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Title: I Could Have Danced All Night by ami_ven
Fandom: Ariel the little mermaid
Character/Pairing: Ariel, Eric, Ariel/Eric,
Word Count: 100
Summary: “I can’t go on anymore.”
Why I Rec This Fic: happy married Ariel! Dancing!
Podfic here: by LittleRedRidingHood

Title: Ocean Child by misslucyjane
Fandom: Ariel the little mermaid
Character/Pairing: Ariel, Eric, Ariel/Eric, Ariel&her sisters,
Word Count: 957
Summary: "He thought he was marrying merely a girl."
Why I Rec This Fic: Happy married Ariel! 
Podfic here: by Rhea314

She laughs now and kneels beside him, holding him around his waist as they look out at the rain tapping on the windowpane. "The storm won't hurt us," she tells him. "Grandfather will always look after us. But you can tell the storm, 'I am not afraid of you.' Shall we do that?"
"Yes," says David, and together they tell the storm, "I am not afraid of you. I am not afraid."

Title: Work in Progress by obsessivemuch for isabeau
Fandom: Ariel the little mermaid
Character/Pairing: Ariel, Eric, Ariel/Eric,
Word Count: 1141
Summary: "Here's the dirty little secret about happy endings: They're hard work and Eric and Ariel are still very, very young." angst with happy ending

After the honeymoon, Grimsby bangs on their door at 6 a.m. every morning, walks into the room with a list, and starts reciting all the things that the royal pair has to do. Ariel feels exhausted just listening to the exhorbitant duties that a prince and princess must do, christen this new ship and that new shop, talk to everyone in the kingdom, entertain visiting royalty, and for her especially, training in a variety of subjects.

Title: tell you a tale of the bottomless blue by betony
Fandom: Ariel the little mermaid, The little mermaid – Hans Christian Andersen
Character/Pairing: Ariel, Eric, Ursula, Flounder
Word Count: 1460
Summary: Alternate Universe - Daemons
Why I Rec This Fic: Daemon AU! Which fits perfect with Hans Christian Andersens fairytale.

Title: Triton's Cove by cjmarlowe for genarti
Fandom: Ariel the little mermaid
Character/Pairing: Ariel, Eric, Ariel/Eric, Triton,
Word Count: 1584
Summary: "Eric had always known that Ariel could make the choice to return to the sea, that all she had to do was ask. He was as in love with her as he had been from the moment they met, but once the first delirious days of their relationship passed, he couldn't help but wonder if he would wake up one morning and find her gone."
Why I Rec This Fic: Making it work, Eric interacting with his family in law!

Title: Bright Things by Penknife for genarti
Fandom: Ariel the little mermaid
Character/Pairing: Ariel, Eric, Ariel/Eric,
Word Count: 1636
Summary: "Eric knows she's from a world he'll never entirely understand."
Why I Rec This Fic: I love Ariels love for the ocean but I also love stories about her not being completly unhappy in her marriage on land – this fic has both, it also has Ariel as a good queen which I definitly love.

"If you can keep up with the schools of fish, it's like they're dancing around you in the water," she says. "You can't see anything but their colors when you're in the middle of the school, you just have to follow the way they do, feeling them touch you all over, everywhere--" She twists awkwardly as if she expects to be able to twirl in the air, and he traces sympathetic spirals on her skin with his fingertips.
He knows she misses it. She's entranced by bright things -- daylight, fire, paintings, birds' wings -- but there are so many things that she's lost that he doesn't even understand.
"The coral was alive," she says, "and you could hear it singing. Well, not singing, really, but humming. I wish sometimes ..." She shakes her head. "I don't know why the trees here don't sing," she says, a little sadly.

Title: The Skin Beneath the Skin by jibrailis for isabeau
Fandom: Ariel the little mermaid
Character/Pairing: Ariel, Eric, Ariel/Eric,
Word Count: 2254
Summary: "Even if Ariel were to want to return to the sea, even if memories of shells and coral overshadow her restless nights, even if she were to look at her children, who speak only of land matters and never of the water -- even then, she cannot."
Why I Rec This Fic: Okay this is sad, and I hate sad stories but its also written well, with good world building bits and Ariel feels like herself even all grown up.
Podfic by Rhea314 (Rhea) here