#century: 300s

[dollopole]

They should have dwelled more into Merlin’s skills (and I’m not talking about just magic)

As I rewatched Merlin, I realised this man has so many skills?!

We often talk about how surely Arthur must have thought him how to use a sword (I agree 100%) but Merlin also knows how to hunt?

He dislikes it, yet years and years of going hunting with Arthur proves to be fruitful. Merlin founds the deer in season four before the entire Camelot patrol. He knows how to recognise tracks on trees and traces of feet in the mud (he knows how to build them in the right way with magic, too). And I have proof that Arthur teaches Merlin, because in season five, Arthur makes Merlin see what was wrong with the branch. when they went out and Arthur noticed that someone (Mordred) had walked past the woods.

Also, season four, episode two? Merlin wakes up before Lancelot and HE IS HUNTING FISH LIKE A MASTER?!

Have we talked about this? Who taught him? I believe most things he already knew how to do, since he grew up in a village with a single mother where everyone had to fetch up for themselves.

He also knows how to cook. And he gets compliments (even if they are jokes) from the Knights and Arthur himself too.

HE IS A PHYSICIAN, and I wished we could have seen so much more of that, because he is hot, because it proves that is so good at learning, listening and also teaching. He tells Daegal how to get rid of the poison, poison, in his body and HE IS STILL SO HUMBLE ABOUT IT?! He spent more than ten years being an apprentice and when Daegal tells him he is a good physician, Merlin denies it?! Bro has low self esteem.

Merlin also has all the skills required from a servant, like sewing, cleaning specific fabric in a certain way, polishing armour and so many other things, adjusting swords and weapons ecc.

I guess it pisses me off when Merlin is described (heavily in fanfictions too) like an incapable manservant, unable to do things for himself or defend himself without magic, when he spent ten years in Camelot doing new work after new work. Just because he was scared at the end of season five without his powers (because he had never lost them before) it doesn’t mean Merlin isn’t capable of using a sword, or help himself, since he does and challenges Morgana too, even without powers.

EDIT:

Merlin also knows how to use a crossbow and how to fight side by side with Arthur and he knows where to head, where north and south are, based on the scent of the air?! Merlin knows so many things.

[anglerflsh]

shirt that says "I ❤ the missing information on the inner workings of the early roman republic because what we do have is infected by the later political need to anticipate one's proposed laws and actions and morals into the past in order to propagandistically make them more acceptable" on the front

[english-history-trip]

Images from the margins of the 14th century Luttrell Psalter

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Song Ci/Rong Bai- Fox Demon Cultivation Manual by Feng Ge Qie Xing

Meidani Eschede/Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan- Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan 

Henry Gaunt/Sidney Ellwood- In Memoriam by Alice Winn

Xiao Fuxuan/Wu Xingxue- Unseen Immortal of 300 Years by Mu Su Li

[lloydfrontera]

oh. i just realized. by the time cpsm happens lloyd and javier have been apart for longer than they were ever together. they've been missing each other more time than they ever got to live at each other's side. "now i have to remember you for longer than i have known you" indeed.

[tontalunar]

:^0!!! I just wanna say thanks to everyone whose followed me through all the art style changes, fanfic rewrites, and just my lack of posting bhjvjhbjh. I’ve been busy with work and school but I’m gonna try to be more active on here!

*shoves you a bloody Rick*

[puddle-of-awesomeness]

Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton for taking the record for the most f1 grand prix wins... from Lewis Hamilton

[taurnachardhin]

They're sad. They're lonely. They stubbornly dedicated their lives to the same cause for years in the face of all doubt and judgment, but never met. They have supporting character syndrome and habitually subsume their own desires in service to others. They're afraid they're disappointing everyone around them anyway. They helped a teenager kill a godking together. They were each other's closest and arguably only friend for a year but that friendship was tragically severed by circumstances beyond their control and they each still bear literal scars from the wounds the other dealt in spite of having functionally infinite healing ability. They became near-immortal godlike beings and they STILL subsume their own desires in service to others and only became more tragic than ever. They're convinced they will never be loved. They each resemble the other's sole canon love interest more closely than any other character and both of those love interests are dead so what now.

[ununnilium]

So okay, what if they titled light novels like 19th-century novels?

"Slime Three Hundred, or, A Full and Accurate Account of the Comings and Goings of One Azusa Aizawa, Witch, and the Manner in Which She Killed None But Slimes For Three Hundred Years, and Thereby Doing So, Achieved the Highest Possible Level of Magical Power."

[hy2ka]

hcq lore doesnt compute. why does yanqing recognize dan heng and why isnt dan heng like a couple centuries old and why does jingliu recognize yanqing . ????????

[captainrufflebanger]

Sometimes friends ask for a bat art zine... my brother that is nearly 4 years worth of phone doodles

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

don't ever let me visit thermopylae cause i know i will start crying and will make a scene in front of the monument to the thespians that fought alongside the spartans.

[spectraspecs-writes]

Do you think they’re still making Pokémon games in the 24th century?

[thethingything]

just watching 🍬 getting distracted and reading about tree coppicing for like an hour instead of getting ready for bed and this isn't even the first time this has happened. like specifically him researching tree coppicing instead of going to bed. it happens with other subjects too but I'm fascinated by this one being a repeat occurrence

[lloydfrontera]

‘An elf attends a human banquet, even the imperial banquet? Was there a precedent for that? No, was that request accepted?’ ‘This is great resourcefulness. ‘I want to learn too.’ Everyone was amazed. And looked forward to it. Today, how will the crown prince capture the heart of the elf he invited to the banquet hall? Perhaps an unprecedented elf empress will be brought into the Magentano royal family.

i mean. yeah. but you're thinking of the wrong brother :/

[beeapocalypse]

surprise visit