Always Rising

Tansy. She/Her. Autistic. Borderline Aroace. Fanfic Writer: Link to my A03 This is basically a Merlin blog now. Arthur and Merlin are my emotional support romantic bantering idiots.   Currently watching (Again), writing, and obsessed with BBC Merlin. Proud member of the ship whatever makes you happy and let others do the same club. WILDDEOREN RIGHTS There will be a lot of me randomly screaming or talking about writing my fanfics. If you wanna avoid that I always use the tag "Writing fanfiction" ----------------- Side art by bitter-cherry Icon by Ramazikaa. Header by kairennart

[tansyuduri]

We Are Bruised But Whole Together

Arthur wakes up in modern Glastonbury and to his unfathomable relief finds Merlin. But nothing is simple. Everything he knew is gone, for one. He wonders what of his achievements were actually his own, and not just Merlin's magic, for another. Arthur also has to face the fact that he kept the ban on magic going. Was he ever truly a good king?

There is also the “I love you” he mouthed to Merlin before dying. Something he cannot afford to focus on, because, as Merlin tells him, Albion’s time of greatest need is upon them.

Then comes the unthinkable. Merlin’s magic, which has been growing over the last thousand years, is suddenly too strong for the sorcerer's human body to handle. Faced with the prospect of losing Merlin, feelings suddenly come out and Arthur realizes that if he can save the man he loves and the land of Albion, he might be able to forgive himself for his mistakes and everything he is not.

The question is, can he?

Expect fluff, angst, humor, banter, hurt/comfort, whump, and lots of Merthur!

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Merlin held Arthur as the sun began to set. He rubbed a hand up and down the other man’s back as Arthur gripped him tightly. He could hear Arthur slowly working to pull himself together. 

Finally, Merlin heard a whisper. 

“Sorry.” 

“You’re apologizing to me?” Merlin said incredulously. “For having emotions?”

Arthur raised his head slowly, letting go of Merlin. “Seems so.”

Merlin could not let that stand. 

“Of all the… Arthur, don’t you dare try to apologize to me for crying after learning what you did just now,” Merlin told him. “Don’t you dare. You emotionally repressed, impossible, dollophead of a king! Don’t you dare apologize for being human.”

Arthur met Merlin’s gaze with his red-rimmed blue eyes slightly wide. Then a smile started to grow on his face. “You still can’t address me like that.”

“What? The dollophead bit? Or the emotionally repressed, impossible, idiot bit?” Merlin crossed his arms. 

“Both… Wait, did you just add ‘idiot’ to the insults, Merlin?”

“Yes. Seems I did. Problem, Your Majesty? ”

Merlin saw Arthur open his mouth to retort, then let out a slight laugh and shake his head. “I’m glad you didn’t change, Merlin.”

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art By @gyrhs Army of Betas: Sleepygecko, Joyale, Anne Exception, vandalyssm, Sage_Owl, Loki_Lover_1234, @kadenemrys ____________________________________________________________

Read it and It's Sequals on A03 HERE

[syfysource]

The only rule is, there are no rules.

Merlin 3.11 The Sorcerer's Shadow

[hsm2]

Merlin/Arthur in S4 E5 + S5 E1

[roe-in-a-woodland]

QUICK tavorite food?

Rice pudding 🙂‍↕️

[dailysudeikis]

Jason Sudeikis with Katherine Mcnamara and Bradley James in Kansas City. - July 12, 2026.

[frogdivorce]

u ever just watch someone slowly lose interest in you in real time and still have to just stand there and watch it happen like 🫩

[fan-a-tink]

merlin from Arthur's perspective is actually so wild. like, merlin has the context of their great destiny and is knowingly working to bring it about but Arthur... to Arthur merlin is this random boy who turned up in Camelot one day and made him look like a fool in front of everyone then saved his life and was 'rewarded' by becoming his servant. and like the next week, Arthur already trusts merlin so much and jokes around with him and literally goes on life threatening quests just because merlin had this idea or merlin drank poison for him. like, Arthur doesn't know about the destiny stuff, and he does these things only because he likes this slightly odd guy who is terrible at his job and roasts Arthur 24/7. it just brings home the fact that merlin is Arthur's first real friend, that he must have been super lonely before merlin, and just how much Arthur genuinely likes merlin.

[fan-a-tink]

@bastillia

[thedragonlies]

i started redrawing this screenshot one million years ago and couldn't decide on a shading style I liked, eight hundred tutorials and three scrapped versions later here we are...

[nonbinary-merwen]

gwen/morgana for @morgwenmicrofic prompt: poetry

https://www.tumblr.com/two-bees-poetry/782666279791345664/heartburn-noun-feat-actual-things-i-wrote-at

[saladscream]

For @calamity-talvi whose idea this was. 😘

[myownfantasyrealm]

Can confirm.

[tansyuduri]

HAHAHAHAHHAA

[saladscream]

For @calamity-talvi whose idea this was. 😘

[bilosan]

[tsundereslasher]

#ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[glasspudding]

wait i’m sorry

but does anyone else notice how in the second gif, they are so busy staring into each others eyes that merlin doesn’t notice the jug being taken from him?

[onigi]

I’m not in this fandom but I am the guy on the right in the second gif

Other people came here to eat dinner, your highness

#WHERE IS THE HETEROSEXUALITY HERE#PLEASE#SHOW ME

it was never here. literally. in the first episode the gay subtext was unbelievable. 

#I bet the other knights have just got used to this#like#oh look Merlin and Arthur are having a moment again#it’s your turn to take the tray and finish serving the food Percival#no it’s not I did it last time#get Leon to do it it’s his turn#oh damn it’s not even worth the argument now they’re making out and he’s dropped the tray#that’s the second time today#right#who’s going down to the kitchen to get more food then?

[merlin-addicted]

THAT’S THE PROOF THAT MERTHUR IS REAL

[merthur-with-side-of-arthur]

can you BELIEVE

[cerebronn]

Chasing nightmares away💫

[12thdoctor-bootstrap-paradox]

Do you think the people in the castle knew arthur and merlin if separated would be a disaster, so made sure they never were

[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.

[eden-writes-stuff]

[ogmerlinian]

My baby deserved better 🥺