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possibly an unpopular fannish opinion? judging by my foray into delicious-land?
I just watched the fifth episode of Merlin, and.
Where is the fic? WHERE IS THE LANCELOT/MERLIN, I WANT IT. NOW. A LOT. THEY WERE SHARING MERLIN'S COT, PEOPLE, COME ON. REC ME SOMETHING I BEG OF YOU.
I fear I am in horrible danger of having Lancelot be my favorite character on the show, which, uh, would make the other twelve episodes and the fandom-wide Arthur/Merlin OTP a tad awkward. It's just - it actually says this in my userinfo: The blond is just about always my favorite. The blond, or the regular, good, competent guy who tends to get overshadowed by his freakishly gifted partner/brother/colleague/boss/subordinate/bandmate(s)/etc.
Arthur is indisputably the blondest of the major characters, but it would be hard for him to be further from the second half of that description--and though Merlin gets overshadowed in the view of most people who know him, he's actually the one saving the day EVEN WHEN HE'S IN A COMA. It's awesome, it's an awesome dynamic Arthur and Merlin have (omg episode four, omg the codependence, ♥) but there is nary a regular-good-competent guy to be found.
Except Lancelot. Who comes from nothing, works hard, takes his lumps, is very good but not The Greatest Swordsman Ever, and then takes his lumps some more. And also is hot, and sleeping in Merlin's bed.
And, you guys, I KIND OF LOVE HIM. A LOT. HOLY CRAP, THAT GUY.
(Also, in college, before I really got into slash though long after I knew what it was, I wrote a long paper comparing the Lancelot-and-Elaine story in Malory and in Tennyson, demonstrating that Malory's version (pretty much in line with the time in which Malory lived) valued most highly the bonds of love between knights, which was the source of all good in that story, and cautioned against romantic/passionate love between men and women, which was the cause of all harm, while Tennyson downplayed or twisted the bonds between knights and played up the power of romantic love.
Um. That's not really relevant to anything except I guess that inasmuch as I have an attachment to anything in the vast landscape of Arthuriana, it's probably the part of Lancelot's story that completely excludes Arthur.
Also I saw First Knight at an impressionable age. Ahem.)
And I guess I am going to need an icon. Or two.
Where is the fic? WHERE IS THE LANCELOT/MERLIN, I WANT IT. NOW. A LOT. THEY WERE SHARING MERLIN'S COT, PEOPLE, COME ON. REC ME SOMETHING I BEG OF YOU.
I fear I am in horrible danger of having Lancelot be my favorite character on the show, which, uh, would make the other twelve episodes and the fandom-wide Arthur/Merlin OTP a tad awkward. It's just - it actually says this in my userinfo: The blond is just about always my favorite. The blond, or the regular, good, competent guy who tends to get overshadowed by his freakishly gifted partner/brother/colleague/boss/subordinate/bandmate(s)/etc.
Arthur is indisputably the blondest of the major characters, but it would be hard for him to be further from the second half of that description--and though Merlin gets overshadowed in the view of most people who know him, he's actually the one saving the day EVEN WHEN HE'S IN A COMA. It's awesome, it's an awesome dynamic Arthur and Merlin have (omg episode four, omg the codependence, ♥) but there is nary a regular-good-competent guy to be found.
Except Lancelot. Who comes from nothing, works hard, takes his lumps, is very good but not The Greatest Swordsman Ever, and then takes his lumps some more. And also is hot, and sleeping in Merlin's bed.
And, you guys, I KIND OF LOVE HIM. A LOT. HOLY CRAP, THAT GUY.
(Also, in college, before I really got into slash though long after I knew what it was, I wrote a long paper comparing the Lancelot-and-Elaine story in Malory and in Tennyson, demonstrating that Malory's version (pretty much in line with the time in which Malory lived) valued most highly the bonds of love between knights, which was the source of all good in that story, and cautioned against romantic/passionate love between men and women, which was the cause of all harm, while Tennyson downplayed or twisted the bonds between knights and played up the power of romantic love.
Um. That's not really relevant to anything except I guess that inasmuch as I have an attachment to anything in the vast landscape of Arthuriana, it's probably the part of Lancelot's story that completely excludes Arthur.
Also I saw First Knight at an impressionable age. Ahem.)
And I guess I am going to need an icon. Or two.