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Mushroomtale

This is Moss and Yellow.

I'm sorry for my bad drawing style.

[aftercamlann]

ACBB 10TH ANNIVERSARY RECS: A Song From Far Away

This ACBB was recced by Caethes:

Title: A Song From Far Away Writer: Polomonkey Artist: Mushroomtale Ship(s): Merlin/Arthur Pendragon Rating: Mature Word Count: 71,842

Summary: When Arthur is captured by an enemy king intent on conquering Camelot, his future looks bleak. For Cenred commands not only a clutch of sorcerers but a fearsome dragon trained to do battle and wreak destruction.

Then Arthur meets Merlin, a fellow captive whose magic has been bound to Cenred's will. But can Merlin resist Cenred's control long enough to help Arthur save Camelot?

Link: FIC: https://archiveofourown.org/works/8191642/chapters/18768382 | ART: https://archiveofourown.org/works/8192170

Why Caethes recommends this ACBB: A fantastic story, with brilliant writing. There's so much Angst with such an amazing pay off. Mushroomtale's art (and fanmix) is also a prime example of what fanart for an acbb can be.

[phantomchick]

Merlin fic rec list

To Be A King by clotpolesonly Teen And Up, No Archive Warnings Apply, Gen, Merlin and Arthur, Merlin and Mordred, Gwen/Arthur, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Merlin's Magic Revealed, Canonical Character Death, BAMF Merlin, Dragonlord Merlin, Original setting, Magical kingdom, King Merlin, Royal!Merlin Summary: When Merlin discovers that his father was an estranged prince and he himself is now the only heir to the throne of a magical kingdom, he is forced to leave Camelot for the perils of a royal court. Will Merlin be able to win Arthur's favor again before Morgana launches an attack on a defenseless Camelot? Will he be able to defend his own kingdom at the same time or will all be lost? -

A Matter of Sovereignty by Kizmet Gen, No Archive Warnings Apply, Friendship Summary A visiting prince takes it into his head to brutalize Merlin, but sometimes the solution to a problem is in how you phrase it.

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Bumps and Bruises by platonic_boner merthur, implied/suspected abuse, Protective Arthur, Magic Revealed, pre-relationship, teen an up, canon typical violence,

Summary: Arthur notices Merlin’s constant injuries, and decides he needs to step in and protect Merlin.

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Finding Home by riventhorn Arthur/Merlin, Hurt/Comfort Summary: Written for a kinkme_merlin prompt. When Gaius retires a new physician takes over and quickly kicks Merlin out of his room and takes it for himself. Arthur finds Merlin sleeping in the stables...and it's winter.

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How To Love A Living Thing by Polomonkey Mature, merthur, Merlin/Arthur, Pendragon (Merlin), Hurt/Comfort, Abuse, Violence, Sexual Harassment, Drowning, Guilt, Romance, Protective Arthur, Mild Sexual Content, Redemption, Healing, Canon Era

Summary Guilt ridden and lonely after his confrontation with Nimueh, Merlin slowly begins to isolate himself from Arthur. When two knights take it upon themselves to teach him his place, Merlin finds himself with nowhere to turn. Will he be able to reach out to his prince before it's too late?

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Obeisance by casspeach Gen, No Archive Warnings Apply, Merlin/Arthur

Summary: It's not that Arthur won't share his toys, just that he expects to get them back undamaged

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All's Well That Ends Well by StormDancer explicit, Merlin/Arthur, Arthur Finds Out, magic reveal Summary: Merlin spent the week and a half that Arthur was gone splitting his time between crafting careful explanations that never ended up explaining the important things, the things that would make Arthur listen, and making half-baked plans to escape to Ealdor. He found a number of fire-proofing spells that would have no effect if they decided to cut his head off, and figured out how to adapt an invulnerability spell he had been trying to find a way to cast on Arthur without him noticing so that it would protect him from being decapitated, but it would have no effect on anything but metal. Despite all his frantic searching, he did not find a teleportation spell, because that would have been too simple and if there was one thing Merlin had learned in his years at Camelot, it was that nothing was ever simple.

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Deeds by the5leggedCricket Merlin/Arthur Pendragon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Episode Related, Oblivious Arthur Pendragon, Teen and Up,

Summary: Arthur is coming of age, and that means he’s about to get Deeds—marks on his body telling him of his soulmate’s greatest accomplishments. But as he tries to find his soulmate, he also makes some worrying discoveries about the kind of person his soulmate is.

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Honorable Intentions by smilebackwards Gwaine/Merlin, Guinevere/Arthur Pendragon, Courtship, Protectiveness, Protective!Arthur, Teen and Up, Summary: There are several considerations Arthur would like to go over, starting with the state of Merlin's virtue.

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Laundry's Hard Work by supercalvin Gen, Teen and Up, Canon Era, can be read as pre-slash, BAMF Merlin

Summary: Wasn't Merlin supposed to be...tiny? When the hell had he learned to use a sword and not fall on his backside? Where the hell did those scars from? What the hell?

or Arthur still thinks Merlin is the young boy he met ten years ago and he starts to notice things in his manservant that he wasn't aware had changed at all.

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Fathom Me Out by supercalvin Merlin/Arthur, Canon Era, Magic Revealed, Teen and up,

Summary: After ten years, Arthur thinks he has Merlin all figured out. But as he watches Merlin, he finds out that he has more questions than answers. The longer he thinks about it, the more uneasy he feels. So he pushes it aside. Except, he can no longer ignore the questions he has about Merlin. Not your everyday reveal!fic

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Loyalty Before Royalty by CaffeinatedFlumadiddle Gen, Gwen & Merlin, Arthur and Merlin being the most iconic duo? I think tf not, Gwen and Merlin wreaking havoc? Teaming up against Arthur? That's the most iconic duo there, as usual, Explicit Language, Fluff and Humor, Attempt at Humor, Arthur is so exasperated, someone help him, good thing he loves them both

Summary: "Where did you get that?" Arthur asked, but he already knew the answer. "Gwen." "...and the horse?" "Gwen." "What about the-" "Gwen." Merlin interrupted. Arthur nodded. At this point, he wasn't sure why he even bothered to ask. He was pretty certain his wife was going to knight Merlin any day now.He looked Merlin up and down for a few moments before accepting it all with a sigh. "As long as you get my armor to me tomorrow...I don't care." He finally said, turning away. Merlin cleared his throat. "Gwen gave me tomorrow off." "For the love of God." Or I hate that Gwen and Merlin's friendship kind of withered away in the later seasons so here's a oneshot about her and Merlin abusing her new royal powers because that's what happens when your best friend becomes queen.

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Know It All Knight by Shi_Toyu Leon & Merlin, Knights of the Round Table, Magic Revealed, protective leon, Arthur Finds Out, Oblivious Arthur

Summary: Leon couldn’t say for sure when the exact moment was that he figured out Merlin had magic. He’d suspected it for a little while, to be honest. He definitely had it figured out by the time Arthur managed to ‘kill’ the Great Dragon. What Leon could say for sure was the exact moment he figured out that no one else had figured out Merlin had magic.

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The Nature of Trust by Lynds Merlin's Magic Revealed, Leon is the Mam Friend, Leon is so done, Protective Gwaine, Lancelot Lives, Canon Era, Arthur Finds Out, Hurt Merlin, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Torture, Canon-Typical Violence, reference to hunting and cooking animals Summary: Leon starts to notice that the knights, one by one, are starting to trust Merlin's judgement. That he keeps warning Arthur about danger, and being right. Is there more to Merlin than meets the eye?

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Repercussions by PeaceHeather Fix-It of Sorts, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Lecture, Rants, Episode: s02e06 Beauty and the Beast, Episode: s02e05 Beauty and the Beast, Canon Era, One Shot, Gen Summary: Uther married a troll. In canon, that all worked out fine eventually. In this slight canon divergence, there is at least one noble who's not willing to let it slide so easily.

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No Harm Will Come to You Here by fancyh Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Season/Series 05, Merlin's Magic Revealed, Fluff and Angst, temporary amnesia, teen and up,

Summary: "That was magic," Arthur accuses.

"Oh." Merlin just nods, looking unperturbed.

Arthur fights to keep his expression calm, mind racing and heart pounding. "Sorcery is outlawed in Camelot. On pain of death."

Merlin splutters, finally fixing Arthur with an affronted glare. "It's not like I meant to do it!"

***

Merlin gets hit with a spell meant for Arthur and loses his memory. Revelations ensue. Set sometime after 5x02.

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Metamorphose by clotpolesonly Merlin/Arthur, Teen and Up, Between Seasons/Series, Episode: s03e01 The Tears of Uther Pendragon (Part I), Episode: s03e02 The Tears of Uther Pendragon (Part II), Mpreg, Magic Reveal, Angst with a Happy Ending, Pining, morgana redemption, some transphobic language from Merlin when he finds out he’s pregnant because of magic but it’s mostly just the shock that does it Summary: When Merlin falls into bed with Arthur, he doesn't expect for to wake up alone. He doesn't expect Arthur to give him the cold shoulder either, but there is something else he expects even less which forces him out of the kingdom for over a year. He returns to find a traitor in the court, an army on the way, and a love he'd thought all but lost waiting for him with open arms.

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Four Days To Fall In Love. by CupCakezys Teen and Up, No archive warnings apply, Merlin/Arthur, Morgana/Gwen, Soulmate AU, Arthur Knows About Merlin's Magic, Protective Arthur, Mutual Pining, Angst with a Happy Ending, Secret Relationship

Summary: In a world where everyone has a soulmate (or two or three), Arthur Pendragon knows he is destined to be alone. For Arthur can see his heartstring, could follow it to where his soulmate lived, and that could only mean one thing.

His soulmate had magic, and should they ever meet, Arthur would have to kill them.

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Sacrificial Lamb by RurouniHime Angst and Humor, Pining, First Time, First Kiss, Post Season 1, Initial Misunderstanding, But it’s resolved, Happy Ending, Fluff with a touch of angst at first

Summary: Arthur's been overworking his knights, so they come to Merlin as a last resort.

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Cheers and Spirits by CaffeinatedFlumadiddle Gen, The knights are kinda fools, but the best king, Humour, Fluff, Fluff and Humour, Knights of the Round Table & Merlin

Summary: Despite all the supposed trips to the tavern none of the knights have seen Merlin drunk. They decide to rectify that. A poor decision, really.

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Circle 'round the Truth by enviropony Merlin + Knights friendship, Gen, Magic Reveal, Oneshot, Knights of the Round Table & Merlin Summary: They know about the magic. Or, more accurately, Merlin's magic is the truth the knights circle around, and Merlin's loyalty is the one 'round which they rally. (A character study with some yelling, an action sequence, and a bit of walking.) Post-S4.

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Strict Justice by schweet_heart mutual pining, BAMF Arthur, magic reveal, canon au, oneshot, teen and up

Summary: After a particularly grueling battle, Merlin and Arthur share a quiet moment in their tent.

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before it breaks by schweet_heart Teen and Up, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, merlin whump, magic reveal, merlin & arthur, merthur

Summary: “It’s not what it looks like,” he says, hand still outstretched, barely a waver in his voice as he lies, outright, to Arthur’s face. “Sire, I can explain.”

“Can you,” Arthur says. He’s aware that he’s trembling, a seismic reaction to the outrage and denial still fighting it out inside his head, but he knows what he’s seen. What it must be. “Well, then, you’d better be quick about it, because it looks a lot like magic.”

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Until the Day I Die by Cookie Teen and Up, Oneshot, Angst, Temporary Character Death, Angst with a Happy Ending

Summary: Arthur believed Dragoon had killed his father, and so he plunged his sword deep into the sorcerer. Now Merlin was dying in his arms and Arthur was facing the future alone.

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These Castle Walls Bleed Lies by marguerite_26 Mature, hurt/comfort, Magic Reveal, Angst, Merthur, mentions of arthur/gwen, Gwen/Lancelot

Summary: With his father unfit to rule and Camelot decimated, Arthur must assume the role of King. But the truths he discovers shake the foundation of all he holds dear.

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before his eyes (he now sees clear) by hwc Teen And Up Audiences, Uther Pendragon is terrible and complicated, Merlin/Arthur

Summary: It takes Uther half a second to see Balinor in Merlin, and he's almost sure of what he should do.

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Keep Your Secrets by new_kate, orphan_account Mature, rape/non-con, torture, captivity, romance, alternate universe - canon, canon typical violence, hurt/comfort

Summary: Arthur Pendragon is captured by the bandits. While he waits to be ransomed, he slowly gets to know Merlin, the prisoner being held in the next cell.

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Crossing the Line by Ultrageekatlarge BAMF Merlin, Gen, Crack, Oneshot, Magic Reveal, Hurt! Merlin, Humour

Summary: In which Merlin gets bludgeoned, strangled, attacked, smothered, shot with glass, and tossed out a window, burned, whipped, stabbed, thrown down stairs, nearly drowned on dry land, and harpooned, and still manages to save Camelot from seven evil sorcerers, before lunch.

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Your Touch Is My Salvation by elirwen Magic Reveal, Canon Era, Oblivious idiots in love, Curses, Teen and Up, Oneshot, Hurt/Comfort

Summary: Merlin suffers from an effect of a curse. Arthur can help more than he initially thought.

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A Heavy Heart to Carry by Thursday_Next Rescue, Hurt/Comfort, Magic Reveal, Oneshot, Mature, Merlin/Arthur Pendragon

Summary: When Merlin is captured and injured, Arthur must face up to his own feelings for his manservant as well as the many secrets he discovers are being kept from him.

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Can you do that? by no_nutcracker Merlin/Mithian, no archive warnings apply, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Episode: s04e11 The Hunter's Heart, Arthur & Merlin friendship

Summary: Merlin should be overjoyed. He just found his soulmate. If only she was not betrothed to Arhur.

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His Remedy for Care by ArgentSleeper Teen and Up, canon au, Episode: s02e13 The Last Dragonlord, Angst, Canon Typical Violence, Hurt/Comfort, Fix It

Summary: Injured in the dragon attack in lieu of Arthur and afraid of being stopped from going on the mission, Merlin kept away from Gaius and never learned that Balinor was his father. Instead it's Arthur that puts two and two together as he seeks the dragonlord out, first to save his servant (not friend- they can't be friends), then to save his kingdom.

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A Considerable Head Start by ughbutidontwantto BAMF Merlin, Gen, when villains have more regard for you than friends, Camelot has a serious class problem, Merlin deserves better

Summary: Merlin is frighteningly competent and his friends are correctly concerned. Obviously they're going to follow him out to the woods. And obviously they're not going to like what they hea

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The Conscience of the King by ughbutidontwantto Gen, Post-Magic Reveal, Legal Drama, Oneshot, Friendship feels

Summary: Merlin's magic was revealed and now everyone has to deal with it in an official capacity since tragically most of these characters work in government. Arthur, predictably, is struggling to cope.

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind by BabyStepsAreStillSteps Merlin Deserved Better, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Merlin Needs a Hug (Merlin), Episode: s05e09 With All My Heart, Fix It

Summary: When Arthur turned his back on the Dolma that he didn’t know was his manservant, Merlin reminded him that he was missing a very important member of their rescue party.

What if he hadn’t?

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What They Owe Us by ironspidereilish Merlin/Arthur, Alternate Universe, Aredian’s a tax collector instead of a witch hunter but he’s still a bastard, Hurt/Comfort, Poverty, Angst with a Happy Ending, Protective Arthur Pendragon, BAMF Arthur, Canon Era, Romance, sexual coercion mentioned, BAMF Merlin

Summary: When Arthur finds out that the castle staff are having their wages held for weeks at a time and can no longer afford food or their homes, he will not rest until they are protected and Aredian is stopped.

The fact that Merlin’s stomach is rumbling while he delivers the prince his breakfast, and Arthur hates the thought of him suffering, only serves as extra motivation to fix this.

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royal blood by Rona23 crack!fic, humour, comedy, Balinor Lives, Dragonlord things, Golden Age, Bamf Arthur, Bamf Balinor, Bamf Merlin, Fix It, Magic reveal, Oblivious Arthur, Merthur

Summary: ..... as if Balinor could be killed by Bandits O.o

Alternatively: An alternative take on Balinor surviving and saving Camelot. ... And then proceeding to hold the entire kingdom hostage, because he has a frigging Dragon at his disposal :)

- The way by Naelyn Episode: s04e11 The Hunter's Heart, POV Arthur Pendragon, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Oblivious Arthur, Until He’s Not, Hurt/Comfort, Merlin Deserved Better, Communication or lack thereof, Canon Divergence

Summary: "One more word out of you, and I swear to God I will send you into exile."

He knows it’s not the pyre, knows there’s much worse, but banishment would mean staying away from Arthur forever – and, as pathetic as that might sound, he thinks he would rather die than let that happen. It is clear that the feeling is not reciprocated, clear that in Arthur’s eyes, he will never come first. There’ll always be people coming before him, and he’s made peace with that long ago – but if even Agravaine can come before him, then anyone could, no? Anyone could replace him. Call Merlin a traitor and have Arthur get rid of him. Anyone could.

Merlin no longer feels safe in Camelot.

or: Arthur threatens Merlin of banishment. To Arthur's eyes, it's all forgotten. To Merlin's, however... Well, let's just say that his faith in their mutual destiny, once unwavering, finds itself faltering at a dangerously quick rate.

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Better in the Mourning by CaffeinatedFlumadiddle Gen, Lancelot & Merlin, Knights of the Round Table & Merlin, Grief, Fluff and Angst, Gwen/Lance mentioned, let the characters grieve, 5 Knights of Grief

Summary: Merlin mourns Lancelot's death. The rest of the knights help out. (AKA Merlin gets to take advantage of not having to keep a dead loved one a secret and gets some goddamn support in this castle)

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I suppose that I look different (without the robes and crown) by WingedWolf121 Canon Era, Episode: s05e03 The Death Song of Uther Pendragon, Uther Pendragon’s A + Parenting, Ygraine/Uther, Arthur/Merlin, Balinor/Hunith, Dragonlord Merlin, BAMF Merlin, Fix-It, Angst with a Happy Ending

Summary: When Arthur blows the horn of Cathbdhah for the second time, the horn doesn’t just send Uther to the other world. It sends Arthur away as well – to a world where Ygraine never died, the Great Purge never happened, and magic lives freely at court. As do those who practice it.

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For Your Information by reni_days Merlin & Uther, Merlin/Arthur, Modern Era au, Oneshot, Teen and Up

Summary: Merlin sighs. "After your...announcement," he explains, "your father decided he needed a bit more information. Which is apparently where I come in. I'm sort of like his gay tutor, it's hard to explain."

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Good Fortune by platonic_boner Canon Era, Fluff, Merlin/Arthur, Oneshot

Summary: Arthur makes Merlin a lord, and Merlin does an astonishingly good job of running a village.

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Within Reach by foxy_mulder Explicit, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Sex, Merlin/Arthur, Angst with a Happy Ending, Oneshot, Slowburn

Summary: Nobody touches Arthur.

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

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Moment of Weakness by TheAsexualofSpades Gen, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Arthur Knows About Merlin's Magic, Protective Knights, Protective Arthur Pendragon, Protective Merlin, Whump, Oneshot, Merlin/Arthur

Summary: After all Merlin's gone through, you'd think it would take some world-ending magic spell or an almost successful attempt on Arthur's life to shake him properly.

It isn't one of those, and Merlin has no idea why.

He just knows he can't be weak.

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The Only Reward Bestowed Upon Me by greatdumbking Gen, Oneshot, Merlin/Arthur, angst, hurt/comfort, angst with a happy ending, Episode: s04e05 His Father's Son, Fix-It, Agravaine, Canon Era, Love Confessions

Summary: “You’re wrong Merlin. I don’t need anyone. I can’t afford that luxury. The kingdom's my responsibility now, and mine to bear alone. And you must learn to accept that.”

How could this hurt so much, a third time? Merlin could feel the façade of his casual indifference faltering. His face fell, tears were clawing at his throat, creeping into his eyes. It took all his effort to nod, steel his eyes, and swallow down the rising sob.

(How did Merlin get chosen the be the bait? Why did Arthur start pushing Merlin away? Why couldn't he see how much it was hurting him?)

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Maybe Not the Most Awkward Dinner to Happen in Camelot's Citadel, but it's Definitely Up There by HopePrevails Gen, Gwen/Arthur Pendragon, Merlin, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Oneshot, Humour, past Gwen/Merlin

Summary: When an argument about whether Merlin is remotely attractive or not breaks out over dinner, Queen Guinevere accidentally drops into the conversation that she had a crush on him when he first arrived in Camelot. Arthur takes it... like Arthur.

--x--

“Don’t look so surprised, Merlin.” Gwen said kindly. Perhaps she was the psychic. “You’re sweet and gentle, charismatic-” Arthur snorted. “- and I’m not going to let you walk out of those doors thinking you don’t look the part, either. Remember, even when you first came to Camelot, I-” She stopped herself, snapping her lips tightly shut.

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[wolfpup026]

Fanart for Footloose and Mushroomtale’s awesome story and art: Evil Overlord, Inc.

#I<3DrM

[candicewright]

From planning to posting, share your process for making creative content!

To continue supporting content makers, this tag game is meant to show the entire process of making creative content: this can be for any creation.

RULES: When your work is tagged, show the process of its creation from planning to posting, then tag 5 people with a specific link to one of their creative works you’d like to see the process of. Use the tag #showyourprocess so we can find yours!

Thank you so much for tagging me @highwarlockkareena 💜

I'm tagging:

@zazrichor and this piece

@mushroomtale-fanart and this piece

@snowyfuxue and this set

@wuxxxian and this piece

@satuwilhelmiina and this piece

Of course, feel free to not do this if you don't feel like it, absolutely no pressure 💜

I'll be talking about my process for this art of Wen Qing.

Fair warning that this is going to be a bit of a mess because my process is all over the place, but I'll try my best to explain without it being too confusing.

Planning

Since this was a request, I started by reading the prompt, which asked for Wen Qing and roses. Roses are my one of my favorite flowers so I claimed the prompt and started thinking about what I was going to do with it.

I knew I wanted to do a portrait with roses surrounding Wen Qing, but I still wasn't sure about what the composition was going to be, so I started looking for references to see what would work and to get some ideas.

I started looking for photos of Meng Ziyi that I liked and at first I really liked this one.

She looks great, but when I tried sketching it I couldn't really get the angle of the face right, so I tried to look for a different picture that was within my skill level. Luckily, I remembered seeing a very pretty pucture the day before so I looked for it and this one was the one I ended up going with.

After that, I downloaded some free to use pictures of roses. I really liked the contrast and the color scheme in the pictures so I though I could apply it to the painting itself and so I began getting a clearer idea of what I wanted to do.

Creation

I opened my art program (IbisPaint X) and did a sketch of what I wanted using my references. My sketches are always super messy and I can't be bothered to do lineart, so I usually just clean them up a little bit and work over them directly. I should actually learn how to do proper lineart at some point, but today is not that day 😂

Then, I chose my base colors and filled in the drawing to get an idea of where I was going with the piece. I really likeed how it looked like this so I sent it to my friends for validation. They were extremely lovely to me as always so I was excited to continue working on it 💜

Before rendering, I knew I wanted my light source to be on the right and I wanted the shadows to be quite dark, almost black, but that's the extent of what I knew before going into it.

And then I started actually painting! Unfortunately tumblr won't let me post the process video into this post so I'm going to upload it on twitter. You can see it here! I don't really know how to describe how I paint other than there's a lot of going back and forth and over stuff that I already thought was finished. The whole thing took around 12 hours, which is a bit longer than I usually spend on a portrait but I think it was worth it!

For the main piece I only used three brushes. I did add a bit of glow and sparkles with different brushes on a separate program, but I mostly used these three:

Note that these are at full opacity but I usually work a very low opacity because my stylus doesn't have pressure sensitivity (bc my equipment sucks) and that's the only way I have to blend my colors without the blending tool, which I don't really like because it takes away the texture.

I also had a bit of trouble with the colors in this one because it's not what I usually do, but after multiple adjustments and with help from the references, I ended up with something I really liked!

After the piece was done, I added some of my usual sparkles and a bit of glow and then saved it to my gallery. Then, I opened my editing software and played with the contrast, saturation, brightness and some filters. I was left with three versions of the art that I liked: the one I eventually went with and these two (I still really like the first one tbh).

I sent it to my friends so that they could help me pick which one looked better and after a long period of very serious deliberation (read: we all panicked bc we're gay and can't choose) we ended up going with the one that ended up being posted to the mdzs net!

I then sent it to the net for posting and waited (im)patiently for it to go up! ❤

And that's it! I hope someone can get something put of the mess that is my process or that it was at least enjoyable!!!!!

[thegreymoon]

OMG 😮😮 I have no words for this 😍

For Irresistible, a Chinese-language Merthur anthology. <3 

The requirement was b/w lineart with tones but as usual I accidentally made things harder for myself… o)-( 

[silverpaws]

LOOK AT THIS ART. THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPPPY. I LOVE MERLIN SO MUCH AND I LOVE THIS ART. I THINK EVERYONE NEEDS TO TAKE SOME TIME OUT OF THEIR DAY AND JUST STARE AT THIS FOR A MINUTE. (Edit) Credit to Mushroomtale-Fanart

[francis-alianovna]

ARTIST LIST MI - MZ

If you find any mistakes here, please let me know! Continually updating this (by hand) so it is a work in progress. THANK YOU artists for creating so much beauty and bringing me so much happiness over the years!

MI - MK

micaceous-art - Michael Cho - Michael Walsh - michasartdump - michellicopter - michfranc2 - michielshuisman - michy-96 - middaysleeper - midelaye - midi-roo - mifsart - miggoo - mii-co - miicchi - miii-chaaan - mijisi - Mike del Mundo - Mike Deodato - Mike Dimayuga - Mike L. Lunsford - Mike Maihack - Mike McKone - mikiprice - milady666 - milenaas1 - milisalin (aka complicatedmood) - milkmanner - milkysaint - millywidow - milstrim - mimesacojea - mindthetarget - mine - mineapple - Ming Doyle - mingusyatina - miniimegs-art - minilev - minipraw-art - ministerscrimgeour - mintmintdoodles - mintyburps - mintyfreckles - mintyisdrawing - minuiko - minxchester - mirandakat - miriaas - mirisprouts - mischie-mi - mischief-soul-lover - miss-chatterbox-art - missallanious - missargent - missmeggsie - missmostlyharmless - misspaperjoker - missundeaddart - missybird - mister-black-tee - Mister Hope - misterknife - mistrelfox - mistviel - misty-magic - mistyquarz - Mitsou Parker - mixed-bless-ing (aka OMIX) - mixyblue - miyukigainsborough - miyuliart - mizzichibiart - mj-irl - mjeevas - mjiusan - mjuz - mkt-art

ML - MZ

mmagori - mmasing - MMB - mnstrdraw - mochiiknight - mochike - modrawss - modhero - mogumachi - mohae-k - mojavemarsz - molleehh - momochanners - mon-gentil-minou - mon-taff - monkeyelbow - mono-blogs - monobuu - monologichno - mookie000art - moon-arts02 - moon-knights - moon-toons - moonchildinthesky - moonieperez - moonriot - moorecolinart - moorgate - moraggian - morethanmonsters - moreyouknowify - morie91 - mortikutea - mossandbones - mothroot - movingsoslow - moyashidraws - mr-dark-1amao - mr-reblogbutton - mr0wl - mravenger - mrhiddles - mrnecessary - mrsgingles - ms-robbie-weiss - msynowicz - murasakiironosakura - murdux - murrmernator - mushroomtale-fanart - musicalluna - mxaether - mxi665 - myang17 - mycroftlovescake - myfawnwy - mygirl33 - Myke Wright - mysafeescapefromtheworld - mysiepereira - myslightlydirtymind - mythical-goth

[lao-pendragon]

Your Doctor M is so awesome and evilish wonderful!! I. LOVE. IT. SO. MUCH. As I love all your amazing art

»Merlin surrendered. Arthur was the Evil Overlord, hands down. Merlin was his bloody puppet, and he didn’t fucking care.« from Evil Overlord, Inc. by Footloose & mushroomtale

Oh, Anon ♥ it is my pleasure to draw Arthur in this absolutely stunning character design by @mushroomtale-fanart. I swear Arthur with his glasses and this haircut is my highlight 2017.

[archivingfanfiction]

Emrys Ascending

by tricksterity

In the depths of the Crystal of Neahtid, Merlin sees the resurrection of Lord Voldemort, an event that will tip the balance of the world so far out that only he has the power to intervene and set it right, or stop it from ever happening. For that, he'll have to pose as a student and attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The only problem is, he's been chosen instead of Cedric Diggory as a Triwizard Champion, and there's a recently reborn Arthur Pendragon in Gryffindor House.

This fic is AMAZING.  I just finished the darn thing and I want to read it all over again.  It is masterpiece level Merthur.  Absolutely amazing, 11 out of 10 stars.  Over the moon with a loop-de-doop around Neptune kind of fic.  Long, wonderful with a fun cast of original and canon characters.  I couldn’t praise it enough.

HUGE fangirling at mushroomtale’s BEAUTIFUL fanart.  It might be some of the most gorgeous digital art I’ve ever seen..... possibly up there with best art in general that I’ve ever seen......

https://archiveofourown.org/works/932981/chapters/1815838

[thedaughterofkings]

i recently got into merlin, do you have any merlin/merthur blogs you'd recommend i follow?

Hi!!! Welcome to the best fandom in the world!! Our show has been dead for almost five years, but we are still alive and kicking, yay :D

Okay, I just realised that I need to follow more Merlin people because this list is woefully short!

Definitely follow @brolinskeep, all Merlin, Merthur, Brolin all day long and AMAZING edits!

@clotpolesonly also still posts a lot of Merlin, so go follow Jessica, too!

@colinmorgay also has a lot of Merlin (plus a motley mix of other stuff, but Mal is an absolute sweetheart with a great blog!)

@lionheartlibrary for all your fic needs!

@whimsycatcher, @mushroomtale-fanart, and @alexandarcho are three of the many amazingly talented artists this fandom can call its own!

@notyouraveragetale, @dailyarthur, @merthurdaily and @bbcmerlindaily are a few blogs that post exclusively Merlin or Merthur related stuff!

And lastly, @merlinsfests is great to keep up to date what the fandom is up to right now, while @mxa-news collects new fics, recs, art posts for each day, so they’d be a good place to look for blogs still active in the Merlin fandom, too!

I also follow some other multi fandom blogs that post Merlin/Merthur occasionally, but not so regularly that I can recommend them for that, though I can of course recommend them for other reasons^^

That list is still too short, though, so please reblog this with more amazing Merlin and Merthur blogs for anon (and me!) to follow!!

[notuptoyou]

NEW DASH ICON

courtesy of the adorable Monroe @affcgato / @readyforyours  Art from mushroomtale-fanart ( and there’s a totebag of it guys )

[caamelots]

This, this is why it's my favourite fanfic. It's just so beautifully written and Arthur inspired me so much, the way his character acted and thought... He's my favourite character but this fanfic made me fall for him all over again. Footloose is such a talented writer and @mushroomtale-fanart 's art goes so well with the writing style and I - Shadowlord and Pirate King made me cry because of how proud of the characters it made me feel, the writing was just that powerful. It also made me cry of sadness, happiness, it just made me cry so much.

““It’s high risk, low return, little chance of success.” Arthur pulled his chair out and sat down with the ease of a man who knew full well that he was going to die, and the determination of someone who had decided that, if he was going to die, he would die well. There was a strategic pause, and Merlin wondered how Arthur even hoped to get anyone to sign on to his cause. Arthur’s grin was mesmerizing, teasing, taunting. “But think of the stories they’ll tell.””

— Shadowlord and Pirate King by Footloose and Mushroomtale

[reineyday]

i’m not feeling well today but i got my phone case in the mail and it has turned my spirits up immensely!

i love the work of @mushroomtale-fanart and would gladly stare at it forever, so getting her work on my phone case is as close to that as i can get while still being able to live my life haha XD

this piece in particular is from footloose’s “the dragon rises” and it’s awesome af! give it a read, and enjoy the god-sent art too ;)

[hyraeth]

Tagged by @prewar-james (and happy birthdaaay!) *throws confetti*

It's been a while since I've seen these around, come back 2012 tumblr days

Tag game under the cut!

why did you choose your url?

When I was a wee teen and started getting into celtic languages, I found out about Hiraeth in welsh and I loved it to death, it sort of reminded me of saudade in my language. But hiraeth was taken so I just switched the i for y (let's ignore how it'd change the pronunciation shhh). Other word inspired url would have been fernweh. See a pattern there? Yeah.

any side-blogs? If you have them, name them and why you have them:

eeheheh yeeeaah, I have an art blog that I barely ever used because I ended up posting here. And a fic rec blog that I just use as personal fic rec collection.

how long have you been on tumblr?

I joined in my first year of uni, so 2011 and I've been using it pretty consistently ever since

do you have a queue tag?

ah I do! It's massive 10k queue of Liked Posts from hell because for a solid couple of years I just liked stuff on mobile where it went to die in the Likes.I began doing it back when talking over here and sending asks was pretty common so people would know that I wasn't online. And I prefer tagging everything at once instead of as I go, so I prefer doing it this way.

why did you start your blog in the first place?

Hold your pants kids, because it was because of Doctor Who and Sherlock. Eventually Hobbit and Merlin, but it's always been a mess of a blog with a mix of fandom stuff and gifsets and then art/photography/etc.

Even though I'd been reading fanfic for years by then it was the first time I experienced "being" in the same place and interacting with other fans. But I've always kept to my own lane so nothing changed much tbh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Made some online friends though! (●'◡'●)

why did you choose your icon/pfp?

because the moment I found out there was a ball joint doll of Michelangelo's David I started laughing, but when I saw photos of the phoses and there was one with David doing a thumbs up I lost it. I've been using thumbs up David ever since

why did you choose your header?

uuuuh I don't have one, and I can't recall if I ever had? I do miss the days when I spent hours fiddling with themes to put snow falling for winter.

what’s your post with the most notes?

I thiiink some Merlin fanart of a Silmarillion shit post? Or maybe the most recent post about the heartbreak of finding out a bookmarked fic had been deleted.

how many people do you follow?

499 but honestly, most of these are probably deactivated and I haven't seen anything by them since like.. 2015. I need to clean up, oops

how often do you use tumblr?

everyday, even if just for a quick scroll on my phone. I've been more on twitter even though I really don't like it, but that's where most content is at nowadays T_T

did you have a fight/argument with a blog once? who won?

oh there was something back in the first months of creating a tumblr and it was mega random, bc I was replying to a portuguese mutual and replying in portuguese in the tags, but apparently on of the words offended a random american so that was fun. I had fun replying, I'm pretty sure they didn't enjoy reading it.

how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this post’?

nothing makes me scroll past faster, my eyes roll so hard I almost astral project and the Spite rises in me.

do you like tag games?

yes, they're fun! And those asks games too!

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

Nowadays no clue because tumblr engagement and usage changed so much and I just have no clue how it goes in their blogs. But I'm mutuals with some artists and writers that are pretty popular, so maybe they are! I just don't know ^^'

do you have a crush on a mutual?

No crushes in anyone, I miss having crushes :(

my phone bg and lockscreen:

I'm one of those people that haaaaate people in backgrounds, so I usually just use photos I took.

Currently it's a photo of the Baptistery of Saint John in Florence in the lock screen, and a detail from the Church of S. Tiago (romanesque church) in Coimbra. Going for that high contrast with some golden/yellows.

last song i listened to:

Doom Days by Bastille and Dragon Age Inquisition intro because it s l a p s

tagging but no pressure, consider it a tumblr virtual hi & hug ╰(*°▽°*)╯

@mushroomtale @deheerkonijn @rootingformephistopheles @herebehunters @thedaughterofkings

[pigeonesq]

Hey! The artist is called @mushroomtale-fanart and i found that out in 2 mins by doing a reverse image search on your reposted image!!! Reposting art without giving credit is really uncool! It isnt only 1500 notes that the artist isnt going to get, but also all the lovely comments and tags along with the notes, plus reduced publicity which could mean for a professional, non-hobby artist, missed work opportunities.

Here's the original post:

http://mushroomtale-fanart.tumblr.com/post/99762341776/i-like-his-hair-better-like-this-x

Now @xpect0patronum you can give your kudos where it's due!!

There’s some awesome artist who drew an image of Draco Malfoy right out of my head! Kudos to her/him.