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Sometimes, a paradigm shift felt like a gloriously expanding mind.
Sometimes, it felt like having less than a week to live.
Sometimes, it felt like John Sheppard, leaning into him, over him, pressing him into the pile of pillows and blankets against the armrest.
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Victor, who’d been staring at the ceiling through his boozy haze, spoke slowly. “Hey, Yuri. What do you want to be when you grow up?”
“A champion figure skater,” Yuri snapped, like it was so obvious he was offended to be asked.
Victor had to grin at the bluster. “Yeah, but… After that?”
Yuri didn’t seem to have an answer for that, but eventually he said, less belligerently, “I don’t know. I’m only fifteen.”
Me neither, Victor didn't say, and I'm twenty-six.
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Yuuri's first kiss. To Victor. Because Russia.
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the devil's in the details by somethingaboutwriting for queerofthedagger
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
06 Dec 2021
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It takes a month after Arthur lifts the ban on magic for him to adjust to the fact that the people around him might actually start to use it. Even stranger is when Merlin learns some from Gaius and, oddly enough, has a bit of a knack for it.
In which Arthur is obtuse, Merlin is trying his best, and Gwaine, Elyan and Leon don't understand why they can't learn to light fires as easily as Merlin did.
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04 Oct 2025
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Arthur has always had distant dreams of leaving Camelot. They were never more than a wistful fantasy, at least once he grew up.
Finding out about Merlin’s magic changes everything though, and not only because Arthur would do more to keep Merlin safe than he cares to admit. What follows are secrets upon secrets, allowing the dreams to slip back in as all his father’s lies unravel around him. Slowly but surely, Camelot feels less like a home and more like a gilded cage, and Arthur isn’t so certain anymore whether he’s the right person to carry this legacy. If he even wants to.
One final secret, one opportunity, and suddenly the dreams aren’t mere dreams anymore. Merlin wouldn’t be Merlin if he didn’t follow wherever Arthur goes, and as they try to outrun Uther’s manhunt for them, they have to learn to live a life that’s about more than duty, other’s expectations, and a destiny that has never once cared for them.
Or: Arthur long since expected that one day, he might have to flee Camelot with Merlin. He just never thought that he would be the reason.
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- Part 1 of We Can Always Run 'verse
- Part 20 of Merlin Stories
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15 Sep 2025
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It was an act of appalling, ghastly cruelty that, had Arthur not been so horribly in love with him, he might never have noticed Merlin was a sorcerer.
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12 Sep 2025
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It's Samhain night and the party from Camelot are sitting around a large camp-fire and telling each other scary stories. Odd things start to happen when Merlin takes his turn, and the line between fact and fiction soon becomes blurred.
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09 Sep 2025
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So If You're Arthur and I'm Merlin, Who's Driving the Car? by watchriverdale
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
22 Jul 2023
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After a clobbering around the head, Arthur spends eight weeks as a farm boy. Sort of, anyway. It's complicated.
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- Part 2 of memory magic standalones
- Part 3 of author’s faves
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09 Sep 2025