Let's do no.2

I’ve started watching Doctor who and now I’m on Season 4 episode 10 - Midnight. And I noticed Colin Morgan (Merlin) on the train with the Doctor. This is the 4th actor from Merlin I’ve seen on the show and I love it!! I’ve also seen Angel Coulby (Gwen), Richard Wilson (Gaius), and Anthony Head (Uther) who is also in Buffy the vampire slayer as Giles (for any Buffy fans as well).

#doctorwho #merlin #buffytgevampireslayer

Watching the darkest hour as a tradition now since 2020 5 years I believe on halloween. There are other spooky episodes that are good but found those to to be my favorite

I was thinking about being Morgana in season 2, especially after the Witchfinder episode, how she could left Uther, before she was manipulated by her sister. Well, running with druids didn't work.

Well, in order for her to legally get out of the guardian's care, she would have to get married.

And how to do that.

Who would be the best candidate... And I thought about Odin, who has no wife or son and hates the Pendragons.

She is very beautiful and giving him a child, he could focus on a new life, not past pain. Plus the fact that he lost his beloved son , I think he will could reject their law of the magic more gladly than other nobles.

Just I try to find an option for her other than being stuck under the care of Uther, the silent indifference of Merlin, and Gaius and Morgause, who blatantly took advantage of her and betrayed her, turning her into traitor.

Well, as far as logistics go, Arthur has already spoken of peace with him, so if he were invited to Camelot, she could charm Odin. I don't worry about Arthur, because his eternal shadow will make sure Odin doesn't get any ideas in the form of killerand such. The first night of Odin is in Camelot, Merlin will be spying on his bedroom, listening his conversation and such.

I wasnt able to watch it, if anyone has a recording of it, would you be able to share it ?

Xx thanks

I’m back again with another discord-subreddit event, and this time it’s to announce that we’ve come to the end of our (first ever) series watch party!

If anyone here has been passively keeping up with the updates since last year, you might be aware that we began our series rewatch on September 26th, 2023…✨

What began as a way to celebrate the show’s 16th anniversary, turned into a year long commitment to finish the series, and have discussions + play live games along the way!

I’m so grateful for everyone who’s joined us thus far, whether it was for an episode or two, or from the very beginning, and I can genuinely say that those discussions we’ve shared and jeopardy games we’ve played, are some of the best memories from fandom I’ve ever had :))

(Also, meeting some of you Redditors on call, has been both a hilarious and surprisingly heartfelt experience lmaoo)

So to celebrate this wonderful year of merlin memes and madness, I’ve created a 65 question Kahoot to play after we’ve finished watching and grieving the series finale at around 6:15PM EST (your time here) this Friday. Please see the rules/how-to for Kahoot here, and an invite to our server here, if you haven’t joined already.

I hope to see you all there, and may the best clotpole win!! ;))

I’m writing a Lancelot du Lac AU where Gwen and Merlin stayed besties instead of drifting apart throughout the seasons, and Merlin and Lancelot had a queerplatonic relationship. I’m nowhere near done but I wanted to share a snippet:

“You pine for Gwen like when you first met, but I met you first.  You were mine first, and you died for me.”

Something devastatingly confused comes across the shade’s face.  Seeing that expression on Lancelot’s face, as though Merlin is the stranger, makes Merlin’s heart tighten.  He reaches back to grab the hand Lancelot still has on him and firmly it pulls it away, stepping back from the shade.

“I died for you…?” the shade says as if consolidating the information with himself, failing to sound like an echo instead of a question.

“What a great man I loved,” Merlin whispers, “who would walk into death itself for me.”

Does anybody know any sites where I can stream merlin in german for free? I can't find anything...

Hey folks!

I know I've been MIA on the books the last few days, but there was background stuff going on! I was able to get into contact with someone on Tumblr who had all the scans of all the books (!!) but needed formatting/tech help getting them out there, and someone else on X who had already started a project to host the scans on the web but didn't have all the books. I'm thrilled to have been the pdf-whizz middle man in this scenario!

SO, drumroll please...

The Royal Library of Camelot is officially live and fully stocked!

Have a gander and download everything you like. These pdf's are smaller in size (I learned a lot) so, even if you grabbed all of the ones I posted before, you might want to replace them with these to save space on your computers. And if I were you, I would download everything - you never know with the internet!

Kudos, kudos, and more kudos go to sorcvry for making all of this easily available (and gorgeous - they drew that background, y'all!) They are also investigating creating epub versions of everything.

And kudos to sugar-coated-prat-dragon for painstakingly scanning everything in! Also, they have some incredible topic-based guides on the books, answering questions and looking up little details that aren't found anywhere else. And if you need any of the pages in photograph format, you can find links to their original scans on the Tumblr.

I'm working on getting together more info for the Library, like magazines, interviews, and guides to all the official Merlin video games and how you can still access them. If you have any ideas, feel free to reach out.

And finally, for anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, here is the Merlin Wiki entry that goes over all the books. Thanks for following along, and as always...

Read your hearts out!

Edit: Thank you so much for the awards! You guys are the sweetest <3

Finally got my first merlin tattoo and I'm very happy with how it came out!!!

https://preview.redd.it/lc6ay8dq1cxd1.png?width=1648&format=png&auto=webp&s=6c4643d5ae54e31b1ac903afeb4c03e63608999f

Assuming the guards had actually meant to shoot the knights, but missed by accident, some of the people in the back could have ended up with their heads skewered on those arrows like kebab. I'm sure the odds of that happening would've been really, really low, but I would've moved a bit to the side if I were them and didn't known what was about to happen...

(Ironically, though, they most likely survived that shooting precisely because they stood behind the knights, whom Morgana didn't want to kill)

I don't mean the books that are book form of the episodes.

I recently read Lancelot by Giles Kristian and obviously, nothing alike to the show but made me wanna rewatch the show and see if there are books like it.

For all that people complain about Arthur's bullying of Merlin (even Bradley seems to have found it tiresome by later series - didn't he object to throwing things?), not to be confused with the banter between mates, but sometimes Arthur is definitely a bully, because Arthur's position grants him a lot of power over Merlin, we at least see it as bullying. Merlin's responses are also bullying, though, at least when they involve using magic to publicly humiliate Arthur. It's played for laughs, sure, but Merlin actually has more power than Arthur. Arthur cannot reply or reciprocate. It's the same power imbalance people complain about with Arthur hitting Merlin, but we can see the physical power imbalance between Bradley and Colin. Merlin pulling down Arthur's pants, for instance, in an important meeting with his council: if Arthur did it to Merlin, people would cry for his blood. Merlin does it, well, it's funny. Right? Arthur deserves to be humiliated in public for a private mistreatment of Merlin (in that episode). Making Arthur bray like a donkey at the end of an episode? Played for laughs but Arthur has no idea what he's done to "earn" a punishment (so it doesn't even work as a deterrent for a behavior, if anyone wants to argue Merlin is trying to 'teach Arthur a lesson'), it's just to amuse Merlin at Arthur's expense. Fans forgive Morgana's treatment of Arthur as deserved, but why? What did Arthur do besides being born male & legitimate that is so offensive to her that he deserves to die? From what I can tell, Morgana's whole complaint about Arthur is that he's just like Uther, but Arthur, in fact, shows himself to be determined not to persecute anyone or allow injustice even against an accused sorceress, whereas Morgana accepts and utilizes mass killings of complete innocents to make a point. She completely abuses the trust of Arthur throughout series 3, which granted, she's becoming a villain, but I've read a lot of people who seem to think this is justified by Arthur's mere existence. Don't even get me started on Morgause, who seems mostly angry that Arthur did not end up committing patricide due to her manipulations, so that makes Arthur "guilty." Arthur can be a jerk (and it was/is annoying that he relapses, basically, far too often in series 4 and 5, like he's mature one minute, his 19-year-old self the next!)

So, my controversial take is this: any bullying action undertaken by the powerful athletic handsome guy is seen as bullying while a very similar action undertaken by someone not automatically granted power by society is not perceived the same way, even when, in essence, it is. Female characters get by with treating male characters far worse than the inverse simply because we're not trained to see women as powerful and thereby capable of bullying men. We're not trained to see a "nerd" as a bully of a "jock". Yet, our training does permit us to see when a jock bullies a nerd. Basically, we've all been trained to perceive certain people as automatically having power and other automatically lacking power; it all comes back to the patriarchy we're still stuck in.

I know I’m young but Merlin is my comfort show. I think it was ment to be ✨✨✨✨✨✨

On behalf of the members and Mods of BBC Merlin we wish many congratulations to Eoin and his partner Emmanuel on the birth of their daughter Bianca Lea Macken. A new precious life to cherish.

I watched this show a while ago and can’t remember if the main dragon (Merlin’s mentor) was a green dragon or not, is this pin based off of merlin?