1) paper legends: I've spent a fair bit of the last few days working on the
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2) peter: Peter got a card from Colin Morgan just before Christmas! He'd sent a letter out back in Aug/Sept to Colin, Bradley, Shine and the BBC, detailing an all-singing, all-dancing musical number he thought would be good for Children in Need or some other special, and this is what he got back. Hope you can read it; he's pretty chuffed with it:
3) recs: Been a while since I rounded up what fics I have saved on Delicious, so here's what I've bookmarked since the last time I recced. I still feel weird about reccing any
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{ AU FICS }
Natural Selection by
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Arthur/Merlin, As the lonely bachelor among his group of friends Arthur finally decides to drop his man-whore ways and start seriously dating. Against his better judgement he allows himself to be set up on a serious of blind dates by his friends. The only problem is that he finds himself spending most of his dates either teasing or being completely distracted by the big eared waiter who always seem to be present.
This is Why (the Dictionary Invented the Word No) by
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In order to win back the affections of an ex, Arthur has gotten himself caught up in a bet to transform the socially awkward into the socially acceptable. Features evil!Sophia, clueless!Merlin, hippy!Hunith and bit-of-a-tart!Will (in short: the highschool!AU that steals the plot from the She's All That movie).
Lions and Pebbles and Penguins, Oh my! by
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Sitting at the top of "Uther's All Time Parenting Backfires" is Arthur's fellow colleague and clumsy best friend - Merlin Emrys.
Cultivation and Growth by
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Wherein Arthur becomes preoccupied with his gardener and acts rather inappropriately, and Merlin is okay with that.
untitled by
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Merlin is afraid his thing for Arthur's shirt has turned into a thing.
Rinse, Lather, Repeat by
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Crumble fic under running water, and be sure to suspend disbelief before bathing. An epic tale of awkwardness, daft boys, and love as expressed through bathing products (yes, you read that right. Bathing products). With bonus arts.
Lord Drake's Bequest by
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"To my great-nephew Arthur I bequeath Tintagel Distribution, wholly and without reserve, save for one condition. You must marry, and stay married, for a period of no less than six months. You're a wonderful businessman Arthur, but a full life needs love and companionship, not just a string of affairs. Settle down young Arthur, and your life will be the richer for it." Arthur needs to marry to take control of Tintagel Distribution. Fortunatly he knows the right man for the job.
Serendipitous by
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In which there is love at first sight, give or take five minutes, Leon is the world’s best PA, the Slash Dragon is really bad at business meetings, more than one Arthur wears a red scarf, and Fate is a fickle bitch who breaks everything apart, but puts it back together even better in the end. Or, a fic loosely based on the movie Serendipity.
One Night Stands Are a Great Way to Meet People by
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First there's a one night stand, then there's courting. Merlin thinks they've probably done things a bit backwards.
Camelot Industries by
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The fate of his father’s company is on the line, and Arthur Pendragon must learn to trust others to help him –and put himself out there, both with Camelot Industries and with Merlin Emrys, the tech genius who has caught Arthur’s interest. Camelot Industries may never be the same after Arthur and his so-called knights of the roundtable are through with it.
Merry Christmas, Merlin (sequel to Camelot Industries) by
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Arthur wants to do something special for Merlin for their first Christmas together. But what do you get the tech geek who has everything (and is allergic to everything else?).
{ CANON FIC }
Inevitability and Poultry by
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Wherein Merlin and Arthur tackle an unlikely creature, ponder questions of animal husbandry, and do their very best to avoid a personal conversation.
Some Say It's a Blessing, Some Say It's a Curse by
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“Last warning,” said Merlin, raising a hand. “If you try to harm him, I will kill you. If you succeed, no-one will leave here alive.”
{ BRADLEY/COLIN FIC }
Cartoons and Forever Plans by
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"And did you know I can't do this without laughing/And did you know no matter where it takes us now/And did you know our love will never die."
The Kleenex Quotient by
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In which Colin may or may not be a little bit method, with regard to Merlin's seemingly endless crying scenes and Bradley may or may not be a little bit rubbish, with regard to cheering him up.
{ VIDEO REC }
The Knights of the Hot Table by Elderberryinkblot
When he's not getting knocked unconscious at important narrative moments, Prince Arthur is slowly but surely building the most catwalk-ready Round Table ever to grace myth and legend. Stuff Uther's outmoded concepts of loyalty and noble birth; what Camelot needs now is an all-fighting, all-pouting posse of beefcake in chainmail shirts with the sleeves ripped off. Yes.
Some people might say the that a fan video over three minutes long dedicated solely to the beauty of Arthur and his knights is overdoing it; I say to those people, have you SEEN Gwaine flipping his hair in slow motion? No? Then go and watch him, and come back and try and say that again when you've finished blinking the stardust out of your eyes.
I'm still using Delicious so you can still find all my bookmarks there if you're following them, but for those of you who've moved on, you can also find them on Pinboard and Diigo.
{ love & hugs to you all ♥ }
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And also thanks for the recs! Looks like I have something to read tonight :D
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Hope you can find something new amongst the recs; enjoy ♥
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Yeah I've seen a few I haven't read yet, hooray :) ♥
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I'm glad there's a few you haven't seen, it's always great to stumble across something new ♥
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IT IS! I've been searching for something new the whole holidays and didn't really find anything I want to read.
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I'm so excited to see Paper Legends again. If you decide to redo the layouts at there and Paper Pushers, let me know, k?
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I'm leaving the Paper Pushers layout as it is and have already played around a bit with the Paper Legends one; it's basically the same layout used by mxa but with different colours =)
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2) Okay, that is just about too adorable. Lucky Peter ♥
3) RECS - Thanks, I needed more stories to read :)
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2) He's so lucky. I'm so jealous!
3) Hope you find some new ones here =)
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2) Me too!
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Thanks for the recs! I'm trying to force myself to read more AUs (I think I've already read the canon ones), so this gives me a nice selection!
I'm conflicted about whether or not to participate in
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AU'S ARE BLOODY GREAT!
Totally up to you, lovely ♥
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just wanted to know, whether you received my card? I am starting to worry the postman ate ir something. O.o
*huggles*
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Thanks for the recs! OMG THAT VIDEO! I laughed and laughed and laughed. Pretty, pretty knights + hilarious music choices? Yes please! And thank you for reccing me, you know how happy that makes me ::hugs::
BB. YES. Operation; hope it all gets confirmed for you and you're good to go.
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Will hopefully know about the op for sure within the next few days, then can get the PP stuff up. FINALLY!
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Have you heard anything new about the whole Delicious situation? I wasn't even aware there is a Delicious situation before reading back on your posts, and the last comments there seemed to indicate nothing is really certain yet, but I had trouble finding any official information when I tried to check the situation myself. It was a pretty brief check though, so I might have missed something obvious.
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I don't know any more about Delicious I'm afraid; initially it was believed Yahoo was shutting it down but now they're saying they're trying to sell it, so who knows?!
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That's pretty much what I got from other sources too, so maybe there really isn't anything more to know at this point... I really hope Delicious will continue to exist, it's been a good place to store links. I've found some great stuff through there as well, occasionally.
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And OMG! I need to send me out some fanmail if you get nice responses like that! Ha! I remember when I was much younger, my friend and I kept sending ER fanmail in brightly coloured envelopes and hoping it would land on the pinboard. :D
(Sidenote: Looks like I'll probably be able to wander into your town in the first week of May 2011. Exciting! Will email you later to make sure it's all good.)
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Glad to see you coming over to the slash side of Merlin reading!
Let me know when you have some firmish dates for May; looking forward to hopefully meeting up with you ♥
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