Merlin Holidays

Title: Tell the World We Finally Got it Alright
Recipient: Glayvas
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Merlin/Arthur, background Gwen/Morgana and Elena/Mithian
Word Count: 31k
Content Notes/Warnings: Modern AU, Christmas festival, enemies to lovers, rivalry, small towns, starting over
Summary:
It’s the most beautiful time of the year and Merlin can’t wait to open his regular stall at the Ealdor Christmas Festival for weeks of handmade cards, wreaths, ice skating, not so secret Secret Santas, and cozy evenings with friends and family. But when newcomers Morgana and Arthur mistakenly intrude on his territory, Merlin isn’t sure he can embrace the season and overcome bad first impressions.

Yet December in Ealdor brings its own kind of magic that doesn’t care for petty rivalries.

Author's Notes:
Dear Glayvas,
It has been a joy to write a gift for you and I hope you enjoy it! I picked two prompts and unceremoniously smashed them together: Christmas festival and enemies to lovers. Enter Merlin who sells his hand-painted Christmas cards at Ealdor Christmas Festival and his instant dislike of newcomer Arthur Pendragon. Wishing you happy holidays and a happy new year!

Thank you to my little helper elves who have been given special nicknames for the occasion:
Brainstorming elves: Zesty Advent and Ivy O. Bells
Beta elves: Merry Jingle and Angel Mittens

Thank you to the mod team!

AO3 link to fanwork:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/27827545/

Title: Just Stand Still
Recipient: ingberry
Rating: Explicit
Pairings: Elena/Mithian
Word Count: ~8k
Content Notes/Warnings: Adorable girls being adorable; too much coffee
Summary: Mithian is a quiet, flannel-clad, baseball cap-wearing bookworm living a quiet, lonely life in the tiny village she grew up in, spending most of her time in the small café she owns, pouring coffee for people she wishes she were brave enough to try to be friends with. She also thinks she's straight. That is, until Elena bursts into her shop one day and changes everything...
Author's Notes: Happy Merlin Holidays, ingberry!!!
All of your prompts were so wonderful, it was impossible to pick one... so I went for a combo of as many as I could reasonably combine. ;) Thank you so much for those, and for allowing me the opportunity to write some festive femslash for these wonderful ladies. <3 It's not explicitly a Gilmore Girls AU, per se (btw, BEST IDEA EVER)... but I hope the nods I worked in work for you!
I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed writing it for you, and that you have a wonderful holiday season! <3

AO3 link to fanwork: http://archiveofourown.org/works/8797732/

Title: A Laud for a Witch
Recipient: Emjayelle
Rating: M
Pairings: Elena/Mithian
Word Count: 2,3k
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Summary: Half a millennia ago Elena became the Witch of the Forest and Mithian became the Witch of the Winds instead of just Elena and Mithian who loved each other. But Mithian made a promise - and Elena intends to hold her to it.
Author's Notes:

Dear Emjayelle,
Happy Yule! I loved all of your prompts and I rather wish I could write several of them, but this land of witches is where the muses decided to take me. I hope you will enjoy it <3

Thank you everyone who gave me words of support, especially S, who is always there to hold my hand when I need it.
Also a thank you to our wonderful mods without whom we wouldn't get to enjoy all these lovely gifts!

AO3 link to fanwork: http://archiveofourown.org/works/8671933

Title: Mistletoe Crown
Recipient: sassafrasx
Rating: T
Pairings: Elena/Mithian
Word Count: ~4k
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Summary: Wherein Elena wants to win Camelot's midwinter tourney and Mithian's heart.
Author's Notes:

Dear Sassafrasx,

Happy holidays! I loved your prompts to pieces and here you have a fic that I hope you like with women knights, fluff and pining, also featuring hapless court sorcerer Merlin (though Arthur, I'm afraid, is more besotted than exasperated).

AO3 link to fanwork: http://archiveofourown.org/works/5317415

Title: When the First Frosts Arrive
Recipient: emjayelle
Rating: G
Pairings: Elena/Mithian
Word Count: 2743
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Summary: There isn’t a place in the world where Elena feels like she belongs. There isn’t a person she belongs with either, not anymore, and in many ways that is the reason why she’s here, in a small town filled with superstitious people.
Author's Notes: On AO3

AO3 link to fanwork: http://archiveofourown.org/works/2709212

Title: spill the sunshine, oh
Recipient: lady_ragnell
Author: anonymous
Rating: teen
Pairings: Elena/Mithian
Word Count: 7.5k
Content/Warnings: imprisonment, kidnapping
Summary: Elena doesn’t believe in fate, but she can’t deny there’s something weird about this woman that she keeps running into.
Author’s Notes: sort of a Swan Lake AU, but it’s a little weirder than that. Thanks to K for looking this over.
Disclaimer: The characters depicted herein belong to Shine and BBC. I make no profit from this endeavour.

spill the sunshine, oh