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watch out, cupid stuck me with a sickness
pull your little arrows out and let me live my life
guys guys I think this might be my Harry/Hermione or something. I ship it so hard but it is clearly so wrong
(Source: hammerslut)
Guys I’m so sorry but I’m shipping Sherlock/Irene like crazybad at the moment.
I hope you all can forgive me.
Nobody can tell me there wasn’t excellent snogging happening in that alcove both those times.
(via flagonsandapples)
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Title: “Twas the Night Before Christmas” on Merlin Holidays
Recipient: junkshop_disco
Artist: Anonymous!
hay Kelly haaaay, I’m tumblrring this for you acosovtha festive season an all
i see you ridin’ round town
with the ship i hate
and i’m like
I totally respect your decision to ship those characters and I’ll just ship the characters I want to and you continue to ship those characters and we’ll all be happy bloggers because that’s what people should do.
there are some seriously crazy people on the merthur tag these days and it just makes me really upset.
(Source: damnedfoolishthing, via paramaline)
Submitted by Anon.
oh anon.
while i’m down with the whole “ARGH WHY ARE YOU OBJECTIFYING ANGEL’S LOVELY BOOBS SO MUCH ARGH” thing
I have to say that my first reaction to this was actually the fact that Arthur shows just as much cleavage so as far as I’m concerned his true love for Merlin is pretty canon according to these logics as well.
Also Morgana is in true love with like pretty much everyone all the time
You know who needs to get some fresh air and sunshine on their chesticles? Merlin. GET ON THAT, MERLIN. If Freya were around, you’d go all deep-v on us, I KNOWS IT.
continuing to peruse the merlin tag…
all these arthur/gwen shippers are missing like a PRETTY FREAKING BIG POINT HERE about this episode…
I mean sure Arthur is still reeling from the events of 4x09 but the implicated reveal here is that what’s got Arthur so messed up is NOT NEARLY as much about Gwen as it is about how he royally fucked up and murdered innocent people either by proxy or not as a prince back when he was a wee teenage!knight. Merlin is WRONG when he thinks it’s about Gwen, see, that’s the thing - we go on and on about how they know each other ~so well~ and SOULMATES and whatever but Merlin doesn’t magically understand that Arthur is reliving years of sublimated guilt and shame at all. That’s why it was important for him to follow Arthur in the woods and why Arthur didn’t actually want him along at first (but he came to terms with it pretty quick, eh) cuz it was a revelation of something Arthur was utterly ashamed of. He wants Merlin to respect him just like he wants EVERYONE to respect him and since he doesn’t see Merlin running around being a BAMF ever he’s not got the same assurance we do that Merlin’s going to be okay when he finds out that Arthur screwed the pooch re: the druids.
So I mean YES OKAY there was some angst about Gwen in there (DOES NOBODY REMEMBER LANCELOT OH MY GOD HE KILLED HIMSELF DONT THEY HAVE A THOUGHT TO FRIGGIN SPARE???) but Gwen was a red herring, get it? The entire episode would have progressed in approximately the same way pre-gwen-banishment, with the probability that it would have been some other knight that was possessed. But Arthur regressing and Merlin not getting it and Arthur atoning etc etc and the ~MAGICAL POWER OF HUGS~ would have been just the same. See like yes it was a filler episode but I’m kinda thinking it was a very CLEVER filler episode with some very good utilization of its place chronologically during the series run - without the gwen red herring it wouldn’t have been NEARLY as subtle. It was an intelligent use of her absence to provide narrative complexity.
Okay sleeping now.
Right so I stalk the #merlin tag all the time but I don’t pay much attention to the ship-specific tags, so I skim through a lot of random fangirl blather to get to the good stuff like cute doodles and Deep Thoughts and fic recs and whatever. That’s fine by me.
But I’m so confused.
Next week’s Merlin episode, as far as I can tell, Arthur finally bothers to propose to Gwen (ffs, he shoulda done it the second he was crowned king, it’s been *unseemly* thus far), Lancelot comes back and… maybe is all Jousty and hot and stuff? IDK.
People are freaking out, not because MY BB LANCELOT IS BAAAACK EEEE but because of… shipping issues?? doubleyou tee eff.
The Arthur/Merlin people are having conniptions because the proposal means that Arthur is “off the market” or something… but I’m sorry, excuse me, as much as I ship the two of them like BURNING and acknowledge that their chemistry is incomprehensibly strong, I never ever expected or wanted their relationship to be canonically present on the show (more than it… already is, which honestly in series 4 is WAY more than I could have ever hoped for.) I mean since episode 1 of series 1 it’s been Arthur having sundry heterosexual flings and sublimated feeeeelings for Gwen and that’s been that. So Arthur and Gwen getting hitched makes ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE to the merthur ship. Hell, if anything it makes it better because I was thinking the whole show might end with Arthur and Gwen getting married and they’d leave off the entire betrayal and *everything*, so if they’re going this fast then we’ve got a much better chance of the whole show ending with Arthur and Merlin hanging out and being bros (and secretly doing the sex) after everything is over with.
The Arthur/Gwen people are having conniptions because with Lancelot coming back and being ~evols~??? that means they’re going to ZOMG BREAK UP THE PERFECT ROYAL COUPLE~ and stuff. I’m down with people thinking Argwen is adorables. Because it is. I like Arthur when he is trying to seduce her, it is like puppy love and I’m super into that. I’m like as much of an Argwen shipper as Merlin is (in that, I am in love with Arthur and just want him to be ha-ha-haaaaappppy *sniffles* come to my bosom Arthur! COME TO IT) But from the SECOND they introduced Mordred you freaking KNEW they were gonna progress with the legends and every version of the matter of britain that includes a Guinevere also includes a betrayal. That’s their DEAL. Arthur’s more in love with her than she is in love with him. That’s his FLAW. He’s kind of unlovable. It’s the POINT of the STORY. To become a legend means you have to lose SO MUCH. It’s painful. It’s trial by fire and heartbreak. So the people flipping out about next episode, I don’t get it… did you think that the show was just gonna be like happy fun royal love times with their buddy Lancelot being forever alone?? Even if it ended with Arthur and Gwen getting married and having that be that, there would still be loads of implications that all is not well in the land of Albion. As a prequel to the legends it’s been really solidly set up for everything to crumble.
And the Gwen/Lancelot people are freaking out too, because ZOMG EVOL LANCELOT. These are the only shippers who are making any sense to me. I don’t want Lancelot to be evil! I think it would be super fun if he was evil for like two episodes and then Merlin saves his ass. I desperately hope that is what happens (and then he runs away again to Find Himself, that bastard.) But I mean they are freaking out to the point of like, I REFUSE TO WATCH THE SHOW IF THEY MAKE HIM EVIL and I WILL CRY AND DIE ALONE IF HE IS EVIL. Well dudes and dudettes I’m sorry but you are totally watching the wrong show for the wrong reasons. Watch the show for the hot people and the shenanigans. Everything else can just sort of wash over you. If Lancelot stays evil then I’ll be sad but I’m not going to tear out my hair over it. And honestly it would make him a whole heck of a lot more interesting. Boring perfect Lancelot is boring.
SHIPPERS. WHY YOU SO UPSET? IT IS JUST A MIDSERIES EPISODE ABOUT JOUSTING. YOU CAN KEEP SHIPPING HOWEVER YOU PLEASE.
Gwen: I don’t understand why the knights have been affected, but not us.
Me: Well, Merlin is clearly gay.
Merlin: You’re a woman. All the victims have been men.
Gwen: So why aren’t you under her spell?
Me: Because he likes men, Guinevere. You know this.
Merlin: Just lucky I guess.
Me: Lucky that he’s gay.
Gwen: No. There must be a reason…
like as much as I was like FUCK YES GWEN AND MERLIN FRIENDSHIP FUCK YES LOOK AT HOW MANY LINES SHE HAS FUCK YES SHE HAS A SWORD FUCK YES ARTHUR WENT AND SOLVED A MYSTERY WITHOUT ANYBODY ELSE FUCK YES GAIUS GAVE MERLIN HIS PROPERS…
all I could think that whole scene was IT IS BECAUSE HE IS A GAY MAN NOW, GWEN. HOW DENSE DO YOU HAVE TO BE?
Gif credits go to imagine—:.
~lawls~
IT’S TRUE~
GWEN/JUG IS MY NEW FAVORITE SHIP. Can we call it an ewer though? That’s ~classier~. Then the shipname can be Ewen.
The way he looked at Gwen is priceless.
That’s how I look when I see Gwen near Arthur……
^
>_>
while I’m occasionally in agreement with the above folks I kinda wish fuckyeahmerlin would reblog fun/useful/well-made things like this without the blatantly ship-bashing commentary on all fronts… *waits patiently for someone to reply to me using the exact above gif*
(Source: poppingsue, via fuckyeahmerlin)
I. AM OBSESSED. WITH YGRAINE’S. RING.
THANK GOD SO ARE THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THE SHOW~
re: shipping-
come on you guys, isn’t it nice how Arthur is always barefoot when he’s kissing Gwen? When he has all sorts of tensiony scenes with Merlin he’s swathed in layers of mail and plate and crowns and everything but every tender scene with Gwen he’s stripped down, in his jammies if you will. it’s so nice, I can even ignore the violins. And then he takes off his ring - see, it’s ~SYMBOLISM~ okay?? To be with Gwen for Arthur is to lighten his burden, okay? That’s the difference - with Merlin or anyone else he still has to confront the realities of the world. With Gwen, he doesn’t. And the ring and his bare feet and all that, they represent that. And that’s such a nice way to do it, to work in an inherent flaw in something presented so much as true love on Arthur’s part, see? I really appreciate that shit. LET ME HAVE THIS~
(Source: monkeyknifefight)
ugh. i have such multishipper feelings now. I NEED TO GO TO SLEEP.
but ugh, arthur and gwen
and gwen and lancelot
and lancelot and merlin
and percival and gwaine
and leon and elyan
and leon and morgana
and elyan and percival
and lancelot and arthur
and gwaine and apples
and arthur and merlin
ARTHUR AND MERLIN STOP IIIT
ALL OF YOU. GET NAKED AND HUG WITH YOUR LEGS IMMEDIATELY.
Sam: Well mine’s freakier!
Freddie: Mine is!
*Sam and Freddie argue over each other*
Freddie: Are you kidding me? There is no way! I’ve met your mom, sure she’s obnoxious and she’s rude. Carly has lived next to my mom for years. Carly, tell her! Tell her!
Sam: How can you possibly say that your mom’s freakier?! Sure your mom’s got this kind of a little weird vibe going on but my mom’s insane! She’s utterly insane! Have you not seen my mom? She walks around in a bathing suit all the time, no one wants to see that!
so anyway i loved this scene but this is what should have happened:
Carly: What are you two doing here?
S&F: we had a fight blah blah argue argue
Carly (to Sam): It’s three in the morning. C’mere. *holds out arms*
*Freddie looks forlornly at the two snuggling girls*
Freddie: Um, I’ll just be goi-
Sam: Don’t be ridiculous. *grabs Freddie by the ankle and drags him in for sleepies*
Then later they wake up all comfy in a big pile, although Carly does snore but they don’t mind. Then they all totally make out for Ashley’s sake.
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That will be a bad day for Arthur, but I ship her with Lancelot so I’ll actually be quite glad…
So i have THOUGHTS I want to share about this, feel free to ignore me and if this pisses you off you should DEFINITELY ignore me because that’s what I’ll be doing to you. Anyway:
In all of the pre-20th C (and most of the 20th C ones although there are exceptions) versions of Arthurian legend that involve Guinevere at all, she’s demonized. She’s either completely useless, a side-note, or a tool, to manipulate Arthur or break his heart or make him vulnerable or any number of other bad things. She’s time and time again a creature lacking in agency almost entirely, and when she *does* grasp that agency, by running off with Lancelot, it is seen at the ultimate betrayal and the key to Arthur’s demise. Guinevere says to women “if you take matters into your own hands, you will ruin everything for everyone else, so sit down, shut up, and work with what you’ve been dealt.”
So in Merlin, Gwen isn’t like this. She’s sorely underutilized, yes, but she provides something to Arthur in the first place. In other versions, like the T.H. White version for example, Arthur is humbled and knows familial love as a young boy. In the versions where Arthur is a product of rape, he’s still given the tools he needs to be a great king from other arenas, he’s shown his own kingdom through other characters and on various journeys. But in Merlin, that’s not the case. Gwen and Merlin combined serve these purposes. To show him love and what he’s fighting for and humility and humanity. These are two characters who, in the sundry “original” legends, are treated a side characters, replaceable by a bunch of different people at once, and often completely removed from stories. (Merlin, for example, is kind of a combination of original flavor Merlin and Dagonet, while Gwen takes much of the place of Ector without being paternal about it.)
So faced with the inherent tragedy of Arthurian legend, and my incredibly hardcore stanning of Arthur, you’d think I’d be pissed about Gwen biffing off with Lancelot but that’s completely not the case. GET IT GURL, basically. I really think that what Merlin is trying to do, and what *might* even be achievable, is a less tragic, more triumphant flavor of the legends. Arthur needs to learn how to love and how to LOSE love, or he’s not a whole person. Things CAN’T just fall into his lap. If Merlin and Gwen do their jobs, if he’s worth the kingdom and the sword and all that, then he should be capable of gracefully giving Gwen up, of allowing her her own agency to choose. And I really think that’s key, here. If you hate Gwen for wanting to be with the man she has superawesomefirstsightlimerencelove with, you’re hating her for being her own character, and for being more than just a tool. It’s not what she “does” to Arthur. It’s what she does for herself.
Blah blah blah feminist blah.
What do we all think about Merlin’s quilted red coat, eh? OOH MERLIN KEEP THE COAT ON~
(via consulting-cream-tea)
