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@merlin-fic-server
Hello, I wanted to ask if this server is still open? If so, can i have a link? I’d love to join it but i cant find a working one!
Hello! Yes the server is still very active! You can join here: https://discord.gg/ujkscFhgW
A BBC Merlin fandom community for writers, artists, podficcers, creators of all kinds, and enjoyers of transformative wo | 696 members
A Three-Line Thursday/Friday gem by @clea2011 :
“Aren’t you a little short to be a stormtrooper?” Princess Leon asked Leon Skywalker as he and Leon Solo arrived to rescue them.
“We’re the same height!” Leon Skywalker protested, standing on tiptoe.
“Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaarrrrroaaaaah,” LeonBacca pointed out (translated this means “This is a Star Wars AU, not a Red White and Royal Blue AU”)
(The prompts were multiple Leons + Star Wars AU)
(We totally should post more micro fic shenanigans from the server here.)
Hi! Are fests like the Round Table Gift Exchange still active? I found MFBC through the Wordpress site, but it looks like it hasn't been updated since 2021 (the Fest Archive page only lists fests from 2021, and the Round Table Gift Exchange page says January 28, 2021 under the "UPDATES" sidebar), but then the AO3 collection has submissions from last year. Is the site just not used anymore? Thank you for your help!! :)
Hi yes the Round Table Gift Exchange is still going as well as the Tournament of Champions and a bunch of other small events on the server. Totally forgot to take down the old site—thanks for the reminder! We’ll be posting more current info here instead!
So I just finished Merlin and all I have to say is: what the actual fuck just happened? Why did no one warn me I was watching the medieval version of Brokeback Mountain? Arthur dies? Just like that? My man literally gives up the ghost and leaves his sarcastic twink to wander the earth alone for all eternity, just hoping he'll come back? What happened to the good old “and they lived happily ever after”?
Also, what am I supposed to do with my life now? Someone hand me a stick I need to go poke the producers until they cough up Season 6.
The next step is to join our discord server and then cry for the rest of your life
Hi! I've been looking back over your events and things and I'm wondering if there will be a tournament of champions this year?
Hi there!
Yes there will be a 2024 TOC, we are planning it for the fall/autumn as the summer has been busy for the mods as well as due to some feedback we have received from participants in the past also expressing that they wish it took place outside of the summer.
Just a note for anyone interested in the TOC, it is for server members only, so if you are interested in participating it’s not too late to join the server!
Hey ! I am quite new to this, I usually never post and only observe so I hope I am doing this correctly \o/
I know this is not a fic finding account but I have been looking everywhere and now I am lost and don't know where else to ask so here I am, shooting my shot here :)
The fic I am looking for is a modern AU that I read on ao3 one or two years ago. I forgot the title but have the plot : the story begins around Christmas, Arthur is a business man, owner of a big fancy department store kinda like Harrods and Merlin is hired as an elf. He finds a baby in a dumpster and I don't really remember how but people start thinking the baby is Arthur's and Merlin ends up playing nanny in the Pendragon house. Anyways, long story short they kiss kiss fall in love and find themselves creating a new family and it is very wholesome and cute.
I didn't bookmark the fic when I read it and have been regretting it ever since :(
If someone read it or by miracle bookmarked it I would love to have the link to read it again
Hey! Huge shout out to @caethes & @queerofthedagger, they are the real reason we were able to find this fic. We think it's most likely this one!
What Child Is This by lamardeuse
A modern AU with Merlin, Arthur, mayhem, a baby and a jingly elf hat.
Coming Soon... Merlin Micro Fic!
A monthly, low-key prompt challenge aimed at writers to create fics of 500 words or less!
How does this work?
We'll be sharing three prompts on the 15th of each month, and then you'll have until the 14th of the following month to write a fic of 500 words or less for it. For an additional challenge, make it a drabble (100 words exactly)!
Do I have to sign up?
Nope! Just make sure that once you post your fill, you'll tag this blog so that we can reblog it.
Anything that doesn't fly?
Nope! Any ship, any relationship (gen, poly, enemies with benefits), any character, you name it. No content restrictions or tagging requirements beyond what AO3 requires of you.
What if it ends up longer?
We have a small margin of goodwill (think 10-50 words max) but as the point is for the fics to be, well, micro, we'll cut it off at that. You're still welcome to let the fic grow into a mammoth, of course, it's just not gonna count as a fill for this particular challenge.
What if my fill's late?
A writer is never late. Nor is he early; he arrives precisely when he means to. No wait, wrong fandom. You're welcome to fill prompts after a round has finished and we'll reblog it, but you won't make it onto the Masterlist to keep things manageable on our end!
Anything else I need to know?
Please check our blog for more detailed info on the requirements, few as they are! If you still have questions after that, don't hesitate to reach out through an ask or DM.
When does this start?
The first round of prompts will go live on Monday, January 15th. We can't wait to see what people come up with! <3
Masterlist
With an amazing 36 works, the 2023 round of the Rare Pair Fest is now closed! Our lovely participants created for 21 different relationships, with Arthur/Gwen/Merlin snatching the first spot with 5 works, Merlin/Gwaine coming second with 4, and third place being shared by Gwen/Morgana, Gwaine/Percival, and Leon/Merlin, all with 3 works each.
The hugest thank you to everyone who left prompts, wrote fics, created art, read and shared and left some love, and last but not least to the Merlin Fic Book Club Server for hosting us on the Discord side of things. I was actually blown away by everyone's enthusiasm for this fest, and I can't wait for the second round <3
Until then, you can find all of this year's creations beneath the cut. Enjoy!!
All the love,
Mona (@queerofthedagger)
The BBC Merlin Rare Pair Fest is thrilled to announce the Rare Pair Week, aimed specifically at artists, gif-makers, and otherwise creatives!
As classical prompt-fests the way we are running it tend to focus on fics, we decided to add a week to give this fandom's great visual artists of any kind some time to shine. Digital/traditional art, gifsets, moodboards, crochet, whatever you can think of is more than welcome!
The event will run in the week before posting for the fest starts, and you can find the daily prompts below. We count any ship/gen relationship that is not Merlin/Arthur as rare for the sake of the event; poly ships including them are more than welcome, though.
Of course, artists/giffers/etc. are still highly encouraged to leave and/or claim prompts.
Monday, November 6th: Fave M/M Ship
Tuesday, November 7th: Fave F/F Ship
Wednesday, November 8th: Fave F/M Ship
Thursday, November 9th: Fave Non-binary/Genderqueer Ship
Friday, November 10th: Fave Poly Ship
Saturday, November 11th: Fave Gen Dynamic
Sunday, November 12th: Free Choice
We will be tracking #bbcmrarepairweek23
Info on the fest as a whole can be found on our blog!
hello, i know you aren’t a “fic finder” account but you’re one of the last active merlin fic accounts left :( i know this is a long shot but i was wondering if you could help me find a fic.
it’s a modern au, arthur is still royalty, merlin is an architect. the story starts off with them meeting as teenagers (in Italy if i remember correctly) and falling in love. arthur takes merlin to a party, which ends badly so they go home and uther walks in on them kissing. merlin leaves heartbroken. years later they meet again as adults because merlin won the architect competition that arthur is holding to build a new children’s hospital.
any help would be appreciated! thank you! <3
Hey! I threw it out to our community to see if it was familiar to anyone, and luckily it was. So hopefully this is the fic you were looking for?
Same River Twice by kianspo
Modern royal AU. When Arthur, the Prince of Wales, was seventeen, he made a mistake that is still haunting him. Eight years later, can he finally make it right?
Prompting now open!
The prompting form is finally live, please have at it with all the rare pair prompts you would love to see - romantic, platonic, poly, queerplatonic, we want it all!
There are only few rules and you can find them all indicated on the form, so without further ado:
Prompt Submission Form
The complete prompt list will be published after the form closes on August 31st, but before claiming opens on September 3rd, so you'll have time to look through it and decide which ones you'd like to go for. More detailed info on the claiming process will be shared then!
Please remember that while you're welcome to self-prompt, you do not need to submit said idea during the prompting period, and there would in fact be no guarantee that you'll be able to claim it if you do. You'll be able to simply sign up during the claiming process instead.
We can't wait to see what everyone's going to come up with!
Coming Soon...
We're happy to announce the first round of the BBC Merlin Rare Pair Fest! This is a prompt-based event that will focus on the lesser explored relationships (romantic & platonic), and run from August until November. For the sake of this fest, any work not focusing on Merlin & Arthur (as either romantic or platonic) will count as a rare pair.
Schedule:
Prompting: August 17th until August 31st - anyone will be able to leave up to 10 prompts through a form we'll share
September 1st/2nd: a list of all submitted prompts goes live
Claiming opens: September 3rd - anyone who would like to create for this part of the fest can claim a prompt by filling out another form. You do not need to have submitted prompts to do this, and submitting prompts does not mean you'll have to otherwise participate!
Works Due: November 5th - all creations created for a claimed prompt must be submitted to our AO3 collection. We will draw up a posting schedule by which works will be revealed over the next few weeks!
Posting Starts: November 13th, with one to two works per day.
As these fest formats somewhat tend to favour writers, the second part of this fest will be a Rare Pair Week run here on Tumblr in November, to give any and all visual artists some time to shine!
Monday, November 6th: Your Fave M/M Ship
Tuesday, November 7th: Your Fave F/F Ship
Wednesday, November 8th: Fave F/M Ship
Thursday, November 9th: Fave Non-binary/Genderqueer Ship
Friday, November 10th: Fave Poly Ship
Saturday, November 11th: Fave Gen Dynamic
Sunday, November 12th: Free Choice
Artists are still more than welcome to participate in any other parts of the fest (prompting, claiming, etc.) we just hope to make the fest more accessible to all mediums like this!
More detailed information on all parts of the event can be found on our blog, and we'll be sharing regular updates and information. That said, please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!
We can't wait for a great fest!
For third consecutive year I joined to the @merlin-fic-server Tournament of Champions, and I can say my honor is intact because I finished the challenge, and did a 12 frames story in less than 24 hours.
The prompts this year were varied but I choose Setting: parallel/multiple universes (and maybe used the Setting: somewhere outside Europe and Vampires too). I wanted to use the idea of giving each universe a diferent art style, and I think it doesn't look half bad. Please enjoy!
2021 Entry | 2022 Entry
oh my god I did it
meant to post this last night but it was Late by the time I finished editing, so I just went straight off to bed; here it is, in all its glory—my fic for @merlin-fic-server’s tournament of champions! basic premise is you have to write a 10k fic in 24 hours, and somehow I ended up with 13k. something about the indomitable human spirit, something something. HUGE shoutout to my group, group 4, because those 13k would definitely not exist without their encouragement <3
my prompts:
setting - western au genre - hurt/comfort trope - marriage prompt - talking and communication issues
there’s some “Old West”-typical gun violence and drinking, the specifics of which are posted in the end notes on ao3. but, by and large, it’s a dumb, fun fic about our two favorite idiots falling in love that let me play into my affinity for horses and the kitschy, overly-romanticized western aesthetic, lol. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it!
tennessee whiskey
[read on ao3; word count: 13.4k]
Goldbluff had to be, by far, one of the busiest towns Merlin had ever traveled to.
There were just as many people on foot as there were on horseback, with seemingly no order as to who was going where. People clumped in the street and outside of storefronts, haggling for lower prices on tack while their kids played catch perilously close to the horses and buggies. In any given patch of shade there were a half a dozen people playing some kind of card game, and someone was chasing a dog up one of the walkways. Merlin ultimately had to dismount just to avoid inadvertently trampling somebody.
His horse Aithusa didn’t seem to mind the commotion, too busy nosing at strangers’ pockets in an attempt to find a snack. Merlin, though, couldn’t help but feel a bit overwhelmed; his bounty-hunting work typically took him to the outskirts of any given place, and he generally liked to keep to himself otherwise. This was definitely a change of pace.
It certainly didn’t help in finding an inn, that was for damn sure. By the time Merlin found a place not already chock-full of people the sun was hanging low in the sky, blanketing the town with warm rays made hazy by the dust. The sign outside proclaimed the place as “Golden Horizons Inn”, which Merlin might have found a little funny if he wasn’t bone-tired and sweatier than a city-slicker. As he might have expected, the bustling scene from earlier was largely due to cityfolk who had come to town hoping to find the gold for which it was named. That, Merlin had no interest in—he was here for a much different purpose.
But first, he needed a drink.
The Rising Sun was the closest saloon to Golden Horizons, and he tied Aithusa up outside with dinner and a promise that he’d be quick. Hanging out in bars wasn’t really his standard fare, but it was a good way to get the lay of the land, so to speak. Plus, he was exhausted, having been traveling for days on end between towns with a drying waterskin—and that was before he had had to fight the crowds to find a place to sleep for the night. There was nothing wrong with a little pick-me-up after all that.
Tacked up just outside the bar was a wanted poster, yellowed with age and torn at the corners. It boasted a handsome five-hundred-dollar reward for the capture of the infamous bandit Emrys, though the attached image was an insultingly poor recreation of said “ne'er-do-well”. Merlin scoffed, pondering it for a moment, and then went inside.
Room and Board (Something Like That)
Arthur should’ve known not to trust an Orkney, not that he thought Gwaine’s cousin meant to die unexpectedly. And not that Gwaine’s cousin meant for his house — the place Arthur’s supposed to stay at — to burn down either. At least Merlin is there with him, along for the ride, every step of the way. Now if only it were just them two, and he didn’t have to deal with this brat, Mordred, who insists on running the Orkney ranch and roping Arthur into running it too.
Rating: E
Word Count: 15.1k
Written in twenty-four hours for @merlin-fic-server's Tournament of Champions! Thanks for hosting this event, y'all. <3
Full text and author’s note on Archive of Our Own.
Read on AO3.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Win Me (Over)
Merlin/Arthur || 10.3k || rated M || No Archive Warnings Apply
Written in 24 hours for the @merlin-fic-server 's Tournament of Champions!
Summary:
When Arthur wins a date with Merlin at Morgana's charity bachelor auction, Merlin thinks it will be nothing more than a funny thing the two of them can laugh about later. They've been good friends for a long time after all, and going on a romantic, candlelit dinner date should be a completely ridiculous concept.
But before long, the joke turns into something much more serious than Merlin could have ever expected. Something that makes him question both himself, and his entire relationship with Arthur.
So Take Me Somewhere
[Merthur | Mature | 11,2k | no warnings]
Tags: Modern AU, Friends with Benefits, Breaking Up & Making Up, Mutual Pining, Queer Themes, Bi Arthur, Bi Merlin, Internalized Biphobia, Self-Acceptance, Grief/Mourning, Minor Character Death (it's Uther 🥰), Angst with a Happy Ending
Written & edited in 48 hours for @merlin-fic-server's torunament of champions! <3
Summary:
He tugs lightly on Merlin’s leg, flashes him a smile. “Don’t worry, I’m not going to fall in love with you; pinkie promise and all, yeah?” Merlin laughs, a short, incredulous sound. “Oh my god how are you so—you’re such a goddamn idiot, it's impossible.” Arthur grins back, shrugs a little. “Hey, my charm works on a whooping number of three women and one guy, the latter unfortunate enough to call himself my best friend. What can I say? I’m a catch.” --- Arthur has known for a while that he's bi. He's known for about as long that he finds Merlin attractive, too. They are friends though, and there are a hundred reasons why they cannot happen, no matter what Arthur otherwise thinks about it. Alternatively: a beginning, a fuck-up, and some hard-won reconciliation, told over the course of four weddings and one funeral.
