LINKDING

Summary: <blockquote>The eighty-six wedding ceremonies of Prince K.</blockquote> ➤ fic for Everina Maxwell's book Winter's Orbit ➤ a timeloop on Kiem and Jainan's wedding day! oh noes, what will they do! ➤ I love the timeloop as an external factor they have to face together ➤ Kiem is so KIEM! I love him so much. the way he is delighted every time by whatever Jainan's done with his hair and clothes! ➤ and I am so glad the fic cares as much as I do about the external non-romantic relationships for both of the romantic leads. how Bel is an integral part of things no matter what, and how much Jainan and his sister love each other ➤ 4k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Shen Qingqiu closes his eyes in his prison, limbless, and wakes in a bed, with them miraculously regrown. Yue Qingyuan is beside him. He knows what he sees is false, yet he yearns for it all the same Or: OG! Shen Qingqiu gets stuck in a time loop.</blockquote> ➤ interesting snippet from the beginning of a timeloop. ➤ incorrect dialogue punctuation

Summary: <blockquote>“Be normal,” said Luo Binghe. “No liking SVSSS.” A Fifth Element fusion (among other things).</blockquote> ➤ focus is on bingqiu, the fic starts very silly but goes interesting places with it

<blockquote>When Luo Binghe is fourteen years old, his shizun suffers a terrible qi deviation and fever that completely changes who he is.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Gege," San Lang calls, his voice oddly strained. He isn't looking at Xie Lian's face, his eyes instead fixed pointedly over his shoulder. "You remember me?" Xie Lian takes a few tentative steps closer. "Of course," he says cautiously. "How could I forget San Lang so easily?" "But you said," he croaks, and then stops to clear his throat. He shakes his head, and then quickly walks over to meet Xie Lian halfway. "Gege," he whispers. "You said it wasn't happening to you." "I said what wasn't happening?" he asks, matching San Lang's volume. "Today," San Lang says, finally meeting his eyes. "Haven't you lived it before?" Featuring: a thrice-sealed coffin, an extravagant parade, and too many osmanthus cakes.</blockquote>

<blockquote>One morning, Shen Qingqiu woke up a changed man. Yue Qingyuan is left trying to figure out what happened to make him so relaxed and affectionate.</blockquote> ➤ love getting to see a time loop from the pov of someone outside the loop

<blockquote>Yue Qingyuan dies in a hail of arrows, having failed to save Shen Qingqiu once again. Then, he wakes up.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mei Changsu dies at the age of thirty-three on the fields of Meiling, as a military strategist for Commander General Meng Zhi of Da Liang who is leading the war against Da Yu. He wakes up on the fields of Meiling, wearing battle armor that's over a decade old and surrounded by men who have long since died, killed in an unjust battle for a crime they didn't commit.</blockquote> ➤ time loop doesn't stop looping, but it's still a satisfying ending

<blockquote>“Either every human, augmented human, and artificial intelligence has had their minds entirely wiped, except for my organic memory, or I am experiencing a closed-system time loop.” At least, that’s what they called it on Timestream Defenders Orion. I’d seen this before. It was a popular plotline on multiple dramas.</blockquote> ➤ love the reason for the timeloop in this one!

<blockquote>Death number Unknown-Plus-Four, they finally manage to get Liu Qingge to orgasm. __ SQQ is stuck in a time loop at the Spirit Caves. If he doesn't save LQG, they can't get out.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Luo Binghe wakes up on the day of the Immortal Alliance Conference. He thinks he would have been more excited if he hadn’t already lived through this yesterday.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It was impossible for anyone to remember every little quirk of this setting. There were too many. Also, Shang Qinghua had come up with some of them on a whim while fueled by nothing but caffeine and noodles. It wasn't his fault for not remembering why oranges were never served on fruit festival day.</blockquote> ➤ a fun example of the loop trope because you never actually doubt that he'll make it out of the loop, to the point where the fic ends before he's out and it's a happy ending

<blockquote>“Sizhui, tell me,” Wei Wuxian says. “Does this feel... familiar to you?” or After running into Lan Zhan on a night hunt, Wei Wuxian is cursed to live the same day over and over and over.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The re-lived day is one of the strangest mysteries of the Jedi: a passage in a Jedi's life when the Force knots Time itself around their individual consciousness, allowing them to revise and repeat their actions until harmony with the Force is achieved. (Standalone story, see notes for series explanation.)</blockquote> ➤ I enjoy how going through a time loop is a normal Jedi thing in the world of this fic

<blockquote>According to Jaskier, they've lived this day almost a hundred times. Geralt doesn't remember any of them.</blockquote> ➤ love that this is from the pov of the one not aware of the loop

<blockquote>Stevie and David get married on a whim during a time loop. It would really be a shame if the loop ended at that point, wouldn't it?</blockquote>

<blockquote>By the twentieth time Geralt has gone through the loop, he decides to just throw himself off the cliff’s edge after Borch. He wakes up to his twenty-first attempt. “Fuck.”</blockquote> ➤ It's clear this is based on an event from canon that the author assumes the readers know, so some important details are glossed over, but it still works

<blockquote>N’Jadaka didn’t believe in the gods of his people. But belief was not a prerequisite of the gods’ attention, and the blood of the Panther tribe ran in N’Jadaka’s veins. Bast took hold of his soul in her mighty jaws and lifted it free of his body. She gave him a warning shake, just as she would a misbehaving kitten, and set him back. With one careful claw, she tweaked his path through time into a twisting loop. Wayward and abandoned though he was, N’Jadaka was still of her tribe. He could set things right, if given the chance. Erik gets a do-over. Erik gets a lot of do-overs. Or: Erik Killmonger's own personal version of Groundhog Day, only with a lot more murder, dying, trips to the ancestral plane, awkward family conversations, and divine intervention.</blockquote>

<blockquote>I’ve done all this before. Hundreds of times, every morning since I was made captain.</blockquote> ➤ does not end with the time loop resolved

<blockquote>GQ has a thing for Croc. It's kind of inconvenient. Except Croc might have a thing for him back—maybe. If only it weren't so fucking hard to be sure. Or: five times GQ and Croc were possibly kind of having a ~moment and got interrupted (including by themselves), plus the time they finally managed to get their shit together.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Rita Hanson is also experiencing a time loop on February 2nd, 2017 in Punxsutawney. But it's not quite the same.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Martha is stuck reliving the same day over and over. In a world without consequences, she does exactly what she wants to do.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Daniel is free to act without consequence. A 'Window of Opportunity' AU.</blockquote> ➤ I particularly appreciate the focus on Daniel and Teal'c's friendship

<blockquote>Four things Jack O'Neill did in the time loop, and one thing he did after.</blockquote>

<blockquote>This time, Betty thinks, as she fixes her ponytail with a slightly manic sense of determination, she's going to try being a lesbian. In which Betty Cooper learns a few life lessons. And again. And again. And again.</blockquote> ➤ aww, this is sweet

<blockquote>Victor Nikiforov is poised to win gold in his fifth consecutive Grand Prix Final. He has the world at his feet, is unparalleled in the sport--right up until a snowstorm blows into Sochi, and he finds himself repeating the same day over and over and over. He stumbles over Yuuri Katsuki, and everything changes. (Or, the time loop au. Loosely based on Groundhog Day.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Miko remembered all of it for everyone, even if she didn't tell them so. </blockquote> ➤ Miko has to kill flawed copies of Rodney that come through the gate on every loop of time

<blockquote>Rodney is stuck in an endless Monday.</blockquote>

<blockquote>John gets fed up with the whole looping thing.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It always starts the same way, and almost always ends the same way, too.</blockquote>