#and a lake.

[regulusrules]

Someone tell me why I am WAILING my eyes out at 2 in the fucking morning after rewatching Freya's episode. Someone tell me why they were ALLOWED to create such a beautiful connection and genuine understanding between them only to take her away from Merlin in the timespan of ONE episode. And someone tell me how do I REIGN HELL on Gaius for tattling to Uther about her when Merlin literally BEGGED him not to do so!!! Bonus if this hell takes Arthur too for being the one who killed her!

(ok maybe i don't mean that last part but I am so furious and I am crying and I don't know why this show is just always able to get me to wail my heart out when I usually can't)

Like. Merlin takes one look at Freya and immediately sees himself locked up for his magic just the same. He watches the very fate he runs from every day while living under Uther's rule. And for the first time he just allows his heart to lead the way; no fucking dragons or mentors breathing down his neck telling him what to do. He feels, for the very first time, the genuine meaning of love (not just duty or sacrifice) and boy was Merlin ready to abandon his whole destiny just to be understood.

I want to fucking scream

[thestuffedalligator]

“Are you the witch who turned eleven princes into swans?”

The old woman stared at the figure on the front step of her cottage and considered her options. It was the kind of question usually backed up by a mob with meaningful torches, and the kind of question she tried to avoid.

Coming from a single dusty, tired housewife, it should’ve held no terrors.

“You a cop?”

The housewife twisted the hem of her apron. “No,” she muttered. “I’m a swan.”

A raven croaked somewhere in the woods. Wind whispered in the autumn leaves.

Then: “I think I can guess,” the old woman said slowly. “Husband stole your swan skin and forced you to marry him?”

A nod.

“And you can’t turn back into a swan until you find your skin again.”

A nod.

“But I reckon he’s hidden it, or burned it, or keeps it locked up so you can’t touch it.”

A tiny, miserable nod.

“And then you hear that old Granny Rothbart who lives out in the woods is really a batty old witch whose father taught her how to turn princes into swans,” the old woman sighed. “And you think, ‘Hey, stuff the old skin, I can just turn into a swan again this way.’

“But even if that was true – which I haven’t said if it is or if it isn’t – I’d say that I can only do it to make people miserable. I’m an awful person. I can’t do it out of the goodness of my heart. I have no goodness. I can’t use magic to make you feel better. I only wish I could.”

Another pause. “If I was a witch,” she added.

The housewife chewed the inside of her cheek. Then she drew herself up and, for the first time, looked the old woman in the eyes.

“Can you do it to make my husband miserable?”

The old woman considered her options. Then she pulled the wand out from the umbrella stand by the door. It was long, and silver, and a tiny glass swan with open wings stood perched on the tip.

“I can work with that,” said the witch.

[podcastwizard]

literally drinking a beer by the lake and still opened tumblr. some of us are beyond saving

[xiaq]

The picture I sent my mom:

The picture I sent my husband:

[natureell]

[xaoca]

[cansu-m]

[landsccape]

[lakefama]

my partner & i recently transitioned to being best friend platonic partners and romantically separated (due to some simple romantic incompatibilities) - we're both very happy with and excited about this change and most importantly we think it is VERY funny and gay to continue doing everything together and living together as exes

(she wrote the first comic!)

[cottageaesthetic]

[lanndscape]

[maureen2musings]

autumn.coven

[mapsontheweb]

Lighthouses of the Great Lakes.

by researchremora

[tofublock]

floating duck 🍑⁣

[heylsgowt]