#so for the love of camelot:

[regulusrules]

Y'all remember when Morgana took control over Camelot in The Coming of Arthur (s3e13) because she was aided by Morgause and Cenred's army and began to kill the citizens of Camelot in front of the knights while they were helpless to save their people because they had no backup?

Oh and remember how we cheered and celebrated Arthur restoring back his land, and viewed him fighting for it as an act of heroism instead of condemning him or justifying Morgana's unlawful rule and bloodshed of the people of Camelot?

Well, read this again, and think of Camelot as the one that rhymes with Gas

[justaz]

lol arthur realizes with the other knights after watching merlin flirt and being hit with a wave of deja vu: holy shit you asked me out

merlin and the rest of the knights around a campfire after leaving a village bc lancelot and leon somehow started a brawl in the tavern: ???

arthur points at merlin: after valiant! you asked me to buy you a drink! you were asking me out!

merlin is busy cooking dinner and confused out of his fucking mind: what???…..valiant….oh the knight with the snakes.

gwaine who was slightly tipsy now stone cold sober and sitting up straight against a tree: wait. explain. what do you mean merlin asked you out??

arthur snaps his fingers as he recalls the memory: i apologized for sacking you and you said that if i bought you a drink we’d be even.

merlin now remembering how he had stumbled into camelot, picked a fight with a pigheaded bully which quickly turned homoerotic and flirtatious, and continued their teasing-flirting for days before merlin shot his shot and asked the prince out only to be rejected: oh yeah, i forgot i did that…..wait, you mean you didnt realize what i was asking?

arthur: no?? we argued everyday, how was i supposed to realize you were asking me out??

merlin now abandoning the dinner and staring across the camp at arthur while the rest of the knights watch their back and forth like a game of tennis: to you we were arguing, to me that was very much flirting. i thought you were flirting back so i decided to ask you. then you rejected me

arthur, mentally beating his past self up for fucking up their chance: i didn’t reject you!!! i just didn’t realize what you were asking me. how was i meant to? we fought every chance we got

leon, nudging elyan, glee and excitement riling through him: its happening!!! its finally happening!!! seven long, grueling years is finally paying off!!!

merlin, realizing the misunderstanding and acknowledging the fact that he wasn’t rejected, his flirtations just weren’t noticed - realizing he still has a chance: oh…oh i see. arthur, my dear, our fights were extremely flirtatious. need i remind you of what you said? “do you know how to walk on your knees? would you like me to teach you?” or “i could take you apart with one blow”

arthur, mental capabilities at an all time low: m…my dear….?????????

merlin grinning devilishly as he realizes that his flirtatious persona he had hidden away after falling head over heels for arthur can make a come back: that is what i called you. should i call you something else? say…mine?

percival gags in elyan’s ear: cheesy

elyan hides a laugh: at least they’re finally getting somewhere. better than the hopeless pining

arthur, flushed from head to toe: ah uh no um im uh

merlin thoroughly enjoying himself: oh come now, your majesty. use your words.

[maddybthorne]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Sir Leon the Long Suffering is one of the best tags ever invented.

[thatgaywizardoverthere]

Arthur “Disaster Bi” Pendragon learning about true loves kiss as a cure like:

Gwaine: For fuck’s sake, he’s not enchanted every time he smiles at someone else, Arthur! He was literally just laughing at my joke!

Arthur, aggressively frenching Merlin on the council room floor: YOU CAN NEVER BE TOO CAREFUL OKAY-

[deathdefyinggarlic]

the funniest thing about merthur is that they literally do all the fanfic things people would make them do,,,,, like what do you mean merlin gets injured and arthur goes apeshit is canon? hmm what do you mean they literally sleep near each other to 'keep warm'

like these mfers are just bouncing around camelot in a hamster ball made of tropes and i EAT IT UP every time

[adhd-merlin]

I would so watch a series that's just merlin and gaius going about their lives. arthur is there, but it ain't about him. he makes an appeareance now and then as the comic relief guy. the series is part procedural/part sit-com. merlin and gaius investigate to solve the magical mystery of the week. gwen is merlin's best buddy and occasional helper, but he still has to keep his magic a secret around her (she finds out at some point, of course). gaius's errands in the lower town set up the episode's subplot. he has a friend who keeps getting her chickens stolen or something. she thinks there's sorcery involved. she's right. it's the fearsome chicken-stealing Cockatrice, a creature of legend impossible to defeat. unless

[nie-narzekam]

All the girls know his fame, men curse his name

And they talk about him like he’s magic

He’s stolen hearts like they’re horses

And horses* when hearts can’t be found

*Or uranium and space rocks

He knows he’s a fool to get caught up with you

He can’t let go of love once he’s had it

He knows that his story is tragic

But he can’t rest ‘til he’s next to you

(Josh Ritter, “Next to the Last Romantic”)

[timothy-gunpowder]

shit makes me go FERAL every single listen

[mythandmagic]

please Please PLEASE everyone go read Like Every Tree Stands on Its Own by @mightybog it is phenomenal and has deliciously altered my brain chemistry. AND there's a sequel in the works which is sure to be just as marvelous and heartwrenching and beautiful as the first.

Seriously, I have been rotating this story for days, even made some picrews about it (courtesy of ElenaA's Kiss Crew, beloved).

Anyway, please go read and kudos and comment and show her some love because she deserves it.

[arthurpendragonsass]

yk there's a lot of talk about the way merlin is practically a god but lives as an unassuming servant, and seeing this surprises druids/other magic users. i wanna see kind of the same thing happen to arthur with the people of his kingdom. we know arthur so intimately, from merlin's pov, but i wanna see him as a living legend. stories of his valor spreading across land, blown out of proportion and missing details. “the prince slayed the great dragon and gifted its head to the king!” “some say the goddess blessed him when he was born, when she took the queen back. how else does one survive an attack by a questing beast?” “he held out his hand and the sword stuck in solid stone flew to him! iwan says meredith’s aunt saw it herself!” “the word has come, king arthur defeated annis’ champion—a giant of a man!” old men discussing arthur’s policies, comparing them with those of previous rulers, and being glad that it's him on the throne “finally, a good fucking king.” people having faith that their ruler is generous and fair and can be approached in times of need, and having the comforting knowledge that he would do his best to help because that's what he did with the other village last year! young boys dreaming to join his army and young girls daydreaming about a fairy tale ending with him (or vice versa, obv). just... arthur of his people.

what I'm saying is i want an outsider pov character study of arthur pendragon king of camelot. hope that helps

[kandicon]

Idk man I just think Guinevere would see the child within Mordred that saw death and those who wished him harm far too young so he did everything he could to survive, and relate to that far more than anyone else in their general circle could. Not even Arthur, who while he had shitty upbringing, he did at least have an upbringing. Whereas she knows what it's like to have all family be dead and be left only to the wastes.

I wouldn't call it a soft spot, but I only say that because I don't think there is any part of Guinevere that can qualify as soft. Even with her partners, who are undeniably the people in the world who she cares about most, she's harsh. Quick to call them her loves, but even quicker to tell them to purge their feelings or play down their pain ("quit your whining, Arthur, or your wounds won't heal"), all while jumping at every opportunity to elevate her position by speaking of those she killed and her power. But I do think there would be an amount of care there, for Mordred. Even if it's just because she wishes there was someone there to give her a better chance at life, and it'll make her feel a bit better to play the role she never got for someone else.

She's not soft over him, but she is him, in a way. Just thirty years older and now with a life she can proclaim with her whole chest is one that actually makes her happy. And he's her too, just a hell of a lot younger and with ideals the world has yet to kill. Both of them wished for the world to be softer to them, when they were trapped in their own respective darks, but of the two Guinevere is the only one who actually has a chance to be that bit of relief in the world for the other.

[stevenslittleshop]

Constantly stuck between “Arthur and Merlin were still just boys, they were best friends with the whole world against them” and “they were in LOVE. They were ROMANTICALLY ATTRACTED to each other”

[justaz]

im not a fan of modern merthur but the idea of them meeting in modern times and introducing themselves to each other and them laughing and bonding over their names being connected to the myth of king arthur and camelot is just so cute

[zurdurer]

Guess who's guy - whose silly little preacher man - has landed in an awesome project?

I'M SO EXCITED GALAHAD IS GONNA BE IN DOWNTIME!!!!

Genuinely having the opportunity to see my design being used like this is an honour and I think everyone should check out Downtime (see @pixelated-mechanisms-chaos for details on the project, it's really awesome)

Creator of both the sprite and the game: @chaoticmannamedoliver

Under the cut is the ref page I made for him specific to this game, he's very creature :]

This is not that detailed but it gets the job done :]

[fruitisthenewvegitable]

I love peoples drawing of DBB as Merlin being tied upside down and giving his cute little death prophecies

And I also know that he’s a robot and therefore his hair probably doesn’t grow…

But hear me out…

“Merlin” has been there for likely centuries. And his hair is the only part of him that still grows despite his mechanism. His hair is incredibly long. It pools on the ground below him and makes an unsettling circle around him, nobody dares step on it, even if The Hanged Man is only a statue, they still do not step on his hair as to pay respect (and possibly out of fear of what may come of it).

As Camelot is being consumed by the sun. Brian looks out one of Auroras windows into space, he looks upon the firey ball of destruction taking something he had grown to care about.

And he cuts his hair.

He cuts it shorter than he’s ever worn it since he became mechanized. He always liked it a bit long, but he is consumed by sorrow, and a part of him died that day with Camelot.

So he braids his hair (a young child had once braided a part of his hair. But the braid had fallen out long ago. He still thinks of them, no matter how much it hurts…). And he cuts it with a blade, one he had gotten from Camelot before he was rescued by the others. It’s uneven and scraggly, but he doesn’t care.

Camelot is gone. It is dead. The Hanged Man’s Merlin’s Brian’s hair is cut.

(I’m ignoring that (I think) Brian was thrown into the sun for a bit and then saved. Let’s pretend the others got him out of there right before Camelot went up in flames)

[sickfreaksirkay]

from A Wedding Knight (1966)