merlin feeling awkward around the druids seems a bit of a fandom trope, and don’t get me wrong, I get where it comes from. they call him emrys and treat him like a messiah and he finds that off-putting. but I want to see more of merlin just. just vibing with the druids. I want him feeling like he’s finally found his tribe. he goes spend a couple of weeks with a druid clan for diplomatic reasons after being made court sorcerer and he has the time of his life. they sit around the fire and he mentions feeling the world vibrating and nobody looks at him like he’s lost his mind. they teach him new healing spells and give him tips on how to use medicinal herbs. they all get high on some sacred plant at some point probably. do you see what I mean
oh hey, someone put that thing i was mad about yesterday into words!
I couldn’t agree more with OP here.
excellent point by tumblr user zaxal
so many of those same people will interact with the content and then get upset when you respond back because they have a DNI. That is fundamentally not how that works, kid.
Arthur would have panic attacks, which were normally caused by built up stress from ruling the kingdom, his dad’s expectations and never talking about his feelings.
No matter what Merlin would always be there for him, even if it was in the middle of the night.
Merlin walked in on Arthur having one of these panic attacks which then led to them becoming a lot closer and it was then, crying into Merlin shoulder, his arms wrapped around him that he realized he was in love.
ur personality is defined by ur favorite line in hallelujah
tag your favorite line of hallelujah
“tag your favorite line of hallelujah” scans to Hallelujah.
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you tried to read the words as prose but noticed how its scansion goes and now you can’t unhear the tune, so screw ya recall the phrase you love the most then once again reblog this post and tag your fav’rite line of hallelujah
okay that’s it I hate you all. like… fuckign done. i’ve hit the wall.
…I’m calling the Tumblr Cops to come subdue you
I hate the fact this fucking fits. I’m just about to call it quits. Now everything just sounds like hallelujah.
You pick a phrase, you pick a rhyme, repeat the sound another time, Five iambs, then an extra beat will do ya. Another rhyme, a rising note - congratulations, you just wrote Another goddamn verse to Hallelujah.
Everyone is probably familiar with the works page of a tag, where the URL looks like this: https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Rose%20Lalonde/works. That’s the page you get sent to when you click on a tag that’s used on a fic. But if you then click on the name of the tag at the top of the works page, you get sent to the tag landing page, where the url looks like this: https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Rose%20Lalonde. But not all the things this page show you are intuitive, so (especially with the recent tag limit announcement) I’m going to use it to explain the relationships between tags. We’ll use a character tag because that’s got all the components.
Our landing page looks like this:
The line “This tag belongs to the Character Category. It’s a common tag. You can use it to filter works and to filter bookmarks.” means it’s a canonical tag and will turn up in the dropdown. An unfilterable tag will instead look like this:
A synonymous tag will look like this:
But that’s not all you can tell from the landing page! I’m going to show you in an order that makes it easier to understand, not the order it shows up on the page, so bear with me. Let’s go back to the Rose Lalonde canonical landing page. The first and easiest to understand section is Tags with the same meaning, which will show you the tags that will redirect to the canonical tag if you click on their works pages. At the end of the list of synonymous tags attached to the canonical, there’s the heading Metatags:
Rose Lalonde has the metatag Rose, which means that if I clicked on the works page for Rose, it would show me all works tagged “Rose” AND all works tagged “Rose Lalonde” (as well as the other Rose tags it’s a metatag of). However, when I look at the works page for Rose Lalonde, works tagged with “Rose” won’t turn up. That’s because Rose Lalonde is a subtag of Rose. Like a little matryoshka doll, Rose Lalonde has a subtag of its own, helpfully under the heading Subtags:
A subtag also has the metatags of its metatag, so when I click on the works page for Rose, it will give me works tagged with Rose, works tagged with Rose Lalonde, AND works tagged with Doomed Timeline Rose Lalonde. However, if I go to the works page of Doomed Timeline Rose Lalonde, only works tagged with Doomed Timeline Rose Lalonde will turn up. This is the difference between subtags and synonymous tags: a subtag has its own works page that you can filter on, whereas a synonymous tag will always redirect. The way to find ONLY works using that synonymous tag is to type the exact tag (without quotation marks around it) in the “other tags to include” field in the filtering menu.
Those are all the useful bits of the tag landing page for you, the reader. But you may have noticed that there are two other boxes: Parent tags and Child tags. Child tags only exist on Fandom tags and Character tags. The only way they affect the reader is that character and relationship tags that have a fandom parent tag will turn up first in the autocomplete when you’re posting a work if you use that fandom tag. If a tag has multiple fandom parent tags, only one of them needs to be tagged to bring characters in that fandom in the autocomplete up first. For example, let’s take the relationship tag Rose Lalonde/Thuringwethil (Tolkien).
Homestuck and the Silmarillion are both fandom tags, which means that if I post a work and have Homestuck OR the Silmarillion in the fandoms field, when I type Rose or Thuringwethil into the relationships field, it will suggest this tag near the top. (At least, it would if both characters didn’t have heaps of much more popular relationship tags.) Rose Lalonde and Thuringwethil (Tolkien) are both character tags and a rel having those as parent tags has zero impact on how the archive behaves for readers/writers; that’s purely as an organisational tool for wranglers. Therefore, if you tag something with Rose Lalonde/Thuringwethil (Tolkien) but NOT the character tag Rose Lalonde, it will not show up in Rose Lalonde’s works page even though Rose Lalonde is a parent tag.
For Additional tags (also called Freeforms), these parent tags have absolutely no effect, not even on the autocomplete. This is why, for instance, the freeform tag Hardbroom Has Feelings (Worst Witch) only has the parent tag The Worst Witch (TV 2017), even though Hardbroom could conceivably have feelings in The Worst Witch (TV 1998) or any of the other Worst Witch adaptations. The parent tags of freeforms are purely for wrangling organisation purposes. Some fandoms even use different bins for canonical freeforms vs freeforms likely to be made canonical in the future vs ones that never will, which can lead to fun incidents like “Luke Begs for the Strap” being sorted into the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Hope this helps, and I’m happy to answer questions to the best of my ability!
