oh my god, you guys! (a rec)

[hope]

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!

[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!)

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).