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[merwaine]

3x04 / 3x08

[gwemrys]

@merwencelot AS YOU SHOULD BE 🫡

[medievalandfantasymelee]

THE HOT MEDIEVAL & FANTASY MEN MELEE

THIRD ROUND: 5th Tilt

William Thatcher, A Knight’s Tale (2001) VS. Sir Lancelot, BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012)

Propaganda

William Thatcher, A Knight’s Tale (2001) Portrayed by: Heath Ledger Defeated Opponents: - King Arthur [Charlie Hunnam], King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) - King Vortigern [Jude Law], King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) - Frodo Baggins [Elijah Wood], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

“13-year-old me had such a HUGE crush on Will Thatcher / Ulrich von Liechtenstein, and you know what? 13-year-old me was RIGHT (and had much healthier taste in men). He's a dreamer, he's sweet (except maybe when you're dismissive about jousting...), he gives to others despite having little himself, he has the most charming, contagious smile. And to play us out... he's blonde! He's pissed! He'll see you in the lists! Lichtenstein! Lichtenstein!”

Sir Lancelot, BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012) Portrayed by: Santiago Cabrera Defeated Opponents: - Sid [Luke Youngblood], Galavant (2015-2016) - Chu Hun [Peter Ho], Double World (2020) - Sultan Alauddin Khilji [Ranveer Singh], Padmavaat (2018)

“THE MOST PERFECT LANCELOT TO EVER LANCELOT. Sorry I don't make the rules. He's got pretty hair and kind eyes and a killer smile and he's brave and noble and gorgeous and idiotically self-sacrificing in every aspect of his life and he's got hidden chaotic depths and everyone falls in love with him a little bit!!!!!!! And how can they not!!!!!!!!! How could you ever resist that intensity of loyalty and gorgeous brown eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Additional Propaganda Under the Cut

Who is the Hottest Medieval Man?

William Thatcher [Heath Ledger] (Left)

Sir Lancelot [Santiago Cabrera] (Right)

Voting ended onApr 13, 2025

Additional Propaganda

For William Thatcher:

“HE'S SO CUTE AND BRAVE AND STUPID AND DETERMINED AND FUNNY AND POETIC AND HE HAS BIG BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES AND FRECKLES AND HE'S BISEXUAL-CODED HE'S MY BOY I LOVE HIM SO MUCH”

“The only man that could have pulled off a David Bowie dance scene within a medieval ballroom.”

For Sir Lancelot:

“He's just so pure and kind and romantic and also god*damn* his face is *literally* flawless and he's got those big brown eyes you could just fall right into and its an actual travesty that they only had him on the show like once a season he should have been a lead, that man deserves justice. For further propaganda I would like to submit the entirety of S2E4, which absolutely rewired my brain chemistry.”

“Hot as the dorky lowborn night with fluffy hair and as the evil, come-back-from-the-dead temptation.”

“Pretty much the whole of Camelot falls in love with him”

Santiago Cabrera as ✨Lancelot Du Lac✨

for a moment faramir's restraint gave way

SANTIAGO CABRERA as LANCELOT in MERLIN 2x4: Lancelot and Guinevere

for a moment faramir's restraint gave way

LANCELOT + looking dishevelled in a white shirt

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[gwemrys]

i have a question for mr arthur “fair trial” pendragon. What fucking use is a fair trial if you don’t have fair laws?

[merwaine]

HAI NELSON!! it’s been a while!!!!!! i hope you’re doing well ^_^ ❣️❣️❣️❣️ kisses from @gwemrys

HI!!!!!!

i am deeply stressed about everything in my life right now but i am trying to make it work 🫶

i hope you’re doing well too!!!

[gwemrys]

the fact that arthur is always accusing merlin of being too ‘girly’ which to him means too emotional will always baffle me… arthur the ceo of making rash decisions in a fit of rage is gonna lecture ppl on being too emotional? arthur of all people? it’s merlin who has to talk sense into arthur every time he gets triggered and wants to go kill people immediately… the disconnect is crazy he really fancies himself the Calm and Composed Guy of Calm and Rational Decisions when he’s literally always one whispered mention of magic away from throwing a fit and threatening to kill and banish people and pissing his pants

[irishyuri]

you’re too sweet for meeeee 🕺

[sneakyboymerlin]

lets kill arthur

this is such a good idea why has no one thought of it before

[merwaine]

PSYCHIC DAMAGE

[atdawn]

MERLIN | 5.03 The Death Song of Uther Pendragon

[whamber]

Merwaine fest day three: magic reveal + bamf!merlin or bamf!gwaine

i love to draw magic fx that the bbc couldn't afford

[aliveaudiencegang]

the thing is over the years i’m sure gwaine has been involved in many tavern brawls etc. so when he decided to help out these two random guys one time he probably thinks nothing of it. but the snowball effect it has on his life 😭. from that moment he gets the one real friend he’s ever had. which then turns into a family, a home and a purpose. (and you know the love of his life)

[sneakyboymerlin]

Gwaine: Not Arthur.

Merlin:

[sneakyboymerlin]

Murderlin: THIS is food for the king of Camelot and is not meant to be soiled by YOOOUUURRRR filthy fingers!

Gwaine:

[sneakyboymerlin]

Tavern Guy: Give me back my money!

Merlin and Gwaine:

[irishyuri]

unstoppable slut meets immovable object or whatever that saying is

[merlinfanficrecs]

fic recs where gwaine finds out about merlin's magic!!

hi! here's a few i found, including the summaries the author's wrote with them

Gwaine's Word is His Bond, Merlin... by LightPinkSunrise

Gwaine might have a naturally loud personality, but that doesn't mean he can't tone it down when his friends are hurt and need him. Or... Merlin is struggling and Gwaine helps him out.

'Til Death Do Us Part by SneakyBoyMerlin

Gwaine gets caught between a rock and a hard place.

Talk To Me by OnceFutureEmrys

He needed to ask him, for his own sanity. He loved Merlin with all of his heart but he was so tired of being the only one willing to open up. Gwaine tried hard not to talk about it, but it genuinely hurt him to see Merlin pushing him away. Not necessarily because it was him he was pushing away – although that hurt just a bit more – but the fact that he was pushing anyone away in general, the fact that Merlin didn’t feel comfortable around his friends and loved ones to share, well… it made him ache more than anything. He wondered what he’d done to hurt him. He wondered and wondered for far too long before finally making a decision. As soon as training ended, he was going to drag Merlin from whatever God-forsaken task he was doing, and force him to sit and talk so that he could finally explain to him what was wrong. Or: Gwaine is worried about Merlin and wants to talk. Luckily, Merlin seems to be ready to finally share.

Because Gwaine Deserved To Know by Mischel

Simply said, Merlin finally tells Gwaine about his magic.

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I hope these work!

[gwemrys]

‘why did you never tell me’ ......girl what

[theandrogynousdragon]

Merlin: I have magic

Arthur: leave me

Me:

[sneakyboymerlin]

Sorry your posts keep going sideways, OP, I’ll break this one down so you don’t have to <3

Let’s start from the bottom and work our way back up to the top for a change!

“No Arthur was not an idiot. He had to deal with another betrayal. Give him some time.”

To begin, Merlin being born with magic was not a betrayal to Arthur. Rather, Arthur betrays Merlin—who has been nothing but steadfast and loyal—by immediately rejecting him for said magic. He refuses to believe it at first, but, given undeniable evidence, he looks at Merlin with disgust and commands him to “leave me.” When Gaius arrives, Arthur says outright that he wants Merlin gone. He does not want to see him, he does not want to be around him. He does not want to be left alone with him.

Whether he distrusts Merlin for the magic, or is merely disgusted by it due to his ingrained bigotry, Arthur has betrayed Merlin here. Moreover, he decided to out Merlin as a sorcerer to someone who could have meant him harm, as per his own laws—or at least, someone he hoped would be equally as suspicious. To what end is not clear: he may have wanted Gaius to help him get away from Merlin since he was presently unable.

In any case, he pretended to be asleep until Merlin was out of earshot and then attempted to out him, only failing because Gaius already knew. If it had been someone like Leon, Merlin might’ve gotten stabbed, too. His law is to execute sorcerers, and Leon follows it unquestioningly—the same legal adherence that Arthur expects of everyone, even Gaius.

It’s only after talking with Gaius that Arthur comes to the decision to have Merlin return his royal seal to Camelot, seeming to trust him now. Merlin has openly pledged his magic to Arthur and singlehandedly swayed the battle, saving Camelot, so there’s no reason to think Merlin is going to randomly destroy it. Arthur isn’t stupid, after all: only willfully ignorant.

While Arthur is apparently able to distinguish that Merlin doesn’t mean any harm—perhaps due to that aforementioned steadfast loyalty that Gaius reminded him about—he still sees magic as a trait to be upset with. There is absolutely no reason left for Arthur to despise magic as a whole, but especially Merlin’s magic, which saved his kingdom.

Merlin and the Dolma (who Arthur has not figured out are the same person lol) both helped Arthur, Guinevere, and Camelot, simply out of the goodness of their hearts. Will, who Arthur believed to be a sorcerer (Merlin again), sacrificed himself to save Arthur’s life. The blue light in the caves (Merlin) on the search for Merlin’s cure saved his life, too. Gaius established in The Secret Sharer that Dragoon (…also Merlin) did not deliberately kill Uther, and therefore Arthur should fulfill his promise to free magic as king. Arthur has all the information he needs—has had it all along—to understand that magic is not inherently evil.

The fact of the matter is, Arthur is out of excuses for his disgust and discomfort over magic. It’s not inherently evil, because Merlin just singlehandedly saved the Battle of Camlann and the Dolma saved Guinevere. At the time, he insisted that the Dolma’s actions prove nothing because there are evil sorcerers who exist, too, but the Dolma’s parting words (“There is no evil in magic… Only in the hearts of men.”) tore the stereotyping defense apart.

Since magic is not inherently evil, and Arthur knows this well enough by now, there is no real reason to be upset by the fact that:

Merlin has magic

Merlin lied about having magic in self-defense and to continue defending others

Magic exists as a (neutral) part of nature

If magic is not evil, then it should not be criminalized. If magic is criminalized (it is), then innocents who use or possess it must hide their magic or else be wrongly treated as a criminal. In this instance, Merlin’s lies are only a defense against Arthur’s own wrongdoing.

Since Arthur infers that Merlin is not evil just for having magic, and since the law enforces the torture and murder of anyone like Merlin—regardless of their individual actions and beliefs—then that means Arthur is at a point where he understands that he put an innocent, loyal civilian into the position of either hiding his identity or being tortured to death. Yet even so, Arthur continues to subject Merlin to further rejection and dehumanization for it.

So, in summation: Arthur was not stupid, he was willfully ignorant. Arthur was not betrayed by Merlin being born a certain way or lying to avoid being tortured to death for his birth circumstances. Arthur himself was the traitor. Arthur had time enough to work through his bigotry, which he should have done earlier. It is generally accepted that the appropriate approach to life or death situations, such as literal execution, is to first make absolute certain that you are correct.

“You act [as if Arthur] ate [Merlin’s] cat.”

We all know that Arthur is the one who killed Freya, so this is a moot point.

“Arthur didn’t react badly. He didn’t call Merlin a monster or anything. He wanted to be alone.”

Setting the standards for a bad reaction to only one specific act (calling Merlin a monster) in order to exclude Arthur from any criticism is a deliberate oversimplification. There are many possible bad reactions, and though he never used the word “monster,” he still decidedly treated him like one while he defended his own discomfort over Merlin’s mere existence.

As I detailed above, Arthur did indeed react badly. He was visibly disturbed by Merlin’s confession and treated him like a stranger (especially apparent when he says, “I thought I knew you.”). He attempted to out Merlin to Gaius, who he assumed would be equally anti-magic, potentially endangering him (thoughtlessly at best, but deliberately is still within bounds). And then it gets even worse.

ARTHUR: Why are you doing this? Why are you still behaving like a servant?

MERLIN: It's my destiny. As it has been since the day we met.

ARTHUR: I tried to take your head off with a mace.

MERLIN: And I stopped you, using magic.

ARTHUR: You cheated!

MERLIN: You were going to kill me.

ARTHUR: I should've.

MERLIN: [pauses, perturbed] I'm glad you didn't.

“I should’ve [killed you]” is what Arthur settles on, while Merlin spoon-feeds him soup and travels with him in the hopes of healing him.

Ironically, this conversation perfectly encapsulates the issue with Arthur taking offense at Merlin’s lies. Arthur was ready to kill Merlin for no reason except that he stood up to a noble, so Merlin defended himself with magic. Arthur finds this an executable offense. The subtext that he wishes he’d never met Merlin, as well as the dialogue itself that he wishes he’d simply killed him when they first met, both speak to Arthur responding “badly.”

The reason Arthur wants to be alone immediately after the confession—and for the following days before he ultimately dies—is because he sees Merlin as a stranger and a threat. He conveys this to Gaius, who attempts to convince him otherwise, stressing that Merlin is Arthur’s only hope of survival and would never do him any harm. Arthur can’t avoid the fact that this is true, but he is still upset that Merlin lied to avoid being tortured to death by someone he considers a friend, and he still sees Merlin as a stranger who he regrets not killing—and regrets spending the last ten years with, despite Merlin’s loyalty.

Again, if Arthur understands that Merlin is not evil for having magic, then he can very well understand that lying about being part of the group that is wrongly persecuted under Arthur is a matter of self-defense. Considering the fact that Merlin willingly told Arthur he has magic despite Arthur’s beliefs, he really has no ground to stand on. The problem isn’t that Merlin lied to Arthur. It’s that Arthur is lying to himself. He has been all along.

“There were fucking layers in this situation.”

[gwemrys]