#sws bbc merlin

[gorillawithautism]

my tags part two

system tags

not all posts from or about certain headmates will be tagged. we reserve our right to relative anonymity :) pronouns for individuals will be included if they allow it

sws bear - bear uses he/him

sws matthew - matthew uses he/him (and specifically requests no nicknames)

sws lyri - lyri use song/songs (close friends may use she/her)

sws little - you don't get to know the littles

sws korus - korus uses he/him

sws otis - otis (also otie/oatey/oatie) uses he/him

sws lilah - lilah uses she/her

sws lydia - lydia uses she/her

sws molly - molly/myolly uses she/her or any cat-related neopronouns

sws demnos - demnos is pretty new so i'm not sure about pronouns but so far it seems he/him is good

sws sos - posts from/about any of the sea of stars fictives

sws resh'an - resh'an uses he/they at the moment

sws zale - zale uses he/him

sws valere - valere uses she/her

sws garl - garl uses he/him

sws seraï - seraï uses she/they (never it/its)

sws b'st - b'st uses he/it

sws bbc merlin - posts from/about the bbc merlin fictives

sws merlin - merlin uses she/him

sws arthur- arthur uses he/him

sws pkmn - posts from/about the pokemon fictives

sws darkrai - darkrai uses it/he (it/its preferred)

sws staravia - staravia uses it/he (its more used to it/its but otherwise doesn't really care that much)

note: both staravia and darkrai are introjects from pokemon: rise of darkrai. this is important to their identities and they felt the desire to share

sws madame hell - madame hell uses she/her or anything that denotes superiority (bonus points for connotations of evilness)

[livelyhappenings]

"Local girl acquires new hyper fixation and her ao3 fic count reach an all time high."

[lenoreamidala]

some favorite hand holding in media 🥰

attack of the clones, 2002 persuasion, 1995 titanic, 1997 the rise of skywalker, 2019 outlander, 2014-present rogue one, 2016 romeo and juliet, 1968 merlin, 2008-2012 pride and prejudice, 2005 prisoner of azkaban, 2004

[twinkpoll]

Merlin vs Howl:

Link vs Luke:

[forcenexus]

           𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐋 𝐈𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐈 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖                        𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍

𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐊𝐘𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐄𝐑 (𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐍 𝐎𝐍𝐄)

LIGHTSIDE AU! / ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE Highly Selective & Private Anakin Skywalker for Star Wars, Modern / Marvel, Arthurian Legends & More. Heavily Headcanon Based. Sequel and EU-friendly. (medium to low activity) ⤷ Remembered by Emrys, 30+ They / Them

[marlinspirkhall]

At first glance, most of The Clone Wars feels like it should undo Anakin's villain arc, aside from That Time Obi Wan Faked His Death, that would've made me turn evil too

[destincd]

I don't want to be just one thing. I can't be. I want to be brave, and I want to be selfless, intelligent, and honest and kind.

𝐒𝐄𝐓𝐇 𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐎 (𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑)

EU, CANON & SEQUELS COMPLIANT / ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSES. Highly Selective Original Character Blog for Star Wars & more. Canon, EU, and Sequel Friendly. (high to low activity) ⤷ Remembered by Emrys, 30+ They / Them

[piedalchemist]

M&M

I used the Arcane filter on Morgana so that she would match Maul's animation style... and I thought Katie McGrath couldn't look prettier. <3

[stellacendia]

Apparently I've developed a habit of stumbling across a really good fic for a fandom I'm not really in and then getting thoroughly sucked into it entirely through fic

[gorillawithautism]

i have mixed feelings about this merlin stuff but mostly i'm hoping everyone is just overreacting and they're not trying to bring it back

[friendlyneighbourhoodelf]

rules: make a poll of your favourite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most!

tagged by @nobie <3

no pressure tags - @anakachow @koisplash @tapemonkey21 @cookiemonsterv3

[pessimisticpigeonsworld]

The Loss of Magic in Adaptations

I've noticed that in a lot of media (TV shows, movies, some books) it's such a popular trend to end the story by removing the magic or supernatural elements. Now in movies like HTTYD this is played as a separation for the betterment of both the magical (the dragons) and the normal, but they are still able to interact at times. Others, like BBC's Merlin, have the loss of magic as a tragedy or a consequence of the character's actions. Yet others, like LOTR, simply have it as a sign of a shift to a new age. All of these examples I don't have an issue with, the ones I do are when the loss of magic creates plot holes, messes up character arcs, and rewriting the world building. What I'm going to focus on in this post are the decision to remove magic and the supernatural from Game of Thrones and the Star Wars franchise.

The first example I'll give is Game of Thrones. The AOIAF books are full of magic, from glass candles to forest witches to ice zombies and dragons. In the adaptation, the show runners made the decision to remove most of the magical elements. This decision not only removes major plot points, it also takes away from the characters themselves. For example, Euron Greyjoy from the books possesses a dragon binder of Old Valyria, is going to Old Town to take the magic glass candles from the Citadel, and wants to bring about the apocalypse. In the show, since they took away the magical elements of his story, he is simply a man who wants power and a good fuck. He is completely undermined as a character and turned into an ineffective villain. Another example is the character Quaithe. She is a shadowbinder from Asshai who visits Daenerys through visions throughout the series and encourages her to visit Asshai. She has been set up as important to the future of Daenerys' character and her future with the dragons. In the show, however, she is reduced to saying a single line to Jorah in one episode about how Daenerys needs protection in Qarth. Speaking of Qarth, GOT completely removed Daenerys' prophetic visions in the House of the Undying, basically removing a major part of her Qarth storyline. These decisions among many others negatively impact the show and it was only done to appeal to "normal" people in the audience (ie, non fantasy nerds).

Star Wars is another franchise that suffers from some kind of distaste for supernatural elements. Star Wars is not usually thought of as a magical, but let's be real here, the Force functions as a magical system and it is a supernatural element, so I'm counting it. Dave Filoni has done a lot to pull SW back into the very supernatural story it was in the original and prequel trilogies, with the focus on the Force and Force-users in the Clone Wars, Rebels, and Ahsoka shows. However, this seems kind of pointless because of the sequel trilogy. I've done a post on this, where I basically said that the sequel trilogy makes the world building Filoni is doing kind of obsolete. I won't rehash that here, instead I'm going to talk about how the force itself is portrayed. At the time of the sequels, the Force has returned to turmoil despite Anakin's sacrifice. The Jedi are all but extinct and the sith are rising again. By the end, Rey has decided the Jedi must stay gone and the galaxy is left with a massive power vacuum after the fall of the New Republic and the First Order. The Jedi are meant to be protectors of the balance of the Force, clearly they lost sight of that during the Old Republic and Luke in the sequels has also failed. Yes, perhaps the Jedi as a name or religion should fall, but their ultimate goal is still proven to be necessary. Yet, there is no set up for a continuation of that goal; Finn is not training his abilities, nor does he seem to want to and Rey agrees the Jedi should be gone but there is no conversation about what should happen now. There is also a clear lack of the Force in the galaxy. In the original trilogy, this is explained by the Empire's efforts to take force sensitive children and turn them into Inquisitors as well as it's goal of suppressing powers that could oppose them. Yet there is no growth of the Force now that it is rebalanced and unsuppressed. It's fading, just like magic in stories like LOTR, but the Force is meant to be an all-encompassing thing that extends beyond just Force sensitive creatures. Therefore, making it so the Force is fading into obscurity is rewriting what is supposed to be a concrete truth of the franchise.

There are other examples of this desire to remove magic (and magic adjacent things) from media. Like taking the inherent magic surrounding the elves in Rings of Power and removing the elves and dwarves from the Eragon movie. There's nothing wrong with magic and the supernatural, especially when it's such an integral part of the story.

[bestmothertournament]

[nyxi-pixie]

🎶✨️when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favourite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)🎶✨️

OMG HEY BESTIE im so sorry im late i left this half finished in my drafts and then forgot abt it 😁👍

1. the bond of sacrifice (from the bbc merlin soundtrack🤩🤩🤩 banger🤩🤩🤩🤩 had it on repeat for 5 days now🤩🤩🤩 going insane🤩🤩)

2. follow you by bmth (AHDJAIGKWG<- my thoughts on this song)

3. all my heart by sws

4. pale blue eyes by tvu

5. kyoto by phoebe bridgers (all the versions slay but SPECIFICALLY the copycar killer version<333)

[the-bookwyrm]

Here are a list of my general fandoms with the tag I use for them, in case you'd like to blacklist any of them, or just get a quick glance at what I'm into!

I can't promise to get all of them lol, but here's a good attempt!

And if you want to look at any of these in particular, plug them in after https://the-bookwyrm.tumblr.com/tagged/

General tags:

Art (all non fanart art)

BOOKS (posts about books in general)

Fandom (stuff about fandoms in general)

Fanart (art for all fandoms)

Ficlet (my general tag for all writing and fics and whatnot)

Meta (meta for all fandoms)

Fandom tags:

Assassin's Creed (all) - ac At the Feet of the Sun - atfots Avatar: The Last Airbender - atla Batman related things - batfam BBC Merlin - merlin Breath of the Wild - botw Chronicles of Narnia - con Circle of Magic Books (all) - com Danny Phantom - dp DC Comics - dc Dead Boy Detectives - dbda Discworld Books (all) - Discworld Doctor Who - dw Dragon Age (all) - da Dragon Age 2 - da2 Dragon Age: Inquisition - dai Dragon Age: Origins - dao Dropout Game Changer - game changer Dropout shows in general - dropout Dune - dune Everything Everywhere All At Once - eeaao Fallout (all) - fo Fallout New Vegas - fnv Fallout 4 -fo4 Fullmetal Alchemist - fma Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - fmms Good Omens - go Gravity Falls - gf Hands of the Emperor - hote Heaven Official's Blessing - hob Horizon Forbidden West - hfw Horizon Games - horizon Horizon Zero Dawn - hzd Howl's Moving Castle - hmc Justice League, Justice League Unlimited - jl/u Legend of Zelda (in general) - loz Lord of the Rings - lotr Mad Max Fury Road - mmfr Mass Effect - mass effect Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries - mfmm MXTX Books (all) - mxtx Nine Worlds Books (all) - nine worlds Oxenfree - oxenfree Percy Jackson Books (all) - pjo Phineas and Ferb - pnf Pride and Prejudice - p&p Protector of the Small Series - pots Pushing Daisies - pd Russian Doll - rd Sandman - sandman Scum Villain's Self Saving Service - sv Shakespeare - shakespeare She-Ra: Princesses of Power - spop Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse - atsv Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse - sits Spidervese Movies (in general) - spiderverse ST Deep Space Nine - ds9 ST The Next Generation - tng ST The Original Series - tos ST Voyager - voy Star Trek (all) - st Star Wars - sw Stardew Valley - sdv Steven Universe - su The Adventure Zone - taz The Adventure Zone: Balance - tazb The Goblin Emperor - tge The Good Place - tgp The Hobbit - hobbit The Hunger Games - thg The McElroys (in general) - mcelroys The Murderbot Diaries - mbd The Old Guard - tog The Untamed - tu Tomb Raider (all) - tr Tortall Books (all) - tortall Undertale - ut (Complaining about) Harry Potter - hp crit

[spider-droid]

Thanks for tagging me, @invaders-forever :)

Last Song Listened to: Horseradish, by Small Fools

Last Book Read: Hamlet, for my english class. My professor has so many good opinions about ophelia....

Last Film: Me and the homies watched the VelociPastor last week. Highly recommend.

Last TV Show: I am slowly, painfully making my way through BBC Merlin. I'm terrible at watching tv, and have been watching it at a rate of about 1 episode/2 weeks.

Last Video Game: I played so much Hades during my spring break, I'm extremely excited for the second game.

Last Thing Googled: fast pre-equilibrium approximation :( I have a chem midterm tomorrow :(

Last Thing Ate: 🍪

Sweet Savory or Spicy: sweet

Amount of Sleep: Like 7 1/2? Somehow not enough

Currently Reading: Le Morte d'Arthur, and unfortunately SW Old Republic: Annihilation by Drew Karpyshyn, which is somehow worse than his Revan book.

Currently Watching: The organic chemistry tutor and kahn academy lol

Tagging @yike-a-hooty @livsy but absolutely no pressure if you don't want to!