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MERLIN WEEK 2022: Day 2: favorite scene or season episode
↳ 4.06 A Servant of Two Masters
Lucky for us you’re such a bad assassin
There is no greater gift to have than to be loved by you. MINI MERCELOT FEST 2021 | Day 5: Gift
You said I have to trust more freely | Merlin & Mordred + "The Great War"
Arthur: one of the Druids said there was a god among us.
Lancelot: strange, I couldn't imagine who it is.
Gwaine: me neither. All I know is that it's not Lancelot.
Lancelot: why not me?
Gwaine: gods tend to fuck a lot of shit up. It's in every book I ever read.
Lancelot: i wouldn't know. I can't read.
...
Lancelot: wait, Gwaine, you can read?
Gwaine: .... Shit, Merlin, distract them.
Merlin: huh? Oh. Okay. I'm the god.
Arthur: ... Merlin, shut up. Gwaine, you must have a very good upbringing, if you can read.
Gwaine: Merlin can read.
Merlin: that's because I'm a god.
Arthur: Merlin, you're not a god. Gwaine, does this mean you're royalty?
Merlin: so Gwaine can be royalty, but I can't be a god? This is so unfair. I'm gonna complain to my pet dragon now. If anyone wants to join? No? Understandable, he's an arse. I'll also go and visit my girlfriend the lake spirit. And I'm going to take loads of strawberries. Bye, you foolish mortals.
....
Arthur: why is everyone so sarcastic today?
MERLIN REWATCH | 10th year finale anniversary ↳ 2.06 - beauty and the best part 2
What if in Season 1 when Arthur tells Merlin to like, get all these things done, he doesn't actually mean like, Merlin is supposed to do them.
Like part of Merlin's job is supposed to be bringing that dented helmet to like, the fuckin blacksmith and then remembering to pick it up later but Merlin just doesn't know so he's doing it all himself.
And then Arthur is annoyed because hes like, why is my servant never around???
It's because Merlin is, personally, himself, trying to re-sharpen Arthur's entire collection of weapons instead of like, bringing those to the head of the armoury and explaining what Arthur wanted done.
Arthur's like, where have you been??? And Merlin is like, wtf why is he so annoyed with me.
"Fixing your boots! Doing your chores!"
And in Merlin's head this is like, he spent three hours hand stitching Arthur's boots, polishing his armour, and doing his laundry, he's like of course I haven't been around how long does this asshole think it takes to do all those things???
In Arthur's head he's like, it should have taken like, 1 hour to polish my armour and like 20 minutes tops to drop off my boots and laundry at the appropriate places?? Arthur's like, is Merlin an idiot? Did he just like? Get lost??? And that's why Arthur thinks Merlin's an idiot
Mordred: Is it defenestration if you're throwing someone out of a portal?
Merlin: That depends on if you define a portal as a window, a door, or something in between.
Arthur: What the fuck?
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Merlin and Mordred telepathically having long discussions debating one method over another ✨peer reviewing the magic✨ and Arthurs’ just confused as hell 🤨⁉️
I meant to only check tumblr idly for a moment - like, 2 hours ago - but instead I saw this, stopped what I was doing and drew this lol
OH MY FUCKING GOD I LOVE IT
Of course the only thing they'd agree on is murder! Tbh if you're a practicing sorcerer in Camelot, you have "fuck the police" hardwired into your mindset. Laws? Never heard of her.
And ARTHUR. His fACE. *customer service smile* 😂😂😂😂 Relax, my man, you're half right. They are giving off Murder Vibes, just not towards each other.
Hilariously enough, this is how M&M become friends, because you don't plan a political assassination with just anyone, prophecy averted, and Kilgharrah can be heard screeching from the other side of Albion.
it recently came to my attention that bbc merlin’s director of photography dale mccready has a website called the merlin archive with over a hundred behind the scenes pictures from on set! here’s the link for any interested fans :)
Okay so when a bird painting says it’d sell you to satan for one corn chip everyone laughs, but when I, Edmund Pevensie—
take heart, for when Albion’s need is greatest; Arthur will rise again.
(ps. this is a cover for my merthur playlist 🌸)
What makes JKR's shitshow even harder to process is that she didn't just ruin a book series. Harry Potter was an entire subculture. Like Star Wars and Star Trek fans, Harry Potter fans dedicated their lives and careers to the series. I don't know if I'd call it "underground," but liking Harry Potter got you beaten up when I was in school, so it was more of a dedicated indie culture than a mass-appeal fanbase.
Harry Potter was so huge that fan works developed their own followings. Potter Puppet Pals racked up hundreds of thousands of followers and was nearly as relevant as the series itself. For fanfiction, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality got so big that it has a Wikipedia page. The band Harry and the Potters spawned the wizard rock music genre. A Very Potter Musical developed a fanbase and launched Darren Criss's career.
Harry Potter also has extensive ties to fandom history. Everyone in my generation (millennials) remembers coming home from school to read Harry Potter fanfiction on the Internet. Today, most people just post their stories on Wattpad or Archive of Our Own. But at the time, the fanbase was splintered between fanfiction.net and dozens of individual websites and forums, some made for specific ships. Since they all had individual hosts, a lot of those sites have been lost to time.
And there's the infamous My Immortal fanfiction, which is an Internet legend with people still searching for the author. Everybody read that one (and laughed at it) in middle school.
Pre-social media, fan sites like The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet had massive followings because they were one of few sources for news, theories, essays and fan content. Some of these sites still exist after being around for over a decade and building their own legacy.
Before Deathly Hallows came out, fans were so desperate to know what happened that Mugglenet published a book called What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love and How Will the Adventure Finally End? Yep...Harry Potter was so big that people wrote separate books about what would happen in an upcoming book.
And that's not mentioning all the book release parties, Harry Potter-themed events, monuments, fan films, restaurants and even a theme park. A lot of fandoms have those, but Harry Potter infiltrated every aspect of popular culture.
Today, there's a thriving culture of "Harry Potter adults" with themed weddings, baby showers and Etsy stores. Putting your Hogwarts house in your Instagram bio is pretty much a prerequisite for joining the "bookish" community. Warner still produces new content, like the Fantastic Beasts series, although we've all seen what a disaster that's been.
Everyone has at least a few memories associated with Harry Potter even if it's just watching the movies. I had great memories associated with Harry Potter. But looking back at the subculture, history and thousands of fan works, it doesn't seem fun anymore. Studying the fandom or being part of it comes with an awkward tension because you don't want to seem like you're condoning JKR's bigotry but can't divorce her from the series. This subculture was spawned by a woman who turned her legacy of magic and wonder into one of abuse and hatred.
I don't expect people to write paragraphs about how much they hate JKR every time they post about Harry Potter, but it's still uncomfortable to see people make new content or wear their Harry Potter Etsy tote bags like nothing happened. Even if they clarify that they don't support her, it's just a weird, tense situation for everybody.
People dedicated years of their lives to running Harry Potter fan sites, writing fanfiction, cosplaying characters and making fan movies. If I were in that situation, I'd have a mild identity crisis. I'd ask myself "Did I waste all those years? Should I delete my content? Where do I go from here?"
So ultimately, JKR didn't ruin "just" a book series or even "just" a fandom. She tanked an entire culture, which inspired people to look at Harry Potter more critically. The issues that people brought to the light tainted the series's legacy even without JKR's personal issues.
Once, Harry Potter was a series for generations. Now, former fans hope that the series fades into irrelevancy. Unfortunately, JKR didn't just tarnish her legacy--she took decades of history, millions of fans and a worldwide subculture along with her.
Perhaps they feel you are worthy enough to be judged.
BEST QUOTE OF THE SERIES
Meeting friends in Hogsmeade ⛄
Why is it, when something happens, it is always you three?