In which I give the old reach around
Jan. 24th, 2011 06:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kylezyI've been wanting to discuss this for ages and now - with the recent influx of Merlin fans on my flist - seems like as good a time as any. So, what are your all time favourite Merlin-related fics? Maybe they're fandom classics, maybe they're not, but you've read them over and over and they're the first thing you rec because you want people to love them as much as you do.
I unashamedly fangirl:
At Our Best When It's From the Hips by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derryere (M/A, NC-17, ~13k)
Your Movements Are Irregular (But My Gravity Is Constant) bylemniciate (B/C, PG-13, ~30k)
Bradley James' Guide to Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse: The Mall Edition bygiselleslash (B/C, R, ~3300)
Communications In Binary byjustthismorning (M/A, PG, ~37k)
Soundtrack to the Apocalypse byphantomjam (M/A, NC-17, ~7700)
The Rise and Fall of the Broman Empire byrayslady (PG-13, Gwaine, background M/A and Gwen/Lancelot)
Fools Of Us All byadelagia (M/A, NC-17, ~11k)
Penance bywholly_crepe (B/C, NC-17, ~6000)
I unashamedly fangirl:
At Our Best When It's From the Hips by
derryere (M/A, NC-17, ~13k)Your Movements Are Irregular (But My Gravity Is Constant) by
lemniciate (B/C, PG-13, ~30k)Bradley James' Guide to Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse: The Mall Edition by
giselleslash (B/C, R, ~3300)Communications In Binary by
justthismorning (M/A, PG, ~37k)Soundtrack to the Apocalypse by
phantomjam (M/A, NC-17, ~7700)The Rise and Fall of the Broman Empire by
rayslady (PG-13, Gwaine, background M/A and Gwen/Lancelot)Fools Of Us All by
adelagia (M/A, NC-17, ~11k)Penance by
wholly_crepe (B/C, NC-17, ~6000)
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Date: 2011-01-23 09:20 pm (UTC)This fic makes me so teary and happy at the same time. :D I have more, but I have to think on them. This one though is always my first to rec.
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Date: 2011-01-24 08:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-23 09:34 pm (UTC)curvasud's Frequently Asked Questions (http://curvasud.livejournal.com/18358.html)! and ifyouweremine's Fuck Truck Episode 32: Merlin (http://ifyouweremine.livejournal.com/140648.html) for filthy hot porn. zarah's Where the Pavement Ends (http://zarah5.livejournal.com/52153.html) and waldorph's The Weight of Words (http://waldorph.livejournal.com/56480.html) (THE Arthur fic for me). oh and and From Russia With Love (http://community.livejournal.com/kinkme_merlin/2936.html?thread=861560#t861560) is probably my favourite derryere fic.
Communications In Binary is a favourite too!
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Date: 2011-01-24 08:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-30 04:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-30 01:20 pm (UTC)It's so gorgeous I'm getting starry-eyed just thinking about it. I love the way she played on the legends!
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Date: 2011-01-23 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-24 09:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-23 10:24 pm (UTC)Wake up new (http://ficbyzee.livejournal.com/332693.html#cutid1) M/A NC-17. 22,083 words. Is this a fandom classic? It might be, I'm bad at knowing things like that... It was however probably the first, at least the first long fic, I read in this fandom, it has stayed in my memory and I still love it. (Man, it's two years ago! o_O)
And you know, Astolat, of course. It's rather superfluous to rec her I suppose, but anyway. This is my fav: The Crown of the Summer Court (http://www.intimations.org/fanfic/merlin/The%20Crown%20of%20the%20Summer%20Court.html) M/A NC-17 24,773 words.
(I have a BIG thing for Arthur being submissive/bottoming, (but still being Arthur) which both Woke up new contains, and most of Astolat's stuff. I think it makes perfect sense... And there really are too little of it. There, now I got that off my chest as well, hrrm...)
Thanks for your recs, that post-apocalyptic fic sounds really interesting!
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Date: 2011-01-23 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-24 09:26 am (UTC)I am completely with you on Arthur bottoming. I mean, I'm easy either way but I really enjoy the dynamics of having Arthur bottom. There's something that really hits me about the level of trust he'd have in Merlin, because when Merlin bottoms in fic, it kind of goes without saying that Merlin is just a trusting guy when it comes to Arthur - he's open, he's loving, he's willing to surrender himself because that's just the type of guy he is. But Arthur. Arthur has a whole kingdom depending on him, he has the weight of the world on his shoulders and the fact he wants to give this part of himself away, to willingly give his body to Merlin because he trusts it in his hands? Something about that just KILLS ME. Or, that's my view on the whole thing. Or some of it, I don't even know if what I said made sense.
Sorry, I got a bit tl;dr there, I HAPPEN TO BE PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS TOPIC XD
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Date: 2011-01-24 10:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-23 11:52 pm (UTC)Wherein Colin is Bradley's Baby-Momma (http://ifyouweremine.livejournal.com/139767.html) by
Be What You Feel (http://matchsticks-p.livejournal.com/63824.html#cutid1) by
Arcane Asylum (http://new-kate.livejournal.com/56428.html) by
There Was A Plan. Really. (http://giselleslash.livejournal.com/300234.html) by
Leashed (http://riventhorn.livejournal.com/15629.html) by
Natural Selection (http://minor-hue.livejournal.com/2503.html) by
The Wrong Trouser-Leg of Time (http://community.livejournal.com/merlinfic/714179.html) by
Smitten (http://community.livejournal.com/cloudied/3655.html#cutid1) by
Oh god, I could keep going. This fandom. <333
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Date: 2011-01-24 09:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-25 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-24 12:14 am (UTC)In Your Fire, And In Your Flood (http://offthebalcony.livejournal.com/93254.html) by
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Date: 2011-01-24 09:42 am (UTC)Back.
Oh my God, that was amazing.
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Date: 2011-01-24 04:45 am (UTC)However I have to agree with The Rise and Fall of the Broman Empire, I identified so hard with Gwaine!
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Date: 2011-01-24 09:44 am (UTC)UGH, Gwaine in that fic is me, I'm not even going to lie. It feels a bit (a lot) narcissistic to like a fic about me but WHATEVER XD
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Date: 2011-01-24 07:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-24 09:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-24 07:35 pm (UTC)anway the one merlin_muses fic I did read became an insta-classic for me. I've read it 3 or 4 times already
The Apprentice's Tale (http://community.livejournal.com/merlin_muses/7943.html) by
There's a couple other AUs I go back to as well. Can't think of all of them off the top of my head but I love
Easy There (http://syllic.livejournal.com/23543.html) by
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Date: 2011-01-25 04:07 am (UTC)Easy There is a strange one for me, in that the first time I read it, I disliked it. I can't even remember why. And then a while later someone rec'd it, in fact, a few people listed it as their favourite and I was like, "hmmm, I better go check this out again, clearly I've missed something" AND I MUST HAVE, because I LOVED it the second time around. I don't even know what was wrong with me that first time, bad Kylie!
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Date: 2011-01-24 07:57 pm (UTC)Erm, mine are:
Fratboy!AU (http://moonythestrals.livejournal.com/59414.html) by
Natural Selection (http://minor-hue.livejournal.com/2503.html) by
Weight of Words (http://waldorph.livejournal.com/56480.html) by
Easy There (http://syllic.livejournal.com/tag/easy%20there) by
Love, Toast, and Post-It Notes (http://community.livejournal.com/camelotsolstice/21049.html) by
Keep Calm and Carry On (http://community.livejournal.com/tongueincheeky/6104.html) by
Drastically Redefining Protocol (http://archiveofourown.org/works/3189?view_adult=true) by
Coffeeshop Muffins (http://skellerbvvt.livejournal.com/57045.html) by
The Student Prince (http://archiveofourown.org/works/91885/chapters/125138?view_adult=true) by fayjay on AO3
Laws of Attraction/a> by
The Good Times are Killing Me (http://minor-hue.livejournal.com/2007.html) by
Oh God, there are a lot more! D: This fandom is just brimming with E P I C fics <3 (http://christycorr.livejournal.com/tag/fic:%20laws%20of%20attraction)
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Date: 2011-01-25 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-25 04:06 am (UTC)Peach, Plum, Pear (http://sweetestdrain.livejournal.com/221175.html) by
The Tale of the Sea Serpent (http://seperis.livejournal.com/703417.html) by
Obeisance (http://community.livejournal.com/merlin_flashfic/22927.html) by
the problem we all live with (http://green-postit.livejournal.com/53705.html) by
A Year and a Day (http://linaerys.livejournal.com/644334.html) by
In Want of a Wife (http://syllic.livejournal.com/18995.html) by
Sick Leave (http://waldorph.livejournal.com/55100.html) by
Freedom Hangs Like Heaven (http://derryere.livejournal.com/113350.html) by
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Date: 2011-01-25 04:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-25 05:58 am (UTC)I think I said that this Patrick Wolf (http://community.livejournal.com/merlinxarthur/421343.html) one was my fav, yuh? LMFAO @ that business.
um. I don't remember other things...I always do like, fic binges and read 20+ fics in less than twelve hours..then I go to sleep, have a weird dream (not a xxx dream, I wish, it's weird angsty narration or something, no visuals ;_;), and I've forgotten what I've read by the next day. :s when someone names a fic after a song I like I'm all:
tho. LIKE ^^^ PEACH PLUM PEAR. HAVE YOU LISTENED TO IT? YOU SHOULD OMG YOU SHOULD. HERE IS A LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txou6ctnYBs ALSO: YOUR GRRRLS ONES. like..they make my heart feel rainbow colored..and then purple and bruised because they're sad. ;;______;;
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Date: 2011-01-25 07:39 am (UTC)HIS PEEN WAS WRINKLY :(((((
Ahaha, Owen Pallett, I love how he stops halfway through to go on his little rant <3
I DON'T KNOW WHY GRRRLS SONGS MAKE ME WRITE SAD STUFF.
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Date: 2011-01-25 05:13 pm (UTC)By the same author: The Good Times Are Killing Me. (http://minor-hue.livejournal.com/2007.html#cutid1) I feel like most people have read these stories though because they're just fantastic.
My Life is An American Sitcom (http://ayane-tsurugi.livejournal.com/65454.html) is one I have bookmarked and read over and over because it's so simple and sweet but perfectly executed as well.
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Date: 2011-01-26 05:24 am (UTC)