Merlin Recs

[marguerite_26]

Red Herring Leon by rotrude Merlin/Arthur [NC-17] (11k)
Summary: [mine] “Leon, yeah,” said Merlin, stupid butterflies crowding in his stomach. “It's about Leon.”

Merlin's convinced that he wants to date Leon and Arthur grits his teeth and helps. I love how the reader is able to interpret Arthur's reaction to Merlin's crush and we are just waiting for the shoe to finally drop for Merlin. Sweet fic.

But It's a Good Refrain by lady_ragnell Merlin/Arthur [PG] (23k)
Summary: Arthur doesn't care much about the popular radio program Dragon's Lonely Hearts until his ex-girlfriend calls in to slag him off and get advice. When he calls in and has an on-air argument with the host, it starts off more than he expected, including meddling friends, overinvolved fans, and maybe love.

This is fic a joy to read. Lots of fun watching Merlin and Arthur not know each other at all and yet get tangled in each others lives. The radio 'fansites' and over-invested interest in a celebrity's love life was also a fun bit of meta without being OTT.

Other stuff... merlin_games and merlinreversebb have both started posting but I haven't had a chance to take a peek at either yet.

Also! merlinbb_rpf's MINIBANG: sign-ups are open! .

wow... it should not have taken me almost 2hrs to type up this post. >.<

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Comments

[rebeccaann08.livejournal.com]

I just started reading But It's a Good Refrain (before I saw your rec, I swear). I'm so happy it's good fic :D

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

enjoy! I think you'll like it. :)

Will you be reading/reccing from Merlin_games?

[rebeccaann08.livejournal.com]

I'm going to try to. I'm trying to stay up to date on merlinreversebb, and I'm not sure how many merlin_games fics are going to be pubbed. Assuming it's not like ALL THE FICS AT ONCE, I think I'll be ok ;-)

Omg, though, the amount of fics open in tabs on my computer right now is insane. Insane. O.O

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it looks like m_g is posting sparsely. and the sizes aren't too bad.

Not like missing 4 days of hd_holidays and you are 200k behind. :/

[rebeccaann08.livejournal.com]

That happened to me with paperlegends. I didn't catch the beginning of it. Came in a week later and was like...whoa. Words. O.O

I'm still reading BB fic.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

/o\ yeah. I have a few BB fics still in my MUST READ gdoc. (lol - I can't stand having lots of tabs open, I make gdoc lists of everything instead)

[rebeccaann08.livejournal.com]

I've only read about six or seven BBs so far. *sigh*

I use Firefox, so I separate all my fics into tab groups (Merlic fics TBR, HP fics TBR, Merlin fics to rec, HP fics to rec, etc etc). That way I can have them open, but I don't have to see them all.

I should use gdocs. One of these days my computer is going to crash and I am going to lose EVERYTHING. Then...I will be crushed. A lost fangirl with no fic. It will be tragic. D:

[kathyh]

This is fic a joy to read.

Isn't it. lady_ragnell's fics are my happy place. She just handles all the characters so well.

I've got rotrude's fic open in a tab to read :)

I've got Merlin fics open in tabs on my computer, I've got others on my Kindle and more on my TBR Pinboard bookmarks. I'll catch up one day *g*.