lesbiassparrow

I have been so busy that I think my head will explode at some point. Well, it would fix any number of things even if it would be messy to clean up. (But at least I wouldn't be on the hook for that, what with not having a head and all.) But I have been massively enjoying Merlin this season.

( Cut for mildish spoilers for season 2+3 )

I have a cold and feel all snuffly and wretched (the fact that I have to work on stuff all weekend isn't helping). But immigination wrote me Gwen centric Merlin fic for which I bid on in the help_haiti auction. It is: here. Yay!

Merlin is totally my new crack. I find the fact that the Knights of Camelot have a shelf life of about 2 weeks rather bizarrely reassuring. (Where are they getting them from? Does Uther put up posters saying 'Young men with a deathwish wanted. Red cloaks supplied so your enemy can have an excellent target. No sorcerers, thnx'?) I also feel that the good citizens of Camelot should reconsider keeping it as their home town, given that every malignant being for miles around seems attracted to it like a cat to nip. It's got to have the highest mortality rate of any kingdom ever.

I can also tell you that something like 90% of all Merlin fic involves AUs in which Arthur is a model and Merlin a photographer and they have it off endlessly between snaps. I won't even begin with the one where Merlin went around calling Gwen a harlot. A HARLOT!

The Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot love triangle as you've never seen it before

So I have started watching this offering from BBC; have seen chunks of season one and a bunch of season 2 episodes. It is quite enjoyable, despite dodgy CGI and complete lack of scenery chewing by Uther. He needs to stomp more. Morgana also does not seem to do very much, though she stands rather well at windows. This was probably an essential skill in ye olden tymes as there was not much else to do except try and avoid washing and grub around the mud. And as a princess you probably don't have to grub in the mud. However, I do hope there are more episodes where she does the becoming evil/misunderstood thing.

My favourite character is Gwen and her awesome self. She is exactly what I would have wanted to be as a kid. Well, in honesty I would have preferred to be more princessy and possibly had a pony, but given that she does get to be queen eventually I imagine that's coming.

The HILARIOUS thing is reading fandom reactions to season 2 shifting to her and Arthur. The shrieks over the turn towards the relationship and it apparently breaking up the true love of Arthur and Merlin are fairly entertaining. It's Arthurian legend! What did you expect was going to happen? It's not like that's an obscure part of the story.

ETA: And because almost all the fic out there (DON'T LAUGH AT ME. MY LIFE IS VERY STRESSFUL) is about the epic manlove of Arthur and Merlin,* I am delighted that at the Help_haiti fandom auction I bid and won on someone to write fic for me based around Gwen.

*I don't mind this. What I do mind is that Gwen and Morgana might as well not exist apparently in many people's minds. Or people feel the need to write things that insist Arthur is only with (the clearly inferior) Gwen because he cannot have his wizard love. It just seems like such a lazy way to write when people do this to get rid of a canonical relationship. It's like the ones where people kill off the OTP on the show in two lines and then have the other person bounce back in weeks to discover they never loved that person at all.