I like S24's "badass teenage girls saying incomprehensible yet vaguely menacing things" theme.

STOP APOLOGIZING FOR BEING WEIRD

CONFORMITY IS NOT A VIRTUE, LOVE IS

Merlin is into monster girls pass it on

Even after revealing his magic, helping repeal the ban, and being (unwillingly) made Court Sorcerer, Merlin never tells anyone about Freya. Not in the sense of actively keeping her a secret, but just...not mentioning it. When he's working, then he is working, and even though he's trying to be more honest, he's spent 10 years keeping secrets, so he doesn't just volunteer information. If he's asked, he'll answer, and it'll probably make sense, but it's kind of like trying to pick the right responses in a dialogue tree.

One day, the Round Table knights are out "on patrol" (a.k.a. fucking around in the woods) and a whole woman just. Comes up. Out of the creek they're sitting by. They know she's a sorceress of some kind because a) she walked out of a creek that is knee-deep at most and b) is still completely dry, but Merlin doesn't look surprised to see her, so she must be okay.

She doesn't really acknowledge them beyond a glance and a little nod (it's only been a year, they're working on trust) but she smiles at Merlin and gives him his Sidhe staff ("You left it in the still room. Again."/"Oops?") and says she'll see him for dinner tonight, and then she walks back into the creek and is gone.

The knights have Questions. Who is she, how did she do that, where did she come from, where did she go, why is Merlin leaving his staff in her still room (shut up, Gwaine), why are they having dinner? But they'll have to take baby steps to get there.

Elyan: Who was that?

Merlin, paying maybe ¼ of an attention: Freya.

Percival: And how did she...?

Merlin, tying the staff to his saddle: She's the Lady of the Lake.

Gwaine: And you're having dinner with the Lady of the Lake?

Merlin, unpacking lunch: Mm-hm.

Leon: Why?

Merlin, peeling an apple: Uh, because she's my wife and I like being with her?

The Knights:

Arthur, voice cracking: She's your

W H A T ? !

Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice (2021)

Dir. Zacharias Kunuk

A young shaman must face her first challenge: a journey underground to see Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member fell ill.

I think Gwaine would be totally cool with Merlin having a lake wife btw

"he never expects any praise. all the good things he does and he doesn't expect anything for doing them." and im to believe that gwaine doesnt know about merlins magic

Merlin: I’m incapable of love. I’m a monster, I kill people without hesitation, I lie and keep secrets, people think I’m a drunk, and I’m also actively breaking at least twelve laws at any given moment.

Also Merlin: *makes butterflies and flowers out of his magic, puts on light shows with fire embers and would do literally anything for the people he cares about*

Arthur, Lancelot, Gwaine and many, many others: I am… deeply in love with him.

i don't mean to alarm anyone but i think sir gwaine might be having an illicit love affair with the king's manservant

merwaine thoughts rn

Getting back to serious topics today.

Merlin was not designed to be binge-watched like modern streaming shows. How can I tell? Well, aside from the time period it was made, the stories end up being a bit tonally jarring if you watch them back-to-back.

Like, one episode will be some epic quest with intense emotions, character development and interesting explorations into the themes of friendship and the power of good vs evil.

And then the very next episode is "a leprechaun is singing off-key outside Gwen's bedroom window every night and refuses to leave unless Merlin finds him a date".

Mhh I love my tonal whiplash show

#my friends are begging me on their knees to watch that show with them#this post has finally convinced me to agree#hell yeah get your chips and get ready for emotional whiplash - the series

(via @the-little-fox-in-the-box)

YES! Oh, you're in for such a treat!

"xyz DNI" blocking people is YOUR job, sorry. You cannot ask the world to simply move around you, you have to take control of your online experience or you will be fucking miserable forever. Most people don't read your bio/pinned/carrd before touching the posts that cross their dash anyways.

Also maybe worry less about if someone who likes something you hate clicks on your tumblr post. I promise it is not that fucking serious.

Also-also if you have this DNI because your friends/moots said or implied you have to otherwise you're somehow Bad and/or will be punished by them if you don't, that's kind of fucked and maybe you need less controlling friends.

I know you feel ethically helpless on this bitch of an earth but I promise you, telling people with certain fetishes or god forbid media interests not to interact with your posts is doing less than nothing to make the world any different, but it IS stressing you the fuck out to be worried about if the clicks you get on the internet are coming from someone who likes to imagine The Wrong Fictional Characters kissing.

For the love of god, shipping is not that fucking important. I promise you, whatever the fuck you think you know about someone based on what they ship can be determined by the shit they actually do in the real world about real things that actually happen.

Media consumption is not activism and fandom is not the battleground upon which Ethics And Morals will live or die. It is playing pretend. Please please please get some perspective

Also, I don't know how to say this gently. If you have a long list of people (who you you've never met) that you hate, you're probably not being a very nice person. Like.. please, for a moment, consider what it says about you, when the first thing you introduce yourself with is "Hello! If you like this show (or god forbid like porn of this cartoon pairing or fictional thing) then I never ever want to speak to you or be reminded that you exist"

Like- that is not nice person behavior.

its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000%