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the life of a showgirl

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SUPERNATURAL 4.16 — On the Head of a Pin

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okay so i’ve been thinking abt bbc merlin x hamlet parallels today ESPECIALLY morgana x ophelia:

morgana and ophelia are SUCH mirrors of each other. both are women who loved deeply, who were loyal until that loyalty demanded the death of their own selves. both used as pawns in games played by men, suffer betrayal by those they love and trust, and left to unravel when the weight becomes too much. in the same way ophelia gets caught in the crossfire of claudius’ schemes and hamlet’s unraveling, morgana becomes collateral in uther’s crusade against sorcery. both are labelled unstable and dangerous, but no one stops to ask what broke them in the first place. both are victims of societal expectations.

and by the end, they’re remembered not for the warmth they once had, but for the way they fell. ophelia’s death is treated like a sad inevitability, just as morgana’s villainy is framed as her destined descent. ignoring the fact that in both cases, it was cruelty, neglect and betrayal that pulled them under.

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Failure’s a part of it all And if failure don’t hurt then failure don’t work at all

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Morgana Pendragon in every episode: 3.07 The Castle of Fyrien

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Morgana Pendragon in every episode: 3.06 The Changeling

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When exiled from Camelot because of her magic, Morgause was trained by Nimueh at the Island of the Blessed' shrines. The high priestess shared with Morgause Uther Pendragon's greatest secret, the mystery of his wife's death and trained her in magical arts, such as casting firebolts

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ᵃ ᵐᵒᵐᵉⁿᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʳᵘᵗʰ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᴵ ˢᵃʷ ⁱⁿ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᶠᵃᶜᵉ | ᴹᵉʳˡⁱⁿ ˣ ᴹᵒʳᵍᵃⁿᵃ | ᶠʳᵒᵐ: ᶠᵃᵗᵉ ᵇʸ ᴮˡᵉᵃᵏ ᶠᵗ. ᴬⁿᵃ ᴶᵒʰⁿˢˢᵒⁿ

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i remember we were so sure, so innocent oh, but that was then

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On the sucking leech aka Gancanagh

First, what they were implying making an Irish cold-hearted fairy seducer the worm/snake/whatever which can suck your magic out? In the folklore, the fairy seduced girls and then left them without a second thought, they got sick and depressed without his love.

Second, what if the magic he got from Merlin somehow stored in him? What if Morgana decided to extract the stored power for herself, and so uses the snake on herself. And then we have several variations:

If the snake feeds Merlin's power to Morgana, she gets super powerful and does not fall unconscious on the battfield, and mass-murders Camelot's knights like Merlin did the Saxons, so Camelot is basically left defenceless, Guinevere gets nothing.

Or the snake does not work this way and sucks magic from Morgana too, so she is magicless:

Mordred is now in charge and controls everything. Morgana stays in the fortress to wait, and then she receives a dream/letter that he is dead, the battle is over, and chases after Arthur.

Or Morgana goes to Camlann and sword-fights Arthur, but Mordred backstabs Arthur, for a traitor he is.

Or Mordred changes his mind, locks magicless Morgana in her room and they do not go to Camlann. Mordred lets Gancanagh out, but on the way through the woods he bites Arthur, and since the latter has no magic, he dies anyway.

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Im unwell about Morgan again.

Im reminded that some modern stories make Morgan evil for no reason AFTER Camlann. And I hate that.

Like, Vita Merlini, Didot Percival, Vulgate Cycle, Post Vulgate and Le Morte D'Arthur all agree Morgan saves Arthur and brings him to her island.

And other stories like Tirant lo Blanc, Bataille Loquifer and Huon de Bourdeux have Morgan and Arthur hang out together.

But it feels like most Modern stories, like, straight up ignore this to have their "supervillainess", who exists only to be beaten up by the heroes in their works.

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not coming back

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Okamoto Jun, from “Battlefield of Dreams,” featured in “The Penguin Book of Japanese Literature,”

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Home isn't always associated with good memories. -Sharon Blackie

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Something that's funny to me is that since Arthur stayed and Morgana left that makes them so that Arthur is the Golden child and Morgana is the black sheep but literally weeks ago it was completely flipped from Uther's perspective.

From Uthers perspective up until right then Morgana was the golden child cause she was sucking up to him and no longer outwardly rebeling against him (so that she could do more betrayal and rebeling but he doesn't know that yet) and Arthur is this lil fuck up who associates with accused sorcerers and with knights that he "totally didn't know they weren't royal" and who constantly agrues with Uther about policies

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"I asked ChatGPT-" Well I asked the immortal Dragon that Uther chained in the caves beneath Camelot and HE told me to commit treason