What are the minimum requirements for the Merlin Supernova?
For this event, the minimum requirements are going to be much higher than any of our previous events as it is a ✨Supernova✨
Writers:20,000 words Artists:8 completed pieces Podficcers: All written words recorded, SFX are optional Giffers: 16 recolored gifs with text
Please remember that all of these final totals will be split up into four posts as these will be posted as wips, so you do not have to be 100% completely done in August when posting begins.
Also, if you want to do more than this, you are more than welcome to. There is not a cap on how much you can create.
Additionally, this event is open to everyone.While this is not a rarepair only event, we want to especially encourage rarepair creators to sign up and help us create an explosion of content that is more diverse and inclusive and showcases all the different ships and dynamics that this fandom has.
Sign Ups: What to Expect
Sorcerers(the person providing the idea)
In the general information post I mentioned that there will be about a month to gather your thoughts and come up with a summary for you work.
The month starts when sign ups open (February 1st) and end when sign ups close (March 19th). I know that’s more than a month.
Since we use airtables for everything, we can transfer your summary information into a viewing gallery so that there’s no risk of any information or formatting being lost. It also makes it easier for artists of different mediums to upload their work in a format that suits them.
On the sign up form, there will be a spot to share your summary or artists storyboard.
As a writer, your summary needs to include the general plot (beginning, middle, and end) and any thematic elements that you want an artist to consider to help them visualize what they would create for your story. For instance, is it a space opera? Do they need to be able to draw spaceships? Is it a high fantasy au where they’d need to draw animals and armor? Is it a modern au where they’d need to draw a lot of cars or cityscapes or- You get the idea.
For artists you will need to come up with a storyboard. This is going to be a series of sketches with notes about what’s going on in each scene. You will also need to include the prompt and how you want the story to end.
For giffers you will need to come up with a prompt and provide a summary of the scenes and gifs you plan to make for the story as well as how you want the story to end.
For podficcers, this is going to be a little more difficult for you. You will provide a voice sample and list the special effects you are able to do (include accents). You will also provide a prompt, but yours does not have to have an ending (but you can include one if you want).
The sign up form will also have places to list your main pairing, your planned rating, and any relevant Ao3 tags.
Knights (the collaborator)
This sign up form will be much simpler.
Aside from your contact information, you will also list what medium you intend to participate as (writer, artist, podficcer, giffer). If you do more than one medium you can always change later after you get paired up if you and your partner think that a different medium will fit the story better.
The viewing gallery will be anonymous until after summary claims are over. We want to give everyone an equal opportunity to get claimed and focus on the fanwork rather than play favorites.
Ultimately when it comes to this, we want you all to consider the Sorcerer-Knight pairs as a partnership. You’re working together,not one dictating the other.
Druids(participants who already have a partner)
For those who already have a group, there will be a different form that all of you need to fill out. However only one of you needs to provide your story summary.
There will be a space on the form to list the other members of your group. You will only be counted as a group if everyone fills out the form and lists the same people.
Groups can be up to four members big, but no more than two of one type of medium. For instance, you can have a writer-artist-artist group, a writer-artist-giffer group, etc etc etc.
Am I required to join the Merlin Fic Server?
Nope! You are not required to join the server if you don’t want to. Information, announcements, and reminders will all be handled over email, tumblr, andthe server. There are benefits to the server such as a community and getting to know your fellow Supernova participants, as well as places to discuss your work and find cheerleaders and betas (although beta’s are not required for this).
But no, you are not required to join the server if you’d prefer not to.
Gwaine and merlin never shut up about each other its really annoying gwaine is like “wow merlin works so hard he does more for us than anyone he should get a year paid leave and should get to slap arthur whenever he wants also he’s sooooo pretty have you guys seen the way he” and merlins like “wow did you see gwaine in training yesterday he was in better form than you arthur he makes that stupid armor look good also how is his hair still so beautiful even when he’s sweaty and did you know he met me when I was doing laundry earlier he had flowers and helped me finish he’s so kind and considerate unlike SOME people also he”
for mi amor. @its-hyperfixation i am sorry i am late with an end of semester gift, but i hope this (very-rare-for-my-brand) wholesome gifset from me makes up for it. maybe we are also connected by our souls, or just a piece of twine…either way, please know i love you to the moon and back and im so, so proud of you. xx
Additional Tags: Angst, I Could Say There’s Fluff But That Would Be a Lie™, Insecure Gwaine, Bandit Gwaine, Hurt Gwaine, Hurt Lancelot, Hurt Merlin, Basically They’re All in a Bit of a Pickle, Caring Lancelot, Caring Merlin, Caring Gwaine, I Really Took the Hurt of Hurt/Comfort Here, Protective Gwaine, Drowning Mention, Drowning Threat, Whump, No Beta We Die Like the Bandits Gwaine Murdered as a Teenager, If You’ve Come From forget-me-nots Then Enjoy a Complete Tonal Shift, Fuck Geography But Fuck Camelot’s Geography in Particular, Also Take This as My Formal Apology for What Gwaine is About to Endure, Capture, Torture, Psychological Torture, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Self-Deprecation Chart, It Kind of Gets Heavy Pretty Quickly But Everything is Fineeee, Established Relationship, POV Gwaine, Flashbacks, Panic Attack, Injury, Like A Lot, I Could Probably Take on Malory in Terms of Writing Injured Characters as Still Being Conscious, I’m Sorry if the Wound Reactions Are Not Accurate But I Began Research and Started to Feel Faint, So Decided to Use Some Hollywood Bullshit Instead, Gwaine Does Not Catch a Break, Protective Lancelot, Protective Merlin, Set Between S3 and S4, Have a Hefty Amount of Gwaine’s Backstory and Trauma, There Probably Will Be a Softer Follow-Up Later, Hurt/Comfort, Death Mention, Quite a Few Times Actually, But All Death is Off-Screen, We Have a Dick Joke and That’s All That Matters, Psychological Trauma
Words: 18,374
Chapters: 1/1
Summary: After taking a shortcut back to Camelot, Gwaine, Lancelot and Merlin are captured by some familiar faces from Gwaine’s past. Caught between nightmares and memories that bloom in the place he grew up in, Gwaine struggles to convince himself that they’ll all be able to get out alive.
Or
Gwaine’s past catches up with him and he’s determined to put himself in harm’s way in order to protect Merlin and Lancelot. They are not having any of it.
Opening:
In hindsight, it had not been a good idea to travel through the Valley of the Fallen Kings. But, seeing as Merlin had elected to not mention to either Gwaine or Lancelot that he’d broken several of his ribs until two days after leaving Gawant, both knights had wanted to get Merlin back to Camelot as quickly as possible. And Gwaine knew the Valley of the Fallen Kings like the back of his hand.
In hindsight, Gwaine should have also known that there would always be bandits lurking in the valley. But, being so focused on Merlin and so frustrated with himself for not noticing the pain Merlin had been in after falling off his horse when racing Elena, he hadn’t spared a thought about potential attacks. Which, lying on the ground with an arrow protruding from his side, he realised he should have done.
