RUN DON'T WALK STOP BE RESIGNED HAS CONCLUDED STOP BACK IN SEVERAL HOURS WHEN MY BRAIN IS FUNCTIONAL STOP READ IT AT ONCE STOP AND IGNORE THE DUBIOUS LUBE STOP

Practice: in which Arthur is bad at sex, and Merlin doesn't care. SO MUCH <3.

Dress Rehearsal, in which Arthur and Merlin have improbable "instructional" sex and various other cliches happen, but it still wrenches my heart-strings. Y YIS I HAS PREDICTABLE TASTE

Unfortunately, I don't know who made this - Aleathiel embedded it in a post, but I don't think she made it (if she did, bad Aleathiel! less vid, more dissertation!).

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Enough excitement for one morning, I'm going back to sleep.

If you're going to re-do a trope which has been done, many times, by folks as excellent as fahye and thehoyden and possibly even astolat, please, for the love of porn, try to act a little bit less like you're writing Skeleton Trope With Porn.

Ahem. That is all.

Please, for the love of smut. Please not to be quoting the bible and/or corny worship songs in the middle of porn.

I can't figure out if Arthur MEANT to compare himself to the virtuous wife of Proverbs 33, or if the reference was supposed to be to this song, or if there's some other closer match that I don't know, or if in fact I just over- ( Read more... )

But, look, seriously, you have to read An issue of proper protocol, by skellerbvvt. It's FLUFFY KINKFIC. With bonus snark, and Morgana being awesome. But mostly Arthur being adorable and shy and Merlin being straightforward, and this absolutely delightful give-and-take dynamic. Bondage, without the domination. In which the world is all rainbows and hearts and ( Read more... )

Very clever people + evident overexposure to academic and corporate wankspeak + Merlin = this post. The comments! Read the comments! Leveraging the add-on value of masculine uterine-equivalents! The Camelot Operational Procedures Handbook! Why the Grail = buttsecks using Lacanian theory! Also, as an added extra, "Smallville: a critical symposium".

franticsga did a rec list of decent Merlin/Arthur PWP, and OH MY GOD. I highly recommend The Natural Progression of Things, by marzilla.

That I'm a sucker for cuddly d/s fic?
Link goes to fic by auroraprimavera. Merlin/Arthur, NC-17: a little bit of B, a little bit of D, but no S or M. Arthur on the bottom.

Found this over on lgbtfest: Losing Ground, by zauberer_sirin. Merlin/Arthur, R. It's pure <3... angst, but delicately handled. Arthur has to shift his mindset and Merlin is smug. Some absolutely gorgeous metaphors and turns of phrase ( Read more... )