#nightmare!merlin

[lochlot]

i haven’t finished the show yet but they totally are gay and run away together and live happily ever after right? guys ? right? guys?

#s1 Morgwen #morgwen #this is my third time posting this but also my last bc I’m done tweaking it #it had some major contrast issues as well as the fact that they weren’t even looking each other in the eye before #Merlin bbc #Merlin #Morgana #guinevere #morgana x gwen #Morgana pendragon #morgana le fay #Merlin fanart #merlin bbc fanart #merlin art #morgwen art #lesbians #procreate #digital art #fanart #queen guinevere #artists on tumblr #lord why didn’t Gwen say she was loyal to Morgana and mean it #Morgana they could never make me hate u #Morgana stop trying to kill or ruin Gwen’s life ur gay for her okay #when she woke up from a nightmare of Gwen being married to Arthur i almost audibly laughed #Morgana u big homo #I’m gonna draw Gwen in one of her pretty purple/pink dresses but i wanted to do specifically season 1 and I don’t remember her wearing any

[atdawn]

MERLIN | 1.10 The Moment of Truth

#merlin #arthur pendragon #bbc merlin #merlinedit #merlingifs #fantasyedit #tvedit #ee #gifs #m #arthur #scenes that make my heart go owwwww owie ouch #rip to the quality btw this was a nightmare #110

[hobbitinthetardis]

broke: it's christmas eve

woke:

#that blue truck haunts my nightmares #frantically cropping images together to grt around the ten pic limit #happy 10 years oh god #kats.txt #merlin #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #guinevere #morgana #gaius

[baltharino]

Bonus:

#merlin #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin emrys #merthur #mergana #(< implied) #live action #gif #gifset #s2e03 the nightmare begins #im having a hard time believing this is actual unedited dialogue and im the one who made the gifs- #arthur ur jealousy is showing smh

[vampiricsheep]

Don't think I've seen this question make the rounds before, so:

Do any of your OCs hunt/fish/trap? Who taught them, and why do they do it? Do they have preferred gear or quarry?

#question brought to you by hunting coming up in all my classes simultaneously and bringing it back to mind #fishing is in here bc it ends up in these irl convos but I suppose it does feel like a gimme after gw2 added it #(and it's popularity as a minigame in many games as well) #but here I'll go first. my ex mordrem Merlin fur-traps in the shiverpeaks for income #he'll eat the meat of what he catches and splits w/ his nightmare hound (do u think fern/nm hounds can swallow bird bones? much 2 think abt #less wasteful and lessens what he has to pack when camping out in remote places for long periods of time #he was a deadshot with a bow as a young sprout but mordremoth got him early and uh. well that bow ended up integrating with his arm #which is why he's missing his right :) that's a story in and of itself though #but yeah so no bow-hunting or any marksmanship really #though he can throw an axe pretty well if needed #alright I have others but it's bedtime and this is a tag novella already #gw2 #<- will it even find its way into the tag? who can say LOL anyways gnite! or good morning!

[nimrism]

i still can't believe merlin chose to reveal he had magic to the most random person on the planet who he had only known for a day (gilli in "the sorcerer's shadow") but NOT to morgana when she needed it most... by the time morgana figured out she had magic, her and merlin's friendship was already at a point where he could trust her with something like this, and he had already seen her stance on magic through the way she risked everything for mordred (a DRUID, aka a magical being). hell, she straight up said "what if [magic] chooses you?" to his FACE. he really had nothing to lose and morgana had everything to gain by him telling her he had magic too, and being there for her when she needed it. but nOoOoo merlin just HAD to listen to the overgrown basement gecko and keep it a secret. which i wouldn't really mind had he not gone and revealed that very same secret to a perfect stranger a season later. it just makes no sense whatsoever that he'd keep his magic a secret from morgana and refrain from helping her then turn around and show GILLI of all people that he had magic.

#make it make sense #another example to show morgana was doomed by the narrative from the start #merlin stop listening to the DUMBASS dragon challenge #kilgarrah stop hating on morgana challenge #they both lost the challenge #merlin should've revealed his magic to morgana in “the nightmare begins” and i will die on that hill #she just needed someone to guide her and that someone ended up being her evil sister #really it's all the fuckass dragon's fault #but also kind of merlin's fault too #should've just told her my dude #instead of fkn GILLI #morgana pendragon #bbc merlin

[emryswisdom]

morgana was so funny in s2 with her nightmares😭😭 cuz they were never that scary- pretty sure she just wanted gwen to hold her tbh, but she's real for that🙄

#bbc merlin #bbcm #camelot #merlin #guinevere #bbc gwen #bbc morgana #morgana #morgwen #morgana and guinevere #gays #lesbians🥳🥳 #also #lowkey kidding #ik morgana's nightmares qere scary for her😞 #the cgi was just so bad that it's hard to tale seriously💔💔

[99point9percentwhump]

Merlin's Apprentice ep 2

#Merlin's Apprentice #nightmare #sleeping #waking up

[trollhunters-eldritch-princess]

no series has ever managed to fill me with a sense of pity and tragedy more than the series finale of Trollhunters.

#trollhunters #tales of arcadia #jim lake jr #jim lake junior #claire nunez #trollhunters meta #toby domzalski #merlin #i'm sorry but it's the way that jim's life is permanently altered #and how the villains extracted such a great cost for their defeat #and in how defeating the monster forces you to give up your own humanity #so that all that is left is something that is not quite human #it's came back wrong but emotionally and physically #i felt nothing but pity for jim #a lot of these types of series make me want to be them at some point #ever since i finished trollhunters i was grateful to remain as a audience member #being a trollhunter is a living nightmare

[bibuck-saved-me]

i’m not even a fan of merlin fics where arthur is dead but i want to write a fic so bad about merlin and leon becoming platonic life partners post-canon

#no because imagine #them just finding comfort in each other #it doesn’t fix what they’ve lost but also they have a little home together and no one else in the world understands #but they do. they understand each other #GOD. i need to get energy to write before i go nuts #also i’m a huge aroace leon truther so #can’t stop imagining them having their own rooms but then eventually merlin goes to leon after a nightmare #and is like can i sleep in here with you. it’s okay if not. i promise i don’t mean anything weird #and leon’s like. yeah okay. and then they just never really stop #they go to bed separate but then always end up in the same bed #they cuddle btw and comfort each other when they have nightmares #because hello??? ptsd much?? #anyway #bbc merlin #merlin #leon bbc merlin #knight leon #sir leon

[kateis-cakeis]

If Arthur was born with magic, what do you think he would have done? kept it secret? do you think he would have a very different relationship with Merlin? just wanna know your thoughts :D

Hi Anon! Sorry it's taken me a while to get to this!!! (Im so sorry truly)

I think an Arthur born with magic could go in many directions. Perhaps an Arthur born with it and showing it early would be scared into keeping it a secret. Or perhaps he would tell his father while crying, because he's confused.

Maybe it would be like Merlin, where he could move objects before he could talk - would then a nursemaid see and keep it a secret, or would she panic and run to the guards?

There's just so many ways it could go down. I think truthfully, if we combine how Arthur is in the show, especially in earlier seasons, with him having magic at an early age - and knowing of it, he would keep it a secret out of fear and disgust with himself.

He would definitely think himself a monster, and would largely act the same in public, while tearing himself apart in private. At least in the sense of lying to his father and the feeling of betraying his own people.

There's a point in the show where Arthur says "not a man, a sorcerer" (S1Ep12), so it's possible that he too wouldn't see himself as a man, but more a sorcerer, a monster - evil.

I think he would still listen to his father's lies, and that he would still think them to be the truth, even if he himself is evidence against that. He's just too close to Uther, and too close to his words, so he'd get a load of internalised prejudices.

I think in some ways he would have a different relationship with Merlin. Since Arthur would also be keeping a secret, and would know secret keeping well, I think he'd be at least more attune to the fact that Merlin is keeping a secret.

Whether or not he'd push him on it is something I'm not sure on, but I'd say no... simply because he wouldn't want to let it slip that he's hiding his own secret.

But at the very least, Arthur would be pretty much the same on the surface but like hiding a lot underneath.

Where it would step into obvious canon divergence AU territory is what he does with that in the long term.

Because it could go in so many directions. Like Arthur could boil over one day and tell Uther in defiance. He could be devasted after a raid, or an execution, let's say, and find comfort in Merlin's friendship - maybe even letting slip that Uther could kill him too (and Merlin would be like haha wtf).

Incorporating certain episodes into AUs like this is a lot of fun too. Like god imagine The Sins of the Father with sorcerer!Arthur like aaaaaaaaaah (and I have already included this in a fic before but I need moreee).

But episodes like the Beginning of the End, The Nightmare Begins, the Witchfinder, and so on. There's a lot there. As well as inventing scenarios that aren't in the show.

So, to conclude, I think an Arthur who knows he has magic from a young age would probably keep it a secret, if that's even possible for him, and would have a slightly different relationship with Merlin, but not by much.

There's a lot you can do with this concept and I'm obsessed with it because it really shakes things up!

#bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #arthur with magic is my absolute favourite fave and i would love to talk more about it #god it's just so good to me to write about #it inspires me so much because it is so different #it really changes entire dynamics between Arthur and Uther even Morgana and Arthur really #which was why I brought up the Nightmare Begins #i already wrote it into a fic but I think a magic Arthur would be able to tell that it was Morgana and be there for her #aaaah so good #ask

[kanouseis]

guda‘s really the coolest cuz they have three whole people protecting their mind. those are an evil fairy king, a frenchman driven by eternal hatred and a cosmic deity in the body of a little girl

#fgo #fate grand order #fujimaru ritsuka #oberon #edmond dantes #abigail williams #its just insane to me #like imagine trying to hack gudas mind and you are faced with these three #literal nightmare incarnations #even merlin was scared

[mcmactictac]

Doing my rewatch of merlin and suffering so much getting to the nightmare begins. Holy shit. Almost unwatchable the amount of pain it causes me. The collection of war crimes. Knowing morgana’s inevitable fate and knowing that if merlin would have told her he had magic things might not have gone the way they did. Knowing her whole thing was feeling isolated and alone and that merlin could have solved that but at a huge personal risk to himself when everyone cautions against it and he’s doing his best but he’s still a kid he hasn’t thought things all the way through in most of his choices he acts spontaneously but with such a good heart. No one is wrong but everyone is suffering and stuck in inevitable patterns of their own making. Genuinley been putting watching it off for MONTHS because rewatching morgana’s downwards spiral is so incredibly hard to watch knowing how everything ends. She deserved so much better man

#bbc merlin #morgana pendragon #the nightmare begins

[baltharino]

#arthur he needs to get there on his own- smh #bbc merlin #merlin #merthur #merlin emrys #arthur pendragon #live action #gif #gifset #incorrect quotes #s2e03 the nightmare begins

[eddiebabygirldiaz]

okay but how many times has arthur woken with merlin's name on his lips because gwen sure as hell didn’t seem surprised

#i want to know i gotta know i need to know #how many times HOW MANY TIMES #it was just so natural and familiar #and gwen instinctively started reassuring arthur that everything is okay and it was just a nightmare #WHAT YOU BEEN DREAMING ABOUT ARTHUR TELL ME #merthur #merlin #bbc merlin #guinivere #ry rambles

[fluffypotatey]

i cannot unsee it anymore, so i made this meme :)

#bbc merlin #merlin emrys #merlin the eldritch horror for sorcerers #all fear the eldritch nightmare that is merlin!!! #all hail hunith the mother of emrys #memes #bbc merlin memes #headcanons #actually canon tho