Arthur : *fixing up his tea*
Merlin : Arthur, what are you doing? Stop.
Arthur : I know, I know—waaaay too much sugar, right? *adds more* You’re as bad as Morgana, sometimes.
Merlin : Arthur, that’s salt.
Arthur : *fixing up his tea*
Merlin : Arthur, what are you doing? Stop.
Arthur : I know, I know—waaaay too much sugar, right? *adds more* You’re as bad as Morgana, sometimes.
Merlin : Arthur, that’s salt.
colin morgan in dead shot
He just… He looks so much like… I-
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All pairings were submitted! Here are some submission notes:
Merthur:
a repeat, since only one submission had a note attached.
they are so fucking gay oh my god
Sashanne:
Same as above: a repeat, since only one submission had a note attached.
Sasha is canon bisexual and I headcanon Sasha, Anne, and Marcy Wu in a polycule. they are everything to me
Even funnier thing to imagine: resurrecting Diogenes too and telling him that “Platonic” relationships means not fucking, he’d probably laugh himself back to death.
So I actually know the origin of this term because it came up when I studied Plato in my classes. Basically, in ancient Greece it was a super common practice for teachers to fuck their students. Like all the time. It was considered a way for the student to “pay” the teacher. Plato thought this was bullshit. He felt that a student could not properly learn from someone who was truly only interested in having sex with them. He didn’t fuck his students and derided those who did. Other teachers who refused to fuck their students were said to have “platonic” teaching relationships with them – so named because they were following Plato’s example. So the reason it’s called a Platonic relationship is because Plato was heavily anti-teachers-fucking-their-students and it’s one of the few things he was ever even remotely correct about.
Chad Plato
And another remark I made while watching the scene between Lancelot and Merlin, when Lancelot asks Merlin, "Will you ever tell Arthur?" and Merlin is like, "I wish he could see at least once" (intended: to see Merlin use magic), I don't know why, but it seemed a lot more intimate than it should have been. Maybe I think it is, but it's like Lancelot told Merlin that he still loves Gwen, but decides to let her go, and then they discuss how things are with Arthur, and then Merlin says that he wants Arthur to see just once as if Merlin says: “I wish I could be with him just once, but that can't be." And the way Merlin immediately left the table after saying that.