Elaine, The Lily Maid Of Astolat By Sophie Gengembre Anderson

Eugene gets me

i watched Excalibur

Once i thought about Merlin's stupid metal hat and I couldn't stop thinking about it, and now you're cursed too with the image of Merlin in metal hat

:O

The Lovers

Kaja Horvat, 2024

You don't need a "WIFE". What you NEED is a beautiful priestess of the old religion to lead you down a dark path.

We were robbed honestly

Imagine if you will a curse gone wrong-

We get the whole castle and town exploding into song, and a refrain and melody developing that echoes through the rest of the songs, maybe asking if things will ever return back to normal

There's an opera style back and forth between Uther and Gaius about the cause of the curse and whether it's dangerous, they don't resolve anything

Uther tasks Arthur with rooting out the cause, and it's a kind of call and answer, with Arthur following Uther's orders

We get Morgana, terrified her magic will be found out. Her song transforms into an "I want" song, maybe she wants fairness, maybe revenge, maybe power

The knights have a barbershop quartet thing going on and we love that for them

Merlin finds the cause, and maybe the curse is ultimately deadly although it seems innocuous enough. Maybe people are already starting to feel the ill effects. He needs help, but he just has to get someone to believe him. Cue his moment to sing, appealing to Arthur and the knights his voice turns out to be so sweet and heartbreaking (see Colin Morgan's work with PJ Harvey) and to his surprise everyone rallies around

We get a song with Merlin, Arthur, the knights and maybe others like Gwen and Gaius working together to fix the problem, the song builds to a crescendo and stops short the moment the spell is seemingly broken

It cuts to the next day and some normal speech indicates that their efforts worked. But Arthur hovers just outside this chambers because Merlin is cleaning inside and is singing as he works, his singing finally resolves the melody. Arthur laughs quietly and enters the room

The End

merlin should have had a musical episode

September '24 Masterlist

Somehow another round is already coming to a close, and I once again want to thank all you lovely participants! I've decided to keep the Masterlist for the time being, although a little trimmed down to hopefully make it a little less time-intensive on my end.

All that said, without further ado! <3

Drabble Challenge Winner! ✨

Believe me, love, it was the nightingale by @mightybog

[Prompt: Nightfall | Arthur/Merlin]

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"I Promised" by @mightybog

[Prompt: "I Promised" | Arthur/Merlin]

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jamais vu by @adhd-merlin

[Prompt: "I Promised" | Freya/Merlin]

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a night's rest by @adhd-merlin

[Prompt: Nightfall | Arthur/Merlin]

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"Untitled" (Dusk) by @thefollow-spot

[Prompt: Nightfall | Lancelot/Merlin]

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midnight by @liviapeleia

[Prompt: Nightfall | Lancelot/Merlin]

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Prompt: Nightfall

Nightfall by @twistedshipper

[Arthur/Morgana]

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nightfall by @the-king-and-the-druidess

[Gwen/Lancelot]

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Nightfall (Release Words) by @personaje-fics

[Arthur/Lancelot]

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Prompt: "I Promised."

Redemption Lies Plainly in Truth by @miyriu

[Arthur & Morgana]

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Meant to be Broken by @classics-n-comedy

[Arthur & Mordred]

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fealty by @liviapeleia

[Arthur/Lancelot]

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I get so jealous of euthanized dogs by @bumblebearr

[Arthur/Gwen, Gwen/Leon]

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Prompt: Starting Over

A Good Start by @miyriu

[Arthur/Merlin]

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Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone by @mightybog

[Arthur/Merlin]

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in the chillest land by @adhd-merlin

[Aithusa, Merlin]

been doing a LOT of analog note-taking / journaling / planning lately (new years' resolution fulfilled! yes!), and I've slowly but surely started writing mostly in cursive again.

that said, I'm old (almost 35, ew) so I have questions.

if you want to RB this and put you age / locale / whatever else you think is relevant in the tags, that'd be very cool