There's a bit of a song, that's become a bit of a cult theme

[new_kate]

So yeah last week some stuff happened! And I had many feelings about that, including but not limited to several different kinds of butthurt! But all I have to say about it is this:

Out of everything that's been said and done lately, nothing will have a more profound, wide-spread and long-lasting effect on how we perceive fandom and interact with it, or teach us a more important and elegant lesson about the power of anonymity and the power of words, than this:

Pairing Pendragon/Merlin, by anon.

Okay I vented now, back to regularly scheduled porns.

Comments

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Ok, I have not yet seen any Merlin (not sure it would hit any of my narrative kinks), nor have I read any Merlin fic previous to this. And yet that was awesome and amazing, thank you for the rec!

[new-kate.livejournal.com]

This fic is pretty panfandom really! SO glad you enjoyed it.

I'd definitely recommend checking Merlin BBC out - season 1 reminded me of Saiyuki in some ways. There's irreverent anachronistic remixing of classic legends, a story that pretends to be all about manly adventures but really is all about boys gazing at each other longingly, lots of silliness and some really emotionally charged bits. Episode 1.4 is probably the all-time high point of soulful male bonding to the backdrop of delightfully campy cheesiness, it's like Saiyuki volume 5 in that respect, so I'd say try that one to see if it's worth watching!