I was watching the episode where Merlin disguised himself as the “dolma” and I was feeling frustrated at Arthur’s lack of concern to Merlin’s whereabouts. It goes against everything we’ve ever seen of him. He never forgets Merlin and he’s never calm when Merlin is in potential danger.
So I was thinking to myself, why? Why would Arthur forget Merlin? And I remembered that, despite being an old woman sorceress, he immediately felt like he knew her somehow. She is everything that Merlin is not (to his knowledge), and yet he somehow knows her. Just like he did with “Dragoon”.
“You seem familiar, sorceress” - Arthur
And as the “dolma” points out he’s forgetting something, he jokes with her the exact way he does with Merlin. “Ah, I thought things had gone unusually smoothly” + other lines. Why would he do that?
Because a part of Arthur knows Merlin is standing right in front of him. He’s unable to recognize that he’s forgetting Merlin, because he can feel that he’s standing right there. He bickers with her because that’s Merlin. She has to explicitly point out that it’s Merlin he’s forgetting, in order for his brain to override his feelings.
Arthur always knew the true Merlin. Even if neither of them knew it.
“I would recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf. I would recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion.” - Recognition
so when straight people ask me why I say I’m “queer” or “gay” instead of sharing my actual identity as a panromantic demisexual non-binary sapphic queer I just tell them “ok look, when you’re talking to someone who isn’t local and they ask you where you’re from and you either say the name of the largest city nearby or ‘town name, suburb of large nearby city’ so they can get some geographical context of where you’re located right, bc they’re probably not going to know the name of the little town you actually live in.”
but if you’re talking to a local you can say the name of your actual town bc they have a greater chance of knowing where/what that is.
ok well when I’m talking to a straight person I start with queer bc chances are they aren’t as familiar with the context of all the little towns in that big queer city and need gps (gay positioning system) to find me.
if I’m talking to another queer person and I say I live in a suburb of gay city in a town called panromantic on the demisexual side of the tracks which is in the county of queer and I live off the intersection of non-binary and sapphic, they’d probably be able to find me with little to no problems, make sense?
when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”
based off this post by @75screamingtoads that made me start watching. as you can see my art gets progressively worse each panel lol
a plot: buddie divorce
b plot: KILL YOURSELF .
“i’m never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm” used to slap so incredibly hard and now the intro to careless whisper just makes me laugh and that is both sad and funny
careless whisper fucks so insanely hard and i will never forgive the internet for making it a "meme song." tonight the music seems so loud i wish that we could lose this crowd maybe its better this way we'd hurt each other with the things we want to say. if you even care.
you guys ever hear a character say something so gay you sitting there trying to figure out how you were supposed to interpret that platonically?!
instead of stiles and lydia kissing when she brought him back, i want stiles to apologize to liam for all his stupid jokes about his IED. bc liam was the one trying anything and everything to get him back to existence, even if that meant bringing theo, the guy who dismantled the pack in the worst way, back. it wasn't theo who helped bringing stiles back at the end, but my point is: liam was willing to go against everyone's opinion just in the hope of bringing stiles back
U CANT MAKE THIS UP 😭
literally everything I have ever wanted from a Merlin episode: merthur, jealous Arthur, Merlin teasing him, shirtless Gwaine, effortless fighting and badass weapon-wielding
The extremely jealous Arthur mentioned in this post, video by @sirleoninsunglasses on tiktok
I wanna push you around
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