#lubble

[ab-ber]

Oh my God why do I keep creating the most never heard of rarepairs I need content of them and there is none!!! I will make some but it will take time

[shut-up-merlin]

because it still lives rent-free in my head, 5 and 9 for aqua sulis? 💖

Thank you for making me revisit this fic ❤️

(Fanfic asks)

5. What part was hardest to write?

I think that, because I don’t write many scenes with more than a handful of characters, keeping track of which character was where during the scene where the Knights find the hot springs after a day in the saddle might have been the hardest thing to get right for me. I loved looking up the history of the city of Bath, and getting swept away by the idea of going to the spa there myself, so not daydreaming and actually writing was pretty challenging too!

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

Good question! I don’t think anything else made it onto a word document… but it spent a long time brainstorming about how I wanted to approach this concept of our boys getting a spa day.

And then of course there’s this gem where Leon gets another Lubble moment !

[lit-in-thy-heart]

Camelove 2021 Masterpost

Well, here we have it! I still can't get over just how hectic and wonderful this fest was: it's the most I've written in ages and I'm so grateful to have been a part of it.

A huge thank you to the mods of @camelove2021 and all the effort you put into running this love fest, especially whilst making your own amazing submissions!! And thank you for giving me such high expectations for my second fest, it's been an absolute blast! So, without further ado...

Day 1: Ladies First

Roots in My Dreamland (Morgana/Gwen/Mithian fic)

'Change' (Morgana/Gwen gifset)

Day 2: Knights in Shining Armour

Beauty Within (Gwapple fic)

'Hurts Like Hell' (Gwapple gifset)

Day 3: Wait...What? It's Wednesday

Cheesy Pie (Gwapple headcanon)

Flames on My Skin (Nimueh fic)

Day 4: Cupid's Aro

Out of Distractions (Lubble fic)

Day 5: The More the Merrier

Exile (Merlin/Gwaine/Lancelot/Gwen fic)

Gwen, Merlin, Arthur and the Round Table (short headcanon)

Day 6: Always By Your Side

My Waves Meet Your Shore (Lancelot/Gwaine fic)

'When the War is Over' (side enemies gifset)

Day 7: Free Day

Surprise Attack (modern era knights, Merlin, Arthur fic)

Thank you as well to everyone who has liked, reblogged and left kudos or comments or commentary in the tags, it honestly makes my heart fly 💖

And, once again, a huge wave of gratitude towards @shut-up-merlin @trackdownthatsnitch @camelotsheart @forever-rewatching-merlin this has been truly beautiful, thank you 💞

[saltedkiss-writes-fanfics]

Title: Aqua Sulis About: Sir Leon gets a spa day!  Word count: 1,440 Dedicated to: The wonderful @lit-beyond-measure Summary: Our favourite immortal, Sir Leon, enjoys a well-earned spa day and reminisces about the first time he ever found himself in the hot springs near the city of Bath, over fifteen centuries ago

Written for @camelove2021 - Day 4: Cupid’s Aro

Read on AO3

[camelove]

all i'm saying is thermae bath spa x leon...

...and that i'm having issues with following links on tumblr and i'm worried that other people won't be able to follow the links i put in for camelove -- should i just put the link and hope for the best?

Hi Anon ✨

This post contains five links to different websites after the break. Feel free to check if they work for you!

If, when you post your contributions, the links don’t work for whatever reason, we can create a new post for them instead of reblogging if you like! And don’t hesitate to send us a message off anon so one of our mods can get in touch with you to try and figure out a way to help you fix whatever issues you’re having! 

Team Camelove 🏰

So... Your ask led to some very enthusiastic Googling on my end. I found out the Thermae Bath Spa has two natural thermal baths (And in- and outdoor pools, an ice chamber, two aromatic steam rooms, and infrared sauna and a celestial relaxation room. Plus a cafe, three relaxation areas and 27 spa treatment rooms.... ) 

So luxurious... Just look! 🤩

Turns out this world heritage site has been around since the Roman Empire, which means even a canon era spa day is possible, too! I feel like they should have had one, cause, let’s face it, not everyone has a magical manservant to keep their bathwater nice and warm for hours on end.

I also found out one of the sources is called the King's Spring, near the River Avon. And no you cannot convince me this has nothing to do with lake Avalon. Sounds like the perfect place for a modern day immortal Sir Leon to go to whenever he misses Camelot too much... I do believe our dear Leon remembers those times Arthur was in need of a bath whenever he goes there!

In short, Anon, I could not agree more. Our boy deserves an all expenses paid weekend over there. And so far, there’s only one fic on AO3 that has both our boy Leon and the Spa Treatments tag. We need to fix this! 

Mod Bé - aka Lubble Shipper Extraordinaire 🛁

[shut-up-merlin]

A moment of silence for every single post I’ve ruined with my obsessive fangirling over the most obscure ships in shipping history.

(Also, I’ll be tagging this with #sorry not sorry and I need you all to know that I really am not. Sorry. At all.)

[shut-up-merlin]

Camelove Completionist

I did it - I did it! 

Day 1: Ladies First  Gwainevere

Day 2: Knights in shining armour  Merwaine

Day 3: Wait... what? It’s Wednesday! Myror the assassin

Day 4: Cupid’s Aro (and I wrote a second one, oops!) Leon’s spa day + Merlin & OC

Day 5: The More the Merrier Meta: episode comparison 1x10 and 3x07 

Day 6: Always by your side  Hunith/Balinor

Day 7: Free day  Merthur

[lit-in-thy-heart]

Out of Distractions

Rating: Not Rated

Archive Warning: Major Character Dearh

Categories: F/M, M/M, Other

Relationships: Leon & Spa Treatment, Leon & Merlin, Gwen & Leon, Lancelot & Leon, Gwaine & Leon, Elyan & Gwaine, Gwaine & Lancelot & Elyan & Leon, Lancelot & Gwaine

Characters: Leon, Merlin, Arthur, Gwaine, Elyan, Lancelot, Gwen, Percival, Thermae Bath Spa, Apple

Additional Tags: Lubble, Leon Gets a Spa Day...Sort Of, Leon Realising That He's Repressed All the Trauma He's Experienced, Fluff That Accidentally Became Angst, Fluff and Angst, Repressed Memories, Babysitter Leon, The Knights Trying to Wreak Havoc, Post-Canon, Merlin's Magic Revealed, Immortal Leon, Bath, Leon the Long-Suffering Knight, The Knights Being Mildly Chaotic

Words: 5176

Chapters: 1/1

Summary: Leon has been running from his problems since Camelot was destroyed and the life he knew lost. When he books a day treatment at a spa, he realises that there's a lot of things left to unpack and it looks like such a process is about to he very rudely interrupted. All he wanted was a quiet day to himself...

Opening:

Leon leans back in the massage jet, eyes closed, as he tries to work out where exactly everything has all gone horribly wrong.

*

He and Merlin had been planning a spa day for months, long before Arthur had come back on the scene. Quite frankly, Merlin’s old bones needed it, but with his youth returning with Arthur’s laugh, the two of them were spending every waking moment together before the inevitable event of Albion’s need for Arthur suddenly becoming very great. Leon had seen enough of the land to know that Albion equated to Merlin: Merlin, who still was rooted to the ancient magic of the earth – and Leon himself, for that matter. But, on the off-chance that Albion did indeed equate to modern Britain after all, Leon thought it best to squeeze in a spa day before the apocalypse.

Leon had welcomed Bath back with open arms several decades previously, when the separation from Merlin had begun to sting his very soul. He had missed him and missed the town where they had spent so many hours together as they watched the world age. It hadn’t been that difficult to secure a property when he had a small hoard of tokens from Camelot tucked away beneath the insole of his shoe. He was always reluctant to part with items that were as old as him, and had become like pieces of his soul, but for the sake of existing in relative anonymity it was necessary, every century or so, to sell them to some collector. Had he known that shortly after he moved Arthur would be returning, Leon probably would have stayed away slightly longer.

Read here on ao3

Written for @camelove2021

(Day 4: Cupid's Aro)