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Masterlist of Headcanons

It is finally here. You never realize how bad you are at tagging things until you have to find shit lol. If there isn’t a link that either means a) I’ve somehow lost them or b) I have an ask for that person and I haven’t gotten a chance to publish it yet.

Character Headcanons: Knights: Elyan, Lancelot, Leon, Percival, Gwaine, Mordred Arthur Merlin Gwen (why were hers specifically so hard to find?! I tagged them! I did!) Gaius Annoying Characters: Agravaine High Priestesses: Nimueh, Morgause, Bonus Morgana Minor Characters (Who are Major in our Hearts): Geoffrey, Balinor, Mithian, Annis, Ygraine, Freya, Will, Elena

Situational Headcanons:

Arthur and Pollen: A Story of Hate

Merlin + Relationship (Morgana and/or Freya)

Gwaine + Lancelot Being the Dream Team

Lancelot + Mordred Being Another Dream Team

Good Morgana Headcanons

Lancelot + Gwen + Merlin Being The Golden Trio

Gwaine Learns About Merlin’s Magic

Morgana + Gwaine Being Bros

Merlin/Arthur Being Married 

Merlin/Lancelot 

Evil!Merlin

Daegal and Mordred Being Chaotic Teenagers

Merlin & Leon Being Bros

Merlin/Mithian Being a Power Couple

Lancelot/Gwaine Content

Merthur Courting

The Time Merlin Poisoned Himself and Everyone Thought He Died

Before/Beyond the Series Headcanons:

Young Morgana and Arthur

Merlin in Ealdor

Merlin After Arthur’s Death

Merlin’s ‘Citizen Test’

Arthur ‘Teaching’ Merlin to Read

General Merlin Headcanons (Part 1, Part 2)

Keeping Up  With The Pendragons (Uther + His Father Getting Camelot)

Merlin + Other Servants

Dragonlord Merlin

How Percival & Lancelot Met

Leon & Arthur (ft. Arthur Receiving Affection)

What Even Happened After the Lamia Episode?

Merlin and His Lovely Singing Voice

AU Heacanons:

Hogwarts(Part 1, Part 2)

Genderfluid Merlin (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 - more discussion in the tags here #genderfluid Merlin)

Elf/Fae Merlin

Demon Merlin (There’s a lot of content here so you can also use #demon merlin for more)

Merlin + Ganieda Siblings Headcanons

Hunith Finding A Bae And Merlin Not Dealing

Dark!Merlin & Dark!Arthur

Modern People Sent Back To Camelot

Nimueh Raising Arthur

Okay… I think that’s a good chunk of them. If you guys remember some headcanons that I probs forgot, let me know and I’ll try to get them on the list for you! Enjoy!

‘Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.’

“Eulogy from a Physicist” by Aaron Freeman, with quotes from Interstellar by Christopher Nolan, and images from NASA, Interstellar, Getty, Petrichara, and Reuters.

1- NASA: GOODS-South.

2- NASA: NGC 1850.

3- NASA: Iberian Peninsula.

4- Christopher Nolan: Interstellar.

5- NASA: From the Earth to the Moon.

6- Hannah La Folette Ryan: Subway Hands.

7- Adams Evans: Heart Nebula.

8- NASA: Exploring the Antennae.

9- NASA: Crescent Moon from the International Space Station.

10- Petrichara.

11- Getty Images.

12- NASA: SMACS 0723.

13- Reuters

I STILL think it was a missed opportunity to have the sorcerers not have, like, gold blood. Or at least it turns/shimmers gold when a spell is cast. Like. Imagine. Merlins got a bloody nose and a hole in his gut, but instead of being red all the blood glistens like a god damn oil spill. That would've been sick, and also wouldve exacerbated Merlin's otherness/fear of being inhuman in the sexiest way possible. We were robbed

having a lot of thoughts recently about post-canon merlin's relationship with music

bc like. he would have lived through the evolution of a lot of mediums-- written word, theatre (please dear gods do not GET me started on this one it's for your own good), visual art-- but, arguably, the one that has some of the most dynamic change has been music. (i say this very carefully, knowing i am opening myself up to the fact that, in a lot of ways, i am Wrong)

this is to say, because my brain is rotten--

i imagine merlin being delighted about the way music changes throughout the ages. i don't know much in the way of medieval music past its religious connotations, but i like imagining the centuries of folk music merlin must have been exposed to. the way music was used for storytelling, for communication. musical instruments changing and evolving and choral arrangements changing and evolving and thematic structure changing and evolving. all Very Interesting

here's where the rot comes in

i imagine there's a point in which merlin starts thinking i wish arthur could hear this. and for, you know, the absolute vast majority of his time on earth, merlin wouldn't have the ability to preserve the music he's hearing for arthur to hear it. so maybe he teaches himself how to play, so he can memorize these pieces that arthur will love. and he just has tomes of sheet music that he composes over the years, especially the early years when a lot of it wasn't really written down. (this is where my musical history knowledge suffers. please flay me if I am wrong.)

and he sees all these musicians that he's like. arthur would love this. and he has these wild stories of like, seeing mozart as a child, that he saves up for one day

and then i think of how fucking excited merlin would be when we finally got the ability to record music. at the very least with most other forms of art, there's always been a way to preserve it-- written word has the privilege of being written, visual art has a canvas. but music recording is a VERY young invention (save for the music box, but even then, that isn't a recording moreso than a reproduction), and suddenly merlin has the ability to catalogue all the things he wants arthur to hear

and so i imagine years of vinyl and 8-tracks and phonographs and, as the technology evolves, merlin has to adjust and save and like.

as music becomes more dependent on lyrics, merlin starts finding things that remind him of arthur and just. starts crafting playlists. starts thinking of how to introduce him to how music changes. starts crafting his own history that he can one day show arthur. starts imagining how arthur would react to bluegrass, gospel, blues, rock n roll, punk. (if he purposefully saves a signed edition of never mind the bollocks just to see arthur's face when he hears "god save the queen" for the first time, that's his prerogative.)

just. years and years of saved up songs, all because merlin would be in a concert hall or a church or a community gathering or playing alone in his room and would hear a chord that said arthur. and he would think, "even if he doesn't speak my language when he returns, he will know this."

and, you know, if-- when-- arthur comes back, if arthur finds that the majority of those songs are love songs, well.

he doesn't need to be any the wiser.

Terrible maps

Arthur + sword twirl

i also keep a bag of chopped onion in the freezer, but i wouldn’t make fucking risotto

op turned off reblogs but i want this post on my blog

I feel like people often confused kindness with innocence. They are not the same thing. To be innocent would mean to be unaware of the cruelty of the world; to be kind means to be aware of said cruelty and make a conscious effort to not be a part of it.

:)