Still Yet Another Merlin Rec

[merelyn]

Hi, new Merlin friends! *waves* Welcome, have a rec, pointed the way by [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com].

Guys. GUYS. moonythestrals has written what is, to my knowledge, the first CRACK AU in Merlin fandom. This is so exciting. It's like when rageprufrock's Hindsight came out in SGA, and it was the first major AU, like an oasis of crack in a desert of normal stories- and then three years later Girl Scout Cookie/Rainbow/Unicorn crack AUs were the norm. I have high hopes for Merlin as well.

FRATBOY!ARTHUR AU by moonythestrals

As an English+Business double major/gay ex-sorority girl, I spent most of this story being YES. EXACTLY. (BECAUSE COLLEGE IS REALLY LIKE THIS, K?)


Also, I was on a bus last night and haven't seen Grey's yet. I'm sure I will have something to say about it later.

Comments

[bydaylight.livejournal.com]

HAAAAAAAAAIIIII \o

dfflgsfkgsdfas I AM OUTSIDE AND ON MY COUSIN'S MAC, WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO MEEEEEEEEEEE?! I can't read it right now but IT HAS BEEN BOOKMARKED. IT HAS.

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

\o/ \o/ \o/ REEEEAD IT.

[volsi.livejournal.com]

I thought you were giving up on greys.

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

Yep, but this is the last episode that my TV girlfriend is on. After this: FINISHED. (AND BITTER.)

[neptuneskisses.livejournal.com]

Hee! I loved it too, and I thought exactly the same - yay, our shiny new fandom has fabulous cracky AU fic already!!! It definitely bodes well :-D

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

*rubs hands together in gleeful anticipation*

[porntestpilot.livejournal.com]

WHAT IS MERLIN SINCE NOW I HAVE TO WATCH IT UBHI INOIKJ. D:

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

IT IS MADE OF WIN. AND HAS PRETTY PEOPLE. And both Merlin and Arthur are young and Arthur's a royal prat and Merlin becomes his manservant and has to practice magic in secret and they have a DESTINY as proclaimed by the dragon under the castle. AND it has Morgana who is gorgeous and fierce. *points to icon* AND it has Anthony Stewart Head from Buffy. AND it is awesome and is as cute as a bucket of kittens and bunnies and puppies ALL TOGETHER.

Basically: \o/

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

I just like to say Maaaaaaaanservant.

:-D

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

MAAAAAAANSERVANT. (New Fandom Catchphrase, y/n?)

[j_apollo]

Hi new Merlin friend *waves back*

That was most certainly the first crack AU and probably first AU as well.

And you also watch Grey's, very cool. I miss the first season *sad face* but it is very cracky and cliched at times now which is cool but also very strange as its supposed to be a realistic drama show . And typing Grey's and realistic together just made me laugh.

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

That was most certainly the first crack AU and probably first AU as well.

Hopefully there will be lots more! Personally I want someone to write the modern AU with Arthur as a some sort of Prince Harry type and Merlin as...something I haven't figured out yet. (Please not a Merlin/Arthur British version of First Daughter, please brain, just no, stop it....)

Yeah, Grey's...I just don't know. Season 1 was awesome, but it just seemed to get more and more ridiculous, and now that Dr. Hahn is gone I'm not watching anymore. (I feel like she was, bizarrely, the only character actually in a realistic drama on Grey's, while everyone else was too busy angstily gazing at their navels and angstily sleeping with each other.)

[krazykipper.livejournal.com]

I think half of my friendslist recced that. *note to self* Start with the Merlin/Arthur AUs. Hell, there should be an AU challenge. *nods*

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Brilliant idea! This definitely needs to happen. (Also, I need some excuse to actually write the Two Weeks Notice AU that started eating my brain last night.)

[krazykipper.livejournal.com]

Hmm...a Merlin film!AU challenge.

We should completely organise that!!

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

We should! I've never done anything like that before, but I'd be willing to help. Maybe we could take the reel_sga comm from SGA fandom as inspiration?

[krazykipper.livejournal.com]

Me neither. Well, not on a large scale. More of running a fic comm and going "this is your challenge for the month, write it bitches."

This could be a proper challenge. And, yeah, that would work. (There was a reel_spn challenge last year too).

What are your graphics/layout skills like??

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

Uhh...practically nonexistent, sadly. Maybe we need more help?

[krazykipper.livejournal.com]

Hmm...well we could always just use a premade LJ layout and ask if anyone who signs up could do the layout??

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, maybe we could ask around our flists and see what we come up with. And crap, I have to run, but we should definitely hash this out more later. :)

[krazykipper.livejournal.com]

That we could definitely do. Flists tend to be more graphically inclined. ;p

Hashing will be brilliant. See you later!!

[moonythestrals.livejournal.com]

WOT.

I AM REELING FROM THIS REC. YOU. I AM SO INCOHERENT WITH GLEE RIGHT NOW. & SO ABSOLUTELY UNDESERVING.

DDDDDDDDDDDDD: it makes me all teary to know that people actually, like, like my stuff. *clutches you*

[moonythestrals.livejournal.com]

also

>>English+Business double major/gay ex-sorority girl
you're... pretty fucking baller, wow. good for you. :DDDDD

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

Ha, yeah, I am a bit all over the place. :) But it does mean that I had a lot of experience with drippy creative writing teachers, Finance majors, and frat boys. WHICH IS PARTLY WHY I LOVE THIS STORY.

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

*tackles you back* TOTALLY DESERVED.