#i bawled my eyes out

[dawnsfragrance]

A letter written by my father the night before my wedding.

‘To my daughter, I wish that you stay blessed and well for the rest of your life, the way that Khadijah R.a, Ayesha R.a, and Fathimah R.a were.

Me and your Mum will feel empty from your absence but this is the reality. So, I will let you go with my blessing.

Your loving Dad xxx’

[sadpotatoreads]

end of an era.

[gaiussleechtank]

I just thought of this theory so now I’m going to inflict it on all of you because I am no longer well after thinking this:

Magic existed in Albion long before Merlin and Arthur, et cetera, did. And based on canon - the books, the tales, even the geography and beings - magic used to be massive in Albion. A huge part of life and nature and living. Then Arthur is born and Ygraine dies and the Purge begins. Magic is killed off, reduced and nearly wiped out; thousands of species go extinct, entire cultures are burnt, and hundreds of millennia of knowledge are erased. So as a last resort to save itself, Merlin is born.

Merlin - Emrys - Magic Itself/Incarnate.

All of this desperate power is out there and channelled into one single being. Think of it, all the land's magic rushing into a single entity and given life, evolved from having existence in everything to truly living and experiencing a concentrated point. Maybe this is why Merlin has such a deep connection with everything, because he has existed before as something so much greater than the human mind.

I think this is why he is Emrys, why Emrys is immortal, you can't kill Magic, Albion's world doesn't work that way. There is the balance of life to maintain.

This is where Arthur and the Prophecy of the Once and Future King come in: Merlin and Arthur are greatly connected. It's Arthur's birth that forces Merlin into creation and it's together that they are meant to bring greatness to the land.

Except they don't, Albion's 'Golden Era' doesn't come. Arthur dies and Merlin continues living because Magic cannot die. Centuries pass, Merlin is missing his other half and Magic continues to disappear because Merlin and Arthur didn't save it.

So there is a build up, Magic keeps going to Merlin to protect itself, Albion ages and falls and is rebuilt over and over again into something new with each passing century. As time progresses Magic turns to its greatest source - the undying force of magic, the greatest concentration of it given life - and because of this the land slowly forgets that it even had magic to begin with.

This is what forces Albion's Greatest Need. The balance cannot handle this, the land cannot handle this and so Arthur returns to save it all.

He is Merlin's other half - their destinies are literally written and entwined with one another.

They would figure out that Magic had disappeared from the land and that it was why Arthur was back, but it would be Merlin to realise where Magic had gone to and what it would take for it to be brought back.

Merlin would have to die for Albion to be saved. His life would have to end and return to its previous state of unconscious sentient existence.

But how can someone that cannot die stop living?

It's easy really: have their other half of their soul - the one that they were born for, who they live for and exist for - kill their physical body with an immortal blade.

Only Arthur wielding the Excalibur would work. After all, Arthur was the reason that Merlin was born, so who's to say that Arthur's not the reason Merlin dies?

[ricciardosgirl]

[divinequo]

WATCH WOLFWALKERS RN.

[drumphiga-blog]

Thinking about this page so much that it hurts

[gerardwayslesbianlovr]

i saw this with my own eyeballs btw

[fairys-darkacademia]

[swimmingfeelsinajohnlockianpool]

I didn't even expect such a kiss, I just wanted it to be acknowledged and it did, why couldn't we have had it for Johnlock too???

[itsmetheabnormalone]

If you had told me a few months ago that the best (live action) gay representation I’ve ever seen will come from a "zombie“ apocalypse show I would’ve laughed but here we are

[candyheartedchy]

Hey, it's the anon who saved up the episodes. I'm currently binging it, see you on the other side!

Have fun!!! Try not to cry so much!

[maliha-lili]

I feel the actual heartache and trauma from 20th century girl has been downplayed. Like, there was no mutual breakup. No, he just basically disappeared from her world one day. She waited, with hope, for 15 years. She waited for him to keep his promise and for them to reunite, only to find out the person she's waiting for can never and will never come back. No chance to say "I'm happy for you" when they meet again later and they've both moved on. No, none of that. He promised to come back and then he couldn't keep that promise. She couldn't move on for almost half of her life and she'll need even more time to mourn and she might never even move on. That kind of heartbreak is so much bigger and the wounds are much more deeper.

[sebsdaniel]

Pixar's Elemental hit a little too close to home as a only daughter with anger issues, who loves her dad so much and never wants to disappoint him

[unstable-and-gay]

i rewatched encanto

[browntrait]

fun fact abt me, i literally always have my nails done, full acrylic set. it first started as a way to reconnect to feminity as i was understanding more abt my gender identity but now its a sensory thing and i cannot go without having my nails done. i go to the exact same nail shop, in my fave lil shopping center, n no matter how i feel going in i always come out feeling better. acrylic nails have always been judged esp on the hands of black folks but i could literally care less. n my fave nail shape is square or coffin.

also, thts why my sims have nails on 99.9% of the time.

[jemmo]

I think that ep of never let me go just broke me in ways I never thought I could be broken