Recs and Wedding? What Wedding?

The Difference of You by ingberry (xfortytwo) [NC-17] (14k) Merlin/Arthur
Summary: It’s not that Arthur Pendragon can’t get girls to fall for him; it’s just that he can’t seem to keep them around. Relationships and Arthur aren't on the same page at all, really, but one day there's Merlin on a bus and then it's different.

Awe. This fic. *draws hearts around it* It’s a well written, charming, romantic and funny Modern AU. Do you really need any more reason to read it? Arthur is frustrated with himself and his life because all his relationships seem ‘off’. They just sorta... stop. And he’s starting to realise it’s him that’s the problem but he can’t figure out how exactly he is supposed to feel when he likes someone. That is until he finally actually likes someone. I really enjoyed Arthur’s POV in this as he tries figure out to why he’s broken when it comes to relationships.

The secrets of your flesh by Violette_Royale [NC-17] (2k) Merlin/Arthur
Content Notes: Body Issues, Intersexuality, Arthur is a hermaphrodite (both male and female genitals).
Summary: Arthur confronts Merlin about his magic, after having seen Merlin kill Agravaine. The last thing Merlin expects is Arthur to be pleased about the fact that Merlin is the most powerful sorcerer alive, and to ask him a favour. But Arthur's request proves too much, even for Merlin's magic.

I stumbled on this last night as I was poking around for ‘something different’ and I certainly found it. Arthur’s body issues are really well done as is his trust in Merlin and willingness to share this secret. I love the idea behind this... that he was created this way because of magic ‘blessing’ him with optimized fertility. It’s such a positive way of looking at something that Arthur finds shame in. And I think the canon setting worked brilliantly for this fic.

ALSO tags on A03...

So, In the HP world we throw around ‘EWE’ like it’s part of the English language. It means ‘Epilogue? What Epilogue?’ (as in, this fic is compliant with book canon, but we ignore the ’19 yrs later’ so as to not have to deal with Harry marrying Ginny/Draco marrying Astoria... having kids) It’s TERRIBLY CONVENIENT. It’s means I’m cool with canon!!! I’ll just ignore that bit that blasts holes in my ship.

So... with S5 of Merlin coming upon us, it’s getting harder and harder to write ‘Canon compliant’ fic without having to deal with THE MARRIAGE.

For lack of any other ideas, i used “Merlin: Marriage? What Marriage?” in the past.

I’ve also seen “Wedding? What Wedding?” which is also cleverly WWW. :D

What are your thoughts? Can we band together and figure out how to tag, because we need the same tag used for it to become popular enough to search on/have it pop up when you are adding your tags.

eta: Merlin: WWW is currently the favourite.

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Someone come talk to me about Together We Are Stronger by anon on KMM.

WIP

MIND THE WARNINGS.

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likely there will be spoilers in the comments...

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I love this week's pornathon bonus challenge.

the fic and the graphics so far are fabulous. :)


And ALL ARE WELCOME!!!! You can come play, grab a prompt and write or make a graphic... You don,t need to be a pthon participant. GO! It,s a blast.