when I tell u I had to scroll a week back in my twitter likes to find this video bc I genuinely couldn’t sleep until I did

so enchanted by this fella, i had to draw him

[freeze frame] yeah, that’s not me. I don’t know who that is. [unpause]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

how insane must it have felt to be an actor table reading for bbc merlin. alright anthony this week, you are driven mad by memories of the children you killed in your genocide. next week? bald.

every single episode of merlin:

a new random person arrives at camelot

something weird happens (it’s somehow merlin’s fault)

merlin finds out this person has magic

merlin sneaks in somebody’s room at night (that person almost wakes up) and finds something

arthur insults him

arthur has no idea what the hell is happening around him

someone tries to kill arthur or uther or merlin

merlin saves the day

arthur thinks he did it

arthur erotically squeezes merlin’s arm and deeply stares into his eyes

sometimes you see your friend smile really wide or laugh really hard and you go oh! i forgot why we do this but i remember now :)

I don't know if this is a popular theory but the idea that the prophecy did not come true because Merlin was no longer Merlin by the end, so he couldn't save Arthur.

Killgarah tells us in s1 that in order to unite Albion, Arthur and MERLIN have to work together. However, as Merlin slowly stops working WITH Arthur and instead starts working FOR Arthur he chips away the pieces that were Merlin. Gaius even implies that when he asks Merlin about the boy who walked in his chambers years ago.

The Merlin who would've united Albion would've helped Morgana, wouldn't have isolated Mordred, wouldn't have lied to Arthur about his thoughts, wouldn't have hidden Morgana's involvement with GwenCelot. All of these things pushed the idea of Albion further away, because all of these things pushed Merlin away from being Merlin. In a way, he got so concerned with being Emrys, that he forgot that Emrys was just a name for Merlin and not two different identities.

It's like how in a Greek Tragedy the main character tried his best to stop the passage of the prophecy, therefore actually making it happen. Merlin did the opposite, where he tried his best to make the prophecy come true therefore accidentally ended up sabotaging it.

I think this also plays into Arthur coming back from Lake Avalon. Arthur fulfilled his end of the deal: He became a just, noble ruler, and therefore he was rewarded with eternal rest with his wife, and his knights. Merlin on the other hand deviated from his nature, and did not remain true to himself, and is therefore cursed with eternal exhaustion and isolation in the real world.

BBC Merlin is insane as a show. Its an adaptation of Arthurian mythos. It's inspired by CW's Smallville (this is 100% real look it up). it stars 4 unknown 20 somethings and British acting legends. It's aimed at kids and families. its a tragedy. Its campy as hell. It will make you cry. It asks you, like Merlin, to believe in the Golden age of Camelot. It never shows you that Golden age. Everyone in the show is the most beautiful person you'll ever see. people will clown on the CGI. Its one of the most homerotic shows of the 2000's. Its an on purpose allegory for queerphobia, but those allegorious queer characters are largely villains. If you watched it when you were 12 you will never quite be able to let it go. This is a curse. This is an experience you wouldn't give up for the world.

“it’s not that deep” it’s not that shallow. now what

"I asked ChatGPT-" Well I asked the immortal Dragon that Uther chained in the caves beneath Camelot and HE told me to commit treason

[record scratch] [freeze frame]: yeah that's me. that's me in the corner. that's me in the spotlight, losing my religion.

My rule of thumb with cooking and picky eaters is that I'm fine with people being picky, but I'm not ok with people lying about it. So if you've got a long list of things you can't or won't eat, give me the list, and I'm fine with cooking by it. Like literally just write a google docs with all your Yucky Ingredients on it and I can find a way to cook with whatever's left that isn't on the list.

But if you go "no I'm fine with anything it's ok I'll eat it :)" when I ask you what you will and won't eat, and once the food is on the table then you go "ew yuck it has Bad Ingredient, I can't eat this :(" I'm going to beat you with a frying pan.

"putting you in the soup" is my favorate phrase becasue you can use it for anything. someone makes really good art? put them in the soup. someone... i ran out of examples but you get what i mean