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Mission briefing (BBC Merlin 5x04)

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It's frustrating that you can come up with the plot of an entire fic in just a few seconds, but writing it all down can take anywhere from never to forever.

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MERLIN 3.08 | The Eye of the Phoenix

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i am not immune to @bisclavret’s merwaine propaganda

(ft. the most normal woman in the world)

(bonus colours)

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@ all my sexy mutuals that have tagged me/sent me an ask I love you i will respond eventually 😭😭😭🙏

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no because it’s the way that morgana really really loved gwen. arguably her love for gwen is what kickstarted her entire corruption arc. her love for gwen made her hate uther when uther killed gwen’s father. it’s the way morgana never once stopped loving her, even when she hated her she loved her. even when gwen was queen and morgana wanted the throne she loved gwen. and yes it was twisted, horrific, corrupted love, but morgana herself is twisted, horrific, and corrupted by then. love isn’t going to manifest the same way it did when she was still young and hopeful and kind. it’s the way that morgana doesn’t know what love is supposed to be like because everyone she’s loved has either gone against her or died. it’s the way that merlin could have saved her, that arthur could have saved her, that gwen could have saved her, had she only let them love her. it’s the way she was never going to do that because she didn’t think love would ever be enough.

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bbc merlin - 04x09 Lancelot du Lac

gonna keep my thoughts to myself on this one

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Merthur version of the Smith college girls!! because I love these this picture so much (it is from i-D magazines, 2004)

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You've not watched the living and the dead!? 😱😱😱

I knowwwww I don't know why I haven't yet 😭 it took me like 10 years to watch the fall ripppp

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helen I've just started reading Accidental Memory in the Case of Death. why did you not say that merlin skateboards and smokes this was crucial information

SCREEEEE oh holy fuck. okay. yeah in hindsight that would have been a good advert for this fic

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Nimueh sketches

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I’m horrible with likenesses but I did it for the blorbos

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does anyone have any modern au merwaine fics to recommend me please I am starving (trying not to think about work stuff i need to do)

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Title: sweet like honey AO3 username: kairennart (personaje) | @kairennart Rating: Mature Warnings: Choose Not To Use Warnings Medium/Word Count: Digital art Pairing/main characters: Lancelot/Arthur Pendragon Up to 10 tags: Shade Lancelot

Summary:

Lancelot's lips don't leave Arthur's as he slides his hand under the pillow and grabs the dagger. He sits up, feeling the way Arthur shifts underneath him, and with both hands drives the dagger to his King's chest.

AO3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60072397

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I do love that Gwaine ends up feeling somewhat out of time and out of place in the narrative he’s in purely bc of what he represents and who he is ideologically. Like the whole lovable rogue/handsome rake thing is really a much more early modern archetype, not medieval.

He provides juxtaposition for characters like Arthur and Lancelot bc of his lack of adherence to medieval masculine social norms; and because of his disillusionment. It’s easy to see him as “faithless” in comparison to their dedication to chivalry, but sometimes I think “faithless” isn’t really fair and it’s more that he refuses to put faith in institutions and in ideology and puts faith in individuals instead. Institutions and ideology he cannot trust or rely on, but people he can. And I don’t think this would be a problem for him if it weren’t for the fact that that mindset is so antithetical to the common medieval worldview.

In the end he ends up representing something almost countercultural. He’s a reaction to medieval ideology; and a vision of the future; more than anything else. But at the same time; he can’t exist without the context of what came before him. And I don’t think anyone working on the show intended like, even half of that, but that’s how it ended up and I’m glad for it

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MERLIN 5.07 ⋄ A Lesson in Vengeance