Merlin Rec: This Hide-and-Seek Makes Me an Addict: A Most Excellent Tale in Four Parts

[out_there]

This Hide-and-Seek Makes Me an Addict: A Most Excellent Tale in Four Parts by syllic should be read by any Merlin fan who once loved popslash. (I didn't love popslash so much as flirt with it for a few months. There were good times -- fun music, good stories -- and this tale made me want to go back and read them all over again.)

I'm trying not to spoil everyone for this story, since the reveal is the epitome of awesome... but there should be more stories where JC is described as "fey". It delights me more than I can say.

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[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

I was halfway through that a few days back and thought "Noooo... she didn't! Did she?" and then I got to the end, and she totally did. LOL!

[out-there.livejournal.com]

I got about a third through, and thought "oh, is this a boyband? Hmmm, is it NSync?" and then skipped down to check the comments to see I was right, and then spent the next third working out which ones Merlin and Arthur were.

Mind you, there were some great nods to fanon, such as the reference to a box of puppies -- an old fandom thing about the boyband members being so cute they were likened to puppies -- and... hmmm. I can't remember the other few that I spotted, but there were some nice details thrown in there.

(Merlin as Lance = awesome. So awesome. But my faovurite bit has to be JC constantly referred to "fey Bevedere". It's just very true.)

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

I don't know enough about boybands to identify them individually, but I guess I do know enough to recognise the fact that it was a boyband fic... heh.