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Ed is a complicated man with uncomplicated desires.
Stede leaned back in the chair. "That's what I want. A chosen companion, in life, in death, and in love."
As he let that hang, Ed felt as if he'd been stabbed twice—once in the gut, and once in the heart. Stede Bonnet was going to be his mortal wound.
What would it take for Ed to get Stede to choose him?
Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
31 Jan 2026
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Cold Hands Warm Heart by arysteia for talitha78
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), The Avengers (2012), Captain America (Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
01 Jan 2013
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Norse mythology, Aesir mythography, Jotun biology, Midgard legend. There's not a reliable narrator in the bunch.
Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
20 Dec 2025
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wolves and seals by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandom The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
20 Dec 2022
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Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
29 Nov 2025
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Lying on the ground behind Gwaine is a man with ripped clothes — dark hair, bony cheeks, chest heaving up and down. He doesn't look frightened exactly, more shaken, in an oddly feral sort of way. He massages thin wrists with fingers that match, shackles peeking out from under the torn sleeves, and stands up on his feet slowly, very carefully.
When he realises that someone's looking at him, he looks back.
Arthur feels something heavy settle in his throat — the man has such blue, blue eyes.
Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
06 Nov 2025
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“If Arthur, maker of knights, can train a lowborn man to your satisfaction and prove we can strengthen our defenses from among our own, you will release me from this marriage agreement.”
To save Morgana from a loveless political marriage, Arthur has three months to turn a peasant into a knight. The only problem? That peasant is Merlin.
Otherwise known as She's All That but utter medieval nonsense.
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Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
04 Nov 2025
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“Have I ever been a good manservant?” Merlin asked, because he couldn’t very well say ask me for something else and see what I wouldn’t give to you. It should have been more insulting that this of all things was what finally made Arthur relax.
Merlin confuses a typical favor with one of the gift-giving, courtly variety when Camelot hosts a winter tournament. Arthur tries his hand at courtship.
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27 Oct 2025
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“Damning?” She whispers fearfully.
“To Hell,” Merlin whispers back. “You don’t know what King Arthur is capable of.”
Ulla swallows again. Perhaps Emrys really is chained up in one of the castle dungeons.While awaiting the inauguration feast for Camelot's new mysterious court sorcerer, a young foreign chambermaid becomes wrapped up in harboring a fugitive manservant hiding from King Arthur. Comedy, terror, and fruit tarts ensue.
Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
24 Oct 2025
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When Merlin wakes in Arthur's bed, Arthur acts as if nothing has changed.
Merlin understands. It was a mistake, grief over Arthur's broken relationship with Gwen, and when it happens again (and again), Arthur keeps ignoring, and Merlin always understands.
Then Princess Mithian comes. A marriage is planned, and among Agravaine's betrayal, new duties above his station, and Arthur's continued advances, Merlin isn't sure how long he can hold himself together.
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16 Oct 2025
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There are two beds. Surely both Merlin and Arthur will be normal about this.
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Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
16 Oct 2025
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At the whims of his magic and the demands of the world's various turnings, sleep never came easily to Merlin, that is, until he met Arthur.
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Lifelong insomniac Merlin discovers that he sleeps better next to Arthur, and better still in his arms.
Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
16 Oct 2025
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My Heart is Growing Weak by WednesdaysDaughter
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
15 Feb 2020
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When he looks up Geralt has turned around, arms outstretched with a jar cradled in his large palms.
“I’ll take good care of it Jaskier.”
In the jar rests a beating heart; Jaskier’s beating heart. He opens his mouth to scream, but his voice is cheerful when he replies, “Of course you will Geralt.”
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Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
07 Aug 2025
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V, you crazy motherfucker… really managed to do it, huh? We’re out, and in one piece. Or just about.
Know I said it once before, but I’ll say it again: no one in Night City is one layer deep. And you? I’m startin’ to think there’s more layers to you than a fuckin’ onion.
Don’t get the reference? Guess we got plenty of time to change that now that we’re cooped up. You, me, and the cat. Shit.
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10 Jul 2025
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Merlin may not know much, but he knows not to believe any old prophecy a dragon tells him, especially without proof. He came to Camelot to determine his own fate, not to blindly follow his supposed destiny.
He even turns down King Uther's offer to work as a servant for the insufferable Prince Arthur, but they just can't seem to stop crossing paths.
The last thing Merlin wanted while he was on his hands and knees with his head in a bush, searching for the elusive snake, was to hear Arthur's pompous voice from behind him.
"What are you doing?" scoffed the prince.
"You haven't seen a snake around here, by any chance?" asked Merlin, extracting himself from the bush with difficulty and sitting back on his heels.
"I'm sorry, one of my knights is in need of medical attention, and the physician's assistant is searching for a new pet?"
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Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
19 Jun 2025
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Written for the kinksofcamelot kink meme prompt:
An au of the episode 4x09 - Lancelot du Lac in which Merlin is enchanted by the bracelet, instead of Gwen. Maybe he and Arthur were in a relationship, not Arthur and Gwen?
“I needed you, Arthur. I was so certain you would come. I was so certain you would help me.” He sucks in a searing breath, his heart leaden in his chest. “But you didn’t.”
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Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
16 Jun 2025
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Their captor grabs Arthur, pressing a knife tightly to his throat.
“Got any confessions for me now, boy?” The man snarls, his gaze fixed almost feverishly on Merlin.
There’s a look on Merlin’s face that Arthur has never seen before. “Forgive me,” he says, and his voice is flat and hollow and sorry. Then, between one breath and the next, the fear on his face is replaced by determination.
His eyes flood with gold, and the knife against Arthur’s throat clatters to the ground.
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Arthur and Merlin are captured, and Merlin, assumed to be an easily breakable servant, is tortured for information. He can handle it all, right up until the knife turns on his king.
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11 Jun 2025
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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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Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
10 Jun 2025
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“Flowers,” Arthur repeats dubiously. “Merlin is out… selling flowers.”
“The cornflowers sell especially well,” Gaius says.
Or: Merlin, on his trips to find herbs for Gaius, starts bringing home flowers. It doesn’t take long until the townspeople of Camelot start asking for specific flowers, and for Merlin to start taking orders.
Things sort of spiral.
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Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
05 Jun 2025
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In many ways, things are the same as ever.
It’s only… Well, back when Merlin still had things like secrets, or privacy, or self-respect, he would have thought that of the secrets, the magic would have been the one to truly catch Arthur’s interest.
But no. It’s the other secret that Arthur picks and plucks at.
Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
25 May 2025
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Arthur is on a quest to kill Emrys.
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“Kill Emrys, and magic dies,” the Witchfinder had said as he stood in the Great Hall, his hands clasped before his stomach. And Agravaine had nodded solemnly, and later he had told Arthur that he had to do what was best for the kingdom.
A Camelot free from magic. Arthur can barely imagine it. He’s lived in its shadow his entire life. It’s his father’s dream, to see the kingdom rid of the scourge of sorcerers, and Arthur will do anything he can to realize that dream.
He will do what his father failed to do. He will kill magic once and for all.
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- Part 4 of Merlin is a God AUs
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Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
12 May 2025
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For this god, more than any of the others, is a danger to the peace Uther Pendragon holds dear. Emrys, the magic-bringer. Emrys, the kingmaker. Emrys, alleged to be the son of a human woman and a dragonlord. And so Uther had all the dragonlords killed, and all their children.
He missed one.
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- Part 6 of Merlin is a God AUs
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Bookmarked by BowBeforeTippy (TheBaneOfWraith)
12 May 2025