Arthur will rise again

Me still in the Merlin fandom in the lords year of 2021? It's more likely than you think.

[verothewise]

[iguessweallcrazyithinktho]

[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)

[lualuadraw]

yes

[fan-a-tink]

soft and silly merthur is my favourite...

Arthur & Merlin | 4.04 "Aithusa"

[lualuadraw]

choosing only the best outfits for him

[lualuadraw]

au

[unfortunatelymerlin]

bbc merlin has a lot of faults but i do think the way they blithely ignored the existence of christianity was very funny of them

[feral-queercore-punk]

It's truly fucking hilarious that it's a show about a banned "old religion" that never once mentions the new religion. Iconic behaviour. Maybe they're all atheists in Camelot and you cannot prove me wrong.

[limbel]

he was found sobbing hysterically on a poäng chair

[khmelisuneliart]

☀️☀️🌱

[lualuadraw]

magic friends

[16th-of-a-twigg]

Sir Leon doesn't get paid enough to deal with their bullshit... Ko-Fi

[limbel]

09. horn of cathbhadh @merlinktober

[nextstopparis]

you have shown me how to love being alive. x

for @arthurpendragons-ass

[camelotsheart]

i have been screaming about this for a while with @arthurpendragonns​ but @ughmerlin​ noticed that when the voiceover “he cannot glimpse his part in the great story that is about to unfold” plays, merlin passes by a knight and looks at him. and keeps on looking at him even after the knight has passed.

and the knight looks like arthur??????

the blonde hair, the stature, the brown horse - the only difference is the red tunic and black vest, which i don’t think is a combination we’ve seen athur wear before ( @forever-rewatching-merlin​ made a point that arthur’s dress style might have changed from when morris was his manservant, since we never see the clothes-on-top-armor combination arthur was wearing in his first 2 meetings with merlin ever again). but the knight being arthur does work in tandem with canon in that 1) it fits the voiceover and 2) arthur is not shown at the execution, even though it would have been expected for him to attend, especially since there was an announcement for the feast celebrating 20 years of uther’s reign.

and if it was arthur, it’s interesting that he’s not carrying any hunting equipment and doesn’t have anyone with him, which leads me to think that this is more of a personal ride. maybe like morgana, he didn’t agree with the execution but couldn’t bring himself to say anything, unlike in 1x03. so he doesn’t attend it both as a small personal act of defiance and also to clear his head.

there’s also something poetic about portraying merlin as going to camelot and arthur leaving it. as well as the fact that their first meeting was a fleeting moment, and they re-meet again.

[mohamano]

dog whatever, golden age mergwaine where they go on very long roadtrips

[limbel]

03. queen(s) @merlinktober