I made an edit to fix a missing line from the Arcane Asylum podfic, so if you downloaded but haven't listened yet (or plan to listen again later) you might want to download it again. Sorry about that!

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Here are my first two fills for hc_bingo! They are both podfics of canon-era stories where Arthur saves Merlin from death.

( Some Kind of Strength by lolafeist )

( Yonder Comes the Morning by andraste_oz )

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My plan to make podfics for all the summerpornathon bonus challenges broke down after all of one week, but I did write a drabble (also on the AO3) about Morgana killing Merlin.

New batch of summerpornathon fics going up tonight, and reveals for challenge #1 tomorrow! I had fun reading last week's entries but I'm even more excited for the apocalypse and fuck-or-die entries coming up.

I wrote two pieces for the Reverse Remix comment fest over at bessemerprocess's journal. The way this works is that you list fandoms you can write in and someone else links you to one of their fics and you try to write a quick remix!


Title: Beginning Partner Dancing (The Teacher's Always a Learner Remix)
Fandom: Community
Wordcount: 577
Rating: G
Characters: Madame LeClair, Troy, Britta
Contains: n/a
Notes: Remix of Beginning Partner Dancing by cantarina. The sensible thing would have been to remix Ca'rina's Troy/Britta fic from Britta's POV but I got sidetracked so this happened instead! Might not make much sense unless you read the original, which is lovely.
Summary: Troy and Britta's dance teacher confronts a class with more men than women.
Links: AO3 | Dreamwidth comment

Title: One Year (The Two Girls Remix)
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 1400
Rating: G
Characters: Gwen, Morgana
Contains: n/a
Notes: Remix of One Year by wintercreek, with a big old rec for that beautiful Merlin friendship fic.
Summary: During her first year as Morgana's maid, Gwen finds out she doesn't have to be alone.
Links: AO3 | Dreamwidth comment

Title: Waking Up Stories (A Dancemix with Dragons)
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 4378 (same as the original! and yes, it did take me several extra hours to get that to work out)
Rating: PG
Characters: Morgana, with girl!Aithusa, Kilgarrah, Uther, Arthur, Hunith, and Morgause
Contains: series 4 spoilers
Notes: Remix of Here Be Dragons by selenak, written for Remix Redux 2012. Thanks to flammablehat for beta and encouragement, and to Selena for writing and participating in the challenge!
Summary: Each parent has their own version of this story. If they wanted their children to fall asleep, they should have talked about something else.
Link: Read it at the AO3!

Title: Drink His Kiss Down Dry
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 720
Ship: Merlin/Nimueh (+ other background ships)
Rating: NC-17
Contains: D/s. (highlight for details) Nimueh is not the most conscientious dom in the world, but Merlin is fine.
Summary: Nimueh likes Merlin's mouth.
Notes: For the "oral fixation" and, to a lesser extent, "sensation play", "pictures", "phonesex/epistolary", and "collars" squares on my second kink_bingo card. Thanks to meri for suggesting the single-line extra (for the February mini-challenge) and to flammablehat for beta and encouragement. Read it at the AO3 if you prefer!

( Drink His Kiss Down Dry )

Yay, I finished my series of Lancelot mini-AUs! I decided to call it Five Ways Lancelot Got What He Always Wanted because they all sort of turned out that way, even though they were all somewhat angsty. I realized a few days ago that if I'd planned a little better I could have gone for an Asexual Characters Bingo, since none of them were really about sex. Too bad I put that handjob in the Freya/Lancelot one. Oh well, it is still a bingo and I will post at the comm tonight! This feels like a good way to round off the year in fic. :)

Title: Or Stay
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 500
Chraracters/Ships: Lancelot, Merlin
Rating: PG
Contains: n/a
Notes: Vague spoilers for 4x09. For the "held down" square on my second kink_bingo card.
Summary: Historical AU: A month ago he'd have woken Merlin on his way out.
Link: Read Or Stay at the AO3

Title: Sexy Bastards Like Us
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 500 (five drabbles)
Chraracters/Ships: Lancelot, Gwaine, talk about Arthur
Rating: PG-13
Contains: discussion of BDSM
Notes: For the "subspace/headspace" square on my second kink_bingo card. (This one doesn't actually have anything to do with 4x09!)
Summary: Modern AU: Lancelot meets one of Arthur's other clients.
Author's notes Ugh, I had a hard time with this one! Thanks to everyone who listened to me blab about and especially to glim for picking out the title.
Link: Read Sexy Bastards Like Us at the AO3

Happy birthday, baranduin! You are a good friend and a talented, thoughtful person. I feel lucky to know you and I'm so glad we'll get to hang out again in a few weeks, even if it's just a brief visit this time.

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I wrote another Lancelot ficlet!

Title: Perfect
Fandom: Merlin
Characters/Ships: Lancelot, Arthur/Gwen (IT CAN BE ARTHUR/GWEN/LANCELOT IF YOU WANT)
Rating: G + 1 swear word
Contains: n/a
Wordcount: 500 (five drabbles)
Notes: Part of my series of five 500-word Lancelot AUs (three finished so far) inspired by 5x09. This one less spoilery than the others, written for the "humiliation (in public)" square on my second kink_bingo card. My first G-rated kink-bingo fill! Thanks to claudia603 and bessyboo for their help. Dedicated to meri and also written out of great affection for baranduin though I know it's not your fandom so don't feel obligated to read it or anything.
Summary: Figure skater AU!

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I had kind of a rough day offline today, but I've been having a great time in fandom lately. Look at these awesome things my friend have made!

-So this weekend I asked yue_ix to look over the Arthur/Merlin ficlet I had written with five squares from my kink_bingo card, If I Cannot Be Your Queen. While we were chatting about it she started drawing a picture of Gwen, inspired by my story but using five kinks from her card and with ending up with a more kink-positive message than I had been using (I was expressing some of my angst about 4x09 and Yue was using kink to turn it into something less angsty). So yeah she came up with this beautiful picture where Gwen has sparkles in her hair!!! If I Can't Go To Your Dungeons by yue_ix, probably not safe for work Gwen art yay!

-Another thing that happened recently was that anatsuno and I were chatting and she said she wished there were more fic with top!Merlin and I said indeed it is a rare and beautiful thing, but that I also thought she would like some of lolafeist's fics where Merlin is such a strong sub that Arthur's kind of in awe of him. And sure enough anat went and podficced The One at a Sex Club where Merlin anon!fails because she liked it so much, and it was very sexy in anat's voice and I loved listening to it, as well as the Community/Doctor Who crossover podfic that is also at that link.

-Then another thing that happened was that I read this beautiful intense Gwaine/Merlin bdsm fic by leashy_bebes and I tweeted that it was great and might be of interest to other fans of top!Merlin, and that I'd love to listen to a podfic of it. So then meri decided to record both that and a lovely safeword fic set in the same universe for me!!! So the other day I got to listen to the very warm and lovely (Safe) Words and then this morning I got to listen to the sexy sexy A Force When We're Together. I feel so lucky!

-Okay and I didn't have anything to do with this thing getting made but it needs to be talked about because GUYS DID YOU SEE THAT dodificus MADE A PODFIC OF VOID AND THAT IT IS 9 HOURS OF SQUIRMERRIFIC TEENAGE DUBCON? If you were in Faculty fandom I'm sure you remember this. But even if you've never seen the movie or read another Faculty fic you can still understand and admire this one. Here is the podfic and here is the podbook and here is the text. ;skljd;flkjs ls

-Oh and hey, there is an informal podfic gift exchange going on right now and I hope the person assigned to me does not feel pressured to record kinky fic or porn if that's not what they're into. I really love all kinds of things including hurt/comfort and gen. This person is probably more organized than me and has already picked out and recorded something, but if they're feeling lost they might find the posts on my dear creator letter tag helpful. <3

The December mini-challenge is to create tiny bingos: five tiny fills in a line. They can be fics or meta or podfics up to 100 words, a single icon, 1 or 2 recs, etc. This is open to everybody, whether or not you've played kink_bingo before. Think signing up for a challenge is a little intimidating or feel bad because you never did anything for the card you have before? Just stop by the comm and choose a line from one of the communal bingo cards.

I got really excited about this challenge yesterday and I came up with this plan to write five drabbles about Lancelot, each a different AU.

( irreverent observation about 4x09 )

Only then once I started trying to write them I realized that doing an AU and a kink in 100 words is really hard, so I decided to make each one 500 words instead! Here are the two I've finished so far. Maybe I will also do a line of drabbles later!

Title: Only that I Am Yours
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 500
Rating: strong PG-13
Pairing(s): Lancelot/Morgana
Contains: consensual mind control
Notes: Vague spoilers for 4x09. For the free square on my second kink_bingo card.
Summary: Modern AU: Whenever being around his friends starts to hurt too much, Lancelot goes to Morgana.
Link: Read Only that I am Yours at the AO3

Title: As a Groom
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 500
Rating: strong PG-13
Pairing(s): Freya/Lancelot
Contains: n/a
Notes: Vague spoilers for 4x09. For the "washing/cleaning" square on my second kink_bingo card.
Summary: Religious AU: Everyone who enters this temple begins life anew.
Link: Read As a Groom at the AO3

Also yesterday I posted 2500 words of Gwen & Merlin gen (with a bit of background Arthur/Gwen and hints of Gwen/Morgana) over at this weekend's camelot_fleet party. It was meant to be the prologue of an epic Gwen fic that I was working on after season 2, but it more or less stands on its own as a quiet reveal and a coda for 2x13.

(I used to write trufax drabbles and genfic all the time, ha ha ha.)

Title: Aglain's School for Gifted Youngsters
Fandom: Merlin (+ X-Men movieverse)
Wordcount: 1550
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Aglain/Morgana, Aglain/other
Contains: power play, age difference, teacher/student relationship, dreams of violence and death
Notes: Inspired by X-Men: The Last Stand, expanded from my entry for the Sleep challenge at summerpornathon. Sadly this does not fill the sleepy/unconscious square on my kink_bingo card. Thanks to themadlurker for help, and sorry I didn't manage to make it longer.
Summary: Professor Aglain kept the door to his office open.

Story link: Read it at the AO3!

Title: Put a Ribbon on It
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 1315
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Gwen/Morgana
Contains: (highlight to reveal) D/s, genital piercings, jealousy/possessiveness
Notes: For the "chastity devices" square on my kink_bingo card! Also partially inspired by this Arthur/Merlin prompt at the kink meme. If you want you can think of this as in the same universe as Lady in Waiting, but it stands on its own. Thanks to themadlurker for beta and support!
Summary: Morgana used to hate the way men looked at Gwen.
Story link: Read it at the AO3!

( ETA: Or read it here on LJ/Dreamwidth! )

Title: Believe This Is Real
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 684
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Freya/Merlin
Contains: transgender and sexuality issues
Notes: Written for the First and Last Times challenge at summerpornathon. OMG this placed second in its group! Thanks for the lovely comments and shiny votes, pornathoners! And thanks to themadlurker for early encouragement and betaing, especially for saving the ending. ;)
Summary: The first time they met, Freya was calling herself a lesbian and Merlin was calling himself a dyke. (US college AU)
Link: Read it at the AO3!

ETA (March 2012): Listen to the podfic by meri (and tell her what a great job she did)!