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They said the wizard of the woods could give you anything you wanted.
What Arthur wanted, more than anything, was to give up control. Let go of his burdens. Be calm.
The wizard's idea seemed preposterous at first, but what harm could trying it do? After all, it wasn't like they knew each other.
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14 Sep 2026
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Arthur looked nervous, and Merlin wanted to reassure him, thank him, drop to his knees and pledge an oath of loyalty as if Arthur hadn’t had one from him all along, but he couldn’t even move.
“Merlin?” Arthur asked, suddenly much closer to him. He said something else, but Merlin couldn’t hear it. He was untethered, unable to find himself.
Arthur’s hands landed on his shoulders, and Merlin inhaled sharply, suddenly feeling his feet on the ground, his sleeves on his wrists, the tears on his cheeks.
“You with me?” Arthur asked.
“Always,” Merlin said.
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Camelot has rules about touch. Merlin struggles with them until he realizes he doesn't have to.
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11 Aug 2026
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“I thought you might have some stories.” Arthur says, like this is a perfectly ordinary thing for him to suggest.
“Stories,” Merlin repeats.
“I don’t see any acrobats jumping out to entertain us.”
“Very funny.”
Arthur knocks their shoulders together with surprising gentleness. “Go on,” he goads. “Surely you’ve got at least one good story.”
Or, Arthur and Merlin are trapped by a rockfall. Arthur wants to know about Ealdor. Merlin wants to get out of this without having to reveal his magic.
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- Part 1 of Merlin Bingo 2026!
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18 Jul 2026
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“Be at ease, Emrys. We are the Vilia, spirits of the river. We have healed you.” The warlock opens his mouth to ask a dozen more questions, but the spirits speak before he can. “We implore you to listen for there isn’t much time. We know what the Once and Future King is preparing to do. A blood sacrifice to appease the veil and its guardian.” They have Merlin’s full attention now. “We are here to tell you that there is another way. The choice will be yours.”
Merlin’s breath catches in his throat. Maybe, for once, no one else will need to die. “Tell me.”
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- Part 3 of Gaylienz's Kinkalot 2020
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17 Jan 2026
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After a terrible day at work, Arthur needs his Dom to take care of his needs. Merlin is more than happy to oblige.
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03 Jan 2026
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Since Merlin came around, there have been problems. (Castle Extra)
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- Part 3 of Castle
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26 Dec 2025
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In the morning, Merlin knows, Arthur will don his crown again. But for now their world is only Arthur’s drowsy kisses, and Merlin tracing circles on Arthur’s bare chest, and the night outside is deep and dark and still. There are no conspiracies, no dragons, no prophecies relentlessly unraveling.
Merlin wishes, selfishly, that dawn might never come.
(And the dawn obeys.)
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07 Dec 2025
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“Perhaps we are doing her a favor then,” he says, pausing to chew the inside of his cheek before adding in a measured, careful voice. “I wouldn’t want to live without my love, either.”
Arthur whips around in the saddle to stare at him, eyes hard and dark, like the storm clouds building on the distant horizon. “What love? You haven’t got a love,” he snaps, like he’s the sole keeper of all Merlin’s secrets.
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19 Oct 2025
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“A man cannot be known for…” Words fail the King. He finally manages to bite out, “Hurting their bedmates.”
Arthur wishes he were a sorcerer condemned to the pyre. For years, he’s tried to calm the deep, dark desire living low in his belly demanding it’s due. It’s a possessive thing. A feral thing. A deviance unbecoming of a Prince, but a deviance he desires all the same.
When rumors spread about Prince Arthur’s sexual preferences, the King hires a willing peasant to act as his servant, and be his whore. Arthur’s spent years hiding his shame. Merlin has no shame for what he needs to feel to cope with everything else in his life. They’re quite evenly matched.
**This is copious amounts of kinky bdsm smut, with some romantic fluff, feelings, and bits of plot. Part 1/3. Trilogy now complete!**
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- Part 1 of Matched
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08 Sep 2025
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An ambassador from a faraway land offers Merlin a rather unique "present"...
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16 Aug 2025
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Merlin adores being a doctor, more than he ever thought would be possible. He does. It’s fulfilling. It’s amazing.
The problem he never saw coming is that people at the club get reckless when he’s on duty. For some reason, knowing that there’s a bona fide medical doctor stalking the halls means that people think that this is their best chance to go nuts. Merlin likes that they feel safe enough under his watch to test their boundaries, but there’s also a part of him that hates it. He’s here to get away from work, not to have more of it, goddamnit.
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He peers up at Lance standing over him, his own dungeon monitor badge pinned to his satiny shirt.
“Hey, Merlin,” Lance says, with an easy smile that just barely hides the tension underneath. “Could I talk to you about something for a minute?”
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15 Aug 2025
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They still fought, but now they said what they meant, and that tended to make fights short and intense. They fought in bright bursts of flame unlike the simmering embers of resentment that were practically Camelot’s status quo.
Merlin still sometimes forgot that he could tell Arthur about magical issues, and that the weight of the world did not rest on his shoulders alone. Arthur still sometimes forgot that Merlin could take care of and think for himself. Both of these casual forgettings were done with the desire to protect, and it was difficult for either of them to stay mad at that.
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in a universe where Arthur survived Camlann, he and Merlin discover the joys of honesty.
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09 Aug 2025
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Everyone insisted that Arthur needed time to process, to accept that Merlin was gone. The only problem was that Merlin wasn’t.
Arthur didn’t know how to explain it without sounding like Uther when he’d seen Ygraine in the well, like he was losing his mind and looking for ghosts. He didn’t know how to look at his court and make them understand that Merlin had once told him about nature, about the sacred connectedness of the earth, and asked Arthur if he felt it. He didn’t know how to say that he hadn’t felt it back then, but that he did now. He felt it all. He felt Merlin in it.
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Merlin saves Arthur's life at Camlann at the cost of his own. Merlin can't die, so it's not that simple.
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09 Aug 2025
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Perhaps he could have ignored the glittering motes of magic that danced through the room. He could have blamed this strange place of power for their presence, but he could not deny the truth that made itself plain before him, painted in blue eyes turned to bright, brazen gold.
Merlin was a sorcerer.
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When Sir Leon is gravely injured, Arthur, Merlin and the knights seek shelter in an old Sanctuary cave, but the magic within is far from powerless, and the goddess is always watching. Can they overcome their fears and find their way back to freedom, or will they be lost forever in their own enmity?
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08 Jun 2025
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Merlin didn’t mean to get attached—he just needed the money.
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16 May 2025
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Gibbs says his last goodbyes before sailing off into retirement.
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31 Dec 2024
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'Fear not, my boy. There are many pitfalls between negotiations and an actual wedding day. Perhaps there'll be no need for your jealousy.'
'My what? I am not jealous!'
Gaius merely smiled at him and returned to his stew. 'Of course not. Now eat your vegetables.'
When Uther's usual efforts to arrange a match for Arthur take a more serious turn, Merlin comes to a few realisations about his own feelings. He also learns that maybe he does not know Arthur as well as he once thought. Can he get to the bottom of the tangle of Arthur's emotions, and maybe sort his own out in the process?
Based on the word "Felicitous" For Melissa
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13 Oct 2024
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Tony keeps trying...
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15 Aug 2024
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Tony has lots of questions after the events of Devil's Triangle and as a result he's a bit unfocused, but Gibbs tells him to just get over it. There may or may not be mentions of marriage.
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09 Aug 2024
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He saw Arthur burst from the forest, wide-eyed and pale-faced. Sweat plastered his hair to his forehead, and fear locked his expression in its clutches. One hand stretched out as if to grab him. So near and yet so far.
The moment fled. Gravity won, and there wasn't even time for Merlin to cry out as the bandit's weight dragged him over the cliff and into the stormy waters below.
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When Merlin is hurt during a bandit attack, Arthur finds himself torn between the longings of his heart and his duties to the crown.
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14 Apr 2024