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Ist ein bisschen old news aber trotzdem geil

Aus gegebenden Anlass möchte ich an dieses Coldmirror Video erinnern!

(Plus ein Kommentar von mir under dem cut)

Neues Jahr, neue Ladung an schlechten, deutschen Valentinskarten!

Deutsche, schlechte Valentinskarten, anyone?

They’re in love, your honour.

Arthur: Raise your hand if Merlin was your gay awakening

Gwaine, Percival, Lancelot, Elyan, Leon, Morgana, a random servant eavesdropping nearby: *all raise their hands*

Arthur: MORGANA?? But you're a lesbian!

Morgana: And I knew something was up when I didn't want to pull him and his little neckerchief into a broom closet

LETS SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL

BBC Merlin Recs!!

Someone asked me for Merthur recs a while ago, so I figured I’d start a list of various BBC Merlin fics I love!!

These are various different ships and friendships, I’ve tried to keep a little variety, though almost all of them are canon era (there are only a few that aren’t) 😁 Non of them are ridiculously graphic in terms of smut, but there may be the occasional small bits and pieces. Some have very hefty trigger warnings. Always read the tags, kids.

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Merlin episode 5 sketches part 1

Tag list: @saint-raphael-stuff @justgayangelthingz @all-or-nothing-baby @agonyandsweat @blue-eyed-cutiepatootie - Let me know if you wanna be added or removed.

all this talk of vanilla extract is reminding me of this tumblr screenshot classic

thinking about this picture from 1975 taken in san fran on this day period

“Let us put it generally: if a regime is immoral, its citizens are free from all obligations to it.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago.

[Pictured: Captain Pia Klemp sitting in a chair beside her controls.

@VivianAngrisani on Twitter wrote on 6/8/2019: “Pia Klemp, a German biologist & boat captain faces 20 yrs in prison for rescuing 1,000+ migrants at risk of drowning whilst crossing the Mediterranean. Seeking asylum is a human right. Only 1 in 100 sea captains are female. This woman is a humanitarian, not a criminal. #FreePia”

@Galactic_Rabbit quote-tweeted on 6/10/2019 and wrote: “Thinking about all those videos of people honored in their old age for hiding/protecting Jewish people.”]

“they” (1 word) is shorter than “he or she” (3 words)

“they” is more inclusive than “he/she”

“themself” flows more naturally than “him or herself”

“they” is less clunky than “(s)he”

it’s time to replace the awkward “she or he”

doctor who + retro vinyl covers

[ series 1: world war three by the aliens of london // series 3: the sound of drums by smith and jones // series 4: partners in crime by citizen of the earth // series 5: the myth of pandora by amelia // series 8/9: one hell of a bird by the magicians apprentice // series 10: world enough and time by the lie of the land ]

[ playlists ]

Simon had more chemistry with Wilhem’s sweater than with Marcus

HEARTSTOPPER (2022) | YOUNG ROYALS (2021)

Found the best edit I’ve ever seen ohmygod

@/lvfrcptnswns on Twitter

Still collecting the full alphabet of the “live, laugh, love” variants if anyone has some good examples.

Bonus if they can fit the “We can’t ___, _____, ____ our way out of this.”

Hump Day

Something I meant to post LAST Wednesday to make @theresthesnitch smile, but I'm rubbish and it took me a whole week to actually write it

‘Da-dddddddy!’ Sirius opened his eyes just in time to see a small, blue haired whirlwind throw himself across the room and launch himself onto the bed.

‘Ooof!’ Sirius winced as Teddy landed squarely on his stomach.

‘Sorry! I’m sorry!’ Harry appeared, hurrying into the room, scooping Teddy off the bed and swinging him onto his pyjama clad hip. ‘I’ve been trying to keep him out for about an hour. He woke up early.’

‘Woke up early,’ Remus said neutrally, not looking up from the book he was reading, sitting propped up in bed, ‘Or was woken up early, hmm?’

He looked up and raised an eyebrow at Harry, who shifted guiltily, a flush just visible on his dark skin.

‘Erm…’

‘Erm indeed.’

‘What you talking about?’ Sirius sat up too, reaching out to take Teddy back from Harry who looked like he very much wanted to bolt.

‘Your son,’ Remus snapped his book shut, ‘Has been sneaking boys in and out of the house. Again.’

‘I haven’t!’ Harry began protesting. ‘He was just-‘ but he cut off as Teddy’s hair shifted from blue to dark brown and his eyes faded to grey and now it was Sirius’ turn to raise an eyebrow at him.

‘Ugh! Traitor!’ Harry flopped down onto the end of the bed. ‘I can’t believe my baby brothers sold me out.’

‘Harry,’ Sirius tried to chastise, but you could hear the smile, ‘Why? It’s not like we mind.’

‘It was late,’ Harry tipped his head back. ‘We were texting and one thing led to another and-‘

‘Yes, I don’t think we need to hear the end of the that sentence that you very much Haz,’ Remus interjected, kicking his feet and jiggling Harry’s legs.

‘I was going to say we missed each other!’ Harry kicked back. ‘You’ve got such a dirty mind, Da.’

‘Missing each other. Huh.’ Sirius lifted his hands behind his head and leant back against the head board. ‘Is that what the kids are calling it these days?’

Harry rolled his eyes. ‘All we did was sleep, Dad.’

‘Ahh yes, sleep.’ Sirius smirked. ‘Your Da and I do a lot of missing each other and sleeping. Don’t we, darling?’

‘Oh my God Dad, can you not?!’ Harry looked revolted.

‘If you say so dear,’ Remus reached over and patted Sirius leg. Sirius snatched up his wrist and brought it up to him mouth, kissing softly over the veins.

‘No,’ Teddy hijacked the moment, popping up from under the covers. ‘You didn’t sleeped! You said it was hump day! You humped!’

‘Harry!’ Both Remus and Sirius exclaimed and Harry scrambled upright.

‘No!’

‘Harry,’ Sirius said again, ‘You can’t talk about you and Cedric,’ he glanced at Teddy who was looking between them all, a big smile on his face, ‘S-H-A-G-G-I-N-G with Teds around! He’s three!’

‘I know!’ Harry spluttered. ‘I didn’t!’

‘HUMP DAY! HUMP DAY! HUMP DAY!’ Teddy chanted gleefully, bouncing up and down.

‘Well this proves otherwise!’

Harry dragged a hand down his face. ‘This is a fucking nightmare!’

‘For fuck’s sake, Haz!’ Remus had to shout over Teddy. ‘No swearing!’

‘You literally just swore!’

‘What? No I didn’t!’

‘You did, love,’ Sirius said, trying to tug Teddy downwards.

‘Oh for fucks sake!’

‘Moony!’

‘Da!’

‘HUMP DAY! HUMP DAY! HUMP DAY!’

‘Teddy!’ Sirius shouted, ‘Stop!’

Teddy fell silent a moment before saying quickly, ‘Humpday,’ once more.

‘Wednesday,’ Harry said. ‘When Teds asked why Cedric was here I told him it was because it was Wednesday and Wednesday is hump day.’

‘Why would you tell a three year old that, Haz?’ Sirius looked just as confused and affronted as before but Remus let out a noise of comprehension and sunk back into the pillows.

‘It’s a muggle saying,’ he told Sirius. ‘It means you’re halfway through the working week.’

‘No it does not!’ Sirius looked between Remus and Harry. ‘Really?’

‘Yeh,’ Harry said.

Sirius screwed his face up. ‘Merlin, muggles are weird. Sorry, Hazzie,’ he added, ‘I should have listened.’

Harry shrugged, ‘And I should have been quieter when letting Cedric out this morning.’

‘Yes, well,’ Remus began but Harry was quicker.

‘Come on trouble!’ He swung Teddy up off the bed, landed him one little foot on top of each of his own. ‘Why don’t you and me go out for breakfast. What do you say? Some man-on-man time?’

‘YAY!’ Teddy cheered, holding both of Harry’s hands tight and they slowly walked across the room together, Teddy still standing on Harry’s feet.

Remus looked torn between proud and frustrated. ‘It’s a good job you’re the worlds best big brother,’ he called across to Harry, who looked smug as he realised he was about to get away with it.

‘Love you Da!’

Remus huffed good naturedly and next to him Sirius chuckled.

‘Have a good time you two!’ He waved at Teddy who blew him a kiss. ‘Don’t rush back, H. Da and I have got a bit of missing each other to do.’

‘NO!’ Harry slammed the bedroom door shut and Sirius burst out laughing.

‘You’re a menace.’ Remus told him, rolling over onto his side and tugging Sirius down with him.

‘Good.’ Sirius said, resting their foreheads together. ‘Now then, Mr Black. It seems we have the house to ourselves.’

‘That we do,’ Remus inched forwards so their bodies were pressed together.

‘Mmm,’ Sirius rolled his hips, smiling at the audible gasp Remus let escape. ‘How about you and me celebrate Hump Day.’

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Descriptive Writing Tips From a Grumpy Reader

Obligatory disclaimer: writing ‘rules’ are all arbitrary lists of opinions and are nothing more than the personal preferences of the people composing them. These are things that annoy me as one reader in a sea of many (though I think several of them are fairly common annoyances, judging from my conversations with other readers). If you read this list and see that some of it applies to your own writing, it does not mean that you are wrong or a terrible writer; simply that our views on storytelling do not mesh. (Although I am right, and you should listen to me.)

So here are some things I’ve run across rather frequently while reading that make me feel very crotchety. 

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Honestly, the biggest crime the BBC Merlin fandom has ever committed is portraying Merlin as some kind of homely loser nerd who somehow got the popular jock. Merlin is canonically hot. He has fifty boyfriends, plus Mary from the tavern was like, “Arthur who” as soon as she saw those dimples. That boy could get it from anyone he liked. Arthur wishes he could be that sexy while tripping over his own feet. 

Queen <3

the miracle of being here

invitation, mary oliver// @arthoesunshine // when death comes, mary oliver//to be alive, gregory ott// the dead poets society(1989), quote: walden, henry david thoreau// joseph campbell// the aeneid, virgil// @babyangel-jpg // @rawjoy //sweet, charles bukowski// that it will never come again, emily dickinson// bjenny montero// ? // ? // moments, mary oliver// madness a bipolar life, marya hornbacher// wild geese, mary oliver// letters to a young poet, rainer maria rilke// on earth we're briefly gorgeous, ocean voung// @ashstfu // i thought on his desire for three days, linda gregg

Bbc Merlin made two big mistakes.

1) They told a story about a young sorcerer trying to survive in a land where magic is punishable by death. One of his end goals is to legalise magic again. The biggest opposing party in this objective is the tyrant king who started a genocide. This is a very black and white conflict, there is no both-siding this. On the one side you have a mass murderer, on the other side are people who are being killed for existing.

Now the series does establish that Merlin is the good guy and that magic isn't actually evil, but then they go ahead and constantly frame Uther as a guy who is really not that bad. Sure, he killed some people (hundreds or even thousands) - whoopsie. But come on, at least he's trying. And think about Arthur! The emotional comfort of one person is totally worth letting people die for.

At the same time they keep bringing in villain of the week type of characters and like 90% of those are evil magicians who are consumed by their thirst for power and/or revenge or monstrous beasts which are also creatures of magic. They rarely introduce "good" sorcerers or creatures.

To sum it up: They frame the victims of a genocide as evil, almost blaming them for their own plight while making excuses for the people murdering them. It would make sense to explore this part of Camelot's history if the conflict was more complex, but it really isn't that deep. They waste way too much time dragging out this black and white conflict as described above.

2) (Screen)time is being wasted on the wrong conflict, yes, but in my opinion also on the wrong characters.

Arthur's character development is inconsistent at best. He wildly swings back and forth between believing in some magic being good or at least neutral and then condemning all magic as the world's true evil. He learns time and time again to be less arrogant and self-centered and snaps at Merlin again in the very next episode. I enjoy Merlin & Arthur's banter as much as anyone, but if you're not even taking Arthur's character anywhere then why waste so much time there?

Merlin and Arthur as a duo also go through the same dance routine three times a season: Merlin discovers a plot against Arthur, but fears to simply be dismissed if he says anything. Eventually he does say something and, surprise, Arthur reacts dismissive. In the end Arthur learns that Merlin was right all along and he should trust him more. Three episode later Arthur doesn't remember he already learned this lesson, the cycle repeats.

Gaius is important to the story because Merlin needs a dialogue partner to talk about magic. But Gaius also holds Merlin back a lot and keeps him from growing. And so just like Arthur, Merlin doesn't really learn much from his experiences, his life barely changes of the course of 5 seasons. He's still living with Gaius and still relys on him instead of becoming more independent.

So we have four characters / dynamics (Uther, Arthur, Gaius and Merlin) which the show keeps focusing on even though they're not that complicated at all. On the other hand we have side characters that are supposedly important like Gwen and the knights and we know very little about them. It almost seems like they become less important the longer the series goes on, that's not how this works!

You can't say "This is the once and future queen, there are prophecies about her and she's the most important person in Arthur's life" and then she never really does anything! The knights too. Merlin and Gwaine are best friends (kind of), but do we ever see them casually hanging out? Nope. Percival is one of the most famous knights from the myths, yet we only know his name and that his family is dead. How did they die? Who even was his family? Does it mean he lost his parents, did he have a wife? We will never know. There are so many amazing characters they could've included more, but they never did.

So while I love the series in general, these two points really rub me the wrong way.

sirius : moony, can you lend me a hand there ?

remus : for ?

sirius : marriage

Jily and jegulus but make james polyamorous. Like fuck this argument. Why should poor james be forced to choose between his sweet lily and his sweet regulus? Why can't james have both lily and regulus at the same time? Why cant he like them both? Why cant lily and regulus reciprocate james' love for them at the same time? Why cant regulus be a second daddy to baby harry? Why cant james be loved and adored? Explain that to me pls and no idc about canon stuff james has both regulus and lily in my heart and idc if lily and regulus will somehow be incompatible or chaotic with each othet i want jily and jegulus solidarity. Please. Please and thank you for listening to my outrageous gay rampage.

mommy issues