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Will be popping now.

I can do fluffy kissing fic if that's what you'd like :)

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I'd love it. ♥

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I've noticed. You might just be worse then me.

You know what I did today? I sat down to finally write Merlin fic...
...you get three guesses as to what I wrote instead. You'll probably need all three.

As for gifting, whatever makes you happy!

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1. SGA fic
2. THE FIRST EVER ELEVEN FIC
3. Your dissertation proposal :P

You don't want to let me write whatever makes me happy because you will get something odd (like the HIGHWAYMAN AU (where Merlin holds up Arthur's stagecoach/carriage or something) that ambushed my brain on the train the other day. WHUT? I don't write AUs...)

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That sounds...interesting. Were you drinking at the time? :D Hey, there is something to be said for AUs. SGA has some fantastic ones. How about something with just Merlin, and no Arthur to play off of? Or Merlin and Gaius?

No, actually, it was Legend of the Seeker fic. I hate myself already. ::looks ashamed:: Also, I missed my chance for being the first at Eleven. Someone(s) got there on the day. Buggers.

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I was not! *outrage* I was on the train back from Cam in the middle of the afternoon. I just have a weird brain?

I can do Merlin-centric with no Arthur. Something about how he grew up without a father? Gaius fic? Merlin and Gaius gathering herbs in the wood? Something along those lines?

it was Legend of the Seeker fic
I am very amused. Specifically that, rather than Sword of Truth fic? How far did you get?

The first day? That's impressive.

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1) I have seen plenty of people drinking on afternoon trains. And yes, you do.

2) Oh, Merlin and Gaius gathering herbs, I like that!

3) It was Legend of the Seeker more then canon-Sword of Truth. I am leary of writing book canon while the show is on. Also, I would so have to reread WFR first. I have a vague memory of the Mud People and the ending, and that's pretty much it. Right now I am on to Soul of the Fire, because it was all I could find in Waterstones (that I hadn't already read). You know, I have a knack for reading series out of order. Possible G.R.R. Martin's are the only ones I have. And I still don't know what's going on half the time!

I am sure there will be more to come. Although I managed to not write shippy Richard/Kahlan fic. The show does quite fine on its own. Give me time though.

4)Some people are far too eager for their own good. I have promised myself I will have the first fic come the actual introduction of Eleven. Because I suspect no matter how much they try to keep it a secret, us die-hards will have figured it out.

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1) not me however. Although I may write the fic anyway. Except for the part where it might require historical research. What do you know about highwaymen?

2) *notes*

3) I have Soul of the Fire with me in L, randomly, if you want it ever. Amazon just informed me GRR Martin's book has been pushed back AGAIN from April to November. Not impressed.

Haven't seen the show, but I didn't really ship Richard/Kahlan in the books. They sort of annoyed me with their perfectness. I had no ships, really (except maybe Verna and Warren, because aww).

4) You have time.

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1) um, nothing, but that could change.

3) bugger, again? I'll just have to start at the beginning then because by the time November roles around I will have no idea what the characters are called, much less the plot.

The problem is, that R/K is book canon, and I tend to automatically ship canon relationships. I should be different and go for the odd ones, but it never happens. I have no imagination, apparently, or I'm just boring.

4) time enough

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3) sucks doesn't it. I'm not going to remember anything either.

R/K is book canon. Whether I ship canon pairings or not really depends on how the are presented and how interesting they are. R/K just aren't interesting once they get past the he-doesn't-know-she-can-wipe-his-mind thing. In BSG, in contrast, I ship Cara/Lee all the way (which is sometimes canon...) because the relationship between them is complicated and interesting.

One of the things I love about Merlin is that there are so many ways it works because everyone has some kind of interesting relationship with everyone else.

4) I look forward to it.

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Woo, Kara/Lee!

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So I'm taking your Merlin and Gaius go herb-gathering fic and making it a scene in the longer fic in which they have a Deep and Meaningful conversation while collecting random ingredients. Is that ok?

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Tis you who are writing it, so of course!

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OOOH ME, ME!

i don't even know D:

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Okay, you. :D

Let me know when you decide (and yes, I will do Colin/Bradley if you want, although I know you might not because you are fussy about characterisation :P)

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just merlin/arthur or colin/bradley.

you know, seriously, i don't even know why the 'characterisation' of colin and bradley bothers me so much D:

i hate that it's causing me to be a fandom snob or whatever and i wish it wasn't but i just - i dunno.

but feel free to write it if you want because i will adore it as it is a gift ♥

fic, art, whatever. surprise me :_)

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It doesn't make you a fandom snob. It just means you have opinions, which is fine, and that you voice them. You are actually allowed :P

I'm scared to write it in case you don't like it. What exactly bothers you? (so I can not do it!)

Alternately I will do soemthing else.

Your icon makes me just a bit jealous. Except for the part where if I'd ever met them you'd never get RPS out of me.

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well, that's alright then.

don't be silly! i'll adore it, i know. well, non-con, bdsm and stuff, mockery of any character. pretty much it, actually. VERY serious about the non-con. D: DNW.

(lol. omg i was so excited i felt ridiculous. and i still write rps. i think that makes me morally ambiguous lol)

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:D

You aren't going to have Non-Con from me ever. Ever. I'll write pretty much anything at all, but at no point will I write that. You are unlikely to get BDSM either, since I don't really know what I'm talking about and so I'm not going to do it. Mild bondage maybe, that's about it. Nothing makes me click out of a fic faster than non-con other than non-con and then the victim loves it. Just NO.

(I would have embarrassed myself hugely)

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i know there are some people on my flist who do, so i have to say it just so they know it's a line i don't cross. personal feelings go some way to explaining this, but w/ever.

that's good ;) bdsm doesn't work for me. well, except in certain circumstances, but w/ever. so true. SO TRUE>

you wouldn't have! they were amazingly nice. i thought i would have. i did, after all, call arthur/bradley dim. however indirectly. i nearly didn't ask the question but then i did and it was awesome but he hates me now :( well, he said he wasn't talking to me and then he did so i bet we're alright, actually ;))

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Yeah, and I've seen it in the comms and not read it. Even when it is written by an author I admire. I need to know you are a qualified psychologist in sexual trauma or something before I will read non-con by you. I have seen it done well once in however many zillion years I have been in fandom.

That's okay then :P

I would have. And then I would have spent the next three weeks thinking of the clever replies I should have said. Also, I love how Arthur being a bit dim is now completely accepted as part of fanon. Bless. You did that.

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lol so true. i just stay away |D:

i feel so ~proud~. i started like, a movement, lol.

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OH OH OH! I just had this insane idea. Did you start doing your collaborative fic?

DID YOU EVER READ THIS PLOT-IT-YOURSELF TYPE BOOKS WHEN YOU WERE A KID? I think I had some Famous Five ones back in the day. Where at the bottom of the page you get to decide if they do a or b. And if it's a then you turn to page 378, and if it's b then you go to page 45 or whatever. HOW WELL WOULD THAT WORK ONLINE? with links? It would be hugely complicated to write and post and would probably need a comm of its own and a team of writers to cover all the branching possibilities.

WHY do I always have giant ideas? I need to rein myself in. And, y'know, actually finish the fics I started.

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OMG. THIS IS JUST LIKE WE SHARED A ~WAVELENGTH~.

I WAS THINKING OF DOING THIS OMG. I APPROVE! i wanted to do one with links and i would have hosted it on my website and there would be IMAGES as well, like some of the entries in the books used to have and OMG IT COULD BE A COLLABORATION. THIS WOULD BE AWESOME. like, someone writes the basic story and everytime there's a confliction, like, someone else could write like, a short!fic or a long!fic depending on where they want to take it, but within limits.

and then it all comes together and we could have like, four or five different endings? idek. OMG I WANT TO DO THIS.

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LETS DO IT!

We'd need to have a basic story outline with alternates. And then divide up who writes which bits. Maybe get some other people to write sections too? IT WOULD BE SO FANTASTIC!

What do you want to write about? WE NEED A REALLY FANTASTIC PLOT!

I'M SO EXCITED

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YES! WE TOTALLY SHOULD.

Yes, we would. Should we make it Merlin/Arthur? Or keep it friendship!only to make it user friendly? I don't even know.

OMG. It should be an awesome plot. and we should like, PM only a few people. Like five or so? so that gives us seven alternative plots? Does that sound workable? It should be post-finale, obviously, and maybe we could have different options? like the MAIN PLOT is something like, merlin telling arthur (which gives us option so short-writing it where he tells arthur, arthur has the choice of saving merlin or going to his daddy, and when he goes to uther merlin dies) hence one death? and so on and so forth? like that?

so that main plot is Merlin's revelation of magic because something happens, and then in the end ... idk. but that should be it? or something else?

ME TOO, OMG.

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YAY

We could make it so that one strand is Merlin/Arthur, one is friendshippy, one is, IDK, Merlin/Morgana? Depending on what outcome you choose. Like, they get together in one and are happy, but don't in another and it's all angsty, and Merlin dies in a third one?

We should have many choices. So the first one decides maybe if Merlin tells Arthur about his magic. And the second one is how Arthur reacts. And the third one is something else. So it ends up lots of ways, and some of them connect back up so there aren't actually millions of endings, but you might just have different middles? (we'd need a diagram to work it out probably)

We should probably have a small group of people to write it and then make sure it's all posted properly and all the links work, then we should post something to journals etc telling people so that they can come read it and try it out!

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