Friday Fic recs
Just a quick little something, holiday stress is still at full swing here chez casa 
lab. Still behind on
merlin_holidays and
weiss_kreuzmas and I haven't checked 3sentence in ages, not to mention the steady flow of stories at
merlinxarthur and
girlgay! So many stories, so little time.
Fiction
Merlin
every shade of him by
eyesofpanda, G, Merlin/Arthur.Merlin's heart beats for Arthur, and his magic sings for the King. I love achy and sweet non-reveal stories, and this one hits the spot.
Weiß Kreuz
wk_100's end of year drabble exchange has started and this fandom proves once again that it. never. dies. Tenacious just like our flower-arranging, sweater-wearing assassins.
2012 by
dr_silverrose, G (secondary character death), Crawford, Schuldig. “Another gift for me?” Mwahaha.
Deal with the devil by
daegaer, R, Aya/Farfarello, implied non-con. Farfarello's smile is surprisingly sweet. Oh, Aya.
Art
Merlin
Twas the Night Before Christmas by Anonymous for
merlin_holidays, G, Merlin/Gwaine, Modern!AU, So not my pairing but I love the expressions and detailing on this one, the fact that Merlin sleeps with his music plugged in and that it's traditional media. Very sweet and warm.
10 icons by
zauberkuenstler. I particularly like #6 but I have no space. Maybe I should make space.
Also read
Merlin
Borderlands by anonymous for
merlin_holidays, R, Merlin/Arthur, 10,000 words, When Arthur is separated from his knights by a mysterious fog on the Mercian border, he finds himself trapped in a place that seems to balance between dream and reality. To regain his freedom he must put his trust in one of Lord Bayard's closest men - a man who calls himself Merlin.
This story showed me that I'm really specific when it comes to my tastes in AUs. I need a fork, I cannot do pure Canon Era AUs where the positions of the characters in canon is different from the very beginning because it leaves the characters strangely without contours for me - they're not Merlin and Arthur (whom I thought was way too polite given that we met an utter prat in S1) and the decontextualized setting (which is the point of the Borderlands, yes) only added to that.
This entry was originally posted at http://lab.dreamwidth.org/26563.html. Feel free to comment in either of those places, but I mostly hang out on DW.
lab. Still behind on
merlin_holidays and
weiss_kreuzmas and I haven't checked 3sentence in ages, not to mention the steady flow of stories at
merlinxarthur and
girlgay! So many stories, so little time.
Fiction
Merlin
every shade of him by
eyesofpanda, G, Merlin/Arthur.Merlin's heart beats for Arthur, and his magic sings for the King. I love achy and sweet non-reveal stories, and this one hits the spot.
Weiß Kreuz
wk_100's end of year drabble exchange has started and this fandom proves once again that it. never. dies. Tenacious just like our flower-arranging, sweater-wearing assassins.
2012 by
dr_silverrose, G (secondary character death), Crawford, Schuldig. “Another gift for me?” Mwahaha.
Deal with the devil by
daegaer, R, Aya/Farfarello, implied non-con. Farfarello's smile is surprisingly sweet. Oh, Aya.
Art
Merlin
Twas the Night Before Christmas by Anonymous for
merlin_holidays, G, Merlin/Gwaine, Modern!AU, So not my pairing but I love the expressions and detailing on this one, the fact that Merlin sleeps with his music plugged in and that it's traditional media. Very sweet and warm.
10 icons by
zauberkuenstler. I particularly like #6 but I have no space. Maybe I should make space.
Also read
Merlin
Borderlands by anonymous for
merlin_holidays, R, Merlin/Arthur, 10,000 words, When Arthur is separated from his knights by a mysterious fog on the Mercian border, he finds himself trapped in a place that seems to balance between dream and reality. To regain his freedom he must put his trust in one of Lord Bayard's closest men - a man who calls himself Merlin.
This story showed me that I'm really specific when it comes to my tastes in AUs. I need a fork, I cannot do pure Canon Era AUs where the positions of the characters in canon is different from the very beginning because it leaves the characters strangely without contours for me - they're not Merlin and Arthur (whom I thought was way too polite given that we met an utter prat in S1) and the decontextualized setting (which is the point of the Borderlands, yes) only added to that.
This entry was originally posted at http://lab.dreamwidth.org/26563.html. Feel free to comment in either of those places, but I mostly hang out on DW.