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The defeated and bloodied king was chained to kneel in front of his enemy and he says weakly: "Is my wife still alive?" His enemy nodded. "You fools," he said smirking, and the king starts laughing as the sounds of explosions getting closer shake the room.

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Ship dynamics are always like Sunshine and Sunshine protector~ Cinnamon roll and their grumpy one ���� Well what about 2 cunts. They're both cunts and that's the dynamic. cunt4cunt.

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I enjoy when fan artists exaggerate Merlin's little peasant haircut

Like yes please give this man the most poor medieval bowl cut know to history, this is as it should be

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aw she's crying

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i was rewatching with a friend the other day and like. the thing that really gets me about the sorcerer's shadow isn't just the obvious queer subtext and the weight of all those secrets never told. but it's the fact that gilli is what merlin could have been in another life, another time, and vice versa. all the anger, all the desperation, the loneliness, could have so easily lent themselves to another story entirely, yet they didn't. and the narrative conspires to make us believe that this is a good thing: that the person merlin became is the way things were meant to be, and the best thing that couldn't happened. but the glaring truth that lurks just beyond this is that no matter how much better it may seem that merlin became the person he was, his story is still a tragedy just as much as (or perhaps more so than) gilli's. he still has to hide his magic, he is still treated like a fool. he uses his magic for good rather than for evil, but he still has to use his magic for something beyond who he is, justifying his existence with a so called greater good rather than just being allowed to exist as a neutral fact of this world. the story of bbc merlin is inarguably a tragedy, i'm hardly the first person to say this (and this is hardly my first rant on the subject) but part of what makes it so is its vehement refusal to accept that fact, even to the bitter end. it is a story, and a psyche, obsessed with the idea of meaning something, perhaps so much so that he loses the ability to exist as something beyond that, wearing himself ineffably down to a fragile and insubstantial bone, held aloft by the denial of its own dreams. in this sense, gilli and merlin are not just alike through their magic and their youthful hope for a world in which they are no longer forced to hide, but by their unconscious rejection of the very ideals that they wish to embody, their sisyphean self-sabotage that eats away at the fundamentals of who they are, or at least the potential of who they could have been. in the end, the message we get from the end of the sorcerer's shadow isn't the one that the characters think: that it is better to use your magic for good than it is for bad, but that it is a privilege to be able to think this way. but that any world in which magic is must be "used" to have any meaning is a dystopia, and no matter their intentionality, both merlin and gilli are long since lost to the only reality in which either of them could have ever been free. a loss so intense and so inevitable that even the narrative structure itself seems unable to acknowledge it.

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this will always be the greatest moment in the history of doctor who documentaries tbh

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thinking again about the metatextuality of merlin as 2010s queerbait. because the phenomenon of queerbaiting itself parallels so interestingly with the text itself: the story of merlin and arthur survives by being suspended in legend, never quite reality, but always more than just a story. and queerbaiting lies within that same genre of subtext: the idea of a love story depicted like shadows on the walls of a cave, undeniably conscious but not yet corporeal. and the reason for both of these — for the survival of a legend and the strange censorship of a story half told — is the ineffable and unquenchable power and desparation of queer love.

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1. the tragedy of bbc merlin as something caught in the paradox of its own inevitably, and the avoidability of its fate.

2. doctor who as a queer/feminist commentary.

3. how doctor who reflects classical iconography and mythology.

4. supernatural. anything and everything. give me a whiteboard and i'm sat.

5. the impact of ancient greek literature on modern global culture

@ anyone who wants to!!

I saw this meme going around on twitter and I think it'll be perfect for this account.

List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material.

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you're the voice try and understand it btw. if you even care.

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lads we're trending again now fess up who had a homosexual breakdown on main again?

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This is why I read the reddit comments

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NEIL PLEASE TELL ME AZIRAPHALE AND CROWLEY ARE NOT GONNA BECOME HUMANS PLEASE OH MY GOD 6000 OF LOVE JUST TO DIE IN A FEW YEARS NO PLEASE. According to what you've said, we might not like the ending, and David said that it might not be the ending we want. PLEASE NEIL DONT DO THIS TO US.

They both become humans in the final scene, yes. Crowley becomes Dottie and Aziraphale becomes Sadie. Then they both un-bigenerate into a man in a gorilla suit and eat whelks on the beach. It's a tragic ending the significance of which will only become apparent when watched frame by frame backwards.

(For the record, this feels like some kind of collective hallucination. I love how someone has managed to interpret what David said into that. And now you're all panicking. What do they teach them at these schools?)

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Character designers and artists: stop using strabismus, amblyopia, unfocused eyes or any other ocular differences to indicate your character is stupid, innocent, or forgot something/had a brain fart. Yes it is ableist and affects both the blind/low vision and developmentally disabled. Just stop it.

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Merlin: if you ever see me with the crown prince of the kingdom that kills magic users for sport, mind your business, I'm trying to get our rights back

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don’t get me wrong, I am and will be a destiel truther til the day i die. however, let us not forget to acknowledge the fact that Dean and Cas are best friends. like, they have meaningful, homoerotic conversations obviously, but they also talk about whatever stupid shit they want. they watch scooby doo and cowboy movies together. they go get food together even though Cas can’t eat. Dean calls Cas buddy, and partner and brother. they consider each other family. they know each other better than anyone else and not just because they’re gay, but because they’re best friends and care for each other and love each other platonically and romantically.