Arthur and Merlin investigating a strange happening in the forest, with Aithusa on tow.

[Watercolour painting.]

For the 20inspirations challenge.

Uther's enthusiastic, she'll give him that much. He's fond of holding her down by the arms, which would make her laugh if he weren't so queerly winsome; she could break his bollocks with one careless clench of her thighs, but he's growing on her somehow, like mould on an overripe pear, and she's feeling too fond for her own good.

[Fantastic, beautifully earthy language, but do check the warnings in the header before reading.]

Gorgeous chalk, oil pastels, pencil and watercolour illustrations. NSFW.

Music: Destiny of Mankind by Two Steps From Hell (part of) & This Night by Black Lab
Genre: gen, AU, angst, drama, reveal!vid
Size: 135 MB (zipped, *wmv) download or stream
Length: 4:29 min

"Look," Arthur says, staring over his head. "I may have been a little overbearing."

"Just a bit, yeah," Merlin says and then remembers that he's not speaking to Arthur.

Gorgeous colouring. Icons in the following fandoms: acts: ellen page, acts: emily rose, acts: joseph gordon-levitt, acts: karen gillan, acts: keira knightley, acts: lucas bryant, acts: matt smith, film: esotsm, film: marie antoinette, film: penelope, film: pirates of the carribean, film: shaun of the dead, film: treasure planet, film: wild child, film: wild target, tv: being human, tv: chuck, tv: community, tv: doctor who, tv: haven, tv: mad men, tv: merlin, tv: misfits, tv: modern family, tv: parks & rec, tv: roswell, tv: that 70s show, tv: the vampire diaries, tv: true blood.

Song Artist: The National
Source: Merlin BBC Season 2, Season 3 (mostly 3x4, 3x8)
Summary: Gwaine's weakness is his strength.
Length: 1:34 divx avi

A Modern day Merlin AU set at the University of St Andrews, featuring teetotal kickboxers, secret wizards, magnificent bodyguards of various genders, irate fairies, imprisoned dragons, crumbling gothic architecture, arrogant princes, adorable engineering students, stolen gold, magical doorways, attempted assassination, drunken students, shaving foam fights, embarrassing mornings after, The Hammer Dance, duty, responsibility, friendship and true love...

Thing is, Arthur hasn't the faintest idea how one would go about courting a sorcerer.

And so it came to pass that, on the third day of the second week of the sixth month of his time in Camelot, Jack Harkness came face to face with the Great Dragon for the first time.

Merlin, when I said 'get us out of this nest of giant spiders', I did not, in fact, mean 'please erase the fabric of reality itself'.

five and a half people that james t kirk never succeeded in seducing

& one he did

(sort of)

(mostly)

(whatever, it counted)

10 things i hate about you, alexander skarsgård, angel coulby, angelina jolie, anna paquin, annalynne mccord, bethany joy galeotti, bradley james, celebs, fight club, friday night lights, fringe, gaspard ulliel, gossip girl, harry potter, henry cavill, into the wild, iron man 2, kate beckinsale, kate walsh, kristen stewart, laday gaga, mad men, matthew goode, megan fox, merlin, merlin cast, movies, muse, music, new moon, nightmare on elm street, olivia wilde, one tree hill, pink, resident evil, robert pattinson, secret diary of a call girl, sophia bush, supernatural, taylor swift, the lovely bones, the vampire diaries, true blood, v for vendetta

In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to engineer replicants, beings with magic abilities used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. Arthur Pendragon is a Blade Runner, a cop who specializes in terminating replicants whenever they become a liability.

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"You lied to me, Merlin."

It was really all Sir Wynston's fault.

Gorgeous Merlin art and Supernatural wallpaper.

vid title: Devil Said
music: "Dirty Horse" from Gram Rabbit
source: Merlin BBC, King Arthur, and Mists of Avalon
duration: 2:49

Gaius' hands shake as he sets the book on his lap. The prophecy is about two boys: one is not entirely human, and the other was brought into existence by the same forces which made the first.

Sweet and lovely pencil sketch of Merlin and Arthur cuddling.

Song: "Stay" by Michelle Featherstone
Summary: Merlin is of nature, Arthur of man. Enter conflict. Merlin, Arthur, Merlin/Arthur.
Length: 3:21
Format: xvid/divx avi
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Merlin/Arthur in space.

17 Merlin
01 Colin Morgan (in 'Doctor Who')
05 Jackson Rathbone (in 'Twilight' and 'Beautiful People')
15 Supernatural
15 Third Watch

James Bond Arthur in a fabulous cummerbund and Merlin in tight black jeans, rappelling down a building!

music: Chris Garneau
source: Merlin BBC, King Arthur, Mists of Avalon, and Merlin (with additional footage from Blade Runner)
duration: 2:30
summary: The images stuck in his head.
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It's all about the longing and the lust.
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Three months after Uther’s death, Merlin leads Arthur out to the lake where he cast away the sword that defeated the Black Knight and tells him about his magic.

Or, well. He tries, at least.

[American spelling.]

Drawn with a black felt pen and coloured pencils.

Gorgeous cover art for 'a tree and a bee and a flea, fiddle-dee-dee'.

Arthur tilts his head back, eyeing the purple stain spreading across the ceiling, mouth curved in a mocking smile. "Good evening, Lord Merlin. How does your search for domestic help--"

"I will turn you into a frog, I swear to God."

"Years ago," Arthur says because he's an utter, utter bastard, "I, too, suffered the indignity of incompetent help. It's a trial, I know, but rank has its burdens-"

[No Americanisms]

Song/Artist: Effigy by Natalie Merchant
Duration: 2:32 minutes
Spoilers: series 1.
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Merlin's having a moment with himself (and uses his magic in ways he could never tell Gaius).

Arthur looks intrigued. "And you say there's an enchanted sword in this lake?"

"I put it there," Merlin says, wanting to stress how entirely -- mostly -- partially responsible he is for there being an enchanted sword in the first place.

Arthur claps him on the shoulder. "Of course you did, Merlin. Who else would throw a perfectly good enchanted sword into a lake?"

"It made sense at the time!"

Considering Arthur's future wife will be chosen less for compatibility than for her political value, Merlin may be the only marriage he'll have that won't end in bloodshed or a great deal of fortifying wine. [Britpicked.]

Stunning drawing/collage and icons.

"You know, Merlin," Gaius said, with the expression that meant he wondered if Merlin really was mentally damaged, "I didn't give you the book so you could cast a love spell on the Crown Prince." [Brit English]

This is a very useful spell, Merlin wrote. He formed the letters carefully, small so he could write more later, if he needed to, and did not at all wonder if he was going to get in trouble or be cursed or something for writing in the margins of an ancient spell book.

He told the book (in case it had an opinion on the matter), "I am just imparting my knowledge to future generations. I'm sure they will find my comments helpful."

[British English \o/ A few typos, but a charming story.]

"If you'd been lectured by my father for four hours on your thirteenth birthday about all the many disasters that occur to a realm when you muddy the succession with bastards, you wouldn't have been very quick to dive into bed with the nearest servant girl, either," Arthur muttered. [American spelling, but otherwise no glaring Americanisms.]

It started when Merlin added stinkweed to Arthur's fireplace. "Is there a dead fish in this room?" Arthur had said for about three days, until he finally caught Merlin smirking.

Beautiful little collage, inspired by The Poisoned Chalice.

Song: Life in a Glass House
Artist: Radiohead
Vid: 48.9MB, avi (download or imeem stream)
Summary: Morgana surrenders to destiny.

Arthur didn't speak to him for a week after he found out.

Magic thunders in his veins now, not like the ripples and aftershocks he's used to, the feeling of potential.

In which dragons & ghosts & prejudices are confronted, Merlin wears a hat (twice) and a dress (once), Arthur breaks some crockery (lots), there are more pranks than pillowfights but at least one of each, and many secrets are revealed.

Merlin was no expert, but the minstrel troupe's performance in the courtyard seemed to be going fairly well until the dragon landed on the roof of the Great Hall.

And then on his next mouthful, he bit down on something hard and wondered for a moment if he couldn't just swallow it. But Arthur must have seen his expression, because he looked anticipatory and said, "Come on, Merlin, spit it out and let's see."

He did and the piece in his hand had a rose engraved on it -- puzzled, he showed it to Arthur. And then he knew his future was going to be wretched, after all, because Arthur's countenance turned gleeful and he shouted to the hall, "Merlin's the Maiden!"

The hall exploded into whooping and cat-calls, and Merlin wondered how bad it would be if the ground really did swallow him whole.

"What is it?" Arthur demands.

"Oh, it's a thingy. It does things," Merlin says with a vague wave of his hands that could either indicate that it might destroy an entire city block or cook rice.

"It's a thingy that does things?" Arthur repeats. "You don't know what it does, do you?"

"Yeah, you're right," Merlin nods. "It was a really boring meeting. I fell asleep."

"Of course you did," Arthur sighs, and then narrows his eyes at the slight change in expression on Merlin's face.

Merlin starts laughing. "I'm having you on. I invented it."

Arthur glares.

"You're a bastard and I hate you," he said conversationally, rolling an apple towards Merlin and Merlin shrugged agreement and bit into the apple to hide his grin. "But I suppose you might not be completely worthless," Arthur said, closing his eyes and yawning as well.

"What are you grinning about?" Arthur demanded.

"Oh, just remembering the first time we met," Merlin said. "You made sure to tell me that you'd been trained to kill since birth."

The beginnings of an answering grin appeared on Arthur's face. "That's right."

"So what did they do, give you a spiked rattle and encourage you to whack your innocent toys with it?"

"Oh, no, only my evil toys," Arthur said solemnly, and Merlin laughed until his smile slipped; he knew what kind of toys those would have been. Rag doll witches. Warlocks. "I seem to remember," Arthur continued, "you saying something dreadfully insubordinate after that."