Worldbuilding 2019

[primeideal]

Been keeping my eye on this exchange for a couple years, finally got around to creating for it!

(Re)order of Merlin (3063 words)
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Arthurian Mythology
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Merlin (Harry Potter)
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Crossover, Extra Treat
Summary: The travels of the wizard Myrddin, from the end to the beginning.
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Pottermore mentions that Merlin attended Hogwarts and was in Slytherin house. There's some uncertainty about when Hogwarts was founded--probably not exactly 1000 years before Harry's time--but depending on when, there would be some issues with "did the Founders even have a common language" (there've been other great fics with this premise) and "how long ago was Arthur, really?" Obviously the solution to this is time travel.

Slightly more based on Malory's version than other versions of Arthuriana, but you shouldn't need to know a specific retelling to get it, I think? Also I was charmed that Merlin (Harry Potter) was already canonized as a subtag of Merlin (Arthurian), every now and then Ao3 gets one right. >.>

Acceptance Speeches for the Dangerous Dai Commemorative Medal (1135 words)
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters, Fabius Watkins
Additional Tags: Quidditch, Documentation of sorts, Extra Treat
Summary:

"The Dangerous Dai Commemorative Medal is now awarded at the end of the season to the League player who has taken the most exciting and foolhardy risks during a game." - Quidditch through the Ages, Chapter 7
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Quidditch! That's about it. But I love sports, so.

Fabius Watkins is namedropped in Quidditch through the Ages, he died in a freak collision with a Muggle helicopter. Why I'm the first person to write fic about this valiant wizard I have no idea :p

Black and White and Read All Over (1557 words)
Fandom: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Frederick Trumper, Anatoly Sergievsky
Additional Tags: Documentation, Newspapers
Summary:

From the chess columns of the New York Times.
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So I just went back and added my "dubious headcanon chronology" tag because that's what most of my Chess (musical) fics are, tbh, I just didn't want this to automatically out me. Because what's more interesting in a musical about love triangles in the Cold War than finding all the RL chess references and deciding "actually, the first act probably has to be in 1981"?? Nothing, that's what.
 

It was surprisingly hard to track down a list of RL championship seconds, I suspect Florence would ICly have been one of the first women in that situation, but can't confirm.