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Remember all the

Things we wanted

Now all our memories,

They're haunted

We were always meant to

Say goodbye

For @thiamsxbitch

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King of my heart

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The funniest/worst thing about Uther's magic ban is that it's objectively not working. Camelot is still facing a new magical threat every other week and not once was he like "perhaps this policy isn't very effective"

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I just love the fact that Colin and Katie weren’t even supposed to be in this scene, but both asked to be—just to have Merlin and Morgana stare at each other with looks that said, “We will either fuck or kill each other. It’s debatable. Or we can do both—both is good.”

We were robbed of so many things because Merlin was labeled a family show that couldn’t dare to delve into a darker relationship like this. The actors would be totally on board with it and scenes like this prove it.

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A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

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Merthur 4x07 The Secret Sharer

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It's been three years and merthur still regularly makes an appearance in my thoughts. Constantly and achingly.

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WE WERE FUCKING ROBBED! I think ther should have been 1-2 seasons more of merlin so we could see arthur and merlin while merlin is free to use and perform his magical powers

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Watching Merlin again and it's like crack for me, i can't live without doomed gays

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three ravens

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Merthur is a Manchild x Manchild kind of ship

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What the fuck is going on? Why is my brain telling me to rewatch Merlin? I don’t think I can do it this time. I won’t finish the show, the show will finish me.

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Finally watching bbc Merlin and good lord I think they might be homosexual

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Merlin & Arthur, 2.09 "The Lady of the Lake"

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Merlin | 1x12 To Kill the King

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incorrect merlin quotes #12

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is everyone rewatching merlin rn?!! like i thought it was only me!

also nobody told me how much more painful it is to watch this show when you are an adult!!!!