#The beginning of the end

[earthshine-moon]

Merlin Parallels

“The more brutal you are, the more enemies you’ll create.” (1x01)

“I want his annihilation, Mordred. I want to put his head on a spike and watch as the crowd feast on his eyes.” (5x02)

“And allow him to grow more powerful, more dangerous until he strikes out against us?” (1x08)

(5x13)

“Are you ever going to change, Merlin?” (1x13)

“I don’t want you to change.” (5x13)

“Maybe that one’s worth dying for, eh?” (3x05)

(5x13)

[witchmd13]

Arthur's hand on his sword when uther almost chokes morgana still kills me and the fact that he's standing behind morgana and she doesn't see it kills me even more

Also when she begs him to help mordred he literally tells her he won't betray uther even for a child and the moment she says do it for me he changes his mind like!!!! It wasn't even her who was accused of magic it was for a boy he didn't know!! Girl how did you later think he'll hand you over to uther over your magic!!! THE FIRST TIME ARTHUR GOES AGAINST HIS FATHER ON THE SUBJECT OF MAGIC WAS BECAUSE OF MORGANA

It wasn't gwen when she was almost excuted for magic or even merlin. It was morgana. I have no doubt in my mind that he would've stood up for her and even publically gone against uther for her

I'm just going to chew on the wall now i can't take the tragedy they become

[zombiecicada]

@boa35

@nokk0

@nightcovefox

“Hey, Wolfie!! The gang’s all here!”

This has been a wild adventure.

She’s met a lot of people, experienced a lot of things, from wonder and excitement, to great horrors and pain.

She feels like her experiences have changed who she is, like some preexisting barriers have fallen away. She feels braver than before, as tired as she may be. She has been to hell and back and she has survived, a little stronger, more skilled and more knowledgeable than before.

Now there’s simply one final journey left to make, and that it is to go home. There she can find the ending to her story and hopefully, all the answers to her remaining questions.

Wolfbell feels like she has become strong enough to deal with whatever awaits on the mountain, but… even if she isn’t strong enough on her own…

The friends and allies she has made along the way are coming along and she will not have to be alone.

『R』『E』『A』『D』『Y』 >”

[subaru-copilot]

Sebastian Vettel & Mark Webber

[artchael]

"Where are you, Emrys? Emrys. Help us. Please! They're coming."

DAY 12: TUNNEL @merlinktober <- day 11 / day 13 ->

[cipheramnesia]

a story by @rox-and-prose and @cipheramnesia

Part 8: Vigil

"I am not prone to long speeches," Vanya Steyr had said, welcoming the incoming new hires to the G1 Major Treaty Enforcement Central orientation day. Maryam had thought they seemed very impressive, perhaps evem dangerous.

"You will learn all the information you need to start your jobs here. You will not learn one right way to do your jobs until you are in the middle of them." They had stood at the front of a sizable auditorium, and had not used any amplification. Maryam remembered even after the subsequent weeks of stultifying bureaucratic form memorization and procedural filing specific to Major Treaties, the departments, grades, fire safety, system safety, and so on.

Years of experience, climbing the ranks, passing pilot exams and system plotting. All of it each time seemed like the most information she could hope to retain, Vanya stuck with her. "When you are doing this work, at all levels," they said, "remember why we have major treaties. They are to protect us, earth and her civilization, wherever we may find ourselves. We protect ourselves from destroying ourselves, because it is our nature."

That was the most of Vany Steyr she had ever seen outside of the odd sysnet photo or short interview up until they took a personal interest in the Charybdis WMD case. Following Steyr's system jumps in the Marzanna, a ship that by what few specs she'd had the chance to glimpse was perhaps hundreds or thousands of times more dangerous than any WMD case she'd worked or reviewed, she worried over "it is our nature."

Maryam had always operated with the consideration that it was in the nature of everyone from earth civilization to protect themselves. This idea had given her comfort and guidance in her cases and the vast organized network of central bureaucracy. The scope of civilization, she sometimes pretended, was possible to see as one vastly extended process to keep its many inhabitants or societies safe. It drove fear and love and hate and hope and all those things.

She knew it was an oversimplification, but it gave her a place to start when she wasn't sure. The one possibility she'd never entertained until now was that Steyr had never meant it was in the nature of civilization to protect itself.

Trevor remained intensely focused in pulling the Lev Nitoburg off the map for the Marzanna's deep spacers. Maryam had no idea what was ever going on with the woman. Serah looked worried, maybe a little bit pale. It had been one thing to figure out Kan was spying for the boss, quite another to decide the boss was violating the most basic rule in civilation, while it happened right in front of their eyes.

Minutes ticked away between the system resolutions. Serah caught Maryam looking and gave a sick smile. She got up and went back to Serah, crouching by her chair. "Serah," she said.

"Hey," Serah said.

"There is no need worry so dearly," Maryam said. "This is the type of case we have all the time. It is nothing, a piece of cake."

"You're awful at lying."

"I am. But you have seen more of the Marzanna specifications than myself. Would you consider it falling within regulations? Would the Lev Nitoburg?"

"No... and... it's pushing it, toeing the letter of the treaty..."

"So it goes," Maryam said. "I only know I am of the belief that we owe it to our civilization to safeguard the treaty against WMD's, even if they are of our own invention."

"You're probably right." Serah looked at her screen. "Did you know that thing can project an artificial stellar gravity well?"

"I had some sense but I did not realize the extent of it."

"It could probably pull some planets apart. Maybe even destroy a sun, if you used it right." Serah's face was grim.

Maryam took one of Serah's hands in two of hers. Serah squeezed. "We are making the right choice." She squeezed back.

"We gotta be. Nothing but the right choice could ever feel this dumb."

[nnaalluuaa]

The Beginning of the End (1995 - 2000), Mariko Mori

“ Starting in 1995, I went to 13 cities around the world with my Body Capsule for the ‘Beginning of the End’ series, including Angkor Wat, Teotihuacan, Tokyo, and Manhattan. In the final work, completed in 2000, all the cities are connected — east and west, as well as past, present, and future. ”

[amphibia-a-day]

Day 1127 of Amphibia Screenshots

Episode: The Beginning of the End

[skoff-the-artist]

Recruit

"It looks ridiculous. I'm sure I can talk Megatron into changing it to red..."

[yugiohcardsdaily]

The Beginning of the End

"If you have 7 or more DARK monsters in your GY: Banish 5 DARK monsters from your GY; draw 3 cards."

[vertigoartgore]

The Avengers n°291 house ad (1988) by John Buscema and Tom Palmer.

[danu2203]

[mxtxfanatic]

MDZS Spooky Edition: Nightfall

At first, neither of the two noticed anything different. But when they reached the middle of the valley, Wei WuXian begin to feel that something was not quite right. There shouldn’t be so few passerbys. Wei WuXian, “Is anything wrong?” Wen Ning rolled out his eye whites. A moment later, he let down his pupils again, “No. It’s so quiet.” Wei WuXian, “It really is a bit too quiet.” He couldn’t even catch a single sliver of the inhuman noises that he had always been able to hear. Wei WuXian was instantly alarmed, whispering, “Let’s go!” Just as he turned around, Wen Ning raised his hand to catch something. It was a fletched arrow that came right for the middle of Wei WuXian’s chest!

—Chapt. 76: Nightfall, exr

And so it begins.

[artchael]

"Halt, or I'll run you through."

DAY 8: PATROL @merlinktober <- day 7 / day 9 ->