You're right about the Morgana&Arthur thing. Halfway through I realized that I was, in fact, writing (erasing?) about them XD. This is pretty much about them in the vein of MOTHERFUCKING PENDRAGONS. I think the vibe of the "Noble and Most Ancient House of Pendragon" fic I've always wanted to write/read got channeled into this, as did my Arthur/Morgana 1sentence that I'm noooooowhere close to done with. PENDRAGONS: so proud and tragic and fraught and caught and destined! Arthur in the shadow of his father, Morgana negotiating her power; they are both trying to find agency, in their own way. And I think maybe there is also more of a feminist bent here maybe, maybe by virtue of it now being simply about a man and a woman ostensibly. Something like a revolutionizing of the feminine? A catalyzing, an arming? Or something.
That's interesting what you say about puppetmaster Uther, because I think more than puppetmaster, he's just a regular old-fashioned dictator. I don't think he's very smart. His methods are very blunt and he appears to lack the political acumen of, say, Edmund Pevensie. XD
you're free to struggle for your life THIS. Desolation is one of freedom's pitfalls. Liberation brings about the destruction of identity and freedom is a complex thing. Not to say that, you know, we should all stay imprisoned or oppressed or whatever, but freedom is not a panacea. I think this would be interesting played out in fic, especially considering the show's emphasis on destiny. What is the role of free will? And also, what about freedom when it comes to love? If Arthur and Merlin are destined to be together, do they ever feel trapped by each other? I bet they do, and then they have to, like, I dunno, find a way to own their love.
Erasing is a cool mental groove to settle into. My tendency when I edit my own fic is to cut out more than I add, so this was like an extension of that. I did want to include more stuff from the Dragon's letter at the beginning -- I think I had "no time could weaken nature / it will overflow the world" -- but in the end, I dunno. I just went with this.
ZOMG REWORKING THE FIC \o/ stfu intimidation whatever, i was only working off your NATURAL AWESOME with this anyway.
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You're right about the Morgana&Arthur thing. Halfway through I realized that I was, in fact, writing (erasing?) about them XD. This is pretty much about them in the vein of MOTHERFUCKING PENDRAGONS. I think the vibe of the "Noble and Most Ancient House of Pendragon" fic I've always wanted to write/read got channeled into this, as did my Arthur/Morgana 1sentence that I'm noooooowhere close to done with. PENDRAGONS: so proud and tragic and fraught and caught and destined! Arthur in the shadow of his father, Morgana negotiating her power; they are both trying to find agency, in their own way. And I think maybe there is also more of a feminist bent here maybe, maybe by virtue of it now being simply about a man and a woman ostensibly. Something like a revolutionizing of the feminine? A catalyzing, an arming? Or something.
That's interesting what you say about puppetmaster Uther, because I think more than puppetmaster, he's just a regular old-fashioned dictator. I don't think he's very smart. His methods are very blunt and he appears to lack the political acumen of, say, Edmund Pevensie. XD
you're free to struggle for your life
THIS. Desolation is one of freedom's pitfalls. Liberation brings about the destruction of identity and freedom is a complex thing. Not to say that, you know, we should all stay imprisoned or oppressed or whatever, but freedom is not a panacea. I think this would be interesting played out in fic, especially considering the show's emphasis on destiny. What is the role of free will? And also, what about freedom when it comes to love? If Arthur and Merlin are destined to be together, do they ever feel trapped by each other? I bet they do, and then they have to, like, I dunno, find a way to own their love.
Erasing is a cool mental groove to settle into. My tendency when I edit my own fic is to cut out more than I add, so this was like an extension of that. I did want to include more stuff from the Dragon's letter at the beginning -- I think I had "no time could weaken nature / it will overflow the world" -- but in the end, I dunno. I just went with this.
ZOMG REWORKING THE FIC \o/ stfu intimidation whatever, i was only working off your NATURAL AWESOME with this anyway.