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gonna spend the rest of my life thinking about the high of getting into the merlin fandom in 2020

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never thought merlin would be the fandom to help me develop my style and never thought that arthur would be more fun to draw than anyone else

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morgana pendragon 🗡️ @mortiscausa’s march to camelot

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what writing fic is always meant to feel like

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morgana is a monster of your own creation

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i understand the appeal of publishing "fic with the serial numbers filed off" as original work but i also feel like. what makes something a good fic is at odds with what makes something a good original story.

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Sometimes I think about how violently powerful Merlin is. How completely useless he is at the softest forms of magic, mainly healing. He has so much raw strength teeming below his skin and he tries so hard to use it for softness. He grows strawberries and creates butterflies and manifests eggs to juggle, but what he's really good at is violence. His power sings when its unleashed on enemies. It is most comfortable creating forces of nature. It slows time instinctively. Softness is something Merlin must work to create and I just think that was either a brilliant choice or a television miracle.

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I hadn't thought about Merlin in a year when I saw @aemelia had posted a dtiys that reignited the obsession

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nobody understands this highly popular fictional character at all except for me and my carefully curated panel of mutuals

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im aware that the reality of merwaine is that they would jump each other's bones within 48 hours max in any other universe but personally i really enjoy the fact that gwaine has clearly never pined for someone for longer than 48 hours in his entire life like he either got what he wanted or got rejected and moved on so the fact that he spends over five (5) years miserably and desperately pining after a guy that's increasingly more distracted and out of it is a key component of why this dynamic appeals to me so much. we must always find a way to torment the bisexual man somewhat

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The question hidden within enemies-to-lovers is “who will love me at my worst?”, the question hidden within friends-to-lovers is “who will love me at my most mundane?”, hope this helps

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I am genuinely not advocating for a return to queerbait tv, I was vocally against it the whole time it was happening that was like my whole shtick for a while but it is kind of wild that when gay people weren’t allowed on tv, gay characters (who weren’t allowed to be gay) would be drinking poison for each other and killing bad guys for each other romantically and offering to go to prison in each other’s place and now that we are allowed to have gay people on tv…gay people will just be having a healthy conversation and going going on a date like normal people. Get OUT of my face with that

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S2E12: The Fires of Idirsholas

Redrawing a screenshot from every episode of Merlin... (until I get bored of it)

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silly little sketch i did a while ago

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more practice + simple coloring