Thank you so so much for the long review! I totally want to unintelligibly gush/cry about how nice it is to hear how much you're enjoying OME! :) :) To hear that it's on your absolute favorites list? Aw, be still mine heart! I'm grinning so much! So I tried really hard to make their relationship grow organically. In fact, a big part of why I got overwhelmed and abandoned this fic for so many years was that I didn't want to move them faster than seemed natural, and then when I realized how loooong this story was going to have to be to accomodate that, it seemed so daunting. So my brain fizzled and it stopped. But it never left me alone, so here I am, back at it and almost finished! Yay!!

I LOVE Merlin! I've actually outlined a Merlin fanfic that I'd love to write, a semi-time-travel fix-it for season 5. I wish we'd gotten to see them work together with Arthur in the know during the series. So just like I wanted to see Harry and Snape get along, which led to OME, it's one of those things that might not leave me alone until I write a Merlin fanfic of my own. ;) Lots of amusing Arthur-discovering-things-aren't-how-he-always-thought moments or awww actually-appreciating-Merlin moments ready to be written...not to mention integrating Gwen and the knights. Anyway, if you have any favorite non-slash Merlin fics to recommend, please feel free to share. :)

Thanks for the beta/editor offer - I'll definitely keep it in mind. ;) I'm not on any social media platform. I've considered building a writing page on some one or other platform, but I'm at a loss as to where and how I should go about it. Any ideas?