oh my god, you guys! (a rec)

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Pairing: Pendragon/Merlin by Anon.

In which Arthur is a BNF and Merlin is his beta.

This story gave me SUCH A GINORMOUS HAPPY. (And meta fic usually gives me a ginormous embarrassment squick!) It really is more fandom fanfiction than Merlin fanfiction, and it's beautifully done. Being a BNF! Being a NNF! How emotionally invested in fandom you are, and how it makes you feel hopelessly in love! And all the lexicon, and the mediums, and... Everything!

I think it's kind of interesting that a story that's so quintessentially about fandom stars a couple of guys, but interesting a twisty meta kind of way.

ANYWAY. Read it!

Comments

[nixwilliams]

:D it's gold!

[hope]

I LOL'd!

[copracat]

I can't help but wish the author hadn't hung their quite funny Any Two Guys fandom meta on Merlin. I don't particularly care that Arthur and Merlin are OOC but it grates when Gwen is cast as handy reflective bestie.

My alternate castings:
BNF writer: Jeff, approx season 25 when he will have grown enough as a human to be a self aware as the character in the story
Beta: Annie

BNF writer: Poirot
Beta: Hastings

BNF writer: Watson
Beta: Mary Morstan (CANONICAL BASIS IN 2009 MOVIE!)

BNF writer: Stuart
Beta: Vince
(Okay, yeah, about as convincing as Arthur/Merlin!)

[hope]

I thought Gwen was quite great, but didn't like that she was kind of the token woman and therefore had pretty much all that hung on her instead of more unique characterisation.

But yes, that, and the Any Two Guys nature of it, was kind of meta in itself (though perhaps not self-reflexively?)

BNF writer: Watson
Beta: Sherlock

amirite?

[copracat]

LOL no! The beta character, 'Merlin', is person of medium confidence and reasonable ability to interact with people*. Sherlock is very confident and just not generous.

*And also unlike actual Merlin who is very confident and great with people who aren't Arthur or most magic users.

[hope]

BUT IT'S PRACTICALLY CANON ALREADY!

Watson writes Sherlock fanfiction, Sherlock reads it and cuttingly critiques it for being too schmoopy.

[slashfairy]

yes THIS :-)

Thanks so much for sharing this.

[sandssavvy.livejournal.com]

This has to be the best Modern Day Merlin AU I've ever read. I sent it to my friend who begged me for Merlin recs recently (just introduced her to the show).