Clotpoles, Inc.

she/her • pure of heart and dumb of ass

[destielinimpala]

How Arthur didn't recognise old Merlin just from the insults is beyond me.

[fan-a-tink]

Merlin | Francesca

Merlin | The Diamond of the Day - Part 2

[thedeepthought]

when writers waste a perfectly good romance plot line on a NO HOMO handshake and a slap on the back

[unfortunatelymerlin]

bbc merlin has a lot of faults but i do think the way they blithely ignored the existence of christianity was very funny of them

[literally-irreverent]

"#'old religion' they said. and then simply said nothing of a new religion" yeah Uther Pendragon, noted athiest. Entirely agnostic court. It's crazy that there's no belief system backing anything up. Like, we're going to get by on vague prophecies but also prophecies are magic which is evil. Divine right of kings but no divinity. Mirrors and mirrors but no windows.

[violentfille]

tags by @thanatologist

[limbel]

merthur first kiss for @merlinfluffalooza :)

[limbel]

04. muddy @merlinktober

[frogmerthur]

season 2 merthur data analysis is here!!!

and of course supporting graphical evidence:

so. after conducting my Extremely Scientific study i present the following findings:

55 total lip glances vs merlin’s polite 27. arthur is objectively, statistically, the more unwell party here (but we all knew that)

my thesis on the correlation between merlin’s slutty little throat and arthur’s glances holds firm. i also offer a new hypothesis: reduction in throat visibility triggers an escalation in arthur's freak courtship strategies such as shoving, tackling or hurling objects at merlin (see: eps 10 & 13 especially), potentially indicative of compensatory behaviour. overall, arthur’s interactions with merlin seem to rest entirely on the fragile equilibrium of merlin's neckerchief placement that day.

meanwhile, merlin quietly racks up another 7 murders this season, bringing his overall total to 14 so far.

maybe the single most haunting point in this dataset: 0 recorded 'i love you's for arthur. his dad? silent. vision of his mum? silent. vivian under a love spell? somehow still silent. even magical coercion couldn’t get him the one thing he needed to hear.

in conclusion: at this point merlin’s slutty little neck holds more narrative weight than some main characters. stay tuned for future research extending into seasons 3-5 to test whether the throat/behaviour correlation persists long term 🫡

[lualuadraw]

a servant of two masters

[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.

[frogmerthur]

i love arthur with my whole damn chest but gwen deserved so much better than him. she deserved a wife.

[frogmerthur]

merthur is peak grumpy/sunshine trope and the worst thing about it is slowly watching merlin’s sunshine dim. merlin’s hope and warmth erode until by season 5 he’s just a shadow clutching onto the last flicker of light. and in the end, losing arthur snuffs out what little light he had left

[seths-rogens]

what if the beloved (debatable) cinema u worked at was shutting down so u exploited ur manager (asked very nicely and said please) if u could watch the final 2 episodes of the best and gayest bbc show to ever grace television on the big screen (bbc merlin)

[jirrray]

omg he loves him so much that makes them look stupid

[zazrichor]

D E V O T I O N

[littlegreen]

bbc merlin is a fun silly show that begs the question what if you were given a destiny you didn’t understand and you betrayed yourself time and time again in what you think is a selfless act of love that will serve a greater purpose, only for that to be the exact reason you fail and the undoing of the person you love most. and then the random filler episodes are like this witch is doing terrorism in camelot by sneaking magic mushroom bombs into the soup and merlin has to gaslight arthur into thinking he doesn’t like mushrooms or something idk

[zukosadvisor]

[a-che-delat-to]

It Seems that someone here lost a bet

Anyway, saw this meme here somewhere and decided to redraw🧚🏽