Tales from the Loathly Lady

Title: The Sun Hasn't Died
Wordcount: ~10,800
Warnings: past character death, mentions of violence and rioting and other consequences of the apocalypse
Summary: You have to figure out how to survive somehow, after the world ends. Elena does it by stealing horses and roaming, at least until she finds the village of Camelot and its residents, especially its librarian.
A/N: Written for the free space on my Trope Bingo card and because Emjayelle prompted an Elena/Mithian apocalypse AU on tumblr. I restrained myself from putting novels worth of backstory and minor character interaction into this, you should be grateful. Title from "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons.
Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin.

Read it over on the AO3: ... if there's nobody around to appreciate her cleverness, well. Elena always did better on her own anyway.

First of all, thank you, wonderful author! I promise that any and all details/prompts contained below are optional (I get pretty intimidatingly wordy, but that is just because I want you to have lots of options, not because I'm going to be picky), and that I really just enjoy seeing fics about all these various wonderful ladies. Anything that does not hit my dislikes/squicks is bound to make me happy. :)

I may come back and edit this if I realize that I missed something, but otherwise, if you have any questions, the askbox and anon thereon at my tumblr are always on and you can contact my there.

( Likes and dislikes, both general and specific, as well as some prompts. )

Thank you again, dear author, for whatever fic you end up being inspired to write!

Title: How Much a Heart Can Hold
Wordcount: ~2,400
Summary: The problem with having two boyfriends is Valentine's Day.
A/N: Written for the "holiday" square on my trope bingo card (you may think from looking at it that I intend to do the top line. If I ever come up with something good for "au: steampunk" that may even be true).
Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin.

( Mostly, Gwen doesn't care if things aren't perfect. )

Title A Statue Strong Enough for Two
Wordcount: ~39,000
Summary: Elena is a street-level superhero--she's never been one of the ones who wanted glory. Now, though, a visit from an old enemy forces her to step up and see what she might have to do with the Sidhe who invaded and were sent away twenty years ago. Luckily, she has fellow superheroes, especially the Huntress, to back her up, and a new girlfriend in her regular life to make things feel more normal. (Though nothing, of course, can ever be normal when you've got a secret identity.)
Warnings: this being a superhero story, there is some violence and minor character death, including one brief scene where a character deliberately injures herself in the course of fighting evil, and another where two characters who are friendly spar and come out with some bruises. None of the above is very explicit, but do be warned that it is present.
A/N: Written for this prompt on the meme. The title is from Ian Axel's "This is the New Year."
Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin.

Because of the length, I'm not reposting the full text here, so you can find it all on the AO3, right here.

Title: The Future is Ours
Wordcount: ~3,300
Warnings: canon character death (in an alternate universe), references to half-sibling incest
Summary: Morgana wakes, and it's all been a dream.
A/N: I have wanted this fic to exist for a long time (even if by all rights it deserves Big Bang treatment), so I thought I would do it as the last part of my post-finale fics. It isn't a headcanon so much as it is basically a big screw-you to destiny the way the show does it, with bonus pre-OT4 added in.
Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin.

( No one mourns the death of Morgana Pendragon. )

Leaving my card here for easy reference and for ease of having a masterlist later. This looks like it will be quite entertaining! Percolating a few ideas, we'll see what comes of them.

de-aged	holiday	cross-dressing	au: steampunk	slavefic
day at the beach	in vino veritas / drunkfic	au: neighbors	huddle for warmth	au: college / highschool
secret relationship	curtainfic	au: apocalypse	truth or dare	celebratory kiss
au: historical	food porn	secret twin / doppelganger	fusion	kiss to save the day
fake relationship	animal transformation	accidental baby acquisition	telepathy / mindmeld	genderswap

Title: As Long As We Have We
Wordcount: ~17,000
Warning: past minor character death
Summary: Arthur thinks he's going to have to spend Christmas alone--at least until he somehow acquires a whole house full of strays.
A/N: My merlin_holidays fic! (If anyone is wondering why the title changed since that posting, let me tell you: when you are looking for quotes to title your fics from always find a second source because sometimes the first one is wrong. This now-corrected snippet is from How the Grinch Stole Christmas.) Written for neojas and betaed by the ever-trusty plot-wrangling flammablehat.
Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin.

( Part One )

Part Two

Title: Heavy is the Head (That Wears the Crown)
Wordcount: ~2300
Warnings: 5x13 spoilers: this fic is set after Arthur's death and deals with Gwen's grief as she keeps going, as well as (to some extent) Merlin's. There is also another character death. Past Arthur/Gwen, implied possible Gwen/Leon Read, as always, with your own self-care in mind.
Summary: Gwen has to be Queen. There's no time to mourn.
A/N: This is the first of four fics that I'm intending to write post-finale. There will be one for each of the OT4, but they won't necessarily all be congruent or share the same headcanons--just my way of dealing with things and assimilating the new canon. As is somehow generally true of my canon-era fic, none of them will be terribly happy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin.

( It isn't like the stories. )

Due to a death in the family, things may be deserted around here for a while. Since I tend to write when upset there may still be fic, but I will be even worse than usual at responding to PMs/questions/the entries of those on my f-list (though do remember that you don't have to wait for permission on podfics/other fanworks, if that is what you would be PMing about, any and all are welcome). I will do my best to keep all commitments I've made at this point.

Thank you.