#author!merlin

[onceandfutureclotpoll]

Title: Caesura

Author: StormDancer

Rating: Mature

Summary: Merlin is a writing prodigy with the world's most angsty case of writer's block; Arthur is an overachieving Econ major struggling to escape his father's shadow. Together, they fight crime!

Well no, they don't. But they do fall in love.

[justaz]

hunith comes to camelot to visit merlin and absolutely no one can understand how this sweet, loving, caring, polite woman sired The Menace that is merlin. especially uther. he normally doesn’t care for peasants but since arthur is fond of merlin and merlin insists on…being merlin, he’s intrigued by how different hunith is. hunith keeps things civil tho she detests his policies on magic and the whole purge business, but then she sees firsthand how uther treats her son in law- i mean arthur. her anger grows quick and she sees it reflected in merlin but merlin adores arthur and doesn’t want to put his position at arthur’s right hand in jeopardy so he bites his tongue. hunith has no such reservations. she stands before uther, back straight and eyes meeting his. she speaks evenly as she rips him a new asshole for how he treats arthur before socking him in the jaw so hard he stumbles back and has to grab the table to stay on his feet. as shes glaring down at him everyone suddenly sees just how merlin is her son.

[yoonkles]

*media with a tragedy so intense that it haunts the entire storyline*

fanfic writers: i can make it even worse

[heyitskai2]

hold on babe, i just uploaded my completed 48k enemies to lovers merthur fanfic to ao3 and im reading the comments

[ohitsmsn]

I don’t know what I would do without fanfiction😭

That’s it.

That’s the post.

[wolfiery]

MERTHURWEEK2023 DAY 2: Any poem + orange

You know that he will give them everything until there is nothing left of him but the imprint of dust where his feet once trod. (X)

[dollopole]

Oh my god, so this is how it feels. I just felt my heart make an hole in my chest.

I was looking for fics, and I came upon this:

“AI made this.”

GET THE FUCK OUT! FUCK OFF, AND STICK THAT FUCKING AI UP YOUR FUCKING BUTTHOLE, AND RUN WITH TWO FINGERS INSIDE YOUR NOSE, AND SHIT YOURSELF, YOU FUCKING FUCK!

GET AI OUT OF FANDOMS, FOR FUCK’S SAKE!

[amariram]

Merlin hadn't thought twice about following him.

He had found him near the lake, rinsing his face with fresh water. He approached slowly, then clasped his hands to his chest and rested one shoulder on the trunk of a tree.

"Unfortunately, idiocy cannot be eliminated with a little water, otherwise at this time you would be healed".

Arthur didn't even turn around. He had heard it coming, obviously.

"Do you speak from personal experience?"

Merlin snorted, smiling. He slowly approached the shore of the lake and sat down next to Arthur.

"You've been pretty quiet around the fire."

Arthur did not answer, unsure of what to say.

"Yet you know that thinking too much hurts you."

This time it was Arthur who snorted, hitting him with the shoulder to make him lose his balance.

"So?" urged Merlin after a moment's silence. "What's the problem?"

Arthur smiled without amusement. What was the problem? Good question. He didn't know that either.

"Does it have anything to do with my magic?"

It took Arthur a moment longer to understand that sentence. He turned to Merlin, his brow frowning.

"What?"

Merlin shrugged, a little uncomfortable.

"It's... It's been a while since I've noticed that... I don't know, you seem a bit tense when we talk about it and-"

"Merlin," Arthur interrupted him in a bored tone. "I have no problem with magic. Do I have to remind you that I lifted the ban and that we have been working with druids and Catha for almost a year to make Camelot a safe place for everyone?"

Merlin nodded absentmindedly. Then, keeping his gaze down on his hands, he murmured, "But I didn't ask you if you have second thoughts about magic, Arthur." He said in a subdued tone. "I asked you if you have any problems with my magic."

A surreal silence fell.

Merlin turned to look at Arthur and found him staring at him with confused eyes. "Why should I have trouble with your magic?"

"You tell me"

Arthur shook his head, exasperated.

"Well, if it’s not that what then? Do you think I haven't noticed that every time I talk about some... past adventures you react strangely? And don't even make me start about how you act with Lancel-"

Arthur rolled his eyes with a bored verse.

"This is exactly what I am talking about," Merlin exclaimed, waving his hand to emphasize Arthur's reaction. "What's your deal with Lancelot?"

Arthur gnashed his teeth. Lancelot here, Lancelot there. There was no talk of anything else.

"I have nothing against your precious Lancelot, don't worry." Arthur realized he looked petulant but at that moment he really didn't care.

Merlin frowned, confused. "My precious Lancelot? Arthur are you feeling good?"

And that was the height for Arthur.

- My Destiny, My King, My Love on ao3

credit for the art to @f-iddery

[authorpilot]

I poured my heart and soul into this piece, and it's a reflection of my inner world. It's a mix of emotions, thoughts, and experiences that I've tried to capture through colors, textures, and shapes. I hope you see something in it that resonates with you.

[sneakyboymerlin]

One more time… Merlin didn’t owe anyone his secrets. No one was entitled to them, not even Gwaine. It’s like, actually bizarre that you will all call magic a gay metaphor and then die on the hill that he’s sadistic if he doesn’t tell anyone, as if it’s “harmful” to others if he keeps it a secret when he actively lives in a place where he will be killed for it. You are all embarrassingly susceptible to right winger anti-lgbtq logic and only surface level pro-gay. Except it’s ultimately a metaphor for religious persecution so uhh anyways… bite a brick

[noxintheabyssblog]

day 4 of my merthur hyperfixation (still haven't watched the show bc I'm seeing dying Arthur edits on Tiktok and I'm not emotionally stable for that yet) — but I NEED LONGER FICS. Drop your recs everyone. I WANT FLUFF ANGST QUEEN MERLIN I WANT EVERYTHING YOU HAVE

[onceandfutureclotpoll]

Title: Searching in The Dark

Author: helloearthlings

Rating: Teen and up Audiences

Summary: Merlin and his soulmate started hearing one another’s voices when Merlin was eight.

The first time it happened, Merlin didn’t think anything of it. He just had a dream about a big, wide open space in the sky where another voice said to him What are you doing here?

And Merlin said I belong here.

[justaz]

i'm going through my google drive and weeding through all my shit to make some space and i keep coming across old fics i abandoned and some of em i'm like damn someone should finish that and then there's others that make me laugh so hard,,, who knew i could sometimes be funny?? ig its bc its my humor so its tailored specifically to me but whatever....cue montage of lines/paragraphs that make me laugh

Voltron fic that i have completely forgotten the plot of. I think the spirit of Lance McClain inhabited me to write these lines because they were one after another. I barely got my breath before the next one hit:

(wait omg the klance is this fic is klancing wtf they're so soft oh fuck i hope this is finished (i know damn well its not))

(also the romelle and lance friendship is impeccable omg past me is cooking wait)

(NOOOOOO its over....i might continue that one tho bc lance and romelle are schemeing and plotting and...........ooooooh i might pick this one back up...ANYWAYS-)

2. Another Voltron fic, plot is pool day

3. Miraculous Ladybug fic, premise being Alya, Nino, Adrien, and Marinette playing smash or pass and Marinette being incredibly down bad for Chat Noir

4. Merlin fic. This one didn't make me laugh but I think it needs to breach containment and be seen by someone other than my dusty google drive

(good god i forgot how dark i made this fic ermmmmmm what the flip guys)

5. Another Merlin fic of my lil guys bein lil dues

[oswinsdolma]

something about how merlin and arthur both died the moment they became a story. how in becoming a legend, they sacrificed the versions of themselves that were real for the infinite potentiality of the versions that could have been. "the story that we have been a part of will live long in the minds of men" but at the cost of the lovers who wrote it, fragmented across space and time by a thousand new imaginations that keep them alive in all that they never were. when we read their story, they are broken and reborn anew, so does that make us murderers or gods? or maybe the whole point is that there never really was much of a difference between the two.

[thatqueerfangirl02]

Please tell me I’m not the only one who gets obsessed over Fanfic authors.

Like I’ll read a fic that’s just amazing, and I need more so I go to the author’s profile. I always start with the same Fandom/Ship/Trope of the first fic (it depends on how many works they have). Eventually, when I’ve read all of those, I’ll move on to other fandoms that I’m in and they write for. Sometimes I’ll even go into their bookmarks, because they clearly have fantastic taste. I even keep the profile open in it’s own tab just so I can check for new content every few days.

Just, you know, fangirling over fanfic authors.

[bucketsofmonsters]

Hey everyone, I wrote a book!!

A new kingdom, a new king, a new life. But nothing ever really changes for squires. A banished knight has no choice but to abandon his home in search of a new kingdom to serve. That knight's squire, on the other hand, is less content with being pulled around due to someone else’s mistakes. When a dark figure offers the squire a second chance, how could he not take it? However, this deal might be more than he bargained for. A disenchanted squire with more potential than he realizes and a cunning mage who might not be as proficient at magic as she claimed join forces to save themselves by fulfilling their end of a cursed bargain: to kill the king.

If you're interested you can order it in all forms here