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therefore: have this!

The Hangover Cure from giselleslash: a simple, straight friends-to-lovers story, but hot as hell and so funny and with a brilliant guestrole by straight and squeamish Merlin on top. So much fun!

I'm old enough to know better. Don't follow the lure of the WIP. You think you'll get a tiny glimpse, just to decide if it's worth waiting for. Then you tell yourself there's still so much left, surely one tiny chapter more will be ok. And then there's the end of the document and the long, dry season of anxious tapping of the F5 key begins...

So, since misery loves company: Three wonderful and very differently unfinished WIPs I enjoyed recently!

Four Seasons in one day by hope: This is something I never read before: Arthur as a not-so-out-and-not-so-proud law student who shares not only a house with an artsy Merlin and Merlin's girlfriends Morgana and Gwen. In Melbourne. I loved this Arthur who wants not to pretend to be straight but is not so sure at times if he hasn't bitten off a bit too much with loving a Merlin who is probably just too much joy for just one person to take on. And just when I wondered if they'll make it - the story ends. After all, the author gives a fair warning at the beginning: This is an unfinished story. Considering I've drifted out of the Merlin fandom, this will never be completed. *sigh* But still, what is there is well worth reading.

At Camlann, still anonymous at the kinkmeme: Arthur as a rockstar with an artistic crisis and Merlin as a not-lover of open air festivals meet at an open air festival. Funny and hot and so true in the details of the atmosphere. And very regularly updated up to part 54. When obviously RL hit. Well, the author promises she never abandoned a work before, just has to take a little break. *sigh* (I was very astonished when I looked it up now and saw that the last update was just two months ago - feels like an eternity.)

Like a lonely house by starlingthefool: This is a sequel to the wonderful Fundamental Imperfection (which certainly everybody has read? With Arthur and Merlin as writers who meet over getting into a fight about the dreariness of Dickens at a Con...?). I never even thought a sequel could be possible... A dream come true, but not finished by a long way. *sigh*

No, I still haven't seen The Hobbit. I don't want to go alone, yet people I ask for company take to extreme measures like eloping for a holiday in Lapland.

But! But I recently dug out The Fellowship of the Ring. And while some parts really didn't age too well (or was it that I never was interested in them for the first time? Things like the whole Saruman arc or all those running hordes of Orcs. Ugh, the Orcs. Must be a male thing), all in all it was wonderful to see Legolas' smile in that tipsy little Elven canoe again.

And it mad me dig around in the black hole that is my memory for some fanfic friends from old - which I shall post here so that I don't lose them again.

Teanna Legolas shall be for the Elves:
I always loved this for it presents a perfectly reasonable explanation why amongst all those formidable Elven warriors a youngster from a, I quote, "backwater kingdom" is chosen to be part of the Fellowship. Needless to say that it's a way better explanation than the "first shout, first serve" version the movie does. (And this story brings my right back to my first foray into fanfic when fanfiction.net was the place to go and look for good stuff... amongst a heap of utter crap, but still.)

Suzene Campos The last Elf standing:
Enraged Thranduil will never not be funny. LotR imo generally does comedy better than most other fandoms. Must be the etheral beauty of the Elves that practically screams for a good mocking.

Thundera Tiger While the ring went south:
Filling the gaps (not of Rohan) that are left while we see the Fellowship run/hobble/stomp/gallop towards certain doom, especially with the in book and movie much missed emotional stuff. That's what fanfic is for, right?

So: any LotR Golden Oldies I totally shouldn't miss, too?