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If your friend is struggling, the signs might not be obvious. A cry for help can take many different forms. Try checking in on them if you hear them express any of the following sentiments:

One thing I find really interesting about the Merlin fandom is that a lot of us explicitly ignore some of the show’s magical rules in fanfiction when pertaining to Merlin. Like, every other character is bound by these rules, but not Merlin. Merlin is the most powerful sorcerer (Warlock) ever. He is magic incarnate and will never run out of magic, and this is explicit in the show, that’s true. He will live forever.

But we take it and we take some of the hints the show gave us and we decide that all this power means that Merlin can break the rules. No one can create magical life without also taking it… except Merlin. That’s what a lot of the fandom decides when they write him, but he also doesn’t know that, so he can’t just bring people back to life, because he doesn’t think he can.

But we know he can.

We’ve seen him create life from nothing, and yeah, they were small instances and the creators probably didn’t fully understand what they were getting themselves into with them, but they exist.

Merlin can create flowers and butterflies and turn stone to life from nothing. Real physical little things. By the laws of the show that shouldn’t be possible, but he does it, over and over again. We learn in the poisoned chalice that conjuration magic is incredibly difficult with the afnac and Giuas’ words. But Merlin does it easily.

And it makes sense that he can. He has infinite power, infinite energy. If anyone else tried to pour enough of themselves into nothing to make life, it would take a lot of power, probably enough to kill them or someone else, hence the need for a life for a life. That energy has to come from somewhere.

Unlike all of the others, Merlin can just pour enough of himself out to make life and be fine, because he is literally everything.

And I think it’s really interesting that basically the entire fandom knows this and often makes other characters comment on it, while Merlin is just vibing with no idea.

Leon trying to get Merlin out and succeeding(at last!)

Merlin complaining

Cafe

i have so many hobbies and interests but each day the four horsemen (instant gratification, shortened attention span, procrastination, exhaustion) grab me by the throat and shake me until i collapse in my comfy bed

oh my god and it never ends.

Why you need to double-check before posting something:

P.S. The rebloggers:

he is sitting and pondering

saw @aemelia do a "draw this in your style" and thought I'd take a crack! I started this a week or two ago and hit a few mental walls but I thought I'd share it regardless ( ﾉ ﾟｰﾟ)ﾉ Ko-Fi

Golden Age King Arthur accidentally gets sent back in time to the beginning of his reign. While making his way to Camelot hoping to find Merlin and figure out how to get back to his own time he runs into Agravaine making his own way to Camelot for the first time. Knowing he was a traitor working for Morgana in his own timeline, Arthur kills him and decides to take his place. No one had seen Agravaine since Ygraine's death, there were no portraits of him in the castle, and Arthur's premature greying hair has to be good for something other than Merlin calling him a silver fox. He can pass as his own uncle and be the caring advisor that young him deserved damn it!

sorry, my hand slipped...

I get real "I'm at soup" vibes from some media crit

"All YA books are about vampires" you are looking at the supernatural romance shelf in a WHSmith. "All hip hop is misogynistic" have you considered listening to a female rapper. "All classic books are boring stories about straight white men" you are reading classic books by straight white men. "OFMD was the first time I saw a gay person on television" I don't even know how this happened but it's on you

Me at age 8: I might not have any friends, but I can make imaginary friends with rich social lives to fill that hole. I bet when I’m older I’ll grow out of this. 

Me at age 20: I need to make another OC to try and simulate human connection or else I’m gonna lose my mind.

Hey guys are y’all okay

@funnier-as-a-system

I get my media recommendations the old fashioned way: by watching someone I follow on here go on an unhinged reblog spree of media related content until I eventually decide to go "alright, what's all this then"

“I don’t understand why everyone thinks we’re together” “Me neither" Merlin says as he cuddles up to Arthur while they’re in bed watching a movie, because the sofa is too uncomfortable and if Arthur falls asleep it would be better to fall asleep in bed, right?

@sauraunderscore wrote a beautiful story out of it ❤️

My other Merlin art

is arthur pendragon one of the most frighteningly complex tv characters ever written, or do i love him so much that im overcompensating for his inconsistent writing? more on this at 10, after a full episode-by-episode analysis

bigger than love