airemagic

(he/him) writer | nonfiction and poetry youngarts ‘20/‘21 winner | probably thinking about mythology too much

[frogcraftingg]

building cozy structures in minecraft is my favorite thing 🩷🌻

[airemagic]

i need to build that tower in my world like, now

[airemagic]

im terrorizing my stepmom by looking through her unhinged bluesky posts in front of her and doing dramatic readings of some of them, and i know im my mothers son bc she told my mom i was doing that in our groupchat and mom was like yeah, terrorizing her is fun, right?

[tarmac-rat]

*slap slap* Johnny Silverhand is a character who can fit so much symbolism in him. He's a dog. He's a cat. He's a terminal illness and the ghost it leaves behind when it kills you. He's a demon. He's a guardian angel. He's the Hanged Man AND the Lovers AND the Temperance tarot cards simultaneously. He's Satan. He's the Sword of Damocles. He's fire. He's a haunted house. He's Dante Alighieri. He's Orpheus. He's Cassandra. He's Samson. He's your conscience. He's your sense of morality. He's your time of the month. He's addiction. He's America's horrible failure to support veterans. He's your will to live. He's your subconscious desire to rebel against the status quo. I love him; Johnny is a character that contains multitudes and half of them are actively trying to rip the player character's throat out.

[airemagic]

hes so fascinating. i want to study him.

[gray-r-regan]

He's just a rude, sad asshole driven by bad ideas and poor choices.

[airemagic]

yep, pretty much, but idk, hes still compelling somehow

[tarmac-rat]

*slap slap* Johnny Silverhand is a character who can fit so much symbolism in him. He's a dog. He's a cat. He's a terminal illness and the ghost it leaves behind when it kills you. He's a demon. He's a guardian angel. He's the Hanged Man AND the Lovers AND the Temperance tarot cards simultaneously. He's Satan. He's the Sword of Damocles. He's fire. He's a haunted house. He's Dante Alighieri. He's Orpheus. He's Cassandra. He's Samson. He's your conscience. He's your sense of morality. He's your time of the month. He's addiction. He's America's horrible failure to support veterans. He's your will to live. He's your subconscious desire to rebel against the status quo. I love him; Johnny is a character that contains multitudes and half of them are actively trying to rip the player character's throat out.

[airemagic]

hes so fascinating. i want to study him.

[cybershock24601]

I just know Vik poured himself a full glass of whiskey the first time he saw V with the Lovers neck tattoo because it was one thing when V showed up with the Johnny + V tattoo because apparently Silverhand got that when V gave him control of her body (which was already concerning because why the fuck are you letting your brain parasite pilot your body V?!?) as a ‘joke’ but there is no reasonable defense for the Lovers tattoo right next to where the relic is slotted into her head. Vik is just desperately ignoring the signs that V is in the world’s most fucked up situationship with her tapeworm and drinking to forget but he always remembers

[airemagic]

poor vik

[koffeinkaos]

My favorite thing about merthur is that if either one of them would be very brave for 5 seconds and shamelessly flirt with the other one, they would stop working as a human being. If Merlin would grin slightly and put his hand on the wall behind Arthur while leaning in and saying something teasing Arthur would forget how to speak but it also would be the exact same the other way around.

Its literally the perfect dynamic

[vroomvroombrrr]

Lucifer's punishment is evil in poetic form. "You can be a King, but you won't have the power of one. Humans may keep their free will, but you will pay for it with yours. You defied us because you wanted them to have it, now watch them squander it, watch what free will truly entails, watch them choose to be wicked. You will not be allowed to interfere with their world like you did on earth. Never again. You will watch evil unfold and be powerless to stop it, an angel without a purpose, an angel unable to do good, an angel seperated from his nature. You will spend eternity longing for the star in the sky you were cast out of. It will remain in your view, to mock you, to pain you, to haunt you. You will never see the good we created, only the evil you raught. You may keep your angelic form, the one we gave you, but deep down you will be demonic and wrong. Your dreams have been heard, and you have been judged. This is the crown you acted like you deserved, and it will weigh heavy on you. You will be King, you may keep your pride, but how much is your pride worth when everything else is lost?"

[charlataninred]

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[meraarts]

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

[eater-of-hopes-and-dreams]

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

[blitzlowin]

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

[charlataninred]

I am in love with you /p

[the-thread-of-the-infinite]

What about the one with the princess locked in a tower learning to become a wizard? That’s lived in my mind for years and I haven’t seen it in a long time

[death-of-the-endless]

Oh, love that story, adding it to the list: 20. Princess Talia and adding a few more contenders 21. Thyme 22. The Monster under the Bed 23. A Meaningful Death 24. Humans are unstoppable…until they aren’t 25. The Monster under the Fridge 26. Antler Guy 27. Cleric slamming healing spells

[death-of-the-endless]

Adding a few more I remembered:  28. The Frog and the Scorpion 29. HSTHETE 30. The First Witch in the World 31. Imagine that Oceans were replaced by Forests  32. A Faerie taking a Name  33. The Dragon on the Farm  34. Synovus & Menace  35. Raising the Anti-Christ  36. Aliens vs. Flora & Fauna of Earth (pretty sure there are even more additions to the original post but I had this one saved)  37. Doctors without Borders…in Space!  38. The Villain-Wrangler  39. The Last Contact  40. The 100 Parent-Point Children  41. And the Heavens Wept  42. The Night Gentleman  43. The Serpent God and their Priestess 

[knottahooker]

44. No One Showed Up for the Last Storytime

[adamskiiii]

Wow! @writing-prompt-s contributing to like half of these!

[writing-prompt-s]

I can hardly take any credit for these stories! But I love sharing them. Unfortunately I cannot read all the prompt responses so please tag me if you want me to reblog a story that resonated with you so I can give it a little boost :)

[airemagic]

ok this is genuinely so cool as someone who gets nerdy about anthropology and storytelling

[mias-back-from-the-dead]

tbh i think the funniest phenomena that's been happening in the last couple years is "youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will"

[aces-and-anime]

Shout out to the guy who wanted to do some fun & silly little reviews but uncovered an illegal gambling operation

(Review 2)

[json-derulo]

this guy started out poking fun at australian politicians and ended up investigating the firebombing of his own home, during which he uncovered connections between the same politician he was making fun of + major organized crime

[wedding-funeral-waitress]

JasperDasper started out just curious why everything had suddenly become about trans people and questioning some of the sources used in a book. He came out of it, 4 years later, with a 5 hour long video that connects all transphobia to less than 60 people. (I'm not joking. literally every single transphobic rhetoric and bill passed is because of these 50 or so people.)

If you wanna watch it I cannot recommend it enough; I just warn that it covers a LOT.

[beyond-crusading]

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

[airemagic]

hmmm why do i think that kilgarrah would still be the more reasonable of the two? looking at you, grok

[versaphile]

Map of the Kingdom of Camelot by Versaphile

A fully detailed map of the Kingdom of Camelot. The latest edition to my Albion Atlas. Contains all known and referenced locations from all five seasons. Feel free to use this as a reference, though if you make your own edit, please credit me and link back the map to AO3.

VIEW FULL SIZED MAP ON AO3

[frogmerthur]

imagine merlin when cameras were invented. and realising it’s too late for him. realising he will never have that for arthur. no photograph to cling to, no way to check if his mind has warped the truth. the only place arthur’s face exists now is in his own unreliable memory, and every year even that slips further away. it blurs the edges, dulls the colour, steals the exact shade of arthur’s hair, the exact curve of his smile. after a few hundred years, he’s not sure if he’s remembering arthur’s face or something his mind just stitched together to keep him alive. maybe the man he’s been searching for all these years is just a ghost his mind made. maybe the cruelest part is realising that if arthur stood before him now, merlin wouldn’t even be sure it was him. a thousand years of waiting, just to lose him twice.

[airemagic]

why,,, why must you hurt me so,,,

[onceandfuturelesbian]

RIP Gwaine you would have loved merthur fanfic

[onceandfuturelesbian]

gwaine is dedicated, tipsy & running out of parchment: merlin DEFINITELY tops princess

[airemagic]

ok but he’s right

[atror173]

they love each other, u know??

[airemagic]

the twink and the himbo, a love story in the stars

[airemagic]

so i realized i might be mildly insane when it comes to merlin.

i was explaining the show to some friends in a discord server and was sending some gifs of a few characters while i was explaining them, and then i looked back and realized i could tell which scene every gif came from and the context and the dialogue before and after.

autism is wild 😭

[limbel]

:-)

[airemagic]

they’re so cute i love them sm 🥺

[limbel]

boy best friends who are regular about each other