Words Unspoken by amari_z (R?)

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Hiya. I'm Ashley, like I said, and I present my first rec for the King Arthur fandom for February.

I'm a slash fan, so most of my recs will be slash fics. However, I will rec some gen stuff too.

And away we go!

Fandom: KING ARTHUR (film version 2004)
Pairing: Arthur/Lancelot
Author on LJ: amari_z
Author Website: Amari tags most of her work so it's easy to find.
Why this must be read: I discovered amari_z through knightgasm, which is a KA comm here on LJ. She's a prolific, plotty, prose-driven writer who has one of the best Lancelot voices I've ever read. She's a tad mean to Arthur for my taste *laughs* but as he's my primary muse I'm afraid I'm a bit biased.

We're a small fandom so it's really interesting to me to see the different takes on the different knights - but Arthur generally has one defining characteristic that everyone picks up on - and that's guilt. The man would drop dead of a heart attack if he ever dared to do something for himself or to make himself happy for purely selfish reasons. Why Lancelot put up with him for so long I'll never figure out.

This is a small AU ficlet but it's very telling of Amari's style and of the way the fandom sees Arthur and Lancelot's relationship in general. The slashing of these two is probably the most popular pair in the fandom and I think this fic is an excellent first way to share that idea with y'all.

Amari doesn't use traditional ratings so I've guessed at an R for this. It does have descriptive slash in it.


Words Unspoken