I think...this might actually be my favorite ep of season 3, so far. \o/

( In which this episode is quite possibly every serious/angst/dark fic writers’ fangasmic dry/wet dream. )

Pretty! And shiny!

( In which there are many hot and shirtless men, sometimes lying down in bed and sometimes fighting with swords, but mostly very hot and frequently very shirtless...though for once, that doesn’t include Arthur. \o/ )

( I get that the show needs comedy, but really...? )

Merlin is back, to carry on the saga of Morgana and Morgause’s plans to take down Camelot!

( The show doesn’t even bother hiding innuendo as the castle prepares for a siege, Cenred and Morgause join forces, and Morgana raises an army of the dead. )

My deconstruction of Merlin Episode 301: The Tears of Uther Pendragon, Part 1. This review is a little rambly, as I can't actually come to any conclusions until the end of the episode next week.

( Uther takes shrooms, Merlin and Arthur are still in the closet, Morgana is cold, colder, and coldest, and Morgause has a leather fetish. )

So, before I start on that, a brief blurb on my personal history.

I don't really have much of an idyllic childhood, but then, many people don't. I dealt with it with poetry.

A lot of my poetry has violent and depressing themes. I'm not going to shoot out my school, or kill myself, or others. Please, do not take it seriously, just like people don' ( Read more... )

So, my good friend arithilim recently wrote a post on the most common fails of fanfiction.

I, being the strange person that I am, went one step further - how to fix the ones she didn't give advice for, herself.

Starting every sentence with the same subjectIt’s awkward and redundant. Switch it up. Add some variety. Invert. Add a clause. Whatever. ( Read more... )

So, to start with a technical side, I have been looking up the stuff in the commercial to see if they come from original legends. They do not ( Read more... )

( ONE DAY I will post this thing on time, I swear... )

So, mostly, we see Morgana being persuaded to betray Uther and get the Druids that crystal which will help them defeat him ( Read more... )