#there is no way arthur can't know
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back on the Merlin train- S5 Mordred for a moment like oh lord S5 Mordred I wish i could get in your head and see what’s there in your brains, rn I think I’d rather do that to you than main blorbo (if only cos im scared of his head)
like Mordred jfc
just, does arthur know does he think arthur knows has arthur forgotten
Merlin- not even touching their last S2 encounter when Merlin flat out attempts to murder child Mordred, when child mordred has this mythical figure who is supposed to be his salvation try to kill him for no reason he will ever discover
(and like Mordred is on the outs with druids by s5 right? my personal hc is this is why...)
and also, Emrys, just this rando guy, pretending to be weak,. Arthur and the knights bully him and Merlin goes along with it and Merlin is the most powerful person Mordred has ever met
Idk takes bullying the dragon to a new level, and obvs merlin wouldn’t turn on them but S5 Mordred is hated by who he considers not only to be the most powerful man, but a mythic figure and
jeez louise S5 mordred, what is your life
#BBC Merlin#merlin#mordred (merlin)#mordred#i ahven't explained this very well#but just like the sheer horror#watching everyone around you bully the dragon thinking it's a small lizard#an almost god like figure tried to killl you as a child#you don't know why#he saved your life the year prior#you don't thank him for it#it must have been an accident#you thank his boss the king who ought to kill you for what you are#he saved you#he mus tknow what you are#even his best friend is too scared to reavel this secret#even the most powerful man in teh world is too scared to tell this man he's a sorcerer#arthur surely can't know#there is no way arthur can't know#the proof of what you are is tatooed onto your skin#you stabbed a woman who cared for you#(you don't know what the mythic figure did to her)#she's full of hatred now#so is the person who is supposed to savae you#and the one who doesn't hate you would kill you if he knew who you were#you don't leave camelot#it's your dream#maybe it makes sense#why merlin doesn't tell arthur#it's worth it...
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Whenever Arthur talks badly about himself in the mirror I always think about this one picture
#because like#yeah#he sees himself as this cruel ugly bastard who will never make up for his sins#but ask quite literally anybody who knows him well and they'll say otherwise#the fact that his other relationships have failed for whichever reasons only reinforces his belief that he is unlovable and unworthy of love#which isn't true#arthur *wanted* to run away with mary more than anything even during the events of the game#after all those years he still *wanted* that#he wanted to run away with mary and be happy and be *loved*#and arthur knows that he has done a lot of bad#he says it himself that you can't live a bad life and expect good things to happen to you#but the whole idea of arthur being unable to see himself the way that others see him physically haunts me#oh arthur#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#mick thinks#arthur morgan#red dead redemption community#red dead redemption 2 spoilers
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And remember kids, the next time someone tells you, "George R. R. Martin wouldn't make Jon Snow the typical fantasy hero because that's cliche".....
Oh yes he would!
One viewer wants to know what character would you play (on the show)? GRRM: If I could magically clap my hands and become a different person, it would be cool to play Jon Snow who's much more of the classic hero. Everybody wants to be the classic hero! ABC Interview, 2014
GRRM: And the character I’d want to be? Well who wouldn’t want to be Jon Snow — the brooding, Byronic, romantic hero whom all the girls love. Meduza Interview, 2017
In fact he already has ☺️
#asoiaf#jon snow#yes grrm has criticized neo-tolkein fantasy - a lot!#but like....dpmo#I need so many people in this godforsaken fandom to familiarize themselves with grrm's engagement with the genre#he isn't trying to say “chosen one boy protagonist bad” where tf did people get that???#he's directly trying to challenge the more unsatisfactory elements of lesser copies of tolkien's legendarium#the ones that lift lotr wholesale without actually understanding what makes tolkien's writing snap#at the same time he has admitted himself that he has borrowed from lotr albeit with his own twists#but people in this fandom need to know that ye old man LOVES sword-and-sorcery fantasy#he LOVES a good epic#he LOVES pulp fantasy and sci fi#and those inspirations are directly reflected in asoiaf#the way he's named arthuriana/lotr/MST and many pulp stories with brooding dark heroes as key inspirations#almost all of which have mcs who fall into the typical fantasy hero role#and they inspire elements that are reflected back onto jon more than anyone else in asoiaf#like seoman snowlock = jon (+bran)#frodo - who btw is the mc in lotr not aragorn!! = jon (and bran)#FUCKING KING ARTHUR IS JON SO MUCH SO THAT RLJ IS LITERALLY A 1:1 COPY OF ARTHUR'S BIRTH STORY LIKE??!!!!#anyone who's even a little bit familiar with le morte d'arthur will be like oh yeah jon is literally king arthur like 😭😭#same with anyone who's ready the once and future king - which grrm has directly identified as his fav take on arthurian lit#ntm that jon is based on some of the most prolific characters in arthuriana - percival/galahad/lancelot etc#did you know that there's an iconic sci-fi series whose main character is called Eric JOHN STARK?#well grrm has directly quoted that series and the mc as a foundational book in his life#funny that huh? 🙂#do people even know what tf they're talking about when they say stuff like this???? ajdhhjshsbvshja#grrm engages very heavily with traditional fantasy tropes but he of course provides his own spin on them#never has he said that he's trying to avoid stories with hidden princes or chosen ones as boy protagonists#like someone find me a direct quote of him saying that - but I bet you can't smh
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i know there are only like five of us but i feel like garth stans really don't talk enough about how left out he feels with the titans. dick and wally are Best Friends. donna and roy are on and off again. dick and donna are too much to explain. on average, roy is close with at least one of dick's siblings. dick donna and wally all go on to be in the new teen titans. garth isn't Close with any other titans but the originals
and it's this thing where,,, it's not his Fault yknow? he's not mean or spiteful or creepy or anything that would warrant them not liking him as much. he joins in on their jokes, he risks his life, he shares his feelings, he does everything that he knows friends do. but just the virtue of him being atlantean and them being land dwellers ruins everything. he Can't spend more time with them, he doesn't understand their culture, he will always choose atlantis.
they'll always be his friends but he can never truly be with them or form deeper bonds. he'll always be the last one to know what's going on, the last one they call, a complete shadow and afterthought.
and sure there's a part of him that knows this, that feels bitter and lonely. but he can't even be that mad at them because he does the same thing. the titans are never his first thought, he never calls them first, he doesn't reach out and ask if they're okay, they're always the last ones to know what happened to him. the titans are such a huge part of his life but they're barely in it.
there's just something so inherently lonely about garth that i feel most dc writers don't understand. they just don't get it. they don't get what it's like for this boy who was all alone, never had parents or a family, suddenly being taken in and having to act like he knows how to be a son, a friend, a partner. meeting kids his own age and wanting to bond with them so bad, having to watch as they all get closer to each other and leave him behind, not being able to do anything about it. never being taken seriously, always the last choice... garth man.....
#usually i love garth thinking but sometimes he makes me too sad#i can't think about him too much or i get genuinely upset like please treat my boy better#i just.... AUGHHHHHH psychic damage from garth thinking#like i just... all of the titans have someone... Someone who is just theirs... theirs alone... someone who would choose them first#and garth doesnt... he doesnt have that with anyone#sure you could argue tula or dolphin but tula died young and he was dolphin's second choice aljhgd#and i know he doesn't hold that against her but you cant convince me that didnt sting at all#theyre also not titans!!#arthur always chooses mera or jr the titans all have their designated best friend and love interest like#he's got no one !!!!!!!!#honestly i think one of the biggest reasons for this (besides garth being Doomed) is that he never really got past the sidekick thing#like all of the titans got past that in their own right#i dont even need to explain that cause everyone knows what im talking about#but garth... i mean phil jimenez tried and i commend him for that but it just didnt happen the way it couldve or shouldve#and it happened too late#be honest do you guys think garth will ever become his own full character or will he always be in the shadow of aquaman and the titans#garth of shayeris
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i keep telling all my mutuals that I'll watch merlin at some point but I genuinely think that'll ruin my experience nothing is funnier than hearing about all that bullshit secondhand
#my mutual has been live dming me about this show for months now as THEY watch it for the first time#do you guys know that apparently arthur whines and whines and throws fits whenever the plot takes merlin away and he can't DRESS ARTHUR#and this is the least of the things I've heard. good god.#cause why is merlin putting more effort into gwen and arthur's relationship than either one of them apparently#why's he carrying it on his back uphill both ways
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hey i don't mind that you reposted the screenshots at all i think it's entirely fair to do so but. can you please not link the tweets to people on this site? because idk if there are assholes lurking in the fandom space who know me on both accounts or if they're from outside and just want to troll but ive gotten hate anons about it already, one of which was. Violently arophobic, which i assume comes from me mentioning being aro in a tweet. ive turned off anons and im really sorry about this whole thing but i don't want to give people easier access to my twt account than they already have if possible.
-2nd person in the tweets
I can respect this 100%. (I want to say that anyone who's said they've seen the posts on twitter, I haven't sent the link to anyone and will continue to not, so they've found the post themselves) I just don't also like the things I've seen you said (on twitter) because they're blatantly untrue. Sure, you may have seen people say something or another about being upset that the ship isn't real or what fucking ever, but majority of the time, the criticism of Malev comes from a place of genuine critique.
Maybe I'm coming at this from a personal perspective of people talking about the wrong shit and refusing to criticize a creator they like, because this is very much a second happening of this, albeit, a different person. But VERY similar paths for both certain parts of fans (not wanting people to crit his show and saying there's something wrong with people doing this and you getting the facts wrong) going to bat for the creator (who SHOULD be listening to well informed and constructive CRITIQUES, which has been the MAJORITY of the criticism for YEARS)
#i've seen your other (and op of the thread) tweets mostly bc of retweets and it's just. hm#everyone in that situation is looking at shit very surface level lmao. MAJORITY of people in this fandom know that arthur is a flawed man#the way you all are talking about people is kind of ridiculous especially when it's just not true. esp in the fucking malev neg tag#'people are mad johnarthur isn't canon' NOOOOO THEY'RE FUCKING NOOOOT#MAJORITY of tumblr malev fans are into it. yeah. MAJORITY of us DON'T want it to be canon#and also A LOT also hc arthur as aro like. anyways. i don't fucking know. get facts right if anything#malevolent neg#i can't add to this conversation a lot re: crit going on because i haven't listened to the show in a year#BECAUSE of harlan's attitude getting very similar to another creators and it made me uncomfortable
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His father's Son, 4.05
this scene is so satisfying to watch idk why... Annis, who has never known the type of person Arthur is, thinks it's a trick.
Meanwhile Morgana, even though she's fighting against him, for her it's hard to comprehend why Annis thinks it's such a big deal or it's trick.
Morgana's "cause he's Arthur" Punch you directly in the gut! She sees nothing amiss, for that's how it is. Any person who knows Arthur, they should know how he is, it's such a easy thing.
He won't risk life of his men, he's Arthur and therefore it's no trick!
#bbc merlin#bbc arthur#arthur pendragon#BBC morgana#The easy way which morgana says#He's Arthur#It's not he's noble#Honourable knight#Those are simple things#It's not because he's Camelot's king#It's just “he's Arthur”#It's ingrained in his nature#You don't understand annis#He won't play a trick like this#He can't#He don't know how to#(Lmao I hope he does tho)#King Arthur#My beloved
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i have a theory that Kayne shapeshifts into the "nice" creatures Arthur comes across bc he always seems to come into some sort of trouble after interacting with them. to guide him and keep an eye on him. when he followed a floating salamander he fell down a hole with a monster. the ladder was making noises when the owl/Alexander was on it so it could've been Kayne messing with it so it'd break and force Arthur into the tunnel
#malevolent#kayne malevolent#on the other hand i can't picture him staying around for the boring parts#but the way he showed arthur his past/au self and saying Oh this is my favorite part!#makes me think he's physically in the scene and sticks with them for a while#he's already seen other arthurs/johns try to get the stone so he'd know where to direct them
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Every time I hear a story about someone being horrified by "pox parties" I have to remember oh yeah they make a chicken pox vaccination now, don't they? Because when I was a kid that thing was brand new, and some older habits were still in place. Since it was safest to get chicken pox when you were elementary school aged, if one kid had it, pretty soon the whole school would. And most of the time it wasn't an accident - best get it done when it's safe rather than risk stuff like infertility in your 20s and beyond
#big shrug#i'm pretty sure I caught mine at either a pox party or just. at school#I don't remember much of it bc I was like five but I DO remember children's shows where pox parties were a thing#I think on Arthur specifically?#They at least had one chicken pox ep#I also think when we had that big sweep of everyone catching it#like. two people in my grade didn't have it#so our grade was just shut down for the week#and the two people who didn't were on chemo or had EB and I'm assuming#getting chicken pox for them would have been AWFUL and way more dangerous#I don't actually know how EB would react to chicken pox but I can't imagine it would be good
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so....i watched Disney Channel original movie Avalon High
#this movie shows its age way to much and it hurts but i can't look away (i do love it tho)#(it's cheesy and predictable but i need breaks)#it's not bad it just is#this meme prob would be a “spoiler” since there's a misdirect (but it's fairly obvious who they are lmao)#ALSO if this movie was given a sequel arthur's reincarnation love interest was a guy both as a knight and as a teen#SO WOULD THAT MEAN IN THIS MOVIE ARTHUR HAD A LOVER OTHER THAN GUINEVERE AND WAS A ONE OF HIS KNIGHTS???#also miles is great but not in the way that i know what disney was trying (and boy were they pushing him to be 'quirky')#disney: ok you're playing marco and he's supposed to be all intimidating....so when we cut to you we need you to be glaring angrily#avalon high#disney movies#disney channel original movies#new drinking game: take a drink every time i say 'you have a girlfriend'/'just...break up with them then' to will and jen
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I've had a stupid merlin au idea stuck in my head for days now and I know I'll never get around to writing it the way I want it written but I kinda wanna try anyway even though I am 100% of the target audience
#it's an f1 au btw#so I feel like a merlin x f1 crossovee is very niche#but I just have this idea in my head pf arthur as a driver and merlin as an aerodynamics engineer#and arthur starts off as an ass (as per usual) and thinks that he's god's gift to motorsports and all his good results are because of his#skill and bad results are because the engineers fucked up bad#and lowkey people don't like working with him BUT uther is giving red bull absolute mega bucks to keep him and he is actually a fantastic#driver in his own right. deep down he's not super satisfied though because people keep saying he's only winning because of his car#and his dad's money which is why he's a grumpy ass to most people and tries to claim good races as his and blame engineers for bad ones#also because uther probably taught him that attitude#in this au I think either Newey didn't exist but rb dominance still did or this is far enough after Newey that I haven't got arthur blaming#him for a bad car because y'all I can't do that it's too unrealistic no one would believe it#(yes I am aware that max and checo are currently complaining about a car newey made but shh)#anyway he secretly goes to sign for like. williams or something who currently suck so he can prove to himself and everyone else that he IS#a good driver and can drive a shit car well. he's admittedly doing fairly well in a tractor when merlin joins the team as the new head#of aerodynamics and arthur is giving him shit because he's so young and how could he possibly fix this shitbox#then Merlin's first big upgrade packages comes and makes a pretty big difference and arthur has to rethink a bit#the next season is the first car that merlin was actually mostly in charge of and it's a massive difference and suddenly it's competitive#meanwhile merlin's pov is that arthur sucks ass and he hates him but he keeps being told that arthur is his destiny#he refuses to believe this though and even though he has magic he point blank refuses to use it on anything that would help arthur even#somewhat indirectly like using it to help design the car. his official reasoning to people who know about his magic is that the fia wouldn't#allow it but personally he also just wants to say a fuck you to fate because he doesn't like arthur. but then they get to know each other#more and he realises that maybe arthur isn't that bad and they become friends like in the show#arthur is leading the championship (pendragon dominance could bore fans) but then he has a big crash and is out for a couple of races#by all accounts it's a miracle he's even alive (it's the only time merlin has used his magic for arthur). when he comes back he still has a#chance at wdc but it's way tighter than it was. maybe there's only a few races to go. he gets some podiums and his competition has some bad#luck (genuine not merlin) or something but then at like the second last race he can guarantee wdc if he wins regardless of where anyone else#places. he does it and merlin is the one to go on the podium with him on behalf of the team (maybe not for winning wdc but just his first#win after the crash idk) and it's this big emptional moment#also morgana was as good as arthur as kids but uther only supported arthur so now she works for sky or someone in a role like nico rosberg
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Ok but I need a post canon, Arthur returns, slow burn, Merthur, kind of fic where we can acompany our beloved king through the different stages of grief he will go through when Merlin tells him he's been dead for over 1500 years so he lost his kingdom, knights, friends and wife. A fic where we can see Merlin introducing Arthur to the 21st century and its technology that he insists is just magic, Mer-lin, I know it, I'm no fool. I know magic when I see it. A fic where we can see Arthur still struggling to fully trust on Merlin again because yes, he forgave him and he doesn't really care about the magic (except he does because Merlin's eyes look so beautiful when they are gold and where did that come from, Arthur Pendragon? Merlin, beautiful? Ha! The clotpole must've been right when he told you you shouldn't drink a third cup of that dark, strong, addictive beverage) but he still can't get over all the years of constant lies and deceiving, and Merlin feels guilty af so he tries to win his trust once again day by day and keep the promise he made to himself that day he finally confessed his magic to Arthur to not lie to him ever again. A fic full of fluffy moments between merthur where we can see them fall for each other harder slowly but surely until one day, after 3 or 4 months since Arthur came back, he finally kisses Merlin. And then they kiss some more. And more. And they are so happy grinning like idiots between kisses because finally they are on the same page. And everything is perfect. And Arthur suddenly loses his shirt somehow and things are getting heated although everything is still so soft and sweet and tentative. And then the doorbell rings. They ignore it at first, Arthur's orders, but the person behind the door is insistent so they have to stop so Merlin can go and see who it is. And when he finally opens the door, his jaw almost hit the floor because the person in front of him is no other than the fucking Queen of Camelot, his first and beloved friend, Guinevere Pendragon, the long ago dead widow of Arthur Pendragon, king of Camelot, whom he's been making out with seconds ago. And then everything goes downhill coz Gwen sees her husband and Arthur is so shocked to see her again and then they are hugging and smiling and kissing and glowing with happiness and then there's Merlin, with tears in his eyes as he sees them reunite again. As he sees Arthur reunited with his true love. And when the king finally takes a moment to process everything that is happening while having Guinevere laughing crying in his arms, his eyes find Merlin, his Merlin, the one he had in his arms minutes ago and everything comes crashing. Reality hits him so hard he can't even breathe for a second. Because he was happy with Merlin and even though he hadn't yet admitted it out loud, he knew, deep in his soul, that he was in love with him, but then Guinevere is back! His beautiful, amazing, sweet and wonderful queen who he loves with all his heart is back from the death and how is that even possible???
Phew! A fic full of drama and angst and hurt/comfort and tough decisions that Arthur will have to make eventually because he loves them both, but he only can have one and that is breaking him apart because he is a righteous man at heart and he knows that as a married man, his choice should be clear as water, but his soul is screaming at him because it wants something else, someone else, and he doesn't know what to do as he knows whatever he decides, one of the two people he loves the most in his life will end up brokenhearted. But life is unfair and cruel to everyone. Even to legendary kings.
So.
Can someone please write it?
For me???
Pretty please???
#merthur#fic prompt#i've been having this idea in my head for ages now but haven't find anything remitely similar#i could write it but it wouldn't turn out as great as it is in my head#i am desperate#i need someone to write this please#i love drama#i love angst#i love merthur#i love to respect the canon of the show but give it a little twist in a future escenario#i love the idea of arthur choosing gwen back in his camelot days but choosing merlin in the modern world#arthur loves gwen with all his heart but he also loves merlin with all his soul#true loves doesn't mean forever lovers#i also live for that moment in the fic where arthur confesses his feelings for merlin to gwen#she will be hurt but so understanding too#ok enough of the tags#this is getting out of hand#but this is how you know i've been thinking about it deeply and for way too long#please someone have mercy on this poor little untalented soul that can't write for the life of her
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"Your friend, Mr. Van Der Linde, has ensured that any relations between us and the army are worse than any point in the last five years. I'm sure he means well, but matters are more complex than he understands."
#the way he keeps looking at us the more rains fall talks about dutch#arthur knows dutch doesn't mean well#but he can't say it#until it was too late#oh arthur don't look at me like that please#I miss arthur so much I'm posting stuff I wasn't going to just so I can see him again#but I'm in the epilogue now#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#arthur morgan#rains fall#mick squeaks#mick gifs#red dead redemption community#red dead redemption 2 spoilers#oh arthur
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#alfie: i mean hey we're fucking the same guy might has well get to know each other#arthur: i'd rather frame my relationship w tommy in any other way than ''fucking''#fjkd can't stop thinking about the premise. here's how alfie/arthur can still win (i guess)
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I appreciate your tags greatly, every time lmao ❤️
when one is presented with the holy truth, what can a faithful servant do but submit?
#but fr though#you are fighting the good fight#lord knows why half an inch is making people insane - rather reminscent of how it absolutely definitely 100% does not keep arthur awake at#latest thing that merlin's 'ruined beyond definition'#i also love the fact that we've all agreed that it's not something that merlin brings up but some thing he can't help but figure out with#the way arthur's going on about it in his 'emotionally repressed but definitely fuming' way#bbc merlin#merlin#arthur#merlin is not babygirl#he literally has the world's power at his fingertips#never mind the fact that he has to hide it#but you really think that a meek and shy persona is his default#when the earth courses through him every time he does magic#absolutely not
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The way Merlin is a tragedy disguised as a comedy
#bbc merlin#me 10 years ago: hey let's start this funny show!! surely it won't damage me beyond repair#the thing is. you have hope. the whole goddamn show there is hope.#it starts as being light and hilarious then it gets more and more tragic but there's still hilarious moments and there's still hope#especially after uther dies#you think that maybe things will get better. but no. they get arguably worse.#the lies stack up one after another & in the end the promise made at the start - that arthur will return magic to camelot - is a lie too#i think#it's literally been 10 years since I've seen merlin so maybe i remember things wrongly#i wanted to rewatch it recently but i couldn't#i couldn't watch it again knowing how terrible it all turns out#i support women being evil but morgana becoming the evil sorceress just broke my fucking heart and i can't go through it again#she was betrayed in so many ways and it WOULD HAVE BEEN SO EASY TO REACH OUT TO HER#SHE REALLY WANTED SOMEONE TO REACH OUT TO HER#and when nobody did except the druids and then the druids were killed she was like fuck all of you#and rightfully so#but it still fucking breaks my heart#not to mention the whole... merlin. yea not to mention merlin#you watch this show and you look at the characters becoming better for a short while#and then it's a shitshow in all of them becoming so much worse#except gwen <3
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