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    Merlin has survived dragons, destiny, kings, magic-hating monarchs, and the emotional devastation of watching everyone he’s ever loved die.

    So really, he thought, a simple trip to the wizarding world for tea couldn’t possibly be that bad.

    He was wrong.

    Now he’s somehow become the unofficial emotional support adult of Hogwarts, is being hunted by the house-elves because he keeps fixing castle structural problems himself, dealing with a basilisk situation that Merlin is “pretty sure he dealt with once already, back in the 5th century.” and trying to stop Gilderoy Lockhart from deciding that he is his "professional rival."

    Merlin regrets stepping outside...

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    08 Mar 2026

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    Chapter 60

    Hilarious, I love Mr Keating style Merlin

    Also as of 52 Merlin just jumped off a broom, next chapter if gon be FUN

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    Merlin takes up painting in the modern world, hoping to preserve the faces of the people he loved.
    Instead, he discovers that even immortality cannot save memories from time

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    Merlin tries to paint!

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    30 May 2026

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    So this is just depressing… incredible, but depressing

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    Professor Emeric Ambrose is Hogwarts' new Muggle Studies teacher. His qualifications include a deep, personal animosity towards every major author of the Arthurian legends, an unnerving ability to reason with sentient furniture, and the eyes of a man who has been tired for a very, very long time.
    He's also Merlin.
    All he wants is a quiet life. But with a king in a painting who won't stop giving bad advice, a magical portrait of his nemesis down the hall, and two red-headed apprentices who are determined to learn the art of "narrative chaos," Merlin is about to discover that the only thing worse than being forgotten by history is having it come back to haunt you. Literally.

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    16 Apr 2026

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    This is incredible.

    Every chapter is simultaneously making my heart ache in the best most yearning way possible, being absolutely chaotic, and weirdly poetic and poignant on a whole lot of things.

    And then the plot starts happening and everything is extra extra sad, a bit funny via surrealism, and then just poetically miserable. This is incredible. Part 1 of interlude 1 was fascinating.

    Currently on chapter 23, so exited for any update, or just to reread the beginnings for some chuckles.

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    Pretty, Elphaba thinks. It shocks her, how easily it comes to her, but there’s really no other word for it. No one, in all her life, has ever looked at Elphaba like Galinda is right now. No one, in all her life, has ever looked this happy to see her.

    “Welcome to Shiz University, Elphaba Thropp. I have a feeling we’re going to be very good friends.”
     

    or: glinda travels back in time to the day she first met elphaba. and elphaba hasn’t got a clue

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    13 Dec 2025

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    So good!!!

    Very much a slow burn. Glinda is going THROUGH it, but I’m really glad we had a few chapters of her perspective in the interlude.

    Also has a lot of Victorian fainting lady disease vibes…

    Chapter 29 is the confession and its so good, perfect angst, perfect yearning, mwuah

    I think morrible killed dillamond. And glinda’s secret is out!! I just hope she tells elphaba not to read aloud from the grimmery

    Currently on chapter 37

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    Alec Hardy gets a phone call from his sister, asking him to look after his nephew, Campbell Bain, while he finishes his education. Although reluctant, Alec accepts, and suddenly has a lot more on his plate.

    OR Alec Hardy is a socially awkward mess, but is trying his best to parent two teenagers by himself. Contains family bonding, angst, chippys and lesbians (among other things).

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    15 Nov 2024

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    On chapter 25

    Fucking brilliant