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this blog is lowkey dead so im thinking about making a new one but idk we’ll see

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Anonymous asked:

ok can we talk about season 2 ep 4 of merlin when they have to save gwen from that guy bc she’s pretending to be morgana?? and merlin and arthur are by the river and arthur goes on a long speech about how he can’t admit his feelings for gwen bc nothing could ever happen between them and it’s too painful.. but the whole time he stares at merlin like That and merlin acts all clueless but stares right back at arthur w the same look

pray4jensen answered:

i’m suing you for making me go back and watch that scene but here is the distressing alternative that i saw: 

frankly, i don’t think arthur’s talking about merlin in that scene. he doesn’t ever look at merlin for long but he keeps staring off into the distance as he worries about whatever’s happening to gwen. i think he’s genuinely fallen in love with gwen, and merlin, poor boy, is trying to help arthur admit his feelings for her because he just wants arthur to be happy. however, it’s very difficult for him to hear arthur talking about marrying a servant and how it can never be because it would be the exact same situation between him and arthur.

this is also evidenced by the heartbroken smile merlin wears in morgana’s dream in s3 ep 10 as he watches arthur marry gwen because my god,,,even morgana’s conscience knows merlin’s hopelessly in love with arthur,,,,,which means everybody else knows, too,,,,

i’m not saying arthur doesn’t love merlin. clearly, he does because i’ve already sat through 563497 hours of these 2 being dumb asses in love while hoping to be invited to their wedding. but i think there’s a little bit of an angsty love triangle in that particular scene because i’m also seeing the love between gwen and arthur as completely valid and true. 

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#this this THIS#thanks for the pain
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Every time I see that post about how Excalibur and Caliburn are different swords, and Excalibur is the sword given by the Lady in the Lake, and Caliburn is the sword in the stone, I just sit there shaking my head, because everyone on it is so earnest, and certain of their rightness, and frustrated with everybody else being Wrong about Arthurian myth, and they are all just as wrong as the people they are trying to correct.

Excalibur and Caliburn are two words for the same sword, both derived from the Welsh Caledfwlch. Caliburn (or Caliburnus) is the Latinization, and Excalibur is the Old French version. Sometimes this sword is the sword in the stone, and sometimes it's given by the Lady in the Lake. Sometimes there is a sword in the stone, and sometimes there isn't. Sometimes there is a Lady in the Lake and sometimes there isn't. Arthurian myth, like all myths, doesn't have a single definitive version. It's a grab bag of many related stories told by many different people, that don't fit together into any kind of cohesive whole, and that often contradict each other. Every one of us gets to pick the bits and pieces to stitch together into the version we like best.

So Excalibur and Caliburn can be two different swords, or one sword. There can be a sword in the stone, or a Lady in the Lake, or both. It's up to you. And no one version is the right one, but also none of them are wrong.

#thanks this was messing with my head for a bit#the arthurian legend is so fucking confusing#arthurian legend
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gaius: what happened to the young boy who came into my chambers all those years ago?

merlin: he grew up

me:

#bbc merlin
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Art by N.C. Wyeth (1917) from the book, THE BOY’S KING ARTHUR, edited by Sidney Lanier from Sir Thomas Mallory works of King Arthur.

Lanier quote of Mallory’s book: “I suspect there are few books in our language which lead the reader, whether young or old, on from one paragraph to another with such strong and yet quiet seduction as this.”

#sir thomas mallory#arthurian legend#king arthur
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