The Merlin Project ™

I've found a couple of different petitions for this and figured I should share them. I'll update this post if I find any more and I'll also update any other related news as and when I get them so keep an eye on this post for that.

1. Merlin Project 2021 on petitions.net by @merlinmyrddin

2. Support for Eoin Macken's Merlin Project on change.org (by user @/sarahmmorin on instagram, dunno if they have a tumblr to tag them)

3. [Netflix] Bring Back Merlin on change.org

What is the Merlin Project ™ you ask? We're not sure but these are the few hints we've been teased with (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

does anybody else remember that reality show where they gaslit a bunch of americans into thinking they were competing to marry prince harry but it was really just some guy

Matt Hicks also regularly had to be manipulated by production members because he kept getting a conscience and wanting to quit. Reality TV truly is the realm of nightmares.

Louis has officially surpassed 2.7 BILLION streams on Spotify! (24 April 2024)

This is the money Marge. Reblog for good fortune

Something tells me that blood-covered horses running through the streets of London is a bit of an omen. Next you'll be telling me the ravens have left the Tower of London

What happened?

This happened. A bunch of horses in the Household Cavalry got spooked by construction noise nearby, threw their riders, and went galloping off through the streets of London, crashing into vehicles as they went. At least two of the horses were injured and continued to gallop through the streets while covered in blood.

All horses have now been recaptured and are receiving vetinary care.

hey did you know how big an albatross was because I

VERY

fucking

did not

i’m so glad people are learning this.

I… I knew in numerical values how big they were, but I’ve never seen them next to humans before

A LORGE BIRB

I thought albatross was another word for “seagull” not for “terror of the fucking sky”

The reason albatross are so huge is because they need huge wings for their unique lifestyle.

Albatross can go months, if not over a year without seeing land. There is a pocket of air trapped between wave fronts and they just ride ontop of it. To make that work, they need huge wings. If the winds die they rest on the surface, and wait for the winds to return; the huge wings mean it’s not worth it to fly any other way. When they need to eat they pluck fish and squid from the surface, and sometimes dive. Nobody is entirely sure if they sleep on the wing, and if so, how.

The large wings also mean that taking off and landing are the hardest parts of flying for an albatross. Generally they avoid it, but for nesting and resting, it’s unavoidable.

Albatross have complex mating dances, and selecting a mate can take years; as they narrow down partners they create their own dancing language that they invent themselves. Once half of a pair has died, that dance is lost. These couples do not travel together once their chick has grown (and it is always a single chick at a time). Instead they will separate to travel the world, not seeing each other again until it is time to return to the island they themselves hatched from, as have hundreds of generations before them. Wanderers, who always find their way home.

I was so not emotionally prepared for reading this thanks

i mean . no shit?

Talk about teamwork.

Holy fuck

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

this is sending me

the primordial serpent

The most dangerous anaconda

painted my beautiful wife Gwen BBC Merlin :)

[ID: a realistic digital painting of Gwen from BBC Merlin over an olive green background. Gwen is in 3/4 view, shown from the waist up. She has a soft, neutral expression on her face. She is wearing a purple linen dress with a natural linen apron and a natural linen corset embroidered with flowers and animals, and her hair is down.]

how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

the archive/tagged trick is a lifesaver!!

a caveat on op’s caveat is that if your blog/the blog you want to search is older than [whenever they forced everybody into the tumblr.com/user change], most of these tricks will still work whether or not they have enabled “custom theme.”

tumblr works it’s just a closely guarded secret