#arcane asylum

[fics-i-like]

Arcane Asylum

By new_kate

Category: M/M

Pairing: Merlin/Arthur

Rating: Explicit

Warning: Rape/Non-Con

Word Count: 124790

Chapters: 16/16

Summary: Modern AU. For the last twenty two years Uther Pendragon has been waging war on magic. Now his son Arthur has been framed for a magical crime and sent to the prison for magic users. Arthur is instantly targeted by the inmates, but mysterious top dog Merlin takes him under his wing. They form a bond, and Merlin decides to help Arthur clear his name. (Warnings: non-con and dub-con, though it's brief and not M/A, violence, death of minor characters )  

[ynysafallon]

Arcane Asylum has topped The Student Prince as my favourite Merlin fic of all time, I think.  It's seriously just that good,  even though no one beats Fayjay's pacing.

[datamyfrienddata]

I just finished reading Arcane Asylum I think its in the top five for best fics I've ever read oh my god I'm questioning my entire existence it was wonderful 

[canon-autopsy]

i love when you're reading a really good fic and think about it all day and then finally get a chance to read it and you're all tingly with excitement

[xvvhitenoise]

"You'll always be welcome here, Arthur," he said. "You joined with Emrys at one of our holiest sites."

"Oh, did you really?" yelped Morgana. "That's so sweet!"

"Yeah, we shagged on that island," said Arthur numbly.

God I love this fic.

[supercalvin]

“He's motherfucking Emrys!”

Arcane Asylum: in which Arthur is Merlin’s prison bitch.

There’s more to the story than that, I promise it’s a great story with detailed and interesting background stories. Give it a read: http://archiveofourown.org/works/117856?view_full_work=true

[lintunen]

"It's a mercy to let him rest here, to be one with the green, forever free from his burden."

Arcane Asylum (x)

[lalouvemeneuse]

Maybe I'm just naive, but this is how I think it is.

This, even though he would never ever admit it to anyone, this was the best part of having sex with someone, better than the sex itself: being free to press against any part of another's skin, wrap yourself around another body in any way you wanted and stay like that as long as they'd let you. Not having to worry about being weird, clingy, inappropriate, going too far, because you've already had sex and exchanged the most inappropriate touches possible; now it was all fair play, perfectly acceptable.

-- Arcane Asylum (if you read it, just ignore the smut...I do)