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nothing scarier than being a fan of a fic and then becoming mutuals with the author. like hi shakespeare. big fan of your fake dating au

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Someone needs to drag Morgause out of her old ass grave and back into her original role as Mordred's mom, cause dang it, Morgan is tired of playing his mom. She wants to be with her kids and be the cool aunt and older sister again!

Modern adaptions of the King arthur stories making Morgan Le fay exclusively evil are derivative IMO. I've been obsessed with this woman since I was a child and the earliest mentions of her are NOT as a malevolent figure. She's not even Mordred's mom in the original text, that's Morgause! Those two characters just happen to have similar names! Justice for Morgan Le Fay!

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the current state of fandom needs to be old yellered immediately. im loading up the shotgun as we speak

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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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Posted by Steven Payne to Facebook group British Medieval History:

People in the Middle Ages valued sweet smelling breath and bodies, seeing them as desirable, so there is a great deal of evidence from the period of tooth pastes, powders and deodorants. Contrary to the typical Hollywood depiction of medieval peasants with blackened and rotting teeth, the average person had teeth which were in fairly good condition, mainly due to the rarity of sugar in the diet. Most medieval people could not afford sugar and those who could used it sparingly. Archaeological data shows that only 20% of teeth had signs of decay, as opposed to 90% in the early twentieth century. The main dental problem for medieval people was not decay but wear, due to a high content of grit in the main staple, bread. For deodorants, soap was available for the wealthy, but a variety of herbs and other preparations were also used. Soapwort is a plant native to Europe and Asia which, when soaked in water, produces an effective liquid soap. Mint, cloves and thyme were also extensively used by simply rubbing into the skin, and alum (hydrated potassium aluminium sulphate) was an effective deodorant. I am trying to keep to 14th century technology on my pilgrimage to Canterbury, which gives me various options when looking at hygiene. In the middle ages people generally cleaned their teeth by rubbing them and their gums with a rough linen cloth, or the chewed end of a stick. There are various recipes for pastes and powders that could be put on the cloth to help clean the teeth, but I have chosen simple salt to whiten them and to aid fresh breath. I will also be using the stick method, and will be taking along a supply of liquorice root sticks for that purpose. I also have a few blocks of alum, which when rubbed into wet skin has a deodorising effect. Alum, like beeswax, was used extensively in the middle ages for a variety of purposes, also being useful: * in the purification of drinking water as a flocculant * as a styptic to stop bleeding from minor cuts * as a pickling agent to help keep pickles crisp * as a flame retardant * as an ingredient in modelling clay * as an ingredient in cosmetics and skin whiteners * as an ingredient in some brands of toothpaste The photograph shows my wash kit including home made olive oil soap, salt for the teeth, a block of deodorising alum, cloves, a boxwood comb made for me by Peter Crossman of Crossman Crafts and some liquorice root sticks, all on a woollen ‘towel’. Note that the cloves are kept in a ventilated box….this is because insects hate the smell of cloves and so a perforated box will keep them out of my kit and food bag when I am sleeping rough. TIP: If you steep some cloves to obtain the oil and put the liquid around the doors and windows of your house, it keeps spiders and insects out.

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I'd say her irredeemable point is torturing and enchanting Gwen to try and kill Arthur, also inevitably killing Elyan. Everything leading up to that point I feel like there could be some forgiveness and perhaps redemption with enough time, patience, and the right words being said (and some things not said), but at that point it's too far. Elyan meant a lot to Gwen, was a close friend to the rest of the court, and unlike the veil event where Morgana could argue that she was "encouraged" by Morgause to open the veil and Lancelot's move was a self sacrifice to close it, Elyan's death was purposeful. That hurts, and I don't think there'd be redemption from there. Not to mention I don't think Morgana would want to be redeemed by that point. She had lost far too much of her old self, broken too many times, that even with Aithusa at her side she couldn't be saved.

Ok so I need help in something for a fic idea.

Pls share around so I can figure this out! And add your reasoning cause I'm curious!!!

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Ghost's Mergana Week, Day 4:

"Destiny-"

"Screw Destiny."

"Our destiny is written in the stars."

"A destiny that we can change. You just have to trust me."

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ID: [ An author note that says, “whenever I felt discouraged about my writing, I remember there are three people who always read my works and it motivated me immediately like homer with his "do it for her” sign. so if you see me writing, yes, I do it for you too. thank you.“ ] /END ID

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Finally uploaded chapter 34! Sorry it took so long, but enjoy!

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Curious to see where the votes fall! I know Arthur x Morgana is a complicated ship especially after they discover they are blood siblings, but it's not out of the ordinary for Arthurian legend. BBC's Merlin may not be historically accurate, but it's still a variation of the legend. 🙃

Thank you for voting.

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I wish someone could write a Mergana fanfic a little similar to the Princess Bride story. Merlin's "As you wish" line would be "I wanted to check you were ok" every night he delivers Morgana's sleeping draught since he can't admit his love for her. And as time flies Morgana will understand the meaning behind his words and her own "I love you" could be a "Sleep well" before they part.

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Inspired by this scene:

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I forgot to post this yesterday, but finally, a new chapter has finally come up!

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/63701446/chapters/163304242

"The Name's Emrys, Merlin Emrys"

I was getting stressed and was overworking An Arranged Marriage, so I decided to take a break and started diving into my old WIP drafts when I remembered I had this one! It's basically if Merlin and the gang was the characters in a 70's to 90's James Bond movie. Like Merlin is James Bond, Gwen is Moneypenny, Arthur is Q, and Morgana is every single one of the dames James Bond saves. I wanted to explore how those personalities would mix and differ from the original show. That's not an AU you often see!

Will it be insane? Yes. Will there be misogyny like in some of the James Bond movies? No. Will there be explosions and crazy stunts on trains? Yes. Will the characters be a bit OOC? Yes. Will there be plotholes that make no sense? Yes. Will I fix them? Probably not. That is what this fanfiction inherits from the James Bond movies, those movie's lore makes no sense but good god is it fun.

Hope you enjoy it! Have fun!

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knight strip tease. is that anything

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Ghost's Mergana Week Day 5: (Trying Not To Be A) "Public Display"

"There was only so many hiding spaces one could find around the castle, but the two were more than happy with the one they had."

V2, less saturated