#merlin reverse Big Bang

[myoonmii]

Participated in this years @bbcmerlin-reversebang and had an absolute blast! I was very very lucky to have worked with lavender_spice who took my art prompt and bettered it 100x times with their gorgeous fic

I highly recommend checking it out if your a sucker for Merthur pining/idiots in love/angst/secret relationship realness like me, Thank you again and again to my writer I adore every single word of your amazing 24k fic 🫶

[willowsmarika]

But what is grief, if not love persevering?

Merlin Bingo 2024 M5 ~ Grief // Ao3 link @merlinbingo //@bbcmerlin-reversebang

[the--short--one]

Merlin Reverse Big Bang!

I had a lovely time working with remaymber, so check out their work on Ao3!! They wrote the accompanying fic Watching you like I’m in love, and it’s truly wonderful 🥰

Artist summary:

Arthur often found himself watching Merlin. In the beginning, he thought Merlin was your average (if insolent and slightly stupid) farm-boy graced with the great fortune of becoming Arthur’s manservant (much to both their ire). But the more he watched and the more Merlin began to intertwine with every aspect of his life, Arthur realised. . . Merlin was the greatest thing that ever happened to him.”

@bbcmerlin-reversebang

[eachpeachpearplume]

Up Pendragon Creek Without an Oar, my first collab for @bbcmerlin-reversebang has posted!

Summary: When Agravaine betrays the Pendragons, they lose everything- their money, their property, their status, it's all gone. With nothing to their name, they are forced to relocate to the sleepy town of Ealdor, living in the rundown Camelot Bed and Breakfast. It's nothing like any of them were prepared for, but it may just be exactly what Arthur and Morgana need.

Images by me, beautiful words by @laurie-on-a-lark! It's the Schitt's Creek Merthur AU I've been wanting to read for ages, and I hope you love it as much as I do!

[likeapaperplane]

Merlin RVBB

I had the pleasure to work with @slantedknitting on Dragon of the Dawn for @bbcmerlin-reversebang 😄Please go read it!!

[artstelle]

Here is my post for @bbcmerlin-reversebang

Merlin had enough of Arthur's cruelty and blindness. He bury his feelings for his king and do what he must, as Emrys, to bring back the magic to land and save the life of innocents. He won't wait for prophecy to happen by the hand of someone anymore, it is time for him to do it himself.

Eternal gratitude to @merlinlikethebird and @mossmx for their awesome help.

And here is the fic written by @gogegg

[mslaevateinn]

Here is @eachpeachpearplume and I's collaboration! A big thank you to the @bbcmerlin-reversebang mods for organising the event! It was a blast and I loved working with Peach the entire time!

About the collab that you can find on AO3:

Title: All the Way Back You Held Out Your Hand Creators: eachpeachpearplum and Laevateinn Pairing: Gwaine/Percival Rating and length: E, 14.4k Tags: Curses, Werewolf Gwaine, Angst with a Happy Ending, Kidnapping, Animal Transformation, Getting Together, Canon-Typical Violence, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Arm Wrestling, Tournaments

Summary:

It's not that Gwaine's complaining, not really, because this is definitely the friendliest conclusion he's ever seen to a kidnapping. It's way better than torture and starvation followed by either a dramatic rescue or his untimely demise, but yeah, being knocked unconscious, tied up in a shack, having gibberish chanted at him and then being let go again is very definitely strange.

Or: Gwaine gets kidnapped and cursed by an evil sorcerer, but it's okay 

[bbcmerlin-reversebang]

BBC Merlin Reverse Bang Sign-Ups Open!

It’s time to sign up for the 2023-2024 round of the BBC Merlin Reverse Bang!

If you haven’t already done so, please refamiliarize yourself with our FAQs & Info/Rules, as there are some big changes from the first round! Also check out this year’s schedule!

Without further ado, here are the sign-up links!

Podficcers

Artists

Writers

Alphas & Betas

Podficcer sign-ups are open thru Sept 23rd and writer claims will open the weekend of Sept 30th.

Artist sign-ups are open thru Nov 18th, art is due on Dec 2nd, and writer claims will open the weekend of Dec 9th.

Please sign up, spread the word, ask any questions you have, and get hyped!!

[merlinlikethebird]

Dude you are a wizard at Merlin fanart..... Fantastic stuff to look at. Thanks for posting it, it's such a lovely day when it pops up on my dash.

You're too nice! Also good timing, because reverse big bang art is wrapping up! Can't wait for posting days! I'm not normal about it, thank you for asking : )

[akaashism]

Hello... Do you mind if I ask your top favorite fanfics that you've written? Why are they're special to you? Do you have specific inspiration when you wrote them? Thanks if you want to answer.....

So when I got this ask, I told myself that I would only pick 3 fics no matter what. If I went beyond that, we would be here all day, but picking 3 out of 60 made the task very hard as well 😭 They're all my babies tbh.

But even then, these are a bit more special.

Lucky Again: Written for my first fanfiction event (Kagehina Big Bang 2022) that I was so excited for, and believe me, I put my entire heart and soul into this fic. No other writing experience will ever compare to this one and I will always be extremely proud of this fic ❤️ I've always loved exes to lovers as a trope and I was itching to write it for kagehina, so that's how this fic was born :')

religion's in your lips (even if it's a false god): Another fic I am very proud of, particularly of my writing in it. It was stupidly difficult to write this because of the ambiguous/toxic relationship theme, but it was a passion project for me, I simply needed to put it out into the world. I go back to reread it all the time and I love it a lot. My main inspiration for it was that Oikawa is always the indifferent, detached one in oikage fics and I wanted to reverse their roles and make Kageyama like that, while Oikawa yearned for something more from him. I hope I did a good job portraying the vision :))

gold rush: Merthur is the ship I've written the most number of fics for so choosing only one out of them made my hands shake violently. There are so many merthur fics that meant the world to me when I wrote them, but now, years later, when I look back, this is the fic that I find myself revisiting the most. I can't tell you the reason why. The inspiration for this was being totally gone for the idea of Merlin's magic being in love with Arthur ❤️

getting it right: Also a shout-out to this fic which is not only my longest work on ao3, but the fic that completely sucked me into kagehina, never to escape. Writing this was some of the most fun time of my life and I love rereading it too 🥰

Thank you for such a wonderful ask!! ❤️❤️

[princess-of-the-worlds]

Queen Morgana rules Mount Olympus with an iron fist, and when she proposes a match between god of spring Emrys and her estranged brother — the god of death Arthur —there can be no refusing.

But in the Underworld, Emrys, who prefers to be called Merlin, discovers that his marriage comes with a catch: his new husband resents his sister and her realm, and has no time for Merlin. Quickly, their mutual apathy turns to mutual loathing. Arthur grapples with his new marriage and holding onto his resentments while Merlin seemingly finds himself with only one option — to overthrow Arthur and install himself as the ruler of the Underworld.

kiss with a sword | Art

A collaboration for @bbcmerlin-reversebang BBC Merlin Reverse Bang 2023

Story By @princess-of-the-worlds

Art By @aro-tarot

Alpha-read By @flight-of-fantasy and @aretethegreattelleroftales

Artwork rating: T

Fic rating: T

Word count: 49K

Relationship: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Gwen & Merlin (Merlin), Hunith & Merlin (Merlin), Gaius & Merlin (Merlin), Morgana & Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Morgause & Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Leon & Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Agravaine & Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Minor or Background Relationship(s)

Characters: Merlin (Merlin), Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Gwen (Merlin), Gaius (Merlin), Knights of the Round Table (Merlin), Hunith (Merlin), Morgana (Merlin), Morgause (Merlin), Agravaine (Merlin)

Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Ancient Greek Religion & Lore Fusion, Inspired by Hades and Persephone (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Inspired by The Great (TV 2020), Inspired by Art, Embedded Images, Angst with a Happy Ending, Enemies to Lovers, Arranged Marriage, Canon-Typical Violence, Betrayal, Major Character Injury, Reverse Big Bang Challenge

[callowyn]

20 Questions for Writers

Tagged by @oakashandwillow

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 42...the perfect number

2. What's your total AO3 word count? just shy of 500k which is an insane number

3. What fandoms do you write for? >_> look. is the top fandom on my ao3 page supernatural: yes. am I still actively posting spn fic: technically also yes. but the incoherent scum villain tweets that don't make it onto ao3 are where my heart truly lies rn

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

#1 and #2 are the double header of Cumplane (Pairing), an in-universe meta for @cleromancy's threadfic, and Cumplane Forums AU, an archive of @flightlesscrowkids's communal threadfic that I shamelessly enabled. #5 on the list is also a scum villain chatfic, It's Fine Cause I'm Wearing Cat Ears, where shen yuan is still insane on the modern internet but this time binghe and liu qingge are there. thank you cucumber stans for your support and good taste.

#3 is my untamed big bang from these nettles, alms which I cowrote with @zorrosuchil (chengxian, but also wangxian and a lil tiny bit zhanchengxian, much to jiang cheng's disgruntlement).

#4 is my pacific rim reverse bang Our Blood in the Machinery in which raleigh becket is possessed, but joke's on you, he's into that shit.

5. Do you respond to comments? I try but unfortunately I often give myself the fake homework of needing to reply Meaningfully which means it simply does not happen

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? hmm probably the most it-didn't-have-to-be-this-way classic tragedy fic is The Dismemberment Song (the untamed, nieyao); the deadest dove is Jettison (pacific rim, hansens badtouch)

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? I was going to say Only Human but then I remembered the last chapter ends with one of the main characters announcing her imminent demise lmao so perhaps my cql fix-it of Waking / Rising

8. Do you get hate on fics? thankfully not, I don't think they get enough attention to have haters lmao

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? only for siblings

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? fandom fusions are my faaaaavorite to spitball. way back in the day I had grand plans for Merlispn which (as the name should make clear) was very silly

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? not to my knowledge but cambionverse did once get cited in an academic paper

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? funnily enough one of my smallest and least-viewed spn fics, Driftwood, was translated into chinese!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? nearly all of them in fact! shout out to @thegeminisage and our series Cambionverse which is old enough to be in middle school now

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? I am a multishipper til death do us part ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? fuckin. Envesseled lmfao. ON GOD WE WILL POST THE LAST FIVE CHAPTERS I JUST DON'T KNOW WHEN

16. What are your writing strengths? *eye* think my own jokes are very funny hahaha and I love to write banter & arguments

17. What are your writing weaknesses? I can brainstorm plots all day long but executing upon them is So Hard

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? as a monolingual it is something I would do very sparingly if at all, and only if there wasn't another way to convey the same tone/emotion

19. First fandom you wrote for? the first thing I ever posted to ao3 was The Quest for Camelot which is found poetry from the merlin fic finders comm. before livejournal I did post a few things to ff.net but they are going with me to the grave

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? listen. I understand why it deals psychic damage for my followers to see supernatural content in the year of our lord 20 whatever. but read Cambion those are my kids

[kairenn-n]

Went crazy and decided to post my fest art to ao3, so if anyone is interested in seeing the way my art has changed through the years :D

After Camlann Big Bang Art (series 2021-2023)

Merlin Bingo fills (2022)

And this year's fests (please stop me from signing up to more stuff)

Reverse Bang 2022-23

Tarot Fest

Endless Big Bang

[the--short--one]

Gonna post my BBC Merlin Reverse Bang pieces (and I link to the fic written for the) on Monday the 13th of this month.

Y’all aren’t ready.

[remaymberme]

Our entry for the BBC Merlin Reverse Big Bang is up! I hope you'll enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed working with @the--short--one on it!! @bbcmerlin-reversebang

[likeapaperplane]

Third piece for @merlinbingo, the prompt was the colour #F2C57C which is a kind of golden beige if you were wondering

Like my second bingo piece, this is also from Merlin RVBB!!