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nightninjaboy

bbc merlin | The Darkest Hour - Part 2

merthurtrenches

I LOVE GWAINE SMMMM

beekeaper

the way watson is looking at holmes

haleyslibrary

Me fr

katherynefromphilly

That’s it. That’s the show. ;)

epi-rants

this scene aged like fine wine *chefs kiss*

once-and-future-gay

what is it abt bbc merlin that makes it. linger

once-and-future-gay

ppl keep talking about unfulfilled potential but that's not it for me. it's something else.

once-and-future-gay

#because it didn’t end. not really#the prophecy wasn’t fulfilled. there was no golden age.#arthur hasn’t returned and they’ve never truly stood side by side as honest equals.#the knights died without saying goodbye. everyone left without saying goodbye. everyone changed without saying goodbye.#there’s so many gaps and plot holes and inexplicable writing decisions but None of them compare to the massive fucking void of that finale.#merlin is at the lake. merlin is still at the lake.#merlin is Still At The Lake and the writers had the gall to look us in the eye and say ‘That is all. Go home.’#there are tragic stories and then there are unfinished stories and this one is unfinished#with tragedy there is a finality to it even if the story ‘continues’ without an audience. but this fucking show didnt finish#and no matter how many fan-made fix-it’s no matter how many headcanons no matter how much art and creativity we do#it will not change that the show is unfinished. the book never closed the curtain never dropped we are waiting at the lake

tags by @surreal-static

i am never going to fucking recover from these tags. fucking hell

regulusrules

The book never closed

The curtain never dropped

We are waiting at the lake.

beekeaper

if no one has done it yet

saw this comic panel on twitter (x)

mephistopheles

sorry

contact-guy

Digging into the Holmes timeline for Reasons and the fact that “a combination of events, into which I need not enter” caused Holmes and Watson to leave London literally DURING Oscar Wilde’s trial for “gross indecency” (aka having a boyfriend)….. Doyle was friends with Wilde…………..I’m connecting the dots

yeah-thats-probably-it

Okay, so I wanted to find more information on Doyle’s friendship with Wilde, and I didn’t end up needing to look very far, because I’ve been listening to Stephen Fry’s Sherlock Holmes collection and he brings it up it in the foreword to The Sign of Four.

Doyle and Wilde met at a dinner hosted by an American businessman who wanted them both to write books for his magazine. Wilde immediately won Doyle’s heart by complimenting one of his historical novels, which was especially thrilling for Doyle as Wilde was already famous and he (Doyle) hadn’t expected Wilde to have even heard of him.

They did both end up agreeing to write for the magazine. Doyle wrote The Sign of Four and Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The most interesting part of this whole thing is that Doyle would later go on to gush about Wilde in a memoir written after Wilde’s trial for gross indecency, and in this memoir describes Dorian Gray as “a book that is surely upon a high moral plane.” Which was an incredibly bold stance, given that Dorian Gray was famously cited as evidence against Wilde in his trial.

Fry speculates that some of Holmes’ eccentricities in later books, such as his “murmured elegance of phrasing, dressing gown-lounging bohemian habits, and range of intellectual and artistic reference” may have been inspired by Wilde. He also notes that Langham Hotel, which is was the venue where Wilde and Doyle first met, is name checked in The Sign of Four.

In conclusion, we do NOT ask Holmes and Watson why they left London in 1895.

wheresthewater

[Image ID: The “Never Ask a Woman Her Age, A Man His Salary” meme edited so the last panel shows an illustration of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson captioned, “Holmes and Watson, Why they left London in 1895” END ID]

aquar-io

if you ask me, the guy who put the sword INTO the stone should be king, not the chucklefuck who got it out.

acekoral

I assume the guy who put the "sword that makes you the king" into the stone, doesn't really want the position

monkeychewtoy

i think the stone should be king since it held the sword the longest

aquar-io

wickedwitchofthewesninski

One of the reasons I'm never getting over BBC Merlin: it starts and you see a boarding school blond jock bullying a public school skinny nerd and you think "oh, this is gonna be one of those brawn and brains situation" and then you realise, you're wrong. There are absolutely no brains in that situation.

remuscariad

atlas-coolbean

GET. AI. OUT. OF. FANDOM. Stop making headcanons with it, stop making fanfic with it, stop making fanart with it. If I see one more "asking chatgpt *blank* about *character/characters in a fandom* I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. Use your own fucking brain, stop asking AI to do everything. You could even ask other real people what they think. Just. Stop. Using. AI. In. Creative. Spaces.