Merlin Deserved Better

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[mayahart]

MERLIN 3.08 | The Eye of the Phoenix

[bisclavret]

there is always something really funny about the fact that the only person who can handle Gwaine is the most powerful sorcerer in existence who chooses to live in Camelot. no one else is capable of tolerating him but only because Merlin exceeds him in the crazy department @sneakyboymerlin

[irishyuri]

my betsy has gotten another face lift and i’ve got more a5 prints available for anyone interested 🕺🕺💃💃

and also..

some lesbian gwaine holographic stickers 👀

[irishyuri]

do you have a moment to talk about bbc merlin’s main characters

edit: prints now available in a5!

[petemcvries23]

there’s just something so awesome about a character you love getting really badly hurt

[willgrahamscock]

if you see me liking contradicting headcanons for the same character just know it's because I do not give a fuck and I have an active imagination #hewouldsaythat

[creaturepeaches]

i hate it when i can tell my perception of a character is diminishing in real time because of fandom wank. like nooooo i want to maintain an objective relationship with the text but everyone is so annoying about you nooooo

[sunderwight]

We need to put out periodic reminders in fandom that trying to argue in favor of the divine right of kings or defending wartime atrocities or rich people's entitlement to the deference of indentured servants or whatever is, in fact, way less compelling and far stupider than just going well, that character is hot and this is fiction so I've decided it's all good.

Wanting to fuck the evil demon king because he's gorgeous and tormented is far more respectable than trying to defend his actual policies. If someone accuses you of only liking him because you want to fuck him, you can just say yeah that's true, and then what? Either they kinkshame you or they leave. Checkmate.

[pastapodcaster]

hate or love Arthur pendragon as a character, eventually you will come to understand why everyone was trying to kill the guy

[hsm2]

Gwen in Merlin Season 4 Episode 9

[penandinkprincess]

sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "mmmhmmm okay yeah i see we both interpreted that differently based on what the show gave us, but i see how you arrived at your ideas even if they're different from mine," and then sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "brother what show did you even fucking watch"

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

unpopular opinion probably but I actually like that ao3 doesn’t let people take back their kudos.

unlike social media platforms (which ao3 is not) where people unlike stuff whenever they think or find out the original posters’ moral compass doesn’t perfectly align with their own’s or whatever, and “likes” can be taken back at any time, ao3 treats kudos as something sacred. once you give it, it’s the author’s to keep forever.

[koopytron]

Best part is if someone deletes their account, the kudos remains, and it just gets swapped over to a guest kudos instead. The body is gone but the love remains.

[irishyuri]

expression practice with the expressive twins

[aliveaudiencegang]

“You’re the only friend I’ve got.”

[aliveaudiencegang]

[sarascamander]

“There are times, I feel the weight of my destiny crushing me, but... that is nothing to what you carry.”

“It is both a blessing and... a curse.”

[gabstriessomethingnew]

I think the thing about Freya that breaks me is that we have this girl stained by the actions of an evil man to do the most wretched things entirely against her nature by the wrongful vengeance of a parent, who fought against all the odds and found love, real and true this time with someone who respects and cares just as deeply for her as she does for him. And then she is stabbed in the form of the remembrance of all she had to become, the only way she is relieved from all she had been forced to change into is death.

God I hate the bbc.

[gabstriessomethingnew]

[wrecked-writer]

I had somethin of an essay once that talked about how in s5, Merlin is framed subtly as a villain by the use of lighting and camera framing(e.g dark shadows hiding his face same as morgana), which i believe is part of the reason people think Merlin prioritises Arthur over magic

[wrecked-writer]

Excellent addition By @sneakyboymerlin , if i ever get around to actually writing that essay then im def using these points