nonisland | Never Have I Ever masterlist (Reply)

So, gentle readers, this summer I participated in

kinkme_merlin’s “Never Have I Ever” challenge, the goal being to produce fanworks with new pairings and/or new kinks, possibly in new media. Being the stellar human being I am (not), I proceeded to, well, produce fanworks with new pairings and new kinks! And then I backdated them because I have pity on your flists/reading pages. This is a masterlist of all of them, in the order I wrote them, with abbreviated headers [for notes, see the actual fic posts] and links to the fics. Obviously, they’re all Merlin. Also obviously, most of the summaries are, uh, not…most of these are…there’s not much plot for most of them, okay? It’s a kinkmeme. I was trying to stretch my boundaries.

I’ve also commentated, a bit, so here is a brief symbols key to aid your perusal:
♦ = very friendly to non-Merlin-fandom readers/canon-optional
♥ = personal favorite
♣ = leans heavily on canon

♣ title: “The Earth Will Rebel”
rating: explicit (adult audiences)
pairing(s): Merlin/Morgana, unrequited Merlin→Arthur
length: ~1900 words
content notices: rough sex, marking, explicit sexual content
summary: the day before a battle, Merlin comes to visit Morgana.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

♦ title: “Skies Unbound, I’m Unwound”
rating: explicit (adult audiences)
pairing(s): Nimueh/Ygraine
length: ~2500 words
content notices: explicit sexual content
summary: Ygraine’s father’s lands are dying, but there’s a ritual of the Old Religion that will restore them.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

♦ ♥ title: “A Sky of Diamonds Just for Us”
rating: teen and up audiences
pairing(s): Elena/Morgana
length: ~1800 words
content notices: reference to minor character death; possible reference to (emotional) child abuse; imprisonment
summary: sci-fi AU, where corporate elite Elena meets psychic Morgana and breaks her out of Camelot space. part of the (non-chronological) Camelot Station ’verse.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

title: “Desire Is Your Masquerade”
rating: explicit (adult audiences)
pairing(s): Lancelot/Morgana, with mentions of Gwen/Lancelot and Arthur/Gwen
length: ~3500 words
content notices: possible consent issues related to making someone propose marriage (all sexual activities have clearly-established consent, though), explicit sexual content
summary: Morgana comes up with a plan to keep Gwen from ever having to choose between Arthur and Lancelot.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

♦ ♥ title: “I Want Your Drama, the Touch of Your Hand”
rating: explicit (adult audiences)
pairing(s): Elena/Vivian
length: ~1900 words
content notices: explicit sexual content; brief language
summary: in which Elena has an annoying (and attractive) roommate.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

♦ title: “You’re the Heat in My Bones”
rating: teen+ audiences
pairing(s): Gwen/Lancelot
length: ~2500 words
content notices: some sexual contact while both parties are asleep, but both are fully awake and explicitly consenting before it progresses
summary: part of the Camelot Station ’verse. Gwen (the station’s best engineer) heads to Isgard Moon to repair a damaged transmitter, escorted by Lancelot; they arrive shortly before an ion storm begins and end up sharing a blanket to stay warm. why yes, this is only pretending to have a plot.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

title: “In the Arms of the Water”
rating: mature audiences
pairing(s): Freya, solo sex (Freya/Excalibur?)
length: ~800 words
content notices: use of a sword as a sex toy, though the blade is not used; explicit sexual content
summary: Freya is part of the land now, and spring makes her…feel things.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

♥ title: “Pursue It With the Soul of Love”
rating: explicit (adult audiences)
pairing(s): Arthur/Merlin
length: ~1900 words
content notices: dubious consent (sex pollen); explicit sexual content
summary: Merlin accidentally breaks a bottle of an aphrodisiac.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

♦ title: “Each World of Blood Is Made”
rating: mature audiences
pairing(s): Morgana/Nimueh, mention of Gwen/Morgana
length: ~850 words
content notices: bloodplay (and accompanying use of a knife); sexual content
summary: there is a ritual for magic-users in service to the Old Religion.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

title: “Like the Ice Before the Spring”
rating: explicit (adult audiences)
pairing(s): Freya/Merlin
length: ~1450 words
content notices: past implied major character death; explicit sexual content
summary: in Avalon, Merlin and Freya have all the time in the world.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

♣ ♥ title: “It’s All Right with Me”
rating: mature audiences
pairing(s): Arthur/original male character, Arthur/Merlin UST
length: ~900 words
content notices: prostitution; sexual content
summary: Arthur can’t stop thinking about Merlin. All the time. In inappropriate ways.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

title: “Silk and Velvet and Skin”
rating: teen+ audiences
pairing(s): Gwen/Merlin
length: ~800 words
content notices: …none?
summary: there’s a reason fine ladies don’t dress themselves.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

title: “Swordmistress”
rating: explicit (adult audiences)
pairing(s): Arthur/Morgana
length: ~1700 words
content notices: swordplay (though skin is not broken at any point); explicit sexual content; light humiliation
summary: Morgana beats Arthur at sword-practice for the first time, and he likes it.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

♦ title: “Cast Me Away”
rating: teen+ audiences
pairing(s): Excalibur/stone
length: ~300 words
content notices: possible consent issues (both consent, but, as inanimate objects, their consent or lack thereof has no impact on actual events); shameless crack!fic
summary: Excalibur is placed in the stone.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

title: “I’d Tried So Not to Give In”
rating: explicit (adult audiences)
pairing(s): Arthur/Merlin
length: ~1200 words
content notices: explicit sexual content
summary: in which there is mutual pining and the resolution of UST.
links: [LJ|DW|AO3]

If any of my HTML is broken, please don’t hesitate to let me know. I’m pretty sure I’ve checked it, but there are a lot of outgoing links, so, uh. I could very easily have missed something.

Quick stats roundup!:
24,009 words over 15 fics: