Fic: Jinx (Merlin/Gwaine)

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Title: Jinx
Recipient: quintenttsy
Author: anonymous
Rating: hard R/NC17
Pairings: Merlin/Gwaine, OMC/OMC, background Tristan/Isolde, Arthur/Gwen
Word Count: 10,000
Content/Warnings: brief, oblique implication of animal abuse and death; murder of OC; coping with the murder of a lover; suicide of OC; mention of homophobia, homophobic terms
Summary: Modern Magical AU. 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.)
Author's Notes: Many thanks to my awesome beta, mollrach13. Any remaining mistakes or Americanisms are my own. Kittygeist was inspired by the classic basement cat on toaster.
Dear quintenttsy: It was fun to explore this pairing from a new, more cuddly perspective. :-D I hope you don't mind that I based it off a kink meme prompt that just jumped up screaming at 'AUs' and 'supernatural themes.' Happy Merlin Holidays!
Disclaimer: The characters depicted herein belong to Shine and BBC. I make no profit from this endeavor.

Jinx

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Fic: Watch It All Melt Away (Arthur/Merlin)

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Title: Watch it all Melt Away

Recipient: catarotta

Author: anonymous
Rating: NC-17

Pairings: Arthur/Merlin

Word Count: ~11,400

Content/Warnings: modern!AU, explicit sex, bottom!Arthur, bottom!Merlin, (very newly) established relationship, snow, mountains, cabin, and feelings.

Summary: Sometimes he still forgets that he is allowed to kiss Arthur, to hug him, to snuggle close to him at night. It’s not awkward, not really, or maybe a little, they just seem to...forget somehow, stuck in old habits and locked desires.

Author's Notes: Happy holidays catarotta! I hope you like this. Thank you for the wonderful ideas and prompts.
A huge thank you to B. and M. and for their unwavering support and kind words and hilarious gdocs chats. For being awesome friends and betas. And for telling me time and time again that my porn wasn’t bad. More thanks to L., V., I., and K. for reading it over, giving me feedback and also generally telling me to stop freaking out about the porn.
Title from Ingrid Michaelson’s Snowfall Kind of Love

Disclaimer: The characters depicted herein belong to Shine and BBC. I make no profit from this endeavor.


Watch it all Melt Away

Art: Part 1: Dawn Has Come (Arthur/Merlin)

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Title: Dawn Has Come
Recipient: karuvapatta
Artist: anonymous
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Medium: Digital Art
Content/Warnings: Impending Major Character Death
Disclaimer: The characters depicted herein belong to Shine and BBC. I make no profit from this endeavour.
Artist's Notes:

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." - Tagore

Prompts included "little displays of affection, dawn, Arthur with a sword, enjoying a moment of peace in a world that's anything but, going to their death and not minding because they are together, sharing a blanket at the lakeside when dawn breaks." I took some liberties with "lakeside".

Thanks to A and I for the β!

( Part 1: Dawn Has Come )

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Art: Part 2: Shake n' Bake! (Arthur/Merlin)

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Title: Shake n' Bake!
Recipient: karuvapatta
Artist: anonymous
Rating: G
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Medium: Digital Art
Content/Warnings: No Warnings Needed
Disclaimer: The characters depicted herein belong to Shine and BBC. I make no profit from this endeavour.
Artist's Notes: Title from "Talledega Nights", Arthur's the shake, Merlin's the bake! That just happened! Prompts included "back-to-back badasses, Merlin using fire magic, canon!Merlin needs new clothes, Arthur fighting with a sword." Thanks to A and I for the β.

( Part 2: Shake n' Bake! )

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