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me and my girlfriend started to rewatch merlin again... i fear i developed an unhealthy obsession??
(season 2 spoilers under cut! (is it even possible to spoil a show that ended 10+ years ago?)
Every episode when the villain is like join me and together we can rule this city merlin always gives a “I’d rather be his whore than your wife” response but like the whole time he’s not even Arthur’s whore!!!!! He’s his nonunion employee!!!!!!
BBC Merlin except they all come back in 2012
✨ MERLIN CHALLENGE ✨ : Day 8 (8th): Favourite parallel (Morgana Pendragon vs Arthur Pendragon)
Merlin from BBC Merlin would take one look at timothee chalamet in Wonka and think. This is the representation I've wanted my whole life
happy camelot government upgrade anniversary everyone
when i was 10 or so i made my mom watch the merlin finale with me because i LOVED the show & i knew people would die but i was so sure it would end well… when arthur died i sobbed so hard & so inconsolably that the only way she could calm me down was opening imdb & systematically going through each actor to make fun of their careers
who would merlin choose?
season 1, episode 5: lancelot
golden age 👑
unstoppable slut meets immovable object or whatever that saying is
this is sending me into oblivion right now askjnd
yeah man I just got back from the public hanging. yeah it was crazy there were so many bewitching wenches there. they had some pottage but it was ass so I’m going to the bakery. I heard they have this new thing with raisins in it. you want anything
years later and i’m slowly parsing out the many-layered racism in the merlin fandom towards guinevere as portrayed by angel coulby. of course there’s the usual overzealous slash shippers who resent any female character they see as “coming between” the not at all canonically gay (white) male faves they’re shipping. of course there’s the blandly racist “guinevere is supposed to be blonde and white and and and” haters who just can’t wrap their heads around a legendary female character being played by a black woman. but there’s also a more insidious kind of racism that stemmed from fans who never spouted hateful rhetoric but disguised their racism in comments like “her character is all over the place” and “she and arthur don’t have chemistry” and “i just can’t relate to her” when what they’re really struggling with is that guinevere was written as a character that’s normally exclusively the province of white femininity. she’s beautiful, but humble and unaware of the effect of her beauty and person on people around her. she’s dutiful and kind, but speaks up for what she believes in, even at great cost to herself. she’s feminine and graceful and poised, but she also feels desire and longing, and occasionally those feelings overcome her composure and she expresses them towards arthur. she falls in love with arthur but never asks him to risk his life or his kingdom for her, instead seeing and understanding the bigger picture of keeping camelot safe. and all of this is conveyed even through the precious little screentime she’s given, because angel coulby is a brilliant actress and portrays her character’s vibrant inner life effortlessly in just a few sentences.
but (white) viewers simply cannot wrap their brains around a black female character who’s disempowered within the fictional world she occupies, yet holds emotional power over a main character - especially a white male main. they just can’t understand a black woman who exceeds the tropes they’re used to (especially in genre media): Loyal Best Friend, Sassy Cheerleader, Righteous Champion for Justice, Hypersexual Lover Coming Between White Hero and his True White Love, or Asexual Voice of Reason. white fans just absolutely couldn’t fathom a black female character daring to have layers and humanity and desire and beauty and love and strength and softness in the complex way they imagine and develop white characters who have far less growth and nuance onscreen. the relationship between arthur and merlin literally never changes from sarcasm, throwing things, deception and ribald physical humor - and yet fandom imbues this dynamic with richness and layers and depth that they imagine it must have, because it’s between two white people.
and so because guinevere evaded the tropes that both showrunners and fandom use to trap and degrade women of color characters, and because the m*erthur fans were coddled and baited to the very end by showrunners (as large white fandoms always are) these fans interpret her within the framework of whatever racist trope they find easiest to claim. guinevere calls arthur out? she’s stepping out of place, and it’s not realistic. guinevere stays quiet for the sake of duty? she doesn’t really love arthur, it’s not consistent. guinevere impulsively kisses or expresses desire towards arthur in some way? whoa whoa, that’s way too slutty, and out of character. and and and. it continues. fandom cannot bear seeing black women as fully human, so they chop and screw the bits that suit their needs and insist their interpretation is right. it’s not racist you see, they’re just pointing out facts. the racism pre-empts interpretation, so that no matter how well the character is written and portrayed, people see what they want to and are used to seeing, over and over again.
honestly living in camelot is not that great like you guys love to romanticize it but as someone who lives here it low key sucks. the public transit system is so bad bc trains and buses dont exist yet and the rent is crazy high. “oh but the culture” what culture? the tournament scene? watching some random relative of gawain get unseated by some random relative of lancelot every three weeks is not culture its barely entertainment. and dont get me started on the tourists
#vent #personal #no hate im just so sick of squires posting about going to camelot and making their fortune #not gonna happen and dont move here #ur driving up cost of living 🙄
stop looking at myblog you are scaring me 👍 how has everyone been though