The Ladies' Room

I did it! I wrote a little! I'm back on the horse of ridiculousness! Basically I just had to let go of insecurities about getting characterizations 'wrong' in RPS. OF COURSE IT'S WRONG. I DON'T KNOW THESE PEOPLE. lol. (Although damn, writing about someone as private at Colin Morgan is, uh, more difficult than writing about, say, Karl Urban. Who is a dorky fuckwhit who uses more emoji than I do when I've had a bottle and a half of wine.)

Uh. Anyway. To tomorrow! \o/

[HOLY CATS IT'S DONE YOU GUYS. IT'S DONE AND I AM FREEEEEEEEE.]

Title: How to Fake a Miracle, Or: It's Not Necromancy If You're Doing it For Love

Author(s): thalialunacy
Artist: argentsleeper

Pairings/characters: Merlin/Arthur (plus Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Ria Torres, Eli Loker, Cal Lightman, Gillian Foster, Parker, Eliot Spencer, Alec Hardison, Nathan Ford, Sophie Devereaux, and a few wee OCs)
Rating: R for language and sexual situations
Word Count: ~30k
Warnings: Crossover with Supernatural, the Fast & Furious franchise, Lie to Me, and Leverage.

Summary:

Waiting a thousand years drives Merlin to do some things he wouldn't otherwise do. Boost cars, like. Hunt demons, maybe. Trust Americans, despite better instincts.

But when all he's got is the clothes on his back and the weight of time on his shoulders, it's all too easy to end up in the middle of the woods of the northern Pacific coast of the States with two brothers named Sam & Dean, chanting dead words over an ancient sigil, trying to bring back the one thing that has ever, ever mattered to him.

And when King Arthur wakes up in their crappy hotel room sometime later, spouting a language Merlin hasn't heard in a very, very long time, well, he might well just think he's figured everything out.

Spoiler alert: He hasn't.

YO: This is an Arthur-back-from-the-dead story. It's a supernatural caper of rather large proportions, with a strong dash of snark and a bouquet of happily ever after. Enjoy. :D

an AO3 meme, as seen on sunnyrea's journal

( AO3 Works Stats, now in handy top 5 form )

So that's a pretty good segue into a thing I've been figuring out -- I'm taking a break from writing. I think I'm going to finish reel_merlin but I'm honestly not sure. It's stressing me out, and if I'm not doing it for money then it's not worth the stress. I need to not let my sense of self-worth be based on the response to my fanfiction, which it largely is right now. Trek fandom built it up, bless them, and now I am falling hard flat on my face. And that sucks. And the rest of my self-esteem is not helped by reading other people's amazing romantic fiction, while I sit here alone and unwanted.

Plus, reality calls. You would not believe the amount of knitting I have to do. XB