welcome to the mess

Do you think they realize how much cooler that makes it sound?

Like. I'm not even an apotheosis type of guy. But you do know that makes it sound so much cooler right?

sitting in my childhood bedroom waiting for ao3 to come back up. feeling nostalgic.

Merlin: I have been building Mordred’s trust for months with high-fives. Today I’m going to hit him with a ‘too slow’.

Merlin: Welcome to the real world, son.

Mordred, crying after being humiliated in front of all knights in Camelot by the too slow high-five: EMRYS CALLED ME SON. THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE.

Bbc's merlin having a horribly sad ending? Everybody dying except for Merlin, who is condemned to a live of eternal loneliness? What are you talking about?

As far as I'm concerned Merlin showed Morgana how to use her Magic, she and Gwen got married, adopted Mordred and returned magic to camelot, Merlin and Arthur live on a farm like Arthur wanted, they have adopted Aithusa, all the knights are a big happy family-

merlin convincing morgana to remain in camelot and bonding over magic. uther dies and arthur becomes king and merlin and morgana are eager for arthur to repeal the ban but it never happens. then arthur and gwen are courting and morgana and merlin are a bit upset but are happy for them (sorta) but mainly they’re waiting for the ban to be repealed. it never happens. then gwen and arthur get married and morgana and gwen (+ lancelot) are devastated but hanging on by a thread for the magic ban to be repealed. it never happens. morgana is growing angrier and angrier while merlin is growing more and more reckless. morgana picks fights with arthur while merlin sticks to the shadows and protects arthur from unseen threats like always but he stops putting up much of a fight. he keeps coming back beaten black and blue, bloodied, on the brink of death.

morgana finally snaps at merlin and is like “i’ve been waiting for the ban to be lifted like you promised it would be and nothings changed. i cannot stay in this kingdom and watch the love of my life be happy with my brother while hiding myself away! you can be fine with the lying and hiding but i’m done! i’ll make my own damn happy ending” and storms off to flee camelot. lancelot finds merlin and they talk about it and lancelot is like “honestly, she has a point. i’m in love with gwen and that’ll never change. it pains me to see them so happy even though i wish nothing but the best for them. the only reason i’m still in camelot is you, merlin. if you want to stay, i’ll stay with you. if you want to go, then we’ll go.” merlin unsure and lance goes “it was you and me in the beginning, it can be you and me again” and merlin tears up but is still unsure and lance compromises with “we don’t have to leave forever. just a month or two, a year or five. however long you need.”

big baddie actually just misunderstood little guy

Arthur: Why are you so paranoid about Mordred? He’s a good kid.

Merlin: It’s not paranoia if he’s really out to get you.

Mordred: Emrys! I made you a flower crown!

Merlin: Out of what, poison ivy?

Mordred: Wildflowers. They’re medicinal too, so you can use them with Gaius and they won’t go to waste! :D

Arthur: Literally how? How is he out to get you?!

Merlin, begrudgingly wearing the flower crown and patting Mordred on the head: He’s bidding his time.

I wish we got a scene where Morgana tried to out Mordred as a sorcerer/druid to Arthur and he just didn’t care.

Specifically I want Arthur to say the line “Magic didn’t make you evil, Morgana. You did that all on your own.” While going full protective older brother mode on Mordred and being ready to commit war crimes to keep the kid safe.

I want Mordred to try and apologise to Arthur and Arthur to be completely fine with it, or even happy at the realisation of “THATS where I know you from! You’re the druid boy!”

I just think that it would be a little bit heartbreaking for Morgana to have to see Mordred having magic, being accepted and loved by Arthur in the way she could’ve had, and then needing to confront that she isn’t actually that good from an objective moral standpoint.

Meanwhile, Merlin’s in the background like “Shit, now I gotta save Mordred or Arthur’s gonna get himself killed. Damn it, that prat is too noble for his own good.”

i'm genuinely having so much fun writing a jock protagonist. can't believe i never tried this before. all these years i've been limiting myself needlessly

i've created an extremely elaborate magic system based on linear algebra and not once does the narrator ever explain how it works. he doesn't know. he doesn't care. that's nerd shit. he is going on a lad's night out and if you try to tell him anything about equations he'll put his fingers in his ears and go "lalalala"

i feel it's important to add that my other protagonist is an academic and does know how the magic system works, but he doesn't get a POV chapter until halfway through the story. which means that over the course of 40,000 words we gradually build up a solid working idea of this world and its laws, as understood by Jock Protagonist - and then it switches to Nerd Protagonist, who's like, "just so we're clear, he was wrong about basically all of that."

This is genius

I know it's not people's faults for not knowing, but I still get extremely annoyed at people saying stuff like "why are ghosts always represented by sheets? I guess people used to just be scared of sheets."

They aren't ghosts because they're covered in a sheet, they're covered in a sheet because back in the day, they wrapped dead bodies in sheets when they buried them. The ghosts are wrapped in burial shrouds because that's what they were buried in.

People weren't scared of sheets, they were scared of the corpse UNDER the sheet.

People weren’t scared

of sheets, they were scared of the

corpse UNDER the sheet.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

man there’s something bout narnia that just burrows it’s way into your soul and never leaves

it’s so funny how they try to portray merlin as this embarrassing loser fool who brings chaos wherever he goes as if he didnt have like. a genuine harem. like all the knights of the round table are so unashamed of how they prefer him over arthur. gwen basically had a brief crush on him. morgana literally said “you’re not like merlin. he’s a lover” everyone who knows him is constantly talking about how pure and brave and selfless he is. lancelot knew he had magic and was js like okay with the idea of constantly lying, placing his own life in danger for him cuz that’s his little buddy. gwaine was LITERALLY in love with him. i don’t know what merwaine had going on but they probably hooked up the night they first met and don’t even get me STARTED on arthur pendragon