Merlin!!!

[marguerite_26]

YAY!!! I've watched every. single. episode!!! YAY!

OMG! so much fun. Come talk to me about it!!! I've kinda devoured the show and haven't had time to process all the little bits and bobs. I've read two fic. (wot? you didn't believe me when I said I wouldn't?)

I have several (dozen) plot bunnies bouncing about it my head. YAY! OMG! those boys are soooo damn cute together. I am in looooooooooooove.

Also! icon! ha! There is also a cross-dressing one and a bondage one. :D

Got them here if anyone is interested. :D



I wish I could spend hours making comments on everything single episode, because I totally could ramble quite a bit. I was very open to falling in love with this show and I did, easily. :D

I'm surprised how much I love Arthur. For all the lameness and over the top silliness that the show has, there is a complexity to Arthur that is fantastic. He is such a prat. OMG! And he hasn't moved past being a prat (which I appreciate!) he simply allows enough glimpses of himself that make me love him while still knowing he is a such a prat. *squishes him* I like characters that don't suddenly become 'not a prat' because it's season 2, or whatever.

And Merlin! *flails* while the whole '*sigh* I have a secret identity and everyone thinks I'm a tool and I must trip and fall be ridiculous' is all very over done by every popular 'hero' atm, it works for me because Colin true is a total adorable geek and not ZOMG!gorgeous!athletic guy playing a geek. And MAN that boy can wear emotions on his sleeves with the best of them. He is the EMO KING. *loves*

Misc. Stuff I LOVED:
You shall be Arthur's Manservant. ok - totally obvious, yet.. ahahaha! WIN!
The 'married to a Troll' episode. Oh.My.God. I was prepared for it totally lame filler episode but bwahhahaha! I died laughing throughout the entire thing. Tony Head is just FABULOUS in love, isn't he?

Ok - a little segue into another life - on Buffy, Tony was famous for not WEARING TROUSERS. So like if a scene was going to be shot from the waist up, he didn't wear his trousers for the scene. HAHAHAHA! I can't help think that every time he shoots a scene in Merlin. *snorfles*

Arthur being jealous over Merlin giving Morgana flowers? LOL! There is a missing scene there where Arthur spanks him manservant for inappropriate behaviour. o.O

Also, Arthur should bathe more in season 3. Bathing is VERY IMPORTANT. PLEASE. just ... one.. only one little scene with Merlin washing Arthur's hair? PLEASE? pretty PLEASE??? *begs* Also towelling off. VERY IMPORTANT and clearly manservant work.

cross-dressing? this needs to come up more often. Also more water tossing. and tending to wounds. And just a little thank you to whomever decided that Arthur's chest was basically it's own character in Season 2 and that it needed more screen time that anyone else. That was lovely.

OH - and my favourite moment - and this is kinda weird, but when Arthur is 'officially' crowned, the way Merlin looks at him which such pride. *flails*



ok - talk to me people!!! favourite eps, favourite quotes.

I would also love recs to fics, but my time is VERY limited so I'm going to be specific...
- only absolute favs, no AUs (I'm not ready for that yet), Arthur/Merlin, I'd pref. top!Arthur (no, don't get into the 'top/bottom shouldn't matter' debate with me. I'm just telling you my preference at this moment. for whatever reason, top!merlin just doesn't do it for me.) and 'fits into canon' stuff would be TOTAL WIN.

Comments

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

MP!!!

Ha! This is all your fault you know! I rec one little Merlin vid and got SUCK INTO THE FANDOM. how do these things happen???

Someone let Arthur know something, please?
yes. THIS. I mean, god, at least suspect something? It's S2! Someone should know besides the same person who knew in episode 1, right?

I can see bottom!Arthur as hot with the relinquishing control bit (which I adore!) but IDEK - not to Merlin. Or not who Merlin is now. and who Arthur is now. But yes, bottom!Arthur which someone else where the power dynamic is totally different I could get behind. heh.

ut Arthur, my god the repression in that boy. Also, the moments when he breaks through the prattishness to actually connect are so much better for its existence in the first place.
THIS! totally this! Also daddy!issues. ♥ *flails* But it is really cruel to pick, because Merlin makes Arthur's character shine and vice versa. :D

YAY for comms! I don't mind extra info. I just didn't want to get linked to twenty rec lists of varying degrees of quality and then have to figure out for myself where to start, right? Btw - have you written any Merlin fic (yet?) And Arthur in non-porn spanking? I'm so there. No worries. :D

[mpoetess.livejournal.com]

I AM DEEPLY SORRY.

...yeah, not really.

It's S2! Someone should know besides the same person who knew in episode 1, right?

Gaius knows both things (Merlin's magic and Arthur's birth details) -- hell, all things, and much as I love him, damn, does he constantly make the wrong choice when it comes to telling/not-telling/telling other people not to tell.

Lancelot knows about Merlin's magic, but he's never around. Morgana of all people ought to know -- I want Arthur to find out, but unlike his own birth story, I don't feel he has a right to know or that merlin's wrong in keeping it from him -- but so much could have been different for Morgana if Merlin had trusted her.

Btw - have you written any Merlin fic (yet?)

<.< I may have (http://archiveofourown.org/users/mpoetess/pseuds/Crazypaving).

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

SQUEE!!! DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT'S BEEN SINCE I;VE READ UR FIC???

YAY!! *grabby hands*

Yes, Gaius makes terrible decisions and gives terrible advice. :/ Which is pretty odd. I am so all about Merlin and Morgana bonding and both finding much needed kindship in each other.

and then Arthur getting jealous and disapproving and needing to spank Merlin for his inappropriate crush on Morgana