Hi everyone. I had a quick question about the term "Ho Yay!" and since I pretty much learned it here, I thought it might be okay to ask. I haven't been as active in fandom in recent years as I once was, but I was surprised when someone mentioned the term to me (not someone here) recently, because I'd thought it was... not out of date, exactly, but ( Read more... )

Hi all -

It has long seemed to me that Merlin's feelings for Arthur line up fairly closely with "courtly love," which would make sense to a degree, given the era it's set in. I was reading about the nine stages of the typical courtly love story on Wikipedia today, and decided to amuse myself with creating a Merthur version of it in screencap form ( Read more... )

So this is kind of interesting ( Read more... )

So, three years after everyone else, I've just finished watching all of Merlin, and of course I'm destroyed by the finale. I don't have a lot of friends who've watched it, so I went to the extreme step of joining a new LJ community just to find people who could commiserate with my pain. Which I know you all can.

My big post about the series is ( Read more... )

I read through the rules and I think this is allowed. I've been lurking here for a few weeks, but this is my first time posting, as I'm fairly new to this wondrous Merlin thing ( Read more... )

MERLIN/ARTHUR WATCHING
PARTY FOR ALL US NON-BRITS*

I'm organizing a watching party starting just around 9pm UK time tonight. (That's 4pm EST, I believe. Figure out your time here) There will be a chatroom! We will all flail in real time! IT WILL BE GREAT.

Other logistics type stuff:
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In that order!

First off, fic:

Title: Black Friday

Rating: PG

Summary: Only Americans would have a holiday dedicated to shopping. They weren't even Yanks, and yet somehow Merlin still got dragged along for this. They were so going to pay for this...

Pairing: Arthur/Merlin, Gwen/Morgana

Warnings: None

Beta: None

Notes: Oh, come on, Americans ( Read more... )