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    Arthur thinks he has every right to be annoyed that the bloke he shagged last night is flirting with his flatmate over breakfast. Look, it’s the principle of the thing, that's all. It’s not as if Arthur wants Merlin for himself, or anything.

    Ahem. (Yes he does.)

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    18 Oct 2025

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    All in all, Arthur was one of those men about whom it could be said that their heart was in the right place, although he did take great pains to hide it. Still, the core of decency made Merlin endure the thick layers of arrogance (and their thin crispy crust of arseholery) with more patience than he’d ever thought possible. There was indeed a promise of greatness about Arthur that Merlin was willing to believe in.

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    Merlin learns to live and work by Arthur's side. And vice versa.

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    16 Oct 2025

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    It all started with a crash.

    Well, technically, it started with a blue-eyed boy with blonde hair getting screamed at in a language he couldn’t understand when he was only 8 years old. He remembered looking at the boy, who couldn’t be much older than himself - (two weeks older, to be exact, he’d learn later) - and watching the spark disappear right out of those icy blue eyes.

    That was the first memory Charles Leclerc had of Max Verstappen: Watching Jos Verstappen, Max’s own father, scream at this 8 year old child with an intensity that turned his face red and made every blood vessel in his neck look dangerously close to bursting.

    But if anyone ever were to ask Charles when he started to realize that his feelings towards that same Max Verstappen he had known since childhood had begun to change into something else, something bigger, something terrifying he couldn’t - or wouldn’t - quite put his finger on, he would say that it all started with a crash.

    Because of fucking course it did.
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    OR:
    The slow-burn story of Lestappen that has brought me back from the dead, which starts with Max's crash at Silverstone in 2021.

    Epilogue posted!

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    07 Oct 2025

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    “...I think there’s something wrong with me,” he whispers. “I have an…affliction.”
    Merlin’s eyebrows raise, mouth opening and closing all at once. “You—you have an affliction? Have you…been to see Gaius lately?”

     

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    Arthur's turned up in Ealdor, prepared to help the village fight off Kanen and his men, much to Merlin's delight. But there's something about an excursion away from Camelot, away from his knights and guards and Uther, that loosens his tongue around Merlin that first night.

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    03 Oct 2025

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    Arthur has a problem, Merlin has a potion.

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    02 Oct 2025

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    Merlin was no expert, but the musicians’ performance in the courtyard seemed to be going fairly well until the dragon landed on the roof of the Great Hall.

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    02 Oct 2025

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    It's the hottest summer in Camelot's history. Arthur is confused about what he likes, Merlin tries to help him figure it out, but neither one of them has a clue what they really want.

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    02 Oct 2025

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    “Who’s playing that lute?” He hadn’t known any of his men to be musical.

    "What? No one’s playing anything.” Merlin shakes his head. He goes to tell him to listen harder, but freezes. No. “Arthur?”

    “I…” Arthur swallows. The tune in his ears turns panicked. “...might be hearing my heart."

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    02 Oct 2025

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    “What are you doing?” Charles asked, his voice cracking.

    Max blinked at him once before he smirked and said, “Well... I was going to kiss you.”

    “Why?”

    “Because I want to.”

    “Why?” Charles repeated, feeling like his legs were going to give out.

    “Is that not a good enough reason?” Max asked.

    OR: The childhood best friends to lovers fairy-tale-soulmates fic that nobody asked for. Charles has been in love with Max since he was seven years old.

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    21 Sep 2025

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    The grainy pictures are pieced together like a crude comic strip, sketching a poorly thought-out narrative arc that somehow made it onto the front page of every sleazy newspaper.

    EXPOSED!: The secret gay double-life of F1 driver Max Verstappen

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    Max navigates the aftermath of being outed in the press, and Charles is always there.

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    21 Sep 2025

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    the condominium community - 2:36pm

    Oscar and Logan have been added to the chat

    George
    Hello, welcome to a group chat we have for the Formula apartment building! There are only 18 (20 now) of us so we like to keep in contact about the building maintenance and other neighbourly orders of business. I’m George, and I liaise with the building manager on behalf of all of us when there is a building specific issue rather than an apartment issue. Welcome to the building!

    Lando
    do u copy and paste that from ur notes every time

    Alex
    I bet he has it memorised

    ~

    or, the ridiculous chat fic where the f1 grid all live in the same apartment building

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    14 Sep 2025

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    “Gwen, it’s terrible,” Merlin said. “He’s polite! He’s kind, even!”

    “And that’s a problem?” Gwen asked, dryly.

    "I’m going to have to go through an entire week serving the perfect Golden Prince, and then go back to my Prince Prat, and I think it’s going to break me, Gwen. He’s going to get me used to it, and then it’ll be back to mile-long lists, and being called stupid instead of spectacular and how am I supposed to handle that?”

    Gwen said, hesitantly, “I thought you liked Arthur?”

    “I do,” Merlin said, sounding even lower than before. “I have to.”

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    When a visiting Prince visits Camelot, and takes Merlin as his servant during his negotiations with The Crown, Merlin finds himself being seen in a way he'd always wished Arthur would see him, and doesn't know what to do with any of it.

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    01 Sep 2025

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    In which Merlin wakes up and chooses violence, and decides not to rethink that choice.

    Or: Merlin realizes that, if he's going to keep Arthur safe and keep his magic a secret, he will have to get a little bit physical. Arthur has to rethink everything in existence when he's suddenly forced to confront the fact that Merlin can fight, and is in fact, bloody dangerous

    Or: The author randomly thought "Murder Twink Merlin" while re-watching the show, and decided it was his mission in life to make that a tag.

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    30 Aug 2025

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    Leaning forward, Alex whispers, “Can I tell you a seeecret?”
    “Um. Sure. Why not?”
    “I’m gonna marry Hank McCoy.” He watches with a detached interest as the guy’s ears go pink, followed by his cheeks.
    “Oh, really? Why would you say that?”
    “He made me chocolate chip oatmeal raisin cookies. And they were the Best Ever.”

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    17 Aug 2025

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    Nobody touches Arthur.

    Merlin realizes it slowly, and when he does, he wants to kick himself for not seeing sooner.
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    (Or, Arthur and Merlin's relationship with touch over time.)

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    05 Aug 2025

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    Arthur could see his father glaring down - face red and eyes narrowed as he looked at Merlin with clear distaste.

    "Once this over, sorcerer...I’ll burn you."

    "You’ve already tried that," Merlin’s voice answered and Arthur had to bite his fist to keep from making any noise. “You need to accept you can’t kill me… Hand me that blanket, please.”

    “I’m sure there must be some method… Beheading?”

    “No, we tried that.”

    “Hanging?”

    “I just sort of... Swung there, remember?”

    There was another pause.

    “I should have made you keep that dragon below the castle so I could feed you to it.”

    “Kilgharrah? He won’t eat me, but if you want to torture me than making me listen to his nonsense for an hour might do it.” Merlin said and there was a soft sigh from the other end of the room. “I’m glad you agreed to help me though. Usually I have to do the grunt work of saving Arthur myself.”

    “I can’t wait to kill you.” 

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    Uther finds out about Merlin’s magic, but can’t seem to kill him. Merlin is just trying to protect Arthur. They become a begrudgingly effective duo. Arthur doesn't understand why they think he isn't noticing this.

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    29 Jul 2025

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    “Merlin…” Arthur said as he slowly started to reach for his sword. “Don’t…Move…”

    “No, no, no! Arthur, it’s alright!” Merlin said as he moved (because obviously he ignored Arthur’s orders and moved) in front of the desk. “She’s just saying hello!”

    “That’s a dragon.” Arthur informed him. Merlin looked over his shoulder for a moment.

    “No, it isn’t.”

    There was a pause.

    “Yes, it is.”

    “No.” Merlin shook his head. “It…Uh, is not…A dragon.”

    “Then what the Hell is it?!” Arthur asked, not letting his eyes drift away from the fire breathing demon. Yeah. That was definitely a dragon. Merlin clicked his tongue before also staring behind him.

    “It is…A…Bird…”

    There was another pause.

    “You’re really sticking with that?”

    “I am, thank you.”

    Or

    Merlin has to convince the King of Camelot that he is not, in fact, in possession of a dragon. Luckily, the rest of the kingdom has already been won over by the baby dragon and is quite willing to aid in this quest.

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    24 Jul 2025

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    "“Emrys,” said Gaius, raising the Eyebrow of Disappointment and flicking his gaze to where Merlin stood behind Arthur’s chair. “That is who you wish to have as your court sorcerer.”

    Arthur nodded gravely, every eye in the council meeting upon him. “Camelot is dangerously close to division even now that sorcery is legal. We need someone who will unite us all, and I cannot settle for less. I’ll send riders out at first light chasing rumours and follow up any promising leads we have myself.”

    He looked so beautiful when he said it, every inch the king, with the sunlight through the windows turning him gold. His voice had taken on that richness that sometimes infused Arthur’s words – that for the good of the kingdom voice, that let it be so voice, the voice that Merlin had come to understand meant another brick laid on the road to Albion.

    Unfortunately, that voice had been co-opted for a fucking farce."

    Or - In which magic is legal and Merlin is still lying for reasons that are absolutely, totally 100% valid and have nothing to do with his love for Arthur

    DO NOT ADD MY FICS TO GOODREADS

    As a reminder, I can read what you put in the bookmarks

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    18 Jul 2025

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    CRYING LAUGHING

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    King Arthur sets out to keep his promise to the spirit of the Druid boy by repealing his father's ban on magic. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done, for reasons including but not limited to the following:

    (1) He can't change the law until he understands magic better, but no sorcerer is willing to explain magic to him until he changes the law;

    (2) The sorcerers all have some strange obsession with Merlin, which is awakening all sorts of feelings in Arthur that he really doesn't fancy examining too closely;

    (3) He is starting to feel like the butt of some Druid-population-wide inside joke involving the mysterious phenomenon called Emrys; and

    (4) Oh yeah, Morgana is still trying to kill him.

    Thus he embarks on a journey of discovery, diplomacy, accountability, and self-improvement, and maybe even falls in love along the way.

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    18 Jul 2025

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    What had originally been a plan to get Arthur out of an unwanted marriage devolves into a tug of war between Arthur and his erstwhile intended, with Merlin as the rope.

    Or, the one in which Merlin is the most tormented human being ever and Arthur wouldn't see sense if it danced naked in front of him.

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    17 Jul 2025

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