dear dollophead

Where Merlin writes letters as he waits for Arthur's return.

[deardollophead]

Can people write fanfic based on your posts, or would you rather they don't?

Hey there! People have written fic based on these posts in the past so I have no problem with it, as long there’s something along the lines of “based on Dear Dollophead” or whatnot somewhere in the author’s notes! :D

[merlins-earmuffs]

A collection of letters Merlin wrote Arthur while he waited by the lake of Avalon. The original letters can be found on deardollophead‘s blog, the creator of which kindly gave me permission to make an audio recording of them.

also available on Mediafire and YouTube (audio only)

leave a comment on AO3!

[deardollophead]

This is fantastic and lovely! :)

[deardollophead]

It would be less painful that way.

[deardollophead]

Is it over

Long story short: No, but it won't be posting as much.

First off, I want to apologize to you all for the radio silence. For the past couple months, real life got really hectic. And while it's calmed down now, it's going to pick back up again as I juggle work, family time, and now school together. I don't want to end this just yet, but I'm sorry to say that I can't continue to do the weekly schedule as before.

Thank you all for your support so far. Every like and reblog makes me happy, and I hope it gets to a point in the future where I can post more letters like I did before. In the mean time, if you have any ideas yourself for future letters, please send them in! There's no guarantee I'll use them (it all depends on easily I can transcribe them to the format), but I do read and enjoy each and every one of them. <3

[deardollophead]

In Sibbe Gerest

[deardollophead]

[deardollophead]

Thank you all for you lovely messages! :) <3 I promise there will be more letters soon. But first, I have two things to ask:

1) I'd love to hear your ideas for letters still! Don't worry if you've submitted one and I haven't used it yet; it's not that I don't like them (you all have such wonderful ideas), but more of trying to brainstorm how to work them into letters.

2) If you have created anything inspired by these letters (like photosets, videos, fic, etc), please let me know? As I've said before, I have no problems with you doing your own spin on this idea and would love to share it with everyone. :)

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1. dear dollophead 

[720p at least pls :>]

it’s an awful attempt but hey i tried

[deardollophead]

This is a fantastic video! Thank you so much! :)

[deardollophead]

It's true, Arthur. You were born of magic, and as magic itself, I was born to serve you.

[deardollophead]

[Based on idea submitted by insert-excalibur]

[deardollophead]

Though it's not like I'll ever forget.

[deardollophead]

Dear Dollophead Asks

First off, I apologize for the radio silence these past few weeks. I had some stuff happen in real life, but I'll try to be around more in the future. And always, if you don't want to see these posts on your dash, blacklist #ddasks  :)

I have a tutorial on how I make these letters here. Let me know if you have any problems?

Thank you all for your continued comments and support! It really means a lot to me! :)

[deardollophead]

I will be by your side, like I always am.

[deardollophead]

And I haven't heard you complain once.

[deardollophead]

{ HIATUS }

Hi all, I hate to do this, but I'm going to have to put this blog on hiatus for two weeks, or at least until my Paperlegends story is finished. You can still submit letter ideas, but I won't post letters or answer questions until the hiatus is over. I'm sorry about this, but I wanted to let you know ahead of time, and hope to make more letters for you soon. <3 :)

Hiatus over! :D

[deardollophead]

Let's have you, lazy daisy. Please.

[deardollophead]

I've considered this, but I still wanted to acknowledge publicly all the people who leave lovely comments and questions. Therefore, I'm going to try and just make one post weekly so all asks are in one place. Also, if you don't want to see these posts, feel free to blacklist #ddasks. Hopefully this will work for everyone; feel free to let me know otherwise.

Thank you! When I first started thinking about making this blog, I considered "dear prat" for awhile as well. But what can I say, I'm a sucker for alliteration. :)

I'm sorry! :( <3

Maybe a bit weird, but I don't mind. It's sweet. :)

Aww, thank you! (Though I'm sorry about the mood thing.)

:(! *hugs*

I understand! To be honest, I can't even open up an episode to take screencaps some times without getting emotional at first.

...Well, as long as it's a good kind of hurting. :( <3