I am so tired

How Not to Foster a Safe Kitchen Environment, but Make Your Girlfriend Happy: A Guide by Gwen

and isn't it just so pretty to think all along there was some invisible string tying you to me?

in honour of merlin trending have some art from my insane self-indulgent au :)!

they were so happy

“What did I do to make you hate me so much?” - Gwen

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for the first like 14 years of my life i thought that the story of saint valentine and valentines day were a celebration of a massive gay polyamorous marriage and let me tell you, i was sorely disappointed when i learned i had massively misunderstood that story

i was told the basic story of “the king had made it illegal for young men to get married so that they could be drafted off to go to war (as married men with families were not, apparently)” and that “saint valentine thought this was cruel, and married the young men in secret”

what this was supposed to communicate to me was “saint valentine would marry young men to their girlfriends in secret as a priest at his own risk and thats why we celebrate valentines day” 

what i got out of it was “saint valentine married a shitton of dudes so he could protect his army of husbands from having to go to war and it was beautiful and love can halt war in its tracks and thats why we celebrate valentines day”

and thats why the assumption that a child would automatically get a hetero interpretation of the story and the innate unclarity of the english language made me think that valentines day was about mass gay poly marriage until i was like fourteen and recited the story to a friend who stared at me like id grown three extra heads

i like my version better im not gonna lie

101 Dragons!! i can’t draw dragons. why did i do this. Merlin does magic in the attic!! gwen for some reason also has a dragon!! i dont know what im doing and im enjoying myself

dont tag as platonic i will dip all your socks in soup

It's about fear, yknow? Like. Merlin was deeply, existentially afraid for his life, all the time. He lived in a place where his very existence was illegal and punishable by death, stuck in a social climate where most people would hate him and think he was evil. He was scared!!! And if you spend that long being that scared, logic is no longer a thing. It could have been the most logical and reasonable thing ever to tell Arthur and Morgana about his magic, but that ultimately isn't the point. Because he was scared, he was worried that he was gonna die a horrible death or at least be shunned/treated differently by the people he loves. Where fear is involved, logic never enters the equation.

More often than not, people lie because they're scared. And you can make someone tell the truth, but you'll never actually solve the lying problem until you help them confront their fears.

JATP as textposts, 6/?

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had a sudden pang of nostalgia 💖

JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS + tv tropes (insp.)

It has recently been brought to my attention that there has been a lot of reposts happening in regards to Merlin edits, so I want to make a post to talk about this issue. Both to speak up for editors who’s edits are being reposted and to help new editors with resources and tips so they don’t end up turning to reposts.

Consider the gifset above. The left gifs are unedited, while the gifs on the right are. This is to give you an idea of the amount of adjustments we do to scenes on a show, which are often dark, have horrible colour balance, and lack sharpness. This applies to fanvids, photo edits and any other kind of edited content. It is not fair, then, for someone to take an edit from a creator’s account and use it to make their own. You are disrespecting the creator and the time and effort they spend into making these edits look presentable. You are also violating Tumblr’s rules regarding reposting and attribution.

For our reposters who don’t know any better because they are new to tumblr and haven’t yet been told of the rules regarding reposting and gif-making, consider this your first lesson: never, ever use other people’s edits as part of your creations . This includes gifs, photos, manips, fanvids, and all other kinds of original content (e.g. don’t use a gif to make your own, don’t make a gif from a fanvid, don’t take photos of a gif to make a photo edit, don’t use another person’s fanvid in your own fanvid…. you get the idea). Doing so will run the risk of the owners of these creations reporting you and your account getting suspended.

Now that the nitty gritty part is done and over with, I’ll offer solutions to three of the most common complaints I’ve seen with creators who are at the initial stages of trying their hand at creating content 😊 :

1. “I don’t have HD files of my show so any edits I make are bad quality.” Try asking around! Make connections, join a tumblr group, join a discord server, heck – ask your favourite giffer! They’ll certainly prefer you asking them for files than stumbling across a repost of their gif. Lots of people are willing to help new editors ✨

2. “I don’t have fancy programs to edit with.” Photoshop is by far the most efficient and popular program for editing. Again, don’t be afraid to ask around for download links! (Here are some very detailed step-by-step tutorials for giffing on photoshop: 1, 2, 3) Another option would be Da Vinci Resolve, which is free to download here.

If neither Photoshop nor Da Vinci works on your laptop because it takes up too much RAM, there are also online programs that are free to use like photopea, which has similar functions as photoshop. Here’s a tutorial on how to make gifs using free onlline websites. The above gifsets were made using this method.

3. “My editing skills are horrible.” Practice, practice, practice! Editing is a hobby and a hobby should be something you love. Believe me, it’s much more satisfying when you learn to edit scenes the way you want it to look instead of mix-matching from other people. The gifset looks way prettier, and you won’t run the risk of someone reporting you and getting your account suspended.

All in all, have fun! Don’t stress if your first edit doesn’t end up as good as you want it to be - we’ve all been in that position. Keep on learning and growing, don’t compare yourself to other people, do what you love to do and never stop as long as it makes you happy ✨

i knew this was canon dialogue really

First Lines Game

thank you @trashynishiki for the lovely tag 💛💛

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I like using the first sentence to set the mood for the whole story. I also like to get into the story without unnecessary fuss. (oh, and I like writing from Arthur’s POV because, well, it’s easier for me to get into his head ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). 

tagging: @shana-rosee  @shut-up-merlin  @merlinmyrddin  @nextstopparis​ I can’t remember who else writes fanfic because I haven’t read anything in so long 🙃🙃 so anyone who wants to do this, consider yourself tagged.

Don’t mind me just tagging myself because I want to try this out 🙈

So apparently I’m a sucker for quotes or short, fourth-wall-breaking, to-the-point sentence starters 😂 idk if that’s good or not. Tagging: @fluffypotatey​, @waiting4thedoctor​, @ursus-mari​, @the-mother-of-lions​, @forever-rewatching-merlin​ and anyone else who I forgot to include (if you’re reading this, I mean you. Yes. You) because it’s 2am and I’m half asleep

@camelotsheart thank you!

i don't really know that i can identify a pattern here? i kinda just start writing usually. i guess probably that means the pattern is jump right in, in media res, though, uh, not necessarily to the point. i don't know if that actually comes across here though

i've been around extremely sporadically lately, so i don't even know who to begin to tag other than @blueclaw7, so if this looks interesting to you, please do it!