Cori Lannam

Our final Merlin big bang! That makes me both happy and sad. I really didn't think I would sign up again, unless I could pull together a sequel to last year's story. But after the finale, gilli_ann and gwylliondream gave me a huge post-5x13 idea that's been eating my brain ever since, so now I can't wait to sign up.


I've been doing almost no reading lately, despite my best efforts, but I have to rec two stories that were gifted to ME!

First, the marvelous modern royal AU (with magic!) written for me for merlin_holidays. Jerusalem is the intriguing and tender story of Arthur, the irresponsible playboy prince, who finds his ways being changed by his new minder, the powerful magic user with a mysterious past. If you love royal AUs as much as I do, you must read it!

The second story is Hawaii 5-0, and was perhaps less a gift than a reward for pestering stellarmeadow ever since our ill-fated trip to Atlantic City with chelseafrew and a_terri_beth. What Happens in Atlantic City... is an adorable and hilarious future fic where Steve and Danny are taking a teenage Grace to see her musical idol in concert--but of course, things never go smoothly for Steve and Danny, do they?

I'm going to do the standard fic reveal post in a minute (or...a while), but first I must pimp one of my favorite holiday gifts that you might not see otherwise because anna_zee is being shy and not posting to any comms.

Those of you who follow the reel_merlin challenge every year might remember Anna's utterly delightful take on The Proposal from the round before last: For Worse or For Better. In fact, just go reread it anyway. I'll wait.

So then Anna was traumatized by season 2 and then traumatized even more by season 3, and she didn't write anything else FOR AGES. This was personally painful to me, as I'm sure you can imagine.

But sometimes she would talk about these characters and what she thought they'd be doing later on, and particularly how they might spend their first Christmas. "You should write that," I would say idly. AND THEN SHE DID.

So if you still have a little room left for some lovely Christmas schmoop, go check out So This Is Christmas by anna_zee.

And then leave her some love, because she's still all cute and shy and stuff.