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that'll put marzipan in your pie plate, bingo

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Fantasy sideblog, feat. lots of BtVS, CQL/MDZS, Merlin, and LotR. I follow back from @sensicalabsurdities

everyone seeing merlin trending and going wait. it's not december. it's not merlin month. like a dad reading the newspaper and squinting at the date on the top of the page when the paper says there's a heatwave in february.

what's your blorbo show? the show that has so few characters who AREN'T your blorbos that the characters who aren't don't even count. The show where you're spending most of your watching time going "there they are! the specialest person in the world!"? I'll start, mines Merlin

btvs but there's more sections that are just anya putting out The Whiteboard™ and explaining Demon Stuff and Magic Stuff to the scoobies (giles included) like they're all just sitting around giles' flat or the magic box table while she explains shit like demonic soulage or the Great Hell War of 1683 BCE and they all sit there like good little students (even little miss fidget buffy bc finally this is a class she can put her massive brain to w/o looking like a freakazoid) and take notes and ask questions with their hands raised.

Anya "For today's session I have brought a packet of gold stars because Willow assured me they will increase your attention and receptiveness. They're magic of some sort"

Willow "No, no, they're normal stickers. It's a rewards system that teachers use"

Anya "I don't understand. If they're not magic then why would anyone want one of these sticky things?"

Buffy "They're shiny"

god i can HEAR their VOICES saying these LINES

And Willow and Giles get outrageously academically competitive. Meanwhile Xander's just there for the donuts and giggling at the more suggestive demon names...

while willow and giles get vicious about it with each other they miss on the real threat to either of them getting all the gold stars.

buffy who's finally able to put her largely untapped academic prowess to it's full use.

Giles would act so above getting a gold star but when he got one he’d be pleased with himself despite himself.

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you know how theyll do shakespeare stagings where the setting is modern day but nothing else is different so its just a wierd anachronistic mess in the best way? i think we should do that with arthuriana

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lancelot three weeks late to rescue guinevere because metro doors closed on his gay little knight cape forcing him to ride till the end of the line at which point he gets fined for fare dodging because he only paid for a zone one ticket and hes crying and trying to explain that he didn’t actually intend to travel to zone three but somehow he ends up slaying several bystanders and fleeing into the night

Help me write a Merlin fic

First reblog chooses which season or between-seasons-gap the story is set in.

(put it in the text of the reblog so it stays part of the chain)

between seasons 1 and 2

Ooh fascinating because I've always imagined that as the shortest gap between seasons — like, only a few weeks (whereas every other gap is at least a year canonically). Season 1 and 2 being within the same year is part of how I made the mental math work out for... some fic, I don't remember which one, but the headcanon stuck.

(Heads up for weight and illness talk ahead)

Of course, what jumps out if the seasons are only weeks apart is that Merlin is noticeably skinnier at the beginning of season two than he is at the end of season one. In real life, Colin Morgan lost some weight for a different role he played between the seasons; but from a Watsonian perspective, I've always imagined that channeling the magic of life and death on the Isle of the Blessed took a lot out of him (In later seasons it wouldn't, but at the time it was a pretty big power jump).

So what I'm thinking is a season-gap story where Arthur notices that Merlin is ill, puts that together with the weird vibes of the "happy to be your servant until the day I die" speech, and ends up thinking Merlin's hiding the fact that he's got something terminal. Where does this go? Who knows! Not my usual kind of story, but I'll give it a shot!