The Prophecies of Merlin (895 words) by
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Sooo, my A03 bookmarks page is now up to a total of twenty-nine.

I don't think I properly rec'd the fics I received this year, so here they are, and they are both fabulous:
The gaps between the stories, by Wil, and For I know not what I do, by wizefics. Both of them are first-person character studies of Serena Joy, from The Handmaid's Tale. ( Read more... )

Interests Two and Eight

Chevalier au lion, SGGK: These are both medieval Arthurian legends - 'The Knight with the Lion', by Chretien de Troyes, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, anonymous. Both of them feature Gawain, whom I love and adore. Both of them feature Gawain in more-or-less homoerotic situations. I've worked on both of them at uni, ( Read more... )

This Suspian is going to be 15 000 words if it doesn't watch out. It keeps getting sidetracked. First the Susan/Bacchus Interlude; then the Political Digression; and now we have a mediation on Prunaprisimia's enclosed garden (into which she has invited Aslan).

What little iconographical knowledge I have is enough to tell me that's actually quite ( Read more... )

Yes, I do realise that, on the fact of it, the Merlin characters bear as much resemblance to traditional Arthuriana as Modern English does to Old. And yes, I realise that the BBC and Shine have killed off Perceval, Uwain, and various other of my favourite legendary knights as mere redshirts ( Read more... )

So, on Christmas Eve I checked the pinch-hit list and found that tarimanveri was there. I didn't realise that at the last minute the full request list goes up for the hell of it, and panicked about my favourite slashy knights not getting the love they deserve. They did get plenty of love, and silveraspen brilliantly impersonated the fine sisterhood of medievalist ( Read more... )

1. The only BARE fic on there: Someday my prince will come, Peter POV. Pretty cute, although I think better use could've been used of the fairytale motif: if the story used 'hero' instead of prince, for example. phrasemuffin, you might like this ( Read more... )

AND I HAVE TWO PRESENTS.

The Circle Game, a Saved fic from Dean's POV. I've never read or written any Saved fic, I popped it in the request list because I thought I'd better give a nice easily-accessible request, and there's so much to be explored there. This explores all the best bits: sexuality, identity, positive and negative religious ( Read more... )

Title: Give and Take
Fandom: Chretien de Troyes- Yvain, or Le Chevalier au Lion; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Rating: PG
Pairing: Gawain/Yvain, mentions of other pairings for both Gawain and Yvain.
Thanks to: My three betas, anachronisma, rymenhild and una_sola. This is the most highly-edited four hundred words known to mankind.

( Gawain does not waste time on minstrels or poets )

And they shall be the names of pieces of plate armour. SPAULDERS! BESAGEW! CUISSE! BEVOR! Oh, FAULD.

Speakin' o' armour: Bedlam, what time period does your Golden Age approximate to? Because pauldrons weren't invented until the 15th c. Before that, it would've been a cuirass with spaulders.