Friendly reminder to check you’re not holding tension in your body. Let your shoulders drop, unclench your hands and jaw. Take a deep breath. Much better.
"Still, there’s no question that Cap and Iron Man care about each other deeply. People who don’t love each other could never get this angry at each other."
Gwen/Lancelot or Gwen/Morgana. Those are the options.
Is Morgana pure evil or is she just Arthur’s slightly intimidating older sister? Only time will tell.
Is Mordred a devious little bastard or is he a pretty chill guy that later turns out to be a devious little bastard? (We evidently haven’t forgiven him for killing Arthur)
MAGIC REVEALS
If there is no magic in the fic, Merlin always has some other talent that he’s crazy good at.
HATE-TO-LOVE RELATIONSHIP
9 times out of 10, Uther is the CEO of a huge multinational company
And Arthur is his spoiled heir with a heart of gold underneath all the clotpole
Miscommunication – 90% of the problems the idiots face could be fixed if they just talked without insulting each other
Gwaine is never straight and there’s almost always Merlin/Gwaine flirting
Leon is pretty much always Arthur’s bodyguard/security
When Arthur stands up to Uther (♥!)
Kilgarrah cameos!
What cute, white animal will Aithusa be in this one?
Lance & Merlin being bros
Gwen & Merlin being bros
Merlin being bros with both of them even when they’re married with kids
Gauis always being 100% done with Merlin’s shenanigans
WHEN THEY INSULT EACH OTHER AFFECTIONATELY
THAT MOMENT WHERE THEY REALISE THEY LOVE EACH OTHER BUT THEY THINK THE OTHER DOESN’T FEEL THE SAME WAY LIKE ALSKJDFALJSD;ASLJ’ JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER
Just… these two ♥
THIS HAS BEEN MY LIFE FOR THE PAST 4 YEARS I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THESE TROPES
My buddy read an article about octopus intelligence. It was feeding time, and the handler dumped some shrimp into an octopus’ tank. Then he went into another room and sat at his desk.
A while later, a shrimp was tossed onto his desk.
The octopus, upon finding one bad shrimp in the lot, had grabbed it, escaped its tank, crossed the hall, and threw the expired shrimp at its caretaker. Not only does this showcase their problem-solving capabilities, but also that it could have escaped at any time. It just broke out this time to chuck an off shrimp in indignation at its handler. That’s not just intelligence, that’s a human-like reaction. Kinda make you wonder exactly how smart these guys can be…
OH MY GOD
I went to the aquarium once and we had a tour and we walked past the octopus tank and it was duct taped shut so I asked why and the guy was like. “Well, we had a problem before because these fish were disappearing randomly at night and we had no idea why. Turns out the octopus had memorised the night guards rounds and would creep out of its tank, crawl across the floor to the fish tank, have a little snack and be back in its own tank with the lid shut before the guard came back.” they are super smart
I love octopuses so, so much.
@_@
I am both delighted and FUCKING TERRIFIED.
Once I went to the aquarium where they had a baby pacific red octopus in a tank. I had gone there to work on a few real life sketches, obviously I wanted to do one of an octopus. So I kinda just kneeled in front of the tank, and started sketching. The octopus didn’t mind, he sat happily. Then, 5 minutes later, he started moving to the front of the tank, where I was. This tiny octopus faces me directly and starts posing. I don’t know how other to explain it but he started curlung his tentacles in this really graceful way then wouldn’t move for a few minutes. Then again, a new pose. That tiny cute motherfucker knew I was drawing him.