i cannot hate myself into a version of me i will love.
Damn I love this!
I can imagine older Arthur just being everything that his young self secretly wanted and needed, a supportive parent, a wise advisor, a role model.
Older Arthur would say things that would totally disarm young Arthur at first like, "you're doing the right thing," "I'm with you every step of the way" and "you look just like your mother."
In strategy meetings he'd use his experience saying, "the ground is too steep here," "you're vulnerable to ambush there," "never, and I repeat, never go near Camlann."
While he might have to step aside to let his young self learn those valuable lessons that were hard-earned, he might spare him from others, slowly helping him to realise the consequences of keeping up his father's war against magic (revenge, the death of innocents).
When young Arthur realises who this uncle really was, it helps him love and trust himself.
Meanwhile Merlin is relieved because the guilty crush he had on Arthur's uncle is in fact a not-so-guilty crush on the man he's in love with.
Golden Age King Arthur accidentally gets sent back in time to the beginning of his reign. While making his way to Camelot hoping to find Merlin and figure out how to get back to his own time he runs into Agravaine making his own way to Camelot for the first time. Knowing he was a traitor working for Morgana in his own timeline, Arthur kills him and decides to take his place. No one had seen Agravaine since Ygraine's death, there were no portraits of him in the castle, and Arthur's premature greying hair has to be good for something other than Merlin calling him a silver fox. He can pass as his own uncle and be the caring advisor that young him deserved damn it!
Thanks @achillesuwu for the tag!
I was listening to I Might Float by Syd Matters for maybe the thousandth time and I suddenly realised I'd never looked up the meaning (it has some fairly unusual lyrics). So my last googled thing was "Syd Matters I Might Float meaning." The search was a little fruitless and I only found a few people speculating on Reddit. Oh well!
@breadkween and @liviapeleia tagging ye if you feel like doing it!
um. Tag four people.
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From How to Recognise the Trees of the Countryside, the Young Naturalist Series - 1954. This book belonged to my great-grandmother, who may have been a naturalist but wasn't young at the time! She was 60-70 when she bought it and wrote her name on the inside cover. Learning about nature is a lifelong pursuit, take her word for it.
boy do i love te
again, ethically sourced from tumblr
imagine being the cuck in ur own story for centuries and then all it takes is a magic twink with drinkable eyes and all of a sudden there’s thousands of stories where you’re the main love interest, getting it in every which way. happened to my friend arthur pendragon
@bubblo literally the conversation we were just having. Literally me with Otto.
I'm so happy his hopeless pining is overrr 😭
“who’s your favorite character?” my friend’s oc. “who’s your favorite character in canon?” my friend’s oc. “your favorite character can’t be your friend’s oc!” the posters on my walls and discord messages say otherwise. my wound has a heartbeat and only my friend’s oc can fix it. goodbye chat
She/Her | 31 | Herbal Tea EnthusiastInterested in: hurt/comfort, fairytale retellings and folkloreCurrently down an Arthurian rabbitholeLeMightyWorrier on Ao3
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