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MERTHUR WEEK 2024

☀️STARTING December 18th - 24th🌑

merthurweek 2024 has risen😈 and as always, i can't wait to see what brilliant creations everyone makes!! i love you all. thank you for allowing me to do this each year!! it’s officially just me this year in name🩷

have fun and enjoy!!💥

FOR FANFIC OR META WRITERS - prompts and/or themes for inspiration:

day one: quest(s) + angst

day two: court sorcerer!merlin + protective!others

day three: hate at first sight + hurt/comfort

day four: “what is that?!” + humor

day five: bamf!merlin + angst with a happy ending

day six: "it wasn’t meant to end this way" + dragons

day seven: magic reveal + canon era

there is an ao3 collection under the name which can be found here 'merthurweek2024’

if you wish to add your fics please put the day and prompt in your summary if posting to ao3.

reminder: merlin/arthur do not need to be the one to say the line or be the things exactly! and the + means and/or. these are mostly for inspiration alone. if you would like to just write modern royalty for day one, for example, and not use angst, then that's perfectly fine.

FOR GIFS/ VIDEO/ ART CREATORS - ideas and/or themes for inspiration:

day one: friends of/with merthur + red color palette (#740938 / #AF1740 / #CC2B52 / #DE7C7D)

day two: any song + orange color palette (#FF885B / #FFE5CF / #557C56 / #33372C) 

day three: symbolism + yellow color palette (#FEFFD2 / #FFEEA9 / #FFBF78 / #FF7D29)

day four: favorite parallel(s) + green color palette (#1A1A19 / #31511E / #859F3D / #F6FCDF) 

day five: why do you still love merlin in 2024? + blue color palette (#DFF2EB / #B9E5E8 / #7AB2D3 / #4A628A)

day six: any quote + purple color palette (#1A1A1D / #3B1C32 / #6A1E55 / #A64D79)

day seven: what went wrong? + white color palette (#F9F5F6 / #F8E8EE / #FDCEDF / #F2BED1) 

Rules:

must be posted on tumblr so i can reblog!

please tag your posts as #merthurweek2024 and/or tag this account directly.

NSFW is allowed, just please tag appropriately.

have fun and enjoy yourself! this week is all about supporting each other and sharing your work!

questions, concerns, or just wanna talk? you can dm or send asks at this account or my main @bellamyblakru

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arthur: Is something wrong with you?

merlin: Yeah, I've been on a horse all day.

arthur: Is your little bottom sore?

merlin: Yes. It's not as fat as yours.

arthur: *chuckles* You know, you've got a lot of nerve for a wimp.

merlin: I may be a wimp, but at least I'm not a dollop head.

arthur: There's no such word.

merlin: It's idiomatic.

arthur: It's what??

merlin: You need to be more in touch with the people.

arthur: Describe dollop head.

merlin: In two words?

arthur: Yeah.

merlin: Prince arthur.

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it's always so funny to me when arthur/uther says something like "i don't believe this, it's just a silly tale" when merlin/gaius warns them about some legend because like. my guy. YOU LIVE IN A LAND OF MYTH AND A TIME OF MAGIC.

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My favourite pastime is watching things 10 years late and suffering the emotional consequences.

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Merthur AU - Elyan explains the story of Merlin’s banishment to new knight Mordred

Bonus scene

After Arthur goes to bed, Merlin sneaks in to wish him happy birthday

All Arthur Knows AUs here

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Her name was Guinevere, and she was the most beautiful woman Arthur had ever seen.

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the ladies have a baby!!

for @merlinrarepairfest

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merlin magic reveal fic where arthur asks “why didn’t you tell me?” and merlin says, mirthless smile and haunted eyes “all my dreams end in fire. fire and burning and dying”

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after sunlit days, one thing stays the same

rises the moon

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thinking about how in the coming of arthur merlin said he had sent for lancelot and lancelot said he knew merlin too well to know when he was lying. so they were absolutely in communication before then since their only interactions were in two episodes before that, which is hardly enough time to be able to tell when someone is lying or not. now im thinking about mercelot writing love letters between seasons 2 and 3 and falling in love without realising it.

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merlin and arthur hunting ghosts? yes, great, BUT hear me out

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i lied the funniest thing about merlin is his unexplained years long beef with the head cook n the castle for no particular reason

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obsessed with the way my robotics team lead talks

she’s reinventing hieroglyphics

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i think one of the mutually agreed upon pieces of fanon that’s my favorite is when Merlin is pissed off at Arthur, he does his job Perfectly. and Arthur Hates it.

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is that who i think it is…

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While discussing Arthur’s very violent upheaval into kingmanship with @rowanmerlin, the topic of just how difficult that must’ve been for him came up, and how little the show gives us any hint of it.

We should’ve seen an entire season-wide arc of Arthur struggling to hold down the emotional fort, whilst the idea of never being held by Uther again played like old television static in the back of his head. We should’ve seen cuts of him flexing his fingers nervously before council meetings, or sleepwalking the majority of days (gaining notoriety as the castle’s phantom) and ending up curled into a ball at the foot of Uther’s effigy. We should’ve seen him waking up early to train his new recruits, and then having Leon gently turn him away as he’s no longer needed (leading to him sleeping later, because it feels like his life has no purpose beyond itineraries anymore).

We see a little of his emotional flagellation, “You're wrong, Merlin. I don't need anyone. I can't afford that luxury.” but not all the rest, when it came to all the princely duties he once mainlined, and I think that’s a real shame.

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lancelot: so what are your pronouns?

guinevere: address me as my/queen or don’t talk to me at all