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The Scoobies + Season 1

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you sleep in my blood i waken in your head 

me: those season three underworld dream sequences were cool, but what they really needed was a river of blood!

haha why am i like this. full view if i’m your problematic fav! | s6

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"Untitled" (Liaison Amoureuse)

Lancelot/Merlin ● General Audiences ● WC: 100 ● No Warnings // Written for @merlinmicrofic 2024, for the prompt 'I'll Be There'.

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With none of this should they be so bold, only Merlin is treacherous in love. In broad midday, Lancelot hides them—badly—and kisses Merlin until he’s giddied with being known. He whispers,

“My chambers, tonight.”

The others don’t see; Lancelot slips the clasps of proper-reputation frequent as Merlin, defter than Gwaine. Forget secret courtship—for this alcove, Merlin would do magic worth a thousand pyres.

Lips on throat, thumb tracing cheek. Everything is tingling sweet like drinking fresh spring melt.

“I’ll be there,” Merlin snickers, and tips his head forward, muffling his joy and face-aching grin into Lancelot’s gambeson.

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MONKEY MAN 2024, dir. Dev Patel

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Hey so I know Black Sails was a while ago and I’m late to the pirate party but I desperately need your attention for a moment because I’m losing my MIND.

Obviously the show is a fantastic no-holds-barred blend of history and fiction, but there’s one historical connection that I thought was half my imagination at first, but every second I look at this shit I’m sliding downhill into acceptance.

The Hamiltons and their complicated and scandalous relationship with a Naval officer…..

…are based on the Hamiltons and their complicated and scandalous relationship with a Naval officer?

Yes, that’s a picture of Horatio Nelson on the end. I know, and I’m sorry. Please give me a chance to explain myself.

We have, right to left, Admiral Nelson, Sir William Hamilton, and Sir William’s wife, Emma Hamilton, mostly remembered for her extraordinarily blatant and scandalous affair with Nelson. It was a hell of a thing.  There were contemporary rude cartoons about William Hamilton being so scholarly and oblivious that he didn’t know his wife was openly carrying on with Nelson. There’s even a movie about it starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, for whatever that’s worth.

But it’s a little ridiculous, the extent to which their torrid affair is remembered for having happened under William Hamilton’s nose. Nelson lived with the both of them for extended periods, traveled across Europe with them, wrote incessantly to them. In fact, they referred to themselves fondly as the Tria juncta in uno– that is to say, three joined in one.

Look me in the eyes right now.

 Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Lady Emma Hamilton Burford, Eighty Miles from London. Saturday Night, [July 27th, 1801.]

Here we are, my Dear Emma, after a pleasant day’s journey! No extraordinary occurrence. Our chaise is good, and would have held the famous “Tria juncta in Uno,” very well: but, we must submit to the circumstances of the times. … Amuse yourself as well as you can; and you may be assured, that I shall return as soon as possible, and you shall hear from me often.

Ever your’s, my dear Emma, with the truest affection,

 Wm. HAMILTON.

My kindest love to my Lord, if he is not gone.

I’m sorry but I don’t know what else to tell you.

Excerpt, letter from Sir William Hamilton to Admiral Horatio Nelson Palermo, May 26th, 1799

Above all, take care of your health; that is the first of blessings. May God ever protect you! We miss you heavily: but, a short time must clear up the business; and, we hope, bring you back to those who love and esteem you to the very bottom of their souls.

Sir William Hamilton ending a letter to his wife:   Adieu, my dearest Emma! Your’s, with my whole soul,       W.H.

Sir William Hamilton ending a letter to Nelson:    Adieu, my dear Lord! Your Lordship’s truly affectionate, and eternally attached,       Wm. Hamilton

This has been driving me completely bonkers wrt the attitudes of the historical accounts for a hot minute now, particularly since Emma became a social pariah for their highly-publicized presumed affair after Sir William, and then Nelson, predeceased her, but I honestly cannot, for a single eight-hundredth of a second, imagine that the concept of the Hamiltons and Lt. McGraw came about without some awareness of the self-proclaimed Tria of the actual married Hamiltons and their very dearly loved Naval hero.

And, for one final small item of infuriatingly minor but TOO CONVENIENT connection– Sir William Hamilton had been married once, prior to Emma, and was widowed by his first wife’s early death. His first wife, with whom he was eventually buried, was named Catherine Hamilton, née Barlow.

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this is so cartoonish. can't have shit in baltimore

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queen of whatever she wants

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being a john silver studier is literally the most stressful thing in the world. hes not even real. hes the realest thing in the world. hes immortal. he can never die, but he can never Live because he killed himself and everything and everyone he loved on that fucking island. and they all fucking survived. im never gonna be over him and hes not even real. yet he is. luke arnold sleep with one eye open.

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Worcestershire, England by Nicola Stocken

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1.08 The Beginning of the End

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"I have to go. I have a date with the Chesapeake Ripper."

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Finished this a bit late for the rarepair week, but here's some Madi/Silver/Flint! This ship has really become a favourite of mine.

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bbc merlin - 03x07 The Castle of Fyrien

all together now: prince arthur of camelot????

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42,000 matches .

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Civilization has been winning that war for 10,000 years against men richer, braver, stronger, and smarter than you. How can you be so blind not to see that?

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They’re so silly <3