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“So let me get this straight,” Arthur said, folding his fingers together as the man in front him awkwardly shifted. “You are under the impression if you win the favor of my servant that you will then win my favor?” he asked and the nobleman shifted again.
“Well, sire,” he said “That is the common consensus among… the chatter.”
“The chatter,” Arthur repeated and his mind flashed to all the kindness Merlin had received from other nobles. Dear God.
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Merlin has all of Camelot (and neighboring kingdoms) wrapped around his finger and Arthur is beginning to resign himself to the fact his servant somehow has more power than he does.
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27 May 2026
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Seventeen years after pleading guilty, Spencer Reid has spent more of his adult life incarcerated than he ever did outside. He'd like to think he doesn't blame the people he once knew, then, for falling from his life like leaves from trees as the years wore on. He might have even been able to convince himself of that if he'd never seen any of them again. Now, nearing a parole hearing that might grant him reprieve, he is confronted with the loss of a mentor that shatters the silence between the himself and the BAU.
Title adapted from the 1917 Emma Goldman essay Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure, "Every society has the criminals it deserves."
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27 Feb 2026
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The Queens of Albion throw a ball every year for noble families to introduce their eligible sons and daughters. Except Camelot doesn’t officially have a queen. So, Arthur makes Merlin help with the planning.
Written for Merthur Week 2022. Each chapter uses one day’s prompts.
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18 Feb 2026
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While traveling from Ealdor, Merlin runs into some knights of another kingdom. Upon finding Ygraine’s sigil, he is assumed to be part of the royal family.
Merlin isn’t sure what’s going on.
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18 Feb 2026
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Cinderella, Merlin-style. Somehow, not AU. Or crack. Uther throws three balls to try to find Arthur a wife, or so he says. Merlin has some issues with this.
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18 Feb 2026
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Next time Merlin said he needed to be elsewhere, Arthur vowed to listen to him. If he had, maybe there wouldn't be a foreign king with a mutilated hand in the council chambers.
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- Part 2 of The Life and Times of Merlin Emrys
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18 Feb 2026
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It's just Merlin's luck to get trapped in a castle with the knights and a crazy fae who wants to see how well he can lie. Fortunately, he's very good at lying.
Unfortunately, the fae isn't too pleased about that.The knights are going to have a lot of questions if they live through this.
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- Part 1 of The Life and Times of Merlin Emrys
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18 Feb 2026
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Men of Legend: Loyalty in the Time of Winchester by hells_half_acre
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Supernatural
01 Feb 2020
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We already know that Sam and Dean are summon-able, but what if Merlin and Arthur are too? And what happens if Sam and Dean aren't the ones to summon them?
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- Part 3 of Men of Legend
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17 Feb 2026
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Men of Legend: The Butterfly Effect by hells_half_acre
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Supernatural
17 Jul 2016
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Haunted by Sam and Dean's parting words of advice, Merlin makes a decision that could change his and Arthur's destiny and friendship forever.
(Note: Sam and Dean are only referenced and do not appear, so the story can be read as simply a magic reveal story - the events you need to know are limited and explained, so you don't even really need to read the first story in the series.)
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- Part 2 of Men of Legend
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16 Feb 2026
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When a sorcerer summons monsters from another world, Merlin must summon heroes from another world to help save Camelot. Meanwhile, Dean and Sam Winchester didn't even know they were summon-able.
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- Part 1 of Men of Legend
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16 Feb 2026
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It's Nice to Finally Tweet You by Pendragons Dragonlord (PseudoAuthor)
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
26 Jun 2014
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Merlin's eyes scan the headline.
Arthur Pendragon reveals mark in attempt to find the one.
"I pity the guy who's unfortunate enough to get him as a soul mate.”
In which Arthur is a famous celebrity, Merlin is a beloved teacher, and they break Twitter once. Well, twice. Okay so it's a whole bunch of times actually but it's not their fault. Really it's not.
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16 Feb 2026
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They would pay any price that was asked, Nimueh whispered at the end, trembling with exhaustion, desperate, pleading, anything, anything at all. Just give her this child. Give her the son he stole from her.
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15 Feb 2026
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Merlin has regrets about his willingness to abandon the knights in Ismere, he tries to make amends with Gwaine who dismisses him. Merlin comes up with a creative way of providing support; Gwaine finds a friend in a cat that begins visiting him.
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14 Feb 2026
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The sound of boots on stone filled the air. Harsh and angry, which fit the mood just fine. The chill yet to leave his body despite the days of travel back to a warmer climate. Their hearth was full of reds and oranges as the fire blazed and yet Merlin sat cold and empty.
Gwaine was upset, of course he was.
i.e the author trying to make sense of Merlin's actions in Arthur's bane with a merwaine lens
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- Part 7 of Dialogue I wrote in my notes app
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14 Feb 2026
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Merlin was a kind and gentle soul, sometimes too kind and too gentle for his own good. Or you know, his own wellbeing. Arthur on the other hand, well…there was a reason that Arthur’s manservant was considered off limits. Any who dared harm him was not long for Camelot (or this world for that matter).
Or the five people Merlin unintentionally gets exiled, and the one he gets exiled on purpose.
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- Part 13 of 5+1 Murther Stories
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12 Feb 2026
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Arthur gave Merlin his cloak thinking only of the warmth it would offer in a snowstorm. He never thought his manservant may be mistaken for him and snatched by bandits. Nor did he expect his dashing rescue of Merlin to turn his world so utterly on his head.
Because the bandits hadn't kidnapped a prince. They'd snatched a sorcerer, and now captivity is the least of anyone's problems.
A golden age awaits, but can they claim it together, or are they doomed to fail?
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08 Feb 2026
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“Galiad, fifth son of Chrockland, former Knight of Camelot, for your grievous crimes against the crown, I hereby sentence you to execution, death by beheading–”
Galiad fell to his knees, ears ringing. He never should have tried to kill the King. It had been a stupid, reckless decision, and he could not believe he’d been so easily bribed into it.
He had let his ego get the better of him, and now, here he was, on his knees in the throne room, fighting back tears, trying not to throw up all over the stone floor, begging for his life to be spared.
And here’s the real kicker; he wasn’t even on trial for the attempted murder of his King. His Majesty didn’t know about that.
No, Galiad was on trial for the crime he’d committed against King Arthur’s manservant.
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06 Feb 2026
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like a proper guardian by Anonymous
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005), Merlin (TV), Good Omens (TV)
15 Sep 2023
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Snippets of my Nephilim!Merlin universe that may or may not be expanded upon.
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Balinor and Castiel were brothers.
When Balinor Fell, Cas went looking for him.
This is everything that comes after.
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06 Feb 2026
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Fine, I'll Write My Own Fanfic by NurikoEsuki
Fandoms: 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong
25 Feb 2024
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The downside of being the only reader of an unpopular novel is that there are essentially zero fan art to look at, or fanfics to read. So, Kim Dokja saw nothing wrong with cooking his own food.
He just wasn’t prepared at all for the sheer horror of having the author AND the protagonist stumbling across his fix-it, self-insert, 400k+ words longfic years later.
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- Part 1 of Fanfic Within a Fanfic
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29 Jan 2026
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Merlin and Arthur tag along with Harry Potter (and the Prisoner of Azkaban) by SnufflesThePig
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Merlin (TV)
08 Apr 2026
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Draco notices things.
It’s what he does.
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Once again folks, here is the discord of you’d like to come and have a chat or if you’re interested in bonus content from this fic or any of my others- it all goes up there.
https://discord.gg/pXahJnAxSeries
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22 Dec 2025