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The Once and Future Professor by Buffoonery
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Dec 2025
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Professor Emeric Ambrose is Hogwarts' new Muggle Studies teacher. His qualifications include a deep, personal animosity towards every major author of the Arthurian legends, an unnerving ability to reason with sentient furniture, and the eyes of a man who has been tired for a very, very long time.
He's also Merlin.
All he wants is a quiet life. But with a king in a painting who won't stop giving bad advice, a magical portrait of his nemesis down the hall, and two red-headed apprentices who are determined to learn the art of "narrative chaos," Merlin is about to discover that the only thing worse than being forgotten by history is having it come back to haunt you. Literally. -
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They meet three times in a lifetime.
The first time, they are just boys in a sunlit apple orchard, a prince and a dragon, equals in a secret world of dirt and laughter that they swear to keep.
The second time, thirteen years later, they are men in a cold throne room. One is a judge, bound by his father’s brutal laws; the other is a prisoner, condemned for an act of selfless magic. To save a life, a terrible choice must be made, and a lie must be told that will shatter a memory and break a bond before it ever had the chance to form.
The last time, it is the end of everything, and a lifetime of what-ifs and unspoken words must find their meaning on the misty shores of Avalon.A story about a connection that spans an entire life, but only ever truly lives in three impossible, stolen moments.
Deeply inspired by Eileen Chang’s beautiful, devastatingly short piece, 『愛』 (Love).
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A life is not lived in grand chronicles, but in the fragments left behind. This is the story of a 1500-year love, unearthed piece by piece: a complaint about a king's appetite scribbled on a napkin, a desperate message tapped into a telegraph wire, a note left on a lover's pillow fifteen centuries too late.
It is at once a chronicle of an immortal's vigil, a history of a private haunting, and an intimate portrait of the golden age of Camelot. It is a quiet testament to a love that was never recorded in the history books, but was written in the margins of the world itself. -
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Merlin enchants Arthur's armor to protect him—it works a bit too well.
(I’m making this up as we go. No promises. Just crack.)
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“Bow before me,” The sorcerer announces from his perch atop a pile of rubble, “for I am the Mighty Emrys, and I am a god.” It’s not a very mighty perch for someone who claims to be a god. In fact, it’s a very sad, unremarkable perch. Or maybe he’s just a sad, unremarkable man.
“No, I’m Emrys.” Merlin bites back.
“Maybe… we’re all Emrys.” Gwaine breathes out. Gwaine, Merlin thinks, really needs to shut his mouth.
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The one where someone claims to be Emrys, and Merlin decides to put him in his place.
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14 Dec 2025
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Arthur returns but Merlin finds he can no longer understand him.
“You can't understand me, so I will say this-”
“I’m sorry I couldn't stay the same.”
“If I was afforded the choice, Merlin, if there were only one thing left of my kingdom, one soul, it would be you.”
“I've lived so long, I've lived too long.”
“So please.”
“You deserve someone who could’ve held on for you.”
“I need you to understand.”Can be read as romantic or platonic
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20 Nov 2025
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Arthur's halls are decorated for the birth of the sun, Saturnalia was a sennight ago, and you saw an ominous sign this morning in the movement of the birds.
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20 Nov 2025
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Merlin pines by himself for Arthur, who is married to someone else and will never look at him again.
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- Part 5 of author's occasional art
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20 Nov 2025
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Toupee, Or Not Toupee by arthur_pendragon for LeFayArt, ueberdemnebelmeer, mega_mathi, vicnic
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
13 Dec 2020
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Uther tries to duck out of sight once he notices the camera on him. He holds a hand to his crown, as if to make sure it never slips to reveal the presence of nothing under it. “Your True Crime Podcast had better find who did this to their sovereign!” he roars before he disappears round a corner.
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20 Nov 2025