ideas, and I will use them myself. My personal belief is that an idea is good for more than one round of storytelling. Two people using the same prompt will not come up with the same story, and I think that far more beautiful things can be created by sharing ideas and inspiration than by hoarding ideas and picking fights about whose idea it was in the first place.

Thanks for reading and welcome to my inspiration blog!

--Cai