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brawltogethernow · 3 years

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I suppose the next step then is "BBC Merlin but it's SpideyTorch"

Oh my god. TEACHER, TEACHER, SHE’S TARGETING ME okay okay uh.

Peter, secret warlock, goes to Camelot with his mother figure, May, who does not know about the warlock thing because it kicked in when he was a teenager and they both strategically decline to tell each other things. Gaius is Reed, who was the court sorcerer and is now the court scientist. (He’s not an old man except spiritually where he has been a senile professor since he was 19.) He literally didn’t change anything he was doing, considering science and magic as different points on one spectrum anyway-- No. That’s Doom’s schtick. DOOM was the court sorcerer, and was fired. He is upset about it. Reed is just a science guy but worked extensively with Victor, so he’s kind of useful, but not as useful as Peter was hoping.

I know very little about Sue and Johnny’s dad except that he’s a supervillain who...faked his death, revealed himself, and then died for real like 12 hours later? Did he also fake his wife’s death at some point? Would he do a mad king magic ban thing? Idk but for plot purposes we’ll say yes. They conveniently already share Arthur’s dead mom syndrome. Maybe their aunt whose name is different depending on what issue you’re reading is also here just to convolute the court drama. Wait no didn’t Arthur have a shady uncle show up after like five seasons. She.

Peter is very talented at finicky, specific magical formulas. (Reed: :) )But in practice he really prefers to just slam out a big wave of power, and if that doesn’t solve the problem, repeat until it does. (Reed: :( ) He gives this a go at the beginning of sorting out any problem, like restarting your glitching computer, and if it doesn’t work the problem is complicated enough to be an episode plot.

So obviously I’m still gonna do secret identity shit? Peter saves the young prince and heir’s life and is rewarded with a second job; he only came here for job reasons and you’re all lucky he doesn’t turn down paying jobs otherwise he’d be having some words with the king. Peter also accidentally becomes a masked vigilante out in the town. His very existence is illegal because he’s obviously doing magic! They keep sending his boss out to hunt him down, and their eyes are always locking dramatically and shit in brief silent stare-offs from opposite ends of the street in thunder storms at sunset until Johnny’s horse rears and breaks the eye contact causing Peter to snap out of it and flee. You know how it is.

Sue is older than Johnny and thus older than the magic ban, so she responded to it by going “:) That’s nice, Dad” and socking away a bunch of books before they could go on the fire, and now she’s just a sorceress on the dl. This is approx. a first season finale reveal, because her real superpower is being able to keep her mouth the hell shut. I literally cannot with how nobody in Merlin ever exchanges information, so shortly after Peter and Reed learn this they exchange secrets, like sane people, which opens up their resources a bit.

That said Sue is an extra legitimate royal, not the Morgana equivalent. Maybe Gwen should be Gwen, especially since I have thought Gwen/Johnny/Peter has potential since reading Spider-Man/Fantastic Four (which if you read an earlier ask, I recommend if you want to see new art of Gwen being mean in hair clips). But Peter/Gwen and Merlin/Freya are like...same energy except the latter wasn’t as well done. And Merlin’s Guinevere honestly more reminds me of Betty. Morgana--

(wheeze)

(cough)

Okay I thought this trying to reconcile as much of the cast as possible and I now can’t unthink it so. The king’s ward is Dorrie Evans. Yes she goes nebulously sapphic evil witch queen. Sure she was an unpleasant teenager and readers hate her, but you know what, I’ll simp, whatever. Let Dorrie poison some people. In a cape. This feels natural to me. Also Betty Brant and Dorrie Evans???? Betty/Dorrie vibes???? I guess!!!!

So like. The thing where Arthur gets mystically whammied by love potions once a month, except also Johnny’s normal relationship-anticipating giddiness happening organically mixed in, the part before he actually starts dating someone and becomes immediately depressed. Peter is in the bg sarcastically dismissing magical incidents saying he can’t even tell the difference, and Reed is like 😬 Please Check Anyway. Peter’s not, haha, Peter’s not jealous, Johnny is just an idiot, and, okay maybe Peter is a little jealous! But it doesn’t matter because the prince is going to marry some noble and--

Reed: Prince Johnathan is a bit like a little brother to me, so Please Stop Telling Me About Your Problems.

Reed/Sue is reciprocated but on permanent hold for class reasons. Spideytorch is in the same boat except they’re also stupid and working it out by dating their way through the whole country, except Peter is actually into that and Johnny is not.

The dragon is...Ezekiel?????? That’s the right level of wise wry mentor who’s very shady and will kill you, so he’s a dragon now. And when he tells Peter he’s the (other) chosen one, Peter full stop doesn’t believe him. This disbelief goes on extensively. Peter is not a fate-oriented person. Johnny would love to hear about the fate thing, but no one will tell him.

Literally I’m just going to add more chronologically unmoored medievalish shit to Merlin now to cram more of the cast in. There’s some kind of town crier/herald outfit, and Jonah is their boss. He’s just out in the road yelling sometimes even though he can delegate that. The buglers otherwise known as Bugle staff named Peter’s vigilante persona the Spider, which was supposed to sound menacing but is in practice also cool. This is out-of-universe fairly equivalent to Merlin’s real name as a neat two-syllable animal word and possible title. In-universe maybe I’d elbow out Emrys and just use this. Merlin is already very servants-don’t-work-like-that, so Betty just also has two jobs for no reason so she can knock elbows with them.

MJ is the court jester and knows absolutely everything, which is a dramatic mid-game reveal that isn’t exactly foreshadowed so much as always possible while carefully obscured from the viewer (the reader). Before this she’s already a Wise Fool, Shakespeare-ways archetype character, it’s just not clear how much. She is the most important character in Homestuck Merlin Spider.

Every ship is real for at least 30 seconds. Most of the extended FF cast are either magical antagonists or weird nobles.

Ben????? (Grimm, I mean. Ben Parker is dead. Ben Reilly is a recurring episodic plot.) This show was painfully formulaic and would simply not keep someone with any version of his deal in the main cast, but he’s a full quarter of the FF so. A magical accident approximated his rock body deal. Maybe specifically tying him to ~the magic of the land~. And then, uh. Wandering the country is too satellite-like. Hiding out in a forbidden castle wing is interesting but doesn’t do him justice. So I guess it’s a come and go semivoluntary transformation thing that’s kept secret? Rock werewolf. Were-rock. Good opportunity to fake out like you’re going to do a monster of the week plot, and then he contributes to the tension to abolish the magic ban.

Knights?? Wyatt is there from the beginning, being tall and reassuring (holding a sword edition). Not sure how him or his immediate ancestors got to Europe and then ended up this involved with the local nobility, but it was probably exciting. And Flash, or he’s an early addition. Either way he’s from the same village as Peter and is approximately White’s Kay, except directed at the wizard instead of the future king, and otherwise you can completely superimpose their comic dynamic including the fanboying over the secret identity angle, which is entertainingly seditious. ...Others. I don’t know enough FF characters for this. I’ve accidentally implied the eventual addition of Bennet Brant, but his evil sorcerer of the week energy is very strong, so maybe not. Randy eventually because I already implied the Robertsons and can see it.

This is so long, covers nothing, and explains none of the namechecks. Using both these characters’ franchises in one fusion is too much stuff. I keep not talking about the core relationship because it’s just. Like That. I don’t feel like I need to elaborate on the Merthur dynamic, even transposed on a different ship. It’s Just Like That.

#merlin #spiderman #fantastic four #spideytorch #bbc merlin #spidey #ff #marvel #phoenixyfriend #asks answered

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onceandfuturehimbo · 3 years

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I have been tagged by @winterfrosted to pick 5 of my favorites creations and tell you something behind the creative process 💛

as always I'll add the obligatory keep reading to save you from the long ass post this will inevitably turn out to be because ✨I literally can't stop talking✨

so, in no particular order:

this the queen's gambit edit I wouldn't say I'm particularly good at coloring gifs, usually the opposite actually 😂 but I'm quite proud of how the colors in most of the gifs in this set turned out. As a redhead myself, I know the best color combo for red/orange hair is green because it looks amazing, and the execution ended up looking even better than I thought. I even saved a screenshot of the before and after of the first one because I liked it so much. tbh you never realize how dull and dark movies/shows are until you try to gif them 😳

this mazikeen edit The way I fought with davinci resolve for an entire day just to get that text effect. It's been a week and to this day I still don't understand what I did to get it to look like that, I have not been able to replicate it even after tracing back all my steps and at this point I probably never will 😭 my leading theory is that I clicked so much random shit to try and get it that the program took pity on me and did it by itself because otherwise it makes no sense. Other than suffering over the text and other davinci woes, I thought it'd be cool to do the dc comics parallel with the scene in which she's wearing her og mask, and I love that color scheme for her 😩👌

this merthur x shawn mendes lyrics set while I don't think the entire ensemble of gifs work particularly well together (all my gifsets 🤝 being incohesive af), I actually really like them individually! The blending is a huuuge improvement compared to a couple months ago when I was first starting out giffing. It was also the first time I tried working with a bigger size, almost square instead of the usual rectangular, and I don't think I did that bad of a job tbh.

this star wars edit I actually don't like how the first gif turned out, it looked much metter in my head but I think the rest of the set is pretty cool. This was my first time ever giffing star wars, and that scene isn't the easiest, what with all the red. I like the font I used, surprisingly enough. And also I'm quite proud of the blending in the anakin gif in particular 😍 (I may be biased bc I love anakin though, who knows)

this bbc merlin + nature set my first attempt at unnatural coloring, also I'm obsessed with shots of tiny people completely immersed in nature in general. All in all it's very calming to look at, I like how it turned out.

I'm tagging (no pressure of course!!) @mxrisacoulter @mouffetard @camelotsheart @screenwritr @arthurpendragonns @ughmerlin @witchmd13

#thanks for the tag!! 💕#@ mels you tagged me in the gif coloring split thing but I delete all my stuff to make space as soon as I finish giffing #so I got nothing lmaoo #best I can do is that before and after screenshot I included so consider that my post for the tag game #I did another one of these at the end of 2020 which was your 5 fave creations in 2020 #so I didn't include any I already mentioned in that one #these are all from 2021 #you can find the other under #my edits masterpost #tag game

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merthurkissfest · 4 years

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Week 4: Winter Kisses ❄️☃️🎄🧤🧥

The Merlin/Arthur Kiss Fest 2019 aka the Denial of Arthur’s Death 2019 is IN ITS LAST OFFICIAL WEEK!

We hope the rest of the weeks went well! There’s already more than 30 (THIRTY) fantastic works created for the fest, posted both on AO3 and Tumblr! Thank you so much! Don’t forget to go through them all and leave love where you can! Comments and reblogs make everyone’s days!

This week, lasting from Jan 14 to Jan 20, is all about Winter Kisses.

FINALLY.

Will you go literal or metaphorical? ’Tis the time to post all the Northern-Hemisphere Christmas works your shameless mod @arthur-of-the-pendragons didn’t let you post when it was actually Christmas! What about winter sports creations? Ski injuries leading to some lovely h/c? Something featuring everyone’s favourite Huddling For Warmth trope?

Winter can be the heartbreaking end of a blossoming relationship, with slow, sad kisses before the separation. (It’s also the season in which we saw Arthur not die after not confessing his love to Merlin.) However, winter is also the dark before the dawn! The frost cover through which spring shoots, new hopes, break to reach the sun. Very appropriate season/metaphor for, say, a slowly-repairing relationship after a confession of magic gone bad, with kisses swearing fealty on the back of the hand, or a cheek kiss since more intimate contact may not be welcome anymore (OF COURSE IT’S WELCOME).

We hope you’ve had a fun time creating for the prompt! Were you also inspired by any of the numerous prompts we’ve received so far? (If you haven’t yet begun writing/art-ing/gif-ing/creating, it’s not too late!)

Please post your work wherever you like (but please let us know so we can feature it here!)!

We think it’d be fantastic if you added it to the AO3 collection for the fest, too.

There’s also an anonymous collection for those wishing to keep their identities hidden!

In case you’re posting your creation to Tumblr, please tag @merthurkissfest (but do let us know via an ask or submission that you’ve posted your work here, since Tumblr’s tagging system is spotty and often unreliable. You can also tag your post with “merthur kiss fest 2019”, “merthur kiss fest 2019 winter kisses”, or just “merthur kiss fest”.

Entries for Winter Kisses must be posted in the time period specified above, but don’t worry if you can’t make it before the deadline;

WE HAVE AN AMNESTY WEEK, FROM JAN 21 to JAN 27. There will be a new, separate post about it.

HAPPY CREATING ♥️

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#merthur #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur kiss fest 2019 #merthur kiss fest promo #merthur kiss fest 2019 winter kisses

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