Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2024: Week 29
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The television show Merlin was filmed from spring to autumn. As a result, we never see winter in Camelot, and fans like to use fanworks to fill in the gap. Fanfiction set in these periods are often time skip fics where they try and display what life would have been like in Camelot during the winter months. They can often include domestic elements, like holiday celebrations, to hurt/comfort style stories that include hypothermia and huddling for warmth. Fanartists like to illustrate the beauty, or the harshness, of winter scenes.
As Merthur are the juggernaut ship of the show, this trope is most prominant in fanworks for the pairing, though it's also used in fanworks involving other ships or gen.