"It happened just like that... I didn't know her well enough and it wasn't something that my heart did every day, to have an illusion and be tempted to want to love her."
It’s the discarded sword, forgotten because there’s no longer any fight.
It’s the wound, dark and fatal, clearly visible on Arthur’s side.
It’s Merlin’s leg, pressing tightly against Arthur’s.
It’s his left hand, clinging to him desperately.
It’s his right arm wrapped protectively around him, his right hand cupping his head tenderly, his fingers tangled in his hair.
It’s the way Merlin is holding Arthur, as if trying to merge with him and become one.
Or maybe it’s just the way this image alone tells a story, or at least the end of it. The way you can tell it was a good one, epic and tragic and filled with love and loss and all those things that make a story worth telling.
Yeah, that must be it...
Love and devastation and everything in between, all condensed into this very moment and captured forever in a single frame of a TV show.
Was I up all night imagining a tragic sequel where Durge gets re-urged/the slayer forcefully by Red Wizards who also resurrected Gortash and now the companions have to save Tav (who's going insane from bloodlust and getting all their memories back) AND (optionally) the asshole who is responsible for Karlach's suffering (but is also Tav's complicated ex) from evil wizards?
[ID: three panels of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul being in love (and horny) for each other. In the first one, Bruce is in their luxurious bedroom for the first time and is awkwardly standing in his costume as Talia is behind a dressing screen and is changing into a white, satin négligée with lace detailing on it. She reminds him that they technically are married (and that she consented readily to it) but Bruce confesses, “I remember. But it's hard for me to consider that marriage real.” Talia emerges from behind the screen, looking as beautiful as ever as she walks up to him and eases his cowl off. She tells him, “Beloved, you give too much thought to what is ‘real,’ and what is not, to what is ‘true,’ and what is ‘false...’ I realize that is your way, but just this once, accept things as they are...” He strips himself of his clothes as they move to the bed—Talia laying on her back as he's between her legs. She continues to speak, “Forego your control, your discipline... just once, let yourself go... and take me with you.” Her arms slip around his neck as they kiss passionately.
The second panel is lineart of them against a white background. They look at each other lovingly, her hands reaching up to be on his shoulders as he holds her waist. The narration boxes read: ‘While still finding time to be a newlywed, a role in which he is quite unskilled... but—to his delight—quickly learns.’
In the third panel, several weeks have past. Bruce and Ra's al Ghul are walking before Talia interrupts and asks her beloved for a word. Bruce starts to ask if it can wait, due to him and Ra's discussing an important mission but she tells him it cannot. Ra's reassures, “Go, detective, we shall speak of this later.” Bruce and Talia pull away to talk in private, the background a beautiful, bright ombré of red and yellows. She has her arms up on his shoulders as he holds her waist and starts to ask, “Now, Talia, what's so impor—” but she quickly shares, “Beloved, I am with child.” Bruce starts to repeat her but Talia already confirms again, “I am pregnant.” She continues to look up at him, patiently waiting for his response as Bruce stares straight ahead, obviously in shock. He slowly repeats the words back to her in an attempt to register them, “You're... pregnant?” Before he suddenly beams! He pulls her into a tight, close embrace as he excitedly announces, “That's wonderful!” Talia smiles at him and says, “Isn't it?” Before her father can shake Bruce's hand with his own warm smile. Bruce still holds Talia's hand as Ra's tells him, “Detective, Dr. Weltmann could not keep this from me. My congratulations.” END ID]
This song is so Layla x Warren coded that it wouldn't leave me alone til I made an edit with it.
Even after almost 20 years since this movie came out (and I saw it in the theater), there's not a single person who can convince me that he didn't end up falling in love with her.
“i could have got you there. but.. nope.” okay and i could have not killed myself but nope nope nope too late i am in the ground thanks jesse armstrong
"Love . . . At the beginning or at the end is the eternal union of two souls. It is born in love and is nourished by it, it takes shape and colors. From love that is renunciation and passion."
okay but i love how fucking PETTY “the golden one” is. like it comes before burn butcher burn obvi, but the punches that jask did manage to put in there?? beautiful
a. constantly referencing “golden rules” like. y’know. The Golden Rule. so part of this song is just “so here’s a dragon AND DON’T BE A DICK TO OTHERS and here’s some more details DON’T BE ASSHOLE TO PEOPLE and oh yeah the dragon was in disguise AND DON’T FORGET STOP BEING A PRICK”
b. the fact that he says geralt DIDN’T want to take it. like jask has set up a classic quest tale and under normal circumstances, the hero would jUMP RIGHT IN. but nope. just says geralt was “quite reluctant” WITH NO REAL REASONING. “lol yeah what a weenie he didn’t want to participate in a cool dragon quest. why? unimportant”
c. FUCKING TALKING ABOUT YEN AND GERALT’S BREAKUP AND IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING IT WITH “oh yeah i also totally got laid lol. rip to geralt, but i’m getting it on the regular obvi”