Where Merlin is given the opportunity to lead Arthur out of Avalon.
However, if he turns around and looks at Arthur before they reach the surface he forfeits their destiny and Arthur will never return.
Merlin can. He looks straight ahead. He's suffered worse than this for Arthur's sake and he won't throw it away now for a glance. He knows Arthur, he knows he will follow.
Arthur on the other hand ....
He's fresh off the betrayal of a magic reveal. He died in Merlin's arms with so much left unsaid. He follows, of course he does it's Merlin how can he not.
But he's not used to this Merlin. The Merlin that gets shit done, the Merlin that's been defending him and his kingdom for a decade. The cold, calm, ruthless man Merlin has forced himself to be for Arthur's sake.
He NEEDS Merlin to turn around. To flash him that goofy smile that lets Arthur know that despite everything Merlin is still there. His Merlin. Kind and affectionate and trustworthy. Merlin who would cry over the death of a stranger. Merlin who is always by his side.
He doesn't know the Merlin in front of him and he's scared. And maybe he begs Merlin to turn around. Fueled by grief and fear and isolation.
Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.
It's all because, like all other media literacy, art literacy has gone down. People don't know what there is to take into consideration when looking at a painting, much less modern art.
Up until contempary pieces, a work's difficulty/worth was based on how well it could mimic reality. Anyone can look at something and see how much it looks like it could be real. You don't need to know the technique and materials used to know just how much of a masterpiece it is.
But with modern art, it dosent look real, so people don't know how to judge it. They haven't been taught to think about the technique, the porpouse, the intention of a piece.
I went to a professional art school for one year, which I spent the entire year learning how to critique art, and collections of art. I latter went to the Chicago Art Museum with my brother and his girlfriend, neither with any knowledge of art, not even basic color theory. We found our way to the contemporary section, where they asked me to explain what I got from the paintings. At the time I thought they were sorta joking, but later they said it was nice hearing my thoughts, cause they wouldn't have any clue about any of it.
So it's not that people don't understand modern art, it that they were never taught on how to understand art at all.
abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn't be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao