Title: Away With the Boys in the Band
Author: bend_me_baby
Artist: tink_sky_reid
Pairings/characters: Arthur/Merlin, Lance/Gwen, Freya, Morgana, Leon, Gwaine, Elyan, Percy, Elena, Mithian, Isolde, Tristan, various other characters. Merlin/OMC, Merlin/Gwaine, past Merlin/Freya, past Arthur/Mithian
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 35.6k
Warnings: none
Summary: Arthur's the drum major and Merlin's the assistant drum major, failing to hide his crush on Arthur. Lance and Gwen are that couple everyone adores, but wants to puke all over. The boys in the drumline are who everyone wants to hang out with. And Arthur wants to know who the hell that kid from North High hugging Merlin is. In other words, that one story where everyone's in the high school marching band and Arthur finds out that he's not as straight as he thinks he is.

Author's notes: First, a HUGE thank you to my artist tink_sky_reid. Not only for your wonderful and gorgeous art (yes, wonderful and gorgeous don’t dispute me lol), but for freaking out with me about word counts and deadlines and generally being there all the time and being understanding. I’m sorry about making you draw a clarinet!
Title comes from the My Chemical Romance song The Sharpest Lives, now Tink and I only think of MCR when we think about my fic because of the marching bands, haha.

Second thank you to tambear13 for betaing my fic at last minute, and doing a wonderful job. THANK YOU SO MUCH. You don’t know how much I could breathe after you said that you could look my fic over. And thank you for trying to unstress me lol. Of course, any and all mistakes are mine.

Third, thanks to roslindi, my cheerleader, for helping me sort through my mess of thoughts about my story and helping me put it to rights and generally being calm.

Finally, a big thank you to the_muppet, really, you’ve done a wonderful job and I’m not just saying that, especially with dealing like procrastinators like me. You deserve all the awards.

Please ignore the fact that writing about drumming techniques sounds really dirty.

Artist's notes: She doesn't have any, but PLEASE CHECK OUT HER ART :D
Story link: AO3 OR Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Art link: Art Masterpost
Disclaimer: I own nothing, unfortunately.

Title: For Home and Heart
Pairing(s): Arthur/Merlin, background Morgana/Gwaine and Lance/Gwen, past Arthur/Gwen
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Modern Magic AU. Graphic violence, a little gore, character deaths (not main), barebacking
Word Count: 27,000
Summary: Arthur James never thought he’d meet someone who would make him want to leave Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
Notes: Written for merlin_games. A humongous thanks to my beta catjetrat! Seriously, thank you for such a last minute read through, you’re a life saver. Any and all mistakes are mine. I tried to make this as James Bond as possible, but I might have strayed from the mark a bit. I also edited a bit of the porn and the ending.
Prompt and Prompt ID: 93 (fanart) by lizardspots


OMG. brolinskeep @ tumblr made a manip for my fic! It's so pretty. With the manip of that hipster!Merlin and his camera. dluhfauinhfadfea. Still freaking out here! THANK YOU SO MUCH ROU!





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