Because, you know, I need a new fandom like a hole in the head

[such_heights]

Dear LJ,

Today I slept a great deal and watched four episodes of Merlin. It was a good day.

Okay, I should have trusted you all in your infinite wisdom from the get-go. IT'S AWESOME. I love Merlin, he's adorable! I love the way all the plots are incredibly predictable! I love Richard Wilson and Anthony Head! I LOVE Gwen and Morgana!

I can has Morgana/Gwen recs now, plz? I mean, yes yes, the Arthur/Merlin, oh it is blatant, and omg Merlin/Gwen is so cute I can hardly stand it, but I am blindsided by the Gwen/Morgana. Like the episode where everyone's dying of the icky plague thing, and Gwen gives one flower to Merlin (n'awwww) and ALL THE REST TO MORGANA, hee! ♥ ♥ ♥

Also, I hear tell the episodes actually get a lot better soon? I am excited! :D

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Also, though I'm not allowing myself to dive into the exchange properly until my own story is finished and submitted, grah, rs_small_gifts has started posting! And all looks wondrous. What I did manage to read was the following, and it was excellent:

Waiting For The Great Leap Forward, by woldy
Harry Potter ; Remus/Sirius ; PG-13
Four winters in Remus' life, told backwards.

This is a wonderfully intelligent story, on class differences and politics and how Remus and Sirius fell apart. It's quite a bit heartbreaking, but in such a plausible way, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Comments

[fauxkaren.livejournal.com]

Meeeeerlin! LOL. I'm so hooked on this cheesy, ridiculous show. Ngl, I'm a Arthur/Morgana shipper (in case the icon didn't give it away, heh), but I do know that there are a lot of good Arthur/Merlin fics out there. From what I've heard from other people in the fandom, there isn't as much good Morgana/Gwen and when people do pair them off it's more of a "remove the girls from the equation so Arthur and Merlin can be together". I'm sure that if you go poking around though you can find some.

I'm a huge Morgana fangirl, so I like any episode where she plays a part. :D Thus, my favorite episode is The Beginning of the End which is episode... 8, I think. But episode 12 (this week's episode) is going to feature Morgana really heavily. I'm ridiculously excited.

[such_heights]

there isn't as much good Morgana/Gwen and when people do pair them off it's more of a "remove the girls from the equation so Arthur and Merlin can be together"

*sigh* Whatever the canon, fandom can be so predictable sometimes. Sounds like I'm going to have to do all the work around here!

And dude, yes, Morgana FTW, and I look forward to seeing more of her relationship wit Arthur - currently, I'm intrigued, so I'll probably be shipping them by, you know, tomorrow. :D