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On Our Knees (At the Curtains of the Waterfall) by thesongistheriver
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
04 Mar 2026
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King Arthur Pendragon of Camelot and Druid prince Merlin have absolutely nothing in common -- except that duty to their people always comes first.
That's how it begins. It isn't how it ends.
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04 Aug 2026
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Arthur wasn’t sure what this charm would do, if anything, but he’d held it in his hands, and he’d pressed it to his lips, and he’d willed all of his strength and protection and fervent desire for Merlin to be okay into the metal.
He’d broken his father’s laws for Merlin, Uther’s one cardinal rule, and that had to count for something. Arthur just wasn’t sure what.
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Arthur notices the cuts and bruises on Merlin’s skin and assumes the worst. Out of options, he turns to magic for help.
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04 Aug 2026
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“Enjoying this, huh?” he murmurs, twisting the bud between his thumb and forefinger. Alhaitham’s knees jerk, hitting the top of Kaveh’s thighs. “I didn’t expect you to be this—”
Beautiful, he wants to say, the word saccharine on the tip of his tongue. His initial assumptions are false—no marble pillar can shiver as beautifully as this miracle of flesh and muscles and tendons, wonderfully reactive. Kaveh wants to take him apart, unravel the threads of his relentless rationality until nothing remains of him but this humanity, all this softness that does not quite fit right with the rest of him.
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02 Aug 2026
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This wasn’t how it was meant to be.
Camelot has been taken. Arthur Pendragon is being held captive as a servant to the throne that was meant to be his. Worse still, the officer he’s been assigned to serve is rumored to be the most powerful sorcerer to walk the earth. Soon Arthur will learn just how powerful his master really is. He also might learn that he likes it.Bookmarked by avrxq
29 Jul 2026
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A follow up to Drunken Shenanigans detailing the aftermath. What happens when Arthur remembers that night but Merlin doesn't? Especially with their plans to move in together?
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29 Jul 2026
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Found You at the Day's End (In the Places Only We Know) by thesongistheriver for reges_criniti
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
10 Jul 2025
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Arthur's so busy he rarely sees his beloved English Pointer.
Merlin walks dogs in his free time.
or: Dogs really are man's best
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17 Jul 2026
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“I said,” Merlin enunciates, rolling his eyes. He gets a knee over Arthur’s thigh, pressing it into the mattress and fixing the perch of his glasses. “What’s wrong with my glasses?”
Arthur gapes at him, before dropping onto his pillow with a sigh as he stares up at the ceiling. What has this night come to? He was supposed to go over his report and then sleep. And then came Merlin, complaining about the fucking water pressure, dripping wet and smelling like that with his low slung pyjamas and utter lack of respect for Arthur’s sanity, taking over his mind and night. Arthur can’t have one second of peace.
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Arthur notices Merlin smells nice. He then can’t stop noticing and nearly loses his mind about it.
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29 Jun 2026
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One wedding. No funeral. One unqualified catastrophe. by digthewriter
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
10 Mar 2017
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Single businessman Arthur Pendragon decides to hire a male escort to pose as his boyfriend at his sister’s wedding. His plan, an attempt to dupe his ex-boyfriend, who broke it off with him a few years prior, proves to be Arthur’s undoing.
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16 Jun 2026
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“Gwaine,” Merlin informed, and he was just teasing Arthur, trying to rile him up about his ego. “Is the whole package.”
“Gwaine has the concentration span of a newborn lamb.” Arthur declared, angry, and Merlin rolled his eyes.
Arthur has an unreadable expression as his eyes dart over to look at Gwaine, then back at Merlin.
He scoffed and grabbed his own sword before marching onto the field, Merlin watching as he dropped his hands off his waist, rolling his eyes exasperatedly at Arthur’s constant peacocking.
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Inspired by that one deleted scene of Arthur defeating all the knights out of jealousy
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03 Jun 2026
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Arthur Pendragon has spent his whole life untouched—by kindness, by desire, or anything resembling real intimacy. It never mattered. Not until a certain annoying manservant came to Camelot—Merlin—who disregarded all strict royal etiquette and showed no restraint when it came to sudden, reckless displays of affection. Now, there's something impossible in the space between them, something Arthur doesn't know how to name—only that he aches to close the distance.
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A slow-burn touched-starved Arthur Pendragon story.
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Guys, there was only one bed.
Guys, some obscure quest in the cold far-up mountains made them "huddle for warmth".
Guys, they might give in to this farm fantasy of theirs.
Can't I just put all the tropes in there?
This fic is rated MSI for Maximum Self Indulgence.
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30 May 2026
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When Jihoon is fourteen, he's just moved from Busan to Seoul, starting his life as a trainee at Pledis Entertainment. He's exploring music and working on his vocals, though his dancing definitely needs improvement.
When Jihoon is fourteen, he's both alone for the first time, and less alone than he's ever been in his entire life. Being away from his parents but surrounded by other teenage boys turns making friends into a necessity, and he wants desperately to turn the boys around him into brothers.
When Jihoon is fourteen, he's finally fallen headlong into his first ever crush, the feeling so terrifying and all-encompassing that he's keeping it as quiet and close to his chest as he can. He doesn't yet know how to strike the balance between letting himself be scared, and letting himself be loved. He's never had to learn.
Then, just one month before turning fifteen, Jihoon meets Kim Mingyu.
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- Part 1 of ALTWSS-verse
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29 May 2026
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It's a hot night and there is only one bed... accidents happen... 🤷
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26 May 2026
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Lancelot looks over at his friend again—and he looks less like a bumbling servant here in the sun and more like a creature carved from the old magic itself—ethereal, sharp, and beautiful in a way Lancelot had never properly allowed himself to notice.
The Knights' shaking breaths were hidden behind exhaustion of heavy labor.
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Sooner or later everyone falls for Merlin’s charm.
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21 May 2026
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To Seokmin and Mingyu, their disagreements, their alpha stand-offs, their bouts of posturing—all of it has always just been a fight for Minghao's attention, to be the one of the two that he was looking at. To be chosen.
Minghao thinks otherwise.
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18 May 2026
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In the midst of the infinite amount of relationships Mingyu seems to end up in, Jihoon is somehow at the center of it all.
He's still trying to figure out what that means.
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18 May 2026
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Arthur is insecure about a bit of softness to his stomach. Merlin tries to keep things in his pants.
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17 May 2026
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“If Arthur, maker of knights, can train a lowborn man to your satisfaction and prove we can strengthen our defenses from among our own, you will release me from this marriage agreement.”
To save Morgana from a loveless political marriage, Arthur has three months to turn a peasant into a knight. The only problem? That peasant is Merlin.
Otherwise known as She's All That but utter medieval nonsense.
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01 May 2026
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Arthur starts his first year at Camelot University hoping to elude his father’s influence. But Uther’s control persists and Arthur soon faces the same pressures he had hoped to escape. To make matters worse, his roommate proves to be a complete pain in the arse, though Merlin thinks the same about Arthur. Unfortunately, Arthur is not only infuriating but infuriatingly attractive, and Merlin cannot help but wonder if Arthur’s guarded looks convey a deeper meaning – one he’s too afraid to admit to.
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29 Apr 2026
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He saw Arthur burst from the forest, wide-eyed and pale-faced. Sweat plastered his hair to his forehead, and fear locked his expression in its clutches. One hand stretched out as if to grab him. So near and yet so far.
The moment fled. Gravity won, and there wasn't even time for Merlin to cry out as the bandit's weight dragged him over the cliff and into the stormy waters below.
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When Merlin is hurt during a bandit attack, Arthur finds himself torn between the longings of his heart and his duties to the crown.
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15 Apr 2026
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Arthur and Merlin have despised one another for years or so their friends think. Turns out they've been fighting as much as they've been secretly shagging.
Arthur is going through a divorce and finds himself back in Camelot. He encounters the last person he wants to see, Merlin, at a party and tries to convince himself that he wants nothing to do with him. But things with Merlin have never been simple and Arthur once again finds himself drawn to Merlin. Will these two idiots in love finally express their feelings for one another or will it all go up in flames?
"Of course, she didn’t know about Merlin. No one did. He was the real reason Arthur hadn’t wanted to attend the event. Gorgeous Merlin with his sharp cheekbones and otherworldly ability to enchant Arthur. He’d never been able to say no to him. Out of all his mistakes (and there were many), Merlin had to be his favorite one."
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- Part 2 of The Best Damn Thing
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23 Mar 2026