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saurix5 · 1 day
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abisalli · 7 months
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just normal dragonlord things- like having a dragon climb on your back while you're trying to do the dishes
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247merthur · 2 months
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Another great piece by the ever-brilliant @kairennart ! Thank you so much!!
My Camelot boys with their baby dragon - just as it always should've been!
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calebauer · 2 months
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dante and virgil • arthur and merlin
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arcanespillo · 4 months
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who else on earth can behave like this and get away with it like he does
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gramnel · 11 months
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What could've been
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nina-scribbles · 1 year
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A little Human Aithusa for your soul 💫 
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storm-3arth · 26 days
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my take on (older) Aithusa as requested by @hakka84 !!
sorry to the bald aithusa enjoyers out there, i gave her the horns she deserves </3
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highlynerdy · 9 months
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"Aithusa has seen her father's mate in his memories and smelled him on her father's skin when he comes to visit, but this is the first time she gets to meet him for herself."
Nepenthe and Lavender by @0hheytherebigbadwolf
My latest fanARTifact is an entirely handlettered, handbound, and illustrated book of this beautifully fluffy fic (and it has actually been in various states of progress since March 1, 2021.) More below the cut!
So as I said above, I actually started planning this fic over two years ago. Which, yeah, I don't really want to talk about because adhd is a hell of a thing. I love love love this fic (and this entire series) and I was inspired by The Black Hours and other gorgeous manuscripts with metallic on black paper.
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I ordered some black paper from Canson for the text block, used Arabic gold finetec paint mixed with water and gum arabic as my ink (I used three pans of the gold paint...), and a Nikko G nib with a straight pen holder for the calligraphy. I really wanted to use one of my broad tip nibs, but I just couldn't my Uncial letters small enough with it. I used Uncial since that was technically the alphabet/font they used in the Arthurian time period.
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The paper was cut down and folded into signatures of three and then I drew out light pencil lines for the text and for the margins. Every single letter was done sooooo slooowwllly because if I messed up on one page there was no way to erase it, which meant I would have to do basically four pages worth of lettering again since they were all connected.
And I did mess up.
More than once.
I think the most heartbreaking mistake was at the very end when I was trying to erase my pencil lines and I just ripped a page completely in half. The tears were real, folks.
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Once I finished lettering - which took hours and hours and hours over many weeks - it was time to assemble the text block and sew it. I used gold silk thread I had leftover from Arthur's scarf (which is also used as the backdrop for the photo shoot) to sew the block together and I love how it gives just another little peek of gold to the book.
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I painted the end papers in a vaguely floral pattern with the same gold and also some silver finetec paint, glued them all together and put them in my book press and then promptly didn't work on it again from October 2022 to July 2023. Sigh.
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But once I committed to getting it done, I asked @swanfloatieknight to help be my accountabilibuddy and make sure I finished it this week. I tested out so many different cover designs, from fabric and thread, to paper, to finally settling on this all over design done by my cricut. Historically accurate?? Nah. I'm about as historically accurate as BBC Merlin.
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I tried my hand at gold foiling and that was a disaster so I just used a gold silk ribbon to give the color a little bit more color. Once it was bound, I painted in a triskelion and Aithusa on a double page spread I left intentionally blank.
And it was finally done!
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All in all, I'm pleased with how it turned out. Was it an exercise in patience? Yes. Did I learn a lot? Also yes. Mostly that handlettering an entire fic is madness and also this is far too small to case bind, but I'm a stubborn ass and it was happening regardless.
All total, I probably worked on this for about 50+ hours. It was most definitely a labor of love and I'm so happy that it's finally done.
Thank you for inspiring me to take on such a project by writing such wonderful fics, @0hheytherebigbadwolf! And thank you for everyone who reads these long fanARTifact posts. 💛
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theroundbartable · 2 months
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Sometimes you just have to draw a dragon. And of course cut off, because I'm too tired to look up dragon proportions
Merlin: No fire in the castle, Aithusa.
(Merlin is tired)
A.N.// Please ignore the legs.
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myths0f01d · 2 months
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Can we just talk about why Merlin didn't check on Aithusa. He's a dragon lord, and hatched her. Why on earth didn't he make sure she was fed and taken care of. Why didn't he teach her to talk. Why Why Why. Why don't we see more of her. Why did merlin neglect her. She turned to Morgana. It's so sad it breaks me. Please give me thoughts. Or fic on him raising aithusa with arthur. I don't know, it makes me question him. I don't like questioning merlin. Please send help.
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snarkyship · 8 months
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⭐ Magical Girl Merlin ⭐
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maryluis · 1 year
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TOO HEAVY 😵🐲🏰
find some more sketches on my patreon 💛
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onepeppercorn · 7 months
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I’ve been having a little art slump lately and I think everything I draw look like mush on the floor, so I decided to do some polar-opposite stuff to what I normally do: no bright colours, not bothering with anatomy, no references and no more than 5 minutes on each.
Haven’t had this fun in a while. Enjoy some wobbly lil’ Merlin’s + Aithusa bc I love her to the moon and back. Tyty.
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tamaha · 8 months
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Arthur: Hey, are you free next Saturday?
Merlin: Sure, what do you have in mind?
Arthur: Just a bit of kissing. Maybe running away together. Living on a farm and raise three children?
Merlin:
Arthur:
Merlin: Can one of the children be a dragon?
Arthur: Sure! :D
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pippin-katz · 1 year
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Look this gets brought up all the time, but I really want to step back for a second.
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What was this like to film?! What did they tell them?!
“Hey Colin, we’re gonna pull down Bradley’s pants, and you just tackle him to try and get the key! You guys are gonna struggle and roll around for a bit with Bradley’s pants down, just go for it!”
Like what the hell was going through their minds acting this out? How did Colin’s legs end up in the fucking air?? Were there any thoughts that this might come across as gay? Did anyone think about it?? Anyone?! Did they just think it was a funny bit?! How many takes did they have to do?! I would be stunned if all the people in the room managed to stay in character every time!
I have so many questions and no answers!
This is one of those moments where I wish I could see behind the curtain and watch them film, because I simply can’t imagine what this must have been like on set.
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