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An alternative second meeting

#merlin #merthur #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin bbc #merlinbbc #art #digital art #fan comic #s1ep1

writing fanfic like “am i getting the dynamics of this friendship right?” “would this character actually say this?” “what is the proper ratio of kindness to sass?” “am i falling prey to overused fanfic personality shortcuts or is this a canon trait?” “am i overthinking this so much that i will grind to a standstill out of sheer terror?”

colleendoran

ma'am your website hints at an Arthurian project and while I realize that you are probably going to want to be coy about things that are in the works, may I please press you for any details whatever about this project? From one Arthuriana lover to another

Hi there, from one Arthuriana enthusiast to another.

I have enjoyed the great privilege of doing the adaptation and art for Neil Gaiman's short story CHIVALRY in graphic novel form.

In this tale, a little old lady finds the Holy Grail in a charity shop.

Then Sir Galaad, noble knight of the Round Table, comes calling.

For those who don't know, in the original spelling, Sir Galahad was Galaad.

It is my favorite of all Neil's stories. It is one of my favorite short stories of all time.

It comes out in March. In several countries, I think. It is published in the USA by Dark Horse Comics.

I very much hope you like it!

You may preorder from any major bookstore, online bookstore like Barnes and Noble or Amazon, or from your local comic shop.

francrows

just two bros, chillin’ in the forest

#zero feet apart #because-

aliceblakeart

Yes it’s 2020, yes it’s Merlin fanart, yes I really needed it this year 🙃

punqueen13

Oh my gods this is beautiful

#merlin #bbc merlin #merthur #arthur pendragon #merlin x arthur #art

cellotonins-deactivated20221026

as a fandom content creator what is ur toxic trait i’ll go first. mine is refusing to work on any of my 283348734895 wips and then having the audacity to say i’m bored

punqueen13

Sitting on the same WIP for literal *years* and then being sorely disappointed with it when I finally finish it

#also having the best ideas when I’m busy #and no motivation to work on them when I’m free #the endless cycle of getting excited about something and then never seeing it come to fruition

featuresofinterest

it seems so strange to me that the only people it is socially acceptable to live with (once you reach a certain stage in life) are sexual partners? like why can’t i live with my best friend? why can’t i raise a child with them? why do i need to have sex with someone in order to live with them? why do we put certain relationships on a pedestal? why don’t we value non-sexual relationships enough? why do life partners always have to be sexual partners?

greenjudy

My grandmother and grandfather more or less adopted my grandmother’s best friend back in the 50s. After my grandfather died (before I was born, back in 1968 or so) they continued to keep house together, platonic best friends, and they hung together until they died, a few months apart, in 2007.

It’s quite recently, as far as I can tell, that living arrangements like that have stopped being regarded as normal.

deathcomes4u

It’s absolutely a new thing to find this stuff weird, and it has a lot to do with media pretending that the nuclear family and marriage are the only reasons to live with other people.

I’ve lived in a 3 adult household my whole life. My parents and their best friend. This was never weird to me, even though everyone my age thought it was because the media never portrayed these kinds of housing arrangements. As far as i was concerned, I just had an extra non-blood parent.

According to my parents, it was very common in the 70′s-80′s to buy houses with your friends, because it was financially smart to do so (so long as you were certain they were close friends who wouldn’t fall out with you and fuck everything up). Houses and house payments are much more manageable when you split the bills 3-4 ways instead of just two.

Millenials aren’t the first to think it’s a great idea to just shack up with friends. That’s housemating without the hastle of living with strangers. It’s still a good idea to shack up with people you’ve known a long time so you know how you’ll get on living together, but still. In the current economy, it’s pretty much now our only option for affording anything.

I think, and I’m not researched on this, but I think conservatives probably tried to suppress images of non-nuclear families because they likely thought it would encourage ideas of polygamy, polyamory, open sexual relationships with or without marriage, as well as other relationship types they thought of as un-christian or unsavoury. I could be wrong, but that shit wouldn’t surprise me.

(And i want to make a note that there’s also a disturbing amount of asexual denial around that makes people go ‘if they’re living together they HAVE to be banging because why wouldn’t they?’ and that shit both creeps me out and annoys me no end. People can be in relationships without sex. People can live together without sex. Sex is not the be-all and end-all and people being taught to think it is really need to stop).

Don’t let the media fool you into believing you can only live with a sexual partner or blood family. Someone somewhere has an agenda for making these seem abnormal, when really it’s just practical.

curlicuecal

A lot of people acted like it was super weird when two of my brothers decided to move states with me when I started my postdoc. I got really used to giving a little canned speech about it because it seemed to bewilder people so much. (Their leases happened to be up! We could share rent! They wanted to try somewhere new!)

The notable exception was my grandma, who was just like, “oh, yes, when we were young my sister and I decided to move cross-country together and it was lovely.”

More of this kind of thing for everyone, pls.

magickedteacup

The implication that close sibling relationships must also be a warning sign for incest also peeves me off; what kind of society are we living in anyway

ineptshieldmaid

#my mom’s a historian#does a lot of research#one of the main takeaways from the census data of literally every US census since the beginning#is that the nuclear family has never been the actual norm#nobody really ever lived like that#and a lot don’t now#and it’s clearly artificial and not ideal for most people#every household in the census had at least a grandma#usually a cousin#some rando#someone living in the house who wasn’t mom or dad or kid#always someone#usually several someones#some uncles etc.#unmarried aunties#that sort of person#but often unrelated friends#we’ve never really lived alone#that’s not how families work#that’s not how humans work

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solarcat

Having a multi-adult household unit also just makes a shit-ton of sense, tbh. Much easier to split not only the bills, but also the housework and child-rearing responsibilities. Communal living ftw.

drtanner

It’s also super a capitalism thing.

With only two working-age people in the house, it’s very difficult to make ends meet without one of them (or increasingly, these days, both of them) working away the vast majority of their waking hours to earn enough money to support the household. The other person, if they aren’t also working similar hours, is there to support that working person, full time, with unpaid labour.

The end result of this is that nobody has any time or energy to spend together properly, and they just end up tired and miserable and shackled to their work, throwing money at their problems because it’s all they can do. It’s very easy to convince tired, miserable people to spend their money in the ways you want them to, and it’s also very easy to manipulate and oppress people who don’t have the energy or the means to fight for their rights. Convince a whole nation that this is the way the world is supposed to work, and you’ll be well away.

Death to the cancerous myth of the nuclear family.

#this #honestly it’s a much more common thing in the US than in other countries #but here’s to breaking social norms in favor of things that just make more sense

0heyitskai0-deactivated20230707

i made a meme

punqueen13

Okay so storytime because this was a funny coincidence and I still can’t believe it happened. I used to write a ton of Wattpad fanfic for a different fandom when I was 14. A few of them got surprisingly popular and hit a pretty wide audience. Very few people actually knew that I wrote fanfic- only my two best friends and my younger brother. So a year or so passes and one of my best friends has a birthday party. At the party, I run into a girl who I haven’t met before and recognize a very familiar orange logo on her phone. Being the awkward teenager I am, I ask her about it and we begin to exchange account information.

Except she realizes she’s already following me.

Turns out, she was one of the avid fans of a fanfic I had written. Commented, voted, everything. Fast forward three years of us becoming super close friends and she’s telling this story at my graduation party in front of a hundred people (calling it “short stories online” not fanfiction).

Anyway, the internal panic I had after half of my extended family approached me that evening asking to read these “short stories” was pretty unmatchable even to this day.

#story time #fanfic writing #transitioned to ao3 a year after that and never looked back XD

fishoutofcamelot

Merlin: it was my idea, I should be the one to risk my life for this plan

Lancelot: no, we can't lose you! I will go instead

Gwaine: guys, guys, you're both too valuable to risk. It should be someone expendable, like Arthur

Arthur: EXCUSE ME -

#Arthur’s salty even though he was probably about to propose the same thing

emhe67

Arthur Pendragon

#bbc merlin #Arthur pendragon #op this is a masterpiece

fishoutofcamelot

Supposing that King Arthur will return when the world needs him most, the fact that he hasn’t yet risen at any point during 2020 suggests the horrifying implication that things will get worse

fishoutofcamelot

This has…aged poorly, to say the least