God, I love women

"Because you, and we, are the way out."

[legendaryladybard]

Bard — 21 years old [she/they pronouns] ♡ multifandom

I like to: reblog what I like, make graphics sometimes, write (though admittedly am not the most consistent), collage, listen to music (always open to recommendations), and maybeeee take a million years to finish things or get out of my favorite things

Currently reading: Yona of the Dawn (re-reading and catching up to the final chapter)

Previously read: The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite

MEDIA RECAP: 2025

Floridian 🌴 | Scorpio ☀️ / Virgo 🌑 / Sagittarius ⏫️

Note: I reblog meta that is both positive of and critical of the media I enjoy. I mostly do not give a shit about discourse, and I don't have a DNI. Act like a stupid motherfucker and I'm blocking you.

[kingmakings]

There is a fine line between destiny and destruction.

[usermeggy]

♜ Albion Party 2021 ♞ Protagonists The core four + + the types of literary heroes

[motherflunker]

@yennehfer asked: Merlin +  Spring Colors

[matthias-helvr]

[merlin-gifs]

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Katie: Do you remember we played it 2 different ways? Colin: Yeah. Katie: There was one other way that’s uh… Jeremy: It was a little bit too sexy really, wasn’t it? Katie: Yes, there was, a lof of-- Jeremy: I thought “Hang on, wait a second, you're smiling at him too much.” Colin: It was a bit too flirty, wasn’t it? Katie: I thought it might be an interesting sort of sideline story, but apparently not. Jeremy: No, I came in and stamped on that. Katie: Yeah, no, that was my idea that was obviously useless.

MERLIN | 1x08 "The Beginning of the End"

[colinmorgan]

Merlin Commentary: ‘The Merlin Eyebrow’

[userautumn]

one of the worst things about fandom is when people headcanon a certain character as gay and suddenly that becomes the only valid, practically unofficial-official canon reading of that character's sexuality. gay. just gay. character has shown romantic or sexual desire for women? it's comphet, don't worry, he's still gay. character isn't interested in sex much at all? it's because he hasn't fucked a man, obviously. character has lots of women friends? they are the hags to his fag, he's gay, why are you even trying. and it all seems like a very Transformative and Woke way to read a character until you step back and realize how much biphobia, acephobia, misogyny, and transphobia are baked into the adamant refusal to accept The Character as anything other than gay. it's horrendous, actually. but you will get shot in the streets for this.

[fy-merlinxarthur]

[onceandfuturequeenmerlin]

#can we talk about the amount of times gaius’s chambers were stormed into and randomly searched#can we talk about how merlin could never feel safe even there#like. idk. sometimes the way people talk about merlin siding with the oppressor#as if he were too stupid to understand what he was doing#but its not like it didn’t touch him too#the danger was real for him too! the fear was real!#even more so than say. druids living outside of camelot#its not like he didnt get it @adhd-merlin

[adhd-merlin]

#yessss it’s awful!#not only the constant fear but the indignity of it#at any time the guards could come and tear apart your life apart just on the slightest rumour of sorcery#and so often the ones doing it were knights they knew or arthur himself#like Apologetically sometimes but still doing it anyway#just a whisper of magic and theyre at his door#just following orders#i think a lot too abt morgana hiding mordred and how her room wasnt fully searched#u could say a lot about how class comes into the dynamic of fear/safety#gaius and merlin - even in respected roles of physician and apprentice - always were subject to the whim of the king… and when his#protection was removed it was like their roles and their history was forgotten. meaningless (@enchanted-blade)

[legendaryladybard]

yes YES exactly!! the indignity!! i'm shaking uther considered gaius “a friend” and yet he didn't trust him as far as he could throw him because he was a sorcerer. even if he had renounced magic and that marked him forever as someone untrustworthy in uther's eyes and even arthur -- who wasn't as quick to jump to conclusions as uther -- who had grown up around gaius and had witnessed first-hand his loyalty to camelot even arthur believed gaius had betrayed him when agravaine framed him and I know gaius was... shifty to say the least so arthur wasn't entirely wrong in not trusting him entirely but you can't tell him the fact gaius was a sorcerer wasn't the main reason he really acted like uther's son in this episode that's an excellent point about morgana too

(tags via @adhd-merlin )

[adhd-merlin]

if you must hate Gaius at least do it for the right reason (gaslighting Morgana)

[adhd-merlin]

[rabbitmotifs]

[gossamerfaery]

Can we just talk about magic in Merlin and what it means for Merlin to have magic? For one, let’s not forget that Uther basically commits genocide against sorcerers- he snuffs out their culture, kills people that practice it and enforces prejudices against them to all hell and back. This is already super traumatising for Merlin for obvious reasons, but then there’s the other part:

“You have magic for a reason it’s to protect and aid Arthur.”

Let’s not forget how fucked up that is, considering Merlin says in the same episode that magic to him is something instinctual, akin to how we are able to move our arms and legs? Imagine someone told you the only reason why you can move your limbs is in order to protect someone else, that you cannot escape your destiny, that being making your own body into a tool to assist another. Gaius tells him off every time he uses magic for “selfish” reasons which if you think about it is absolutely crazy because it’s his. powers. It’s like telling him that using his hands and feet for selfish reasons is bad and that he should only use it for others. Why shouldn’t he be able to use his magic for his own “selfish” reasons? Oh right, because this intricate part of his identity, this thing that he couldn’t separate from himself if he tried because it quite literally is him doesn’t belong to him. It belongs to his destiny, his duty. And he is to only use it for others.

So not only do the people around him who aren’t close think he should die for being who he is and hate him and his people, the people who are close to him, enough to know about his powers, tell him that it’s alright for him to live, as long as he is useful to Arthur, sorry, as long as he can “fulfill his destiny”.

[legendaryladybard]

#and this was why Lancelot was so important#that man saw him drowning and said ‘but you could fix it with what makes you special’#the scene where he tells Merlin to clean Arthur’s shirt with his magic is so important to me#bc Merlin’s magic is for Merlin#it’s his#not Arthur’s#he was not born for a singular purpose#he was born to experience life#I have more to say but it involves spoilers and op is not at that point of the show yet (tags via @gabstriessomethingnew )

edit to add:

"I just keep thinking that it’s kind of messed up that this is Merlin’s destiny. He’s meant to bring magic back to Camelot, sure, but… what responsibility that is. He’s a member of a marginalised group, being asked to essentially sacrifice himself for the sake of said group. Sure, in history there have been people like that, that did so because they felt like they had to, but Merlin didn’t even choose to do it out of a sense of obligation born from himself, it was forced upon him. He’s expected to be a martyr, when he has done nothing to deserve something like that. When his magic never intended to harm anyone and all he ever wanted to do is be free." (comment by op)

[imjustked]

Still thinking about the biggest evil in Merlin was misogyny/toxic masculinity and how it damaged literally everyone because if you lie and hate and hide away from the gentleness of kindness and love you will always become the worst version of yourself and when you isolate yourself because youre scared you risk also becoming the worst part of yourself and

[legendaryladybard]

#and this is why Gwen is such an interesting contrast#bc she always approaches situations with such utter kindness#and it starts to rub off on others#like Arthur#showing that you don’t have to lose your kindness to be powerful#but also season 5 does everyone dirty too so of course they have to ruin that just a bit#it doesn’t matter tho bc she is fighting the patriarchy by being gentle and kind and I love her for it!!!

(tags via @gabstriessomethingnew )

[felixeis003]

Coming to you live from the trenches of burnout to bring you the one (1) thing I've drawn in the past 4 months that didn't suck my soul out THANK YOU MORGWEN!!

Also didn't love how the colors turned out on the sketch in the back to s you bet I slapped a gradient map over that bad boy

[adageyer]

Merlin - The Fool

A two-pager out of my sketchbook, for you :)

[lenoreamidala]

so i couldn't be happier

[gabstriessomethingnew]

Who wants my Merlin conspiracy theory? Cool imma tell you all anyways.

So, I know there is a large belief in this fandom that Merlin has so much power because of Balinor (and maybe the purge itself), but I am here to posit you that I believe it was Hunith's doing.

I believe fate and the triple goddesses saw this woman taking in their children in a time of such horror and cruelty, and treating them with kindness, showing them respect, caring for them in the only way she could, so they decided to gift her their favorite child in thanks as, yet again, she was forced to let go of one of their chosen and with him a piece of her heart.

And that's how Merlin came to be raised in such soft, compassionate hands.