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Of course Merlin has other friends. Of course Gwaine isn’t the only one to see something special in Arthur’s manservant, to be drawn to those laughing gray-blue eyes and the promise that gleams there like a secret door in children’s fairy stories, like the blank spaces at the edges of a map, like a sign that says be wary, ye travelers, for wonders and terrors await.
Or, washed up in Camelot, Gwaine helps Merlin pick a flower, and along the way, tries and fails to sabotage the best thing he has going for him.
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04 Oct 2025
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The Department is a government organisation specifically created to investigate and deal with magic and the supernatural.
Until four years ago, Merlin Emrys was one of its agents, until he gave away his biggest secret and had to run away from his friends and his life.
Until last night, Uther Pendragon was in charge of it, until someone killed him, very messily.
Until last night, Arthur Pendragon was its second in command, until someone framed him for his father's murder.
Now Arthur's going to the only person left in the world who can help him, and Merlin's going to find himself dragged back into a world he had thought was behind him.
Meanwhile, in the aftermath of Uther's death and Arthur's alleged betrayal, Agent Leon Harris is determined that he's going to find out the truth, no matter what.
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29 Sep 2025
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If Gawain and the Green Knight took place in the Merlin universe, it might have been a tiny bit different—because there's no way Merlin would let Gwaine traipse off on his own to get his head chopped off. Includes attempted alliterative verse, bawdy songs, evil deer, made-up spells, clichés, and a truly insane amount of fluffiness.
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- Part 1 of Girdle!verse
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28 Sep 2025
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Merlin and Gwaine get a new flat. It turns out to be not quite 'as advertised,' though, to be fair, the landlord never actually said, "There are no tragic, horny, gay ghosts occupying this space."
(The fact that nobody asked for a security deposit after seeing Merlin's credentials should have been their first clue.)
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28 Sep 2025
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In which Arthur's courting Gwen by mix CD (and other means) and Merlin is a backwards Cyrano de Bergerac who builds robots.
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- Part 1 of Love Song
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27 Sep 2025
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When the King is attacked in his tent on patrol and falls into an unending sleep everyone is worried. What they don't know is that Arthur is fine. In fact he is standing right here next to them, watching them all fret over his prone body. To stave off the boredom whilst a cure is found Arthur takes to wandering the castle and soon discovered a hidden side of Camelot he never knew about.
Or: Arthur's soul gets trapped outside his body and takes to following his servant around. He gets an interesting insight into Merlin, his servant's life and just how much Camelot needs the man.
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23 Sep 2025
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As the royal wedding approaches, Merlin searches for items requested by a magical rhyme, Gwen crafts two gowns and contemplates loyalty, and Arthur is just doing his best.
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23 Sep 2025
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After a pretty woman catches Gwaine's eye in the tavern, Merlin turns himself into one.
Just another Tuesday when one happens to be the paramour of Camelot's court sorcerer.
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22 Sep 2025
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He pushes his hands into his pockets, takes a deep breath and a step forward, and says, “I’m, uh, I’m Arthur.”
Gwen is still staring. The guy doesn’t move.
“Yeah, man,” he then says, speaking slowly, as though Arthur were dim, “we know who you are.”
This interaction, Arthur is fairly certain, is not unfolding like a successful, normal, human interaction should. Already fed-up with his own cursed attempt at livening-up his insanity spiral with a detour into the Real World, he grits his teeth, half-ready to stalk back off to the car and depart.
“My name is Merlin,” Ears then says, suddenly. “This is Gwen. Sorry, it’s just—what the hell are you doing here?”
[Or: Four people on mad-dash journey through half-mythical rural Wales to attend a Visa wedding and perhaps save the world.]
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18 Sep 2025
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... and other lessons from the pyre.
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It's a long road to recovery after Merlin's rescued from the pyre. If Merlin would let him, Gwaine would walk that path with him every step of the way.
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18 Sep 2025
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Post-S4. After enduring Morgana's abuse, Gwaine can't quite settle back into his place in Camelot. When he joins Arthur and Merlin on a trip to hunt down a white, winged, chicken-thieving beastie, he is drawn into a destiny he didn't even know existed. After Merlin's life is endangered at Arthur's hands, Gwaine is taken on a wild ride both figurative and literal. Everything happens for a reason, but it's never the one we think.
Artwork is by the awesome dylogger and can be seen in its entirety here.
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14 Sep 2025
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“I’m an activist, Mr. Morgan,” Merlin explains.
“I see that,” Knight Gwaine says.
“I want this place to exist here forever. Forever and ever and ever.”
“You mean until King Arthur climbs out of it?”
“Yes,” Merlin says. “But after that, too, since I’m not like, 100% positive that he’s going to know what a fish ladder is. I figure we’ve got to do some work on that and probably his English before we let him go off into the wild.”
“Right. Obviously, the English. But what happens if someone tries to put another body in the lake while you’re here?”
Merlin doesn’t have an answer to that.
(Three women's bodies are dumped into a lake, and detective Gwaine Morgan is assigned the case. He does not anticipate said lake to be guarded by a local 12 year-old and is even less prepared for what happens when the 12 year-old becomes his murderer's next target.)
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12 Sep 2025
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A Hard Day's Knight (Or a Day in the Life of Two of Camelot's Finest) by kattale
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
11 Aug 2012
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Two very different knights find common ground, and bridges are built.
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09 Sep 2025
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“Well, we’ll just have to convince Arthur that’s not so bad, then,” Gwaine resolves. “I’m sure he can let you be a little magic, sometimes. On special occasions.”
Or, Gwaine comes back from a mission to find Camelot in chaos. He's got to fix everything by himself, as usual.
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08 Sep 2025
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You're Sure of a Big Surprise (aka The Adventures of Gwaine and Smelly Geoff) by Kroki_Refur
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
31 May 2017
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There’s something in the woods, and it wants Merlin. Luckily, Gwaine has other plans. (All right, maybe the other knights help a bit, too.)
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07 Sep 2025
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When Uther banishes Arthur from Camelot, Arthur is certain it's the end of him and everything he had to offer to the world.
Enter Merlin and the ragtag group of misfits he and Arthur collect on an adventure that takes them across the entire kingdom. Grappling with who he is now and who he will become, Arthur embarks on a journey of self-discovery, friendship, fate, and what it truly means to be a king of prophecy.
“Merlin??”
Merlin drops the reins and spins around, “Arthur!”
Merlin beams. Arthur’s eye twitches.
“What, exactly, are you doing here?”
Merlin makes a face, “What does it look like? I stole some horses.” His lip quirks up, “And some of cook’s pies. But that was just because she’s been such a harpy all this time and she deserved it.”
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07 Sep 2025
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Arthur has been best friends with Merlin since they were eleven, and in love with him since they were sixteen and he realised what that was. Too afraid to risk the friendship, he's resigned himself to never telling him how he feels.
Now, high school has just ended, it's their last summer together before university, and Arthur? Arthur is just trying not to think about it.
Featuring: loneliness, pining, drunk Merlin, driving lessons, and more than a few poorly-executed teen movie clichés. Covers June-December the year they start university.
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30 Aug 2025
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In which Merlin has a selective understanding of the term banishment, Arthur needs to lock his doors, and neither of them are half as good at mending themselves as they were at breaking in the first place.
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30 Aug 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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26 Aug 2025
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the year of the goat and your kid back by derryfacts2 (winchysteria)
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
22 Mar 2021
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The day you get the most important email of your life, there’s a new black skidmark on the wall of the stairwell, and you know exactly whose fault it is.
“Margaret,” you intone to the harried, wild-haired woman in the lobby.
She sighs at you as she tries to jimmy her mail key loose. “I know.”
It wouldn’t even be that bad if the kid would just skateboard outside. Or get good at skateboarding. Either of those things. Maggie’s a nice lady, though, and she’s had “trying my best” scribbled all over her since they moved into 6B maybe eight years ago. So you try not to be a dick, even if her son is a gold-standard pain in the ass. He’s good for three things: smells, noise, and reminding you how big Eddie must be by now.- Language:
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17 Aug 2025