Merlin/Arthur CANON PARTY

[claudine]

[Or in light formatA post for like-minded M/A LJ friends (and non-friends, if you happen to pop by :)) to roll around in the amazingness that is canon-era fic

Comments

[kylezy]

Firstly - and because it ain't no party until the gifs show up - shoutout to the actual canon, which made it super easy to imagine and create romantic situations between Merlin and Arthur -

[claudine]

Ughhhh I LOVE THEIR FACES. Sometimes i feel like i'll never OTP again. Or well, I probably will, but I'll sigh wistfully and wonder why they can't be as amazing as M/A.

Look at this turds.

[claudine]

Eeeek I love all of those! And despite coming across Coming of Age a thousand times I haven't read it. *BOOKMARKS*

I love A Thousand DIfferent Skins! Animal transformation fics fascinate me, I guess because they're intertwined with Merlin's expression of power in Arthurian legends.

And every one of adelagia's fics makes me smile <3

Looking forward to the sharing of more fics. \o/

[claudine]

Thanks for the rec!! I know her, but I've only read one modern AU fic by her, Paint the Skies Blue and I really liked it. I'll have to poke into her fics :))

[wanderlust48]

THIS POST! I'm excited alread, haze be damned.

I LOVE:
bed warming in winter, H/C of the " Merlin fell into the łake" or "Arthur injured by the Griffin" variety.
Bathing scenes. Sharing bedrolls. Talking around those ubitiquous campfires. The philosophical ideas of Destiny and Choice. BAMF Merlin. Dragons!! Armour and swordplay. Tavern scenes. Er- canon AU slavery?

I'd post more but my keypad is hanging- darn floating keypads.

[claudine]

*shoos it away with a giant air purifier*

I LOVE BEDWARMING GAHHHHH. And yes, ALL THE H/C. I love it when they're sick and have to look after each other.

Here have a sick!Merlin fic. Sick Leave by waldorph

And a bedwarmer fic (well not entirely, but there's where it starts off :D) all I wanted was a white knight (I got a prince instead) by anon

I love when fics delve into deeper ideas, yes. Destiny versus choice, if Merlin could have a chance at turning back time, What Ifs, etc.

[kylezy]

And now fiiiiiiics:

At Our Best When It's From the Hips, Freedom Hangs Like Heaven, & Accidental Memory In The Case Of Death (which counts because it's half canon ok) by derryere

In Want of a Wife by syllic

In My Golden Years I Was a Slave by hackthis

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant by suntipped

Job Orientation, & truth is a whisper by seperis

Favorite by astolat

Until The Pieces Fit by anon

and heaps more but I'm tired and I need to sleeeep

[claudine]

Why not just everything by derryere :P dignity, what dignity?

That suntipped fic hurt so much. Especially reading it after 5.13. *__* Love and hate you for making me read it!

Until the Pieces Fit makes me lament the length/quality of prompts these days. I LOVE IT. And I wish I were more articulate. But I just love the sex, the pace, the characterizations... everything about that fic is brilliant.

Ahhh, good old astolat. Her writing is so timeless. <33333

[xsmoonshine]

Rediscovered my delicious account. Which is kind of bare and two years untouched (at last count), but I have a few links!

Needlework, by zarathuse
I have this on record as Zombie Arthur.
http://zarathuse.livejournal.com/6609.html

Woke up new by Zee
Cute fluffy bodyswap.
http://ficbyzee.livejournal.com/332693.html

It doesn't work if you see it coming by themadlurker
Undercover in a gay bar, according to my note.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/75491

Sugar Plum Merlin by Mahaliem
Miniature Arthur. Cute.
http://mahaliem.livejournal.com/256176.html

The history of two conversations on paper
http://takadainmate.livejournal.com/110965.html

[claudine]

Heh, I just managed to read the zombie!Arthur one this year! Balinor in it was kinda terrifying.

I have not read that gay bar one, which means it needs reading right away. :P Or the sugar plum one. Is your Delicious private, just wondering?

Forever sad we didn't get a bodyswap ep. ALL THE LOST POTENTIAL!

[xsmoonshine]

It's not quite private, but that was actually everything I had under the Merlin tag. :) I was never an active user, too used to just searching out whatever I wanted from memory. :)