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1. FIC: Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alice_pike. Narnia, Golden Age, Edmund/Lucy, PG13. BIOMEFIC. Which, okay, isn't a real term, but you know how 'and sometimes you hear the silence speak' is like, "Deserts!!" and 'The Light of a Different Sun' is all, "The tropics!" This fic is like, "THE ARCTIC," and it is so. Fucking. Incredible. You guys. Edmund and Lucy are Arctic explorers, just read it.
2. THINGATHON: All hail the Gwen/Morgana Thingathon (Week 1)! Before you can post a prompt, you must answer a prompt, and it doesn't have to be fic. It can be icons! It can be fanart! Whatever!
3. SNOOP DOGG
4. CHEESE, EVERYTHING'S BETTER WITH
5. RAMADHAN: starts in like two weeks, and eid_ka_chand (and maybe![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
eid_fic?) needs YOU to make some fic/meta/picspam/whatever about Muslim characters. I'm, uh, lapsed, but since Islam has informed who I am and is a part of my family and culture, I'll be playing in that sandbox when the time comes 'cos -- and I'm gonna quote dhobikikutti here -- "[c]elebrating Eid is personal for me because it is a festival I share with friends and relatives, but wanting to see more characters like them in fandom is political. Because I think that fiction has enormous possibilities for inciting change in how we define 'normal', and whom we learn to love and care for despite differences in culture."
The call to action! The list of Muslim characters! Set this on percolate, guys.
...Okay, so I'm scrolling down that list of Muslim characters and, under 'TV Shows', I SEE: THE ADVENTURES OF SINBAD. omg. WHO REMEMBERS THIS SHOW.
Quoth TV Tropes, "The story followed the adventures of a caucasian Sinbad, his older brother Doubar, Firouz the alchemist, the mute Rongar, and Celtic sorceress Maeve."
Where to begin.
So anyway, I totally read Adventures of Sinbad fic and shipped Sinbad/Maeve. MY DARK PAST.
IN OTHER NEWS. The "Will lives!" Merlin AU is bugging me to pay attention to it. Ask me questions about it or give me prompts or something, because I want to flesh it out some. THE STORY SO FAR: he returns with them to Camelot. Also, ask me questions/give me prompts about Gaius? Because he's been niggling too.
1. FIC: Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda by
alice_pike. Narnia, Golden Age, Edmund/Lucy, PG13. BIOMEFIC. Which, okay, isn't a real term, but you know how 'and sometimes you hear the silence speak' is like, "Deserts!!" and 'The Light of a Different Sun' is all, "The tropics!" This fic is like, "THE ARCTIC," and it is so. Fucking. Incredible. You guys. Edmund and Lucy are Arctic explorers, just read it.2. THINGATHON: All hail the Gwen/Morgana Thingathon (Week 1)! Before you can post a prompt, you must answer a prompt, and it doesn't have to be fic. It can be icons! It can be fanart! Whatever!
3. SNOOP DOGG
4. CHEESE, EVERYTHING'S BETTER WITH
5. RAMADHAN: starts in like two weeks, and eid_ka_chand (and maybe
eid_fic?) needs YOU to make some fic/meta/picspam/whatever about Muslim characters. I'm, uh, lapsed, but since Islam has informed who I am and is a part of my family and culture, I'll be playing in that sandbox when the time comes 'cos -- and I'm gonna quote dhobikikutti here -- "[c]elebrating Eid is personal for me because it is a festival I share with friends and relatives, but wanting to see more characters like them in fandom is political. Because I think that fiction has enormous possibilities for inciting change in how we define 'normal', and whom we learn to love and care for despite differences in culture."The call to action! The list of Muslim characters! Set this on percolate, guys.
...Okay, so I'm scrolling down that list of Muslim characters and, under 'TV Shows', I SEE: THE ADVENTURES OF SINBAD. omg. WHO REMEMBERS THIS SHOW.
Quoth TV Tropes, "The story followed the adventures of a caucasian Sinbad, his older brother Doubar, Firouz the alchemist, the mute Rongar, and Celtic sorceress Maeve."
Where to begin.
So anyway, I totally read Adventures of Sinbad fic and shipped Sinbad/Maeve. MY DARK PAST.
IN OTHER NEWS. The "Will lives!" Merlin AU is bugging me to pay attention to it. Ask me questions about it or give me prompts or something, because I want to flesh it out some. THE STORY SO FAR: he returns with them to Camelot. Also, ask me questions/give me prompts about Gaius? Because he's been niggling too.
percolate percolate percolate!
The arrangement to sleep in Merlin's room is supposed to be temporary, but then they kind of get used to it. Gaius pretends to grumble about it. I think he and Will end up bonding. (WILL, MEANT TO BOND WITH EVERYONE IN CAMELOT.) Gaius may say that Merlin is like a son to him, but Merlin sort of... doesn't need him, as much as they care for each other. Will maybe finds a father figure in Gaius more than Merlin does, because in a lot of ways Will is more vulnerable than Merlin is, and as I was saying to Wyrm up there, Gaius likes to feel needed.
Job-wise, I dunno. I was talking to
I do plan to keep the part where Arthur sort of promotes him (officially or otherwise) so they can hang out and talk about hunting some more.
Oh man, what WOULD it be like now that it's Merlin, Gaius, AND Will in on a secret? I have a feeling Merlin and Gaius kind of keep the dragon a secret from Will at first though. There's just something about dragons under castles that screams "need-to-know basis". Also, do Merlin and Gaius know that each other knows about the dragon??
What would be interesting is Will&Morgana. Does he recognize the magic in her because he's seen it for so long in Merlin? Do they become 'opposites day' Merlin&Arthur?
Re: percolate percolate percolate!
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HAHA AWWW WILL/GWEN IS SO CUTE! I don't know about romcom of the worst sort, I think it could be very cute because Merlin might get a glimpse of what is really going on with Gwen and Will before they realize it. Unless that is bad romcom and I relinquish any claims I made on the ability to make love stories. Really I just want to see them smithing together and any bonus kisses are bonus :)
Will is just the bonding type. Despite the part where he's kind of hostile? Well, the situation merited prickly. Ooh, he and Gaius might get in fights about how Merlin should or shouldn't use his magic! Giving Merlin the chance to tell them both to mind their own business, and have them look at each other and realize what mothers they're being.
There's just something about dragons under castles that screams "need-to-know basis".
I DIED XD SO TRUE
I don't think Merlin and Gaius know about each other knowing about the dragon! Which is exciting. I noticed that the dragon never mentions talking to the other to either of them. Perhaps they are building up to a scene where Gaius is like *melodrama* "Merlin, there's something I have to show you." "Is this about the dragon, because I am so never talking to him again."
Will and Morgana!? I dunno, she doesn't have magic like Merlin, does she? (DOES SHE?? who knows with these writers). Opposites day Merlin&Arthur? huh?
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Will/Gwen is superadorable. And maybe Merlin and Morgana play matchmaker?! And maybe fall in love themseeeeeelves?? Ha, that leaves Arthur out in the cold though. MAYBE HE IS SAVING HIMSELF FOR LANCELOT. Clearly the only solution is an orgy.
he and Gaius might get in fights about how Merlin should or shouldn't use his magic! Giving Merlin the chance to tell them both to mind their own business
LOLOL YES
Well, not magic like Merlin, but she can see the future and stuff. And my fanon is that she's eventually able to learn magic. Anyway, I can't wait for Series 2 to expand on this.
But maybe all magic is essentially the same, so Will recognizes it in Morgana because he grew up seeing it in Merlin. And because Will is kind of callous and figures that everyone knows because everyone is chummy, he lets it slip to Morgana that he's figured it out about her powers. Morgana's like, "!!!!!" And Will is like, "You mean you didn't know?" And maybe there is a Morgana&Gaius confrontation scene, while Merlin yells at Will like, "How can you be so stupid!"
And Will says, "But how was I to know? I thought we all knew!" I guess chumminess doesn't translate to secret-keeper in Camelot. City-folk and their sly ways.
"Uther beheads people like her!" Merlin continues, and Will is like sorry sorry.
Now the only people who don't know are Arthur and Gwen. "For their own good," Merlin explains, which doesn't sit well with Morgana. At all. "Look, we're protecting them," Merlin continues, and Morgana just gets angrier. Merlin's sketchy morals! (He is maybe becoming Gaius?!)
I forget how this is supposed to be opposites day Merlin&Arthur, so let's say it's not. I think I like Will knowing about Morgana's magic, but I'm not sure what I'd like him to do with the information. This is just one possibility. He can also try to broach the subject subtly with Gwen. ("Have you noticed anything... strange about your mistress?")
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"Well, she likes having me dress her, even though I know for a fact the only other lady in Camelot who still has her maidservant do that has rheumatism. And she really likes the way I smell, she's always telling me and sticking her nose under my ear. And she has the softest hands, I mean really I can't believe any lady could have hands so soft. She's very good at giving me goosebumps. One day I saw a strange mark on her hip, I check it every day to make sure it hasn't changed. Is that what you're talking about?"
Will: "... maybe? I think you're on to something, though! Please, go on!"
I HAVE MORE TO SAY ABOUT THIS BUT IT IS ALREADY SO BEDTIME - I will get back to this. (how do all our comments get so huge? okay maybe not all. but a lot :)) )
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how do all our comments get so huge?
god i don't know, but it's awesome, and fills me with <33333333
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Morgana's secret HAS to get out! somehow! she's been increasingly realizing her power / having her visions get more out of hand throughout the series, so she's got to realize it soon. Hopefully before Uther does. omggggg what suspense! Also I would love to see more Merlin with sketchy morals. As it is he is soooo idealistic, like with Lancelot and stuff, and it is endearing but also a little, Come on now Merlin there are big things at risk here. Agh oh Will I love him and his homespun innocence, chumminess = confiding and such. Camelot needs more of him and Lancelot and Gwen, y/y.
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confusioncomplication and slow decline into the grey area, with people not noticing or trying to pull her out. Merlin and Arthur get enough saving already.I don't think I could imagine her seriously evil! Like, actually against Merlin and Arthur and Gwen? No way... Against Uther yeah duh for sure; I'm sort of disappointed that the sorcerer's stone ep made her morally incapable of killing Uther because it sort of indicates that she won't be the one to do it. that would be tragically awesome.
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Yeah, her or Arthur ending Uther would be INTENSE. Too intense for primetime?! Hopefully not. It would be so lovely, if by lovely we mean heartbreaking, and most of the time that is exactly what I mean.
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XDDD
HE ABDICATES AND SKIPS AWAY TO A LOVELY RETIREMENT HOME IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
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Arthur and Morgana exchange glances over Uther's body.
"We'll announce it was the pox," Arthur concedes, and Morgana nods furiously.
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where is Gaius in this exchange?
PROBABLY HIDING IN A CORNER ABSOLUTELY MORTIFIED
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Gaius is more stoic than the kids are. Being court physician during the middle ages, you see a lot of gruesome shit about the human body.
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