I Tried To Do A Lighting Study, Unsure How It Worked Out But I Wanted To Draw Merlin 🥺

This life is amazing...

Keep rubbing it in, thank you very much.

Arthur Pendragon 💕💕💕💕

(drawn by me- I had to give to the Merlin fandom in some way :) )

He’s a clotpole, but at least he’s pretty 😍

HE IS ALIVE AND WELL AND HIS USUAL KINGLY AND OBLIVIOUS SELF AND WE LOVE HIM FOR IT

anyways that was my arthur appreciation post

I’ve thought abt this merlin edit every day since I’ve seen it. Oh my god.

Arthur’s Love Confession

The word choice for Arthur’s confession is really… interesting. As many people have pointed out, if you remove the pronouns from the conversation, everything Arthur says can be true for Merlin as much as Gwen.

Here’s the thing: I’m a writer. I’ve said this before, and I’ll keep saying it when it comes to posts like this.

If I was writing a love confession from one of my characters, I wouldn’t have what they say be so vague that it would be unclear who they were referring to when taken out of context.

If you showed this conversation to someone who had no idea who these characters were other than a knight and a servant, it would be completely believable that the knight is talking about the servant he’s with.

Hell, Merlin’s reaction to Arthur being unable to say he’s in love and how certain he is that nothing could happen seems a bit strong considering the conversation is about Gwen, not him. He’s her friend and would understandably try to convince Arthur that they could be together, but the dialogue does it in such a round about, vague way before they get to the point. There’s no reason for them to be vague. They both know full well who they’re talking about.

I suppose I have to say this is an opinion of the writing because I can’t claim that the writers did anything with underlying intentions. It’s just seems strange to me how perfectly the description aligns. Even the lines not here could easily have the pronouns swapped and still make sense.

“How can I admit that I think about her (him/you) all the time? Or that I care about her (him/you) more than anyone? How can I admit that I don’t know what I’ll do if any harm comes to her (him/you)?”

It still works. We can’t prove that Arthur thinks about Merlin all the time, but there’s a damn huge amount of evidence that he cares for him deeply and can’t handle him being hurt. Anyone wanting to argue with me on this, go watch The Poisoned Chalice again, which is the FOURTH EPISODE by the way.

Other than that iconic episode, there’s plenty of other things. He doesn’t let Merlin drink the “poison” during the test at the labyrinth. He denies any accusations of him having magic whenever they come up, which is because he genuinely doesn’t believe he has any, but it also has to do with the fact that he would be executed. He always protects him in dangerous situations and tells him to run when things get too dicey. We all know how he acted when Merlin was believed to be dead.

Like I said, it’s weird how well the lines match up. And Arthur looks at him like this before the conversation:

And like this after this conversation:

Maybe I’ve just never had a “true bestie” because I have never looked at someone or had someone look at me like that. Arthur looks so flirtatious in that second gif man.

But anyway! That’s just some thoughts I was having about the love confession!

The first (recorded) chemist of the world was a woman??? making perfume???

This broke my heart.

5 times Merlin almost died and 1 time he didn’t.

Some time after Arthur was reincarnated.

Arthur: reading in the living room

Merlin: Can you help me with the dishes?

Arthur: Yeah wait a sec

Merlin: I did my waiting!

Arthur: not again

Merlin: over 1500 years of it!

Arthur: *facepalms*

Anyone else has the feeling that Merlin was the introvert and Arthur (even if unwillingly) was the extrovert who adopted him? (and so it is with Bradley and Colin???)