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[mizufae]

EVERYBODY GO WATCH THE NEW MERLIN EPISODE BECAUSE I HAVE FEELINGS AND I FEEL LIKE NOBODY I WANT TO TALK ABOUT SAID FEELINGS WITH HAS SEEN IT YET
GET ON THAT DAMMIT

here is my spoiler-riffic tumblr livebloggin commentary on 04x03 in which you can read me getting progressively less and less capable of handling my emooooooooshuns

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[mabonwitch]

ALL THE FEELINGS. Arthur holding dying Uther, oh gods. And that bit at the end, with Merlin camped outside the door.

[mizufae]

that bit at the end BROKE MY HEEEAAAART

so like, there's going to be a massive divide in the fanfic for the show now - everything before this point with the whole king arthur knowing about the magic is JOSSED. I'm pretty surprised even though I knew it was coming for at least a couple weeks!

UGH. The Merlin Arthur knows and calls "friend" is SO DIFFERENT from who Merlin actually is, but at the same time he's who Merlin wishes he could be and who he could have been without all the SHIT that's gone down? OH GOD I AM SO EMOTIONAL ASDFHAKSJFHKSDJFH

But then also all the stuff that was silly was SO GOOD. ARTHUR & DRAGOON BROTP??? The fucking piggy back ride! And Dragoon's giant squinty happy oldman grinface when Arthur promised to make magic legal? LIKE SUNSHINE GLOWING FROM HIS WRINKLES. And I knew it wasn't gonna work, it was obvious everything was gonna go to shit but OH ARTHUR. WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN!

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[mabonwitch]

The piggy back ride! I could not stop cackling through that bit. Also, the peeing. WTF, hello, all the watersports fic. And I need reveal!fic based on this ep like NOW.

[mizufae]

reveal!fic, though, how would that even GO???? The only possible path at the MOMENT is some SERIOUS fucking tragedy - Arthur has to go one some HARDCORE spirit quest journey shit to unlearn the magic bigotry. T____T Do you have some kind of, like, tidy rationalization kicking around in your brain that might make me feel a wee bit better? Some plot bunny perhaps? *clutches your lapels* ANYTHING, I'LL TAKE ANYTHING YOU GOT.

[mabonwitch]

No no, I want MID-EP reveal!fic, where Merlin tells Arthur he has magic and will try to heal Uther. But there is no amulet, instead Merlin's canon-until-now fail!magic when it comes to healing kicks in and he's all "Crap, sorry, I TRIED!" And Arthur has a hysterical fit along the lines of WHAT GOOD IS MAGIC IF IT CAN'T EVEN HEAL MY FATHER! And Merlin cries and goes to try another spell, and eventually Uther dies of his gut wound but Arthur sees Merlin running around like a crazy person trying to heal him and his heart softens. And then they have comfort sex.

I FIXED IT! (Also, dude, I totally wrote and posted something not even remotely resembling this already (no, really, sorry), get ye hence to my journal!)