My Sunset Lullaby

Fandoms and Randoms, as you see.

[sarascamander]

[deslizada]

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great

[ealdorsknight]

Say all you want but Arthur’s ass was infact NOT listening to whatever Merlin is saying in this scene. He is hungry and it’s not for food.

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

I know everyone makes a big deal out of the emotional moments in the "Chidi and Elanor Love Each Other" montage in the season 3 finale, but honestly, that's not the part that's the best. It's something that is very funny and VERY touching.

It's this moment. This one right here is how you know they love each other. See, Chidi teaches Elanor in every timeline... But here we see Elanor reaching out. She doesn't have a lot to offer Chidi, but she's TRYING. She's TRYING to teach him something that he doesn't know, and SHE IS IMITATING HIM not because it's a joke, but because she's using him as a model for love. This kind of imitation is a CLASSIC way for someone like Elanor to dip a toe into the pool of emotional vulnerability, into reciprocating effort and feelings.

AND HE'S TAKING HER SERIOUSLY. He's CLEARLY trying really hard to follow along, even though there's NO WAY this matters... Except it matters to her, so it matters to him.

[endlesslogo]

Dude just sits and counts the days😭🙏 good thing it's not hours

[havinganormalone]

Fanfiction is insane. You can write porn so good you make friends.

[barelyunderwater]

[calefies]

MERLIN | 4x06 ○ A Servant of Two Masters

[koffeinkaos]

Imagine you're Leon and you grew up with the Prince of Camelot being always present and you got along well. Of course Arthur wasn't allowed to have friends or anything but he always looked up to Leon until he started growing older and he realized that nobody would take him seriously if he was kind and sweet so he tried to become like his father instead. Leon would be sad, not surprised but still unhappy about this development, especially when Arthur was cruel to servants or started boasting in front of other noble boys who thought everyone beneath them wasn't worth anything.

But then Uther sent Leon on a mission, he insisted you travel to the court of an allied kingdom under the guise of training with them and learning different styles of fighting while kind of acting as a spy. It was a long mission, and when you finally make it back to Camelot after a year away you head towards the throne room where you'd expect Arthur and Uther would wait for you. But as soon as you open the door a serving boy stumbles directly into you.

"Oh sorry." He mumbled with the sweetest smile. But you had no time to react because footsteps came up behind you.

"Merlin where were you?" Arthur grumbled at the boy over Leon's shoulder.

"I was here, George told me to come to the throne room but when I got here I was confused because your giant ego was not yet taking up all the space and I couldn't even believe how huge this room is without your abnormally large head in it so you have to forgive me for taking a moment to take it all in before I wanted to look for you. Have you had problems with getting dressed again? I'll write to my mother so she'll sent the rhyme that helped me to remember how to tie shoes when I was a child. No worries I'm sure you'll manage it eventually."

Leon would freeze right there, half expecting to hear Arthur pull his sword but instead the prince just sighed and said: "Shut up, Merlin."

[merlinsearlobe]

[ramblings-of-a-chaotic-neutral]

[dakakapo]

Twitter didn’t take the divorce well…

[westanovencleaner]

the whole "ao3 and tumblr are our parents" thing is especially great considering the "you've already left kudos here." we are the petulant children who want more than one cookie and ao3 is saying no.

[dakakapo]

Congratulations on the marriage guys!!!! It's about time honestly

[zoecroman]

When Ao3 (Tumblr's wife) is down...

[bmcdede]

[cyberneticnightmares]

saw an elderly woman walking around with a tote bag whose design were the four AO3 fic category squares and she very excitedly asked if i was a reader or a writer bcs nobody else at the con had recognized it, and after telling her that i've been writing fic since fanfic.net, she solemnly nodded and explained that she'd been reading fic since "the days of personal websites" but that she only started writing fanfic when she was 47 and oh my god when i tell you that i genuinely teared up on the spot!!!!! like!!! HELL YEAH???? LITERALLY NEVER TOO OLD TO START WRITING. NEVER TOO OLD TO WRITE AND SHARE YOUR FIC.

her enthusiastic "i'm a very nice and bubbly person, i swear! but i love writing angst and major character death :)" nearly took me the fuck out.

icon. legend. diva. i wish her nothing but a kajillion million comments and kudos. i hope her fic updates crash AO3. i hope she knows i'm promoting her to my personal patron saint of AO3.

[dianaprallon]

Okay, this might be the randomest thing ever but--I think I figured out why I dislike Jane Eyre so much: it reads as a gardener book with nobody there to look at it and prun the weeds. it works in stuff that is very long (looking at you grrm) and works in stuff that was originally serialised (looking at you dickens) or both (def looking at you dumas), but in THIS case it's just… It made me feel like I was a stew. In slow cooking. That somebody forgot to season. And then it ended but it was still tasting bland as oats. .... And it's still better than Wuthering Heights.