no man is an island

fandom: Merlin
rating: mature audiences
characters/pairings: Gwen/Morgana
length: ~1500 words
content notices: sexual content, solo sex, fantasizing
summary: After Morgana has a vision of herself having sex with Gwen, who is not and never has been her lover, she’s...uncertain.
notes: Written for the prompt “Gwen/Morgana, vision!sex. Morgana has a vision of her having sex with Gwen. How she deals with this is up to you. :)” (second fill down) at kinkme_merlin. Title from the Cranberries’ “Dreams”.
ao3 crosspost: here

( She has too few dreams of anything but disaster, and she’s not sure whether that’s because nothing else is as important or because that’s all her gift is good for. )

fandom: Merlin
rating: explicit/adult audiences
characters/pairings: Gwen/Morgana
length: ~1900 words
content notices: explicit sexual content
summary: in which there is sex, outdoors, and everything is sweet and happy.
notes: written for the kinkme_merlin prompt “Gwen/morgana One of them laying down outside nude, the other eating them out.” (second fill down.) title from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Love’s Philosophy”.
ao3 crosspost: here

( It’s beautiful outside, golden with flower-flecked summer, the air sweet and clean with the scent of growing things. )

fandom: Merlin
rating: general audiences
characters/pairings: Gwen/Morgana
length: ~950 words
content notices: none!
summary: pre-series fluff in which Gwen’s historically-unlikely literacy is explained
notes: written for the kinkme_merlin prompt “Gwen/Morgana. Right, so apparently Gwen knows how to read! Want maybe Morgana teaching her, or Gwen reading something bawdy in bed, please. :)” (I, continuing to fail to grasp the purpose of a kinkmeme, went with the former option), for #08 (“Learning”) of the Women Are Awesome prompt table at hooked_on_heroines, and for #13 (“island of light”) of my buffet table from fc_smorgasbord. I forgot we had information on Gwen’s childhood in canon, so consider this a(n accidental) canon AU. I should probably also mention I know nothing about adult literacy education and Google was really unhelpful, so I apologize for any errors/inaccuracies. title from the Monotones’ “Book of Love”, and the passage Gwen and Morgana are reading at the end is from (Patricia Terry’s translation of) Marie de France’s “Chevrefoil” because historical accuracy is something that happens to other people.
ao3 crosspost: here

( Somewhere along the way, Gwen’s lady becomes Lady Morgana, and then just Morgana. )

fandom: Merlin
rating: explicit (adult audiences)
characters/pairings: Arthur/Merlin
length: ~1200 words
content notices: explicit sexual content
summary: in which there is mutual pining and the resolution of UST.
notes: sequel to “It’s All Right With Me” ([LJ|DW|AO3]), but could also stand alone. written for the kinkme_merlin prompt “Arthur/Merlin, bath”. title from the song “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”.
ao3 crosspost: here

( Merlin has drawn him a bath and he watches the pattern of the steam curling up from it, glinting copper and gold in the firelight, and then remembers to stand and let himself be undressed. )

fandom: Merlin
rating: explicit (adult audiences)
characters/pairings: 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.
notes: I’m choosing to ignore the reveal of Uther as Morgana’s father, and therefore do not consider them siblings in this, but you may do whatever you wish. written for the kinkme_merlin prompt “Arthur/Morgana, a simple sparring session turns into something more interesting.”
ao3 crosspost: here

( Morgana moves like she’s dancing—no, she moves like flame, quick and fluid and lovely with the sword flashing bright in her hands. )

fandom: Merlin
rating: mature audiences
characters/pairings: 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.
notes: title from the song of the same name. set mid-s1. written for the kinkme_merlin prompt “Arthur/Other, Arthur visits a male prostitute to try to get over his feelings for Merlin” (second fill down). has an optional sequel, “I’d Tried So Not to Give In” [LJ|DW|AO3].
ao3 crosspost: here

( Merlin is, after all, an entirely unsuitable person to be taking up so much of his attention. )

fandom: Merlin
rating: mature audiences
characters/pairings: 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.
notes: not canon compliant, but I’m not sure when or why it split. the ritual is my own invention, and any similarities to existing rites are accidental. title from e. e. cummings’s poem starting “here’s to opening and upward”. written for the gwenmorganabbc prompt “Nimueh/Morgana: blood” (via kinkme_merlin), for #34 (“Culture”) of the Women Are Awesome prompt table at hooked_on_heroines, and for #25 (“surrender to me”) of my buffet table [LJ|DW] from fc_smorgasbord.
ao3 crosspost: here

( She knows what will happen next, and what might, and she’s agreed to all of it. )

fandom: Merlin
rating: mature audiences
characters/pairings: 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.
notes: I, like the show’s writers, am handwaving the question of how Freya has a corporal body but lives under the lake. (sorcery!) if you are not well-acquainted with the anatomy of swords, this diagram may be of use to you. title and cut-text from Heather Dale’s “Kingsword”. written for the kinkme_merlin prompt “Freya/Other, ‘lake creatures need love too’, masturbation with a sword (Excalibur preferred).”
ao3 crosspost: here

( Wrought by a queen for the hand of the chosen / From fishscale and currents and winter’s reply / Brought from the deep by a prophet who knows / In the arms of the water again it will lie… )

fandom: Merlin
rating: explicit (adult audiences)
characters/pairings: Elena/Vivian
length: ~1900 words
content notices: explicit adult content; brief language
summary: in which Elena has an annoying (and attractive) roommate.
notes: title from Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”. written as a pairing variant on the kinkme_merlin prompt “Gwen/Morgana, foreign object insertion” and originally posted here.
ao3 crosspost: here

( Vivian is definitely the most annoying roommate Elena has ever had. )

fandom: Merlin
rating: teen and up audiences
characters/pairings: Elena/Morgana
length: ~1800 words
content notices: reference to minor character death; discussion of (emotional) child abuse; imprisonment
summary: sci-fi AU, where corporate elite Elena meets psychic Morgana and breaks her out of Camelot space.
notes: part of the (non-chronological) Camelot Station ’verse. title from Ellie Goulding’s “I’ll Hold My Breath”. written for the kinkme_merlin prompt “Elena/Morgana, let’s run away together” and for #27 (“Freedom”) of the Women Are Awesome prompt table at hooked_on_heroines. ETA: you guys, there is now PODFIC AVAILABLE OF THIS FIC OMG. quintenttsy has recorded it and it can be found here, at the AO3 (download only) and eeeeeeee!
ao3 crosspost: here

( Elena docks the Liberty and makes her way through the hallways, which gleam with dull reds and golds—rich, rich, everything about this floating city positively screams the display of wealth for the sake of power. She feels closed-in, muffled. )