#-Something Something King Arthur.

[bonefall]

oh i thought misa’s poll was for third place?

I was under that impression too, but I'm not gonna fight about it y'know? I'm pretty sure it's the finals, but even if it isn't, you know this is the real final in our hearts.

Again, LOVE Misa, girlie was done super dirty, reduced to a sexy dumb ditz when she managed to figure out Kira before L himself, so loyal she gave away years of her life for magic eyes, and treated with contempt and scorn by the narrative for having a crush on a guy who doesn't give a shit about her. I'm not downplaying a scrap of how badly she gets treated in Death Note.

That said... Atom Bomb vs Hydrogen Bombs, y'know?

Bumble's short life is in the background of two books. She's dragged back to a domestic abuser for being a useless fat lady, apologizes for being upset about that on her deathbed, and gets gored just so we'd be sad about her serial woman-thrashing murderer's reputation. Everyone who hurts her is a celebrated hero who was never "truly" bad, their constant violence and contempt towards women excused and justified, her life so worthless she's not even tallied under Tom the Wifebeater's crimes... in a book for 10 - 13 year olds.

Cordy's last season is a DARK, EDGEYY character assassination that made everyone on the set uncomfortable, involving adoptive incest, forced birth, and body possession. When the beloved and long-standing character was killed off unceremoniously, cast members were left to speculate why and blame themselves for years, until Charisma Carpenter came out recently to reveal that everything done to her character was possibly (likely) Joss Whedon trying to hurt her through destroying her most beloved and lucrative role.

Like, Misa's got it bad. Cordy IS, and Bumble SHOULD be, LEGENDARY.

[justaz]

*merlins magic gets exposed in front of the knights*

merlin, magic user: oh fuck

arthur, finally taking this opportunity to pretend as if he just found out merlin has magic after agonizing for the past month on how to bring it up: you have magic?

lancelot, merlin defender, already knew of merlin’s magic: no! i have magic

gwaine, merlin defender, already knew of merlin’s magic, lover of chaos, ride or die: no, i have magic!

mordred, desperate for his hero’s approval bc no matter what he’s done emrys just stares at him with distrust and the poor boy is tired and so close to tears: no…i have magic.

percival, raised by druids and bonded strongly with mordred over that and does Not agree with the persecution of magic in camelot, had an inkling that merlin had magic but no proof: no. i have magic.

*leon and elyan exchange a look, elyan, amused and leon, exhausted, elyan shrugs*

elyan, knows how much gwen adores merlin and completely understands her stance bc merlin…is merlin, down to clown and put on a show, really playing up the dramatics: no! i have magic.

leon, exhausted, has known of merlin’s magic since he stepped foot in camelot, knows of his feelings for arthur and arthur’s feelings for him, knows arthur knows of merlin’s magic and wouldn’t harm him, thinks everyone is being absolutely ridiculous:

*the knights stare hard at leon and even merlin looks slightly offended at leon not jumping to his defense with the rest of the knights, arthur hasn’t said anything and is staring at leon expectantly*

leon, sighing: …no. i have magic.

[potato-lord-but-not]

S4 final was crazzzyyyy like what was that about

[eldritch-ambrosia]

Do you ever think about how for almost 1000 years there's this story about a King named Arthur with an old man wizard advisor named Merlin and then in 2008 (and onward) it got rewired to where we're writing fanfiction and making art and edits of them kissing?

If you told someone 20 years ago that you wanted to see King Arthur and Merlin kiss they would've thought you were crazy.

[deuteragonist1]

Merthur really have it all huh. King and lionheart dynamic. Fucking hate at first sight then speedrun to trying to die for the other. Slow burn? Never heard of her. One of them wears gloves and one doesn't and I'm not even gonna bother to explain why that is top fucking tier. Lies and secrets that could bring about the doom of the kingdom. Obviously adore each other but will actually fucking die before saying it with actual words. The prince is a gigantic asshole who doesn't know how to show care or ask for attention like a person who had healthy emotional development as a child and oscillates between pulling pigtails and acting like an over-eager puppy or both at the same time. Domesticity levels previously unheard of. They canonically wear each other's clothes. One of them makes up words and the other promptly starts using them. Both are extremely into the other's specific brand of dumbassery. Their love language is fucking playing together. "I don't want you to change" fuck this fuck everything

[adhd-merlin]

I am obsessed with this

[kikiofthevast]

Idk I love putting Arthur Lester in yellow clothes. He is inseparable from the King in Yellow. He is in symbiosis with a piece of a god. He cannot see and therefore is protected from so much of the madness. He wears yellow like a challenge. He's saying look at me, and my defiance. He has been changed irrevocably by the King in Yellow but he does not pledge his service. He stands against a god.

[springs-hurts]

Gods but the way people think Arthur was stupid, trusting Agrvaine so much, first, Agravaine was a manipulative bastard, who came just after Uther died, a time when Arthur sorely needed parental support, seeing as his Father died and in a way, his whole family was gone. Mother, already dead, father, his king, dead, his sister betrayed him, forgive him for thinking, someone who was his last link to his mother, who was manipulating him on daily basis into thinking that he's the only one who had good intentions and cared for him. At a time, when he was most vulnerable. Forgive him for thinking that person won't betray him. Forgive him for thinking he had little of his family left. Forgivr him for thinking, even after all that has happened he was still loved by someone of his family.

Gods but I hate agravaine more than Uther, more than Morgana, more than any other villain. The way he manipulated Arthur, Gods, that's legit breaking the whole man, I wonder how Arthur managed to trust people after such deepest betrayal. Nobody talks about it,

But to think even after all of this, he still accepted Merlin and loved him so much!

[samglyph]

I don’t have any coherent thoughts about 31 actually my brain just keeps going “John slapstick episode” and “bullying him”

[katabay]

king arthur and the body of sir (cei)

god kay makes me so sad. idk!! it's something about how his character becomes transformed in later narratives to the point of unrecognizability. it's lonely to read about!!! it's like you've buried someone, and then you turn around and someone who looks like them is standing right there, but it's also Not Them.

Caitlin R. Green, Concepts of Arthur

Sir Kay, Seneschal of King Arthur's Court, Harold J Herman

[tolicandco]

at this point this will become an arthur fan account

[ambriel-angstwitch]

Arthur: are you still mad at me?

Merlin: yes

Arthur: are you going to let go of my hand?

Merlin: no

[justaz]

“what if magic isn’t something you choose. what if…it chooses you?”

au where magic chooses arthur instead of morgana and the prince is freaking out about this new ability, something thats been drilled into his head is pure evil. the magic lashing out and he is unable to contain it. uther finding out and having him burned.

merlin who is unable to do anything to stop it, maybe he’s away on some secret magic mission idk, and he has to face the fact that arthur is dead. bc of uther. merlin waging war against camelot as one lone man, he never cared for the kingdom as much as he did arthur - everything he did was for the prince and the kingdom he would build, but that will never come to be now.

morgana quickly joining his side along w a few loyal to arthur rather than uther - gwen, leon, a few other background characters lmfao. merlin doesn’t hide his magic, he lets them know how he is going to fight and they still stand by him. uther doesn’t take the declaration of war seriously until they have a fucking dragon.

idk where this goes but it ends with (sorta) dark!merlin and uther’s charred head on a stick

[a-crawling-chaos]

doodled the malevolent guys as that one image going around

i have a headcannon human!john wears skirts bc he hates pants and refuses to wear robes bc of the king.

[regulusrules]

the first and last thing Merlin ever said about Arthur is that he's his friend

[flamdoodles]

I've barely sunken my teeth into a magnificent series of Malevolent fanfictions, "Surrogate", and it has finished breaking what the original podcast started cracking and then sealed the pieces back with gold.

Plus, Hastur is daddy (in more than one sense)