#merlin is nonbinary in this btw

[scoooby]

I can’t draw but Gwen and Merlin in traditional lehengas? yes please. 

#bbc merlin #gwen #merlin #everyone is camelot #just like dies of cuteness #gwen wears a red one and merlin like wears a combination of salwar kameez and a lehnga #merlin is nonbinary in this btw #he/they

[the-apples-were-monitored]

*stirs the hornets nest*

how many times do i have to say that “yes everyone has good points about gaiman fundamentally misunderstanding what nonbinary means and falling into homophobic narrative traps whether or not he intended it, but queer people who have complicated relationships with sex and romance (hello, middle of the venn diagram of traumatized, autistic, and gay reporting for duty here) DO feel very seen and represented by the show” before we stop having this pointless conversation? 

like i even wanted the two of them to make out to make it real in-your-face representation, but even comparing it with actual INTENTIONAL cases of queerbaiting from my youth (shout out to merlin and sherlock), this doesn’t strike me as at all the same thing. i’m not gonna be able to be very articulate about it, but it felt very true to how my experience is. i’m in a long distance relationship with someone i’ve never met in person and i guarantee you that the first time we meet isn’t gonna be the movie embrace that people were looking for at the end of good omens. it’s gonna be more like sitting on a park bench and laughing and getting used to each other. because i, much like aziraphale and crowley, have suffered from religious repression that makes it impossible to make leaps like that, and even if i could i’m still autistic (i’ve posted at length about how aziraphale strikes me as autistic), so i physically can’t move that fast. not saying nothing will EVER happen, but if it did it would take time to get to. the ending of good omens felt true to what i would expect from them, because it’s going to take them time to learn what boundaries are and how to act around each other now that there’s not something keeping them apart (in my case, it’s a computer screen, in their case, it’s their opposing sides). 

yeah they could’ve done more, but i also argue they gave us some of the best romantic build-up i’ve seen on screen in a very long time. tennant and sheen played it up to the best of their abilities, and i get a very real sense of where they’re going in life. could we have been given more? yes, and i would’ve welcomed it. but the fact that we keep having this same agonizing debate as if we haven’t admitted you have a point is just exhausting. like maybe we’re all right this time and media interpretation isn’t so cut and dry? remember that old debate we used to have about strong female characters? remember how a strong woman who didn’t need a love interest might work well for white abled women, but women of color and disabled women are often not given a chance to have love interests so maybe their empowerment might be being desirable? my point is that media interpretation that works for one group might not for another, and maybe we should all admit that we’re all right and move on.

(this is exclusively about the show btw. the book is a whole OTHER subject)