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Art: Let's Dance

Title: Let's Dance
Fandom: Merlin
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Medium: Photomanipulation/Digital
Summary: It takes two to tango. (HURR HURR I KNOW IT'S CHEESY, SHUSH)
Notes: Picked up for the Merlin Reverse BB by rotrude for her fic Let's Tango. While I am the very definition of someone with two left feet, I love dancing in media. And after seeing THIS VIDEO, I knew I wanted Arthur and Merlin dancing the tango SOMEHOW.

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ART: fly like great birds

Title: fly like great birds
Rating: R
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Medium: Photomanipulation/Digital
Content Notes/Warnings: Canon AU, Animal Transformation, Curse, Magic Made Them Do It/Sex Ritual
Summary:“...You know, Merlin,” Arthur said with a smirk, “I didn’t think it was possible, but it seems you are even more useless as a bird than you are a manservant.”

Merlin let out an indignant squawk and puffed out his feathers until he nearly doubled in size. And Arthur could only imagine the barrage of creative insults he would have been subjected to if Merlin currently had the ability to speak.

(Or the one where Merlin is cursed to be a bird by day, human by night, and Arthur tries not to be too concerned.

But he fails. Horribly.)
Artist's Notes: Hoo boy, so many people to thank for this. blood_songs90 for being an awesome art beta, going above and beyond in order to help me. crimsonswirls for helping with some of the details. deminos001 for the hand-holding and being an excellent sound board. And shadowofrazia for betaing the written part and helping me pick out a title, which is from the story "The Wild Swans" by Hans Christian Anderson: “Go out into the world and get your own living,” said the queen. “Fly like great birds, who have no voice.”



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Now I have to go answer all those lovely comments OH MY GOD YOU GUISE <3
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ART: Distance

Title: Distance
Fandom: Merlin
Characters/Pairings: Arthur, Merlin
Rating: G
Medium: Photomanip & Digital Painting/Blending
Warnings: References to canonical major character death
Summary: Sometimes, especially as the years tick by with no sign of Arthur’s return, Merlin takes a boat out onto the lake. He waits until he reaches the middle before he dips a hand below the calm surface. Instantly the water rushes up to meet him, and his shirt sleeve is soaking wet in a matter of minutes.

But he doesn’t care. He lowers his arm more and more, until it’s nearly up to his shoulder. Until his fingers start to go numb from the biting cold. Until it’s as far in as he can go without toppling entirely out of the boat.

(He knows that last one from past experience.)

And then he prays that maybe—just maybe—this will be the day that Arthur will be reaching for him too.
Notes: I'M SORRY I'M SO SORRY I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELS OKAY AND JUST GOODBYE MY FRIENDS *FLINGS SELF INTO SUN*
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ART: Podfic Big Bang - taking the bus to chinatown

Title: Art for "taking the bus to chinatown"
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Characters/Pairings (for art): Derek/Stiles
Rating (for art): G
Medium: Photomanip & Digital Painting/Blending
Summary: Cover for majoline's podfic of hito's Teen Wolf fic "taking the bus to chinatown". Link to original fic is HERE, link to podfic HERE
Notes: Made for podficbigbang! Definitely listen to majoline's podfic if you have the chance--it's an adorable reading of an equally adorable fic (I giggle every time she says "Mittens!") Speaking of mittens, I really want to incorporate mittens into the cover, but the manip gods were against me, sob. Hopefully this works!
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ART: Paper Legends 2013 - Crime in Magic City

Title: Art for "Crime in Magic City"
Fandom: Merlin
Characters/Pairings (for art): Merlin, Arthur, Gwaine
Rating (for art): PG-13? If that
Medium: Photomanip & Digital Painting/Blending
Warnings: A bit of blood if you're squeamish, but nothing too severe.
Summary: Art for chicago_ruth's PL fic, Crime in Magic City. Link to fic masterpost HERE
Notes: YEP, BACK SO SOON! To be honest, I wish I had more time to ART ALL THE THINGS for chicago_ruth's amazing fic (I still might, so keep your eyes peeled?), but I hope this enough for now. Thanks again to amphigoury, altocello, deminos001, blood_songs90 and the rest of the PL chat for looking this over for me.
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ART: Paper Legends 2013 - There is No Roadmap to Your Life

Title: Art for "There Is No Roadmap To Your Life"
Fandom: Merlin
Characters/Pairings: Merlin, Arthur, Arthur/Merlin
Rating: PG-13? If that
Medium: Photomanip & Digital Painting/Blending
Summary: Art for truelyesoteric's PL fic, There Is No Roadmap To Your Life. Link to fic masterpost HERE
Notes: Guess who has two thumbs and was finishing this all at the last minute? d(ʘ‿ʘ)b Thanks to truelyesoteric for being patient with me and writing a wonderful fic, and thanks to amphigoury, altocello, deminos001, blood_songs90--hell, the whole PL chat for looking this over for me. And for putting up with my whining.

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