Tuesday: Food
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comment_ficHello, everyone. I’m nagi_schwarz and your host for the week. Today's theme is food! Prompts can be types of food, names of dishes, making food, consuming food, sharing food, and anything to do with food.
Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ Any, any, comfort food
+ Any, any, food poisoning
+ Any, any, foraging for food
We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2024 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].
While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.
As a friendly reminder about our schedule, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications!
If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word!comment_fic
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nagi_schwarz and your host for the week. Today's theme is food! Prompts can be types of food, names of dishes, making food, consuming food, sharing food, and anything to do with food.Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ Any, any, comfort food
+ Any, any, food poisoning
+ Any, any, foraging for food
We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2024 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].
While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.
As a friendly reminder about our schedule, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications!
If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word!
comment_fictag=food
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Date: 2024-09-10 12:48 pm (UTC)Fill
Date: 2024-09-10 11:50 pm (UTC)No one commented on the absence of a queen from the festival.
A dozen or so peasants had been recruited from the lower town, cleaned up and dressed up to play the lords and ladies at the Feast, and they sat at the long banquet table, watching wide-eyed as masked servants brought in dish after dish. Even though the servants were all masked, Merlin could tell Arthur from a mile away.
Merlin knew every inch of Arthur, every strand of dark golden hair, every line of his throat and shoulders, the play of muscle beneath the simple tunic and hose, the imperious stride in the borrowed boots. Merlin could also spot Morgana, and Geoffrey, and Leon and Percy and some of the other knights weaving through the tables, bearing platters high.
But Merlin couldn’t help but watch as Arthur approached, bearing a jug of wine.
Arthur knew to approach from the right, to pour carefully, to not fill past the line of engraving on the inside of Merlin’s goblet. His posture was more knightly than deferential, but he had excellent form.
“My lord,” Arthur murmured, as he refilled Merlin’s goblet.
“Thank you,” Merlin said, determined to be a gracious prince.
No one was supposed to know who was serving them, and the peasants from the lower town certainly had no clue which among them was royalty or not — Uther stayed in the kitchens and played assistant to the head cook.
Even though it was the Feast of Fools, some protocol had to be maintained, and Arthur couldn’t actually taste-test Merlin’s food for him. The first time Arthur held up a spoonful of beef and ale pie and said, “Your highness?” Merlin was confused for a moment.
But then Arthur brought the spoon closer, and Merlin accepted the bite. It was eat the food first or get food on his face, he was sure. Except when Arthur leaned in, his gaze was heated behind the half-mask, and his cool breath against Merlin’s ear made Merlin shiver.
“And this, your highness.”
Merlin had only ever spoon-fed Arthur when he was injured and unable to fend for himself. He’d never imagined anyone feeding him for any reason besides illness or injury. It had never occurred to him that being hand-fed could be so — intimate.
But with every course and every dish, Merlin felt his temperature rise more and more, and when dessert finally arrived, some massive pastry concoction topped with cream and fruit, he thought he was going to combust.
“My lord?” Arthur asked, holding out a single cream-covered strawberry.
Merlin leaned in and ate it carefully, not letting his lips touch Arthur’s skin. He saw heat flash in Arthur’s gaze, and then Arthur turned away.
After the feast, Merlin led the first dance with Gwen, and then when the servants and nobles were free to mingle on the ballroom floor — and mingle their judgment with wine — Merlin slipped away.
He ducked into the nearest servants’ corridor and pressed himself against the wall, taking several deep breaths.
And then a servant appeared beside him. “My lord?”
Merlin started and turned.
Arthur pulled off his mask and let it clatter to the stone floor. “My lord?” he said again, tone as polite and solicitous as it had been all evening, but the heat and want in his gaze stark.
“You don’t have to call me that anymore,” Merlin said. “Please. You know my name.”
Arthur stepped closer. “Merlin.”
Merlin said, “My lord.”
Arthur said, “You know my name.”
Merlin said, “Arthur,” and closed the distance between them.
Re: Fill
Date: 2024-09-11 12:29 am (UTC)Re: Fill
Date: 2024-09-11 12:44 am (UTC)Subtle boys are not subtle lol.
Re: Fill
Date: 2024-09-12 02:45 pm (UTC)This was DELICIOUS!!! Thank you!!!