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o.O It's December already!! Which means, of course, merlinadvent!

Title: Of Knights and Snowball Fights
Characters: Arthur, Merlin, Sir Leon, Gawain, Assorted Knights, Arthur/Merlin if you squint (and I definitely do)
Rating: PG-13 (there may be a bad joke, otherwise G)
Disclaimer: Alas, I do not own Merlin BBC or the characters. I'm just playing in Shine's sandbox.
Summary: Arthur and his knights get up to some tomfoolery during training.  Futurefic - Arthur is King.
Prompt: merlinadvent Day 02: Magic, Knights and Snowball fights! - someone's sword stuck in the ice

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Right, so, more Merlin fic that isn't what I should be writing (or doing - next week: finals! o.O). Gah. First porn, now fluff. Someday I'll manage to finish an actual story.

Pretty much, this was written to fend off nyxelestia from poking me about that steampunk fic that was supposed to be my NaNo fic. Yeah... (and maybe because I feel a tiny bit bad that it's my fault Snuggle evolved into 6 pages of notes on a hospital!AU.)

Title: Persuasion
Fandom: Merlin
Rating: PG-13ish
Summary: Merlin is a manipulative bastard without even trying and Arthur's too noble for his own dignity. Set in nyxelestia's hospital!AU land, as a sort of sequel to Snuggle.
Author's Notes: teddybear!Arthur. What more can a person want? Unbetaed and written late at night, so. Be warned - typos within. And this is all nyxelestia's fault. All of it.

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In other news, with enough shiny duct tape, I could fix the world. Also, being sick sucks, but glow-in-the-dark stars in my dorm room make me feel a whole lot better. Yeah, that's right. You know you hating my nerdiness.

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*cough* Right, so nyxelestia and I seem to have the most interesting late night (or early morning in my case - damn time zones) conversations on IM and, well. Some things need to be shared.

Aside from apparently having Arthur and Merlin on my side, doing the nasty on my bed (no matter what Nyxie may tell you about the comfort of her bed, or a certain dedication of poetry to it - filthy lies, all of it), and having kinkme_merlin prompts literally flung at me last night, we also had an Epic Life-Changing Revelation. I was skulking around Merlin fandom land, and found: this. The following occured at 5:19AM EST:

arithilim: I channeled Merlin without realizing
arithilim: Also, go watch this
arithilim: http://ifyouweremine.livejournal.com/164292.html#cutid1
arithilim: Naow.
nyxelestia: [insert the laughing emoticon of Y!IM]
arithilim: And this
arithilim: http://ifyouweremine.livejournal.com/158172.html#cutid1
nyxelestia: [insert the rofl emoticon of Y!IM]
arithilim: I just keep watching it over and over
nyxelestia: I wonder what would happen if they actually turned out to be gay...
arithilim: ah, the world would implode from fangirl glee and then we wouldn't have to rely on manips to stare at
nyxelestia: [insert the laughing emoticon of Y!IM]
arithilim: Also, I would name my first two boy children bradley and colin
arithilim: even though I'm not particuarly fond of either name
nyxelestia: [insert the rofl emoticon of Y!IM]
nyxelestia: Just the boy children?
nyxelestia: Hey, Jamie and Morgan are unisex names..
nyxelestia: ...*
arithilim: Well, I mean, Colleen, ok, but, Bradlina?
arithilim: true, true

Aside from the rather worrying number of times I was laughed at, re-looking at this conversation led me to discover the really very worrying size of my little-fan-girl crush on Bradley James and Colin Morgan. I therefore spent today eating copious amounts chocolate and watching youtube videos of their interviews. I AM SO SCREWED PEOPLE. SO SCREWEDDDD.

(also, I am shamelessly comandeering ifyouweremine's tag of bradley motherfucking james because honestly, I have never heard anything that was so perfect in my life.)

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THE BATTLE IS ON and I am losing.



*switches back to yWriter to frantically raise word count* Ah well, at least we're all behind together.

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GAH! Why did signing up for NaNoWriMo seem like a good idea at the time? lol I'm behind already, so I think this weekend I'll be playing catch-up. Still, it's worth it if I do manage to churn out my epic-length M/A fic. Which could happen, truefax. It is steampunk!AU after all, which is pretty motivating I must say. I mean, there's just so much to play with! But yeah, anyways, I've pretty much put everything else on hold for the month of Novemeber (unless I get really freaking inspired to write more of my college Merlin fic).

Also, I am very, very excited for tomorrow's Merlin episode. Like, really freaking excited people! I shall take a break from my lazing-about-cause-it's-Saturday and frantically-writing-nano-fic to watch it. And guh, yay for Arthur hugging dragging Merlin. Though, if Gaius dies, I will figure out a way to throw the show across the room I will! I don't care that it's not a book, it will so happen!

And also, I am now obsessed with indie music. I found this list on itunes of like 97 songs or something, and let's just say I'm in a very happy place right now, especially cause it goes well with my current AAR fanatasism. Really, I can't help but just be happy listening to my iPod these days :D

But ANYWAYS...on to TEH SHINY:

So, basically, I was bored the other day, and I decided that making Merlin icons was an excellent way to procrastinate (especially with NaNoWriMo - procrastination has become even more of a fine art, let me tell you!). And I had some screencaps I download a long time ago to revel in the prettiness. And I saw Photoshop CS4 sitting there looking at me innocently. And, well, 53 icons later, here we are.

Also I would like to tell you that I've managed to develop even more of an obsession with Bradley and Colin's eyes. They're just...so pureettty! :p

ANYWAYS...( ...this way to the icons! )

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I went on an AR-themed iconmaking binge recently and here are the results!


( ...follow the LJ cut of all knowledge to the shiny! )
Credit goes to alexpettyferweb.com for the screencaps. For other resources check out lawl, specifically the resources post.

**Not for use as bases.  Unless you ask, I suppose...
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Title: Close Protection, of a Sort - Chapter Nine: The End of the Beginning
Fandom: Alex Rider
Pairing: Alex/Sabina sorta
Summary: Alex thinks he's done with espionage, but SCORPIA thinks otherwise. They target Alex and drag others in too. Now he's going to train with the SAS for his 'protection' so needless to say things look rough. Oh, and his class is coming too.
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s): Language, acute angst, violence I suppose, a little hint of sex talk (nothing explicit)
A/N: Thanks to Dream and Nyxelestia for betaing and handholding ^_^ Love you guys!

( Chapter Nine: The End of the Beginning )

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