Title: Four Seasons in One Day
Author: hope / angstslashhope
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Wordcount: ~35,000
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin, Merlin/Gwen, Merlin/Morgana, Merlin/Gwen/Morgana, Merlin/Arthur/Gwen/Morgana, Merlin/Gwaine
Genre: modern university AU
Notes: Thank you to copracat, nixwilliams, emeraldwoman and eyebrowofdoom for reading and cheering me along.

Summary: Estranged from his dad and determined to work out life on his own, Arthur lives with his boyfriend and his boyfriend's girlfriends in a sharehouse in Melbourne. This is their (unfinished) story.


WARNING: This is an unfinished story. Granted, there are complete arcs within the 35K of it that there is, but there is no grand conclusion and it hasn't had the beta it deserves. However, given the meandering style of it, I decided it was worth posting anyway. Considering I've drifted out of the Merlin fandom, this will never be completed.



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ALSO: eyebrowofdoom wrote fanfiction of this fanfiction BEFORE I EVEN POSTED IT. So I’m making her post it now. READ IT ALSO FOR IT IS DELIGHTFUL AND PORNY AND THERE ARE WRENS: The once and future Kinglake.

Title: After the Storm
Author: hope / angstslashhope
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Wordcount: ~2000
Rating: PG
Pairing(s): Merlin/Gwaine
Beta(s): Thank you to the lovely trianne!
Summary: Set a little while after the climax of 4x13. Gwaine is recovering. Merlin is freaking out.

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Whee! GUESS WHAT STORY I WROTE? THIS ONE:


Title: The Very Important Quest
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Word Count: ~25,000
Warnings: Veg*n warning: Gory death of animals within. Also taxidermy. (These two warnings are unrelated.)
Summary: On a Very Important Quest, Arthur and Merlin share clothes, beds, bathwater and secrets.
Author's Notes: Written for amysthystluna in merlin_holidays (original post). My awesome betas and cheerleaders: eyebrowofdoom, doro, copracat & nixwilliams!)

Read on the AO3 or on the merlin_holiday community.


AND NOW TO ANSWER ALL THE DELIGHTFUL COMMENTS! :D


And yay! tsukishirou wrote the lovely furor scribendi. for me! ♥

Title: Post Meridian
Author: hope / angstslashhope
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Wordcount: ~3,800
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin
Warning(s): Spoilers for 4.03, and (highlight to reveal) brief dubcon (sex is initiated while one character is still asleep)
Beta: ella_bane is awesomesauce :D

Summary:

“What is it,” Arthur says, gentler; he’s always less acerbic when he’s got his clothes off, and Merlin has an expression like that: like he’s so wide open that even a playful assault could wound him. “You’re too good for a tumble with a king?”

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It's still pretty frivolous, but I tidied up the Merlin/Gwaine story I wrote for the frottage fest months ago and posted it on the Archive: In the Library.

This message is brought to you by it being nearly midnight and me procrastinating starting a pomodoro to get 25 minutes of writing done before I go to sleep. Sigh.

Title: Handfast
Author: hope / angstslashhope
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Wordcount: ~1,700
Rating: PG
Pairing: Gwen/Arthur/Lancelot
Notes: Thank you to doro & msilverstar for beta reading.

This is set within the Along a Wandering Wind ‘verse and timeline, though it works well enough as a standalone.

Summary: Gwen gets married twice in one day.

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nixwilliams requested more Gareth from Along a Wandering Wind in my timestamp meme, and lo, fanfiction of my fanfiction is born *g*

Speaking of Gareth, true_statement asked me a while ago if I'd done any fantasy casting of my OCs, and at that point I hadn't, but she sowed the seed and so I had my eye out since. And then, what do you know? I found some pictures that made me OMG YES. Here is my fantasy casting of Gareth: Ethan James (picture one, picture two). Though I think that's perhaps a slightly older Gareth - perhaps 19-20 rather than 15-16. And I think it's probably the sullen, put-upon expression that makes it work for me more than anything else :D

Anyway, that was fun! Timestamp meme is still open for requests on Dreamwidth or Livejournal. The only other request I've got/filled is for lolafeist, who requested the day after the sex pollen threesome. (I haven't posted that elsewhere, because I think it might be the start of something else, FYI.)


And now, on with the fic:


Title: Tourney
Author: hope / angstslashhope
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Wordcount: ~3,000
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: background Merlin/Gwaine

Notes/Summary: Set in the Along a Wandering Wind universe; nixwilliams requested “Gareth +1 year” in my timestamp meme. (Gareth being one of my OCs in that story.)

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Title: Along a Wandering Wind
Author: hope / angstslashhope
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Wordcount: ~64,000
Rating: Mostly PG-13, eventual NC-17
Pairing: Merlin/Gwaine, peripheral Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot
Notes: This story could not have been completed without the support of my various alpha, beta and gamma readers: winterhill, vanessarama, true_statement, doro, msilverstar and the amazing neifile7, who helped me make the major changes that carved the story into a much better shape (and also came up with the summary. Seriously, thank you). Title is from Tennyson.

Summary: Just when Gwaine finds a reason to end his roaming, he must leave Camelot again, this time on royal orders. Whether and how he returns may depend on the secrets Merlin—and others—are keeping from him. (A romance of letters, intrigue and knightly apprenticeship, set post-S3.)




ETA: Also check out the lovely fanart by waltzing_mice: Thinking of the Quill and Merlin's Letter.

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Firstly, this story pretty much sums up in fictional form the glee I expressed for this relationship dynamic in 3x08:

Title: Aqua Pura
Author: hope / angstslashhope
Wordcount: ~7,200
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Gwaine/Merlin, Gwaine/Merlin/Arthur
gwaine_quest Prompt(s): 47. Arthur/Gwaine/Merlin - Quest timeout for skinny dipping shenanigans! Hooray! combined with 71. Gwaine/Merlin - Skinny dipping at night
Notes: Thank you to eyebrowofdoom for the fabulous beta (and associated keymashing).

Summary: On their way home from the quest, Merlin, Gwaine and Arthur stop for a dip in a lake outside the Perilous Lands.

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Secondly, this is just ridiculous and I have no excuse:

Title: Because You're Worth It
Author: hope / angstslashhope
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Wordcount: ~1,700
Rating: R
Characters: Gwaine/Leon
Notes: eyebrowofdoom is an awesome beta.
gwaine_quest Prompt: 66. Gwaine/Leon - Bathing together and washing each other's hair.

Summary: Gwaine certainly doesn’t realise that Leon is the one who gives him orders, because somehow they end up in the baths below the castle, and it was certainly not Leon’s idea.

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HAVE AT IT.

Title: Social Mediæ
Author: hope / angstslashhope
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Wordcount: ~5,000
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Crack, gen (canon pairings)
Notes: Most of this was written verbally with nixwilliams and dancantdecide, who deserve at least equal billing for coming up with the puns. Thank you to eyebrowofdoom too, for excellent beta reading services.

Summary: With the beginning of Arthur’s reign and the unbanning of sorcery, a new era of communication begins in Albion. Soon even parchment will be obsolete! (Warning: Here be puns.)

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Title: Fit to be tied
Author: hope / angstslashhope
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Wordcount: ~5,000
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Merlin/Gwaine
Notes: Originally posted anon on the kink meme.
No warnings, but Contains: (highlight to reveal) consensual bondage/restraint & gagging

Prompt/Summary: Prompted on kinkme_merlin: "Gwaine/Merlin, finding other uses for Merlin's scarf."

Crossposted on the Archive of Our Own.

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Title: Only thyme will tell
Author: hope / angstslashhope
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Wordcount: ~3,200
Rating: R
Pairing: Merlin/Percival
Notes: Originally posted anon on the kink meme. Thanks to eyebrowofdoom for the beta :)

Prompt/Summary: Prompted on kinkme_merlin: "Percival is a secret herbology fanatic and he and Merlin go pick herbs for Gaius. "

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Title: As fey would have it
Author: hope / angstslashhope
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Wordcount: ~7,400
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Merlin/Gwaine (established), Merlin/Gwaine/Lancelot
Genre: PWP, threesome, sex pollen
Warning: dub-con of the fairies-made-them-do-it variety
Notes: Originally posted anon on the kink meme. Thanks to misswinterhill for beta help :)

Prompt/Summary: Prompted on kinkme_merlin: "Lancelot Is attracted to Merlin and Merlin is attracted to Gwaine who lusts openly after Merlin in return. All three get caught by some sort of fey folk and for "fun" they put Merlin under a spell that makes him horny as a cat in heat. He needs to be well fucked in order to break the spell...and while Gwaine is up to the task, it's more than one man's libido can handle. Good thing Lancelot is there."

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