#Arthur :

[l3irdl3rain]

movie night? More like Boys On The Couch night

(it’s also a very big deal for Arthur to sit so close to my mom. He doesn’t usually like visitors)

[not-enough-fandoms]

When Kilgharrah said two sides of the same coin he actually meant that there would be one brain cell shared between the two of them.

Even then sometimes that one cell would take a vacation.

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

Exhibit C:

Regular writers: The two main characters can't be both idiots one of them has to be smart

Merlin:

[theroundbartable]

Merlin gets hurt on a secret mission. It's little more than a bruise on his neck where a spell hit him, but it's obvious enough that he has to hide it.

Cue in Arthur, who goes feral over his attempt to find out who left Merlin a hickey!!!

[shibara]

My second card for the @malevolenttarotzine

Nine of Cups, with Hastur on the plateau~

Nine of Cups

And some process pics:

Plenty, contentment, satisfaction, gratitude, success, achievement, pleasure.

After a long journey, you've achieved complete self-satisfaction. You're content in all aspects of your life - relationships, career, well-being, finances ... The Nine of Cups means that your dreams and wishes are fulfilled, or will be soon. Your heart is bursting with appreciation for everything you have. Enjoy your extreme happiness and satisfaction, give yourself permission to indulge and enjoy life's pleasures. Count your blessings and cherish the joy you have now - because things may change.

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Here's @threearmsally's assignment interpretation:

"For nine of cups I adored the thought of the king looking regal and complete. His piece is in the pit with the human, and soon his plan will be fulfilled. You can mess around with this one as you wish!"

[steelheart-redux]

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[cythraul]

"Lancelot is a fanfiction OC"

So I can't speak to @specialagentartemis's point about how fanfic works, but I can talk a bit about the growth of Arthurian canon, and how things get added to it!

(I pray @becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys 's forgiveness for not getting into the cultural appropriation aspect of it. There is just. So much.)

Basically, it's all additions.

Our earliest reference to Arthur - maybe - is Y Gododdin, an Old Welsh poem that's a collection of elegies for Celtic Britons who died at the Battle of Catraeth. In one stanza, the poet praises the warrior Gwawrddur, but follows the praise with "though he was not Arthur".

Our earliest reference for events of Arthur's life - maybe - is Annales Cambriae, which contains two entries that mention Arthur:

516: The Battle of Badon, in which Arthur carried the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ for three days and three nights upon his shoulders and the Britons were the victors.

537: The battle of Camlann, in which Arthur and Medraut fell: and there was plague in Britain and Ireland.

(James Ingram's 1912 translation, pulled from Wikisource) "Medraut" is usually known in English by the name Mordred. What role does he play here? In later stories, he's Arthur's enemy, but here? Who knows? (Rachel Bromwich might know, but I don't have her book to hand.)

We've got Trioedd Ynys Prydein - literally "the Triads of the Island of Britain", though in English they're usually known as "the Welsh Triads". They're a collection of lists of threes of things - not stories, but a catalogue of narrative references, possibly for bards to draw from. Arthur pokes through in places - there are clearly Arthurian tales that were known to these bards, but are lost to us. Suddenly we've got references to Arthur's queen, Gwenhwyfar (Guinevere), and various warriors of his court, and already we're seeing references to her being the cause of the Battle of Camlann, though possibly not in the way we see in later traditions.

We've got Culhwch ac Olwen, a Welsh story of Arthur's kinsman Culhwch who enlists Arthur's help in completing a series of quests, to win the hand of Olwen, daughter of the king of giants. Arthur's hall contains figures who are probably remnants of Celtic gods, and figures whose names are just plays on words. Gwenhwyfar is here, as are Kai (whom you might know from The Sword in the Stone), and Bedwyr/Bedivere, whom you might know from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. No Lancelot yet, no Merlin, no Tristan, though there's an Essyllt who's kinda-sorta-maybe the Isolde of the Tristan and Isolde tale.

A lot of these characters are referenced in these stories, but almost certainly known to audiences at the time. For every text we have, there are certainly plenty of stories that are lost to us - independent stories of these characters, and stories where they are connected to Arthur.

Then Geoffrey of Monmouth, a 12th century Welsh monk, wrote his Latin History of the Kings of Britain, which gave us an extended narrative of the career of Arthur. Guinevere and Mordred take up together, triggering the Battle of Camlann, a tangle that will center on Lancelot in later stories.

Geoffrey's History was a megahit. Latin was way more widely known than Welsh, so suddenly we had a full and rich Arthurian narrative that was linguistically accessible. The History inspired further works in Welsh, in English, in Latin, in French, and more.

This is all before the writing of any Arthurian sources that most modern readers will have ever heard of. This is centuries before Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, which is centuries before Tennyson's Idylls of the King, or White's The Sword in the Stone, and so on.

My point. I had a point here, somewhere. Okay, I'm going to tell you my point, and then I'm going to admit I'm lying about my point.

My point is that nearly everything is a "later addition" to the story, because the story is a later addition to the story. We have hints and fragments, remnants of rich narrative traditions that are now mostly lost to us; fragments that, through the collaboration of countless authors across centuries, have grown up into the Arthurian mythos we know today.

Except that's kind of not my point, because while everything I'm saying is true, it's all in service of the argument that Lancelot being a later addition doesn't make him an invalid addition - just a continuation of a tradition of additions that have been going on since the beginning.

But, in writing this rant, I went to refresh myself on Lancelot's origins - because fuck, man, there is so much Arthur, and I haven't traditionally focused on Lancelot all that much myself. I'd remembered he's an independent French legendary hero who got soldered onto Arthur, like so many other elements. So I pulled him up on Wikipedia, and holy fuck, man.

Depending on which scholar you ask, he's maybe:

Llenlleawg Wyddel, one of Arthur's warriors from way back in Culhwch and Olwen

Llwch Llawwynnyawg, father of some of Arthur's warriors, again from Culhwch and Olwen, and thus possibly also the Irish god Lugh

Lleu Llaw Gyffes, a hero from the Mabinogion, another early collection of Welsh legends

Eliwlod, a nephew of Arthur's who shows up in the Triads

An Iranian hero bound up in the proposed Scythian/Sarmatian origin for Arthur (which was depicted, sloppily, in the 2004 film King Arthur)

A reference to an early Gothic tribe called Vinoviloth

Unguist, the son of a 6th-century Pictish king

Fraimbault de Lassay, an early French saint

Maelgwn, king of Gwynedd, one of the medieval kingdoms of Wales

Llaennog, father of a king of Elmet in the Brythonic Old North

and more

So yeah. "Lancelot is a fanfiction OC" is reductive, and completely misunderstands how Arthurian legend works, but also, depending on which scholar you believe, might not even be true.

People on this website will really mock anti-vaxxers and flat earthers for ignoring scientists and getting their alternative facts from facebook, and then turn around and insist they know more history than historians and more archaeology than archaeologists because they read an unsourced tumblr post once

[not-enough-fandoms]

If Arthur didn't see Merlin like this he died too soon. I'm pretty sure the pretty boy king would have drooled, gotten a nose bleed, or passed out.

[fan-a-tink]

Today's edition of "Merthur interactions that drive me crazy"

Merlin & Arthur - 2.12 "The Fires of Idirsholas"

[theonceandfuture]

the concept of merlin not realizing his feelings for arthur until arthur dies and arthur having known all along but deeply repressed it has always intrigued me because it's not what you'd expect. you would think merlin would be the more self aware of the two but nah...

[zarahjoyce]

may this kind of love find EVERYONE

MERLIN | 5.08 The Hollow Queen

[tenessee-walker]

You could make a no minors request about first-time Arthur with a reader in the same situation 👀👀

Whenever I read a smut, Arthur already has a thousand demons experience, but it would be interesting to see how it all started 🤔

idk how to write smut but sure

mdni, 18+

virgin!arthur who mumbles, "m a virgin," when you pull him to bed, only for you to say "huh?" coz you can't bloody hear him

virgin!arthur who goes all pink in the face when he says it for the hundredth time, staring down at the floor

virgin!arthur who huffs and turns away from you when you start snickering, but eventually you stop.

virgin!arthur who gets all indignant when you say, "and I'm gonna be your first?"

virgin!arthur who's redder than anything when you finally pull his trousers down and wrap your lips round his tip

virgin!arthur who's hips buck immediately into your mouth, but stilled by your hand quickly to prevent you choking

virgin!arthur who immediately starts moving the second you put it in yourself, only to get a harsh swat on the chest

virgin!arthur who blushed when you hiss, "let me adjust, Arthur!" coz he's still very big

virgin!arthur who lets you take control, and when he cums, his hips splutter as he almost whines.

[ireallyneedaintrestinglife]

Merlin can and would fight a god for Arthur

[chillhypocrite]

Day 100 of struggling with Arthur’s face

[burgercheese1812]

Young Jinshi: I can be your partner for the next race!

Maamei: Sorry my lord, it’s a brother and sister race

Young Basen: Maybe there’s a contest for lonely children after this!

Maamei: It’s only children. A lonely child is what you’re going to be when I sell you.

[theroundbartable]

Lmao

I'm having a good Sketch day.... Right after finishing the fanzine *sighs*

Also, internet at my parent's house sucks XD

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