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A Good Thing by Essie_Cat
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling
28 Oct 2020
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Scorpius knows he’s a little out of shape. But he didn’t think it was so bad that Al Potter — the hot Quidditch player he might-be-sort-of-dating, no big deal — would take one look at him shirtless and immediately break up with him.
(chubby!Scorpius and ace!Albus feat. misunderstandings and lots of awkwardness)
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- Part 1 of A Few Good Things
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28 Oct 2025
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chosen who i've been by thumbsupemoji
Fandoms: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
15 Oct 2022
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James loves his idiot siblings, even when they accuse him of breaking their muggle electronics; even when they barely talk to him for years.
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Albus has something to tell them. James and Lily do their best to let him know that he is loved.
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28 Oct 2025
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in this together by orphan_account
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling
23 Mar 2020
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The two brothers have never had a perfect relationship. Albus' secret may change that.
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20 Oct 2025
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Arthur has traveled to sign a treaty of friendship with other kingdoms, when he realizes they've intended to set him up to marry as well. He doesn't want to marry for the sake of marrying, so he pulls a clumsy, crowned Merlin in with false talk that they married quietly.
Arthur's true in saying he wants to marry for love, because he chooses Merlin for more than one reason.
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25 Sep 2025
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And for the first time in his life, Arthur consciously and fully intendly thought of Merlin as an attractive person.
Weird.
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After Mary called Merlin handsome in the tavern, Arthur has found himself making new discoveries literally every step he takes.
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21 Sep 2025
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The night before Lancelot leaves Camelot, he and Merlin talk.
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18 Sep 2025
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If everyone believed one of their dear friends had magic, would that have led to a more positive outcome for everyone?
(AKA: Merlin and Lancelot causing chaos and enjoying it)
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18 Sep 2025
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Lancelot lives au with Merlin and Lancelot being in love. Lancelot knows he's in love with Merlin but is hesitant to coness because he thinks it might damage their friendship. Lots of fluff, slowburn
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11 Sep 2025
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Lancelot’s death broke something in Merlin, but after finding solace and love in Gwaine’s arms he begins to heal. What happens when the inconceivable happens? Who will he chose?
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11 Sep 2025
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The body of a Prince was not like anyone’s. His hand only ever held others in a firm handshake, and rarely without gloves. Sometimes he would raise the delicate hands of noble ladies to his lips for a brief kiss, but it was all out of propriety. He rarely touched others, but what was even rarer was others touching him. The only ones who dared were his knights, and even they only smacked his shoulder or patted his back in friendly roughhousing. Gripping each other’s arms before battle was the most heartfelt touch they exchanged. Lingering soft touches were not done. Any lingering touch on his person could be interpreted as political movements. After all, Arthur’s body wasn’t his own. It never had been. He was Camelot’s first and foremost. Even above his own needs and wants.
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02 Sep 2025
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When a sorcerer captures Arthur, the Knights, and Merlin, he seeks revenge for Uther's wrongdoings by wanting to give Arthur a potion that will make him endure the pain of the worst wound received by everyone in their party, while everyone gets to see the vision of the wound being inflicted. 7 painful wounds. It's too much for one man.
Merlin knows he can't let his King take that. Will the sorcerer let him take his place? What happens when the Knights see Merlin's most painful wound? How does one survive a Serket sting?
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28 Aug 2025
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When Merlin started his job as game designer at DragonVision, he was excited to join the team creating an RPG about the legends of King Arthur. Soon he was even dreaming about scenes from the legend, even if those were not part of the game. Or at least they weren't planned to be, but on each day after Merlin had a dream, scenes he programmed at work changed, resembling his dreams now. Instead of biting Merlin's head off, though, his creative director, Arthur, supported and encouraged him, even when Merlin's game scenes began to create a love story between the Once and Future King and his warlock.
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28 Aug 2025
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“Hey, Mum? Would it be alright if I brought someone home for Christmas?”
“Of course! What’s her name, sweetheart? How long have you been seeing her?”
“What?” Merlin asked, voice crackling over the line, but he let out a short laugh a moment later. “No, Mum, it’s not a girl. It’s my roommate. You remember Arthur, right?”
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28 Aug 2025
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Every time Merlin has ever dated someone, they have inevitably found their true love and dumped him. Now Morgana wants him to use his 'superpower' to save her brother from a lifetime of misery. Merlin, foolishly, agrees.
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28 Aug 2025
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"How was your journey here?" Balinor asked.
“It would have been pleasant if a certain servant had stopped prattling on during the entirety of it.“ Arthur gave the black haired boy a pointed look, but the servant just shrugged and turned to Balinor.
„Don‘t mind him. He woke up at the wrong side of the bed today, which wasn‘t my fault, may I add. I‘m Merlin.“
And then he stuck out his hand, oblivious to the way Arthur‘s mouth dropped openOr, during the Great Purge, Balinor can convince Uther not to kill all dragons. Instead, Uther magically imprisons him and the remaining dragons at the Dragon's Keep. Now, almost twenty years later, prince Arthur regualary comes to check on him. Things change, when he brings a certain manservant with him.
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27 Aug 2025
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Arthur sports a neon orange crown made of cardboard. Their daughter, with her rainbow coloured blanket-turned-cape, pink crown and toilet paper roll sword, is safe in his arms. Around Arthur's shoulders, a ruby red blanket serves as a cape. It flares and swoops as they spin around and around.
It’s missing a golden dragon on the left shoulder, Merlin thinks offhandedly.
And then Merlin remembers.
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27 Aug 2025
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Season 4 AU:
Merlin's carried Arthur's sigil around everywhere after being entrusted with it. One day he runs into trouble, where the wrong people discover the sigil, and he gets mistaken as Arthur's husband. While Merlin's life is being ransomed and Arthur is freaking out back in Camelot, Merlin manages to escape but doesn't know that he is now considered the king's consort. Cue shenanigans.- Language:
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- 3/3
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27 Aug 2025
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Arthur’s hands didn’t wait for his own permission once they had Merlin’s, and they began instantly the essential work of memorizing the feel of Merlin’s body changed. He didn’t fight the magnetism that drew him first to trace the long line that drew all the way across Merlin’s ribcage before running flattened palms up over the straight lines and hard muscle of his chest.
“Sorry you didn’t get to say goodbye,” Merlin quipped, and though his voice was still quiet and shaky, it almost sounded like he had managed a joke.
Arthur shook his head as his hands traveled across Merlin’s broad shoulders and trailed through the coarse, dark hair on his chest and down his arms. His voice was distracted. “Don’t be, you’re perfect.”Bookmarked by cressthebest
25 Aug 2025
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Maybe the Hoard is the Friends we Made Along the Way by charcharizard5
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
20 Nov 2020
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After Balinor dies Merlin inherits his Dragonlord abilities. Though no one informed him he would be inheriting dragon traits as well.
It shouldn't be too hard to hide.
Until his hoarding tendencies surface.- Language:
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25 Aug 2025
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He can't explain it. One day, Arthur's swinging a mace at the boy with the big ears and red neckerchief and the next, he's tackling a man twice his size for having the audacity to look at Merlin wrong.
Or, Arthur protects Merlin over and over, falling a little more in love each time.
“You’re the only person in the world that I think really sees me Merlin.” Arthur confesses. "Forgive me then, for wishing harm on the people who would hurt you for just being who you are.”
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24 Aug 2025