Merlin's Books

Good day, and welcome to Merlin's Books. My name is Stefan and I do hope you find something interesting in my store. Do not hesitate to ask me anything, I will gladly be of service to you. [Independent OC RP blog. Images do not belong to me.] Please read the links below, thank you. About | Important

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Send me "♥" to see how my muse reacts when your muse suddenly kisses them.

[rowynnellis]

The Crested Dragon, a flighty beast with a love of shiny objects 💕 #dragonart #fantasyart #crestedgecko @fantasy_monsters @ilovefantasyart #artnerd2017

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lilli-of-the-mountain:

“Oh, I have no official business. I promise you.” Her visit was purely a casual, friendly one. “Äh, how are you enjoying your day off? Is Merlin napping in the sun, somewhere?” Lilli simply asked because usually the cat made himself known shortly after she came calling. It was unusual to not hear his friendly meow at this point.

At her answer, Stefan blinked and then laughed, “That is incredibly nice of you, Miss. I have closed off the shop because my garden has not been tended for a long while already!” Quite an unusual reason, but the premises of his business was his own home, so it was his own discretion as well.

“Merlin is most probably napping somewhere. Whenever the shop is closed or it isn’t business hours, he spends the quiet sleeping. And how about you? Off in a nice walk?”

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The entire point is think of it this way. If you were in a traumatic situation, if you’ve undergone a traumatic event, if you were a survivor of something terrible that happened to you

would you want to see people defend what happened to you as ok because its fiction? Would you want to see people write in explicit detail such events for their own entertainment? Before you say “I just wouldn’t read it” please keep in mind that sometimes they dont get the chance to just turn the other way. (Some of yall dont tag shit) And that even if they don’t see it, the knowledge alone is still enough to upset people and that’s understandable. 

[duvessamiyashita]

// I don’t do it so much here, but on my main I’ve talked (ranted, really) several times about my seething hatred of angst for angst’s sake, and the fact that traumatic events and situations tend to get used for that purpose.  There’s legit a meme out there about “my muse had a miscarriage how does yours react”.  Now, I have partners who have had a miscarriage.  What kind of a slap in the face is it to them to see their real life trauma turned into “oooh I want angst let me reblog this”?  Because that’s what turning miscarriage into a meme is.  If the situation is organic - say you’re doing a pregnancy plot with your partner - and it’s something you want to approach respectfully, then that’s something that’s plotted, discussed between two people.  But “lol miscarriage time because I’m in the mood for angst” is rude, disrespectful, and, frankly, shitty writing.  That’s not a “SJW” opinion - that’s the opinion of someone who has an ounce of respect for people.

I’m amazed that things like celebrity deaths or bombings at a concert or anything ‘big’ that makes the news is consider to be automatically off the table as a topic for a thread, mainly because it’s disrespectful to use real world tragedy as a plot point.  (I mean, I play an MI5 anti-terrorist officer on another blog, and you don’t see me writing threads about Manchester because that’s just bad taste and disrespectful.)  And yet the more personal traumas, like rape or miscarriage or assault are all considered fair fucking game.  Not for thoughtful, respectful plots, but as memes and “Hey I’m in the mood for angst someone find my muse raped in a bathroom”.  (Legit something I’ve seen on my dash.)  They’re less about the trauma itself than they’re about the mun getting their rocks off over their muse suffering.  And that’s just as disrespectful as turning Manchester into a plot point.  (It’s also vastly hypocritical.)  Not only that, as that particular confession shows, using these topics for angst for angst’s sake is protected by the community - anyone who disagrees is an uptight policing SJW with a stick up their ass.

As for other “dark” topics?  It boils down to whether you’re handling the material properly and respectfully.  Writing incest as a healthy relationship should not be condoned or promoted.  Writing someone with Stockholm Syndrome in a healthy relationship with their captor should not be condoned or promoted.  Writing a murderer as ‘hey isn’t this person great you should all love them they’re a wonderful person who’s never done anything wrong’ should not be condoned or promoted.  Writing a rapist having a healthy relationship with their victim, or treating them as an innocent babe who’s done nothing wrong in the world ever… you get the point.  

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louder for the cheap seats

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I’m absolutely not going to be one of those ‘you’re a policing sjw with a stick up your ass’ people, because I get the intention of this post, but I will say right off the bat that I don’t believe I owe anything to anyone when I write. I understand that you all are looking out for various trauma victims and that’s a very respectful opinion, but I do disagree with the approach. Here’s how I see it:

When I write dark themes, I am not justifying what happens to anyone in real life because my writing is ‘just fiction’. I am not condoning the bad things that are done, and I’m not trying to undermine people who have suffered. I am telling a story. And if I adjusted my story so that it would offend nobody and upset nobody, there would be no conflict. I basically wouldn’t have a story. So I would personally much rather write the story I want to write—and give people a fair warning of the content—than just not write it because there are people out there who have suffered like my characters have.

I know this probably makes me sound like a callous person, but hear me out. I do care when people have gone through shit that weighs down on them. I really do, and I wholeheartedly agree that people who write dark content absolutely should have the responsibility of putting a warning on what they create, so that you don’t get blindsided by something that ends up upsetting you.

But on the other hand, I will defend to the death people’s freedom to write what they want. If I come across something especially dark that isn’t tagged or has no warnings, I will absolutely bring that up to the original poster for the sake of people who are bothered by it, and I have no problem with people warning others about that person’s content (as long as it’s truth and not slander) but I’m never going to say ‘this piece of writing has to be removed because it’s offensive to some people.’ If someone is an asshole about their content and they behave in particularly upsetting ways with absolutely no regard for other people’s feelings, that’s when you unfollow, block, maybe even warn other people that if they’re upset by certain topics, they shouldn’t follow that person. Justice tends to serve itself when nobody wants anything to do with assholes, without flat-out making certain types of writing ‘not allowed’.

As for angst for the sake of angst, I get why it’s controversial, but there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. Again, you don’t have to (and shouldn’t) involve yourself with people who don’t give a shit about what you’ve been through, but if someone wants to write a topic, and they properly tag it and don’t try and force you into it, they aren’t doing anything wrong. Whether or not you have a moral issue with people who write angst because it’s fun for them to write it is on you. You have options at that point to either discuss it with them or unfollow/block/avoid them, whichever makes you most comfortable.

I don’t know how I feel about the last thing in the op, about 'the knowledge alone is enough to upset people’ thing. I mean… it is understandable, but if somebody is so bothered by the fact that I write dark content that they’re upset by it without ever even seeing it, at that point I’d say the person really, really needs some kind of professional help to get them through their trauma. That’s a very unhealthy state to be in, and I’d be more concerned with finding ways to make help accessible to those people than keeping them in their current mental and emotional state and demanding everyone else to change.

I don’t know, those are just my disorganized thoughts on it. I don’t know the full context of the original post, I just saw it on my dash reblogged from a friend who follows my writing, and it got me thinking. I don’t think it’s physically possible to support my writing and also be pro 'abolish everything that can potentially upset someone’. I also feel like saying that people shouldn’t write certain content because of how those topics have affected people in real life sets a very complicated and very blurred line. Some things are more taboo than others, like how miscarriage was brought up. But what about death, for example? Everyone dies. Should death be not allowed because someone lost a loved one and reading about a character dying upsets them?

But I want to be clear again that I fully respect the stances of the people above me, even though I don’t fully agree. I’ve had a pretty shitty history myself, and at the very least it’s nice to know that people care so much about what other people go through. But I stand by my thesis; my writing is mine, and out of respect for others I will let people know what dark themes are in it, but I don’t owe anybody anything for the content that I write. If somebody tells me they don’t want to read my story because reading about child abuse (for example) upsets them, I respect that 150%. If someone says 'you aren’t allowed to write that because child abuse is an upsetting topic’ or even worse, 'you’re a bad person for writing child abuse and you must condone it because you write about it’, I can’t get past that. That’s actually kind of insulting to me, because my writing says nothing about my life or who I am as a person. At the end of the day, I’m telling a story, and as long as I’m respectful to others, I expect others to be respectful to me too.

[caniicas-deactivated20190408]

Let’s completely drop the whole ‘dark themes’ label first of all if we’re going to have a discussion on it. Whatever you write name it for what it is. If you like writing suicide, self harm, abuse, incest, pedophilia, rape, and any other trauma for your recreation just call it for what it is. 

What I am saying is this exactly,and this is as straightforward as I can put it:

The reason there is backlash against people who write pedophilia, rape, suicide, abuse, deadly current events, miscarriage, and other traumas for their own entertainment purposes is because they are doing so explicitly for their own entertainment. What people like you take this as is “censor what you write to make me more comfortable” 

What I am saying is: Questioning a victims ability to tell reality from your fiction because the content you wrote makes a mockery of their trauma is a terrible thing to do but it’s common in the RPC

What people like yourself and other writers take this as is: “Censor what you write to make me more comfortable.” 

You do not have to condone the actions portrayed in your writing to enforce negative ideologies, stereotypes, unhealthy relationships, or the normalization of harmful acts. 

You are not what you write, but you are responsible for the ideas your creations reinforce. 

People are absolutely free to write whatever they want, but again this isn’t without consequences. You are responsible for the ideas you put out into the open when you make that writing available to the public. Saying “just don’t read” doesn’t cut it. It still exists, it’s still taking place, it still upsets people. 

THAT BEING SAID

Understand that the criticism is with people defending their right to write harmful and offensive content because it is “just fiction” and people can just not read it if they don’t want to be triggered/upset/ forced to see the trauma they went through used as a form of entertainment for other people. You can be very respectful of human rights and other people but in writing this response you disrespected so many people even if you didn’t mean to.

The rp community enforces a lot of negative ideas whether people who are triggered by them read them or not. The rp community is very disrespectful when it comes to understanding why victims are upset by this. The rp community completely disregards personal trauma and the people that under go them and instead of acknowledging the problem, people will rush to defend their right to be offensive. 

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lilli-of-the-mountain:

The backyard? Oh, Heavens, Lilli truly did feel as though she were intruding. Yet, she made her way to the back yard nonetheless. She cleared her throat loudly to announce herself and gave Stefan a courteous smile when he looked her way.

“Äh, hello. I’m terribly sorry to bother you.”

His attention immediately perked toward Lilli when she cleared her throat, and he lifted the brim of the hat above his eyes to get a clearer look of her, “Ah! Miss Lilli!” He called out with a bright smile and waved his gloved hand, “Oh no worries. If I did not want to be bothered, I wouldn’t have posted the sign up the front. What can I help you with?”

[etmagicaelucis-blog]

The shop is closed today for the sake of Stefan fixing up his garden. It’s been a while since it was tended to, with the surprisingly busy days within the bookshop. At least, if anyone wanted to see him, he placed a cute little sign on the front door that said “backyard”. 

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[questionlife]

I opened the door and only Arthur came inside. It’s raining. I couldn’t find the other cat. She’s usually the first to come through the door, so I got slightly worried.

Until

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book haven

[flutterybook]

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[mortalpractice]

Sometimes humans just die. And you cannot save them. Sometimes humans do not die, and you cannot save them.

Natalie Young, from “Notes on Earth Life,” published in Superstition Review (via mortalpractice)

[cobaltplasma]

Beckoning the Storm Prince, character/spell card

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ed sheeran’s divide | sentence meme.

eraser.

❛ i was born into a small town. i lost that state of mind. ❜

❛ so blame it on the pain that blessed me with the life. ❜

❛ friends and family filled with envy when they should be filled with pride. ❜

❛ when the world’s against me is when i really come alive. ❜

❛ you know that i’ve got whisky with white lies and smoke in my lungs. ❜

❛ i need to get in the right mind and clear myself up. ❜

❛ i look in the mirror, questioning what i’ve become. ❜

❛ i’m well aware of certain things that can destroy a person like me. ❜

❛ i am happy on my own so here i’ll stay. ❜

❛ save your loving arms for a rainy day. ❜

❛ i’ll find comfort in my pain eraser. ❜

❛ i chased the picture perfect life. i think they painted it wrong. ❜

❛ i beg you, don’t be disappointed with the person i’ve become. ❜

❛ the world may be filled with hate, but keep erasing it now, somehow. ❜

castle on the hill.

❛ i was younger then. ❜

❛ i found my heart and broke it here. ❜

❛ i know i’ve grown. i can’t wait to go home. ❜

❛ i miss the way you make me feel. ❜

❛ we watched the sun set over the castle on the hill. ❜

❛ had my first kiss on a friday day. i don’t reckon i did it right. ❜

dive.

❛ maybe i came on too strong. maybe i waited too long. ❜

❛ maybe i played my cards wrong. oh, just a little bit wrong. ❜

❛ i could live, i could die, hanging on the words you say. ❜

❛ i’ve been known to give my all. ❜

❛ so don’t call me, baby, unless you mean it. ❜

❛ don’t tell me you need me if you don’t believe it. ❜

❛ so let me know the truth before i dive right into you. ❜

❛ do you have a tendency to lead some people on? ‘cuz i heard you do. ❜

shape of you. 

❛ the club isn’t the best place to find a lover, so the bar is where i go. ❜

❛ your love was handmade for somebody like me. ❜

❛ i’m in love with the shape of you. we push and pull like a magnet do. ❜

❛ although my heart is falling too, i’m in love with your body. ❜

❛ last night you were in my room, and now my bed sheets smell like you. ❜

❛ we talk for hours and hours about the sweet and the sour. ❜

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all-theprettymadones:

@etmagicaelucis

“I’m just saying why go to the beach and not swim? Who cares if the water is cold. I spent so much on this swimsuit too.” She pouts.

“Ah well, I’m not exactly fond of swimming. Nor of open waters really.” So he will just stay there, in his comfy little shirt and shorts under an umbrella, “You should swim if you want to though, I-I’ll just stay here, really.”

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lockzinhas:

jaymes young // i’ll be good

[themusewhomuses]

                                          Does it still hurt?                                      Even after all these years?                                                                                                       ——( “Yes.” )

[etmagicaelucis-blog]

The shop is closed for now. Well, it’s because the lone owner/worker of the said shop is sick, and his familiar could only do as much for his owner. He had to cancel some appointments today, and he feels bad for doing so, but if he did still open (if he could, anyway), he would probably sleep the day away--

There is suddenly a large crashing sound from the shop below.

... “What is Merlin up to now?” Seems like he isn’t staying in bed all day, after all.