Lord Aldhelm of Mercia

My repository for all things Aldhelm (The Last Kingdom) ⚔️❤️🛡️ Giving this man the love he deserves. Team Mercia. Fic Writer · Gif Maker · Fanartist LadyAldhelm on AO3 Tracking: #useraldhelm

[lord-aldhelm]

Welcome to my blog!

I decided to create this thing to keep all my insanity contained in one location. This currently encompasses a laser-focused obsession and hyperfixation on the above ↑↑↑

Springtime in Saltwic (AO3): Aldhelm x Aethelflaed post Season 3, 115k words, 27 chapters, Rated E

Calm Before The Storm (AO3): Takes place just after King Ceolwulf's death in 2.03, Aethelred and Aldhelm's history together. 3.2k words, Rated T

Loyal Guardian (AO3): Aldhelm's rise to captain of the guard. 2.8k words, Rated T

Darkest Before the Dawn (AO3): The story of how Aldhelm fell in love with Aethelflaed. Post Season 2. Rated E. IN PROGRESS

Sweet Surrender (AO3): Aethelflaed and Aldhelm after the Battle of Tettenhall. Rated E.

Get To Know Them Alphabet (Tumblr) (AO3)

My Collection of Essays (Tumblr)

Aldhelm Character Analysis (Tumblr)

Another Aldhelm Character Analysis (Tumblr)

Season 2 (2.03, 2.05, 2.06, 2.07, 2.08)

Season 3 (3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04, 3.05, 3.07, 3.08, 3.09, 3.10)

Season 4 (4.01, 4.02, 4.03, 4.04, 4.05, 4.06, 4.07, 4.08, 4.10)

Season 5 (5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 5.04, 5.05, 5.06, 5.07, 5.08, 5.09, 5.10)

Seven Kings Must Die

Season 2 (2.03, 2.05, 2.06, 2.07, 2.08)

Season 3 (3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04, 3.05, 3.07, 3.08, 3.09, 3.10)

Season 4 (4.01, 4.03, 4.04, 4.05, 4.06, 4.07, 4.08, 4.10)

Season 5 (5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 5.04, 5.05, 5.06, 5.07, 5.08, 5.09, 5.10)

Seven Kings Must Die

About this Blog:

So, I originally started this blog so I could reblog all the Aldhelm posts I had been bookmarking over the past year and a half, keeping them all in one place since I did not want to post them on my main art blog. I also wanted to use it to post my fic, since I finally decided to take the risk and publish it for better or for worse, and also share all the screencaps I had been taking for drawing references (and just for my own pleasure let's be honest here).

I am rather late to this fandom, having binge watched this show in the middle of last year (2022) just as season 5 was released. It was sitting in my watchlist on Netflix for a few years, but I neglected it, thinking it was just another Vikings ripoff. Boy was I wrong. This show has really gotten to me in a way that no other TV show or movie has. I have never been so obsessed with a TV show or movie in my entire life.

But what compelled me to make an Aldhelm blog? Well, for starters, it had become apparent to me that, although many in this fandom like his character, very few consider him to be their favorite character, and far fewer still are obsessed about him in the same way that many are about Sihtric or Finan, for example. I still can't wrap my head around that, but maybe I am the weirdo, so oh well. I will create another post about why I love him so much at a later date if anyone cares to read it.

There are tons of blogs for the show in general and for other characters, and most of Uhtred's "pretty boys" get lots of love on here, but not so much for Aldhelm. I don't know if anyone else will really care about anything on this blog, but it is honestly not why I made it. This is more for my own sake than anyone else's, and if anyone else gets anything out of this that is great too.

Tracking: #useraldhelm and #thelastkingdomedit tags! Please tag me in your creations! All 'The Last Kingdom' gifsets and edits will be reblogged to this blog, and everything else will be reblogged to @ladyaldhelm. I will reblog from any fandom; my only rule is nothing explicit.

[augustkoch]

Hmm mini-Athelstan??

[viking-chaos]

DAVID DAWSON as ALFRED THE GREAT and ALEXANDER DREYMON as UHTRED OF BEBBANBURG THE LAST KINGDOM // 3.09

[lordaethelredsworld]

Masterpiece of Aldhelm.

[lordaethelredsworld]

They were looking very serious about it.

[augustkoch]

[augustkoch]

[skatingthinandice]

Lady, you have my heart. I fear that I love you. If I can’t say it when I’m dying, when will I say it? You are not dying.

[lord-aldhelm]

From 'A Day In The Life Of James Northcote' video on Youtube. Posted May 19, 2020.

[lordaethelredsworld]

This is Aldhelm... For those who didn't know much about him yet. He was previously the right man for Lord Aethelred (in Season 2 and 3) but then he paired with Lord Aethelflead more than ever.

The man behind Aldhelm is very creative. I love this short video

[osferth]

day out

prompt : “5. Aldhelm has a Nice Day for once” bc he deserves it :)

pairing: aldhelm x aethelflaed

for @tlkfanficfest !!

tagging: @tsukkinami @othermoony @lauwrite1225 @minimartian @seaberrycloudberry @ucancallmechlo @beowulfsdottir

Keep reading

[lull4byboy]

hi you’re so cute can i press my blade to your throat when i’m inside you?

[lord-aldhelm]

[viking-chaos]

ALEXANDER DREYMON as UHTRED EYSTEINN SIGURÐARSON as SIGTRYGGR THE LAST KINGDOM // Season 4 Episode 10

[metall-and-dust]

ok so I wouldn’t be opposed to these two happening but I refuse to let myself ship them because the last time aethelflaed fell in love I wound up crying in the club so I will not be falling for it. @ writers room. 

[lord-aldhelm]

December 11, 2017: Posted by Björn Bengtsson on Instagram. Edit by mizzunderstood1199

[stardustrider]

Free

Pairing: Sihtric Kjartansson x fem!reader

Authors note: we continue with June Jukebox Scribbles event. June 3rd - Praying - Kesha / “I'm proud of who I am / No more monsters, I can breathe again"

Warnings: some fluff, a bit of angst

Word Count: 300

Summary: after the fall of Dunholm you find Sihtric, sitting alone in the dark

You knew Sihtric too well to look for him at the fireplaces, but even after searching through Dunholm’s quiet corners, you still hadn’t found him. 

Having no more better options, you wandered outside the fortress walls, and that’s where you found him, sitting alone back against a tree, elbows on his knees and gaze fixed somewhere behind the horizon.

For a moment, you simply watched him. 

This place had nearly broken him once. Even if he didn’t speak much about his past, the small glimpses he had let you witness, made your skin crawl. You knew–returning here must have cost him more than he would ever willingly admit. 

Carefully, you approached.

“Sihtric?”

He turned his head. He didn’t tell you to go away, so you took it as permission and settled beside him. 

Without any warning Sihtric's hand slid behind your back, and next you were in his lap, straddling him.

Your surprised gasp crashed into his lips.

The kiss was desperate, fervent, all teeth and tongue, lips trembling like gasping for air after a lifetime of drowning. 

You kissed him back. He let out a broken, shaky sound and pulled back just as suddenly. 

“I’m sorry…,” he stammered, looking away. 

You reached for his face, cupping his jaw. His cheeks were wet.

"Sihtric,”  you brushed away a tear with your thumb. “You should be proud of yourself for coming back here.” 

His eyes met yours and for a short moment you saw again the frightened boy he had once been. Then he was gone.

"I am," Sihtric said quietly. His palm went up and cradled your cheek. "I'm proud of who I am." 

The words seemed to surprise him as much as they did you.

"I'm finally free. No more monsters," he kissed you again, more slowly. "I can breathe again."

[lord-aldhelm]

March 16, 2017: Behind the scenes on the set of The Last Kingdom with Sigefrid Thurgilson (Björn Bengtsson). Posted by Björn Bengtsson on Instagram.