UM WHAT. SOMEONE SOMEWHERE WROTE MAGICAL WILL AS ARTHUR'S MANSERVANT?!?!? is there a link?? Yeah I was the one that AU'ed ep10 and Will follows Merlin back to Camelot. I have been contemplating this more and more lately, maybe at some point in the future this will actually be written. AND AND Merlin has always hated hunting anyway and so makes Will go with Arthur on a hunting trip once, and Arthur finds Will surprisingly competent, and then grudging respect happens (http://mrinalinee.livejournal.com/5552.html?thread=22192#t22192). Bonus Will/Gwen in the actual post!
ALSO. I've written four letters from Lancelot thus far. Approx 1000 words thus far. Here is an excerpt:
Though I know it was no fault of mine, I feel compelled to apologize for how abysmal our first international phone call experience was, what with the lags and the crackles. At one point I think we might have crossed wires with the fellow in the wartel booth next to mine. It was lovely to hear your voice again, though. Am I to understand that Morgana’s poetry is gathering a following? If so, that’s wonderful. Don’t worry about her. We all need to fight our fights while we still can. And don’t worry about me – I knew what I was getting myself in to when I came here. You mentioned the desaparecidos, well let me tell you: there are many ways to disappear, and the one way I won’t do is with my tail between my legs.
You are one of the bravest people I know, Gwen. You inspire people everyday, and I wish you’d let us make use of the courage you give us. The Indonesian word for courage is ‘keberanian’. The word for love is ‘cinta’. The word for peace is ‘damai’ and war is ‘perang’. This is how Indonesians say ‘I miss you’: saya rindu kamu. Everyday.
Lancelot
Any direction you want to give Lancelot? He's been waxing philosophical in his letters a lot ("In this, Nimueh was wrong: articulations of magic is every bit as important as magic itself. Magical materialism is not a discourse to be easily dismissed, especially when it’s supposed to be the thing that compels us all."), and I've yet to write the parts where Indonesia descends into chaos and people start disappearing. I also want to write more about MAGIC ("For the sake of some misguided notion of national cohesion, the language is crippled, and so magic is crippled. Imagine how much magic will be lost because your children won’t know the words to conjure it: Chinese charms, Indian transfigurations, Arabic divination. All of it, gone.").
is City Lights not OMGAWESOME?? Have you hit up the Haight and Castro?
there is probably so much to be said for their day-to-day interactions and their slumber parties and Morgana's restlessness and how hard Gwen works. I know what you mean. But on the other hand, that would totally be what is compelling about Morgana/Gwen, girls being girls in a normal way, the tenderness of female-hearted friendships fraught by repressed class issues.
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ALSO. I've written four letters from Lancelot thus far. Approx 1000 words thus far. Here is an excerpt:
Any direction you want to give Lancelot? He's been waxing philosophical in his letters a lot ("In this, Nimueh was wrong: articulations of magic is every bit as important as magic itself. Magical materialism is not a discourse to be easily dismissed, especially when it’s supposed to be the thing that compels us all."), and I've yet to write the parts where Indonesia descends into chaos and people start disappearing. I also want to write more about MAGIC ("For the sake of some misguided notion of national cohesion, the language is crippled, and so magic is crippled. Imagine how much magic will be lost because your children won’t know the words to conjure it: Chinese charms, Indian transfigurations, Arabic divination. All of it, gone.").
is City Lights not OMGAWESOME?? Have you hit up the Haight and Castro?
there is probably so much to be said for their day-to-day interactions and their slumber parties and Morgana's restlessness and how hard Gwen works.
I know what you mean. But on the other hand, that would totally be what is compelling about Morgana/Gwen, girls being girls in a normal way, the tenderness of female-hearted friendships fraught by repressed class issues.