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bravest coward in the world vs. smartest idiot in the world, who will win?
Title: Strongest High Priestess?
I saw a post earlier where some fans were saying Morgause and Nimueh were more powerful than Morgana, and that just doesn’t match what we actually see in the show.
In the later seasons, Merlin still believes he’s just a human sorcerer, and he openly admits that Morgana’s magic keeps growing to the point where he’s afraid she could eventually be stronger than him.
By the finale, we learn that this fear isn’t really justified, because in the Crystal Cave Merlin discovers that he isn’t simply a sorcerer at all. He is magic itself.
Even so, Morgana is still the only High Priestess Merlin ever truly feared might overpower him. By that point in the series, he had already proven he was stronger than both Morgause and Nimueh.
And this isn’t just interpretation. The official Merlin special cards back it up. Merlin’s magic is ranked at 50, which is the highest possible level. Morgana’s is 49, Morgause’s is 46, and Nimueh’s is 42
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Merlin: i need help
Gaius: use your books and think about everything you have been taught
Merlin 3 seconds later: dragon i need your help
dragon: best i can offer you is a riddle
Merlin: bloody hell, i don't have time for this. i'm just going to use my magic out in the open and hope no one catches on. it's worked well for me so far. no one believes i could be a sorcerer anyways
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My dearest princess
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last line tag
You know the drill: post a sneak peak from a WIP (favorite/last line/almost abandoned, dealer’s choice lol)
thank you for the tag @ambivalentmarvel!! sorry it took me, uh, too long to get to this 💀
“Alright, alright, Mr. Old-Fashioned,” Sam said, chuckling at Bucky’s stumbled response. “I’ll marry someone else for the tax benefits. I bet Torres would volunteer in a heartbeat.”
tagging: @praetorqueenreyna, @foxy-knowledgeseeker, @shrinkthisviolet, @korvidaee, @itsmoonpeaches, and anyone else who wants to do this! seriously, just say i tagged you 🥰💛
Thanks for the tag Amy! I’m going with last line for this because I have too many favorites 😂
Sam opened her mouth to shout back but caught herself at the last second. She opted for a sharp exhale instead, nodding. “I understand that, Mr. Miyagi, really. But you act like there’s a third option when there isn’t. Not for us.”
The “us” she’s talking about is her and Daniel, btw
Tagging (with no pressure ofc): @ohsalamanders @pawprinterfanfic @dearestpartnerofgreatness @flamehotman @pursue-solitude @blondsak @robbykeeneslawyer @raphidae and anyone else who wants to (you can say I tagged you)!
robbykeeneslawyer
thank you for the tag!!
“Say it again.”
“I will never hurt you. I won’t break your heart,” Miguel promised, brushing her wet hair out of her face with both of his hands. “I’m gonna put your heart back together. If you’ll let me try.”
yes out of context🤩
no pressure tags: @writings-of-a-fool (you said it was ok to tag you in stuff so i shall😌) @crunchie-morris @evelyn090807 @peachy-keene33
and, of course, anybody else who wants to do this
peachy-keene33
I’m tagging @anoncritc, @multivstx, @sammyxdeanxberry and @brattycobra (feel free to ignore this if you want).
@evelyn090807 (you can do if you want, but I know @robbykeeneslawyer tagged you as well. You’re very popular apparently lol)
I’m going to disobey all the rules and post my favorite paragraph from a fanfic I’m currently working on because I’m so proud of it.
It’s a scene where Johnny ends up on trial.
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“Do you want to go back to your dad, Robby?” the man asked.
The boy shook his head tersely.
“Do you think he’d hurt you?” he asked, gesturing to his healing cut.
Robby looked at his father and then back at his lap. “I don’t think my father would ever purposely hurt me, but I don’t think he could take care of me either.”
“Why’s that?” the question was spoken softly.
“I think that living together would be nice at first, but then the novelty would wear off, and things would go back to normal. I’d wake up once again to an empty fridge, liquor bottles strewn everywhere, and an alcoholic parent passed out on the couch. It would be just like living with mom again.”
Johnny flinched like he’d been physically wounded.
Ouch! That was like a knife to the heart.
Okay but @peachy-keene33 what the hell babe why would u make me cry like that WITHOUT WARNING ME. I actually felt like someone punched me😭
Thank you @robbykeeneslawyer for mentioning me 🥺
“I can’t keep on blaming myself for not being enough for you. For not being strong like Sam or caring like Miguel. I…I can’t keep on hating myself to feel loved.” he admitted lastly, just wishing he could disappear and leave forever, so he wouldn’t have to see the tears in their eyes or feel the pain in their gazes. “I hate myself enough for what I did, and I’m trying to be a better person not only for the people around me, but for myself. And to do that I have to understand that I’m worth it and that I deserve to be cared for, even if it’s hard sometimes. But I just…I can’t do that with you reminding me every single day what a failure I am when I have been trying so hard to be okay.”
Everyone who sees this should do it lol @robbyykeene everyoneeee
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Do you sometimes read a fic writer’s work, and just… thank all the gods this person managed to get obsessed with the same fictional people you did?
@ivy-pendragon Same too you, love. 💕
The first time that I saw had written to me under one of my stories. I did a double take. 😘
when a cultural activity easily allows you to let small children participate
alternatively, a child dragon being greeted by the clan
The gather to meet the youngling
Have y'all ever seen that video of elephants in a sanctuary absolutely booking it across the enclosure to meet the New Baby, because
I love how they're clearly walking in formation until one of them sees the baby dragon and then they immediately all run over.
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godhood and divinity lend themselves to a certain layer of distance between this being and the rest in being untouchable. unknown. merlin spiraling more and more in his secrecy over the seasons does not help with his god complex and the weight that all this destiny Depends On Him and that Everything Is His Fault. in lancelot knowing him, he was human.
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sunhatred-deactivated20220531
Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being kidnapped totally against their will was a way for them to engage with a romantic or sexual fantasy without feeling morally in the wrong for doing so? Added bonus that the fantasy involved being whisked away from repressive environments like home or school, right?
Finding out that Bram Stoker was in a sexless marriage and that scholars believe that he very likely was closeted gay puts the entire book into perspective as to WHY it reads EXACTLY like a self insert wattpad Dracula kidnap fic:
“I TOTALLY love my wife and would never do anything that an upstanding Good Straight Working Man wouldn’t do but oh nooo, big strong man with broad back and strong enough arms to carry me back to bed like a princess trapped me and claimed me as his, completely against my will 👉👈 But he protects me against the bad evil sexual women (who I assure you, I am TOTALLY sexually attracted to, as any straight man with a choice would be) but trust me, I do NOT want ANY of this. What’s that? The Count is not capable of feeling love? Would be a shame if I had the special ability to change tha-”
This is also the fantasy behind all those old bodice-ripper romances that people today like to mock or call problematic, by the way.
“Oh, my next forty years are going to consist of nothing but washing dishes and keeping house and bearing children for the disdainful man I married right out of high school because my parents said college was for men and I had no other obvious life path open to me? What if a pirate captain thought I was worth stealing away from it all? [what if I ran away but no-one could blame me for leaving]?”
#I read an article a long time ago about a woman who was raised in an incredibly repressive conservative christian community#where all that mattered was purity and virginity etc #She talked about how for a long time rape fantasies were the only way she could derive any pleasure from sex #because she couldn’t feel safe exploring the idea of wanting sex #it wasn’t really ABOUT rape or eroticizing assault or whatever #it was about creating a scenario where she was free from the shame associated with wanting #i think this is true of a lot of icky-seeming stuff in romance and erotica #it’s an imaginary scenario where nothing you don’t really want actually happens #but you can’t be blamed or feel guilty for it #you didn’t do anything wrong#anyway that article changed my perspective a lot #i think there’s also something to be said for people who have felt ugly and undesirable their whole lives #enjoying fictional scenarios where a hot alpha werewolf or whatever is so attracted to them he ‘cant help himself’ or whatever #because it can also be really shameful to want to be desired #when you feel like youre ugly and gross ( @headspace-hotel )
I will go into mourning if/when Tumblr is gone. So help me I have both whiled away time here so my brain can rest and I have had my brain rewired with what I learn here. Like now. With this.
I love you all, you wonders who share what you know, what you experience, your humanity and your empathy, I love you.
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Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice
two sides of the same coin (Merlin Version)