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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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- 148,000
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- 16/16
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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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- 5/5
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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
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No one understands Arthur and Merlin's relationship, least of all Arthur and Merlin. Limping home after Camlann they have time to figure it out.Now if only people would stop trying to give Merlin a promotion.
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04 Sep 2025
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“Merlin,” Arthur says, and his voice has calmed, but there is still steel in the substructure of it. “You asked me to conjure fire; tell me how you've got the burn scar on your chest.”
It is everything Merlin can do not to laugh, hysteria gathering in the hollows of his teeth; of course, this is the scar that Arthur would ask about first. “No. Ask about another one.”
An attack gone wrong leaves Merlin and Arthur stuck in each other's bodies. While Merlin thinks the most complicated part is that Arthur ends up with his magic, it does not take long until he is reminded that it can always, always get worse.
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- Part 60 of Merlin Stories
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- 2/2
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01 Sep 2025
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The day Arthur gets kidnapped is the luckiest day of his life - he just doesn't know it yet.
An AU in which Balinor finds a lost child and takes him home, and Arthur gets to do some growing up without Uther.
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31 Aug 2025
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The next time Arthur doesn’t say thank you, Gwaine puts his hand on Merlin’s back, stroking down the long length of it, from the short curls of hair at the nape of his neck to the neat cinch of his waist.
“Thanks,” he praises, throwing a wink to an agape Arthur as he does. It’s wonderful.
So wonderful, in fact, that for the next fortnight, for every brusque word that spills from Arthur’s lips, Gwaine spills three sweet ones.
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29 Aug 2025
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“I’m the king,” Arthur says grumpily, swallowing around the stone that has settled in his throat, “I can wear what I want.”
“What about what I want?”
“I’m the king,” Arthur repeats slowly, since Merlin is being particularly thick, “and so you can also wear what I want.”
Or, Arthur dresses Merlin, which goes about as well as you would expect.
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28 Aug 2025
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It was Merlin, absolutely it was, incontrovertibly, Arthur’s eyes and his instincts and his heart all insisted on it, but it was Merlin as Arthur hadn’t seen him, as he hadn’t looked, for years. Ten, no, maybe fifteen years.
“Merlin…” he breathed, “oh, gods Merlin. What have you done?”
When Merlin uses his magic to send Arthur away from a hopeless fight, Arthur finds himself somewhere utterly familiar and completely unexpected. And, as he soon finds, he's not there alone.
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26 Aug 2025
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Merlin accidentally uses magic to step into Arthur's dreams. He's startled to find his secret love for Arthur is reciprocated, if Arthur's romantic, erotic dreams about Merlin are any indication. Now, what to do with that knowledge in the waking world?
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23 Aug 2025
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Visited Upon the Son (A Thousand Shattered Futures Remix) by Woldy
Fandoms: Merlin (BBC)
08 Oct 2010
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Merlin will keep doing this until he gets it right.
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21 Aug 2025
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In which Arthur’s cousin is a flirt, Arthur is ruffled, and Merlin remains unbothered.
If he dreams of Merlin that night, a shadow stroked across the bartop, with a dark faceless figure draped alongside him, licking whispers into his ear, dribbling alcohol into his open mouth, onto his tongue, down his throat—
—well, then that’s got nothing to do with anything at all.
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20 Aug 2025
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The Roommate Fic is here! Featuring humanitarian!Merlin, head-over-heels Arthur, domestic vibes, a peace lily named Lily, Resistance: Avalon, Merlin’s hoop earring, Morgana & Gwen’s penthouse flat, the Bachelor, carpools and croissants, vegan meals, Merlin as an Aquarius and Arthur as a Leo who acts like a Cancer, mornings reading on the balcony, Charlie the cunt, Welsh sheep, vomit on Arthur’s loafers, heroic spider rescuing, a lap pool, lots and lots of pining, and tooth-rotting fluff.
Warning for mentions of drug use and unsafe sex. Mainly, please be aware that this fic features an unhealthy relationship (not M/A though!). If references to abusive tendencies, coercion, cheating, manipulative language, etc. will disturb you, I recommend you do not read. Stay safe and healthy, folks!
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19 Aug 2025
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Merlin starts a courtship, and Arthur’s fine with it. Completely fine with it.
In which Arthur discovers that he’s not fine with it, and some other things about himself.
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17 Aug 2025
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A strange mirror has made its way into Camelot. With claims of it being enchanted, Arthur is determined to lock it away as soon as possible. However, while knights and lords and servants have all seemed to be shocked and terrified by whatever visions the mirror presented…Merlin doesn’t seem to notice.
Until he does.
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14 Aug 2025
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In which Arthur slowly loses his mind after legalizing magic in Camelot because his idiot of a manservant still won't admit he's a freaking sorcerer... No worries though. He has a plan. A well-developed, patented, highly intelligent plan that would absolutely lead to Merlin becoming his court sorcerer (because the one he has right now was a complete dimwit).
Too bad Merlin also has a plan. A well-developed, patented, highly intelligent plan to not tell Arthur he has magic under any circumstances whatsoever.
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“They say Emrys tamed the great dragon of Camelot and sired the white dragon of Albion-”
“Sired?” Gwaine interrupted “This Emrys fellow is going around siring dragons? How exactly is that happening? Sex with other dragons?” He asked and despite the situation, Merlin flushed. The man in question blinked, looking equally baffled by the question. From the corner of his eye, Merlin could see Arthur pinching the bridge of his nose.
“Uh…I actually don’t know.”
“But you’re Emrys,” Merlin reminded the imposter with a sigh “You don’t remember siring any dragons?”
“I said it was an off day!” The man complained, trying to cross his arms despite being upside down. Merlin took a long breath. Lancelot had already walked away, but that did nothing to hide his howling laughter.
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The knights keep hearing various (dramatic) rumors about the great and mighty Emrys. Everyone is such a gossip. Merlin is trying not to have a heart attack. Lancelot is loving life.
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14 Aug 2025
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Merlin ducks forward, grabbing Arthur’s hands. His are cool and soft, and Arthur is surprised by the feel of Merlin’s palm over his own rough knuckles. “Arthur,” he says pointedly. “I know my duty, and I don’t need you to remind me. Are you always like this?”
“Like what?”
“Annoying,” Merlin says, and leans back, appraising him more thoughtfully than his tone suggests. “So concerned with your honour.”
Or: Arthur must marry Lord Emrys for a year to create an alliance between their people. Except it isn't Emrys who comes to marry him, but the young druid Merlin, who soon turns all of Camelot upside down—and Arthur with it.
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- Part 2 of Liz's Merlin Bingo 2023
- Language:
- English
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- 16,400
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- 1/1
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- 1
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05 Aug 2025