#ARTHUR ACTUALLY COULD DO IT

[thevelaryons]

Rhaenyra and Addam by Nozomi Matsuoka // A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin

#I JUST REMEMBERED THIS ART #A FAVOURITE #valyrianscrolls #asoiaf #addam velaryon #rhaenyra targaryen #jaime lannister #arthur dayne #addam & rhaenyra #art #addam/jaime parallels my beloved #I’m actually not certain whether it was rhaenyra herself who knighted addam #as the queen she would have the authority to do so #although it could have also been one of her kingsguard #interesting to consider which one of the seven it could have been #lord commander lorent marbrand is a likely possibility #the knight of the burning tree would be a fitting choice since addam is associated with trees too #now that I think about it the only arts that exist of addam & rhaenyra are this piece and one other where she is also knighting him #otherwise fanart of these two together is kinda nonexistent

[mysticsublimeperson]

I want to express my frustration because... im trying to write some time travel Merthur fanfic as one does...

and I keep hitting my head against the same wall. Because just in case you didn't know England SUCKED before imperialism and colonialism.

Not that that made it better but, the English isles didn't have a variety of fruits or vegetables, the did have meat and fish and salt I think, but no sugar or way of producing it but honey if I remember correctly.

And admittedly climate change is a pain in the ass, but in medieval times the winters probably consisted in huge blizzards and freezing for 4 months.

They didn't even had tea!!!

All the good stuff its because of colonialism which is horrible for the world but whatever.

Im trying so hard to ignore this facts... to be free and write about silly angsty boys but I needed someone to know how difficult it is.

Because Merlin having lived in a 21 century would have spent since the 16th drinking bloody tea, and now he is back in time and doesn't have tea, doesn't even have sugar, it's a pain in the ass to get milk, and he can't even get his favorites foods because the fruits and vegetables aren't even evolved yet.

BECAUSE YES! All of the greens have suffered a tremendous amount of change because of selective farming!! so even if there were apples back there, they probably wasn't the same apple, probably weren't even half as sweet as they are now a days!

Same with animals, and plants. Many of the species have gone extinct but they existed back then. And im dying for a chance to bring this into the fic, to prove just how difficult the transition it's, but a the same time, it doesn't matter right? not really.

bUT I NEEDED TO VENT A LITTLE SO thank you for listening to my rant.

Also im not even a history girly, im an art babe, so all of this I know by logic and assumptions from my art history clases, and my hyper fixation, so obviously take everything with a grain of salt.

((It's just that I was cooking and I was trying to think which ingredients were available at that time to make the most simple dish but no, there was almost none, no spices, no tomato, I think the had cabbage, and like broccoli because its the same plant, but probably wasn't evolved into all of the different versions we know, they had beans, and lentils I think, the potatoes come from South America, so no potatoes, the had bread but what kind of bread??? sO YEAH, this is my head.. all the time))

#fanfiction #au #idea #merlin emrys #merlin x arthur #merthur #bbc merlin #fanfic #merlin #arthur pendragon #time travel #imagine having tried a kebab #and then going back to the Middle Ages #sorry Merlin but I could not #writing promt #merthur prompt #fic prompt #in the end the solution to this its always magic #magic doesn't need logic #but its still annoying #and funny #Actually #imagine athur eating a tomato for the first time #or like a banana #where does the pomegranate comes from #I need to do research

[animucrystal]

thinking about arthur and gwen and i think the best part about their relationship for me is the Choice. theyre two people with not alot of agency in their lives, for varying reasons. arthur obviously has a lot more privilege, but has to play a part in order to rule his kingdom properly lest he be seen weak to others and put his people in jeopardy. hes born and raised in one role, to be a prince then a king. he takes it on with pride, but you Know he feels stifled. gwen, on the other hand, is a black servant girl born in a lower class family. she may not have a certain “role” shes required to fill but she still has to work hard to provide for her family and for herself. she has to look and act like a proper lady lest people think shes unfit for her job, she has to be subservient in order to keep her already fragile status. the agency they do have is very limited, not just by society but by their own morals and beliefs. however, despite all of that, they both choose to take a risk with this one thing. they decide to take a risk Together, and they do it for Years!! they wait for YEARS!!! they work hard to be together, to Stay together, and while they may not have been eachothers first loves - they make it last because they Choose to make it last.

personally, thats way more romantic that being destined for eachother. they chose eachother and kept choosing eachother everyday, what else is there to say?

#sippin coffee #bbc merlin #arwen #argwen #gwenthur #arthur pendragon #gwen pendragon #bbc gwen #the adventures of merlin #yeah i love arwen i love them alot. i just think theyre neat and people are wild for thinking they have no chemistry #be for real bro. do you actually think that or do you think gwen is getting in the way of your yaoi #for the record i do like merthur i mean its literally the core of the show #but its genuinely saddening to see a black woman get pushed aside for two white dudes #anyway! arwenisms on top! #nothing more yuriful than a woman being loved wholly #i could go more into detail about the class disparity between arthur and gwen. the way their character arcs moved #the way the point of their relationship is accountability and love throughout that. its healing

[dispotatorulzz]

Arthur and Magnus first meeting? Magnus is trying to kill him.

Well. Magnus WAS trying to kill him

One (1) novice hunter vs a roughly 100 year old vampire I think he did pretty well actually

#jrwi the suckening #jrwi arthur #jrwi magnus #very curious how they actually met i went the silly route #sun just rose so they have awhile to talk it out im sure they could come up with something #arthur does not understand what void is saying hes doing the classic make nonsense conversation with your cat #we'll never know if void wanted him dead or not #i intend to get to your other two aswell i actually have some ideas for em :]] !! #MyArt

[aromanthur-lester]

Here is a couple of fun activities to do, while waiting for malevolent:

1. fall inside a prison pit! it's classy and you'll have a lot of time to think and recite poetry. you might even be forced to eat someone else in the pit!

2. get shot by a weird guy in a gas mask and fall into a coma! the following month will pass in the blink of an eye, meanwhile the voice inside your head will get some time to think about what it means to be human!

3. get reattached to the elderitch entiety you got separated from. This may not sound fun, but in the end you will be able to possibly make a bad deal with another elderitch entiety! wow!

#also you could become a patron and actually listen to the episode. which is a thing i would be this 🤏 close to if i only had money. #malevolent #malevolent audio drama #just in case i'm going to tag this as #unreality #as well. because you absolutely should not do those things unless you're a podcast character #arthur lester #john doe malevolent

[swinging-through-the-stars]

crime doods doing activities

#i had to stretch a little for tommy because mafia doesn't actually have any mini games #and rdr2 has like four #kiryu is living it up with all the fun little mini games he can do #tbh they could all play darts or poker and be familiar with the game #kazuma kiryu #tommy angelo #arthur morgan #yakuza #rgg #mafia #mafia definitive edition #red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 #crime doods

[emberglowfox]

this is a redraw/reimagine of a thing from like a year ago. original, from jan 2023:

#im trying to not be so scared of using contrast in my paintings. this could still go further but it's a start #also i do kinda like some of the colors in the old one i think that could have been pushed more too. i kinda over-rendered. oh well #steelheart redux #my art #my ocs #sparks art #arthur steele #kathos #og drawing is actually from predux thus the difference in like. out-line overlay subject matter lol #one of kathos' first appearances!

[bluejayblueskies]

on the one hand i really enjoy romantic john/arthur esp. in nuanced ways where it explores like. what does romantic love mean for john, who maybe hasn't experienced it before? what does a romantic relationship look like when the two people involved share one body? what are arthur's feelings about being with another man, and how does the time period he grew up in influence those feelings?

but on the other hand, the fact that canonically john and arthur aren't in a romantic relationship and won't be in the future is very important to me (and i know a lot of other people as well). a large part of it is of course that as an aromantic person, it's so refreshing to have the main pairing in a piece of media be both a) extremely close and intimate with each other, as well as loving one another and b) not involved romantically. body sharing aside, relationships like john and arthur's are rare in media, and it's really nice to know that it's going to stay that way and isn't going to 'take the next step' [derogatory] into a romantic relationship at some future date.

even from a non-aromantic perspective (because i'm not trying to say that either john or arthur are canonically aromantic, just that it's nice that i can headcanon them that way and it fits into the canon narrative), a platonic relationship (and esp. one between two men!) being the main focus of malevolent is a choice i'm really glad harlan made. i'm not going to delve too much into this because his explanation is better than mine, but essentially, two male characters being vulnerable with one another and putting their trust in one another while not being romantically involved is something i definitely think we could use more of in media as a whole.

finally, i wanted to talk about the 'and yet you love him' 'i suppose so' dialogue between arthur and the king in ep. 20. (i think about this exchange a lot y'all--one of the best moments of the podcast imo.) 'love' is such a romantically charged word, especially when used in situations similar to this in other pieces of media. for complete transparency, the very first time i heard this scene, i thought it was meant to be romantic love because that's the kind of weight i ascribed to 'love confessions' based on the precedent set by other media and by real life as well. (i consider this moment a love confession because it's the first time arthur uses that word to describe his feelings toward john, even if he himself doesn't actually say it--literally a confession of love.)

finding out that it wasn't was a 'huh, interesting' moment for me, because i just hadn't really seen anything like it before! there was no precedent! hearing a love confession used in a context like this, where arthur's love for john is narratively important and something that can be used against him but is also platonic, not romantic, just ... it blows me away every single time i relisten to this episode.

in conclusion: i love them <3

#malevolent spoilers #malevolent #malevolent podcast #i am of course coming at this from the perspective of an aroace person so ymmv #but (without getting too discoursy) i can get a bit frustrated with people who complain about non-canonical romantic jarthur #i get it i do! queer rep is important and podcasts are my current choice of media in part because of the excellent queer rep #but also. aromantic and asexual people are queer and if john and arthur were canonically aro and in a qpp #it /would/ be a queer relationship #(i think we could actually argue that their canonical relationship /is/ queer already solely because of how non-standard it is #but that's a different post lol) #also if you are reading this and are like 'hey jay there's another piece of media that also has this kind of relationship dynamic!' #i am making grabby hands at you

[garashir]

kinda sickening how so many of the dean winchester meta analysis posts I like apply to arthur morgan so instead of being able to say anything coherent or intelligent about arthur my brain just goes “so deancoded” as if that makes sense to anybody

#like all the little dean meta things #like how the gun he uses has almost feminine decorative qualities as a signal of his rejection of the masculinity john always put on him #and the gun I have arthur using is the same #and the way dean is always viewed as a weapon of johns #‘daddy’s blunt instrument’ #and how arthur is also that to dutch #he volunteers him up ‘arthur will do it’ #the way it is put on him to beat the debts out of people #how dean is made to be the bait by john! and dutch does the same thing to arthur #the way dean and arthur are always called dumb but they are actually smart #oh I could go on #arthur morgan #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #my posts

[flowerygarrland]

Wanna do face studies later this week gimme rdr2 characters pwetty pweaseeee

#my indecisive ass could never choose #theyre all so pretty #also not sure if i actually have Micah's face down right yet or if thats just my normal style of draw man #also how the FUCK do people draw arthur HFJDJCJFKV #i shall learn

[bittwitchy]

Bruce and Cassie + •-•

Bonus w Arthur

#mc: cassie #mc: bruce #ship: cassie and bruce #srpats #re: arthur #i think thats the least filled tag of hers that i can also use to find on my blog later so #mine. #i should put it in my cr*cksh*ps tag so I can find it but i dont want just anyone rbing it #lit the only reason i post them here anyways is bc random spam blogs WILL rb them tho so #also if anyone rbs this and tags b*tj*kes i will block fyi 8) #@ jessie i took liberty w the earlier scene w makeup bc even tho its not the right makeup.. its on his face #and it was the closest to the right expression i could get kbye #blood cw #clown cw #kinda #i was gonna have arthur in the drawing on the floor one as a 'dear god theyre both doing it no floors are safe' thing #then.... it was too many frames #im only at sixteen tags but i think #actually if i go over 20 tags i cant even find them in my own tags now #bc tumblrs update is stupid #but of course it is #why would tumblr have rizz #the autie rizz shown here is still more than tumbs has #crackships #maybe it'll work i doubt it tho

[nnthyperfixation]

So some of my thoughts on the uhhh infamous Jericho and Lancelot thingy

I hate it. I absolutely hate it, along with like 99% of the fandom, which is plausible and understandable. But I don't hate it becaus it's "pedobait" or something like that, for the narrative clearly does NOT condone her actions.

First and foremost, she's treated seriously as traitor and enemy. Obviously because she has sided with Camelot, but we can still say that it means her motive aka her "feelings" for Lancelot isn't shown in a good light enough to justify her betrayal.

Her falling for Lancelot is NOT normalized. When speaking of her relationship with Lancelot, everyone immediately thinks of that of a mentor-student and older sister/younger brother, that means it is considered totally not normal for Jericho to fall in love with a kid like Lancelot. The phrases "family", "master", "sister" and the likes are used repeatedly to highlighted the contrast between her actual feelings for Lancelot how she should feel towards him.

It is clear that Jericho also expresses shame about that, as shown when she cut Guila off. She herself said that it was disgusting, and she ran away because she knew common sense and that "love" of her was inappropriate.

In conclusion, her inappropriate feelings are not condoned, she is shown under a bad light, and treated as an enemy. If you feel disgust reading this, then that is GOOD, because you are supposed to do that, the narrative wants you to be disgusted by this.

But then why do I hate it? Because it did Jericho so so so dirty.

Why must she fall for Lancelot? Her hopelessly gushing over Ban was not enough? Why must she be the pedophilic villain, fooled by Arthur and betray her comrades for a fictional world he promised her?

I used to like her so much! She's funny to read, she's compassionate, she also has flaws and that's what fleshes her out as a human. Her character arc was basically completed in 7DS: She got over her crush for Ban, kind of stopped arguing pointlessly with her brother (because he uhhh died), awoke to her magic, and with Gustav's death she could then see Ban as her brother figure just like how he saw her as his little sister. It was perfect.

There's literally no reason for Jericho to become like this. It's just so fucking sad.

The best thing we can hope for right now is that Arthur probably brainwashed her into thinking she loved Lancelot romantically so she could become his pawn. Who knows what kind of fuckery he could pull with that chaos magic of his.

#jericho nnt #lancelot 4kota #nanatsu no taizai #seven deadly sins #7ds #four knights of the apocalypse #4kota #she got done sooooo dirty #someone had said this before but i'd actually like it if she sided with arthur for her brother gustav? #like arthur promised her to revive him or sth #instead of... this #i will be sticking to the 'arthur brainwashed jericho' theory from now on #as far as im concerned the brainwash trope has been used like a million times by nakaba #there's nothing saying that he wouldn't use it now #when every single character including jericho herself finds this gross as fuck and shocking as hell #in a “i cannot believe this how could someone like YOU do this” way

[aliciaseverne]

Pointing and laughing at all the merlin conspiracy theorists rn, but also crying and donning my clown costume bcs I would kill for a sixth season or just anything, that show cannot end with that stupid ass shit

#merlin #there's so much that needed to happen that got thrown in the garbage #of course i want merlin and arthur to have a new dynamic now #and maybe even get together uwu #but i also want an actual conclusion and logical arc for morgana #she fucking deserves it #and maybe we could you know have gwen actually do things again before the writers sidelined her? #im literally my own worst enemy rn #shut up alicia

[the-girl-from-another-place]

ok ok hear me out arthur lester is the pearl poet

#he's in the 14th century!!! #fUCK im going insane #blorbo from my ba and blorbo from my shows are one and the same #i know he's not christian but. it could still work #the narrator spends most of the poem arguing against biblical concepts #heaven can't actually be that cool come back to me dead daughter #no? ok i'll kill myself and come to you #i'm either stupid or a genius #how do i find the medievalists on tumblr? they'd like this one #or rather people who are both medievalists and malevolent fans #malevolent #arthur lester #faroe lester

[lieu-rey]

my surprising lack of arthur art is attributed to the fact that the man is so fucking hard to draw. to me.

#either i cant draw his face right or i cant get his skintone right #and youd think that a white man like him would be easy to draw bc you know. Default Settings(tm). #but when do i ever draw white men #dilf white men to be specific #i actually have a whole page of arthur expressions from random screenshots and i still cant draw him lmfao #the fact that i was able to draw young arthur with issac was a goddamn miracle #the fact that i can draw JOHN with no problem is insane. #anyway. ill post more art of arthur eventually cndbjcbd #hes literally the first rdr character i ever drew but he turned out so bad i could never post that BCJDBDNN #me talking.png

[adhd-merlin]

I think this is a mega unpopular opinion among arwen enjoyers but I love the banishment scene in 4x09 actually. yes it's tragic, yes it's painful, but it's precisely because of how much they loved each other. its greatly written and bradley and angel are both incredible in it. I haven't managed to find a proper gif set of that scene yet which is a crime

#yes I love angst!! sue me #I'm sorry I think its very in character for arthur actually #he was hurt he was heartbroken he was furious #and even then he addresses gwen with almost... tenderness? #“what happened guinevere. we were happy” #“what happened”!! = where did I go wrong #he gives her the benefit of the doubt #he goes “god maybe it was my fault. because she wouldn't.” #“if you had doubts...” (!!!) #if you had doubts YOU COULD HAVE TALKED TO ME. #YOU KNOW YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME ANYTHING. #“but he banished her!!” WELL YES his council fully expected him to execute gwen. which would have been the standard procedure #(“do you know what they are saying?” > !!! the ever-watching eyes of the court) #he's still the king. he's been made a fool of. in front of everyone #he's lost and confused and he's just been betrayed by the person he trusted most in the whole world like #he is not exactly clear-headed. ok #and poor gwen can't even explain why the fuck she did what she did (obviously) which doesn't help #oh god I could go on and on about this. I'll stop #unpopular opinions #arwen #merlin