LJ 🏹

devout Merlin fic recommender and writer

[regulusrules]

MASTERLIST + FAQ

— COMPLETED FICS

AO3 Tags Guide for BBC Merlin Fics [G] [>1K] (bbc merlin) — the ultimate How-To-Tag guide for fic writers.

My breaths are run by your compass [M] [75K] (bbc merlin) — julius caesar AU. post-dotd, golden age. Merlin stabs Arthur but it’s all Arthur’s fault.

The last letter of Arthur Pendragon [G] [>1K] (bbc merlin) — With trembling hands, Merlin reads Arthur’s last words.

I will turn your fear into a handful of dust [G] [1K] (bbc merlin) — Growing old together fic. 5 times Arthur asks Merlin, “Do you fear me?”

My heart is readily yours [T] [11K] (bbc merlin) — s05e03 the death song of uther pendragon divergence. Ghost!Uther stabs Merlin in his heart, and Merlin collapses in Arthur’s arms. (my forever favourite creation)

To you I swear my solemn oaths [G] [3K] (bbc merlin) — s04e03 the wicked day divergence. magic reveal right before Arthur’s coronation.

In the Air We Breathed [G] [1K] (the last hours) — Will’s POV of James’s wedding while Jem was playing the violin.

Veiled Emotions [T] [50K] (harry potter) — separate one-shots of the marauders era, mainly Sirius and Regulus-centric. You can also find them posted separately here.

— MERLIN FIC RECS

I literally live to recommend the beautiful works of my fellow writers. It’s mostly Merlin fics, but sometimes you will find other fandoms. You can either follow my blog or go directly to this tag → #regulusrules recs

— METAS

If you’re new here, first thing, welcome! You’ll find me rambling 99% of the time about scenes, tropes and general fandom things. You can find all these in this tag → #regulusrules metas

— ASKS

I’m VERY open to asks! I love tumblr moots. Find all rambles, ask games, metas about my fics, or just random asks in this tag → #regulusrules answers

— FAQ

Do you accept fanart for your fics?

Yes! Fanarts are more than welcome. I will even feature them inside my fics. And if you want to create a cover/specific fanart for any fic, you can contact me through asks or messages and I’ll provide you with extra information about my personal reflection on it.

Can I add your fic on another platform?

No. If I wanted to, I would have. Do not add my works to any website. (Wattpad, Goodreads, Storygraph, etc.)

Do you accept translations for your fics?

Yes. Translations are more than welcome, but must remain on AO3. Also, apparently this needs to be said now, but I only accept human-made translations. Do not feed my work into AI machines to translate them. I do not approve of ANY use of AI in connection with my writing.

Can I download/bind your fics?

It’s up to you, but preferably please no. I don’t want these fics to be everywhere, but I can’t totally refuse because I understand the value of these fics to you. However, if you are binding them, 1. let me know and 2. bind them only for yourself. I do not allow any monetary profiting of my work. If you find someone selling my fics, please contact me.

Can I follow you if I’m one or any of the following: antisemitic, islamophobic, zionist, jkr-supporter, genocide-approver, racist, sexist, homophobic, disrespectful-of-any-human-being-for-any-reason?

No.

Can I call you by your name? And what pronouns do I address you with?

Yes, you can call me LJ! My pronouns are she/her. I’m more than happy to get to know my readers and fellow writers, so feel free to swoop in and contact me anytime.

welcome to the wonderworld of regulusrules✨

[regulusrules]

mini scenes from my breaths are run by your compass that i never wrote but consume me sometimes:

1. arthur’s journey back to camelot carrying merlin in his arms for days. only the prophecy’s destructive weight was keeping him company.

2. merlin teaching galahad magic while arthur looks at them in utter contentment. they take turns in jinxing arthur afterwards.

3. gwen and lance’s wedding. the entirety of camelot showed up to it. lancelot cried approximately 15 times. every time merlin tried to calm him down, he would look at how beautiful gwen looked and start crying next to lancelot.

4. galahad’s childhood.

4. arthur and iseldir’s conversation before merlin’s coronation. almost made it to the final edit.

5. arthur breaking down all alone in the end of act II after he heard “you’re hurting me in every way, arthur.”

6. the full conversation between arthur and the knights and gwen after the ides.

7. merlin and arthur going once more to the triple goddesses just to tell them fuck you in big letters.

8. did i mention galahad’s childhood?

[regulusrules]

wait what the fuck tiktok went insane over just 3 fic recs i put yesterday. they are NOT prepared for the nerdy tumblr version of regulusrules that y’all get LMAOO

link

[jungwildeandfree]

so this guy right he makes ancient egyptian themed furry costumes. he makes all kinds but mostly he specializes in Horus heads. it's his passion really. he loves to make the beautiful falcon head of the Sun God. anyway so he's at a con one day and he sees this whole bunch of people in middle kingdom dress with these indistinguishable animal heads. he's like. oh man these folks could really use a new source, i can hardly tell what animal those are! so he goes over and he says "hey guys! i see you are into ancient egyptian mythological themed furry costumes--if any of you are interested in being the radiant Son of Ra, I am the BEST in the business!"

and the group of people look at each other, then at him. awkward. finally one of them says: "uh. no thanks. we're all Set."

[s-cullayy]

[thatlittleegyptologist]

This has been sent to me four times today, so I'm condemning OP to be judged by the 42 and fall into Nuun.

[datundit]

I think every laugh will make OP’s heart a bit lighter.

@thatlittleegyptologist

Judge OP’s heart

I laughed, I lighten his heart.

His heart shall be heavier for this.

Voting ended onMar 1

[sunbentshadows]

[aventuras-de-andre]

au where merlin panics during the magic reveal and just starts gaslighting arthur. he just builds a fire with magic and arthur freaks out, gasping that he is a sorcerer, and merlin is like ‘?? yeah arthur i told you like a week into my stay in camelot? i don’t know why you are reacting this way.’

and arthur is losing his mind and merlin is just doubling down like arthur you’ve KNOWN for YEARS why would you let me go on quests without armor otherwise??

[regulusrules]

sometimes i envy people who are reading my breaths are run by your compass after i fully completed it on behalf of my first readers. bec i imagine them being like wdym you have access to the whole story when she left us on cliffhangers each act for an entire YEAR?? wdym it makes sense to you as you’re reading it??? wdym you don’t run around in circles because you could SWEAR you read this scene before but turns out the bumpkin author just decided to shift things midway to add yet another julius fucking caesar parallel????

my dear lord, all those who were reading it while I was writing it deserve fucking medals.

[regulusrules]

“Bury me where my arrow falls.”

- Robin Hood's last arrow by N. C. Wyeth

[regulusrules]

HOLY SHIT I KNOW WHY

fic: my breaths are run by your compass, ACT V.

[isleofthewesternocean]

No but seriously what the fuck did Merlin and Arthur talk about on the way home from the Labyrinth of Gedref. Did the two of them just ride back to Camelot in dead silence waiting for the other to bring up that they're now seemingly prepared to to die for each other no questions asked ???

[regulusrules]

@remuscariad the fandom needs you to include this in your jaw-dropping merlin fic rewrite

[doodlespatulas]

"Doomed yuri" this, "doomed yaoi" that

WHAT ABOUT DOOMED SIBLINGS

What if we were two sides of the same coin. What if i lived in your shadow all my life but found comfort in the darkness and dont know what to do once youre gone. What if youre the only person who understands. What if you have have no idea what i went through. What if we went through the same traumas but ended up with oposite conclusions about our suffering. What if i dont recognize you anymore. What if i see the ghost of my former self reflected through your eyes. What if it never had to go this way. What if this was the only way things were ever going to go

[regulusrules]

something very important i learned from watching the good omens finale is that almost all show-writers will favour an unfulfilling ending that ensures the continuity of fandom over a happy ending that may or may not do so. they want people to keep talking about their shows, keep creating content over them. this is guaranteed when the ending is not what people hoped for. how else would you have a living fandom 14 years after bbc merlin’s finale? how else would we have supernatural’s meme entwined with every major life event? how else if not through hooking people on what could have happened but in the last moment taking it away?

the cruel thing though is that they failed to realise that we still would have never left the fandoms if our characters got the endings they deserved. they failed to understand that loyalty is not only born from misery but from love, too. we would have still kept their story alive if aziracrow retained their memories. we would have still kept writing fics if arthur got out of the lake. we would have still remained loyal because we got to see the characters we love get what we yearn for in real life.

moral of the story: no one is going to make a happy ending for your characters on screen. write it yourself.

[samwwise]

“you’re just mad that they didn’t kiss again” yeah you know what i fucking i am. what do you mean they shared the worst first kiss in history fuelled by grief and despair and then vanished from existence without ever knowing what it’s like to kiss someone out of love and joy

[nikki-rook]

I do have a question

[regulusrules]

as much as i hate the ending, the dialogue of this finale was top-tier. it’s bbc merlin diamond of the day all over again

[regulusrules]

what the fuck was that

[regulusrules]

No but like seriously, what’s the fucking point of this finale? that they get the agency to choose their ending at the cost of forgetting their entire history together? that they still find one another anyhow because they are destined soulmates? that they do get their happy ending in the cottage but without all the suffering?

But without the suffering WHAT IS THE POINT!!!

Taking away their memories and giving them a clean slate is so cruel even if there is joy in the clean slate. I want to have you in every universe, but I want to remember you in every universe. what’s the point of the cottage if they don’t remember how much they ached for it? what’s the point of this happiness if they don’t know how much they earned it?

What’s the point?

[regulusrules]

Someone said it’s Job’s children all over again and I cannot undo this thought from my brain

[daylightglitch]

"most fanfic ending" WHICH FANFICS ARE YOU READING WHICH DONT EVEN HAVE A KISS

[crowleys-emotional-support-angel]

[SPOILERS FOR GOOD OMENS 3]

I wanted to like the ending of Good Omens 3. I really did. It ends — as it began — in a garden, there was a nightingale, there was a cottage in the South Downs, and before the universe got rebooted, Aziraphale praised Crowley as “the best of us” to God’s face. I could go into issues of pacing, seeing the seeds of storylines that could have flourished given a whole season, and other factors at play.

But at the end of the day, the fact remains that Crowley and Aziraphale *died*. Without having time to fully reconcile, heal, and have joy together afterward. We are meant to take Asa Fell and Professor Anthony Crowley as the two characters we’ve loved — with all their shared history, memories, arguments, romance, sacrifice, silliness, and yearning — as these two humans who found each other later in life and got a happy ending. And don’t get me wrong, I’m happy for Asa and Anthony, but that’s not Aziraphale and Crowley. You know why?

Because it feels the same as this conversation about Job’s children:

Michael: Those ones will be dead.

Aziraphale: We’re not… bringing the old ones back?

Gabriel: Of course not. But we’re giving them new ones.

[actual-changeling]

well apparently everyone else hates it. i do not. i love it. i love what they did with it, i love that crowley got to choose, i love that he chose humanity, that he did not choose to run away.

because THAT is who he is. he loves his stars and creations, he loves humanity, he loves the messiness, the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, he loves watching them. he showed jesus all the kingdoms of the world to share that love with someone who he knows already felt it.

in the end, they made that choice together. it's a choice they have made before, over and over, saving humanity over themselves. no god, no angels, no demons, no thousands of years of suffering for all the millions of eternal beings.

personally, i choose to believe that god's last gift to them was integrating them into the fabric of the new universe, so they will find each other in every lifetime. but without anyone watching, without any plan behind it, without senseless suffering, without creating stars just to destroy them.

just the two of them, together, always.

[starmaker-astral]

Good Omens HQ : "Hey what if we put EVERY nightmares of the fandom in that finale ?"