#guinivere

[abbyofthefirenation]

the writers really did such a poor job with arthur and gwens relationship. merlin and freya had more chemistry in one episode than arthur and gwen had across the entire series. the only times i really felt anything for their relationship was in the once and future queen and in lancelot de luc. and even in the once and future queen gwen goes off listing all the reasons why she doesnt like arthur and why they wont work and then theyre kissing that same episode? not to mention, it annoyed me when arthur made merlin prepare gwen breakfast and get her flowers in 5x10 despite gwen once being furious at him because he lied about making her dinner in 2x02 and now shes just like whatever.

it just felt like to me that their feelings for each other had no real development. gwen didnt even seem to like arthur at all in the first season, and even calls him a bully in the first episode. then she suddenly likes him and thinks he’ll be the greatest king camelot has had in le morte d’arthur? theyd barely even interacted before then. their relationship also seemed to come at the cost of gwens character in the sense that the more involved they got, the more gwen just became arthurs love interest and his advisor when they got married. the writers made an already dull relationship even duller. i swear arthur and gwen had more genuine affection for each other when gwen was evil than when she wasnt.

i also dont like how merlin and gwens friendship was basically forgotten. gwen annoyed me when she told arthur not to look for merlin in a servant of two masters and she seemed more concerned about the threat merlin was to arthur than about what happened to merlin. they just stripped gwen of pretty much all of her agency and made her into this perfect queen. of course arthur and gwen were going to get together because they were following the arthurian legend, but that doesn’t mean the writers couldnt have done a better job at writing their relationship.

[adeptune01]

A Gwen sketch I forgot to post here!

[jxthics]

4.5 hour painting study of king arthur & lady guinevere's wedding from excalibur (1981)

[morganaconda]

[merlin-gifs]

I thought you might wear it for luck.

MERLIN | 2x02 “The Once and Future Queen”

[cryptid-wizard]

Merlin: Look, I know you think my judgement's clouded because I like Arthur a little bit.

Gwen, holding Merlin's notepad: You doodled your wedding invitation.

Merlin: No, that's our joint tombstone.

Gwen: My mistake.

[jadesnapart]

"I am Guinivere, queen of Bern, and as such, it is my duty to heal the ruin my country has suffered in its wars." 🌟💫

Another Guinivere commission, based on her Queen design from FE Heroes!

[tashayarswife]

merlin in a nutshell

morgana: this is my girlfriend, gwen and this is gwen’s husband, arthur and this is arthur’s boyfriend merlin and this is merlin’s boyfriend gwaine and this is gwaine’s boyfriend percival

[micchi971]

Let's be friends👀💗

[irishyuri]

gwen the most beloved 🫶🫶🫶🫶

[currentlyinflames]

the writers after putting wayy too many soft scenes between merlin and arthur and making merlin and will have tension: oh shit we made it too gay

After adding that one little moment with arthur and gwen in the woods: much better

[enchi-elm]

Right, gonna drop this into the ether just before bed and maybe someone'll see it who can solve this for me.

I swear--I have this in firm memory--that floating around the internet somewhere is a beautifully scripted text-based RPG called some variant of Guinevere where you play as Guinevere. (a few years ago, I dunno, 2019? Earlier?)

It is only text. It is the most lo-fi production ever, it is text on a slightly off-white background, and it was utterly transporting. There were paths that turned you into a powerful sorceress. You could be into Arthur or not, into anyone or not, you could go a magic route or a political power route or a "I just want to love someone and have fun" route, it was exquisitely done. 10/10 storytelling. It starts off the day you get married and follows your early life at Camelot.

And I bookmarked it because I got through two chapters of it and it was still under construction or something and I have lost the bookmark and both DuckDuckGo and the tumblr search engine are determined to keep me in the dark and to make matters worse, somehow there's now a Choices story about Guinevere and the only thing that's even remotely relevant that comes up as results are related to that app. But it wasn't an app! It was a browser-based text-based RPG and it was beautiful and I can't find it.

[funkylittlebats]

The ddos attack on Ao3 started happening when I was in the middle of an angsty merthur fic so I made Merlin characters in a picrew to chill

https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/1564386

[katieheyy]

just close your eyes, the sun is going down

you’ll be alright, no one can hurt you now

come morning light, you and i’ll be safe and sound.

not long after artur’s death, come the nightmares. the queen and the magician find each other then; and while they don’t quite fit together, not really, never will, the new emptiness never filled, holding each other at night keeps them sane enough.

the nightmares still come, of course, and arthur’s still dead at the bottom of the lake. but he remains, in a way, in the two people he loved; and they guard him, his love forever safe between their warm bodies.

[abbyofthefirenation]

the merlin writers mustve really been out of ideas when they decided to go with the ‘theres a traitor in camelot and only merlin knows’ plot for the third season in a row

[ethereal-nonsense]

Our queen, her majesty, Lady Guinevere

I think I might post all of my morganas in the one post, look out for that!