i have to make a post because now i'm annoyed: arthur never EARNS gwen's love! with the exception of the singular lancelot x gwen episode in s2, arthur just assumes that his love is reciprocated, and gwen just hands it to him. the challenges that their relationship face are mostly external to the relationship, social expectations and hierarchical restrictions and whatnot. if lancelot didn't die in s4e2, we could've had a proper love triangle arc throughout s4 where gwen's love for arthur wavers, and he has to EARN it. he has to prove to her, and the AUDIENCE, that he's better for her than lancelot, but there's never an opportunity for an actually complex situation to emerge. we could've had lancelot, the noble knight torn between love and duty, and gwen, the good woman torn between love and loyalty, and merlin, the loyal servant torn between his friendship with lancelot / gwen, and his friendship / duty / suspiciously intense situation with arthur. we could've had merlin discover a secret affair between two of his friends, and struggle to keep yet another secret from arthur. who does he side with, his king or his friends? we don't know. we never get to see it. if arthur had suspicions about an affair between lancelot and gwen, would he still be a fair leader to lancelot? would he purposefully put lancelot in danger to eliminate him as a threat? would he decide to put effort in and prove to gwen that he's a good partner deserving of her love? we don't know. we never get to see it. the writers were too cowardly to let gwen (and lancelot!) make complicated "morally gray" decisions (ones that ALIGNED WITH THE LEGEND), and too nervous to write actual competition between lancelot and arthur, because we can't risk a knight outshining the guy whose face is in the middle of the poster. the battle was over before it could even start. instead, arthur gives gwen a limp flower from the side of the road (and gwen ACCEPTS it!!), he later forgets their anniversary, gwen's autonomy is undermined (for the 100th time), lancelot's autonomy is also undermined and his legacy is tarnished, and merlin's loyalty to arthur is untested.

Every month my PMDD descends accompanied by boss fight music and I have to draw my +2 warhammer of There Is Good In The World Mr. Frodo

my job loses all of its sex appeal the minute i peel off my gloves off outside between patients and sweat drips down everywhere and they're so disgustingly damp and wet that you can see it. any hotness immediately down the drain in record time.