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―wise last words

I had to abandon the shirt-ship, although I very much appreciated y’all who answered my poll <3 I’m a simple man; I draw on one layer and that’s it. This have exceeded 160 layers and somewhere there did I decide against anything new to add because I’m feeling my eyes cross atp. ANYWAY. THEM. Never done anything like this before so I wen't with the boys because something had to stay familiar haha.

Used a scene from Skam as reference because I had no clue how to start off HAHA. One day I’ll also figure out how to save with reasonable quality. I already spot a huge oopsie but I shan’t say it and maybe no one will see. God this is hard. HAHAH

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MERTHUR NUMBER 18!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😤😤😤😤😤😤💪💪💪💪💪💪

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I'll protect you

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good talk!!

MERLIN 2x4: LANCELOT AND GUINEVERE

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I can never look at this scene the same after reading “a marriage that started a legend” 🥲

Live Gaius Reaction

MERLIN | 1x04 "The Poisoned Chalice"

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I just came up with a fanfiction idea combinated out of my two favorite tv shows.

Handmaid's Tale and Merlin.

Anyone wanna write me this whump story?

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merthur fic where they’re either on patrol with the knights and get ambushed by bandits or fighting in a war

merlin constantly gets injured, slashed with swords and shot with arrows, but he keeps on sword fighting to the best of his ability (magic still a secret to everyone but arthur)

when they’ve won, arthur looks to make sure merlin’s okay and sees merlin covered in cuts and arrows sticking out of him and freaks the fuck out and merlin’s just confused

merlin: arthur, calm down!! what’s wrong?

arthur, freaking the fuck out: wHATS WRONG??? LOOK AT YOU!!!!

merlin looks down and realizes what he looks like

merlin shrugs: oh.

and proceeds to pull out the arrows without so much as flinching, dropping them to the ground

when he looks up he sees all the knights wide-eyed and frozen

merlin, hesitantly: …. what?

arthur: WHAT THE FUCK ?!!??!??

so basically just kinda a crack fic with bamf immortal merlin who doesn’t even think about how insane it is to anyone else

maybe merthur gets together or maybe it’s established idk but i think this is funny and i love me some bamf!merlin

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If anyone has fic recs where the druids treat merlin like a god or king in front of arthur, who's left absolutely speechless, pleaseee share 🤍🙏🏻

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CALLING ALL MERTHUR FANS!

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Ranking the best 10 Merlin episodes + a fic rec based on each one:

(absolutely not based on how gay they were) ((no order for the eps; they're all chef's kiss)) (((last two fics have a hold on me that levels the show itself; worth scrolling for)))

1. The Poisoned Chalice

Look. There is something just absolutely entrancing about introducing this episode in the first five of the entire show. Like, this hands-on was the sole reason everyone fell for those two idiots. It beautifully captured how the saving each other thing is reciprocal, because the first three episodes you just have to watch Merlin run around saving Arthur, never the reverse. Producing it early on in the show was the decision that, in my opinion, held everyone in their chokehold for eternity.

Fic rec: you are my favorite mistake (it can only be fate) by muItifandomjess

2. The Death Song of Uther Pendragon

I could go on and on for how this episode singlehandedly carried s5 on its shoulder. Like, okay I unfortunately love s5 with all my fucking heart, but this episode was perfect. Ghosts? Check. Banter? Check. POETRY?? Check check. A slap to Uther's face? Oh how beautifully checked.

It's so easy to recall how Arthur truly loved his father, but in this episode, the turmoil you see in his eyes from the actions of his father and how he resorts to saving the ones he loves (Merlin) over his father, is just too beautiful to be overlooked. Ever since Arthur became king, we see him struggle from his father's legacy. But in this episode, he begins to detach both consciously and subconsciously from him. Whether it's in his decision to save the old sorceress in the beginning, or to shun Uther's ghost, both the literal and the figurative, from his life any longer. This was one of the episodes that captured the true essence of King Arthur.

+1: the innuendos of this episode were 🤌. They knew what they were doing, you can't convince me otherwise. (are you threatening me with a spoon? / I'm teaching him some poetry.. he can't get enough of it! / what was that? h-horseplay. why don't I show you?)

Fic rec: My heart is readily yours by regulusrules. (absolutely love how after all this introspection, i decided to throw it all away and made uther stab merlin in the fucking heart instead. but still it was my honourable attempt to shit on the finale and give them the happy ending everyone deserved).

3. The Sword in the Stone pt. 2

OKAY. This episode! Aside from how badass Merlin was in both pt.1&2, but here, especially in the part where us audience were impatiently waiting for the revival of the sword in the stone, there could've been nothing more perfect. Just like their adaptation of the round table scene, this was perfect in its own way for how different it was. They didn't make it so that people will finally find a king; they made it so that the people believe in their king. And more than that, for Arthur to believe in himself. With the estrangement and losing his crown, the writers gave him the best way to re-establish his inner glory. And Merlin being this guide; what more perfect culmination to their relationship?

You have to believe, Arthur.

Iconic.

Fic rec: Couldn't choose between Only Friend by CaptainOzone, and Fathom Me Out by supercalvin. Brilliance ahead in both of them, I tell you.

4. The Eye of the Phoenix

Magic. Gwaine. Quests. Need I say more to explain that this was the show's holy trinity?

Fic rec: From Past to Present by flowersheep. (Prince Merlin. Archer Merlin. Perfection my friends.)

5. A Servant of Two Masters

Look look; if there's an honourary wall of opinions for all the people who've watched Merlin, I DARE you to find just one who disliked this episode. Like, the series was so full of BS sometimes, but this episode was above all. The level of brilliance in this episode; showing Dark!Merlin, who's at the same time hilariously funny, and seeing him BAMF his way with Morgana, even when he's chained and tortured.. oh dear holy Lord. His "do me a favour, could you? let Arthur know." was able to steal all breath from my lungs the first time I saw it (and until now).

And don't get me started on the Protective!Arthur we got. Caring for Merlin, screaming for him when the rocks fell between them, silencing Agravaine immediately when he told him he's sorry for losing such a loyal servant because bullshit if he doesn't reign down hell before he loses Merlin. And ofc, Courage and Strength on their way to find Magic, which just filled my heart with an 'aaahhh!' moment, because we didn't get enough Gwaine-Arthur-Merlin shenanigans. And at last, the Hug™. Fucking screamed let me tell you.

It is an episode that truly showed everything; from comic elements to fluff and angst and everything. The only thing it lacked was, as always, giving Arthur the space to know. Because ffs what would they have lost if they made Arthur understand that Merlin's under Morgana's control? It wouldn't have exposed shit. It would've just been a plus to us to see Arthur caring for Merlin even more. They tried so hard that it completely backfired sometimes.

Fic rec: Still I Surface in Morning Light by queerofthedagger. (I swear to you, anything written by this author, I throw whatever in hand to read it.)

6. The Dragon's Call

Let thy gif caption speak.

No but really, that first episode was the stuff of legends. I could list down tens of tropes they did in just that episode alone. Honestly, no "family" show I've ever seen had started this powerfully. Just the music alone, the beauty of beginnings, not the CGI, was truly so gripping. Also bonus points for just Colin Morgan's sass abilities. None can compare.

Fic rec: This Time Around... series (incomplete) by Oneiric (lkdaswani). (this is a time travel AU, but the way the writer rewrote this episode was one of the best deviations I've read for an episode I already find near faultless).

7. The Sins of the Father

I might be subjecting myself to true wrath with my upcoming statement, but here we go:

S2 sucked.

From the beginning of the season, Arthur's shift in characterization from the honourable lovable prat of s1 to a letting Merlin act as a horse stool got me going wtf? It was like they deliberately ruined everything in their relationship and started out fresh just to force the Arthurian narrative of Arwen. And it's fine by me, truly, even if I'll never ship them, but they could've developed Arthur's character SO MUCH in that season beyond comic relief and romantic rendezvous.

Anyway so that I don't stray so much from the topic; this episode was, by fair comparison, the best in the entire season. By now it's pretty obvious that I gravitate towards all the episodes that give Arthur a semblance of agency. Him going against Uther and his maniac murderous agenda was the start of actually seeing King Arthur in front of us. Also, him listening to Merlin when he was on the verge of committing patricide was one of the things that gave me hope in how there's still hope in them. Even if they ruined it with making Merlin lie to Arthur, but the writers practically ruined every good episode with this.

+1: Morgause's intro was badass.

Fic rec: The Sins of the Father (and how to right them) by CupCakezys. (what we deserved. to see arthur with agency, with an ability to decide for his future without being lied and deceived to.)

8. Diamond of the Fucking Day

No matter how much I hate this episode, I can't, in good conscience, deny its hold on my heart. As I wrote before, there could've been no better magic reveal than this. And for all of my bitterness over their decision to kill Arthur, I sanely admit how it was a decision that insured the immortality of this fandom. It's been ten years since that episode aired, and I bet my ass off that it will still feel the same even after countless more decades.

Fic rec: literally the entirety of the fandom's fix-it fics. We all started from there, didn't we? Choosing only one would be so undervaluing to all the brilliance I've seen. However, my tags filter for it usually include: fix-it, angst with a happy ending, court sorcerer merlin, shitting on bbc writers 101, canon era, not canon compliant, everybody lives especially king arthur you mfs.

9. The Wicked Day

Throw me from the highest tower there is because every time I remember this scene, I just want to fade into the light. The sheer level of love and understanding shimmering between those two. Sometimes I marvel at the choice of bringing Colin and Bradley together, because no two could have achieved such chemistry, platonic or not, as those two did. This whole episode of showing Arthur's grief, and Merlin's desperation to heal it, was truly unforgettable. I try not to linger on its ending, Arthur denouncing magic for the millionth of time, but other than that it was a gem served to us on a silver platter.

Also seeing Uther finally die was a plus.

Fic rec: As much as I'd love to recommend my own fic for this, but honestly, whenever I get the chance, I will always take it to scream and wail about one of my absolute favourite fics of all time, which really isn't given ANY of the goddamn credit or attention or kudos it deserves. Beauty in the Ashes of Our Lives by Fulgance. I swear to you, you will never read something as beautifully heartbreaking as this. This fic resides in my mind rent-free. Basically any work by Fulgance is amazing, but this fic— oh God, my heart cannot take it sometimes.

10. Arthur's Bane pt. 1

Fuck, that episode was a masterpiece. You know, if it was all in my hands, I would've magic revealed at this particular episode. It was just.. the perfect opportunity. King Arthur in his glory, beginning of the season, enough time for Arthur to fully understand the depth of what Merlin did for him. Also, the range Arthur was given starting from here; God it's what we deserved. I always blame the writers for being inconsistent with his characterization (s2 and all), but they beautifully crafted it in the end, and it was their perfect chance to even explore the whole extent if only they made the magic reveal earlier.

Fic rec: Our broken pieces by aramblingjay. (Okay so this fic rec isn't necessarily linked at all to the episode, but I can't, in good conscience, recommend fics and not include it. Technically context wise it fits s5, for in it you see Arthur in his grandeur as king. This shall be my only exception because it's the only fic that was able to make me cry. Truly, I never shed tears, but in this, my heart stuttered. The fact that it is so unnoticed makes my blood boil because of how much praise it deserves. I can never recommend it enough.

To conclude, BBC Merlin has a powerful hold on everyone because of the fact that they knew how to eternalise it. It is significantly unique in its interpretation of legendary figures. I think I watched nearly all adaptations of King Arthur throughout the years, but even with how great some really are, to me none compare with this sword-swishing, banter-driven, CGI-messing, emotionally-killing 2008 show.

Honorary mentions:

| The Labyrinth of Gedref | Gwaine | Le Morte D'Arthur | Lancelot | The Coming of Arthur | The Moment of Truth | The Hunter's Heart | His Father's Son | The Darkest Hour |

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Merthur thoughts: That scene where Merlin yells, "YOU'D BE SURPRISED" in response to Arthur saying he couldn't keep a secret if he tried and Arthur asking "What's that supposed to mean?" Imagine Arthur NOT letting that be forgotten. He lets it drop between him and Merlin in the moment, but he keeps replaying the entire interaction wondering what exactly Merlin meant. Because it's clear that Merlin did mean something. It wasn't just 'nothing', it wasn't a meaningless thing he said in the middle of an argument. There's a secret that Merlin is keeping from Arthur. Something that he doesn't want Arthur to know if his eagerness to move on to the next topic wasn't proof enough. So Arthur watches Merlin a bit more closely than he normally would and from doing so, he finds that Merlin lies to him very often which is unsettling. The most troubling thing Arthur discovers is Merlin hasn't been to the Tavern as much as Merlin or Gaius like to make Arthur believe. In fact, the owner says over the years Merlin's been in Camelot he's scarcely seen the boy. Why would Merlin lie about being at the Tavern knowing he'd get in trouble?

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Look I don’t care how much pandering it would’ve been, or how much of it would’ve been pure fan service, Merlin deserved to reveal his magic to Arthur in a BADASS way.

There were so many moments in seasons 4 and 5 where it would’ve been justified for him to say “fuck it” because they were in deep shit.

During the immortal army fight

During Morgana’s invasion

While they were rescuing the men from Morgana’s mines

In the gif he does use it & gets away with it

The Dark Tower is similar with his special vision

We deserved to see the look on Arthur’s fucking face when this boy pops off.

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finally drew them ahhh

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I have an idea for a magic reveal fanfic

Like “A CHRISTMAS CAROL AU” but with magic

-Arthur just discovered merlin’s magic and he gets really angry with him in front of everyone

-At night killigarrah visits arthur’s in his dreams (like the ghosts) to make him realize that magic and merlin aren’t evil

-First they go through the past. The dragón shows him past experiences but from merlin’s pov like with valiant and the snakes or cornelius sigan, making arthur realize merlin saved his life countless time (and he could be dead by now without him)

-Secondly they see the present were merlin is sad in his room waiting for his execution because he prefers being killed than banished. On the other hand the knights and everyone in the castle are angry with the king and confused over the fact that merlin, the most powerfull sorcerer in earth, would get himself killed by his king without even fighting. Like arthur is confused about that as well because he would never do that to merlin but he is crushed that the warlock would allow being killed that easily for him

-And the end is the best part. Like arthur looking at his own death, all from the “buried sword” to the “thank you”. but that's not the worst part jajajaj, the worst part is seeing merlin century after century life after life waiting for his return when in real life arthur rejected him at the moment of knowing the truth. Arthur is devastated to see how his servant gave his entire inmortal life for him, completely forgetting his own being, and it is even more painful to know that if he doesn’t do something soon m, that future will come true for him and for Merlin.

-At the moment he wakes up, he runs to Gaius's room to hug Merlin and apologize for everything he told him, because he doesn't really want to see the future of the vision. after that night arthur doesn't let go of his servant's side and makes sure that merlin appreciates himself with his magic and all. magic is allowed, everyone lives, merthur and lancelot/gwen end up together, morgana doesn't turn bad and everyone lives happily jajaja.

I love my ideas jajaja now I have to learn to draw persons to make my ideas into reality, also writing is not my thing so if you want to use this idea please use it and send me the link jajajaj