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When will Merlin cease this nonsense? He has mastered the impossible: dragging Arthur feet first down the stairs of Camelot’s class structure until he’d tasted the dirt his poorest people slept on, while still managing to always put Arthur first. It is a contradiction, a contrast Arthur cannot rationalize. But damn it all, he wishes Merlin might try putting himself first for once. If not for Merlin’s own happiness, or their friendship which is the most precious thing Arthur has ever been trusted with, then for the hope-cum-desire that Merlin might one day return his romantic feelings not out of obligation but out of want.
Merlin serves. Serves looks, serves dungeon time, and serves Arthur.
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- Part 2 of The Golden Age
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10 May 2026
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TW: Suicide
Arthur wakes to find a black serpent coiled on his bed, which is frightening enough. But then Merlin bursts into his chambers and magics the creature out of existence. Magic is outlawed in Camelot, and the reveal of Merlin's magic leaves Arthur with no choice but to sentence his loyal and once-trusted friend to death. Which goes somehow worse than what one might expect for it to go. And then Arthur wakes up; and there's a black serpent coiled on his bed. And then Merlin is bursting through the doors...
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08 May 2026
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Arthur asks Merlin to learn magic to see if it can be trusted in defeating Morgana.
"We want to ask someone to learn magic to see if it can be used without corrupting the soul of the person who uses it. Lancelot suggested you be the person we ask."
Merlin's lips parted a fraction, "He did?"
"Indeed. Something about your heart being pure." Arthur brushed the compliment off with a wave of his hand and straightened in his seat, "I know you're scared of magic so you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to but-"
"I'll do it."Now complete with added prologue and epilogue!
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06 May 2026
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Valentine’s Day is coming up and Arthur is planning to finally confess his feelings to Merlin.
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05 May 2026
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Arthur, Morgana, and Gwen had no idea what they were involving themselves in by volunteering to defend Ealdor—and Ealdor wasn’t ready for them either. Squashed between the Ridge of Ascetir and the White Mountains, Ealdor was offered unique protection from authority coming from either Camelot or Cenred’s kingdom. In other words, magic was used with an unusual degree of freedom, and it would surely be used while they were there.
Canon divergence of ep. 1x10 The Moment of Truth, imagining that magic is actually very commonplace is Ealdor. This fact causes Merlin some stress on the trip from Camelot to Ealdor with Arthur, Morgana, Gwen and his mother, and he must find a way to warn his friends of the magic they will see, no matter the outcome.
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05 May 2026
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“Lord Geoffrey,” Arthur sighs, rubbing a hand along his brow in frustration. “We’ve talked about this. I am not, at this point, interested in marriage.”
Geoffrey looks over at him then, lips pinched and eyebrows high on his forehead. “No sire. I shouldn’t think you would be the right person for this, anyways. Forgive me for saying so, but I hardly think there’s a magical being in all of Albion that would happily marry you, the son of Uther Pendragon.”
Arthur flushes in anger and embarrassment, despite how he privately agrees with Geoffrey. It shouldn’t bother him so much, really— after all, he intends to marry for love. Still, the claim that no being of magic could ever love him stings for a reason he can’t quite pin.
“No, I was thinking marrying off your Court Sorcerer might be a more effective strategy for gaining magical allies.” Arthur chokes on his own spit.
Camelot has legalized magic, but needs a magical political marriage to seal the deal. Merlin gets courted. Arthur pines, stresses, and pines some more.
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- Part 1 of The Golden Age
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05 May 2026
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Alone and isolated by his immortality, Merlin journeys once more to Camelot, to the site of an old story Gaius once told him. Beneath the castle, in a hidden crypt, it is said sorcerers once escaped Uther's purges - but how? And to where?
Merlin intends to find out.
But when he stumbles into another world, another Camelot, when he finds Arthur, alive but changed, he must do all he can to prove himself true. Even if it means his own undoing.
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04 May 2026
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“After everything—an entire day of purposefully trying to tick him off—this was what Arthur was getting angry over?”
Merlin meets How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
When Gwaine implies Merlin has it easy working for Arthur, Merlin sets out to prove him wrong, job security be damned. But no matter how hard he tries, Arthur won’t fire him—and when he breaks, it’s for a reason Merlin could never have expected.
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04 May 2026
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When the Druid boy Mordred escapes from the witch Queen Morgana, he goes seeking Emrys and the Once and Future King in the hopes that they might free the land from her tyranny. Instead, he finds the exiled Prince Arthur, who travels with a hawk. A merlin…
Written for the Merlin Cinema Fest and based on the film Ladyhawke! Art and dividers by the AMAZING SANZO!
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03 May 2026
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Merlin can't understand those stupid complicated hand signs Arthur uses on a hunt, but they figure out another way to communicate.
or: 5 times people were confused by Arthur and Merlin's secret language, and 1 time everyone understood.- Language:
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03 May 2026
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Merlin makes a different choice. He teaches Morgana himself. It takes them to a little cottage, and for nearly two years the two of them keep Arthur safe. Together.
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03 May 2026
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Desperate to find relief from worsening migraines and broken magic, Harry sets out to reach mystical hot springs that are said to grant healing and realignment.
The only problem? The springs lie deep within a cursed forest that lures hikers to their death by tempting them with their greatest desires.
So when Harry sees Draco Malfoy in the forest, he must be hallucinating.
Right?
Or: A hero’s journey but gay.
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29 Apr 2026
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People keep spiking Auror Harry Potter with love potions. Healer Draco Malfoy keeps having to pick up the pieces.
But it's getting harder and harder for Draco to watch Harry fall in love with everyone except for him.
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28 Apr 2026
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Harry hadn’t expected it, but coming out shortly after the war has its advantages. She has no idea whether people are treating her differently because she’s a girl now, or because they witnessed her kill a maniacal wizarding fascist.
She also hadn't expected that the only person who might understand it all is none other than Draco Malfoy.
Or: Harry is a transwoman, and Draco is a transman, but they're both gay, so nothing will ever happen between them. Right?- Language:
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28 Apr 2026
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In The Company Of Serpents by corvuscrowned for lettersbyelise
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
12 Dec 2022
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There’s something wrong with the serpents at the Greengrass Ophidiarium. Luckily, a certain Parselmouth just might be able to help.
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28 Apr 2026
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After a long, bloody war, Draco Malfoy just wants to do something good with his life for a change, and resolves to become a healer. But magical society refuses to make it easy for him, and an increasingly dramatic series of events—all of them instigated by Harry Potter—get him kicked out of med school, force him to live in exile, and threaten to destroy the new life he’s trying so desperately to build.
But Harry isn’t instigating anything—at least not on purpose. He’s just trying to work up the nerve to ask him out. His efforts don’t appear to be going great.
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25 Apr 2026
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Sub rosa by Tessa Crowley (tessacrowley) for hoko_onchi
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Dec 2024
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After the tragic and unexpected death of his mother, Draco Malfoy’s quiet life as Potions Master, Hogwarts professor, and Head of Slytherin gets upended—first by the manifestation of mysterious and inexplicable magic, and then by the revelation of an inheritance deliberately hidden from him his entire life.
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24 Apr 2026
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Potter has fame and fortune and posh clothes and all he wants is a simple life. Draco has a flat and a cat and a steady job and all he wants is a complicated life. Which makes you think this story has something exciting like body-swapping, but it doesn’t. Instead it has Indian takeaway and a blue jumper and people wanting a whole lot of what they can’t have, discovering themselves as they discover each other.
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23 Apr 2026
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Harry is overwhelmed by his own power and fame and angst, so he's become a hermit. Draco Malfoy is tired of the melodrama.
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20 Apr 2026
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Dreading the holidays?
Are you invited to a family Christmas party from hell? Your parents won’t shut up about grandkids, your cousin is trying to get you into crypto, your homophobic uncle keeps using slurs… whatever your problem, I can be your fake-boyfriend solution.Or: Arthur hires Merlin to be his annoying fake boyfriend for the holidays. Surely, nothing so inconvenient as real feelings could get in the way of his best-laid plans, right? Right???
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12 Apr 2026