Merlin is so silly and so light, bright and improbable--I don't mean the show, with its obvious flaws, but the idea within the show--these young careless people who love each other without realizing it, and know so little ( Read more... )

Summary: It isn't a serious marriage negotiation. And anyone who understood life at court would know this. (Written for Merlin100's Curiosity challenge.)

RealpolitikThe nets are drawn back, doves pale against a blue sky, wings flapping in a noisy rush. A political marriage is all he has ever expected, though this is just for show, one of his father's ( Read more... )

Summary: Names are both given and earned.

( The Wandering Years )

I've been wanting to update the Three of Swords Index, but I keep on running into a problem: time moves in fundamentally different ways (and therefore at different perceptible speeds) depending where in Meifu you are. So on the outer edges (where cherry grove is, the shinigami office, etc) the story pieces fit together in one order (Round Earth's ( Read more... )

From p_zeitgeist: If you had me under your command and could make me write anything-- fanfic or original fic, regardless of whether or not I know the fandom or if anybody even writes fic in that fandom and no matter how crack-addled it might be, what would you love to see me write?Meme, disseminate! I have so much fun telling other people what, in a more ( Read more... )

AN: It makes me happy to read this as a prequel to Of Angels Watching Round, but it's not at all necessary to do so. Series Index here.

Yet Still 'Tis JustShinigami are nobodies, foot soldiers -- Hisoka learns this eventually -- and consequently most see very little of Meifu; not the golden halls that stretch out, glittering, lined with mirrors ( Read more... )