but whyyyyy does he wear a hipster scarf

[kalpurna]

Soooo I've been watching a lot of Merlin. The first ten episodes, I saw while getting increasingly drunk with loveyouallwrong and various Chicagoans. Merlot and Sprite, baby! Pete Wentz's best idea since making Patrick Stump sing! This definitely affected my appreciation, as I went from OH MY GOD THE VOICEOVER AT THE BEGINNING EMBARRASSMENT SQUIIICK to "Lea, this show is ACTUALLY good, right? It's like. REALLY good."

(Lea: "No.")

But it's not just the alcohol, okay? I love this freaking show. It is SO BAD and it feels SO GOOD. Ugh amazing amazing badfic being filmed.

Still, every so often some tiny straw breaks my back and I freak out at how inconsistent it is (OH MY ACTUAL GOD, WHY ARE THEY DOING MAGIC IN OLD ENGLISH WHEN ARTHUR SPENDS HIS LIFE FIGHTING THE SAXONS) (THAT IS NOT WHAT MEDIEVAL SCULPTURES OF DOGS LOOK LIKE) (WHY ARE THE WALLS SO SMOOTH). I can accept the big stuff, the Victorian castle, whatever! And yet then something hits me the wrong way and BANG.

I wasn't expecting Merlin and Arthur to be as attractive in motion as they are, because they're both kind of odd-looking in still shots. But they really ARE hot shit. (And I know it's very very early in the fandom to be crossing this line, but... have you watched the cast video diary? Yeah. YEAH. I'D READ IT.) Gwen and Morgana are also even gayer than I thought they would be, and I'd been warned that they're pretty gay. I love all four of them and their relationships with each other more than I expected.

Anyway, here are some things I would like Merlin fandom to get right on, thanks:

- fic where Morgana and Arthur create a SECRET CLUB for people who want to seduce their super hot servants. They hang a sign on the door! NOBULZ ONLEE, NO SURVANTZ ALLOWED

- fic where Arthur notices Merlin's hickey and frrrreaks out. Basically I am envisioning a situation where Arthur : people who give Merlin hickeys :: Uthur : magic.

- FIC WHERE MERLIN IS PREGNANT

- FIC WHERE ARTHUR IS PREGNANT (!!!!!)

- FIC WHERE MERLIN IS SICK AND ARTHUR NURSES HIM

- sex pollen spells wtf why are there not 1000 fics of this already

- All of the Gwen/Morgana.

- All of the Gwen/Morgana, Merlin/Arthur parallelism fic where Gwen and Merlin are awkward and Arthur and Morgana are grumpy and jealous.

- an Arthur vid to Womanizer. Think about it. Merlin is Britney.

- Lea and I had another great vid idea but I forget it! Essentially, what I want is a lot of Lord King Bad Vids. Because this is, if ever such a thing has been, a Lord King Bad Show.

Um, who else has fallen for this? Half of my flist, if I'm not mistaken? Talk to me! What do YOU want that no one has yet adequately provided?

Comments

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

I am betaing some sex pollen right now :D

(well, I mean, no I'm not; right now I am reading The handmaid's tale/refreshing my flist. But. In theory!)

[impertinence.livejournal.com]

Jealous Arthur is amazing.

I want Gwen/Morgana with Morgana getting more and more ~magical (maybe in a lulzy badficcy way because lol Merlin is not quality) and Gwen following her even when the magic takes a darker turn. And Merlin becoming even more vaugely sociopathic in his defense of Arthur, maybe with the inclusion of his knowledge of an alternate reality where he's an old man who guides babby Arthur to the throne. And loads of Gwen/Arthur.

[loveyouallwrong.livejournal.com]

I WANT SEX POLLEN SO FUCKING BAD I WILL LIE NONE AT ALL. GOD I JUST WANT ARTHUR BEING ALL >:* AND MERLIN BEING LIKE "SHIT, I DID THIS!!!"

[allthespoons.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, the video diaries are Just beautiful. I will never get tired of Bradley ceaselessly repeating Colin's name and talking about how unique his sense of humor is while he stalker-films Colin. O RLY, BRADLEY.

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!!!

GET BACK TO WORK, LADY.

[entropical87.livejournal.com]

YES! \o/ THIS SHOW SHOULD BE LOVED BY EVERYONE EVER.

I would read, no lie, everything on that list and more. *grabby hands* Come on, fandom, make it happen. Especially the Merlin-is-sick one. My soul LONGS for that.

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

Jealous Arthur is my faaaavorite kind of Arthur. He's such a little jerk when he's mad, and he never talks about his feelings, and I LOVE IT.

I just want Gwen in a big starring role. She's so amazing, Imp! She's SO MUCH MORE EMOTIONALLY COMPETENT THAN ANYONE ELSE. I loooove heeer.

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

FWIW (re the historical "accuracy") the creators have stated in interviews and commentary tracks that they've very deliberately creating a fairy tale universe that borrows liberally from anywhere within the range of potential Arthurian legend settings (which I think they've pegged as anywhere from 6th to 14th centuries). So... yeah they're all over the place, but it is a deliberate pastiche and not just a series of fuck ups.

And yeah, Arthur and Merlin aren't best served by still shots, but they get WAY hotter both in action, and as the cinematographers seem to learn how best to light them.

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

- FIC WHERE MERLIN IS SICK AND ARTHUR NURSES HIM


:o

I'LL BE ON THAT BRB.

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, RIGHT?!?! I KNOW. I WANT IT SO MUCH. I WANT EPIC EPIC MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND ALL OF THE SEX POLLENED ARTHUR IN THE WOOORLD.

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

ISN'T THAT RIGHT, MERLIN?!

Also I like the part where Colin flirts with him like a giant ho-bag, aka most of the video. Especially when he's mouthing stuff at the camera. GAY GAY GAYYYY.

[impertinence.livejournal.com]

She is amaaaaaaaaazing. And I can totally see her being the calm center of all the crazy, especially once Morgana's magic gets worse and Merlin and Arthur get EVEN WEIRDER around each other.

the shipper in me also wants horrible sappy Gwen/Morgana where Morgana is falling further and further into magic/opposition against Camelot and Gwen ~saves her. D: D:

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

I don't know why my first instinct when getting into a fandom is to go down the list of shitty cliches and ask for ALL OF THEM, but it so is.

IS THERE ANY WAY FOR MERLIN AND ARTHUR TO BE UNDERCOVER GAYS????

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

I WAS READING THIS BOOK FIRST, OK, THE SEX POLLEN CAME LATER >:(

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, I didn't know that! That's - well, I don't know, I still have trouble with the Old English = language of magic thing, and the incredibly straight machine-sewed seams, but that's reassuring, at least. It still galls me a little, though, even if I know they're doing it on purpose, which isn't very fair of me.

They are GORGEOUS! I wasn't expecting them to be so attractive. Talk about unphotogenic.

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

>:(

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

Oh god, then I feel so bad for her, though! Poor poor sane Gwen. :/ IMP, WHY ARE YOU TAKING THIS TO THE ANGSTY PLACE.

[impertinence.livejournal.com]

no no no, it would be lulzy in the first case and sappy in the second, because all I am capable of conceptualizing is badfic.

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

Well, in that case, CARRY ON. I want literal tons of well-written badfic about this show.

[entropical87.livejournal.com]

The best thing? SO MANY cliche and/or crackfic plots totally work in this fandom. Genderfuck? Bodyswap? Mpreg? Hell, wingfic? BRING IT ON.

SURVEY SAYS YES. SURVEY ALSO SUBMITS A REQUEST FOR THIS TOO.

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

Magic is an EVEN BETTER plot device than aliens, okay?! The possibilities are pretty much endless. I don't understand why no one's done wingfic with tentacles AND mpreg yet. :( This fandom needs to step up.

[angelsaves.livejournal.com]

I WANT ALL OF THIS. this show is so amazingly bad, i don't even know.

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

I keep wavering on whether to put the emphasis on the "amazing" or the "bad."

[jukeboxromeo.livejournal.com]

UGH SEX POLLEN FIC! I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE HOW BADLY I NEEDED THIS IN MY LIFE UNLTIL YOU MENTIONED IT!