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Do you accept fanart for your fics?

Yes! Fanarts are more than welcome. I will even feature them inside my fics. And if you want to create a cover/specific fanart for any fic, you can contact me through asks or messages and I’ll provide you with extra information about my personal reflection on it.

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No. If I wanted to, I would have. Do not add my works to any website. (Wattpad, Goodreads, Storygraph, etc.)

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Yes. Translations are more than welcome, but must remain on AO3. Also, apparently this needs to be said now, but I only accept human-made translations. Do not feed my work into AI machines to translate them. I do not approve of ANY use of AI in connection with my writing.

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It’s up to you, but preferably please no. I don’t want these fics to be everywhere, but I can’t totally refuse because I understand the value of these fics to you. However, if you are binding them, 1. let me know and 2. bind them only for yourself. I do not allow any monetary profiting of my work. If you find someone selling my fics, please contact me.

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No.

Can I call you by your name? And what pronouns do I address you with?

Yes, you can call me LJ! My pronouns are she/her. I’m more than happy to get to know my readers and fellow writers, so feel free to swoop in and contact me anytime.

1. In Arthurian legends, Merlin distracts Lot with a prophecy that makes him show up late to the battle.

2. Galahad, Lancelot’s son, is widely regarded as the most perfect knight in arthuriana. Merlin even prophesied that Galahad will surpass his father in valour. (I actually found this out after I wrote that scene. sometimes I surprise me). Also, in the legends, he was knighted after besting his father in a duel; the first and only time that Lancelot ever lost in a fair fight. Most adaptations mention the parallelism between him and Arthur, and how Arthur ends up choosing him as the greatest knight of all.

3. Odin’s son was canonically killed by Arthur. According to s2e2, “Odin's son challenged me to a fight. I had no quarrel with him. I asked him to withdraw. Perhaps he felt he had to prove himself. I can still see his face. He looked so scared...” So it was like a light switch; paralleling him as having magic but unable to use it freely. It’s also a loose interpretation based on Odin and Loki’s relationship in norse mythology and recent modern adaptations.

4. Merlin packs their home in the same purple bag that belonged to 1963 Merlin in The Sword of the Stone. This is purely indulgent because I recently just watched the movie for the first time ever.

5. All the kingdoms mentioned in bbc merlin were elaborated over in the epilogue, either by mentioning how they came to accept magic, or by explaining who ruled which lands.

6. The farm is on the northern outskirts of Camelot, meaning that all the years they spent there they were still connected to Camelot. It also means that they were always close to the Perilous Lands that Merlin revived.

7. The magic celebration took place on the ides of March, replacing the memory of the first ides they lived.

8. Similarly, the last scene in the fic takes place on Christmas Eve, giving us the ending we deserved through a full-circle narrative just like the title alluded to.

“This day I breathèd first. Time is come round,

And where I did begin, there shall I end;

My life is run his compass.”