#merlin ramblings

[lightasthesun]

the last thing arthur ever did was ruffle Merlin's hair... The last thing arthur ever said was I love you.

#psssjhtt. #im going by what i can read on his lips and it's NOT 'thank you Merlin!!' #merthur #ive finally entered my emo December era #merlin emrys #arthur pendragon #bbc merlin #merlin ramblings

[hex-is-vexxed]

Honestly how I see merthur’s first introduction from Arthur’s perspective

Just,,, “There’s something about you Merlin, I can’t quite put my finger on it” like some deep subconscious part of Arthur’s mind just knew that Merlin was going to be important to him.

Also… I mean they were flirting IMMEDIATELY so there was that

#merlin #merlin ramblings #bbc merlin #merlin bbc #merthur #merthur ramblings #arthur pendragon #merlin emrys #poetry #merthur poetry to me

[chronicowboy]

this post & merthur

#sami rambles #our favourite doomed couple <333 #i will always and forever remember hearing sara bareilles' orpheus for the first time as a teenager and immediately and irrevocably #linking it to merthur for the rest of my natural life so much so that i can no longer separate the two #LOL :D #merlin #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin x arthur #merthur #web weave #orpheus and eurydice

[bellamyblakru]

are they… you know… [trying to die for each other while adamantly refusing to acknowledge their feelings] soulmates?

#idiots to lovers my beloved #idiots to lovers #this is specifically about merthur AND inuyasha x kagome #merthur #merlin #bbc merlin #inuyasha #inuyasha x kagome #ashley rambles #this also works for yato x hiyori and buddie😭😭😭 #and bellarke omg maybe this is my fave trope LMFAO #bellarke

[queerofthedagger]

"lancelot's only irresponsible when with merlin" my boy did NOT become a cage fighter all on his own for this kind of slander. smh

#bbcm #lancelot #bbc merlin #this is very very light-hearted but also. i said what i said #mona rambles #*mine

[chocolatehouse]

merlin’s ability to fall asleep literally ANYWHERE is not used enough in fics. bro fell asleep on a HORSE and in fics Arthur has to near drag him to bed because Merlin’s asleep on his feet. Merlin would not be asleep on his feet he would just be asleep. just passed out on Arthur’s floor or the bed after making it. Merlin pushes himself but if he knows Arthur’s safe that bitch will just sleep

#bbc merlin #merthur #merlin #arthur pendragon #clive’s ramblings

[maplemind]

Seriously, the way we watch Arthur's whole world change from the very first second he comes into contact with Merlin is so. damn. cute.

There's no doubt why Arthur let him get away with outright "disrespectful" and borderline treasonous comments and behaviour the first time they met.

I mean, look at the way he instantly lit up at the concept of verbal and physical sparring with this elfin looking dude with the real "couldn't give a sh*t- try me" attitude. Someone who not only took on a knight of Camelot in mid training, but didn't change his attitude one little bit when he found out he was addressing the goddamn prince of Camelot, in fact he doubled down and got worse.

And Arthur loved the challenge, loved the defiance, loved the concept of spending more time with this guy, especially time spent doing something he loves - sparring. There's nothing Arthur loves more than a physical activity - we see it throughout all five seasons. Search the whole castle on a wild goose chase? Absolutely. Train 15 new knights in a single day? Sign him up. Ride out to battle a magical beast? He's already out the door.

And even though he knows (thinks) he can beat Merlin into submission in two moves, he's finally going up against someone who doesn't give a flying f*ck who he is and will square up to him and give his absolute best. And he hopes this will be a regular occurrence.

And the dismay when Uther declares Merlin to be Arthur's new servant isn't because he doesn't want Merlin around - it's because he's afraid it will change the relationship they've already begun to establish. That Merlin won't develop into the one person he can trust to be real with him, and instead he will become reserved and "yes-sir-no-sir-three-bags-full-sir" like every. other. damn. person.

And you can't miss the way his eyes absolutely light up that first time Merlin does his servant duties and continues being defiant, honest, real.

I love these characters so damn much, and I couldn't love Colin and Bradley more for how incredible they are.

#bbc merlin #merlin bbc #merlin #merlin x arthur #merthur #arthur pendragon #colin morgan #bradley james #merlin emrys #emrys #Ramblings of my current hyperfixation #Not that Merlin has ever left my hyperfixation #It just shares space with new hyperfixations

[changeofpace]

Loving your Merlin art… humble request for Arthur taking care of hurt Merlin doodle?

you've read my mind anon... i've had a few wips with hurt Merlin but here's a quick new one just for you. and thanks for liking my art!

arthur's telling him off, silly merlin

also @ all my followers feel free to request merlin stuff!

#merlin #merlin emrys #arthur pendragon #merthur #bbc merlin #fanart #reetarts #rambles

[paxopalotls]

Source

#merlin #bbc merlin #merlin emrys #merthur #lancelot #it came to me in a vision #pax rambling

[poisonedfate]

bbc merlin - 03x02 The Tears of Uther Pendragon II

i've said it once and i will say it again: the kindness in this show is as hated as magic. it's the parallel. it is the kindness in these characters that sets everything alight, the same fire that often follows those who use magic, haunting them. you can argue about rights and wrongs, but this is what it always ultimately comes back to. it's merlin's kindness that keeps him from blindly following fate. it's morgana's kindness that first allows her to taste that hatred, the one that's gonna settle deep within every inch of her softness. it's kindness that makes them fight and kindness that holds them back. it's the prayer and the song of the executioner. all of it, and i mean all of it, can be and is attributed to magic too. it's one in the same. it's love and it's hate. the dark and the light. the poison and the cure. it's everything.

#been wanting to make this post forever #and it just so happened that this episode fir my point quite well #i am however also very tired rn #so excuse the rambles #merlin rewatch #bbc merlin #03x02 #s3 #merlin #kilgharrah

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

thinking about arthur and merlin & achilles and patroclus & gilgamesh and enkidu

something about a god treated like a man, a man treated like a god. something, something, one cursed to die, one cursed to live. trying to defy fate, defy death, defy the gods to be together again. something about how we keep telling these same stories over and over again. something, something, the mortal hero immortalised in legend.

#rotating them all in my brain like a microwave #slowly cooking up some coherent thoughts about this. not yet though #enjoy these lukewarm ramblings in the meantime #bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #achilles #patroclus #patrochilles #the song of achilles #the epic of gilgamesh

[lightasthesun]

omg omg OMG merlin pov "I stare directly at the sun (Arthur) but never in the mirror (Morgana)"

I can't explain what I mean by this but if you know the dynamics in the show you know!!

#Bbc merlin #Merlin bbc #arthur pendragon #merlin emrys #Taylor swift related #morgana pendragon #Merthur #Yk because Arthur is his whole world #And Morgana is the evil to his good #And she's a sorcerer #And being someone's sun is a saying for a couple #Anyway #I woke up with this thought so I'm still out of it jsfhd #merlin ramblings

[hex-is-vexxed]

not to be annoying about them for the millionth time but this dispair is too much for me to carry on my own

Just imagining Merlin having an ever-growing collection of anything that reminds him of Arthur over the many hundreds of years he's had to wait. Paintings, sculptures, books, pottery, clothing, goblets, just fucking anything, he hoards in his grief in the hope of satiating his misery (it doesn't work). "This made me think of you" but he's talking to air, waiting for the other half of his coin to return and no matter how much time passes it doesn't hurt any less. And he isn't patient, he is just made to wait, surrounding himself with anything to remind him of who he's waiting for.

#if i have to be suffer so does everyone else #merlin #merlin bbc #methur #merlin emrys #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #bbc arthur #merlin/arthur #merlin ramblings #merthur ramblings

[chronicowboy]

we as a collective do Not talk about this line delivery nearly enough and for good fucking reason, i'll kill bradley james for this one line alone. he's just a little boy :'((

#sami rambles #like. he's still the same little kid who didn't really know what it was to be looked after/cared for/doted on #at the heart of him he's still just that lonely young boy who always had to earn people's attention #or just take whatever he got for the simple fact of being the king's son :/ #even after so long he's still not used to merlin's love. and now. now he can't see what he's ever done to deserve it #seeing everything all at once and he just. he needs answers before he goes. #he's just a little boy asking 'why' to prolong his bedtime a few moments more #oh fuck. just caused irreparable damage to myself with that last one ahaha #merlin #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #bradley james

[bellamyblakru]

happy eleventh anniversary to bbc merlin ruining holiday cheer for perpetuity—you will always be absolutely iconic and beyond depressing🤧❤️💙

happy once and future day, merlin fandom. here’s to another year of angst, beautiful creativity, and friendship xx

#ashley rambles #merlin #merthur #bbc merlin #merthurweek2023

[queerofthedagger]

the thing i feel people don't really take enough into account when it comes to arthur's supposed obliviousness regarding merlin's magic is that merlin is the absolute opposite of what arthur has been raised to believe sorcerers to be. merlin is clumsy and kind and - in the earlier seasons - like walking sunshine. he so obviously has negative desire for actual power, nor any respect for it, and while arthur absolutely knows that merlin isn't stupid, he 100% is an idiot.

and it's not stupid or ignorant on his part! people just do this, whenever they are taught someone who does or believes a certain thing is inherently evil! it's never the friendly guy next door who snacks half of your breakfast and then just grins when you complain, obviously not! arthur trusts merlin even early on, and beyond belief later on. of course merlin can basically do magic in front of him, because there is no part of arthur that actually thinks someone like merlin could have magic. you don't see what you're 100% convinced can't be there. if he ever got there, his already brittle construct of indoctrination and supposed repeated confirmation of said construct would crumble immediately! as it does in dotd after like, a day. it only doesn't in regards to morgana because as far as arthur is concerned, the moment she started using magic she became the cold and ruthless enemy he still couldn't bring himself to actually pursue! like.

it's very easy to think it's startingly oblivious, but one thing i really wish people would keep in mind a little more is that the viewer watches from a different point of view, and operates with a whole other set of information. that arthur operates under a certain worldview in an environment that does not teach to question it at all, and gives little opportunity to do so. it's actually wild arthur questions uther's teachings as often as he does, and considering that every time he does, they, to his knowledge, just get confirmed again (nimueh, morgause, morgana, uther's death, and so on and so forth), it's even wilder that he keeps doing it

#*mine #mona's rambling #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #bbcm #yea yea once again in the arthur trenches but i've been meaning to say this for SO long so yk #merlin meta #like. it's not as if he can go google 'are sorcerers actually evil' #he only has people's words and people's actions for it and his overall experience on that front is. uhm. not good #to put it mildly #it's frankly a lil infuriating but also very on the zeitgeist how this just rarely gets taken into account #but like. let's not go there i've managed to be so nice imma shut up while i'm ahead and all that <3