WHERE IS THAT YEAR? THAT WHOLE ASS YEAR BETWEEN MORGANA SCREAMING THE PALACE DOWN AND THE DOROCHA BEING RELEASED? WHERE IS THAT YEAR FULL OF COUNTLESS LITTLE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MERLIN AND THE ONE PERSON BESIDES GAIUS WHO KNOWS ABOUT HIS MAGIC LIKE THE INTERACTION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DOROCHA EPISODE? WHERE IS MY MERLIN AND LANCELOT FRIENDSHIP SCREEN TIME? TELL ME
Hello all and welcome to day 6 of Mini Mercelot Week! Thank you so much to everyone who’s participated so far! It’s been such a successful fest and the AO3 tag for Lancelot/Merlin is booming! It’s so lovely to see.
Today’s prompt is: Work/Jobs
Our boys have things to do. Tell us about them. Show them to us.
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“Hey, I saw this in the market and thought of you,” had become one of the most common phrases Lancelot’s vocabulary. He’d never had a steady stream of income before, so after a small adjustment period where he still hoarded food, money, and weapons to be prepared for a rainy day, he started spending almost all of his knightly paycheck on gifts. His first gift was for Merlin, a beautiful butterfly necklace inlaid with jewels that used up most of the money he’d saved. The next paycheck, though, was mostly spent on Gwaine, who had surprisingly been the one to teach him budgeting. The other traveler’s monetary style leaned more towards “spend everything you got the second you get it so you can’t get robbed,” but that turned out to be exactly the approach Lancelot needed. He bought the knight new boots, since his old ones were wearing out from being worn for so long, and paid for many rounds at the tavern. All of his friends received gifts as well, from a custom made gambeson for Percival to journals for Leon to carving knives for Elyan to a set of beautiful silverware for Gwen and a new herb drying rack and more glass bottles for Gaius.
“Merlin, wait up a minute, I have something for you,” he said the morning after one payday. Merlin was already out of bed, getting dressed to go wake up Arthur. His butterfly necklace was concealed beneath his neckerchief. Still in bed, Lancelot rolled over to grab the package he’d concealed beneath the bed. Normally he didn’t bother with wrapping them nicely, but today he’d wanted to see Merlin’s face as he realized what it was.
Modern Reincarnation AU. Merlin and Lancelot go through a photo album. ~1700 words. Lancelot/Merlin. No warnings apply. (Mention of car wreck that killed Lancelot in a past life.)
A late birthday gift for Mod @little-ligi, because I couldn’t have made this fest work without her. You’re the best Ligi
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There’s no need to print photographs anymore. It’s easy enough to look at a screen and and flip through thousands, hundreds of thousands of images. But there has always been something special about choosing individual moments, perfect snapshots, and cataloging them into a book whose pages he can flip through. Merlin has been alive for over 1500 years. Books are one of the most familiar things he knows. One of the only things that hasn’t changed much in 1500 years.
People changed, clothes changed, transport changed, but not books. Those had remained nearly the same. You open the front cover and you look at what’s inside, just like always.
After 1500 years of adaptations, it was nice for this one thing to remain the same.
Hello everyone, hope you’re all enjoying Mercelot Week so far!
Today’s prompt is Gifts!
This whole week is a fabulous birthday gift for Mod Ligi, and now we’d love to see our boys giving gifts to each other as well. Whatever the occasion, whatever the gift, today is all about giving and receiving!
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Hello all and welcome to another year of Mercelot Week! Mercelot week will run from June 27-July 3. There are plenty of prompts to choose from for each day, so go wild! The theme for the prompts this year is Greek Myths. Each day is based off of a Person/Diety from Greek Mythology. Hope you enjoy!
And that is the last round up of the stunning and wonderful entries! Please go and check them all out and don’t forget to show lots of love to all of the creators!
Merlin making a little life on a farm with Will. They’re “confirmed bachelors” except Merlin is just gay and Will is ace/aro. One day Merlin is just minding his own business out in the forest, foraging wild berries like one does, and he’s attacked by a monster. Thankfully, he can use his magic to save himself. Not so thankfully, someone sees. It’s a new someone. Someone Merlin has never seen before, which might be good and it might be bad.
The man has a sword which he immediately lowers and puts up his free hand. “That was very impressive.” He said, and Merlin looks between the man’s face, his empty hand, and the sword. “I know you have no reason to trust me, but I mean you no harm. I have been tracking that beast for three days. I’m just relieved to be done with it.”
Merlin is very wary, but he’s also vulnerable to the man’s very good looks and fluffy hair. “Magic is illegal. You can’t say anything to anyone.”
“Your secret is safe with me.”
Merlin brings him home and Will makes like 50 inappropriate jokes over dinner about the two of them. Merlin learns the stranger’s name is Lancelot, and it’s just as pretty as his face. Merlin scolds will for his jokes, but full intends on keeping Lancelot.
Hello all and welcome to another year of Mercelot Week! Mercelot week will run from June 27-July 3. There are plenty of prompts to choose from for each day, so go wild! The theme for the prompts this year is Greek Myths. Each day is based off of a Person/Diety from Greek Mythology. Hope you enjoy!
How many works do you have on Ao3? 140…. I can’t quite believe that… I’ve only been on Ao3 for about 13months…
What’s your total Ao3 word count? 303,317
How many fandoms have you written for and what are they? In the past 15 years or soI have written for (that I can remember) 10 fandoms. In order (I think) Harry Potter, Tamora Pierce, Twilight, Merlin, Supernatural, Glee, Gilmore Girls, Dragon Age, Thunderbirds and Medici. But the only ones I still write now are Harry Potter and Merlin. Only a small fraction of these ever got published online. And only my Merlin fics are on Ao3!
What are your top 5 fics by kudos? (watch me turn this into shameless self promotion )
1)Secrets & Lies - Merthur - Arthur knows about Merlin’s magic and has to stop anyone else finding out.
Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Always! I feel like if someone has taken the time to tell me they like my fics, then I want to let them know that their comments made me smile! Although sometimes it takes me a long time to get around to doing so because when I first read nice comments all I am capable of doing is making incoherent happy noises and grinning at my laptop screen.
What is the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending? ProbablyDefiance - I even added a note at the end with a reassurance that it doesn’t actually end in the way it seems to! (Despite the sad ending, please do read it though! It’s Arthur trying to defy Uther in a matter of using magic to save Merlin’s life…)
Do you write crossovers? Not really.
Have you ever received hate on a fic? Once. It was truly horrible and it almost put me off writing for a while, but some lovely people in the fandom encouraged me to ignore it and carry on!
Do you write smut? If so, what kind? I do indeed! All different kinds! I started with a rather longer than I expected Gwaincelot fic at the end of 2020, and then after a few more here and there, I opened the floodgates with Kinkalot!(More shameless self promotion of course - I shouldn’t be allowed to answer questions like this, I just turn the whole thing into a personal advert! )
Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I’m aware of! I hope not.
Have you ever had a fic translated? About ten years ago or so one of my Glee fanfics was translated into Italian. The girl who translated it was lovely and translated all the reviews back into English for me as well!
Have you ever co-written a fic before? Me and my sister have co-written several Harry Potter fics together - but we’ve never finished any of them - maybe this year we’ll get to that….
What’s your all time favourite ship? Merthur. Hands down. It was my first ever ship and it will always be my favourite. But close second are Mercelot and Arwen and, of course, Gwaincelot (and many more!)
What’s a wip you want to finish but don’t think you ever will? I currently have 81 wips…. I really want to finish all of them, of course, but I know some of them will never be done.
What are your writing strengths? I think I’m good at description and little details to make things really seem real. And lots of people tell me I’m good at writing dialogue - which I find weird, because I would have said that was one of my weaknesses!
What are your writing weaknesses? Sentence structure - I use far too many commas and run-on sentences. And too many adverbs. And sticking to a plan! I never stick to the plans I make before I start writing. And I’m not great at thinking up complex plots for long stories - although I would love to be able to write them.
What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? Oooh I love it, I’ve done a little bit of French, Italian and Spanish for a couple of bilingual characters in other fandoms before. And for Merlin fics I do it a lot. Using Old English for Merlin’s spells - creating new spells is one of my favourite things to do!
What was the first fandom you wrote for? Unofficially, Harry Potter - but that was before I had ever even heard of fanfiction or fandom, as far as I was concerned I was just playing writing with the characters. The first thing I deliberately chose to write and publish fanfiction for was… Twilight.
What’s your favourite fic you’ve written? Oh dear, that’s like asking a mum to choose between her children! I know it sounds arrogant, but I really do like all of my published fics - I wouldn’t publish them if I didn’t like them myself. Ummm… Can I pick three??? It’s my blog, I can do what I want. I’m going to pick three that I really like but that have been slightly overlooked in hit numbers on Ao3 (just because I am an utterly, utterly shameless self promoting prat)
2) Of Tea and Dragons - Arwen - This is the first ever modern AU I wrote, Gwen meeting Arthur and Merlin in a tea shop.
3) The Prince’s Breakfast - Pre-slash Merthur - Morning domesticity interrupted by a cute kitten!
I know, I know. Ignore my self-indulgent promoting. But what’s tumblr for if not for advertising your fics! Ok, I’m done now! I promise!
Tagging: I haven’t been around on tumblr for a while so I have no idea who has already done this, so I am tagging ANYONE WHO SEES THIS AND WANTS TO DO IT!!! (Anyone who managed to wade through all of my self promotion deserves to do a little promoting themselves too!!)
[ID: Black and grey sketch of Merlin and Lancelot. Merlin is kneeling over Lancelot on a bed and biting his neck, wearing a loose 18th century style shirt, his left hand resting on the mattress beside Lancelot’s head. Lancelot is laying on his back, his head tilted to expose more of his neck and his right hand behind Merlin’s leg. He’s wearing tight leather trousers. End ID]
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Based on Love Biteby@little-ligi (does not do the fic justice - very much recommend for not-entirely-sfw mercelot delightfulness)
[ID: Sketch in black and grey of Merlin and Lancelot in modern clothes. Merlin, wearing a hat with a band and butterfly charm, is kissing Lancelot on the cheek. Lancelot, wearing a white shirt and a sub day collar is smiling. They’re both holding a pride flag that’s wrapped around both of them, showing most of the colours, with those not seen on Merlin’s hat instead. End ID]
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Modern AU Merlin and Lancelot happily being themselves out in the open
I like to think all of Camelot thought Merlin was just the biggest flirt and that everyone was involved with him at some point because like most of them probably thought he had a thing for either Gwen or Morgana at some point, he managed to get Gwaine and Lancelot into his room and is very close with both, the rest of the knights are also very close to him and Arthur let’s him get away with saying anything to him and is protective of him at times.
All of the kingdom think Merlin has the best dating experience of them all and when Arthur finds out about his supposed ‘experience’ from one of his people he’s astounded.
resurrected characters are like hi :) im back :) and their loved ones are like jesus fucking christ i am going to spend the rest of my life doubting that this is truly you
