#merlin wyllt?

[pippin-katz]

Merlin's Last Name

I have a dilemma. My OCD is super mad about the tags for Merlin posts, but I’m gonna tackle things one at a time, starting with Merlin.

I currently use Emrys because it’s the most common, but it’s frustrating to me because I know it’s not a surname.

Ambrosius is the second most common because I believe it’s one of the names used for Merlin in Arthurian legend. I’m starting to lean towards using it instead, but I’m not sure.

So what do you think? Spread this around please, I want to hear people’s thoughts on this.

[xplr-myrddin]

Arthur finding out what Merlin’s actual birth name is:

Arthur: MERLIN! Merlin: *appears* Yes? Arthur: Your name ISN’T MERLIN?? Merlin: I don’t know what you mean Arthur: I just got off the phone with your Mother Merlin: Mmmmm, she promised she wouldn’t tell you Arthur: YOUR NAME IS MYRDDIN WYLLT?? Merlin: Ah, she told you my last name too...got it Arthur: We’ve been dating for 3 years, and you didn’t tell me??

[drlettuce]

Drunk!Merlin: lying is easy you just say some stuff like how my mom thought I was straight until I was like 16 and how you still think my name is merlin

Sober!Arthur:what.

[forystr]

☀️Merlin Wyllt☀️

[pyjamacryptid]

Been reading some Arthuriana and had to meme some of it, as one does

This bit never gets old

(The Fatherless Child is supposed to be Kid Merlin btw)

[misshiraethsworld]

A SERVANT'S FRIENDSHIP ━ arthur pendragon ♔

she was the first to see him

THE ALBION ESCAPADES read here: wattpad

tag family: @arrthurpendragon, @eddysocs, @darth-caillic, @dancingsunflowers-ocs, @kmc1989, @ocappreciation if you want to be added to my family, all you have to do is ask!

[lovable-bastard]

In an interview:

Interviewer: So, there is one person that keeps appearing in your works. Could you tell us more about them?

Arthur, smiling like a dork: Yea there's this guy in my dreams, his name is Merlin, he's a warlock and he's the most amazing person! He's kind, brave, wise, powerful and just over all fucking brilliant! He's inspired so many of my most successful works and he's the one who brought me here and he doesn't even exist! I know it's stupid, but I kind of fell for him...he's just one of those people who you can't hate, no matter what, y'know? One of those people who bring people in and make them feel safe and want to stay. I just wish he was real... *sad sigh*

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Merlin: yea he's named Arthur and a dumbass lol.

Interviewer:... That's it?????

Merlin: basically, yea. he's just a dork who brings a smile on my face :D

[spacerangersam]

fuck it *de-anglicised your wizard*

[jurakan]

Can I have a merry fact for this miserable Monday?

I'm sorry I'm late on this! Usually I must insist on waiting until Friday, as it isn't Fun Fact Friday, but I can make an exception or loophole if your day has been miserable.

Hm.

Well.

IT'S MYTHOLOGY MONDAY AND TODAY YOU (merlin friendo) LEARNED ABOUT MERLIN'S OAK!

EDIT: from feedback I made a quick edit for accuracy's sake.

So in Wales, there is a town named Caerfyrddin, which the English call Carmarthen (because the English be doing that when they colonize places, sadly enough). The name means 'Merlin's Fort'! And in the town, in the 1600's, this teacher planted a tree on a street corner, and it became known as 'Merlin's oak.' Supposedly there was even a part of the tree that looked like a face; and with the story that Merlin was trapped in a tree (other versions say a cave or something, but a tree is a popular one) by his apprentice, this obviously have some significance to the locals and folklorists.

A local legend says that [Mr. Beaver voice] There is a prophecy, that when the tree falls, so will the town.

And then in the 1800's, some guy tried poisoning the tree? What a dick. It didn't kill the tree, and fearing their own safety the tree was protected with barriers. Then someone set the tree on fire; the tree was finally removed in the 70's. And no worries! The town is still there.

It DID suffer through horrible floods for the next few years though. Hurm.

There are pieces on public display in local museums, but there is also a new tree on the spot planted there.

Hope this was an interesting Fun Fact!

[thepinkseat-askthemoonbunny]

Insane by Black Gryph0n gives me HEAVY OG Merlin vibes, frfr

[cmrosens]

Musings on Myrddin

Chapter 1 of THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD is available to listen to for free - Season 03 of my podcast is serialising the whole novel, week by week.

Listen on any podcast platform or in the embedded Spotify link.

Introducing a Bearded Old Bastard

Ricky has mentioned Myrddin and his distrust of Welsh poets before – towards the end of THE CROWS, where in his POV he is sulking about Eglantine Pritchard and the dangers of speaking Welsh, in case some ‘bearded old bastard’ shows up. In the hardback edition, there’s a short story called ‘Gerald’, in which Ricky meets Myrddin for the first time as a 10-year-old.

In THIRTEENTH, when Ricky is severely depressed and threatened by Wes’s presence in the house, he explicitly thinks of Myrddin by his Latinised name – Merlinus Sylvestris – and complains to himself that Myrddin was a better prophet than he is.

In THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD, Myrddin makes an actual appearance. He isn’t real, exactly: the idea for Myrddin was workshopped with Robert Mitchelmore, whose poem, ‘οὐκ ἔπεφνεν ὄφιν: he did not slay the dragon’ (2010), appears as an epigraph to Part 2: Fall of the Titans.

Praise poems were meant to render their subject immortal, so that their names would never die so long as the poems were still spoken. Myrddin has, by now, so many stories and faces, that he is an immortal figure wherever his myth is known, and in that sense is no longer a man but an avatar of his own fame. That means there are baked-in limitations to his powers; he can do everything the stories about him say he can do, but according to this Myrddin, no story has been written where Myrddin saves the world from a Lovecraftian entity, so in that sense, he is powerless.

Myrddin is also not a heroic figure – he’s not a man of action, but a seer, a bard-prophet, and in the Welsh tales he was given his gift of prophecy by God to annoy Myrddin’s father, who was the Devil. Myrddin was meant to be the antichrist, but was baptised on the way out of his mother by a quick-thinking nun, which restored his free will. The infant Myrddin, now able to choose for himself, decided to devote his powers for good – mainly to aggravate his dad – and thus was given the spiritual gift of prophecy.

In my version of Myrddin, I’ve conflated his shape-shifting powers with those of Taliesin, another bard-prophet, and used parts of ‘The Battle of the Trees’ in his speeches. Myrddin is a Carmarthenshire lad, and looks a bit like an estate agent until you look more closely and see that his smart suit is just another skin he wears.

As to what Myrddin is doing there: he’s been interested in Ricky for a while, and this time he’s in our world (as opposed to the Otherworld) because one of his very distant descendants has asked for his assistance. All will be revealed in Chapter 3.

If you want to read the short story ‘Gerald’, where Myrddin and Ricky first meet, you can do so in the back of the hardback edition of THE CROWS.

I have 2 signed copies left in my Ko-Fi shop which are part of the book boxes that come with bespoke Pagham-on-Sea (sea spray and peppermint) and Fairwood House (lavender and earl grey) scented candles by Avalon Alchemy. If you tell me your favourite theme or chapter, I will do bespoke annotations for you in the margins of the hardback copy, as well as sign it.

I’ll be bringing out a collection of shorter Richard Porter fiction to go with the novella THE SUSSEX FRETSAW MASSACRE as a paperback release, which will be released as THE SUSSEX FRETSAW MASSACRE AND OTHER STORIES: AN ABRIDGED BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD EDWIN PORTER.

[carewyncromwell]

[Once the Future King] Merlin Wyltt/Bairn McDuran Playlist

A free-lance Magizoologist who once had the fire inside needed to change the world, only to get burned in the attempt. The most powerful wizard in magical history, at the time or since, who loved and served the legendary Muggle King of Camelot. Through a curse that trapped the second outside Time for over a hundred years, these two souls collided...and their lives were never the same again.

x~x~x~x

featuring Ben Barnes as Merlin @oneirataxia-girl and Brock O’Hurn as Bairn @carewyncromwell​

x~x~x~x

“The Wardrobe” from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“You Remind Me of Someone I Once Knew” by Rob Snarski and Dan Luscombe

“You’ve Got a Friend (cover)” by Carole King

“The Bell Tower” from The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“Time After Time (cover)” by Quietdrive

“Waiting on a Miracle (epic instrumental cover)” by Frostudio Chambersonic

“King and Lionheart” by Of Monsters and Men

“Romantic Flight” from How to Train Your Dragon

“Something There” from Beauty and the Beast

“I Won’t Say I’m In Love (cover)” by POLOcapsinger 

“Accidentally in Love” by Counting Crows

“Peace” by Taylor Swift

“I’m Not That Girl” from Wicked

“Things I’ll Never Say” by Avril Lavigne

“Mixed Signals” by Ruth B

“Please Don’t Leave Me” by Pink

“You Matter to Me” from Waitress

“Looking Through Your Eyes” from Quest for Camelot

“Aniron” by Enya

“Reprise/Again” from Spirited Away

[unknownstarrl]

Merlin

status: ???

[link]

After King Arthur's death, Merlin - Myrrdin Wyllt decided to live anonymously. He married and changed to his wife's last name-Hill

[lxxnheart]

CONTEXT, PLEASE

pairing: aquila solaris lehnsherr-black x theodore ambrose wyllt

warnings: humor; drabble; prompt; fluff; enemies to lovers; weird friends; sex mentions and suggestions

fandom: potterhead

author’s note: english is not my first language, sorry for any grammatical errors; this is part of a super shuffled fanfic i created in my head with regulus black’s children (aquila is the fourth child of five)

   Aquila tried to hold back a laugh when Stan spoke one more of his randomnesses and received a shove from his girlfriend, but when Serpens, below her, began to laugh outrageously, she couldn't help it and started to giggle. The girl loved the way her siblings got along with her friends.

   Syd got into a debate with the boy about how it made no sense, supplemented by Crux and Max, when Teddy came into the sight of the six other wizards. He looked a little embarrassed that was interfering with the conversation, and was visibly limping.

— Hey, Teddy — Aquila spoke, surprising everyone, since it was her mission in life to ignore the boy. Maxine was so surprised that she took her legs off Crux's lap and sat up properly, concentrated to know what this unexpected conversation would lead to.

— Hey, Aquila — this time it's Sydney that almost falls when doesn't hear the typical "sunshine" come out of Theo's mouth, but instead the real name of the girl — I just wanted to say thanks for this morning. My ass is so sore, i can't even walk straight.

— It was a mess. But like i said, it looks like you were born for this — she got off her brother's lap, crossing her legs as she faced the taller one.

— Context, please — Stan spoke. A curious tone in his voice.

— She helped me to ride — Teddy replied.

— I'm sure she helped — Max's laughter followed the comment.

— Not that this is wrong — Serpens hastened to say — It's totally normal and each person has their own… preferences?

— Yep. Although that wasn't my first guess about you — Syd spoke, resting her head on her hand.

— What are you guys talking about? — the youngest of the Lehnsherr-Black daughters asked, like they weren't saying anything with sense.

— They're deducing that you, dear sister of mine, had sex with The Chosen One, in which specifically you had the penetrative "power" — Crux explained. Surprisingly, the person who blushed was Theo, not Aquila.

— What nonsense! — the girl replied — I just taught him how to ride a broom!

[storygremlin]

My friend mildly bullied me into finally writing something for my life long dream project of telling my own version of the Arthurian Legends, so instead of going to sleep I write a short scene and instantly without my say so it became the gayest prose I’ve ever written in my life lmao

Excerpt:

Myrddin’s fist curls under the weight of Arthur’s grief, but he does not flinch from it. Let’s himself hold the blue of his gaze even if he isn’t allowed to hold anything else.

I was like, just two bros having a conversation to establish some background, theme, and characterization, and then Myrddin was like make it gay pining 😂😂😂

[pyjamacryptid]

[ID in Alt]

Absolutely giggling over this paragraph under Nomenclature on the Wikipedia page for the Merlin (kestrel) bird. It almost sounds resigned. Like “ugh no they’re not the same. Yes I promise they’re unrelated, sorry to disappoint you. Yeah.. we get this all the time.”