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. )
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
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ao3 crosspost: here
( She knows what will happen next, and what might, and she’s agreed to all of it. )