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⚔️Creating Merlin Coloring Pages!⚔️ The Royal Library of Camelot Find me on: Ko-fi | Redbubble | Etsy | Ao3

[neptunesyellowsands]

Updating June 2026: Just want to mention that there was absolutely NO AI used during any process of creating this coloring book - everything is completely hand-drawn in Procreate by me!

Aaaand they're done, they're here, and they're live on Etsy!

Get one here!

A complete (or as complete as I could make it) BBC Merlin coloring book that attempts to tell the story of our beloved show from start to finish, with special focus on the core four: Merlin, Arthur, Gwen, and Morgana. Each season boasts 16-18 pages, with two-page spreads between each season.

To say I'm floored by you all is an understatement. I wasn't really planning on ordering many of these, but there have been so many folks interested in this passion project of mine and I couldn't be more grateful. Thank you for the tips, the shares, and the cheerleading and support. Really, from the very bottom of my heart, thank you so much!

Shop info:

My shop will be open until around the 20th of December at the latest - though it might change due to some family stuff - and will then go into vacation mode for the holiday. I'll be back after that and the link will go live again! I would not count on these arriving by the 25th, so please don't be upset if they don't end up in a stocking or something. This is just how this particular cookie crumbled!

Also, as predicted, the cost of shipping these from the US to anywhere other than the US is preposterous (imo). I have it enabled for any who want one! But I also made the whole thing free as a PDF download for this reason - everyone should be able to enjoy the pages that way <3 Also, if anyone knows a way to lower international shipping prices, I would be eternally grateful for tips and leads.

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[colinmorgan]

[dochollidayed]

#officer i jaywalked this one time three years ago pls stuff me into a police car too (newberried)

[sashayed]

wait one HOT SECOND. is this the less cute one from MERLIN? Am i looking at the SCARF ONE from MERLIN??? is that who this fucking is?????

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

yes this is “the scarf one from Merlin” also known as Merlin from Merlin, and with his own accent in this show which also ups his sexiness factor a tad

[herrhasen]

#non-merlin fans suddenly realizing that colin morgan is hot#is my new favorite thing#while the colin morgan fans sit and drink tea in the background while watching the world burn ( supercalvin )

[cinematicnomad]

#THE LESS CUTE ONE?!#I WILL COME OVER THERE AND FIGHT YOU (via colinmorgasms)

[fannishthings]

THE LESS CUTE ONE?BRADLEY JAMES WILL COME OVER THERE AND FIGHT YOU.

[katherynefromphilly]

Always reblog the blessed Scarf One From Merlin post

[adhd-merlin]

merlin heritage post

[canadamilkbag]

For once, Uther can’t really blame anyone else for his grievances.

[thatgirlonstage]

Merlin is so sexy when he can do magic unrestrained by needing to hide it and this is one of the 396 reasons it’s a crime that we never got Merlin truly able to do magic at will

[thatgirlonstage]

The confrontation where he kills Agravaine is deadass one of my favorite scenes in THE ENTIRE SHOW because it’s one of the only ONLY times that he COMPLETELY drops the ruse. No mask, no pretending to be the mysterious old wizard, no holding himself back. He hits that dead end and he turns around and you can SEE IT IN HIS FACE: he’s out of ways to avoid or pretend or hide and he knows it, so he doesn’t care anymore. Agravaine can see he has magic because Merlin knows for a fact that Agravaine’s about to die. Because he’s about to kill him.

He spends a lot of the show being traditionally heroic and compassionate but the show commits just far enough to Merlin prioritizing Arthur above literally anything else that it gives him a darker side—Merlin will do anything for Arthur. Anything. Lie, murder, condemn the entire next generation of magic users, anything. And it’s so fucking tasty and terrifying and I wish we’d gotten to explore the dynamic where he isn’t confined by having to hide the limits of what he can do so badly.

[skavod29]

Still waiting for his king…

[lynxartt]

The hunting Merthur has become my obsession in recent days

This art should be taken with the composition "White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter" by Lana Del Rey

[donnastroy]

Merlin Secrets and Magic: Bradley is pretty handy with a sword

[allirys]

Painted this as soon as Art Fight ended, I missed these idiots sm!! Wasn’t planning on posting this one since it’s still a wip and I don’t think I’ll ever finish it ( Arthur looks straight up silly in here 😭 ) but I really liked the colors and since my semester starts literally today, I’ve got no idea on when I’ll get to paint these two again. So I present my humble offerings to the Merlin fandom

[neptunesyellowsands]

Silly??? OP Arthur is my favorite part of this omg it’s GORGINA thank you for sharingggg

[starofcalliope]

My headcanon for Merlin is that he'll randomly drop insane lore and refuse to elaborate. It never fails to freak people out. Even those who know about his magic

Some examples:

Merlin, after complaining about his duties as Arthur's manservant: Maybe I should just run away and become a hermit. My father lived in a cave for twenty years - how hard can it be?

Lancelot: Your father what now??

. . . . .

Merlin, on a hunt: I can't grow chest hair. Not since the incident (he means when Nimueh hit him in the chest with a fire ball)

Leon: Are you just- are you just not gonna elaborate????

. . . . .

Merlin: Thank God it's not hemlock. That stuff tastes awful

Gwen, about to have a heart attack: Hemlock?!

. . . . .

Merlin, after having an annoying day: I really wish that serket had finished me off.

Arthur: That's it! I'm never letting you out of my sight again!

[darkcomedies]

reading a “there was only one bed fic” and the characters have decided to share the bed as long as they stay on their sides. i’m really glad they figured that whole mess out and am excited to read about them staying on their sides of the bed until morning^-^

[kaaibutsu]

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

really love the interactions between these two idiots

really

[saladscream]

"For I Have Sinned"

Yeah I'm going straight to hell for this. A little chat with one of you guys ( @acaderama ) gave me the idea for this. 😇

No AI used - because I don't need that shit.

(that being said, this is a stock photo; I specifically asked no AI, but I can't guarantee; looks legit 🤷‍♀️)

Tagging @herstarlight because they don't want to miss out on the manips.

[katherynefromphilly]

I love Andrew Scott in Fleabag as The Hot Priest, but if they ever have a Fleabag sequel, they clearly need Colin in it, to be The Even Hotter Priest.

[saladscream]

I'd definitely watch that. 🤤

[goblin-ems]

For the Merlin fans still out there (me)

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[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

the fact that on my way out of seeing the hadestown proshot with my sibling i was walking to the theater exit and without even thinking about it i turned around to see where they were... yeah. yeah.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

like. you can be frustrated at orpheus. you can be heartbroken for orpheus and eurydice. you should be. but when you're walking together and your loved one isn't right next to you that instinct to turn around and check on them is as natural as breathing

[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

[count-pudding]

day 11: dom/sub

[mortalityplays]

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

[roach-works]

it is an incredibly joyous thing to look around at your friends as you're heading into your 40s and everyone is so much more themselves than they were when you were all scared and fragile 20-somethings. we're different genders now, we've gotten out of bad relationships and into good ones, we worked shit jobs and got better ones, we all cook a lot better and we eat better too, we casually pull off the kind of art we could only dream of as kids, we've figured out who we are and we do it on purpose now. the self-harm scars have all faded away and we complain about our bad backs and picky digestions instead.

we still lose at trivia real bad.