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cinematicnomad · 1 year
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all of this merlin anniversary stuff has got me reading merthur fics as well! do you have any recommendations?
i haven't read merthur fic in ages so here are a couple new ones i've read over the past few days:
to go with grace by andiwriteordie (1/1 | 16k+ | T) POV morgana; canon compliant; arthur returns; redemption; reconciliation
morgana is dead. morgana pendragon is dead, at emrys’s hand. just as the prophecies had foretold. but before she can enter avalon and find peace, she must first pay penance for all the sins she committed in her life. her penance is quite simple: look after and heal arthur pendragon, the Once and Future King, until the time comes for his return to the land of the living. or, the one in which morgana gets the postmortem redemption that she deserved.
home is a heartbeat by FervidAsAFlame & highlynerdy (9/9 | 48k+ | M) canon compliant; arthur returns; suicidal ideation; pining; angst with a happy ending; POV merlin
the waiting was hard, of course. but it wasn't the hardest part.  the hardest part was how everything kept changing. everything was fast and slow; each life a small story that played out across the long messy scrawl of time.  and arthur sleeps, missing it all—so merlin is determined to take in as much as he can. over the centuries he forges on through terror and triumph, loneliness and love—sometimes helping and sometimes hurting, but always striving with every passing life to be closer to the man he wants to be when arthur finally returns to him.
you have to chase it by arthurandhisswordbros (8/8 | 41k+ | M) canon compliant; arthur returns; POV arthur; social media; angst with a happy ending
“oh, i don’t know who he really is—no one does,” she says. “although, some people think he’s probably a grad student doing some avant-garde project for a thesis or something. others think the whole account is just an elaborate advertisement for budweiser.”  arthur doesn’t understand most of what she just said but nods anyway.  squinting her eyes, she gauges his confusion regardlessly. “it’s someone pretending to be the famous sorcerer. see here, this is his most recent tweet.” at arthur’s odd look, she clarifies, “it’s like a message that everyone can see.” @asorcerersays: guys why did he have to be so hot and like,,,funny? like it’s been forever and i still miss him. he was pretty dumb though. arthur knows his face must look disgusted. “for everyone to see?” or, Immortal!Merlin goes on twitter to complain about his dead king. unrelatedly, arthur joins twitter.
and then here's a favorite merthur oneshot of mine that @tattooedsiren wrote for me a LITERAL decade ago:
rewrite the ending by tattooedsiren (1/1 | 2k+ | T) canon compliant; arthur returns; reincarnation; POV merlin; author!arthur
you would think given how long he has been waiting for arthur’s return that it would be something that is on his mind 24/7. it's not. not anymore. for the first one hundred lives, sure, every day was a torturous wait, each minute slowly ticking by when all he could think was arthur, arthur, arthur… but it’s been thousands of years, millions of lifetimes, and still he waits. he doesn't think about arthur every day anymore. in fact, he only thinks about him a few times a year. it might sound callous, but in truth it’s anything but. it’s self-preservation, it’s staving off a longing so bone deep it physically hurts. and on the rare occasions he lets himself think about arthur, he spends the whole day just sitting there and remembering, allowing the memories to wash over him like the sea, ancient and powerful and all-consuming.
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Gosh, just seeing Thor Reacts react to the Bangel ending in "Becoming Part 2" is killing me.
I'm crying.
Not even seeing the whole episode in this reaction has me crying.
It was just so unfair what happened to them there.
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plaguedocboi · 11 months
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We need to go back to using sailing ships full time like immediately. Yes it would take longer to get places but the Aesthetic is unmatched
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Like there is nothing sexier hthan this
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everchased · 5 months
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hahahahaaaa get safe and cared for, idiot
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officialmisha · 1 month
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no offence but the reason tumblr is “dying” is, well, yes, of course the cursed like/reblog ratio and the change in user behaviour (because of people being used to how instagram and tiktok work) BUT also the lack of weekly shows. i say it with my whole chest, they don't produce captivating and engaging stupid weekly tv shows anymore because streaming killed that so you have spikes of activity here when Something happens in general fandom or up to three days after a new season of whatever drops and then it's a wasteland. this is obviously an old woman yelling at a cloud missing supernatural and the vampire diaries and pretty little liars and all these other shows type of post but honestly give me back weekly tv shows where i have something to watch for 40 minutes almost every day of the week after work so then i can read and reblog it on tumblr give it back for the sake of my sanity
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elexuscal · 3 months
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Danny Phantom, The Show:
geeky kid gets super powers from his parents' weird inventions! now he has to fight a rogue gallery of ghosts... but uh-oh! he still has to keep his grades up, deal with his embarrassing parents, and navigate girl troubles! rap theme song!
Danny Phantom, the Fandom, After 19 Years of Fermentation:
a child dies. but not quite. the inherent tension between life and death. the obsession of the dead for faded remnants of the living. warped green shadows on the walls of a dark laboratory. having to hide your true nature from those who should be your greatest allies. the fear of the monster you could become if you let yourself. being a ghost as a metaphor for the trans experience. a cold breath on the back of your neck in the dead of the night. rap theme song!
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artkaninchenbau · 2 months
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Crocodile finds a strange stray cat an 11-year old Nico Robin (AU where they met 13 years earlier. Robin's been on the run from the World Government for 3 years. Crocodile's 27 and has not set up base in Alabasta yet)
It seems like I have become possessed. By some sort of demon.
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Bonus:
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freuleinanna · 3 months
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no but you do not understand we collectively spent YEARS heartbroken over donna! and doctor never ever got over losing her! and now they are together, and they have chosen each other for family, and donna's family has warmth enough for him, and they are happy and having dinners, and 14th is casually sneaking his niece away on adventure while making sure not to tell donna because she would obliterate him and IT'S OKAY THEY'RE CHOSEN SIBLINGS IT'S WHAT THEY FUCKING DO.
listen. LISTEN.
donna's every day was taken away from her.
the doctor has been running every day ever since.
and now they get to spend time together. not a brief trip in a tardis. not a reunion before parting forever. but every. day. every day, one after the other. and they are finally home.
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nerdpoe · 5 months
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There's an up-and-coming Tech Giant, called Fenton Works, and Batman is determined to prove that the company is a front for a villain.
Danny, after his parents turned from Ghost hunting to being the first official Ghost Anthropologists, decided to repurpose some of their weapons.
And, well, there was a contest being run by Wayne Enterprises; whoever can design a robot that will help the environment got prize money and a grant.
Danny, in all his mechanical engineering prowess, was bored. So he designed a thing. Repurposed the Fenton Guns into a cute robotic tortoise that would clean the beach.
It spiraled from there, and now Fenton Works is the leading name in green technology that's cleaning up the Earth bit by bit. Sea Dragon robots that clean oil and trash from the ocean; beach tortoises that clean the sand and beach and deposit their hoard of trash into designated receptacles that Danny uses as material to make more robots; Cryptid "stalker" robots with long legs that delicately patrol forests to perform "fuel management" and clear out the underbrush to help manage wildfires; moving gargoyle robots that sit on top of skyscrapers to help clean the air with huge sail-like wings, etc.
Basically, Danny pulls a Doctor Elisabet Sobeck, but with less world ending and more actually helping. (Not that the world ending was Elisabet's fault, of course, but different franchise)
And due to the number of times aliens try to attack and rogues send their own robots to attack people, naturally Danny installed self-defense protocols, along with one single golden rule written into the very OS of every single robot; Save Humans Whatever the Cost.
Problem is, Batman has never seen robots like this not be used for evil purposes, and he knows that their power source (a closely guarded Fenton Works secret) is some sort of liquid that glows green.
He really only knows of one liquid that glows green.
So he's determined to find everything he can about Fenton Works, because there's no way that Daniel Fenton isn't actually a villain in the making.
Danny's just thrilled for the chance to work with Wayne Enterprises.
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ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.
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stellarspecter · 5 months
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joey richter + being held at gunpoint by a love interest
(+ bonus: when he wasn't actually shot)
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queerdraws · 27 days
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Fanart for a snippet of my most favorite heartbreaking moment from swordsmans's fic bone-breaker ospreys mate for life (rated E)
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tired-teddybear · 2 months
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jason, coming back from the dead and seeing tim as robin: how could bruce replace me? how could he give robin to someone else?
dick, who created robin in honor of his dead parents and then had bruce take it away and give it to jason without even asking him:
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hoezier-than-thou · 3 months
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YOU GUYS
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians
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Percy Jackson and the Chalice of Gods
THEM.
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birdmenmanga · 1 month
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I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.
Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.
The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter— emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"
I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too
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kantush · 10 months
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This movie was fun (TW: Loud startling sound)
Miguel your are my beloved
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