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[grandcollections]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary:

Merlin has a poetry blog and Arthur believes that it is an illegitimate form of publishing but begins to follow Merlin's obsessively.

Comments:

Cute! I love whenever Arthur can’t help being obsessed with Merlin / admires him helplessly, it’s one of my favorite tropes in merthur modern AUs. The Rupi Kaur style poetry added an authenticity to this, I can’t explain it haha. I have to say the involvement of the ~writing egotistical~ dirty talk while they got down made me cringe and giggle at the same time, but the rest of it was sweet. 

[grandcollections]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary:

Merlin knew Arthur's trust wouldn't be unlimited, but he wished it hadn't run out now.

Comments:

warning for non-con!

Ughhh I am literally disgusted with Agravaine. (I haven’t watched the late seasons of Merlin in a while so I don’t remember the ~details~ of Agravaine’s character but I remember hating him/being repulsed by him, and this fic doesn’t help). I liked how Arthur reacted when Merlin asked to leave (I also appreciated seeing Merlin draw a line in the sand that I never see him draw-- usually in fics like this he bears his abuse to stay close to Arthur, which don’t get me wrong is in character, but seeing him stand up for himself and choose his own well-being and refusing to accept this was fantastic to read).