"Every day I must look Uther in the eye knowing that if he were to discover who I really am, he'd have me killed." (in/sp)

Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein by Margaret Atwood

Gwen <3 for @not-rome

Nightmares

For @merlinrarepairfest

How Not to Foster a Safe Kitchen Environment, but Make Your Girlfriend Happy: A Guide by Gwen

"Pancakes" for @merlinbingo

and isn't it just so pretty to think all along there was some invisible string tying you to me?

in honour of merlin trending have some art from my insane self-indulgent au :)!

they were so happy

It’s true, heartbroken, I’ve been for you - Bottom of the World, Emily Haines.

“What did I do to make you hate me so much?” - Gwen

hi! it's been months! take an incomplete messy comic thing!

the backstory behind this is a beauty and the beast au wherein merlin stays in the castle as belle to work to break arthur's curse via his magic rather than True Love (he's very insistent about this bit), but then he falls in love anyway lol.

merlin's commiserating/daydreaming about arthur when he has the passing thought "love that prat" and then boom. human arthur.

(that's what the huge blank thought bubble is about. unfortunately, i am too lazy to draw beast!arthur or to think of what he would be doing, so. you may imagine whatever you please, i suppose?)

flowers.png ❀

for the first like 14 years of my life i thought that the story of saint valentine and valentines day were a celebration of a massive gay polyamorous marriage and let me tell you, i was sorely disappointed when i learned i had massively misunderstood that story

Gwen: I’m cold.

Arthur: here, have my jacket.

Merlin: I’m cold, too.

Arthur: well, damn, Merlin! I can’t control the weather.

Sweet, simple Gwen! I know, I know! This horrid little house is your dream castle! And poor Merlin is your bold and fearless Sir Galahad!

101 Dragons!! i can’t draw dragons. why did i do this. Merlin does magic in the attic!! gwen for some reason also has a dragon!! i dont know what im doing and im enjoying myself

dont tag as platonic i will dip all your socks in soup

Arthur: Thanks to Gwaine, Mordred has recently taken up cursing.

Arthur: For example, yesterday he referred to bedtime as "a fucking crisis".

It's about fear, yknow? Like. Merlin was deeply, existentially afraid for his life, all the time. He lived in a place where his very existence was illegal and punishable by death, stuck in a social climate where most people would hate him and think he was evil. He was scared!!! And if you spend that long being that scared, logic is no longer a thing. It could have been the most logical and reasonable thing ever to tell Arthur and Morgana about his magic, but that ultimately isn't the point. Because he was scared, he was worried that he was gonna die a horrible death or at least be shunned/treated differently by the people he loves. Where fear is involved, logic never enters the equation.

More often than not, people lie because they're scared. And you can make someone tell the truth, but you'll never actually solve the lying problem until you help them confront their fears.

JATP as textposts, 6/?

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