Our Japanese class found it funny that in common terminology "food" isn't very distinguished from specifically "rice" until it was pointed out to us that in English "meal" is "loose roughly ground grain"
Thanks @liviapeleia for the tag! I got Garden of Earthly Delights, which is correct. Compatible painting Water Lillies (look at us with our compatibility, Livia) and the Music Lesson.
My zero presh tags are @breadkween @bubblo @curveswithasideofhips @poetryqueer and @1665-meters-per-second!
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Tagging the artsy squad: @anglefish3008, @chiikaiser, @goldencranberries, @soleilonthesun, @yolkochan + anyone who wants to join.
hey if you died right now whats your ghost outfit you cant change it be honest
for the @merlinmicrofic prompt "nightfall": Merlin/Lancelot, G, major character death, 100 words, AO3 link dedicated to the most lovely @thefollow-spot, inspired by her drabble "Untitled" (Dusk) midnight
This is how you'll grieve – in quietness.
Behind closed eyelids is where now he lives, in dreams, it is not merely night that falls but memories, like rockslide, and you're trapped, but oh what sweet suffocation it is.
He gifted you his nights, he held your secret in his palm, you might've given him your heart as well, and he would've kept it safe.
The veil looked at you and blinked and he was gone, and you think, did he have regrets? You recognised then love as his undoing, and hope he knew of yours.
This is how you'll remember.
Merlin/Arthur | Mature | No Archive Warnings Apply | Word Count: 500
Emotional Hurt/Comfort | Survival | Injury Recovery
For @merlinmicrofic with the prompt "starting over"
Merlin and Arthur find refuge in a small broken down cottage
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Before Arthur knew what was happening, his hand was on the hilt of his sword. He almost evicted Merlin from the mildewed thing they called a bed.
Cold hands found his neck, his face in the dark. “It’s just thunder, Arthur.”
He lay back down and Merlin lay on his chest. Their hearts slowed together. The rain on the broken roof went on.
“I’ll work out the spell, I promise.”
Gone, for now, were Merlin’s entreaties for Arthur to return to Camelot. They would face whatever came next together.
Arthur drifted, until water dropped down on his forehead. He groaned.
Arthur strode across the small, disused field, carrying a hare by its ears. It was dusk and ahead of him was their temporary salvation, a little lopsided cottage, with a field of its own taking root on what was left of the roof.
When he let himself inside Merlin was there to greet him, making no secret of the fact he had been peering anxiously though the little window.
“I caught a hare,” Arthur told him.
Merlin grimaced but nodded. “I heard it screaming.”
They needed more than the meagre meals they had made of fried hazel catkins and cleavers.
Merlin was making use of a sturdy ash rod they had found while they were still running, the burns on the outside of Merlin’s right leg and his feet were still healing and the tightened skin gave him a limp. But he was dispelling any illusions Arthur had of his frailty, advancing on him now like a storm.
Arthur dropped the rusted hoe he’d been using.
“I told you! There’s no use in planting when we’ll just have to run again!”
“Your spell...”
“There’s no spell!”
“There could be if-”
“If I try? You do it, if it’s so easy!”
The ground was uneven here in the green wood. Merlin told him that this place had been used by a charcoal maker, he had no doubt that the earth here had once smoked hellishly. He checked their traps. The woods went on. But where was Merlin? Where did he leave him? Feelings of temporary safety, images of holding Merlin in a suntrap somewhere fled from him. He panicked, called his name.
Then an answer. “-thur! Arthur!”
He saw him, ran, caught him.
“Arthur! I’m sorry, I'm sorry,” he soothed, then he grinned. “My spell worked a little too well, then?”
Their little shelter was golden with the morning sun and so, just for a moment, were Merlin’s eyes. Arthur found he couldn’t let go of his hands, feeling they might just fall to their knees in relief otherwise. They were safe, anyone who tried to find them now would be gently guided away.
“Promise me this isn’t forever, Arthur,” Merlin beseeched quietly. “Promise me we’ll return and you’ll be king.”
“We will return, when the time is right, when you’re healed and we have a plan.” He pulled him close. “Until then…”
“Until then…” Merlin’s eyes fell to Arthur's lips.
Sorry I'm late, I got added to the Wild Hunt last night and ran and reveled with them for what felt like 100 years plus a day until I landed the killing blow on a stag with bronze antlers then suddenly woke in my bed, willow leaves in my hair, a nameless song echoing in my ears, and my hands still bloody, so yeah, totally missed my alarm and stuff.
I saw a fanart by @alisaall_comic on instagram and couldn’t resist redrawing it with Merlin
man older generations just dont get how hard it is to get a job these days
youre trying to find entry levels jobs but they all require at least four years of knighthood or a lordship, the listings are only ever things like "stable cleaner, $7/hr" or "king of the realm, $120k annual, REQUIRED: sword from the lady of the lake"
ok you found a posting youre qualified for. now list list all of your conquests and all your chivalric values on your resume and then add your resume as a pdf and now also rewrite them in the boxes that auto populated and fix the formatting
and you cant tell older generations all of that because theyll just tell you about how they got their job by walking into a royal court and swearing fealty to the first king they saw and being granted a knighthood on the spot. literally if you try to do that these days the archers on the castle turrets will get you before the rattling of your armor is even within earshot
"just get a job with sir arthur"
gimme a break
affection that held us together
She/Her | 31 | Herbal Tea EnthusiastInterested in: hurt/comfort, fairytale retellings and folkloreCurrently down an Arthurian rabbitholeLeMightyWorrier on Ao3
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