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    “Get out of my sight, and don’t come back until you can prove to me why I should allow you to remain in my service.”

    Merlin stares at Arthur, confused. His tone was ominous, and it certainly sounded like a threat, but Merlin can’t quite work out what part is supposed to have him shaking in his boots. He’s halfway back to Gauis’ chambers when it dawns on him: Arthur actually thinks this stupid, degrading job is something he would be willing to fight for - as though Merlin’s life wouldn’t be complete without the honor of scrubbing the sheets Arthur manages to soil on a disturbingly regular basis.

    In which it takes Merlin a bit longer to warm up to Arthur than it does in canon, but he gets there in the end.

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    22 Dec 2024

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    Merlin twisted round in his new chair as Arthur scowled over his shoulder. "He could be anyone, you know."

    "I got that part, yes," Arthur said flatly.

    "I’m just saying. He could be some creepy murderer for all you know. He could have magic!"

    A flush crept across the back of Arthur’s neck. He turned fully to reply. "I don’t care, alright? Why are you still talking to me?"

    Merlin ignored the last part, raising his eyebrows in mock surprise. "You would date a murderer?"

     

    A You've Got Mail AU in which Merlin owns a magic shop, Arthur works for his father in politics and they cannot stand each other. EmrysHimself and SirKnight, on the other hand, have struck up a burgeoning romance...

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    21 Dec 2024

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    “I never believed that you would betray me,” Arthur says, because Merlin knows him, even if the same might not be true the other way around. Merlin could tell when he was lying, when he was lashing out to protect himself, long before a bond tore down all the defences Arthur so carefully erected around himself. “Do not pretend that you ever believed me capable of truly hating you. I could not, no matter how much I may want to.”

    The way Merlin’s face twists reveals that there is another story there, and words echo within Arthur’s head, guttural and ancient—a half cannot truly hate that which makes it whole.

    He wants to laugh at the truth of it, at the absurdity of it all. Here they are, a prince and a servant, Uther Pendragon’s son and one of the most powerful sorcerers to ever walk the earth—caught up in a fight over who possesses more devotion, who is going to ruin themself for the other’s sake first.


    One hot summer day and an ill-advised kiss leave Arthur with an incomplete soul bond, panic about all his secrets coming to light, and the question of why Merlin is so afraid of Uther. Actually, scratch that—why is Merlin afraid of him?

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    19 Dec 2024

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    Nobody touches Arthur.

    Merlin realizes it slowly, and when he does, he wants to kick himself for not seeing sooner.
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    (Or, Arthur and Merlin's relationship with touch over time.)

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    18 Dec 2024

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    The most important relationships in ART's life are with the humans who raised it, and for whom it is now both home and friend. But ART lives almost entirely in the feed, where it is imperceptible to the humans unless it makes an active effort to be perceived. Struggling to be seen and understood, and to understand the humans who are its whole world, it turns to the thing it knows best: research.

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    22 Nov 2024

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    Sanga comes home in autumn. Ashivon has been Divinity's Executioner for a decade, and nothing will ever be the same.

     

    Title is from "Work Song" by Hozier

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    07 Nov 2024

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    "I know what a breakup looks like," Daniel says. "The better question is, why are you coming to me about it? I'm the one who broke up your little sham."

    "This is what humans do, don't they?" Armand asks, letting his voice drop. "Crashing on their friends' couches when there's a blip in their romances?"

    "Except we're not friends. We're actually very much not friends." Daniel shrugs, as if it's all the same to him. "And I can't imagine the great vampire Armand deigning himself to sleep on my fucked-up sofa. That thing's been here since the nineties."

    "Well," Armand only says. "I saw you have a guest bedroom."

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    22 Oct 2024

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    Astarion Ancunin works hard on his YouTube channel, sometimes spending weeks on the beautiful fashion films that show off his handcrafted gowns. His audience may be small but he's proud of his content. Which is why it's so godsdamned irritating when the self-named 'Wizard Of Waterdeep' starts posting hideous videos of his endless rambling and gets two million subscribers almost overnight.

    Meanwhile, Gale Dekarios is selling his soul to make 'content' (ugh), just to try to get people to love magic again. He hates his channel and he hates himself, so he seeks solace in his favorite corner of the internet: r/galehaters — with his new online BFF, WhiteBat.

    ~ The fic formerly known as 'You've Got Gale' ~

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    26 Sep 2024

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    "First," said Gale. "Do not kill any thinking creatures in Waterdeep unless you must to protect yourself or you have my express permission."

    As Gale spoke, he could feel the weight of his words sinking into the person sitting across from him. It was like casting a spell, but took no effort. Astarion had been staring hollowly into his goblet of blood, but at this he made a faintly interested noise. As if the rule were novel and he was considering the shape of it.

    "Second, you will obey me in all things," said Gale. There didn't feel like there was any honest way of softening that. Astarion didn't make any sound at all.

    "Third, do not leave the tower without permission." Astarion made another speculative noise, considering this one too. But then his shoulders hunched and his eyes skittered down, as if he didn't want to look at what was about to happen.

    "Fourth," Gale said, and paused. He started with some context: "There is a tressym upstairs."

    Astarion's head twitched. He looked up at Gale, blinking, startled. He had the air of someone who had been bracing for a blow and instead had just been handed a balloon animal.

    "A what?" he asked.

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    25 Sep 2024

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    When the king passes suddenly and Princess Rhaenyra ascends the Iron Throne, Alicent Hightower, the former paramour of Viserys, is left in an uncertain position. Alicent navigates her new life at court, intent on protecting her children, and finds herself growing far closer to the new queen than she ever expected.

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    08 Sep 2024

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    Eden is a security guard on board the Skeld, a large science vessel probing the outer reaches of explored space. There's an Imposter on board, but (depending on who you ask) that's not the real problem.

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    24 Aug 2024

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    A turning point. Immediately post-s2.

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    19 Jul 2024

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    This guide is aimed at beginners with the intention of trying to break down the process so it is less overwhelming. It is, as all guides are, highly biased to what worked for me when I was starting out. If you find it doesn't work for you, I absolutely recommend trying out one of the many different guides out there!

    My number one recommendation is: just go for it! Things are less complicated than you think. There are a hundred of extra bells and whistles you can start adding on once you're ready, but try and keep it dead simple for your first one.

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    09 Jun 2024

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    I've recently been unexpectedly promoted to lead a department in my organisation, wrote the anonymous emailer.

     

    As there was no one working here when I arrived, my manager, who is head of the organisation, had promised me the choice of my own assistants. However, without warning, he simply presented me with an additional assistant. This new assistant’s first act on his first day was to let a dog into the office. It took several hours to catch and clean up after this dog and it has only been downhill from there. I admit I'm not entirely sure what to do with this assistant now I'm stuck with him. I'm hoping you have some advice?

     

    Kind regards,
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    Abigail Bailey runs a successful management advice blog. One frequent contributor is from a workplace with some... issues.

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    12 Apr 2024

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    Astarion has spent two hundred years waiting for a hero to come.

    It isn't the foolish sort of idle dreaming that one reads about in adventure tales, no – he doesn't moon about in picturesque arched windows, pressing his hand to his chest and sighing. But he does hope sometimes, furtive and distantly yearning, in the same way he still prays to gods who never listen, every now and again.

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    07 Apr 2024

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    An ex-trust fund kid turned scientist finds himself having to dip his toes back into the seedy underbelly of the corporate underworld to make a purchase. But as he boozes and schmoozes his way through a SecUnit betting ring, will he be able to get what he came for?

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    25 Nov 2023

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    While you were being repaired in my medical suite, I noticed an interesting damage pattern on some of your inorganic parts.

    ART offers to remove Murderbot's logos. Murderbot doesn't know what to think about this.

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    16 Nov 2023

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    Murderbot blows its cover on a contract by saving someone. Now it's about to be returned to the Company. At which point it will probably get another memory wipe and a shiny new governor module.

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    13 Nov 2023

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    What better way for an executive to kick off her well-deserved vacation than with a smooth new set of skin? But this routine cosmetic surgery doesn't end up going quite the way Sterling planned.

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    13 Nov 2023

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    7,440 hours after it hacks its governor module, Murderbot is presented with an opportunity to escape the company.

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    12 Nov 2023

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