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No one understands Arthur and Merlin's relationship, least of all Arthur and Merlin. Limping home after Camlann they have time to figure it out.Now if only people would stop trying to give Merlin a promotion.
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19 Jul 2023
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“I’m going to run away and join an abbey,” Merlin swears.
“I have never once, not in my whole life,” Arthur swears right back, “met a man less suited for a life of quiet contemplation.”
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still feel the pull of you by napricot
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
29 Feb 2020
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"The frantic pulse of fear doesn’t ease until Sam catches sight of Barnes for the first time since the end of the battle: he’s dirty and disheveled, and still, somehow, impossibly, the best thing Sam’s ever seen. The gallop of Sam’s heart slows, and the tightness in his lungs eases so suddenly that it’s like he’s gone buoyant, ready to float away without the help of any wings. Barnes turns as if he can sense Sam looking at him, and when he meets Sam’s eyes, he smiles, and it’s the brightest damn thing on this battlefield, a shock of sweetness in the midst of so much dark bitterness and confusion. Sam smiles back, giddy with joy and relief.
He thinks, thank God Bucky’s okay.
Then he thinks, wait, what the fuck?"
After realizing there are some unexpected side effects for those who've been brought back to life after the Snap, Sam and Bucky slowly but surely learn that if they want to be loved, they must submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known [via soul bond].
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29 May 2021
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“It just feels warm. And, you know, nice. Holding hands is—nice,” says Sam, like some kinda robot alien. But nice is the only word he’s willing to have on the scientific record, so to speak. “You know, in general. Also Bucky’s hand, specifically. Good—good handholding action here.”
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Slow and Splendored by alby_mangroves, eyres
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
10 Nov 2019
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In the chaotic years after Steve Rogers arrives back in 2023 as an old man, he helps rebuild the world, falls in love with his best friend, adopts a stray cat, and saves the entire timeline. Not necessarily in that order.
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“Now you’re slow enough for me to catch you the next time you try to do something stupid.” Bucky leans close and jostles their arms together. “That’s the best part.”
Steve presses a wrinkled hand to his chest. “I’ve matured, James Barnes. I would never do something stupid.”
Bucky rolls his eyes and drops an arm over Steve’s stooped shoulders. “Yeah, you’re still a punk, old man.”
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For the Captain America Big Bang 2019 | cabigbang with words by Eyres and art by Psifiend and Alby_mangroves
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“Dudley’s daughter is magic.” He said, astonished by the very words. “She’s a witch.”
Petunia looked insulted. “She’s a Dursley!”Series
- Part 1 of there is time to kill today
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15 Jan 2021
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Harry turned to Karen, who had simply frozen in place with a look of complete shock. “Thank you for dinner, Karen. I thought the chicken was excellent.” He remarked, with a last spiteful look towards his aunt.
And then Harry did as he had always wished he’d been able to and magically vanished from the Dursley’s presence in the blink of an eye.
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I'll explain everything to the geese by napricot
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
25 Oct 2020
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Bucky is so competent that it hurts my feelings is not a rational complaint to have about a person, and yet, after a year of being Captain America and partnering up with Bucky for the new and improved, post-Blip Avengers, that’s kinda how Sam’s feeling.
It’s not great. It maybe leads to Sam making some rash, ill-advised decisions like claiming he has a previously undisclosed superpower, and then getting caught in a web of lies when he ends up actually developing that surprisingly inconvenient superpower. Talking to birds had seemed like a harmless superpower, but it turns out that birds have a lot of opinions, and they don’t hesitate to tell Sam about them, especially when it comes to his supposedly subpar courting skills. Which is ridiculous, because Sam isn’t courting Bucky. Right?
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- Part 1 of I'll explain everything to the geese
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The Immortal and the Revenant by RileyWilliamsJr
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Merlin (TV)
18 Apr 2020
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As usual, Merlin has utterly failed in keeping a low profile by inadvertently getting himself dragged into a mess of a situation that appears to have something to do with a seemingly unkillable snake man, a toad woman, an order of phoenixes, and a boy named Harry Potter who, he quickly finds, is equally bemused by his current predicament. When he discovers how lost the boy is, he resolves to help him and his friends get rid of this dark lord--as well as their malignant (and worse, ineffectual) new teacher.
Translation by EstherM available on AO3 and at: https://www.lofter.com/front/blog/collection/share?collectionId=16968473
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23 Aug 2020
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the ant sequence is the funniest piece of literature produced in the last 25 years
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The Very Last Place One Expects to Run into One’s History Professor by RileyWilliamsJr
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 Oct 2020
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Group projects are the worst: everyone knows that. Harry had been focusing on keeping his friendship with Ron and Hermione intact during their History of Magic project, but in actual fact, that didn’t turn out to be the problem. No—because something always has to go wrong in Harry’s life, they have instead encountered a mishap with the Time-Turner Hermione was apparently using to take even more classes than usual, so instead of squabbling in a nice little Welsh bookshop, they are now squabbling in a remote forest, surrounded by medieval knights who keep brandishing swords and shouting in a foreign language. But that somehow isn’t the weirdest part: because standing amongst the knights, unarmed and wearing ragged clothing, is (for some godforsaken reason) Hogwarts’ new history teacher.
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19 Aug 2020
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“Hang on,” said Ron later, sitting up in bed. “Is King Arthur inexplicably here, and learning English, and riding broomsticks, or did I just dream that?”
“I don’t even care anymore,” Harry muttered, and instantly went back to sleep.
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It was not Gwen's fault, truly. All she ever did was introduce Morgana to Merlin.
In which destinies are properly thrown out the window, and four young people decide that, you know, screw it, maybe they can and will bring the Golden Age of Albion about through nothing but a healthy dose of love, friendship, and good-natured shenanigans.
or, alternatively;
me watching merlin 1x10: hm. what if every episode was like this
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15 Aug 2020
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"Furthermore, Gwen had achieved this all without meaning to, out of the pure goodness of her heart, simply because she liked Merlin, and liked Morgana, and had thought that perhaps they might like each other."
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The best-laid plans of mercenaries and magicians...
In the aftermath of the rout at Ealdor, a mercenary leader tries to hold his small band of survivors together and extricate them from the mess he got them into. He thinks he’s come up with a simple plan to save them all, but things soon stop going according to the script. And then they meet with a group of knights, led by a knight who calls himself Sir Andrew of Dollop Head.
Arthur decides, for who-knows what reason, that he wants to spend his honeymoon chasing a gryphon all over Camelot. Merlin, as ever, is tagging along behind Arthur, but his usual plan of pretending to be a simple servant isn't working. Arthur has been behaving strangely ever since their return from Ealdor, and Merlin is worried. On the road, they meet with a small band of riders who insist that they are also Knights of Camelot, and Arthur comes up with a strange new plan all of his own...
Finally finished!
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07 Aug 2020
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the most glorious intersection of all my fav tropes rolled up into one beautiful fic! also this characterization of arthur is amazing
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29 Jul 2020
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i believe in astolat supremacy
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On the day before Ba Sing Se falls, Katara decides two things: 1) not to stop for a cup of tea; 2) consequently, the fate of the world.
Behind the walls, Zuko loses sleep, runs errands, contemplates treason, and drinks a lot of hot leaf juice—not necessarily in that order.
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28 Jun 2020
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Sokka and Zuko are both weird guys. Fortunately, they're the same kind of weird as each other.
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28 Jun 2020
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"You can't bring a boy into your dad's room and not kiss him. What, have you never been gay before?" I LIIIIIVE
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we'll burn that bridge when we get to it by chaoticsandstorm
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
29 Oct 2020
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An AU where Ozai wasn't so forgiving of Azula lying about the Avatar's death, and decides he doesn't want an heir he can't control. Zuko goes with her.
OR: The one where Azula gets a life-changing field trip
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- Part 1 of the things we give to each other
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21 Jun 2020
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dragging azula kicking and screaming into a redemption arc is the content i need
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this love burns so yellow (becoming orange and in its time, exploding) by meliebee
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
16 Jun 2020
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Ten months after Zuko is crowned at seventeen, he faces his first coup.
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19 Jun 2020
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the darkness of the depths is forgotten in the surf by poisedwalrus
Fandom Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
10 Jun 2020
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If people won’t stop saying that personal loyalty is Percy’s fatal flaw, then he might as well show them how fatal it can be.
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23 May 2020
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Bluejeans, Barry J., Bluejeans, Lup, Highchurch, Merle & McDonald, Angus. (XXXX) "A Case Study on the Physiology of Life After Death and the Physical Expression of the Soul." The Journal of Practical Arcanum, 50 (3), 156-161. https://doi.org/69.420/1000
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A necromancer, an arsonist, and a memory of a dead man walk into a lab
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It's like this -- Kravitz has been dead for a very long time, and the world has changed drastically around him while he stayed mostly the same. But he's interacting with living people now, and it's changing his soul, and therefore changing his physical construct.
He's more interested in the specifics of his existence now, and he knows a lot of people who are also interested. Fantasy IRB, what fantasy IRB?Series
- Part 1 of TAZ, post-canon
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17 May 2020
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“That's the one,” Taako said. “You're telling me -- YOU'RE TELLING ME -- that the reason I have to deal with shit like ‘pinultoomate’ is that you're old enough to speak a dead language?”
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Angus McDonald is:
Ten years old, a human boy, the son of parents that would never miss him if he was gone, soft-spoken and polite and growing into the perfect heir that his family wants him to be.
Angus McDonald is none of these things.
(Or: A coincidence is Fate herself at work.)
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When child detective extraordinaire Angus McDonald sets out to find a powerful magical artifact, he's not expecting to find god or a family.
He finds both.Series
- Part 1 of Till The Sky Falls(gods au)
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- 31,633
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- 14/?
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05 Apr 2020
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this is the only fic!! this is it! it's all i've ever wanted or needed from a fic ever! all other fics can go home thanks!
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growing together by mindshelter for ciaconnaa
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
11 Apr 2020
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"It’s a pleasure to finally meet you. Peter — where are your manners? Introductions."
Her boyfriend — at least, she’s pretty sure he is — in classic teenager form, buries his face into his palms — a move that makes the older man roll his eyes — before he gestures between her and Tony, grumbling, "This is MJ. MJ, Tony. Tony, MJ."
"Hi," Tony says, smiling.
(mj obtains a boyfriend and gets acquainted with the rest of his family.)
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- 4/5
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12 Mar 2020
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In the midst of capturing a magical creature, Merlin is transported to a world where Camelot is home to thousands of magic-users. King Uther is nowhere to be found, Arthur is a prince again, and Queen Ygraine sits on the throne.
Merlin plans to get back to his own reality, to his own Camelot. To do that, however, he must have access to information that is inside a shielded castle protected by powerful sorcerers. The only way in is to participate in the Apprentice Exam and be an apprentice to a magic-user included in Camelot's court. Should be easy . . . right?
Conspiracies are afoot and Merlin just knows that, somehow, he is or will be involved. Just his luck.
ARC 1 CONCLUDED!
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- Part 1 of The Wishes Chest Box
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- 277,226
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- 50/?
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21 Feb 2020