#is it Gawaine or Gwaine

[morganaconda]

[sissiarte]

Oh Gawain <3

This came to me in a vision and I had to draw it or I would explode. I honestly don't have an explanation enjoy

[myths0f01d]

Gwaine/Gawain idc how you spell it but anyways he is SO Flynn Rider.

I mean COME ON people. They're identical

[bigfootboyband]

In marrying some of my favorite Arthurian poetry and bbc’s Merlin, here is a small sketch of Gwaine clad in queerness of sexuality and gender.

If you'd like to support me, you can do so here <3

[adhd-merlin]

the more I hear about sir gawain from arthurian texts the more I think bbc merlin got him right

[pyjamacryptid]

Once again again thinking about how we were robbed of Gwaine and Lancelot interactions in bbc merlin.

One, because it would’ve been iconic. Two, because of their individual friendships with Merlin. Three, because of their differing views of nobility and knighthood (at least the way their views began). And four, because they were homoerotic as FAHCK in arthuriana.

ROBBED i tell you

[h0bg0blin-meat]

*The Knights cleaning up* Gwaine: Pick up the nearest piece of trash and throw it away. Arthur, to Merlin: Aight, which bin do you wanna go in—

[xenioshelios]

Inspired by this post of incorrect quotes by @mcbender10

Here i introduce my other main merlin bbc ship, such an underrated one, i love my boys, true to the original script as well X)))) (Gawain and Lancelot definitely had sth going on lol) completing my duty by making some cutesy fanart for them <33

Dedicated to my friend @eviltoxicmosssauce that appreciate this ship as much as i do X)))

Incorrect merlin quotes series 10/?

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[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

submissive and beheadable *kneels down at the chopping block and looks up at you so sweetly* x

for the prompt 'quest' in @mortiscausa's March to Camelot

[mainlysarcastic]

The fact that Gawain spent his whole life despising royals and hiding the fact he was from a noble family because he never wanted to be a knight just to be knighted by Arthur when he thought his death was soon

The look on his face there’s so many emotions so many thoughts in his pretty head

“Only for Arthur would I do this”

“I can’t fucking believe I’m gonna die a fucking knight”

“How the hell did my life end up in this way”

*contemplates EVERY life choice*

“Fuck it, let’s do this thing”

[morganaconda]

[larluce]

They totally would! XD

My Tik tok account -> HERE

[camlannpod]

Character Playlist: Gwaine Turner

You can find character playlists for Dai, Morgan, Perry and Gwen already posted on our blog (and at the links on their names here).

The last of our main character playlists! Episode 5 is Gwaine's episode, of course. Let's get to know him a little better.

First Class by Rainbow Kitten Surprise

I say I'll be damned if we can make it out of this alive But is this what you want? What you wanted? Do you need love? Am I enough for you? In time you'll find I've got my baggage too

A lot of Gwaine's story is about the tension he feels between what other people expect of him and who he actually is. The Knights want him to be one version of himself, in the way that the rugby team and his friends at university did. Dai wants to be a different version - but the version Dai wants is one which surrenders everything from the other side. Gwaine is caught between all these people who think he's beautiful, who want him and want to use him, and very few of them remember that he too is just a man who's as traumatised and grieving as everyone else is.

2. The Quittin' Kind by Eleisha Eagle

There's a corner you painted yourself in I'm not sure what was your intention Now you're trapped alone on an island And you can't swim, no you can't swim

Gwaine left Dai, Morgan and Perry in the middle of the night in the haunted wilds of Bannau Brycheiniog after they made their escape from the Knights. He stole half their supplies to make it back and he didn't leave a note, knowing they'd assume he'd been killed by something in the night. Obviously, this wasn't a great thing to do to them - especially to Dai. But as we learn in the series, Gwaine did it because he was being pulled back by Arthur's song. And when he got back, he realised he was no longer the only popular jock in the one small group of queer weirdos who understood him. He was alone.

3. Look Alive by Guster

The sun came up The world began to shake Fault lines exposing All my own mistakes If I could do anything Then this wouldn't be happening It's been a long time Since I've felt courageous

Gwaine is extremely frustrated with his own conflict between wanting to be comfortable with his sexuality and also wanting to be everything that everyone wants him to be. He knows that the popular, charismatic man who was drowning in friends before the Cataclysm was not a man that anyone wanted to be bisexual, so he just pretended he wasn't. He was 'straight-passing' (I hate this phrase, it's a core part of Gwaine's character arc), and he hid. And he hates that he hid.

4. Scared of the Dark by Lil Wayne, Ty Dolla $ign, XXXTENTACION

I ain't never scared and I ain't never horrified I just look down at my Rolex, it said it's the darkest times I ain't never terrified, I ain't never petrified You know I see dead people, I just tell 'em, "Get a life"

After the Cataclysm, Gwaine has an even bigger reason to be nervous about opening up about his sexuality to the Knights given their general bigotries. But he also, like Perry, has a job to do. He's a Knight. He protects people. He's the person who rides out alone in the night to go fight the monster everyone else is scared of. Before he left, he took half of the protection duties from Perry for looking after Dai and Morgan. And with the Knights, he's one of a band of brothers protecting what they're pretty sure are the last few hundred people left alive in the UK. So every day, he gets up, and he faces the monsters, because someone has to.

5. Growing Pains by Layup

I walk this world with broken toes From my missteps and told you so's I learned my way, breaking every bone Now I see all these aches will make you grow And every fall has a rise, every burn has a flame From foolish to wise, we all bruise the same

Slowly but surely, left alone with very little decent company among the Knights and no one who really understands him, eating himself alive with worry about what's happened to Dai whilst also begrudgingly reassuring himself that Perry would never let anything happen to him, Gwaine has a lot of time to think, and grow. He starts to get a bit of clarity about the man he wants to be, and starts to learn from his mistakes. He decides to stand up to the men who've backed him into this corner, and for the first time in his life, be something other than what everyone wants him to be. Himself.

6. To the Desert by Branches

I came out to the desert To find what I lost in your eyes I filled my lungs with the sunset And walked out into the night

Gwaine leaves the Knights for Dai. That's not a lie. He wasn't sure whether Dai was even alive before he found him on the radio, but he'd decided months or years walking through the wilderness looking for the love of his life was better than merry bullying in Camelot. He walked into the wasteland.

7. Our Kingdom by Hugo Barriol

If you choose the red, and I choose the blue We can share the green, we can share the green When I've lost my words, looking at you I didn't know your name, I didn't know you could- Change what I see Change the way I feel I was far away from me I wasn't listening

Gwaine knew he was attracted to men before he met Dai - he'd messed around with a couple of people in various ways. He did not know that he could love men before he met Dai, and it's part of why Dai is so important to him. For Gwaine, the nights spent staying up til 3am playing video games were just as important as the drunk hookups he pretended didn't happen. Dai never really realised just how much he meant to Gwaine - he always assumed he was just a passing fancy to him.

8. Gawain by The Trials of Cato

In crashing blows there is no game But when the Emerald Knight begins again I risk my life to make my name

Our Gwaine is determined not to be remembered as a coward. He doesn't want to be cruel, and he doesn't want to hide from who he is or his love of Dai. He's entranced and enchanted by the story, which pulls him in, playing on these tendrils of his desperation for acceptance and catharsis. He so badly wants to prove that he's brave enough to be worthy of a man like Dai. It's an easy opening to exploit.

9. Blood Upon the Snow by Hozier, Bear McCreary

It's not my arms that will fail me But this world takes more strength than it gave me The trees deny themselves nothing that makes them grow No rain fall, no sunshine No blood upon the snow

You get it.

[mountainmagpie]

Me anytime I think about The Green Knight

[kingstoken]

Gawain/Lancelot Moodboard, created for fandomtrees 2023.

[empress-leo]

Uh so something happened

Like yadda yadda modern interpretations and stuff but like, the quote is

“I wish I were a fair maiden, then I would woo him [Lancelot]”

There is some context to this, and based on the context it can be debated whether or not Gawain was trans, but still. Oh but on that note.

Gawain is absolutely bisexual. Regardless of the context, if you’re a man and unironically express a desire to sleep with what is clearly a man, then you are some flavour of gay. And Gawain, the ladies man of Arthurian myth, expressed a desire to sleep with the handsome knight. He is at the very least bisexual, probably poly or pan given how he’s slept with magical creatures and loved a wide range of women.

Just my two pence.