I Can't Do This Anymore! I Mean I Can, And I Will, Obviously. But I Can't Fucking Do This Anymore!

bbc merlin - 03x12 The Coming of Arthur, Part I/03x13 The Coming of Arthur, Part II

never gonna be normal about this

Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.

bbc merlin - 03x12 The Coming of Arthur, Part I

grabbing merlin like he wasn't the one waiting for You is actually very funny of arthur

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 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

No matter how much you dislike your own writing, I promise you it’s better than AI

so eddie 👨🏽‍🚒 pays 💵 the tab 🧾 we both 👨🏼‍🤝‍👨🏽 run 🏃💨 out (🏳️‍🌈🤨) to the parking lot 🅿️🚘 and there’s a boot 🔒 on my front tire 🛞 [damn. that sucks.] yeah so— so obviously 🙄 at this point ☝️ i’m like 🗣️ “we’re not 🙅 gonna make ⏱️ the game 🏀” and eddie 👨🏽 goes 🗣️ “where ❓ is your spare 🛞” and i kid 🤭 you not 🚫 five 🖐️minutes ⏰ later the spare is on ✅ we’re driving 🚗 down the road 🛣️ and the old tire 🛞 is sitting on the side of the curb boot 🔒 still on [isn’t that illegal?] what ⁉️ no 🤨 no it’s not 🙅 illegal 🚨 eddie 🤠 would never 🚫 do something illegal 🚔 eddie 🪖 has a silver star 🎖️ [wasn’t he in some kind of underground fight club?] 🙄 that was ages 🗓️ ago and he had a ton of stuff going on 🥺

I cannot believe Merlin spent 10 years at Arthur's side with no plan on how not to be discovered other than "gotta make him question his sexuality so he doesn't notice The Magic"

And I mostly cannot believe that it worked

U CANT MAKE THIS UP 😭