nnnnnnnnnnngh. This was so delish. I adored Merlin's embarrassment and Gwaine being all 'No! we have to deal with this!!! take UR pants off noe!' hee!!!
*squirms* and that little bit of Arthur at the end. I love it. :)
It perfectly scratched that itch. Thank you so much!!! ♥
bloody hell that was hot! and I'm an M/A OTP girl! This is all kinds of wonderful! I am reading your springes fic during my breaks from working and I have to say that your writing is awesome! and springes has all my favourite elements in one: angst (with a promised happy ending!) h/c galore (love that) M/A!UST and the knights, whom i just adore! good luck with the writting and tanks for posting!
I'm a M/A OTPer, too! I've ended up writing all kinds of Gwaine lately, though, and he's really fun to write! I'm happy to hear you liked this and you're enjoying Springes. I started that one off just writing all my tropes lol. I'm definitely ready for more of the fun, though, now! Thanks for commenting, hon!
I really liked this :D. There is nothing I don't love about Gwaine taking care of Merlin and the way you wrote Merlin at once trusting him completely and not really knowing where the boundary is between friend and what he really wants and how to tell what's really between them.
There are some really great descriptions but this one totally stood out for me - he pulled the magic to him and sent it out to his flesh - the way magic is sort of... in the air, and Merlin draws it to him to use is really lovely :D.
Thanks - I love that you caught that. I really love the idea of Merlin's magic being very elementally-oriented. I think what might make him so powerful is having a rare ability to pull power from all around him instead of relying solely on the power he was born with. I think I'm going to expand on this in my BB, but I'm not sure, since it's probably been done and my BB is pretty much a smut!fest lol.
Thank you for the detailed fb - it really helps to know what resonates with readers! YAY! :D
I would love to read that - I haven't read much fic that's really about Merlin's magic and how it works, and I'm fascinated by potential explainations :D. I've always wondered about his dragonlord powers, and if part of why his magic is so powerful and so deep is connected to that - if Balinor was the only surviving dragonlord, did he sort of accumulte all the dragonlord power as the others were killed because they had no-one else to pass it onto? I quite like the idea that Merlin has to wait for his father to die to get the full dragon part of his powers, but he's always had this huge magic potential and instinctive skill because he's the full stop at the end of an ancient line, so he just has... more magic to draw on and manipulate.
Forgive me in advance: I don't comment as often as I should, so this might be... a little inarticulate. But I'm trying to be more ~active~, so. Er, anyway.
I really like your decision to make the actual smut almost frantic (assuming that's what you were going for ;)). You could have gone the other way, languorous and sensuous and all that, but I think the mood you set works here- the reference to previous UST after the act. :p I also really like how ~nervous Merlin was- very endearing, imo.
I think it's awesome that you're commenting and not lurking, hon! Anyone who writes will tell you it's honestly so fantastic to see a comment - sometimes it's the BEST motivation or can inspire an entirely new fic. So please keep commenting!
I'm trying to get away from languorous and sensual just for these prompts. I think I'm getting carried away with it in my other fics and the scenes lose their heat b/c of it.
I kind of wish I'd taken this to another level and expanded it, but I'm writing one prompt a day and honestly, I didn't have time. I may revisit it later, though. I love writing Gwaine now. :D
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\o/ Printed and on my nightstand to enjoy this evening! THANK YOU! YAY!!!
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*squirms* and that little bit of Arthur at the end. I love it. :)
It perfectly scratched that itch. Thank you so much!!!
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There are some really great descriptions but this one totally stood out for me - he pulled the magic to him and sent it out to his flesh - the way magic is sort of... in the air, and Merlin draws it to him to use is really lovely :D.
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Thank you for the detailed fb - it really helps to know what resonates with readers! YAY! :D
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Of course lots of porn is also always welcome :D.
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I really like your decision to make the actual smut almost frantic (assuming that's what you were going for ;)). You could have gone the other way, languorous and sensuous and all that, but I think the mood you set works here- the reference to previous UST after the act. :p I also really like how ~nervous Merlin was- very endearing, imo.
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I'm trying to get away from languorous and sensual just for these prompts. I think I'm getting carried away with it in my other fics and the scenes lose their heat b/c of it.
I kind of wish I'd taken this to another level and expanded it, but I'm writing one prompt a day and honestly, I didn't have time. I may revisit it later, though. I love writing Gwaine now. :D
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Good luck on getting your smut writing calibrated to just the way you like it! :D
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