Merlin ate my afternoon

[fahye]

OMG 1x10 OMG

MERLIN

ARTHUR

No.

If I start going on about all the ways in which this episode made me flail like an idiot, I will never stop, and this study break has gone on long enough.

Also, I just wrote a 4500 word fic in two days, which is a MIRACLE.

Meteorology (five ways to defuse a prince) -- Merlin -- Destiny was a bitch sometimes.

Comments

[platypusnoises.livejournal.com]

i flailed like a flailing flailer at 1x10! i don't think i've ever flailed as much at anything. merlin and arthur and morgana and gwen are so cute. and then you put them all together and the cute has gone up exponentially.

and now i'm going to read your fic, which i expect will make me flail some more.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I REALLY WANT to write a fic like that and I expect I will do so at some point in the future.

BUT NOW I AM GOING TO STUDY. Because if I fail out of med school because I was writing Merlin fic, I will probably have to commit harakiri.

[platypusnoises.livejournal.com]

YES. and as predicted, your fic made me flail hard.

OK GO STUDY GOOD LUCK

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

YES. Basically I was like that. I was all...

Merlin! Arthur! Merlin! Arthur!!

OMFGBOYSSMISH

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I MAY NEVER RECOVER FROM ARTHUR HELPING MERLIN WITH HIS ARMOUR

AND THE ENDING KJDAHKJASHAKJKJHDSJHDAJKASJHDABJF OW OW OW FUCK OW

[lo0o0ony-lauren.livejournal.com]

I MAY NEVER RECOVER FROM ARTHUR HELPING MERLIN WITH HIS ARMOUR

FUCKING...YES. THIS ABSOLUTELY SAW TO ME, AS WELL.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

LOZ. CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW FAR THEY'VE COME IN TEN EPISODES? IT IS INSANE.

[lo0o0ony-lauren.livejournal.com]

I KNOWWWW. AND ALSO IT WAS JUST SO MUCH MORE SUBTLY HANDLED THAN (DARE I SAY) I WAS ACTUALLY EXPECTING FROM THEM! I THOUGHT THAT WHEN THEY WENT BACK ON ALL THE "HO HO I AM A PRAT AND YOU SERVE ME" STUFF, WHICH THEY'D HAVE TO DO TO SOME EXTENT EVENTUALLY, IT WOULD BE WITH A SORT OF SIZZLY, VAGUELY AWKWARD CONVERSATION IN WHICH ARTHUR WAS ALL "BUT NOW...YOU ARE MORE THAN A SERVANT, MERLIN!" OR SOMETHING RIDIC. BUT THEN IT WAS SO VISUAL AND AMAZING AND I FLAILED MYSELF OFF THE COUCH.

UNFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. I AM SORRY I DOUBTED YOU, MERLIN! :D

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

OMG OMG I AM ABOUT TO TAKE MY STUDY BREAK RIGHT NOW TO WATCH IT I AM SO EXCITED BY EVERYONE'S FLAILINGS

OKAY I HAVE TO GO BUY MY SANDWICH FIRST

AND THEN

and then

(omg)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

LASS. IT WILL DESTROY YOUR ABILITY TO FORM COHERENT SENTENCES AND YOU WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN.

(are you done yet??)

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD I JUST FINISHED OH MY GOD

AND THEN THERE WAS LIKE MORGANA WARRIOR PRINCESS

AND THEN SHE AND GWEN SLEPT IN THE SAME BED

AND THEN THE POST-COITAL SMALL TALK WHERE ARTHUR'S FOOT WAS IN MERLIN'S FACE

AND THEN HE HELPED MERLIN WITH HIS ARMOR salkfjskf;sl';fg's;
f'sl';fls';flsdlf;sd OMFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

AND THEN AND THEN

AND THEN MERLIN'S OLD BOYFIEND WAS LIKE "I DON'T MUCH LIKE THE LOOK OF YOUR NEW BEAU WHY DID YOU BREAK UP WITH MEEEEEE"

omg i don't even know

arthur being all like, "you shouldn't have kept this from me, merlin." :-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

fahyeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEeeeeee

[fahye.livejournal.com]

FOR A WHILE I WAS LIKE: MORGANA WHAT ARE YOU *WEARING* BUT JSHDKSAHDDNC SHE WAS SO KICKASS AND I NOW WANT TO SEE HER AND ARTHUR HAVE A SWORDFIGHT MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD

SLEEEEEEPOVEEEEEEEERS. GWEN & MORGANA. ARTHUR & MERLIN. TOES.

Okay breaking out of capslock to assure you that the moment when we saw that close-up of Arthur's fingers helping Merlin with his armour was the best moment of my entire day. Maybe my entire life week.

OH GOD THEY JUST KICKED THE LEGS OUT FROM UNDER THE WHOLE 'ARTHUR WON'T CARE THAT MERLIN IS A SORCEROR BECAUSE HE TRUSTS HIM' THING.

BECAUSE NOW

THE TRUST THING HAS BEEN FUCKED. THE HELL. UP.

[moonythestrals.livejournal.com]

>>>AND THEN THERE WAS LIKE MORGANA WARRIOR PRINCESS

AND THEN SHE AND GWEN SLEPT IN THE SAME BED

I AM NOT WRITING LESBIAN PORN. THERE'S NO WAY. BUT OMG IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.

DHAJSKHDAKJSHDKJADAS

I WILL NEVER STOP FLAILING AT THIS FUCKING EPISODE. OMG WHAT.

[ashen_key]

So.










Should I actually watch this show?

[fahye.livejournal.com]

YES

I mean. You have to realise going in that it is not even TRYING to accurately represent either medieval England (it is set in Albion, which is a magical fantasy kingdom with unicorns and all that) or the Arthurian legends as they stand. It takes the characters and the themes and concepts and little bits of the stories and then it remixes them in wacky and delightful ways.

And it's HILARIOUS and FUN and every single character is wonderful in their own way and has chemistry with every OTHER character. And it lulls you with cracky plots and then it springs emotional GUTPUNCHES on you and leaves you wailing and wanting to hug everyone. (There is one episode in particular that will make you flail enormously, Miss Ashie, but I don't want to spoil it by talking about it.)

And yeah, it's pretty damn gay :D

[ashen_key]

It takes the characters and the themes and concepts and little bits of the stories and then it remixes them in wacky and delightful ways.

I'm sure I could cope with someone else doing what I always do. Hopefully.

...It sounds fun, actually. I just have a Thing with Arthurian-type-stuff, where I flail and go BUT THEY AREN'T MINE!

But if it is hilarious and fun...*eyes it*


I might see if I can get my hands on it. Somehow. I liked your picturespam before. And, damnit, I need more hilarious stuff.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me, if Galahad shows up I might have to have a brief little crisis moment before accepting it and moving on.

(It helps that this show's Lancelot is perfect, absolutely perfect, all noble and brilliant and handsome, and his chemistry with both Gwen and Arthur is incredible considering he's only been around for a single episode so far.)

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

*sulks*

I can't has any more Merlin until our internet meter resets itself. WOES.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this was the first full-length episode of anything I've downloaded all year, and it cost me. BUT I NEEDED IT. I HAVE AN ADDICTION.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

YOU SHOULD JUST GET A COPY OF THE NETWORK.

Go see tockie NOW before she runs away. And then let *other* people pay for the download, and you just nick their stuff.

[blackboggart.livejournal.com]

OH GOD THIS EPISODE WAS SUCH A TEASE. I WAS READY FOR ARTHUR TO FIND OUT! DAMN IT. >:(

But it was perfect in every other way. OH GOD. JUST. HIS MUM. AND GWEN, AND MORGANA. And all the TOUCHING, AND AND. OKAY. I DON'T HAVE A BRAIN ANYMORE.

And I still haven't figured out what I want you to write me yet. /o\ I JUST DON'T KNOW, THIS SHOW GIVES ME TOO MANY OPTIONS.

[lo0o0ony-lauren.livejournal.com]

AFGH I have SO MUCH WORK to do and yet I am SO INCREDIBLY EXCITED about reading your fic. This freaking amazing ridiculous show is so much more exciting than gender identities in The Bell Jar :((((

I would also like to say, Arthur really has no idea about how much Merlin's saved him - excepting the first episode, for which Merlin was ~rewarded~ with the position of manservant lol lol, and The Poisoned Chalice, in which Arthur also paid him back by going on his epic FLOWER QUEST - so his reasons for going along were far less obviously (and heterosexually) explicable than Morgana's/Gwen's. Just. You know. Just saying.

Although, hum, I was just sort of attempting to recover from all the emotional gutpunching this week hit us with (BLAM amazing romantic goodbye of heartwrenching manliness! POW quiet nightime confessional conversations of joy! GADZUKES adorable servant/master reverse of great excitement! BAM well arthur really actually doesn't trust magic does he what the shit!, etc), when suddenly the ~next week~ trailer appeared and was INSANE. "no arthur don't kill that unicorn!" "I AM THE KEEPER OF THE UNICORNS"

I mean just what the fuck. Never change, show. ♥

[lo0o0ony-lauren.livejournal.com]

ALSO. Einstein and Eddington was on last night, a drama in which David Tennant played a fey, deeply closeted quaker scientist in 1914 Cambridge and my recently-taped-back-together heart shattered into a million tiny pieces. Again. TELLY: ENOUGH, ALREADY. OW.

(srsly I highly recommend it if you've any way of getting hold of it, or at least some part of it is bound to end up on YT eventually, so.)

[moonythestrals.livejournal.com]

this episode makes me go like this:

[notexotic.livejournal.com]

MERLIN'S MOMMY SLASHES THEM. This show omg.

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