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They/Them | 🍉 | Just wandering about

[emrysteine]

rewatching merlin !! 🏰⚔️⭐️

[darkkittyart]

Go back to your books… and your armchair. Plant your trees. Watch them grow. 🍁☕️

(The whirlwind with which these two characters have cemented themselves into my psyche. I adore them so much... l'd like to think this takes place in the depths of Erebor. While they have a still moment together. Soft, shy confessions before the raging storm.) 🥲

[aliveaudiencegang]

“You’re the only friend I’ve got.”

[jhtyrrr]

I wanted to draw some medieval clothes for Merlin and try new rendering tricks. The last sketch took 15 minutes lol but I like this little sorcerer hat and twisted magic staff

[kaaibutsu]

finished my thesis, and now I have time to finish the illustration of Merlin

really love the interactions between these two idiots

really

[mangothymes]

Was listening to Test Drive from HTTYD and then shuffle decided to play The Call of Destiny from Merlin right after and… I am going through some EMOTIONS RIGHT NOW…

Where is my Merlin!HHTYD au??

[rachelazegler]

[jururenu]

Frodo

[mayahart]

MERLIN ✗ 4.01 Deleted Scene

[mangothymes]

I wish there were Merlin fanmerch at cons but they are a very rare find 😫

[princessnamora]

KATIE MCGRATH as MORGANA PENDRAGON Merlin (2008-2012) ☆ Episode 4.02

[mangothymes]

Dipping my toes into writing and…it’s so difficult I cannot lie 😫

[amarysso]

Happy Pride Month!! 🏳️‍🌈

I wanted to do a master study of Frank Dicksee's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and I thought Merlin and Arthur would be the perfect characters for it. The original depicts a knight enchanted with a beautiful magical lady, so I chose to show Arthur enchanted with his sorcerer.

I originally intended to put this out in December for the finale anniversary but I procrastinated and it took me ages, so here it is now! I'm never doing a study with so many individual leaves ever again.😆🥲

[in-awe-of-writing]

Discarded

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Merlin stood in the front row, his hands clenched at his sides as the sunlight caught the cold gold of the newly exchanged rings.

His mind drifted back months to a quiet night in Arthur's chambers, the air thick with the scent of candle wax.

Arthur had cornered him then, pacing the stone floor as he spoke of Guinevere and debated whether to bring their courtship into the scrutiny of the public eye. The King’s brow had been knitted with a conflict he couldn't quite resolve as he sat down; he knew Gwen still looked for Lancelot in the shadows of the courtyard. Merlin had swallowed his own heart to tell Arthur she loved him most, a lie and a truth tangled together in his throat.

Then Arthur had looked Merlin directly in the eye and, with raw vulnerability, asked, "Do you think I'm making a mistake?" He didn't wait for an answer before looking back at the flames. “I’m terrified that I’m discarding other options… choices I haven't quite dared to name. What if I’m missing the one life I actually wanted because I’m too cowardly to say it out loud?”

Merlin had almost said it then. Everything about the magic and the love that was his soul's bedrock. But he was a creature built for sacrifice. He knew Gwen was destined for the crown, and so he had buried his agony and promised Arthur she would be a magnificent Queen.

Now, the cheers in the hall were deafening as the ceremony concluded, yet Merlin’s heart felt like a sinking stone. Arthur’s gaze sought him out across the distance, a look of silent questioning still flickering behind the royal mask. Merlin looked to the new Queen, then, only to find her staring at another point in the crowd, her attention fixed elsewhere.

A visceral, hollow regret enveloped him, a shadow that would never leave his body for as long as he remained to serve, longer still.

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Prompt: Regret | Words: 327 | Written for @merthurmicrofic

[mangothymes]

Deltarune’s chapter so far is making my heart ache and I’m still only 1% deep for these past 2 and a half hours 😭

[pchelostas]

careful Merlin your Emrys is showing

[count-pudding]