Camelot Remix

Title: The Past is Prologue (The Boy Who Waited Remix)
Creator: ???
Word Type: Fic
Work URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32415640
Remixee Name: tari_sue
Link to Work Remixed: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1913439
Pairings: Merlin/Arthur
Length: 9275
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: None
Notes: Tari_Sue, I feel very honoured to have had the pleasure of remixing for you. It’s been a joy reading through your fics. I felt particularly drawn to this one. It’s so clever and says so much in so few words. Thank you for all your wonderful fics! Thanks also to my beta for their help putting this to rights and helping to make it better.
Summary: They say there is a boy who waited more than a thousand years...

Title: Theatricality (Variation on a Duet Arranged for Two Lovestruck Imbeciles and Pianoforte)
Creator: ???
Work Type: fic
Work URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/24716638
Remixee Name: awyvern 
Link to Work Remixed: https://archiveofourown.org/works/881918
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Length: 21k+
Rating: M
Warnings: Allusions to period-typical homophobia, nothing overt though I promise.
Notes: This was a feat of historical research that I never thought I’d make it through. I want to thank my lovely beta T for doing such a great job and being so supportive! Any remaining errors are my own. I hope you enjoy, wyvern!
Summary: When Lord Arthur Pendragon, son of His Grace Uther Pendragon, 11th Duke of Norfolk, went to the Theatre Royal that fateful evening he hadn’t been expecting to become so enchanted with the lead actor, Mr. Merlin Ambrose. But Arthur is used to getting what he wants, and if he wants an actor then he will do what it takes to get him regardless of the societal norms that forces him to keep his desires hidden. Even if it means lying about his identity and obtaining work behind the scenes. Little does he know, Mr. Ambrose has a secret of his own. OR: The gay Regency romance fic nobody asked for.

Title: Sail Thou Forth
Creator: ext_4137531
Work Type: Fic
Work URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14804466
Remixee Name: scotscookie
Link to Work Remixed: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1004451
Pairings: Merlin/Arthur
Length: 37069
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Infidelity (Consenual, not M/A)
Notes: Cookie, I hope that you have as much fun reading this, as I had writing it. It was a joy to read your work (although I had already read many of your stories before) and when I happened upon this story I knew that I had to chose it for remix.
A huge thank you to my beta reader!
As Cookie notes in the original fic, their story is based on Now, Voyager (1942), starring Bette Midler and Paul Henreid http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035140/, which in turn is inspired by a novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty (Inception enough for you yet?) who borrowed her title from the Walt Whitman poem “The Untold Want”.
I will confess, I have never seen the film, nor have I read the book, so I am basing my story on Cookie’s fic (and Whitman’s gorgeous poem). But maybe I will have successfully channeled both.
As with Cookie’s fic, there is a strong theme of infidelity (consensual) running through the story (not between Merlin and Arthur). And also period-typical homophobia.

Summary: Trapped in a marriage of convenience, Merlin Emrys doesn't believe in love at first sight - or true love at all, for that matter.

That is, until he meets Arthur Pendragon, an extraordinary man whose courage inspires him to begin the career that he has always longed for, and in whose arms Merlin begins to hope for better things.

But society isn't kind to men like them, and both must overcome tremendous obstacles before they will be free to live the life they've been dreaming of.

Title: As Kingfishers Catch Fire (The On Call Remix)
Creator: ???
Work Type: Fic
Work URL: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6795784
Remixee Name: argentsleeper
Link to Work Remixed: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1156031/chapters/2345147
Pairings: Merlin/Arthur, minor Merlin/Lance
Length: 12,183
Rating: R
Warnings: Suicide attempt, depression
Notes: ArgentSleeper, your fics were so wonderful I had trouble choosing just one! Truly an embarrassment of riches. But this fic really spoke to me and I hope you like this late Victorian remix of your beautiful work.
Thank you so much to the lovely mods for their infinite patience! Also let me flail in gratitude for my lovely beta L who was a cheerleader all the way and gave me many great ideas to use <3
Summary: In Victorian England, wealthy taste maker Arthur Pendragon strikes up a friendship with talented and offbeat writer Merlin Emrys. But Arthur is at a loss when Merlin's life starts to fall apart around him, especially in the era of a love that dares not speak its name...

Title: Liminal Rites (A Deep Dive Remix)
Creator: Anon
Work Type (fic, art): fic
Work URL: http://archiveofourown.org/works/3727702
Remixee Name: lostlenore
Link to Work Remixed: http://archiveofourown.org/works/2248671
Rating: Mature
Pairings: Freya/Vivian
Length: 2k
Warnings: NA
Summary: They say there's a woman in the water.
Author Notes: Thank you to the mods for organizing this fest and to my wonderful beta W. Most importantly, thank you to lostlenore for writing the amazing original and letting me play around in your beautiful universe. I hope I've done you proud.

Title: Lone Man's Land (The Desert Reloaded)
Creator: Anon
Work Type (fic, art): fic
Work URL: http://archiveofourown.org/works/3783184
Remixee Name: Cookie
Link to Work Remixed: http://archiveofourown.org/works/2741171
Rating: Explicit
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin, Gwen/Lance
Length: 24k
Warnings: This is a somewhat darker western, so in accordance to the genre and the historical era there's violence, racial slurs and racism in general, threat of non-con, prostitution and misogyny, people getting shot and minor character death
Summary: Arthur Pendragon and Merlin Emrys have one thing in common: They both know about loss. One is a farmer, run off his land. One is a rich man's son, looking for his mother's heritage. They meet in the deserts of the western frontier, where getting lost seems easy, but taking a chance might just find you the place you belong.
Author Notes: I can't say how delighted I was when I saw I had been assigned to remix one of Cookie's stories! I had a hard time to decide on one idea, but in the end settled on writing an AU of one of her AUs, “Desert Places”. I loved the idea of two lost people finding a home in each other and I also loved her metaphor, so I decided to run with it and make an angst-filled western out of her cute bookshop AU. I hope she can can forgive me. ;)

A thousand thanks to A for her thoughts, insight and encouragement awesome beta job, to E and M for reading and cheering me on in my struggle to the finish, and to the mods of Camelot Remix for giving me the time to finish what I'd started.

Title: rinse and repeat (the Ars latet arte remix)
Creator: anon
Work Type (fic, art): fic
Work URL: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/CamelotRemix2014/works/1460329
Remixee Name: glim
Link to Work Remixed: http://archiveofourown.org/works/74731
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Length: 15,791 words
Warnings: major character death(s), repeated major character death, homophobia, hate crime, graphic descriptions of violence
Summary: Through one godly script of three acts and eighteen lifetimes, Merlin and Arthur have always paid for their love with death. In their last, Arthur learns to be selfish.

Author Notes: To glim: this is inspired by your lovely Ars latet arte, which caught my eye the very instant I read it and fascinated me. My brain spun this entire story around yours, and it became so much more than I thought it would, so here you have a monster of +14k. I hope you will like it, and I apologise if it’s wonky at times, it’s my first ‘plotty’ story ever.

Thanks to the mods for doing the remix another time, I had a blast! You guys are awesome.

Hope someone has fun with this. Don’t let the tags scare you off ;).

Title: The Lark (The Beau Brummel Remix)
Creator: anon
Work Type (fic, art): fic
Work URL: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/CamelotRemix2014/works/1462075
Remixee Name: thalialunacy
Link to Work Remixed: http://archiveofourown.org/works/881818
Rating: Teen
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Length: 1,699
Warnings: none
Summary: Arthur gallantly resists for nearly a fortnight. Merlin, however, does not, nor does he need to.
Author Notes:

Title: Night Sky Changing Overhead (the Brighter When We Come Remix)
Creator: anon
Work Type (fic, art): Fic
Work URL: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/CamelotRemix2013/works/716209
Remixee Name: teprometo
Link to Work Remixed: http://archiveofourown.org/works/626133
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Word Count: 5,071
Warnings: None
Summary: Merlin discovers it is one thing to want something, and another thing entirely to have the courage to say so.
Author Notes: Title taken from the song "Closer" by Tegan and Sara. Many thanks to S, S and K for all their encouragement and fantastic beta work. ♥ See more notes at the end of the AO3 post.

Title: and into plowshares (the homecoming remix)
Creator: anon
Work Type (fic, art): fic
Work URL: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/CamelotRemix2013/works/716046
Remixee Name: glimmergirl
Link to Work Remixed: http://archiveofourown.org/works/311257
Rating: R/mature
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Word Count: 5,059
Warnings: historical AU, secret relationship, past character death
Summary: Arthur has been gone a long time, but even now, at the edge of the land he used to rule, he isn't really coming home.
Author Notes: glimmergirl has long been one of my favorite Merlin writers, and has written so many gorgeous fics, but with fire & sword hit me directly in the feels; I couldn't resist. Glim, it was so much fun to remix this, I hope you enjoy it! ♥