Merlin: Fanfic Rec: The Shoemaker

[ceebee]

Title: The Shoemaker
Author: Anonymous (to be revealed...)
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Gwen/Freya, Merlin/Arthur
Summary: Historical magical AU. In turn-of-the-century Glastonbury, Freya Lake heads up an orphanage for magical children. And despite all of the seers’ dire warnings, Freya is happy; her infatuation with the shoemaker’s apprentice—who may or may not be a girl underneath his shirt and trousers—is slowly coming to a head. But then a woman claiming to be Morgana le Fay shows up on the orphanage steps, demanding to see Emrys, and Freya is forced to rearrange her priorities.

Thoughts: I still need to leave a review, but AO3 literally JUST went down for maintenance, so I thought I'd make a rec here in the meantime. OH MY GOODNESS, I loved it :3 Really, really adored every sentence. The OCs were particularly awesome, and the setting/magic sort of reminded me a bit of Terry Pratchett XD Idk, there was just something about it. The idea was awesome, and Gwen as a shoemaker/in guy's clothing was *flaps* really quite hot. Freya was lovely too...it must have been fun to write her, because I guess you can really make her your own. I think she was sort of quietly BAMF in this, heheh. 

Another thing that was lovely about it, was the reincarnation aspect...humm, I don't want to give away the plot, but some of my favourite moments involved characters being reunited. 

Merlin in this was endearingly eccentric, and the ending made me melt. Completely. I am currently a puddle, left only with fingers to type with. 

Comments

[jelazakazone]

You live in or near London, right? Good chance I'll be there in July. I'll bring you one then, ok? A little teeny one, like I've been making:) ♥

[ceebee]

*gapes* duuude, seriously? omg you don't have to *flaps* that would be really lovely though :') but like sdjhkg34t aw!

[jelazakazone]

Hee. Well, in that case, I won't make any promises. But if I can manage it, I'd be thrilled to foist off my little quilts on anyone who wants one when I go to London next summer. (See, if I keep talking like this, it will happen, right?:))

[ceebee]

well, you're certainly allowed to foist one off on me, if you can :')

and yes! although don't jinx it XD but you should totally come to London :)

[jelazakazone]

Since dh decided he should go to Yellowstone with us, this has cut into my dream of 2 weeks in Europe with him while the kids are with my parents. I'm think 1 week or 10 days. I am definitely drawn towards London, not least of which is that I know a bunch of you people there. And we already speak the language:)

Excellent. I'll have to see what happens in the next couple months with travel plans. I also expect that once Merlin ends, I won't be writing as much, so I'll have more time for quilting. Although now that the podficcing bug has bit me, who knows what will happen.

[ceebee]

Have you ever been to London before? There's so much to see if you haven't! Even if you just came here for a few days out of your holiday.

[jelazakazone]

I was there when I was your age, a milion years ago, with my parents. I think we were there for like four or five days?

DH says he can imagine doing things in London, so this is a start. I have just informed him that we will go to a show. He's horrified. He wonders if this is because we never go to shows here and I'm looking for an excuse to go to a show. I tried to tell him it's part of the culture. I don't think he believes me.

[ceebee]

oh! IT IS IT IS! You should go to a show! I don't go to enough tbh, when there are plays on ALL THE TIME. Although the ones in central London are usually ugh so expensive /sigh

[jelazakazone]

I will be picking people's brains like crazy when I figure out where we are going!