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dont-let-me-eat-pears · 15 days

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gaius smoothly lying to uther to protect a sorcerer, all like “magical remedy? pfft, no, it was just this and that herb,” or “magical scorch marks? please, those perfectly normal marks have been there forever.”

gaius lying to arthur to cover for merlin:

#bbc merlin #merlin #gaius #arthur #merlin x gaius #love in the time of dragons #the sorcerer's shadow #queen of hearts #the wicked day #tavern #merlin rewatch #text: merlin #screencaps #ck: merlin #my stuff #my text

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toshsato · 1 year

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MERLIN Rewatch: 3x09 LOVE IN THE TIME OF DRAGONS

Colin Morgan as Merlin

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hitchell-mope · 4 months

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I still say that Merlin should’ve killed the Pendragon’s and put Gwen on the throne.

#merlin bbc #anti merthur #love in the time of dragons

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hellerscape · 11 months

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Gaius to Arthur: seal off the King’s quarters

Arthur: 🚪 🗡️

Next minute Merlin walking into Uther’s room: 🚶‍♂️

#Merlin really dibber dobbed on Alice #Arthur pleasing to Alice for the remedy reminds me of the one fic where Arthur thinks Merlin poisoned his son #*PLEADING not pleasing lol #because he caught Merlin doing magic and Arthur interrogates MerLin constantly and Merlin low key goes insane #THE FIC WAS SO GOOD OMG #bbc Merlin #bbc merin 3x09 #love in the time of dragons #Gaius #arthur pendragon #Merlin

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weakforarwen · 2 years

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Love in the Time of Dragons

This episode’s so dull it’s hard to rewatch it. Poor Merlin really got the short end of the stick as always. Gaius either refused to believe in anything Merlin said or denied the truth in the hopes that it made Merlin less, and not more, suspicious of Alice. He knew Merlin was right on most occasions, but didn’t want to confide in Merlin, because he believed he could protect Alice that way. It was ridiculous and illogical, but, hey, anything to torment good ole Merlin, huh?

Uther nearly died this episode but, of course, Merlin and Gaius did everything to save him. Arthur actually managed to put two and two together and realize his father had been poisoned. Also, he looked hot this episode. He looks really good in red. He was kinda nice too.

Arthur tried to cheer up Merlin about Gaius by telling Merlin to do what he did when he argued with his father, which was wait for Uther to come to his senses - that honestly said a lot Arthur’s relationship with Uther. And then he punched Merlin in the arm to make him feel better... Honestly, the most memorable part of the episode was this. Arthur’s such a guy, I feel bad for Gwen:

Merlin: How is punching me in the arm meant to cheer me up? Arthur: It works with the knights. Merlin: Well, they're thick, aren't they? Arthur: I'm a knight. Merlin: There you go, then.

Best part of the episode, Arthur and Merlin are cute like this. But I still felt bad for Merlin. He has to be everything for Arthur, including his punching bag.

If I could summarize the entire show in two words it would be: Poor. Merlin. He even lost his bed to Alice in this episode.

On the plus side, I liked seeing Gaius in love when he wasn’t acting totally crazy and irrational; and we learned that he helped Alice escape during the purge, but stayed behind himself because he’d been too scared to leave.

PS: What’s with the title? Is it meant to be a reference to Love in the Time of Cholera?

#bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #gaius #love in the time of dragons commentary #love in the time of dragons

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 6 days

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Expertise can't help you here.

#dungeon meshi #kabru #laios touden #falin touden #Happy Thistle Thursday once again. Have I been holding on to this comic for several weeks? Sure have!#I forgot how long it takes for Chimera Falin to come into play.#I still really love my 'better drawn' art of her - unfortunately it was several weeks too early for the anime only folks.#Slowly getting the hang of drawing Laios. I don't know why I struggle so much but I am getting...somewhere.#Meta time: God damn I love how the chimera shows off the expertise and gap between Kabru and Laios.#The truth is: they are both *right* and they are both *wrong*.#This creature is a combination of monster and human and they only have the skillset to deal with one of those.#Kabru goes for all the human vitals - but she isn't human.#Laios tries to approach her as a monster and is struck down by the humanity he sees in her.#She is something new that defies what they *both* understand about the world. And that makes her such a perfect antagonist.#The damsel was the dragon all along!#...She is really so cute though. Terrifying! But adorable. I am so excited to see the boom of fanart for her.

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none-ofthisnonsense · 2 months

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Merlin S3E9, “Love in the Time of Dragons”

The title gives me hope we’ll see a dragon. Probably going to be Kilgharrah, to be honest.

Okay so this woman has magic! And there’s a weird creature that she keeps in a box.

Never thought I’d see Uther tell anyone, ESPECIALLY Gaius, to go the tavern.

Gaius must be protecting someone because that powder was definitely magical. And if it were Merlin we’d have seen Gaius chewing him out already.

I love seeing the domesticity of Gaius and Merlin.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: MORE SLEEP SHIRT MERLIN.

Who is that, and what’s their relationship with Gaius? (Exes, apparently.)

Is this his wife?

The literacy rate in this world seems extraordinarily high.

Merlin looks so happy for Gaius :)

So not his wife.

Gaius please be happy. I want to see an AU where he and Alice get to be together.

Always love the way Gaius says “sorcerer”. Richard Wilson’s performance in this is wonderful. I always hoped we’d see more Gaius.

Merlin sleeps in socks.

We’re getting more sleep shirt Merlin!

It’s going to get out of hand. I knew Merlin was going to get in trouble.

MERLIN. BE NICE TO GEOFFREY.

I am Geoffrey of Monmouth’s biggest fan.

The way he said “…now go back to sleep”, and generally that whole moment, was hilarious.

So Gaius is in his seventies. I didn’t realise he was that old.

Ironically the bells are ringing at the same time the light in my living room is flickering. Even the electricity is contributing to the feel…

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH UTHER

It’s funny how much Merlin has changed over the course of the series. Gaius is somewhat right.

Somehow I feel Uther will survive. If only because a) they would only kill him at the start or the end of the season, b) it would not be in a “monster of the week” episode, and c) it would be more foreshadowed or in an episode where more things happen.

ARE WE GOING TO GET GAIUS DOING MAGIC??? YESSSS

#I’m also 90% sure one of the AtLA comics (probably The Search) has a play of the same name #Which was Ursa’s favourite #but that’s not relevant #Merlin #bbc Merlin #Merlin s3 #Merlin s3e9 #love in the time of dragons #merlin liveblog

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spacerockband · 11 months

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loved

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marzipanandminutiae · 10 months

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quotes by Victorians about the 1920s view of their generation's women

"We are frequently told that the Victorian woman...generally behaved like a pampered and neurotic infant. This is all moonshine. I do not think that I ever saw a woman faint before I came to London in 1869, and not often after then...they enjoyed a hearty laugh, and a good many of them a contest of wits with any man." -Nineteenth Century, a Monthly Review, 1927 (written by a man born in 1850)

"What queer ideas the girl of 1929 has about the Victorian period- they are not a bit true...Marriage was by no means the end and aim of our existence. Oxford and Cambridge claimed quite a few of us after school days were over. We had great ideas about 'life' and what it all might mean to us." -St. Petersburg Times, 1929 (written by a woman born in 1853)

"True, debutantes were chaperoned at balls. But that fact did not prevent them from dancing as frequently as they chose with their favorite partners. The idea that girls in the Victorian era spent their days sewing seams and practicing scales is another fallacy." -Gettysburg Times, July 1, 1927 (quote from the Dowager Lady Raglan, Ethel Jemima Somerset, who lived from 1857 to 1940)

#history #when they were still alive to defend themselves #maybe- much as I rag on modern historical fiction -we've gotten a bit closer to the truth than our grandparents did #see this is one reason I love studying the Victorian era (besides hoarding their detritus like a dragon I mean what)#it just is One Of The Eras Of All Time in pop culture #and it means so much to so many people that getting to the real human bottom of it fascinates me #spoiler: it boils down to 'people were people and always have been'

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egophiliac · 5 months

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