Eh, I'm pretty much just writing occasional drabbles for Merlin too, but God, there is so much fic to read there, it's fantastic. I meant to tell you about Merlin. The show itself I like a lot and in some ways love even though I recognize that it's not great quality TV. The episodes are very episodic and kind of repetitive and the plots are kind of predictable and don't always make sense. The writing is sometimes kind of silly. Many things about it are kind of silly. However I have great affection for all the characters and I like that they show so much affection for each other (almost hobbit-like levels of it) and I find some of them really attractive. The fandom's got me interested in slash again when I'd been sort of wavering for a while (like since I got over my first blush with HP a couple years ago) about whether slash was really my thing. The thing is, Merlin and Arthur are destined to be together. The other thing is, Merlin has a secret that he can't tell Arthur even though he LOVES Arthur and Arthur loves him and even though their destinies are entwined. If Arthur knew that Merlin is a sorcerer he'd be obligated to tell his father who has a fanatical hatred for sorcerers and might well have Merlin killed. So between Arthur and Merlin's epic love and the fact that Merlin is constantly struggling with whether to tell Arthur the truth about what he is, the show is pretty much the gayest thing in the world. Also there's a master/servant dynamic that turns me on, and there are female characters who are friends with each other and whose lives aren't completely oriented around the men's. I love it so damn much.

And then the fandom, you know, like any fandom there's a lot of bad stuff there, but this one has just been really active the last few months and it's brought in a lot of authors who are really terrific, including people I'd been aware of before but hadn't ever read because they wrote fandoms or pairings I wasn't into like SGA or Harry/Draco. So to be a reader who feels like reading in the middle of this big fandom that's just finding itself has been really awesome. On the other hand it seems like a lot of people fell for it really hard but are already starting to get interested in other things like American Idol or Star Trek or whatever. :( But there's a new season coming soon and also a Merlin Big Bang challenge with a bunch of stories that I think will go up in another month or two and also the show's going to be on NBC this month so maybe some more US stragglers will come in then. I'm hopeful. I'm slightly less hopeful that I'll ever end up writing substantial fic for it.