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In a moment of sickness induced delusion, it wasn’t Leon or his private guards or anyone else that Arthur trusted implicitly – it was his servant.
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Arthur is an emotionally repressed workaholic who is unhappily married. Merlin is his loyal and competent personal assistant. One Monday, Merlin comes to work to find that, over the weekend, Arthur has dictated a letter for Merlin that is about to change both of their lives.
A song fic inspired by the 1969 classic, 'Take A Letter, Maria' by R. B. Greaves.
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- Part 1 of Cally's Classic Song Fics
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Kinktober/Whumptober/Fictober 2025 by Val_Creative
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Adventure Time (Cartoon 2010), Agatha All Along (TV), Anastasia (1997), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Barbie (Movie 2023), Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Beetlejuice (Cartoon 1989), Beetlejuice (Movies), Cowboy Bebop (Anime), DCU, DCU (Comics), Dead Poets Society (1989), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, House of the Dragon (TV), Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Jennifer's Body (2009), Kuroshitsuji | Black Butler, MADK (Manga), Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Merlin (TV), SK8 the Infinity (Anime), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Soul Eater (Anime & Manga), Supergirl (TV 2015), Supernatural (TV 2005), Teen Titans (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, The Lost Boys (Movies), The Ritual (2017), The Ritual - Adam Nevill, The Road to El Dorado (2000), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Venom (Marvel Movies), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime), 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga)
29 Oct 2025
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An assortment of 2024/2025 October fics. Different fandoms and ships.
Fictober 2024 prompts:
https://fictober-event.tumblr.com/prompts24
absurddino's (Tumblr) Kinktober 2025 (#1) prompts:
https://www.tumblr.com/absurddino/786917717543436288
Kinktober 2025 (#2) prompts:
https://www.tumblr.com/kinktober-2025/787065908197818368/more-information
Whumptober 2025:
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Merlin opens his mouth to argue, then closes it. It’s not like Arthur will let him off if he tells him his leg’s injured anyway, not surrounded by his father’s knights. “Yes, Arthur,” he mutters.
Merlin gets injured on a hunt and nobody notices. Until somebody does.
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- Part 3 of Febuwhump 2022
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Merlin and his new role as the seneschal of Arthur
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- Part 54 of Merlin Bingo 2024
- Part 2 of Merlin the seneschal of Camelot
- Part 6 of Merlin Bingo 2025
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Arthur overhears a conversation between Merlin and one of the visiting Lords in his castle.
Includes lost socks, sneaking through corridors and Merlin secretly running Arthur's kingdom from the laundry room.
Part of the Smart!Merlin series.
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- Part 2 of The Smart!Merlin Series
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Out of the Woods, or, Faeries in Camelot by Merlinfirstlastalways
Fandom: Arthurian Mythology & Related Fandoms, Merlin (TV)
19 Feb 2024
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A love story, told mainly through a series of letters between the Princess of Nemeth and the manservant to the King of Camelot.
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366 BCE Ancient Greece
Born poor, foreign, and illegitimate, famous actor Merlin has spent his entire life on the outside looking in. Arthur Pendragon is a young and inexperienced politician desperately trying to prevent a war, leading him to turn to Merlin for help. Guinevere of Athens has secretly been publishing philosophical treatises under a male pseudonym, escaping suspicion. Morgana is a priestess at the Oracle of Delphi, one of the few women in Greece to wield political power, yet still sidelined. One day, Merlin receives a mission that he cannot refuse, one that will draw the four of them together — but could incite a war.
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“Galiad, fifth son of Chrockland, former Knight of Camelot, for your grievous crimes against the crown, I hereby sentence you to execution, death by beheading–”
Galiad fell to his knees, ears ringing. He never should have tried to kill the King. It had been a stupid, reckless decision, and he could not believe he’d been so easily bribed into it.
He had let his ego get the better of him, and now, here he was, on his knees in the throne room, fighting back tears, trying not to throw up all over the stone floor, begging for his life to be spared.
And here’s the real kicker; he wasn’t even on trial for the attempted murder of his King. His Majesty didn’t know about that.
No, Galiad was on trial for the crime he’d committed against King Arthur’s manservant.
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Something goes wrong on a hunting trip and Merlin is left with no choice but to use his magic to save Arthur’s life once again. It's something he's done many times before, but this time, he can't hide it or deny he did it.
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A knight suggests that Merlin might harm Arthur with his magic. Arthur does not take it kindly.
Sarrum is angered by the return of magic to Camelot and visits with ill intentions. Merlin takes care of it.
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Merlin goes a bit nuclear on some guards when Arthur's injured and being stubborn. Arthur witnesses something else altogether.
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- Part 4 of Ghost's Merlin Fics
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Merlin and Arthur are kidnapped and left for dead in the woods. Merlin’s determined to get them untied before they freeze to death, and can't understand why Arthur doesn't seem worried at all.
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Merlin Bingo 2025 by amACEinglyordinary, HadrianPeverellBlack
Fandom: Merlin (TV), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Supernatural (TV 2005), The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Originals (TV), The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms, The Vampire Diaries (TV)
26 Oct 2025
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Really?” Merlin muses, his lips barely moving as he mumbles to himself. “So is it your job to be a prat?”
“I could fire you for such insolence!” Arthur threatens, his face flaming.
The problem, they both know, is that Arthur has fired and rehired Merlin no less than three times a week since they entered into this arrangement, and so the threat has lost its bite. At present, it’s been four days since the last time Arthur sacked Merlin.
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“When have I ever done as I’m told?” Merlin smiles, his fingers sliding along the nape of Arthur’s neck to tangle through his hair there. “When was the last time you saw me muck out the stables? I don’t clean your room or sweep the ashes from your hearth. I stopped doing that ages ago, Arthur.”And only then does the truth of it strike Arthur. He can’t, actually, remember the last time Merlin stomped through his chambers, covered in muck and stinking like horse dung; can’t remember the last time he walked in to find Merlin on his knees, his face ruddy with dusty ashes from the fireplace; can’t recall the last time Merlin so much as dragged a mop across his floors
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Merlin could see men from beyond the trees making their way up and around the hill. Bandits. They would surround them, ambush them. He needed to warn Arthur.
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In a world of humans, magics, vampires, and werewolves, Merlin is just trying to learn to control his powers.
What is it, to be a human? a witch? a vampire? a werewolf? Merlin can barely answer one of those questions, but now he finds himself having to answer all of them all at once.AKA: A was-supposed-to-be-rewrite of Merlin in a vampire/werewolf universe that ran off the rails and became something greater. (No longer a rewrite.)
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