Merlin/Arthur in sync
for @meteorjam
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gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining
because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe
and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them
and then
we built robots?
and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image
and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone
but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?
the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.
and they told us to tell you hello.
Honestly one of my biggest upsets in BBC Merlin is that we didn’t get a third situation where Gaius had to make up another weird ass sorcerer for Merlin to be. Like he already struggled hardcore to come up with the woman concept, I can just imagine Gaius - the OG ratchet - being like “not to worry Sire, I know another sorcerer known for their...great height. They’re...10 feet tall, Sire.” And Merlin is just standing there like ‘well here we fucking go.’
Gaius fully intends for Merlin to use a spell to reach that height but Merlin and his ratchet little heart is like ‘I only need to get myself a few feet higher, tbh how hard could stilts be.’ Merlin then proceeds to teeter fucking EVERYWHERE in his endearingly shitty disguise and knock over EVERYTHING the entire episode like:
He comes up with increasingly more ludicrous reasons why he must always lean against a surface. One of those surfaces is Arthur, who tells him surely he’d remember if they’d met in the past but his eyes are just so familiar.
Merlin has regrets.
Leaning against Arthur isn’t one of them.
Jem & Tessa - for the 5th of the Shadowhunter Ship Weeks
(TID by Cassandra Clare @cassandraclare )
Arthur + the name enunciation thing
Thank you @thefireinmyvoice
If this world is real, although I will not insist that it is,
Then there should be a world where every character we pen is brought to life,
And yet another, wherein
We are only figments of their imagination.
A world where they see all the self-loathing and all the scars,
And they love it even when we cannot.
Another one wherein
They see our blind rage and our lashing out,
Where they are not blind to our faults,
And see they the scars we've inflicted on others in a mad, pained rampage
Where they see that our pain is no excuse, for the pain we cause others
Where they see us for the villains we've become
I do not know if this world is real, and I won't insist it to be so,
Therefore,
I do not know if the others can exist
But this thought alone, and memories of these lines,
That is enough for me to rein in my anger,
To love,
To let them fall in love with me.
- Milen