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And I could give you my devotion

until the end of time

and you will never be forgotten

with me by your side...

(Somebody to die for, Hurts)

D E V O T I O N

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Eyes never lie.

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Merthur week 2020 - day 2: fave Merlin quote(s)

3x02//5x01 Merlin vowing to stay at Arthur’s side, protecting him 

“I’m going to be at your side, like I always am, protecting you.” “I swear I will protect you or die at your side.”

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My heart 's bleeding

lie back. lie back.

where have you been?

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This analysys is a master piece.

I've been writing a lot about love vs tragedy for Lit class recently, and itstruck me just now just how beautifully constructed Arthur and Merlin's relationship is through that lens.

I'm sorry but I can't stop thinking about the fact that Merlin and Arthur's story is, by definition a tragedy. It conforms to every archetype: the tragic hero, fatal flaws, hamartia. Even structurally, it has key elements of tragedy in its most ancient sense: fast paced dialogue (stichomythia), unresolved debates (agôns) and a bittersweet reveal of key plot points (agnoresis). But despite all of this, there is one key thing that differentiates this narrative from the Aristotelian shackles of classical principle. Because even after the world has crumbled to dust and life has moved on, perhaps even without him, Merlin is still there.

In the midst of impossibly, and beyond the face of adversity, there is still a kindle of hope.

It is often said that any love story is doomed to become a tragedy, and broadly speaking, that is true. It is a fact of life that everything ends, one way or another. It's something we all have to acknowledge, if only because of we didn't, we would never see any point in being alive in the first place. Yet Merlin and Arthur are in a unique position in which they are not privy to the whims of time in the same way others are. Their relationship knows not the pressure of a clock ticking away every second for the presice reason everybody else's is: they are waiting for an end. But while others dread the day one of them will have to leave, Merlin is waiting for Arthur to come back.

And narratively speaking, this is so beautifully reflective of everything their relationship has encompassed across everything that has led up to this point: in the early days, it was about Arthur waiting for someone who could see him for who he could be, not just who he was; it was about Merlin searching for somehwere- or someone- he finally felt he could belong. After that, it was Arthur slowly suffocating under the impending weight of his destiny and Merlin's helplessness as he waited for the right time to tell his friend that it was the same for him too. And in their final hours, it was the agonising realisation of a shared identity that had been so fractured by society that neither had dared to look too closely for it's brilliance. About the painful acknowledgement of something that never could have been but, against all the odds, has existed nonetheless. All that potential, hopelessly acknowledged, always waiting for a moment that would never come on time.

And that, I think, is why Merlin keeps hope until the end. Because their relationship has always moved in retrograde- they knew the nuances of each other's character before they taught themselves the secrets of their own hearts. Because no matter how final death can be, they are yet to have their beginning. And even when it seems like the ancients have sung their final song, the echoes still preserve as long as there is even a chance of tomorrow.

It's not a tragedy, because it was never written to be. Fate is the guiding light of the narrative and it ultimately determines the lives of the characters regardless of what they do. Yet while fate can be brutal, tragedies often forget about the times when it can be kind. Nothing is forever, including cruel purgatory of stasis Merlin endures over all those years. Because fate is kind, and kindness leads to Love. It's never been a ghost story- it's a love story.

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I'm truly fond of this short ff of mine. Hope one day i will find some artist who would like draw about it

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Just wanted to share again one of my fic...

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This episode - and this moment exp - drives me MAD!!

Merlin 1x02 Valiant

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Yes, yes and another yes.

This Is!

During this sequence that’s supposed to feel victorious and like, “yeah things aren’t perfect, but the good guys won today!” Merlin watches Guinevere and Arthur hug intimately and you know what? He looks sad.

He looks like he wishes he could touch Arthur so freely and affectionately. He looks like he’s desperate to be seen for everything he is and everything he’s done for him. He looks like he’s accepting he’ll never be with Arthur like that and it’s breaking his heart.

That man is deeply in love and he can’t do anything about it. He is happy for them because he just wants them to be happy, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel like a dagger in his heart.

It reminds me of that quote from Sherlock, “you look sad when you think he can’t see you”

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THIS IS ... JUST WOW, WOW AND WOW!!!!!!!!

:,(

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I know i'm late for "Merlin trending" but i just want share my "Post Camlann" series again:

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It wasnt for nothing. It was for Arthur. Did you remember? "I wouldnt change a thing". And yes, It hurts like hell but Merlin just wanted only one thing in his life ( even if he's not aware of) : being loved by Arthur. More than destiny, more than magic legacy. More than anything. And at the very end, when Arthur was dying, Merlin finally was sure about that love.

something i will never move on from is how merlin changed since season one. how he became a shadow of a shadow, the remains of a dream, the silent echo of who he once was.

he killed himself to become Himself, and in the end it was for nothing.

in the end, there was blood and silence.

merlin held arthur's body in his arms and thought that maybe, in that field, in front of that lake, there might had been two corpses.

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One year ago, i was writing Found...

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This is a celebration of finally getting my laptop pen back.

Ye. Besides. I wanted to draw something Merlin related. :D

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Just thinking about the sigil scene...

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Erano così piccoli

Tiny babies ❤️

MERLIN, 1.01  — “The Dragon's Call”

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Missing the beautiful and inspiring art of your, @onepeppercorn ! My last work Is about the tub drawing...

Here

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―rachel guidici

DAY 8: toad.

Now here’s how the logic went: toad -> no water -> toads when getting together: water -> bath? bath -> tender -> shared. So there’s not a toad in sight, but they’re sharing a bath and I can live with that.

I’ll still tag it for the Merlinktober as it did spark the idea, but I’m very fine with it not getting interacted with, since it doesn’t exactly have anything (visibly) to do with the prompt.

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