#Merlin is BACK

[elliotasis]

You're kidding, right? Did I miss something? Tell me they've been hacked and are just messing with us. Don't give us hope! And what's the deal with this picture?! Even Arthur looks like he's not sure about coming back. 😂😂😂

[katmiscellanious]

WHAT!?!? MERLIN!?!? WHAT THE

FUCK!?!!!?!???

[mncrr]

WHAT

[ollyrewind]

Look at him. I would die for him. I would kill for him.

Either way — what bliss.

[skltart]

pov you're some noble attending a royal gathering or whatever in camelot and you're all excited to meet the prince and then you get there and he's just hanging out with his twink of a manservant the whole night

[eliounora]

I sing praises but you never hear

[aconfusedgoose]

AND DAN AND PHIL ARE BACK???

I started this year making a meme about John Green being back and I thought that would be the wildest thing to happen this year... Clearly I was wrong. I feel like the universe is just confused about what year it is... I'm in my mid 20s now and I don't need to be going through this again.

[akelafang]

After Merlin's magic is revealed he's made the court sorcerer and as such has to sit in on court meetings. He freely gives his opinion on topics that come up and is more than willing to shoot down propositions others make while pointing out all the flaws in their plans. The nobles do not like this. Nobleman: Your promotion has clearly caused you to think far too highly of yourself that you dare speak in such a manner to those born above you Arthur: No he came like that. His disregard for authority is one of the reasons I keep him around. Keeps me, and now you all, honest. Merlin: That, and Arthur thinks it's hot.

[plumadesatada]

just remembered a fic on AO3 (or more likely LJ because it had that distinct late 00's experimental vibe) that appeared double-spaced oddly, in that some paragraphs would be spaced normally and others would have double or even triple spaces in between. it was about one half of the otp getting over the other's death (or coma, can't remember which), so all the comments were about how poignant the use of visual spacing was as a means to convey all the emotional holes in the character's life.

and then the author replied like... *giggle* guys it's NOT double spaced. try selecting the whole text

and we were all like "no WAY"

but we selected the text, and yes!!!

the "holes" in the story? they were actually lines and actions from the dead/coma character's ghost, rendered invisible to the eye by the simple trick of coloring the text the exact same as the background, revealed by nothing more than a click and a drag of the mouse

a story about the profound loneliness of losing your the partner of your life and having to make do without them, without anything to fill the holes they'd left behind, suddenly became a story about the profound helplessness of seeing someone you love suffer from your absence while you are right there, unable to do anything about it, unable to communicate that you love them enough to suffer unseen and unheard with them, just to keep them company they'll never know about

it was then that I truly realized how *superior* the digital medium is to plain printed paper, how the medium and the format can add to a story.

I think about that fic about once a year. I wish I could find it again

EDIT: FOUND IT!!!! UPDATE HERE

[magicomens]

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[myoonmii]

Some might say he didn’t take the news well

[skoff-the-artist]

A spell gone wrong RIGHT!!!

[whamber]

A softer golden era

[justaz]

au where merlin doesn’t know balinor is his father and he and arthur are chilling in his cave and balinor mentions hunith and merlin Locks In as he subtly questions the random man and boom arthur and merlin are aware that the last dragonlord is his father.

[buumbaby]

hello have a sparkle boy

[wishiwasadruid]

Arthur: I'm a stone-cold killer. Nothing has ever gotten to me. I'd like to see you try and make me feel a single thing.

Morgana: Yesterday Merlin told me that he didn't like you very much.

Arthur: *voice breaking* Oh, he did?