#my merlin thots

[pinayelf]

another gripe i have is i feel like the game is spoon-feeding stuff to the player, which i get, bc i'm someone who has trouble digesting information (it took maybe 3 dao playthroughs to completely understand what's going on and some of it tbh i looked up on the wiki lol)

i feel like as always it could've been a happy medium

i like to think a lot of the dumbed down stuff was to make the game more accessible, as someone who never played RPGs before dao, i did have trouble bc it was so overwhelming. dav seemed like it was trying to remedy that but it got in the way of the writing feeling more organic (and also things just get more sanitized when corporation picks u up, dav is aaa and dao was not)

i guess i'm a tad more sympathetic bc RPGs and high fantasy is something that can genuinely be hard to digest for people who are just getting into it and SOME easing in can help - tho shouldn't be at the detriment of writing

[tiodolma]

BBC Camelot: (have important and powerful magical tools in their vaults that Merlin helped to capture)

Situation: (could really use that tool)

BBC Merlin:

[spacehostilityy]

NNT Rewatch s2ep1-6

(This was written weeks ago but was in my queue. I am moving back to my college town Saturday so busy days are to come but now I have things to procrastinate 😈)

So YAYAYAY time for season 2 (my fave season overall) !! I’ve rewatched this one before, so i actually remember some of this lol

Ban: I quit

Meliodas: your face is the only joke we can handle

HE GOT HIS ASS DAMN

i love both of diane’s orange fits, but s1 leotard hits different

i have thots abt the introduction of power levels that will be told beneath the cut

i mean it’s all very dragon ball (which i love, but in a very different way). I feel like they are just better executed in manga format, because saying the numbers out loud just kinda breaks up the flow of dialogue and action. Plus the numbers never stay accurate since the characters are always powering up and nakaba lowkey just stops using them at one point. so like assault mode!Meliodas has a power of 142,000. BUT he defeats enemies with powers higher than that and is shown to gain even more power. But this is the highest number we have for him. Overall, theyre clunky, not updated enough to be accurate, and just kinda cheesy :/ I feel like plot could have been added to justify and explain the eye of Balor (AKA Drole if i remember correctly) but it’s just used as an excuse to quantify the characters’ strength since this season is mainly focused on physical and emotional growth, as seen by the Ishtar Arc (one of my fave arcs hehe)

merlin’s friendship with hawk is actually so cute tho

so Meliodas’s beginner stats (still missing his powers) are magic 400, strength 960, spirit 2010. The way I see it, his insane spirit strength could mean one of two things: bitch is just hella determined in his quest to end their curses and protect his friends (likely) or merlin taking away his power only affects his strength and magic since spirit has to do with your mind (also likely) anyway what do y’all think?

how the fuck is gowther’s strength 500??? The average person who can lift 50-100 lbs has a strength of 30. HOW IN THE FUCK?? IS GOWTHER SECRETLY SWOLE????

Meliodas being like “no idk who the ten shadows could be haha” when he and merlin literally formed the sins to fight them and HE WAS THE LEADER OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS is so funny like so tru king lie to their faces

the first thing Zeldris says is “3000 years... please tell me that he’s still alive” which tells me two things: 1) he doesn’t know about Meliodas’s curse, which could explain why estarossa kills him when he’s just going to come back a rival to the throne of the demon king and 2) the listed life expectancy of 1000 years for demons is probably not accurate lol

maybe it’s driven down due to number of battle deaths like the mortality rate of the middle ages lol

we are introduced to a demon who hopes mel is alive, shares a voice actor, AND HAS THE SAME FACE yeah the brother coding is very thick

AJSDBJKBHJEBFNWKFH YESSS THIS IS MY ALL TIME FAVE INTRO SONG AND ANIMATION

ban’s refusal to get jericho’s name right makes me laugh every time

Jericho: is scared and runs to Ban

Ban: 🤨 yeah. i don’t remember asking you to grab my arm🙄

im sorry but king rlly was a bad fairy king like mans didnt even know the forest was there 😭 its ok tho i love that for him

King hating Ban at first bc he “killed elaine and destroyed the fairy kings forest” only for Ban to pull THE BIGGEST uno reverse on him will never not be funny

wait does that mean ban is technically the 4th fairy king and king is both the 3rd and the 5th bc that would be rlly funny and does happen quite a bit historically

I love how as much as a smug asshole Ban is, he’s not rubbing it in King’s face and is showing him he’s still his friend

so if Gil is Margaret’s guard and Griamore is Veronica’s, does that mean Howzer was Elizabeth’s ?? bc that would be so fucking funny

Helbram got King’s ass with “and you’re short”

KASBDFNJBSDKF HE LOOKS SO GOOFY😭

MY BABYGIRLS ARE HEREEEE

Best girls Melascula and Derieri fr

i love that they said slader is gay, how can we let the audience know and then gave him the smoothest, gayest voice imaginable

merlin calling og gowther a great magician when we know he was the one to train her is actually so sad, i want to give baby merlin a hug

slader is hot, thanks for coming to the ted talk

how the fuck does he walk like this tho??

is there a reason i just don’t remember why they never really bring up albions again or do they just ~disappear~ conveniently from the story lol

So the whole concept of sacred treasures is really cool to me because they are clearly something unique to the Sins, despite all of the sacred treasures being very different and made of different materials. I mean Gowther’s is straight up made of light Still, them having weapons that serve as a constant and grow with them as they become more powerful is just a neat concept to me. I just wish we could have seen Ban use Courechouse more than just a few episodes. There really isn’t a plot reason he couldn’t have had it beforehand.

Gerheade being a bitch to Ban bc he’s a human makes literally no sense when we learn her backstory with Rou. Like NO sense at all lol

I honestly love that Meliodas destroyed the albion on his own. Like yes, he is my OP blorbo BUT he’s also supposed to be incredibly powerful in canon, which we haven’t seen him go all out with an enemy yet. Not only does he know all about albions (bc he’s a demon), but as leader of the 10 Commandments, he probably was on the controlling side of the golems. Then, as a member of Stigma, he fought against them. Not to mention, this is when he finally gets Lostvayne (the DEMON sword) back. This moment for me is when he gets to show off the perks of him being a powerful and high ranking demon. Might fuck around and do a full post later on Meliodas’s relationship to his own race and what/who he is lol

Ban screaming “you bitch!!” is... a wonderful experience

Yass king (hehehehe get it? bc his name is king? hehehe)

Galand petting Gloxinia is actually so cute lol

Merlin covering Arthur’s eyes 😭😭 she’s his mom fr

“its been a while meliodas” oop galand just let the Meliodas is 3000 years old cat out of the bag ehehe

(stay with me bc im about to get delusional) WAIT so galand says “to think that after all this time has passed youd still be in that form” in this essay i will prove that Meliodas looks like a young teenager because he essentially is biologically young for the demon race. Galand doesn’t know Mel was cursed, so he would think that he had aged in the past 3000 years. Plus, I think the demon king’s possession of Meliodas AND Zeldris can be (somewhat) compared to Sariel’s aging up of Solaseed. Anyway, i feel like this can support my hypothesis of Zeldris and Meliodas are just babies who will eventually look like adults. Also, I think them being super young just enhances the angst quite well.

everyone is fucking terrified of galand but hes just a silly foolish little fellow to me lol

ban and king being brothers-in-law makes my heart happy like theyre so cute

Ban threatening Gerheade and actually being pissed and serious has suddenly reminded me that if i saw a grown ass man who couldn’t die and was a 7 foot tall violent alcoholic i would be fucking terrified

like a demon 14 year old? creepy ig but not a 7 foot tall masochist with an 8 pack

I love how hard Diane always goes for the ones she loves, she’s just so devoted and passionate Best Girl tm behavior

*Merlin being incredibly confidant and nonchalant starting a proposition*

Meanwhile Merlin’s thoughts: SHIT SHIT I HAVE 10 SECONDS TO THINK BEFORE EVERYONE I LIKE DIES

Meliodas doing the same thing Hendy did by reattaching his fucking arms using Darkness and the sins still being like wait?? is Meliodas?? a... demon ??? 🤨

okay so we DO see him in this mode again. But what is it called? and why does he become no thots head empty? its not like he died. and even in assault mode, he has thoughts and emotions (when they’re not stuck in purgatory) 

Im ngl, i forgot everything about this episode entirely lol

obvi i hate that derieri died, but at least the souls she fucking ate got returned lol

do we think arthur has a tiny teenage gay crush on meliodas? Discuss.

(the answer is yes ehehe)

gowther walking around with his dang a lang swangin hehe

Gil crying in annoyance and defeat as griamore and howzer bicker is literally so hashtag real

HENDYYY MY BABYGIRL IS BACK BAYBAYYYY

very suddenly realized that Hendy’s probably only like in his 30s. Mans is just not that old

exactly 3 seconds after I had that though Howzer calls him old man LOLLL

i forgot about hendy’s childhood trauma. damn. thats actually rlly sad :/

look how cute he is tho 😭😭

hendy and dreyfus are in love. thanks for coming to another one of my ted talks

so do we think dreyfus is half druid (and zaratras is full) or zaratras is half druid? i mean they’re half brothers but only one is a called a druid sooo

IM SORRY BUT THIS IS THE FUNNIEST FUCKING SCREENSHOT ASDFFHSLDH elizabeth scandalized, meliodas accepting his fate, slader leaning in closer and blushing ITS JUST SO GOOD

The ass shot of Diane 🤨😑

Damn Idk how i never realized that all of them pretty much only call Meliodas captain. Merlin, Ban, and Elizabeth are the only ones who will call him Meliodas, but even merlin and ban typically go with captain.

“im a giant, why arent you afraid of me?” hes a fucking demon. lol

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[vaulttecvevo]

i avoided watching merlin for all these years bc a) im incapable of taking british ppl seriously and b) i thot it was gonna be a sherlock situation (bad w a delusional fanbase) but im bored now and My GOD These Bitches Gay...

[zeph1rus]

Akuu Daisakusen SRUNGLE aka Mission Outer Space SRUNGLE

Saw this on ebay and had to know more just based on the name. It's amazing and so is every one of the mecha associated with it.

Just look at this boy. Not lithe like a variable fighter, our main guy looks like he could headbutt straight through a planet if it looked at him funny.

Just like most of his contemporaries, his alternative modes are 'hunching over' and 'sitting down a bit'. Doesn't matter, they're just different forms of "fuck you my fists are rockets and I can strap bits of my friends to me to give me more gun".

And just look at his mates, each piloted by one of the crew.

Bombie Tie fighter with legs. If the empire had used this many guns and legs on a Tie interceptor there would be no rebel alliance. Piloted by the only girl of the group Sexy (yes, that's her name). Absolutely incredible jumpsuit with built in heels. Apparently an exhibishionist explosive expert. Absolutely fucks.

Babysaurs

Piloted by the resident bear Babyface, our mechanic, who is too pure for this world.

Magicarian

I guess the party found a magic grandad called, obviously Magician and decided they needed an insect robot with a giant fan. Why not? Merlin had a white beard and he didn't have a giant robot, so fuck him. This dude is better. Can change his form to anything, but sticks with 'pervy grandad'

BrittJetter

Despite having a name like a defunct English low cost airline, our sharpshooter Jet has a pretty straightforward mech, but look at that outfit. Skin-tight lycra? yes please, and that cutout is just barely covering those powerful shoulders. He's got a gun and he knows which end to point at the bad thing. I would. You probably would. We all know it.

Centrosuper

Piloted by our suave master pilot Super star, long green hair, smoldering look, space bike mech. Does not know what sex is but will cuddle you and steal your space gold. Space bike has legs for reasons unknown.

Chancer Our captain Chance is the veteran leader of the gorilla organisation Pure thot energy, pilots chancer, a mech with entirely too much leg.

Together, they fight Crime.

No really, they fight the Crime organisation. Lead by the evil Crime Boss.

I've not seen a single episode of this but I love it.

[thebluestbluewords]

Kissing your tags on the mouth, taking them into my head to live rent-free etc.

I’m having some thots about the 5 person revolving situationship of it all and I’m going to make that everybody else’s problem:

To start off: y'know that post about how people who work at renaissance fairs are basically the wildest, most sexually adventurous nerds ever to nerd? Yeah, that's the vibe I get from these proto-VKs. They're here for the DRAMA the STYLE the SEXUAL AMBIGUITY OF IT ALL. 

Uliana shows up to her first day at Merlin Academy determined to take the drama department, and then the rest of the school, and possibly the world by storm. 

Instead, she manages to pick up a theater freak (affectionate) with a stupid made up accent and a hook. He's got some sort of crazy story about how he used to be a pirate captain before a fairy threw him back in time to teach him a lesson, but Uliana isn't here to worry about that. She's got a lot more on her mind, like how she's going to get the lead in the school production of Goodness: The Retold Story of the Good Witch of Oz. 

Her new pet theater boy is sort of pathetic, but Uliana likes that in a man. They have an ill-advised makeout sesh in a fountain after he finds Uliana out there at night washing her tentacles, and it's the start of a terrible, horrible revolving situationship that will plague Merlin Academy for their entire tenure. 

Hook has friends, is the thing. He might be a hopeless theater kid who's obsessed with honor and sportsmanship, but he's also obsessed with his girlfriend (Uliana) and his friends (Hades and Maleficent) 

Hades is a god. They all know that he's a literal god. He's got a kingdom and everything. They visited last spring break. His wife is chill with the whole situation. She's also immortal, and able to shift her age at will. She's using her husband's absence to repaint the underworld. Give the whole thing a new coat of grass. Build a new shed in the backyard. (She's calling it Elysium). She de-ages herself too, just for spring break, so they can all have fun together. 

Hades is usually a grumpy old man who spends his time ruling the underworld, but his brothers decided that he wasn't getting enough contact with the mortal world and cursed him to spend a few years as a human teenager so he could stay in touch with human culture. 

Hook adores him. The only think Hook loves more than hanging out with Hades and hearing stories about the shades of the underworld who died horrific deaths due to a lack of honor, is hanging out with Uliana and playing with her tentacles. 

Maleficent is mostly Hades's girlfriend. She won't tell them why she's an ancient fairy in the body of a sixteen-year-old attending a magical high school, but every so often she gets visibly frustrated with a lack of whatever magical progress she's hoping to make and dumps Hades over it. 

Uliana loves when this happens, because it means that Maleficent is available for Girl Time, which means hiding from the boys, making up stupid curses for all the bubbly princess types who don't appreciate their Dark Magic Aesthetic, and yeah, kind of a lot of making out. 

I'm not saying that they shotgun fantasy weed together, but that's totally what I'm saying. 

During one of these makeout sessions, Maleficent gets the bright idea to go spy on the boys. And maybe throw rocks at them. Small rocks. Pebbles, really. 

Uliana is down. Hook loves when people throw things at him. It's like enrichment for him. Hades doesn't love it, but he's a god, and will just light whatever they throw on fire. 

Maleficent scoops up a little green snake from one of the fountains to throw, who upon being thrown, turns into a boy. 

Despite not actually being wet, he sort of exudes the aura of being dripping wet and pathetic about it. Hades, unfortunately, loves being adored, and takes the easy opportunity to blow some hot air over the kid and win him over to his side forever. 

Morgie is what the kids call a wet noodle of a man, but he's also oozing magical potential so hard that it makes Maleficent sneeze, so they adopt him into their Super Cool Goth Theater Kid Polycule. 

He mostly clings to Hades, which is fine, because Maleficent is actually sort of done with Hades for the moment, and is much more into being a trio with Uliana and Hook. 

Until, of course, Morgie walks in on Maleficent and Hades in a bathroom stall, and goes crying to Hook about the betrayal of it all. 

This cycle of messy polycule situationships WILL continue all through high school, until eventually, through nobody's fault but their own, Maleficent and Hades are the only two left, and decide to get married about it, thus triggering a whole new set of problems. 

visually this Revenge sequence is SO good im actually obsessed

[nextstopparis]

i think we should talk more about how kilgharrah knew morgana was uthers daughter the whole time

[merwainerights]

i have So Much i could say about gwaine but the biggest thing is how utterly ridiculous what they did to his character post s3 was (with the exception so far of one scene in my continuing rewatch). he became comic relief!! the gwaine we met in the whole ass episode dedicated to him titled “gwaine” became!! on-the-side comic relief!! of a himbo variety!! what the fuck happened to the genius fighter/swordsman with wit to match merlin’s and a penchant for trouble but a heart of gold that we were introduced to!! where the hell did the ruggedly charming, obviously intelligent adventurer who’s been to like 95% of the world that was established in the eye of the pheonix disappear to!! he was so much better than the “hee-hee i’m gonna stick my hand in a beehive bc i totally don’t know that’s a bad idea” dumbass that’s onscreen for like 98% of the series after s3

[tiodolma]

BBC Merlin was already told by Kilgharrah in s2x11 what the Crystal of Neahtid (and by extension Crystal Cave) was used for :D

MERLIN What is the Crystal of Neahtid? KILGHARRAH To those who know how to use it, the Crystal holds great knowledge. MERLIN What kind of knowledge. KILGHARRAH The knowledge of what is, what has been, and what is yet to come. MERLIN Do you mean it can show you the future? KILGHARRAH Amongst other things, yes. MERLIN The Crystal has been stolen.

He was already informed IN S2, the whole time, that the Crystal showed other things aside from "the future." Yet this manservant only fixated on the future part coz of course he would :D

and he also knew that Morgana would never be able to use it.

MERLIN The Lady Morgana. KILGHARRAH (laughs) That witch does not have the power to wield the Crystal. MERLIN Does the druid boy? KILGHARRAH Mordred? It is possible. Why do you ask?

But of course he was more concerned of what a threat the kid Mordred would be and not the clue that only special sorcerers could use that darn thing. :D

MERLIN It's the Crystal. It harbours a terrible power, Gaius. GAIUS It's locked away now. It can do no harm. Unless the damage has already been done. MERLIN I held it. I knew I shouldn't. I knew no good would come of it, but it compelled me to look. I couldn't resist it. I saw things, terrible things. GAIUS Then you've already paid the price. MERLIN But what I saw has not yet come to pass, and I am scared, Gaius. I am really scared of what the future may hold.

And I do understand why he wouldn't touch it right after s2x11 episode...I GET IT THAT HE WAS SCARED.

MERLIN Images. Flashes. I've seen something like this before in the Crystal of Neahtid. TALIESIN What you see here is exactly the same, for the Crystal of Neahtid was hewn from this very cave. Look into them, Emrys. Really look. Much will be revealed.

s3x05 [Merlin turns to look, but jerks away.] MERLIN No! Take me out of here. How do I get back to Arthur? TALIESIN The future is hidden to all but a very few, Emrys. You are one such person. MERLIN No! I've been through this before. TALIESIN Perhaps there is a reason you were brought here at this moment in time. MERLIN What reason? TALIESIN Only the crystals can tell you. They contain futures that are not yet born. The secrets they reveal, Emrys, are unique to you, and you alone. Look into them, Emrys. Really look. Use what you see for good.

but really, to not use it in s3-s5 when they needed information the most??? and when he was already told that he was the only one alive that could use it???

...such cool helpful tool... wasted and abandoned in the camelot vault

BTW TRIVIA! THIS IS ALSO FRENCH MEDIEVAL MERLIN'S POWER BESTOWED TO HIM BY HIS DEMONKIN

But how myght we haue a man of oure kynde that myght speke and haue oure connynge and maystrie worke, and haue the knowleche as we haue of thinges that be don and seide, and of thynges that be past, and that he myght be in erthe conuersant with these other for witeth it wele that soche on myght moche helpe us to be-gile his pepill, like as the prophetes be-giled us, and tolden that we trowe neuer myght haue ben. In the same wise sholde sithe oon telle alle thynges that were don and saide [folio 1b] bothe of that is passed and of thynges that is to come, and be that sholde he be bileved of moche peple.

[spacehostilityy]

So bc I'm basically incapable of doing anything in order, I started my nnt rewatch with Meliodas's death, went to the end, and now I'm rewatching from the beginning

Anyway it has me thinking about the Sins' wanted posters, so here are my thots

It's actually really cute Meliodas kept the posters up in a dramatic display in the Boar Hat

Why do King, Diane, Merlin, Gowther, and Ban get at least semi-accurate posters, but Escanor and Meliodas's are totally different? Like they all look a bit scarier, but what were they doing with Mel and Escanor's lol

Maybe they were trying to age them up a bit? Still, they just don't look at all the same and we never really figure out why lol

Even if they are aged up, why do they look so old??? If Meliodas looks about 15, why would they put a man that looks 40 instead of one that looks 25??? Can they just not believe he's actually that young? It hasn't been very long at all?

Like who are these ppl???

Anyway might turn this into a rewatch nnt with me as I ramble bc my head is filled so full with thots it's not even funny. I have so many half finished drafts🥲

[amosnaomi]

merlin 4x10 herald of the new age IS one of (if not the) best merlin episodes i can't believe i never noticed on first watch

[casafras]

So... 5x13.

I knew how it was going to end with his death but that didnt make it any nicer. I did like how arthur was angry at first and through the journey to the lake he saw how merlin would use his powers and he realized how merlin helped all throughout the years. A few pieces of dialog that ripped my heart was:

"I dont want you to change who you are."

That "Just hold me" bitch stfu im crying

[nananaomiii]

hhhhhhhhhh,,,

he

[queen-of-reptiles]

Welcome to late night thoughts, thots,

When describing fictional relations there is three and not two categories.

The two currently popular:

- ‘You look beautiful’

- ‘Screaming and crying’

I propose a third option to make it a triangle, and which characters I think fit exactly in the category:

- ‘God, you make me crazy’

Characters including,

-JJ Maybank,

-Isaac Lahey

-Natasha Romanov

-Merlin (BBC Merlin)

- And so many more …

and so will probably start making diagrams for all of my fav shows to back this theory up, as some people DEFINITELY sit between two points.

Have fun dissecting your fictional relationships with fake characters because you can’t form a real one folks.

I’ll be doing the same :)

much love xoxo

[gayhags]

thots on tonights haus of dragon since ik my opinion is wanted:

- before i say anything vahgar was giving bbc merlin dragon like pls i miss u katie mcgrath

- alicent asking to see rhaenyra right after birth and then being like omg sit down why are u walking u just gave birth??? that was so cunty of her 

- if they wanted me to hate aegon they did a bad job at doing it bc i kind of like him hes just c*mming all over kings landing

- alicent? mother

- rhaenyra? mother

- rhaenyra telling leanor she knows what he guzzles? another cunty moment

- rip harwin and laena i did not care next (felt like this whole rhaenrya/harwin stuff was WAY too quick like they really couldve spent a whole episode on that part of rhaenyras life like ok this man takes her out of a middle of a brawl at her wedding and then next episode she has like 3 children by him?? pls.)

- larys is a loser and so is criston cole