Cordazar Calvin Broadus would like you to get yours before his.

[whynot]

There are some things you should check out.

1. FIC: Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda by alice_pike. Narnia, Golden Age, Edmund/Lucy, PG13. BIOMEFIC. Which, okay, isn't a real term, but you know how 'and sometimes you hear the silence speak' is like, "Deserts!!" and 'The Light of a Different Sun' is all, "The tropics!" This fic is like, "THE ARCTIC," and it is so. Fucking. Incredible. You guys. Edmund and Lucy are Arctic explorers, just read it.

2. THINGATHON: All hail the Gwen/Morgana Thingathon (Week 1)! Before you can post a prompt, you must answer a prompt, and it doesn't have to be fic. It can be icons! It can be fanart! Whatever!

3. SNOOP DOGG

4. CHEESE, EVERYTHING'S BETTER WITH

5. RAMADHAN: starts in like two weeks, and eid_ka_chand (and maybe eid_fic?) needs YOU to make some fic/meta/picspam/whatever about Muslim characters. I'm, uh, lapsed, but since Islam has informed who I am and is a part of my family and culture, I'll be playing in that sandbox when the time comes 'cos -- and I'm gonna quote dhobikikutti here -- "[c]elebrating Eid is personal for me because it is a festival I share with friends and relatives, but wanting to see more characters like them in fandom is political. Because I think that fiction has enormous possibilities for inciting change in how we define 'normal', and whom we learn to love and care for despite differences in culture."

The call to action! The list of Muslim characters! Set this on percolate, guys.

...Okay, so I'm scrolling down that list of Muslim characters and, under 'TV Shows', I SEE: THE ADVENTURES OF SINBAD. omg. WHO REMEMBERS THIS SHOW.

Quoth TV Tropes, "The story followed the adventures of a caucasian Sinbad, his older brother Doubar, Firouz the alchemist, the mute Rongar, and Celtic sorceress Maeve."


Where to begin.

So anyway, I totally read Adventures of Sinbad fic and shipped Sinbad/Maeve. MY DARK PAST.


IN OTHER NEWS. The "Will lives!" Merlin AU is bugging me to pay attention to it. Ask me questions about it or give me prompts or something, because I want to flesh it out some. THE STORY SO FAR: he returns with them to Camelot. Also, ask me questions/give me prompts about Gaius? Because he's been niggling too.

Comments

[yue_ix]

Will would most definitively ride to the Isle knowing he would/could die, and be "You are kind of a bitch, aren't you? Leave him alone" on Nimueh. He'd probably be mighty pissed off on Merlin's behalf that she hurt his mother, as she could be a mother figure to him as well (and they probably talked of Merlin together when he left the village).

I have wondered about that too, but did not conclude it that way. Merlin seems easily swayed by arguments, but only if he thinks they make sense. He would have gingerly followed and helped Arthur for the first few days to see how it goes, and then drawn his own conclusion and followed it. There's indeed a lot of interraction moments missing to explain how Merlin came to like Arthur, that I'm filling up with fics, but I think he wouldn't give thought to that destiny if he couldn't see something for himself already. He doesn't strike me particularly as a "plan the future" type of person (especially given how little of thinks of consequences), and more of a carpe diem. So, to me, there must be something in this position or in Arthur himself that makes him stay, rather than some eventuality.

On that, I like to think he grew into loving part of his manservant job (learning about castle life, going almost as he pleases, Arthur's lenancy towards his attitude) and took a liking to Gwen and perhaps other castlefolks (kitchen staff?) so that he wanted to stay, plus a lack of ambition at the moment. From there, he learned to like Arthur, and, in some parallel direction, started to love the Prince, and to really enjoy being able to use his powers for something more. A sort of gradual thing that would be extremely hard to explain to Will when asked why he's content with being a manservant for Arthur. The Mordred episode set it for me, as Merlin went 'fuck destiny and the easier path, I'm going to do what I want, and do what I can, and take it from there'.

This got long. x_x

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Haha, it's okay, I'm tooootally guilty of long comments also. And sorry this reply is kind of late, I also have a tendency of going "omg this comment is EPIC and needs a proper response, so I will set it aside until I can provide as such" and then suddenly it's ages later. Um.

Hmm, yeah okay I can see that. And yeah he's totally not a "plan the future" type of person. You can kind of see in his impulsiveness and his not being careful a whole childhood of being empowered by getting away with mischief. He gets away with doing stupid things all the time (much like Morgana, actually). Merlin has never had to really think things true because magic is more expedient.

I think Merlin does have ambition, but right now he's just ambitious about learning magic. Hmm, or maybe you're right, maybe he's not ambitious, he just likes experimenting around with it.