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Prince Arthur = fanon Draco? He's not a bad guy, just an asshole with an angst-ton of daddy issues who is full of himself. He's a little misguided, having a sociopath for a father, but he's not stupid and his heart is true. Really, all he needs is someone to help redeem him and guide him, someone who calls him out on his bullshit, ~~and also some buttsex,~~ and he will do great things.

OKAY SO. Was it just that I had been drinking all night before (and, uh, during) watching THE BEGINNING OF THE END (omg), or was the plot actually... compelling? Arthur's face (OMG HIS FACE <3333) isn't even the only redeeming thing, nor was the hoyay redeeming, being KIND OF NONEXISTENT. BBC WHERE IS OUR GAY. BUT. On to the hooray. Threats to kill dangerous children! Morgana kicking so much ass! Arthur being all noble and taking care of kingly business, and also saving people (who aren't even Merlin)! Capable and valiant Arthur is my favorite!

I was watching it with my friend, to whom I had been building up the hoyay sooooooo much. I felt fairly cheated when, AGAIN, IT WAS NOT THERE. But then she brought up a good point: "I'm feeling lots of Uther/Morgana here." UH, YEAH. It is kind of a creepy ship, but since when has being creepy ever stopped me doing anything. Uther/Morgana and its power games and mindfuckery, oh I would read it.

WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY NEXT POINT. MERLIN/MORGANA. ALL OVER THE PLACE. I... think I like it?! Merlin and Morgana, fighting injustice and keeping their boundless magical powers a secret OR ELSE THEY WOULD DIE. 'Kay, I don't do official recs anymore 'cos ya'll should just check out my delicious, but while we're on this subject, there is awesome Merlin/Morgana fic this way.

Arthur/Morgana/Merlin: best thing or BESTEST THING?

My friend called the kid being Mordred. I kind of didn't figure it out until ten seconds before the revelation. Ya, even with the episode title and all.

Can we really not escape our destinies? This show is so fucking campy, I have a hard time imagining the tragic endgame that we all know is to come.

Why are my best-beloved fandoms British-esque and set in the past? "Write what you know", I'm doing it wrong.

The internet gave my computer herpes because I was superdumb and looked for Episode 8 in some seriously sketchy sites. A typo-ridden message keeps on offering to download spyware for me, and sometimes it starts to before I'm like OH NO YOU DON'T. I think have gotten rid of everything except the .dll file, because I can't delete it if it is in use... YEAH, I DON'T WANT IT TO BE. So I guess I'm going to the IT helpdesk tomorrow.

ETA: I've changed my Merlin icon for completely superficial reasons.

Son of ETA:

kingandward, an Uther/Morgana community. THAT'S RIGHT.

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Bu, but, but...this episode gave the heartfelt declaration "unthinkable". hoYaY overload. Ok, subtle hoYaY overload!!
Uther ruled this week. Genuinely frickin' scary!
...sneaks off again.

uhhhh 'kay, so that may not the most ringing of suggestions being that it's from someone whose computer just got herpes. but! i swear these sites aren't the sketchy sites!

i guess that's the thing, this show is so not about subtlety. i'm used to the hoyay singing show tunes in brightly colored clothes about how arthur and merlin constantly make out off-screen that when i'm confronted by a gentler approach, i'm left bewildered.

uther is THE MAN. love his asshole self.

I can't afford to download or stream things, actually :( I pay for 'net by the MB, and I have no job so I am trying to save my money for my trip at the end of the year.

oic! i never knew one could pay for the net by the MB, interesting. where are you going for this trip?

in the she's one of the good guys, and is a headstrong type who won't put up with uther and arthur's bullshit, and feels strongly about issues of justice and fairness. she adores her maidservant gwen, and constantly bickers with arthur because they're attracted to each other but both their egos are so big.

and she has the awesomest dresses.

One pays for net by the MB when one is at a residential college. Alas!

Oh, all over the place! Singapore, Prague, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Dublin, London, possibly Paris for a day if we switch trains there, Milan, Venice, Florence, Sicily, Crete, Athens, Meteora, Rome. (We will be, um, moving fast.)

IN WHICH I LONG TO GO TO PRAGUE AND FLORENCE
uhhhhh jealous LIEK WHOA
good call on the seeing venice before global warming sinks it underwater

It will be FUCKING COLD in Prague but I have heard so many good things about it. I will return completely broke but with a bazillion photos.

the last swig of wine is given to arthur because he is the guest. their bellies are warm with it and their tongues are loose with it, babbling about which wines are best and why, which weapons are best and why. "it depends," says arthur, "who and where you're fighting."

"a good knife is desirable in more circumstances than, say, a good bow," edmund cuts in. "a knife over a bow and arrow anyday."

"you just say that because you're a terrible shot," peter says merrily.

"no, no no," says edmund, "i'm alright with a bow."

"su bested him in friendly competition before we got called away to the south," peter explains to arthur. "he's been taking it badly."

edmund explains to arthur, "this is lies."

"oh," says arthur, amused, "so you won?"

"well, technically the placement of the target was--"

"no," peter says, shaking his head. "no, he didn't."

edmund insists, "well, the target--" and is ignored as peter and arthur break into laughter. edmund is not without a smile himself. their recent victory is sweet as the wine they just drank, and they soon fall to arguing which one they should drink next.

and hair. she has gorgeous hair.

it is a shallow show, what can we say?

your icon, it is gorgeous! ARTHUR.

they return to cair paravel only when one of the fleet cheetahs of the royal guard springs up out of the grass. "majesties!" she exclaims. "queen susan says that you're going to be late."

"of course she does," peter says, bemused, as he straightens from the grass. he doesn't stumble, but the wine has gone straight to arthur's head; he hasn't realized just how strong it is.

edmund grins in amusement, swaying a little. "never had faun wine before, hmm?" he asks.

"her majesty is going to skin you alive," the cheetah observes, and peter and edmund's bodyguards, heretofore unseen in the undergrowth, exchange knowing looks.

"she can try," peter says, grinning.

huh

back at cair paravel, peter falls to flirting with everything that moves, although edmund stares at arthur when he comments on it and says, "he's not flirting. trust me, if he's flirting, you'd know it. well. i guess you do know it. anyway, he's just being friendly."

arthur walks in on peter and susan in an alcove, susan's skirts up around her waist and peter's breeches undone. susan smiles at arthur over peter's shoulder -- peter has a knife in his hand the second susan moves, but it vanishes when he turns his head to see arthur.

"come and join us, your highness," susan invites, beckoning with the hand that's not wrapped in peter's hair.

she also has great ~~boobs~~ eyes.

it is gorgeous! ARTHUR.
= MY THOUGHT PROCESS
i uhhh kind of have a few merlin icons now and most of them are of arthur's face. expect rotation! but for now, expect me using this icon waaaaaay to much.

crosstreeverse peter is so light and buoyant!

on a note of not very much connection, i have a ramble, 'cos i should be asleep right now but my statistics homework and i hate each other. SO, i was rereading my old shit, specifically this one (http://lassiterfics.livejournal.com/54640.html), and okay, i wasn't shipping peter/susan when i wrote that, but i might as well have been? shipping pete/su before i knew i shipped pete/su, or do i just read pete/su into everyfucking thing ever now? ah.

they're not so different, susan muses absently as peter, one hand on the back of arthur's neck, kisses him slow. "i think relocating might be prudent, your majesties," she says.

"i completely agree," arthur replies brusquely.

so peter says, "right. let's go."

+

around the next corner, susan catches arthur's arm and suddenly he is kissed against the wall by a breathless queen of narnia.

"susan," he gasps, when she lets him speak, and she laughs at his bewilderment and at how he stumbles at her for more.

"don't tease the boy, su," says peter, amusement in his voice.

"i'm liable to tease back," adds arthur.

susan slips her hand into arthur's, says, "i'll take that as a challenge."

"i'm good at challenges," arthur replies as susan leads them down the hall.

+

arthur thinks the king and queen of narnia have done this before, have maybe developed certain strategies and routines to weave a third party into their trysts. an approach fine-tuned over time, not through words, but through this: how susan writhes wantonly under him and the taste of faun wine on peter's mouth.

arthur says, in a strained sort of voice, "you treat all visiting dignitaries like this?"

"just the ones we like," peter answers.

and that's the last they say about anything for a while.

crosstreeverse peter is so light and buoyant!
we caught him young, that's the only thing. *beams* give him time.

he hears a little of their story, how it was that four children came to rule narnia, and is rueful at his earlier misconceptions. no mere inheritance this, but a full-out conquest, and he finds it hard to see the laughing high king or the swordsman he faced in the camelot tourney grounds in the grim-faced warlord of the songs. he mentions this to morgana. she says, "honestly, arthur, do you think people hear about you in the songs and then expect to see a spoiled princeling?" and then sweeps off, as she is wont to do these days.

she is fond of narnia and becoming moreso, and arthur has barely seen merlin in all the time they've been here, and even gwen has found a place and made friends; arthur sees her laughing in the gardens with some of the narnian creatures. as for himself --

he thinks he could be happy enough never to go home, to remain in cair paravel and live out all the days of his life. and then he remembers his father, and the people of camelot, and the things that come in the night -- dark magic --

"duty is a terrible thing, is it not, your highness?" peter says from behind him, approaching on cat feet.

"it is, your majesty," arthur agrees, turning away from the ocean to face him.

for a moment the expression on peter's face is curious and unreadable, something terribly sad, and then it vanishes and he slings an arm around arthur's shoulders. "what do you say to seeing a little more of narnia?" he asks. "there's more to this land than just cair paravel."

"i would be honored," arthur says, automatically.

I HAVE AN IDEA

FIVE THINGS

okay but i'm gonna do three things right now 'cos i'm lazy

two ways morgana doesn't remind peter of susan and one way she does

1. morgana is useless at archery. she can barely nock an arrow. but to be fair, the lady morgana hasn't ever had to lead anyone against conquering armies. she laughs good-naturedly at her own shortcomings and says to peter with a knowing smile, "i have other weapons, your majesty."

2. she doesn't stifle her moans, and does her utmost to make sure peter is unable to either.

3. they end up sharing claret in his study when he finds her wandering the halls of cair paravel after another of her nightmares. she tells him in a hesitant tone, "it's just that... do you ever get the feeling that all this, all you come to love and stand against, all of this will not last?"
his advice rolls off his tongue easily, oft-repeated and well-practiced: "we must trust in the lion's benediction, and trust in the future. what do we have if not the future? aslan won't allow things to happen without good reason, and we must trust in his judgment."
peter recognizes the flash of cynicism in her eyes. it happens quicksilver fast but he sees it none the less, and he reaches out and takes her hand. doesn't begrudge her when she pulls her hand away.

HUH I HAVE AN IDEA.

her hand on his shoulder is light, and her voice is soft when she says in his ear, "it is you, isn't it? i'm not mistaken."

he puts his glass down, turns to face her. "lady morgana."

"high king peter."

she's wearing her hair short these days, and her face is a little more lined, but no less beautiful for the years. her eyes are colder, older, and sadder. she slides onto the stool next to him, motioning the bartender over, and orders scotch.

"i'm not the high king here," peter says when the man's gone.

"and i'm not a lady," morgana points out. "not anymore." she tips her head to one side curiously. "are you like me, then?" she asks. "cursed?"

the corner of his mouth draws up in a wry smile. "not really," he admits. "although sometimes i wonder."

she nods, sips her drink. "did you know?" she asks.

"yes."

she slaps him. peter turns his head to take the weight off the blow, and waves the bartender off when he starts to come over.

"you should have said something."

"i don't think it could have been avoided. you know that."

"yes." that said, she picks up her glass again, swirls the alcohol around. "what are you doing here?"

he shrugs. "my duty," he says, and leaves it at that.

OIC :-O!!

it is a wonder that cair paravel and camelot aren't already a hotbed of STDs. especially cair paravel.

immortal!susan meets immortal!morgana, eons later?

honeybaby, if you want to introduce herpes to narnia, have at.

YES.

also yes to that second part but YOU FIRST :-O

ALSO

I AM WATCHING THE MERLIN AND ARTHUR ACTORS ON A TEEVEE CLIP ON YOUTUBE
AND
I AM TRYING REALLY HARD NOT TO FIND IT ADORABLE
I WILL NOT STRAY INTO MERLIN RPF
I WON'T DO IT
colin morgan's irish accent eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
bradley james extrovertedly hogging all the talk-time eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9rfOCSzBn0&eurl=http://lj-toys.com/?journalid=2856904&moduleid=12&preview=&auth_token=sessionless:1226462400:embedcontentiurl=http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/S9rfOCSzBn0/hqdefault.jpg
zomg

agh computer of dooooooooom. deleted morgana and susan!

our icons are eyeing each other. peta says, bring it on, pretty boy. *bemused*

"petty thievery, morgana?" susan says from the couch.

"breaking and entering, susan?" morgana says, dropping her keys in the bowl by the door and letting the door shut behind her. she lets her purse fall to the floor and crosses the hallway into the kitchen, coming out with a pint of ben & jerry's and a pair of spoons.

"i must admit," she says, sitting down on the couch next to susan, "you aren't the last person i expected to see here. i mean, you weren't high up the list either, but you weren't the last."

"i was rather expecting merlin," susan says, taking the proffered spoon. "if it was going to be anyone, i mean. imagine my surprise when your name popped up in the fbi database."

"and what were you doing in the fbi database?" morgana inquires around a mouthful of phish food.

susan reaches into her pocket and pulls out her badge.

"oh," morgana says. "should i be knocking you out and making a run for it, then?" she lets the threat and the hint of magic hang in the air around them.

"hardly," susan says. "i'm not here on official business. just a social call, really." she takes the pint from morgana, eats a spoonful of ice cream, passes it back. "and i have a few questions."

"questions that the fbi can't answer?"

"questions i'd rather not ask the fbi, and questions i don't think they can." she twists the ring on her right hand; it has the air of an unconscious gesture, a nervous tick. "what do you know about raisings?"

and arthur's like "OH I WILL." and i was actually considering switching to a plus account earlier today for the icon space, but i then i realized that half of it would just be of bradley james's face and uhhhh yeah. THIS SHOW should really just be called PENDRAGONS and be all about uther and his hardassery and emotional baggage, and how arthur struggles to be a good prince and a good son despite all of uther's crazy.

hagjfsdlg;'fdlg;fdkg;l;d
OMG
IS SHE FOR REALZ GONNA MAKE IT INTO HOLLOW VALLEY
uh that would be awesome, okay.

hey remember when you commentficced hollow valley way back and peter and susan were also bonding over ice cream. ice cream yay

heh, i have considered plus accounts for all of two minutes, because i draw a line at whoring my journal out. and then i remember that lj now whores out basic accounts if you're not logged in. AGH DEATH. *wishes for a paid account*

merlin is such a bad title for this show, because it's not all about him, really. not like buffy or angel. it's more of an ensemble act. CAMELOT. really.

huuuuhh. could be, but i was thinking act three, really. if act one is hollow valley, act two is batman, and act three involves this? and maybe supernatural. because the crazy winchester siblings have to meet the crazy pevensie siblings, and dean and peter can bond over having been brought back from the dead.

merlin doesn't even move me that much! i mean, he's alright, and in real life i would totes chill with merlin over arthur, but in not-real-life i just get so distracted by the pendragon family drama. my favorite moment from the last episode is when arthur and the guards corner morgana and mordred and then THE CONFLICT WRIT ALL OVER ARTHUR'S BEING when he realizes that it's her and his whole mental journey that ends with his his sort of strangled "restrain her" command. ARTHUR. AND THEN. IN THE NEXT SCENE when uther and morgana are having their lover's tiff, arthur is all STARING AT THE FLOOR ashamed of what he should be proud of (his father, his honor, his duty), and when he exits he POINTEDLY AVOIDS looking at morgana. AND

OKAY

maybe i should stop here.

um.

i am THIS CLOSE to accepting it as canon that arthur knows merlin is magical but is just playing dumb, 'cos i mean, merlin is an utter failboat at being subtle and arthur's not THAT dumb.

damn, everyone and their supernatural!

okay, icon 43 (http://rosengirl.livejournal.com/167695.html#cutid1) in this batch. the lover's tiff scene, how uther is all *GLAREZ* and arthur just wants no part of this.

like, arthur is canonically what assholes become fanonically. out of fandom habits, i keep thinking he is a douchebag with more bark than bite. but, right there on the show, in-between bouts of being pompous, he keeps on saving everyone's lives and being a capable warrior leader-type. arthur <333333

okay NOW i'm done

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They make me push the pram a lot.

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AND THEN I DIDN'T STOP THERE