[gedrefs]

i guess this is the end.

5×13 / i guess - mitski

[orpheuslament]

i love tragedy i love circular narratives i love ppl who cannot escape their fate & characters that have been dead since the beginning

[funnytwittertweets]

[adampvrrish]

not to applaud "toxic representation" or whatever ppl have been saying but i love stories where gay ppl love & betray each other i love it when they kiss & kill each other i love physical altercations i love when they despise each other but can't be without the other i love mutually assured destruction

[merginpishi]

Just love them ♥️ 

Goodbye 🙂

[sidepickleflicks]

Born in Flames (1983)

dir. Lizzie Borden

[merlin-gifs]

MERLIN | 1x09 “Excalibur”

[leninisms]

“i love you” “it’ll pass” // “i don’t deserve a friend like you” “clara, i’m terribly sorry, but i am exactly what you deserve” // “if you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you” // “i’ll take care of you.” “it’s rotten work” “not to me. not if it’s you.” // “you betrayed me. you betrayed my trust. you betrayed our friendship. you betrayed everything that i’ve ever stood for. you let me down!” “then why are you helping me?” “do you think i care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?”

[camelotsheart]

to this day i still believe that arthur is firmly agnostic and when uther told him “yeah you need to dress in white robes and sit in the throne room for 8 hours and wait a vision to come through” he’s just like. “that sounds like magic but sure i guess” and then pretended to meditate while also choosing the hardest quest he could ever undertake because if his middle name isn’t Drama Queen then what is it

[camelotsheart]

second thought actually. he’s so??? nonchalant of magic in this episode??? because like. sir your map just burnt to the ground and you meet a man who is not human and he tells you that you’re courage and that you’ll need the help of magic and sure you say you don’t condone it but then when he defends it you just go “thank you for your help”. like sir???? what????

[camelotsheart]

OK BUT THIS IS SO INTERESTING ACTUALLY because there’s a deleted scene in this episode where arthur encounters a group of knights from another kingdom dragging behind them a person that looks like a prisoner on his way to the fisher king’s lands. 

and then the prisoner notices him hiding in the tall grasses but doesn’t say anything to the knights that have captured them. 

and i feel like you can see arthur going “i want to help him but i’m outnumbered and on a quest and i don’t know if i even should help him because i don’t know what exactly he’s been captured for”. he doesn’t help them in the end, just watches them pass by while hiding. 

and like. i feel this captures arthur’s essence so much with his whole conundrum with magic in later seasons? it’s a bit of “maybe not everyone who has magic is evil but almost literally everyone i know who has magic is evil how do i know it doesn’t corrupt” and a bit of “i am currently fighting a war with people who have magic and i can’t dedicate myself to the political and social consequences of actually lifting a magic ban right now” and he’s just stuck in this liminal space of both condemning magic and reconsidering magic (especially after the dolma healed gwen) and he remains stuck there until the war ends but before he can actually do anything he dies. the prisoner has passed. and its fascinating

[justgwen]

12-13/100 PICTURES OF GWEN

[woundthatswallows]

"waaahhhhh co-dependency is toxic and unhealthy :(" okay and? i wanna see these motherfuckers ruin each other

[quotefeeling]

“I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it – and that’s all I’ve got.”

— Sabrina Ward Harrison

[youngwarlock]

[spaceteenagers]

doing some light drawins with the downstairs camelot lovebirds

[willowcrowned]

personally i think bbc merlin’s choice to make every single character desperately in love with merlin was not only a bold addition to arthuriana but absolutely inspired

[bnnykoo]

[queerofthedagger]

Every once in a while I see the take that merthur is 'unhealthy' and like... I mean. That's the point?? I'd actually love to see far more of it in fics??? (yes yes I'm aware people usually say this about their power dynamics but that's a rant for another day).

Just - give me both Merlin and Arthur willing to burn down the whole world for each other if only to keep the other safe. Give me both of them forsaking their morals, their convictions, everything they believe in for each other. Give me the ruthless battle couple that will each lose their absolute shit when they see the other in harm's way. Like. This is literally canon why is there so little of it, especially when it comes to Arthur? He has proven more than once that he would do just about anything to save Merlin. I promise it's so much fun on the side of helpless, devastating devotion, of absolute ruthlessness for the one they love above everyone.

It's about the 'I know I can be a monster, and you will love me anyway.' About the 'I know nothing but that you will forgive me and I will forgive you because I understand. I too would lose myself for you.' About the 'I would rather lose myself and everything I believe in before I see you come to harm.' It's about the violence in devotion, the reckoning of love, the sacrilege of sacrifice. About the tragedy of 'you, this, always, before anyone and anything else, even if it ruins me.'