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Q: What is responsible for sapping every single drop of my creativity and imagination?

A) Depression

B) Anti-depressants

C) Hormones

D) Chronic Illness

E) Chronic Fatigue

F) S.A.D.

G) Imposter Syndrome

H) ADHD

I) Therapy may make things better in the long run but it's going to mess you up real bad first

Answer: TRICK QUESTION lol IT'S ALL OF THE ABOVE!!!

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mmmmwah!

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While Merlin is trending I want to thank the whole Merlin fandom

people who have been with us since 2008 and people who have just started watching, people who have left us too soon but will be forever in our hearts and people who switched fandoms but are still amazing

whereter you create, lurk, cheer or just cry in the corner (most of us have been there lol) every part of the Merlin fandom is always part of our family

even if we have no reason to trend we will always have a reason to celebrate :D

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Happy pride to one of the gayest 1st episodes ever

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I know Cold Iron RestraintsTM are a big thing in fics, but sometimes I think back to The Lady of The Lake and I remember that Hegal was a professional bounty hunters for magical creatures, and one with such a reputation that Uther knew him by name and let him have his guards to look for his runaway prisoner. And I think that, in spite of her curse, Freya couldn't get out of her cage and her restraints; she was trapped.

And then I remember that Merlin waltzed up to the lock, ripped the fucker open like it's paper, and then snapped her chains like they're crackers.

I'm just saying, can you imagine the absolute fuckery if those restraints were made specifically to imprison magical creatures, and Merlin was just so powerful he didn't even notice? He goes through his whole life terrified of witchunters and the like with 0 knowledge of the fact that he's unrestrainainable by humans. He's fucking immune. He keeps breaking out of things no magical creature has ever broken free of he and he has no awareness of it. Elle Wood's What Like It's Hard? but make it an anxious mess of a wizard in hiding.

I want a fic that is all of this and ends with a Mordred's reveal. "Emrys, that was Cold Iron." "I guess?" "You guess?" "I mean it looks like iron and it was cold, I'm not sure what you're looking for here"

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The Book of Names lists each person murdered at Auschwitz

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anyway just a reminder for the myth lovers out there

king arthur was welsh. merlin was welsh. camelot was in wales. the lady and the lake she pops out of; welsh. excalibur; magic inanimate welsh object. etc.

on the way to see family, i drive past a lake that in which is welsh legend, is the last resting place of excalibur.

i’m just saying in my experience a lot of these legends had been so anglo-fied in the past and it’s like, all this cool shit is celtic welsh legend.

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get his ass merlin

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My Art: Arthur and Merlin set

[Note: this is my original artwork, please do not take without crediting me, thank you~!]

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This is a whole ass MOOD.

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I find it deeply aesthetically pleasing, character-wise, that Arthur and Merlin are both very much like their mothers, which is especially meaningful in Arthur's case since he's never known his mother beyond a single painfully brief meeting in "Sins of the Father."

Not only does Arthur look like Ygraine (which adds several layers to the clusterfuck of his and Uther's relationship) but it's clear that he takes after her temperament, too. Yes, he sometimes shows his father's temper, and yes, he does stupid things when he's in a temper, but unlike Uther, who literally took his prejudices to his grave and beyond, Arthur never stays mad at people, and he's overall a far more caring and kind person than his father, which is an interesting case of nature vs nurture.

And then on the other hand, we have Hunith, who told a mounted, armed brigand to go fuck himself, later fought another (also armed) brigand with a twig broom, harboured fugitives on multiple occasions, and raised an illegal magic child out of wedlock, and Merlin "Fuck the Police" Ambrosius, who got in a fistfight, got thrown in jail for the fistfight, called the prince a bitch to his face in a public market square, got in a second, armed fight all within his first 48 hours in Camelot, and then committed treason on a daily basis for the next 10+ years, compared to Balinor, who became a weird antisocial hermit that lived in a cave for twenty years.

couldn't have said it better myself bestie

also, there's a reason hunith and ygraine never met in the show. their dynamic duo would outshine everyone, they'd be unstoppable, untouchable, I FEEL ROBBED

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Colin Morgan: *run boy run plays in the background*

(requested by @turned-her-brain​)