#merlins immune

[somedecrepitcryptid]

​i have an modern day apocalypse Merlin au STUCK IN MY HEAD

[blazeshardcat]

figuring out how to draw that guy + other sketches

[cgerice]

Been four years, time for this again.

With the trajectory these redraws are going, Merlin and Gwaine are going to end up just,,, making out. Full on sloppy style right in front of Arthur.

And honestly? Good for them they deserve it lmao

[southfarthing]

"merlin, you are not a sorcerer – I would know." the way he says it with such surety. it's such a desperate yet fierce attempt to gain control over the situation, to calm merlin down, to offer some logic and comfort and even half a laugh at how ridiculous this all is, because this cannot be the truth

[yourfavecharacterisqueer]

you reach a certain level in the merlin fandom when you’re so exposed to pain and angst, you just accept it because you knew it would come up. i am not at that level and i never will be.

[once-and-future-gay]

okay this is so random but it popped in my mind just now and I have to share it.

I feel like a lot of the fandom head canons(and honestly canon stuff that we play up/ exaggerate because we unfortunately only have crumbs front the show) about Leon are very autistic coded and I love the thought of that. like his fixation on crossbows? a hyper fixation. and the commonly used "Leon gives very detailed grain reports" in fics? the whole "perfect knight who follows rules very carefully thing"? please tell me someone else sees what I see

[proudtobealuthor]

Morgana was really out here looking sickly pale with them dehydrated ass lips but she still fine as hell

[nando161mando]

BBC is fully complicit with publishing lies to cover for their government

[themanwhomadeamonster]

oh my GOD i deleted my rant by accident im gonna cry lemme try to remember what i wrote but tl;dr not really a theory but me trying to arrange my understanding of albrecht and tmitw

i title this: wallbrecht is everything everywhere all at once

also i wrote this at 5-6am and didnt sleep so shit's probably messy

ok so a major theme in warframe that recurrs in warframe is the loss of identity or sense of self. natah/lotus/margulis, erra becoming pazuul, teshin being controlled by the worm queens, the operator dissociating and believing they're our warframe, then the operator losing themselves to the worm queen and the operator (+rell) confusing ourselves with tmitw himself , the drifter in duviri, warframes themselves losing their sense of self (umbra at some point, and potentially arthur and aoi down the line), albrecht worrying who really left the void dimension, the remaining entrati family themselves!. we're also told many times that the void gives but it also takes, and that it's heavily influenced by strong emotions

in cosmic horror stories usually the horror is a representation of something else. in lovecraft's works it's often his disgust with people of colour, viewing them as something completely alien. in bloodborne part of it is the fears of pregnancy and dealing with offspring. i haven't played darkest dungeon but i've heard that it's about trauma and how the overwhelming traumatic events become too much to bear that people go mad. in the lighthouse, part of the horror is that people will fight and kill just to know the truth, or what they believe to be salvation

so i think albrecht's horror was his fear of losing his identity. we knew from the clock's archives that his experiments hadn't been going well prior to the bell incident. he was losing respect as an archimedian, maybe he lost respect as a father and husband too. i think a lot of us theorise already that albrecht IS the man in the wall, not a doppelganger like tmitw literally was with the operator. but tmitw being omnipresent means that they can freely simultaneously be and not be other people, the paradox of eternalism. albrecht is now the void, he knows every timeline and every outcome and potentially every person (except operator/drifter because they're already void in multiple senses of the word) but he is also still one human. the human mind can't reconcile knowing everything, that's just madness. lucky that kids aren't as self aware as adults!

the void isn't evil nor good. it gives and takes merely because that's the way the universe works, very vaguely dare i say the law of conservation in (a very sci-fi way) action. the void is in the grand scheme of things is just a natural phenomenon of the universe. but the overwhelming emotion present during the 10-0 accident (if that even was an accident) and albrecht's own experiment just happened to be fear, so the void literally embodied the concept of fear and became a person, vecause that's just what the void does. it became an unknowable being behind a veil just beyond our perceptive reality that understands the plights of humanity a little too well. it could have manifested into something friendly and offered us and albrecht a deal in a polite way if the circumstances were right but it wasn't. tmitw is a manifestation of the void so whether the man - albrecht - wanted to or not, he had to approach our operator in their greatest moment of fear. what he did have a choice in, though, was to offer a deal. and what better way to secure a time loop, multiple ones even, that will guarantee your becoming wally than to be a time-space hopping entity who can exploit a bunch of scared kids who didn't know any better.

i don't know what we'll be using the vessel for but i don't think we'll be using it to fight a giant wall (and if we are it won't be the climactic final fight). i don't think we'll ever overcome the void, and we don't need to. the void just is. but the man in the wall literally is just a man. and i know people dunk on bad cosmic horror when the spooky thing is actually just a person or has sympathetic motivations but i think here warframe may be able to pull it off well. it's a cosmic horror that's made life miserable over multiple lifetimes, but the horror simultaneously is just a victim partially of his own doing because the cosmic horror never was alien, it's just a person who's scared of losing himself, just like the lotus was and just like our operator was. the cosmic horror IS the person in the stories who faced the horrors, who faced themselves in the seriglass bell - all it took to differentiate us and albrecht was an *accident* (though at this point it was probably intentional)

we need to confront albrecht/the man in the wall and try to stop his madness. but like many cosmic horror stories go, i think he's trapped no matter what. he'll either overcome his fear of losing himself and become one with the void, leaving us for good, or he'll try to return to gomaitru. but the fact that he's not the same as he was before and neither is gomaitru, with what he's seen and experienced as tmitw will be so maddening that he'll have to leave for the void once again in a suicide mission if he still can't reconcile with *what he is* now. in true cosmic horror fashion we will probably never fully know his motivations till the end, being a greater being than our scope of thinking - and with eternalism in place, maybe albrecht reconciling with himself was what already happened back in the seriglass bell

[mushroominaforest]

Favorite book and or book serseries

The book I’m currently reading and enjoying! Immune, by Philipp Dettmer.

[queer-ragnelle]

Say what you will about Starz Camelot but no one can deny Arthur and Kay slayed at the wedding.

[tiodolma]

Fandom wank that start with "Why did Morgana not just kill [character x] on the spot... isn't she stupid?" just proves that they already subscribe to the Kilgharrah/Merlin philosophy that says "eliminate all potential problems permanently ASAP."

so uhm. maybe check yourself?

[my-strange-attraction]

Me for like the past five years since I first watched BBC Merlin: Morgana is my favorite character because I just really appreciate how masterfully they executed her character arc and it’s just so devastating and yet you never lose hope that she’ll become good again and from a writer’s point of view it’s just really cool to see and study how they did that and Katie McGrath is insanely good at acting it and showing Morgana’s slow devolvement into hate driven by fear and—

Me now, realizing I’m gay and Katie McGrath is asdfghjklhagsdfjg: Yeah ok all of that is true but also most importantly I’m gay

[unhingedmess]

how many times do you think merlin ended up in the dungeons after spouting treason while doing his chores?

[cupidsintern]

i got an coffee before work today and it was a lil full and my hands are tiny so when they handed it to me i had to kinda squeeze the cup so i could like not drop it BUT THEY FILLED IT SO MUCH THAT I GOT COFFEE ALL OVER MY ARM AND IN MY RINGS i wanted to cry

baby hands merlin get bigger hands nerd

merlin why do YOU think vampires dont just drink period blood? huh? riddle me fuckin that

[onceandfutureheartache]