you know that being a god means being blamed

Hi, I'm Rebecca and this is my Merlin Blog. I follow from stymphalides. "Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today." -- Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

[prophetiaemerlini]

About

Hi, I’m Rebecca.

I started outlining a Merlin fic, which required me to rewatch the show because it had been years and to be completely honest, I never finished the fourth season my first go around and I figured it was about time.

And as I watched, I had thoughts. Many, many thoughts. Too many thoughts to post on my main blog without confusing and annoying the people that follow me over there.

So, here we are. I finished my rewatch and, because I’m a slug, am going to rewatch it again. Slower this time, I think. As I do this, I plan to sort of live blog as an excuse to ramble. Will anyone read this? Hell if I know. But I need to vent.

I can’t promise these are original thoughts, but they are thoughts and I am thinking them.

[aemelia]

UTHER for @merlinbingo | 1. It lingers for your whole life, Katie Maria; 2. Cut, Catherine Lacey; 3. Greek mythology, source unknown; 4. East of Eden, John Steinbeck; 5. The Hours, Michael Cunningham; 6. Accountability, Beyoncé; 7. Succession, Jesse Armstrong; 8. Descended from Dreamers, Li-Young Lee; 9. Thoughts of a stray iii, @dvoyd; 10. Unknown; 11. Unknown; 12. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, Matthew Quick; 13. Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong, Ocean Vuong; 14. Walking to Martha's Vineyard, Franz Wright; 15. The Sun is also a Star, Nicola Yoon; 16. All the Red, Desdemona; 17. Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block; 18. Unknown; 19. Blood Ties, Kjartan Isak; 20. The Hurting Kind, Ada Limón.

[thebookluvrr1816]

Trista Mateer, Honeybee // In Hell - Japanese Breakfast // Dulce María Loynaz // contemporary poetry // The Undressing: Poems by Li-Young Lee // Zayn - Stand Still // Forough Farrokhzad. // Next Time - Team StarKid // Carry Me Out - Mitski // Sue Zhao // Rupi Kaur

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to? - Jeanette Winterson

for @merthurmicrofic | prompt : hole

[frogmerthur]

morgwen + franz kafka's the castle (x)

[captain-lonagan]

no like season 1 merlin rocks up to camelot and every magic user he meets is burnt out, bitter, or both. in season 5 mordred rocks up to camelot and the senior magic user that’s burned out and bitter is merlin. it’s merlin that’s perpetuating the cycle of hurt now and that’s crazy and they never get into it!

[lovebotomy]

in s3 when gilli (I think?) comes to camelot and wants to use magic enhancing ring to defend himself and kill their oppressor and merlin tells him it's not what magic is for, it's for good (that he can't do because magic is outlawed) and he tells merlin that he has pretended for so long he forgot who he really is. it has been a theme since the beginning

[gehalge]

#merlin goes through perfect indoctrination I think they actually nailed his character perfectly #you can see the shifts #he's hopeful in s1 #in s2 he believes it's necessary that he suffers at arthur's hand because it just has to be. doesn't trust morgana and poisons her #in s3 he's full of guilt over releasing kilgarrah and poisoning morgana. seems to fully believe arthur will never know about his magic #in s4 lancelots death and evil resurrection breaks him. his relationships with other people are detoriating. he is becoming emrys #s5 bitter obsessed merlin is obvious #just amazing progression (via @lovebotomy)

[dollopheadsandclotpoles]

Merlin was legit cleaning Arthur's chambers like this...

this man seriously had unparalleled job security i swear to god

[chronicowboy]

— richard siken (for @danielsousa <3)

[aemelia]

MORGANA @merlinbingo | 1. Tumblr post, inanotherunivrse / 2. Sisters, Elizabeth Fishel / 3. Elektra, Anne Carson / 4. The World at its Beginning, Dustin Pearson / 5. Unknown / 6. Ariadne, Jennifer Saint / 7. Comment by Nilo / 8. Tumblr post, maykitz / 9. Antigonick, Anne Carson / 10. Workingman's Blues #2, Bob Dylan / 11. After Abel, Dante Émile / 12. Unknown / 13. My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult / 14. Antigone, Sophocles / 15. Infinite Gradation, Anne Michaels / 16. Ariadne and Minos, author unknown / 17. Killing Flies, Michael Dickman.

[elephantsatsea]

tragedy alignment chart (x)

[heytheredeann]

— Eurydice & Orpheus.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

@fancyfrogg for the request "Perhaps merlin in a lake in waders looking for newts, trash, swords. One of them or all of the above? :3"

Not exactly what you asked for but couldn't get this image out of my head

[lenoreamidala]

Gwen is the most kind, loyal person you would ever meet and she has been more than a friend to all of us.

[marsberryart]

Allow me to offer you all merthur fanart… referenced from La belle dame sans merci, 1893 by John William Waterhouse… I love them so much

I need to do more merthur fanart soon 🫶

[dsunmugi]

Homeward

[nextstopparis]

after ken burns, by laura kasischke.

— for @camelotsheart

[nextstopparis]

oh btw the reason why no one can feel merlins magic is because his magic is the earths magic/he is magic itself and magic is in everything. you only notice something out of place, but being of the earth, the sea, the sky, everyone feels it all the time so its just natural for them xoxo

[1st-knight-of-camelot]

Sir Percival & the future Queen (BBC Merlin 4x09)

for @percyfest