#bbc merlin finale

[sibbydoo]

It is December at last, and I remember your words. “Thank you,” you said to me, and perhaps I should have known then; to take it and let you go. Maybe if I had, all those years ago, I would not be so miserable now. It is December at last, and I stand by the lake; still, you are not here. And somehow… I understand.

It is indeed December. Y’all know what that means!!

(Pain. Nothing but pain)

I had to make a tribute to the finale for once. I have no excuse as to why I ignored the past few anniversaries, but this year felt right, somehow. Like letting things go, like hoping again. Even if things can feel a lot more hopeless. Consider this piece a vent of sorts, but projected toward a fandom that kills and heals me constantly.

I hope you guys enjoy your holidays! Stay safe, stay warm. Always hope.

-Jack 🌻

#sibbyart #fanart #my art #illustration #sketch #art #artists on tumblr #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #merlin and arthur #merlin ambrosius #bbc merlin fanart #bbc merlin finale #diamond of the day #merlin x arthur #painting #tumblr artist #clotpole #poetry

[howdoidothiss-blog]

Who gave Taylor the right to drop a Merlin song at 2am 🤨🤨🤨🤨 “THE PROPHECY” 🤨 I bet

YALL:

“Please

I've been on my knees

Change the prophecy

Don't want money

Just someone who wants company

Let it once be me

Who do I have to speak to?

About if they can redo

The prophecy?

But even statues crumble if they're made to wait

I'm so afraid I sealed my fate

No sign of soulmates

I'm just a paperweight

In shades of greige

Spendin' my last coin so someone will tell me

It'll be okay”

🕳🚶🏻‍♀️

#bbc merlin #merthur #the prophecy #taylor swift #the tourtured poets department #arthur pendragon #bbc Merlin finale #wtf #:( #it’s 4am and I’m going insane

[boatinglicense15]

The beauty of the Merlin fandom is certainly their resilience, their stubbornness- they just won't let Merlin BBC die, even though it's been over a decade since the finale aired. Why? Because the ending was so traumatic, how the INTENSE queerbaiting was never resolved, how there were so many ways things could have (and should have) gone differently. I understand that people wish for perfection in canon, but I can't imagine a better Merlin fandom than this, where we write what we feel is missing and enrich the fandom so much- far more than we would have if there were a happy ending. So, long live Merlin, and to the fandom.

#merlin bbc #bbc merlin #merthur #merlin fandom #it's just so beautiful #long live merlin #bbc merlin finale #season 5

[taylorswiftsongs4mypookies]

🚨🚨🗣🗣🗣🗣 Alright it’s Merlin’s turn: THIS LOVE BY TAYLOR SWIFT AS MERLIN 🗣🗣🗣🗣🚨🚨🚨🚨

y’all YALL

“Clear blue water

High tide came and brought you in

And I could go on and on, on and on, and I will

Skies grew darker

Currents swept you out again

And you were just gone and gone, gone and gone”

(🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲)

“This love is good

This love is bad

This love is alive back from the dead, oh, oh, oh

These hands had to let it go free, and

This love came back to me, oh, oh, oh

This love left a permanent mark

This love is glowing in the dark, oh, oh, oh

These hands had to let it go free, and

This love came back to me, oh, oh, oh”

(THE FINALE OF IT ALL!???? 🤠)

“Your smile, my ghost

I fell to my knees

When you're young, you just run

But you come back to what you need”

(Speaking of falling to knees 🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️)

#bbc merlin #merthur #bbc Merlin finale #bbc Merlin ending #taylor swift #this love #arthur pendragon #ouch #this is as much as I can think about the finale without getting upset #at least it’s a hopeful outlook

[thebiballerina]

BBC Merlin fandom on December 24th, 2022: It has been ten years since the finale. 😭 Remember when they crushed our dreams and tore out our hearts? 💔 Every fanwork you see will evoke 13 repressed feelings and make you yearn for a future you'll never behold. That finale hurt me like nothing else. I still can't believe that happened! 😫

Leverage fandom on December 25th, 2022: It has been ten years since the finale! 😄 Remember when they not only fulfilled, but exceeded, our hopes for the conclusion? ❤️ Let's celebrate the way we saw five seasons of character development draw together beautifully. That finale impressed me like nothing else. I still can't believe that happened! 😍

Where are my besties in both fandoms who have enjoyed the whiplash with me? 😘

Also, there have got to be at least a few people who experienced both these finales in real time, and wherever you may be, please tell me what that was like. I beg of you.

#leverage #leverage tv #bbc merlin #merlin bbc #leverage finale #the long goodbye job #the diamond of the day part 2 #bbc merlin finale #anniversaries #multifandom #fandom experience

[franzis-frantic-thoughts]

This is it, folks. Happy Christmas, the BBC way.

S05E12&13 — The Diamond of the Day Part 1 & 2

Merlin finds himself facing the future he's fought so long to avoid.

With Arthur's forces outnumbered, Merlin arrives in his guise as the aged sorcerer to defeat Morgana's army with magic. Arthur kills Mordred but is wounded and rescued by Merlin, who reveals that he is a wizard. Arthur is initially hostile but, advised by Gaius, allows Merlin to take him to the healing lake of Avalon. On the journey, Arthur comes to appreciate everything Merlin has ever done for him and eyes him with a new respect, even softening in his attitude to magic, but Morgana is pursuing them. Can they make it to Avalon ahead of her?

#bbc merlin #merlin rewatch 2023 #bbc merlin s05e12 #bbc merlin s05e13 #bbc merlin finale #it was a pleasure rewatching with you.

[devotedwaywardangel1]

I can't believe it's been 10 whole years since Merlin ended. I was 10 when this show ended I watched it with my parents in my Pjs waiting for Christmas day. And now I've nearly completed my degree, applying for a master's, and work a part-time job and I'm still obsessed with this show and in 6 years it would be 20 years when the first episode aired.

And I will still be obsessed with this show

#bbc merlin #bbc merlin finale #bbc merlin anniversary #merlin 10th anniversary

[magicomens]

How to make Merlin's fight or flight instinct kick in

First >> Prev >> Next

#bbc merlin #good omens #magic omens au #aziraphale #merlin #comic #art #aziracrow #merthur #talking about boys at slumber parties is for girls #talking about boys while you're going to talk to a dragon is for [REDACTED] #also yall I didn't make up Merlin's outfit it's what he wears in the final scene!!

[buumbaby]

hello have a sparkle boy

#merlin #time to start posting my hoard of merlin and merthur art #sorry i forget tumblr exists im coming back now #merlin fandom come hither #i only watched the finale on september 3rd after putting it off for 3 years pls i need you #also if you need more merlin art then follow lauravian too hehe #dont tell her i sent you its a secret between us #if youre reading all these ty i hope its funny #bbc merlin #merlin bbc #merlin fandom #illustration #merlin art #merthur #colin morgan

[abisalli]

well, he actually IS a knight in shining armour

#merthur #bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin fanart #my art #digital art #I just went through my drafts and want to let you all know that this Merlin resurgence has been happening since april #it's just now that I finally have the time to do some art

[thefabledpheasant]

The finale to Merlin is devastating, but you know what kills me? The tiny glimpse the episode gives us as to the banter we could’ve gotten if we had an earlier magic reveal:

Arthur is dying. And yet he gets this incredibly fond look on his face when remembering the day they first met.

Arthur is dying. And yet he looks at Merlin, the person who’s only just revealed his decade long lie regarding this thing that Arthur’s been raised to hate, and he jokes that Merlin cheated during their first meeting.

Arthur is dying. And he doesn’t really care that Merlin has magic. Only that he lied to him.

Can you imagine all the other moments of banter we could have had as Arthur found out all the other things Merlin did? How he didn’t really know how to juggle and that Arthur had a donkey voice for a bit because Merlin allowed it?

#do you see the smile Arthur is holding back in the first gif?? #the would bicker and then laugh and then kiss #this whole episode is unbelievably romantic #bbc merlin #merlin bbc #arthur pendragon #merlin #merlin x arthur #merthur #arthur x merlin #merlin meta #merlin emrys #merlin finale #merlin 5x13 #mine #diamon of the day #merlin s5 #5x13

[artchael]

LONG LIVE THE QUEEN acrylic on canvas paper, 2024

#SHE'S FINALLY DONE #bbc gwen #merlin fanart #merlin #bbc's merlin #bbc guinevere #angel coulby #bbc gwen art #guinevere pendragon #queen guinevere #merlin art #merlin bbc #artwork #portrait art #portraiture #artists on tumblr #traditional art #traditional media #acrylic painting

[counting-stars-gayly]

Sometimes, I think about how Merlin purposefully turned Arthur against magic twice—the first time to save his soul and the second to save his life—so when he finally told Arthur he was a sorcerer, it was the ultimate bamboozle.

“How could the bumbling idiot I’ve known all these years have been my greatest protector the whole time?” Yeah, sure. But also: “How could a sorcerer have chosen me over magic? Over his own freedom and the freedom of those like him? Over the gods who created him and the religion that saves him?” It’s one thing to die for someone and another thing entirely to give up who you are for them.

Obviously, Merlin was wrong, and that’s why playing God had an effect opposite to what he’d intended. But I think it’s so interesting to consider how Arthur might have viewed this confession. He was betrayed by Morgana because she loved herself more than her own brother and betrayed by Uther because he loved himself more than his own son. And all of this while Merlin, at first, fell in love with the cause and, then, even more with the man behind it. His loyalty to and love for Arthur was so pure it turned sinful, and I don’t think Arthur would have ever gotten over that. If he hadn’t died.

#there’s something so hozier about this it’s killing me #anyway #I’d forgotten this was in my drafts and…March Me was going through it I think #bbc merlin #Merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #merthur angst #Merlin season 5 #Merlin s5 #merlin 5x13 #merlin finale #Merlin magic reveal

[echoesofcamelot]

Friendly reminder that this conversation takes place in 01x03:

Note:

The ambiguity of his response to Morgana.

His choice of words. The right person to love. Not woman. Person.

And then, only one (1) episode later:

He didn’t even hesitate.

It seems he had, in fact, found the right person to love.

#listen this isn't coincidental #this is the writers telling us from the very beginning that this was a love story #tell me i’m wrong #Arthur couldn't imagine someone loving him so much #and then Merlin went and literally gave up his life for him #and he realised that he was willing to die for merlin as well #he realised he had finally found love #god im crying #bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin x arthur #merthur

[closetsof-backlogged-dreams]

ok wait pause so in these last three months of 2023 we're getting/have gotten:

bbc merlin twitter post bombshell

dan and phil games return announcement

another hunger games movie

percy jackson tv series

1989 taylor's version

like???? we are reverting back to the mid-2010s and honestly i think thats the best thing thats ever happened ever

#reverting back to pre-COVID times #yall i think we're finally healing😭😭 #bbc merlin #merlin #dan and phil #hunger games #the hunger games #percy jackson #pjo #taylor swift #1989 tv

[kissme-withyour-cherrylipstick]

I’m really enjoying doing these quick paintings. Featuring his mother's ring. 3.5 hours

#merlin #bbc merlin #bbcm #merlin fanart #arthur pendragon #bbc arthur #bradley james #my art #this picture made me cry btw #i blame the antidepressants #making me feel emotions like some kind of illogical human #anyway i love him #finally no chain mail #just his mother's ring