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“There’s something about you, Merlin. If my uncle knew… if he’d even guessed at it, he would never have let you live. He would never have let me have you.”
An ACBB 2025 collab! In this fusion of BBC Merlin and C. S. Pacat's Captive Price trilogy, Agravaine De Bois is Regent of Camelot, formerly Vere, until Arthur Pendragon comes of age. Hardship and famine have struck the land, making it easy for Agravaine's ambition to take hold; a young Akielon dragonlord - the King-Killer - is betrayed and sold into his new slave trade. Arthur and Merlin do what they must both to survive and to meet their destinies.
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16 Oct 2025
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“Have I ever been a good manservant?” Merlin asked, because he couldn’t very well say ask me for something else and see what I wouldn’t give to you. It should have been more insulting that this of all things was what finally made Arthur relax.
Merlin confuses a typical favor with one of the gift-giving, courtly variety when Camelot hosts a winter tournament. Arthur tries his hand at courtship.
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20 Sep 2025
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Arthur is cursed to obey Merlin’s orders.
Obviously this has very little impact on their lives, since no servant would ever dare give orders to a prince.
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25 Jul 2025
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Things are going pretty well for Merlin and Arthur. They've brought peace to the five kingdoms, magic is no longer shadowed by tyranny, and everyone is generally having a good time. Only, Merlin is pretty sure Arthur's going to pack his bags and run away in the middle of the night if one more person asks him why he hasn't taken a queen yet.
They decide to take a few days and travel to Ealdor so Arthur can get away from some of the pressure of being Camelot's king. But little does Merlin know, the revelations they'll have while they're there will follow them back to Camelot and beyond.
In which Arthur tries to be a farmer but ends up more as Merlin's slightly useless house husband.
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11 Jun 2025
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During a winter hunting trip, Merlin finds he still has much to learn about Arthur.
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29 May 2025
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A decennial hunt draws neighboring princes to Camelot to track a dangerous three-headed beast, but things go south when one of them starts pursuing Merlin instead.
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- 6/6
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16 May 2025
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“Do you think me too ambitious?” Morgana asks when they part.
Gwen presses her lips to the corner of Morgana’s mouth. "I think you noble, my lady."
(Gwen and Morgana in Camelot; the slow entwining of their lives, and the people they meet along the way. The weight of anger, of destiny, of silk and iron.)
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06 Apr 2025
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“Get out of my sight, and don’t come back until you can prove to me why I should allow you to remain in my service.”
Merlin stares at Arthur, confused. His tone was ominous, and it certainly sounded like a threat, but Merlin can’t quite work out what part is supposed to have him shaking in his boots. He’s halfway back to Gauis’ chambers when it dawns on him: Arthur actually thinks this stupid, degrading job is something he would be willing to fight for - as though Merlin’s life wouldn’t be complete without the honor of scrubbing the sheets Arthur manages to soil on a disturbingly regular basis.
In which it takes Merlin a bit longer to warm up to Arthur than it does in canon, but he gets there in the end.
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10 Feb 2025
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On a hunt, Arthur kills the last bear in the British Isles, and there are consequences.
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07 Feb 2025
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In the morning, Merlin knows, Arthur will don his crown again. But for now their world is only Arthur’s drowsy kisses, and Merlin tracing circles on Arthur’s bare chest, and the night outside is deep and dark and still. There are no conspiracies, no dragons, no prophecies relentlessly unraveling.
Merlin wishes, selfishly, that dawn might never come.
(And the dawn obeys.)
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01 Feb 2025
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“I am your Arthur, am I not?” Arthur pleaded frantically, not above begging anymore. As prince, as king, there was not a day when people didn't remind him that he was Camelot's. But as a man? As Arthur?
He was always and forever Merlin's.
“Show me that my choices matter, Merlin. Show me that they are worth anything to you.”
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After Merlin heals Arthur from Camlann's wound, they return to Camelot for their golden age, thinking it was all over now. However, the moment Merlin wakes up, he finds Arthur cold from a lifetime of betrayal, and the pain in Merlin's heart grows until it couldn't anymore.
Featuring; protective knights, BAMF Merlin, and a secret that only Arthur Pendragon can know.
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31 Jan 2025
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After encountering a powerful witch, Arthur is turned into a dragon – only to be rescued by the last of the dragonlords. Who happens to be his manservant. Which is only the first of the unfathomable and upsetting facts that Arthur is learning about Merlin’s life, about dragons, and about his own heart.
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30 Jan 2025
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When Merlin is sentenced to severe punishment for defying Uther, Arthur takes the fall.
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10 Jan 2025
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Our Sisters' Sisters by Beatrice_Sank for phantomlistener
Fandoms: Mary Poppins (Movies)
14 Feb 2020
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"There was a set way those things were supposed to be done: it was what it was all about, being the help, and making you body bend at the right angle, keeping your eyes low, erasing yourself graciously as you place the cup or the plate or the newspapers in front of your master, stifling every part of your flesh that could get in the way of good service.
But she couldn’t recognize any of those traits whenever Mary Poppins leaned over her and her hand appeared in front of her face, lowering down her favourite china until a distinctive “clink” echoed in the empty room and she had to look up, to meet her eyes."On Mary Poppins's day off, she offers Winifred Banks a walk.
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09 Jan 2025
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Coffee, Teas, and Fallacies: A Romantic Comedy of Errors by Malu_3 (Grainne) for Raphale
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
05 May 2022
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In a modern land of contested magic use and a time of misunderstandings, Arthur, a lonely barrister, sets his cap at Merlin, a charming barista (or so he thinks).
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27 Dec 2024
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Shortly after coming to Camelot, physician’s apprentice Merlin learns that Prince Arthur is suffering from a mysterious ailment nobody is willing to talk about. The Prince keeps exclusively to his chambers and is in danger of losing his status as heir apparent to the throne. When Merlin finally comes face to face with him, the Prince and he do not exactly hit it off. But in spite of Prince Arthur’s initial hostility, Merlin finds himself determined to help him – with medicine as much as with magic.
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21 Nov 2024
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Arthur Pendragon, Crown Prince of Camelot, must marry. King Uther expects him to choose a high-ranking noble, preferably a lady, from amongst the Camelot ton. But as fate would have it, the Prince finds himself drawn to Mr Merlin Emrys, an obscure gentleman from the countryside. Merlin, impoverished and desperate to save his family from complete ruin, must marry, too. Feelings are secondary, for the match must be an advantageous one. Soon, both Arthur and Merlin are caught between the pressure of expectations and what their hearts truly desire…
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- Part 1 of This Remarkable Season (ACBB 2023)
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21 Nov 2024
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It's a perfectly ordinary day, day, day, day in Camelot.
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12 Nov 2024
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12 Nov 2024
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What We Pretend We Can't See by gyzym for shecrows
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
20 Feb 2017
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Seven years out from the war, Harry learns the hard truth of old history: it’s never quite as far behind you as you thought.
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Bookmarked by blacktail_chorus
28 Oct 2024