LINKDING

<blockquote>So, as a queer person who grew up in rural Canada and had my queer revelations a little later in life than some, I found myself having a lot of feelings about Patrick. This fic is my attempt to write those feelings down. I hope you like it.</blockquote> ➤ this is my THIRD TIME attempting to actually successfully save this bookmark so this attempt at writing my feelings might be a little more curtailed, sigh. ➤ Excellent queer rural cdn content, excellent queer community & friendship, excellent relationship stuff. ➤ One major annoyance: storybeats covered in show are skimmed over in fic, bc the reader's assumed to have seen the show. As someone who hasn't actually watched the show, this meant that some relatively important moments in the fic have their pacing feel all wrong because things are summed up and moved beyond way too quickly. Still v good tho

as the author said on tumblr: <blockquote>Really really really self-indulgent sequel about the first week of David and Patrick’s relationship. I think the thing that compelled me to write fic is that Patrick said he wanted to go slow because he’d never been with a guy before, but the show has not spent much time dealing with Patrick dealing with that. It’s shown Patrick dealing with some other things, I think; I love lots of the stuff they’ve done with him! But it really interested me to have him so inexperienced but really wanting to try things but needing to take his time, and meanwhile David is really experienced physically but I think inexperienced emotionally, in that he flat out says he hasn’t had relationships with “people he thought were nice.” :o( OMG he’s so sad I love him.</blockquote> ➤ sequels: Week Two The Days After Completely Booked

➤ I was not expecting this ridiculous charming original hockey-bro series to end up being about, like, an aro dude who loves his people very much and collects a houseful of poly family but I AM 5000% HERE FOR IT ➤ also like....this is like the perfect mix of charming fluff with Things Actually Happening and it's great ➤ I just love how much Luc loves people and is so chill and confident about how he does it, and I love all the people he loves ➤ Main series consists of: Superstition Deke Split the D Breakway Other People Until the Whistle ➤ Side stories ("Depth on the Bench") worth reading consist of: https://archiveofourown.org/series/625667 The Cure for Anything (Crash POV) Nikolai Budnikov calls Luc Chantal his dad, chirps his accent and his cooking: READ MORE If the light's good (Svetlana day in the life) Indivisible and Inviolable (Svetlana backstory) I've got your name written here in rose tattoo (Svetlana's brother)

<blockquote>Tears pooled in Yuuri’s eyes as he rested his forehead on his tightly clasped hands. It was the dead of night, and he was bone tired from rehearsals and performances, but still he couldn’t sleep. His body began to shake and his fingers tightened their grip as he tried to control the sobs that came in quiet gasps. He bit his lower lip to stem the flow of tears, silently praying that no one else could hear him in that tiny apartment. Yuuri is desperate to finish his final year in Juilliard, and is offered an unconventional solution to all his problems.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“It is a truth universally acknowledged that an ice skater in possession of a Grand Prix medal— of whatever metal—must be in want of another.” Jamie and Lizzy Bennet, a brother-sister ice dancing duo from Ann Arbor, Michigan, are no exception, and are determined to win gold at the Pyeongchang Olympics. Newfoundlander Charles Bingley, the Canadian champion for men’s singles skating, believes they can make it. His coach, Québécois two-time Olympic gold medalist, Fitzwilliam Darcy... does not.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Yuuri wakes up in Victor’s room the night after the Sochi Grand Prix Final banquet. Did they sleep together? No. Instead, last night, Drunk Yuuri taunted Victor that he hadn’t earned the right to get in his pants…and spelled out exactly what Victor would have to do to get there. Now, Victor intends to do everything on that list… ~ “The conversation,” Victor says, “went something like this. You said I wasn’t getting in your pants that easily.” Victor says this in a normal tone of voice. Anyone could hear him. Yuuri looks around, but if anyone is paying attention, they’re pretending not to. “Naturally, I asked what I would have to do to get in your pants.” “Ah.” Yuuri blushes. “How embarrassing. What do you mean, naturally? Why would you ask that?” Victor tilts his head. “Because I want to get in your pants. I thought that much was obvious by now.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>The abridged sexual history of James Tiberius Kirk. Or, Jim’s varyingly unhealthy idea of what sex is supposed to be (a it-gets-worse-before-it-gets-better story)</blockquote> ➤ a Tarsus IV story and how it affects him

<blockquote>After the Battle of Waterloo, Mrs. Fitzwilliam becomes the new favorite of the Duke of Wellington... just in time to support him through a messy, ahistoric divorce. Things only get more complicated from there. Otherwise known as, "A tumblr anon asked, "If you're ever so bored as to be looking for something ridiculous to fill a prompt- Elizabeth takes him up on his offer? Sees if the 'Iron' Duke lives up to his name?" and I COMMITTED." Part of my "Ever-Fixed Mark" soulmate AU, though it does not deserve the dignity of a title from a Shakespearean sonnet. It gets a Harlequin Romance title instead.</blockquote> ➤ au of "An Ever-Fixed Mark" by amarguerite.

<blockquote>One would think that having the name of one's soulmate appear on one's wrist on one's sixteenth birthday would make matrimony much less complicated. It mostly does not. And not at all for Miss Elizabeth Bennet of Longbourne. (A deconstruction of the "soulmate identifying mark" trope, using "Pride and Prejudice." Trigger warnings in the tags.)</blockquote> ➤ This is the main fic in the series and ultimately ends as Elizabeth/Darcy. ➤ Alternate endings: That Looks On Tempests for the Elizabeth/Colonel Fitzwilliam ending A Dalliance With The Duke for the Elizabeth/Duke of Wellington ending

<blockquote>When Jainan arrived on Iskat to represent his home planet in a diplomatic marriage to Imperial Prince Taam, he was naïve enough to hope the match would work. Taam knew better. Five years later, his confidence shattered, Jainan is released when Taam dies in an accident, only to be faced with another marriage to help salvage his treaty. Jainan understands how the real world works now; but Prince Kiem - the cheerful, scandal-prone darling of the Iskat celebrity magazines - keeps breaking all the rules he's learned.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Arthur stumbles from the Lake of Avalon 1,500 years after his death, he finds a world unlike the one he knew. Faced with the loss of everyone he loved, and the threat of impending prophecy, Arthur must quickly learn what it means to be not just a king, but the Once and Future King. Merlin does all he can to guide him in this journey, even as he struggles to hide his love for his king, and to conquer his fear of losing him again.</blockquote> ➤ A perfectly acceptable fic. I didn't love it but it passed the time pleasantly enough.

<blockquote>How intelligent are velociraptors? Very, very intelligent, as Owen Grady discovers in the aftermath of the Jurassic World disaster. But his quest to prove their intelligence and save his raptors will take him further than he ever expected, and the world will never be the same again.</blockquote> ➤ Consists of "Raptor, Raptor, Burning Bright", "The Raptor's Ransom", and "The New World". ➤ I very much enjoyed the first fic and the third fic; the second was a little too caught up in its emotional through-plot of the misunderstanding between Owen and Blue and I wasn't as interested in that. ➤ I enjoy the stuff about interspecies communication and relationships in these fics though! Although I don't think they go quite far enough in really making the raptors feel alien.

<blockquote>A triumphant war party returns with an exotic slave, a gift for the ruling house. Katara and Zuko AU</blockquote> ➤ in which Zuko is captured by the Water Tribe. Not technically complete but ends in a pretty ending-feeling spot.

<blockquote>Academy fic. Dr. Leonard McCoy thinks he has nothing in common with command-track cadet Jim Kirk, until a series of events forces them together. When a simple training mission is derailed into a seemingly hopeless situation, both have to learn to trust one another, and they’ll need all their wits and survival skills to stay alive.</blockquote> ➤ reminds me a lot of the kinds of things sholio writes - h/c wilderness survival gen (with complications beyond wilderness survival) and this author does it well too

<blockquote>Through the spite of the spirits or plain rotten chance, a door that would have been better left untouched has opened. On the other hand, with Fire and Earth as one's allies, sometimes escaping is the easy part. Even the Dragon-King's temple floods.</blockquote> ➤ great worldbuilding work, a well-handled crossover, a compelling threat, fun characterizations and character interactions. I also appreciated the way the language barrier was handled. Thoroughly engaging story, well done. Could do without the stealth crossovers in the minor background characters though, and I was baffled by how everyone called Daniel "Danny"

<blockquote>Steve Rogers isn't a self-made man. Or, how a tough little Brooklyn fairy got turned into Captain America, and then turned back.</blockquote> ➤ GOSH. thoroughly researched and with a lot of heart. I had feelings.

<blockquote>Anakin promised to free all the slaves and it is a promise he intends to keep. Struck by visions of a slave uprising on Tatooine, he runs away to join the fight. Five years later, it his new alliance of former slave worlds that the Republic fears, rather than a Separatist threat. Enlisted to negotiate a peace treaty, Senator Amidala is dispatched to find Anakin, alongside Obi-Wan Kenobi, who only wishes to bring his former Padawan home. AOTC timeframe</blockquote> ➤ I enjoyed it, but also a) found it stressful and b) did not do a good job of actually following the plot stuff. I have literally zero idea what Luminara's intentions/plans were, for example. ➤ But I really like the premise of Anakin running away to free the slaves and just keeping on expanding that vision until he's basically the leader of much of the outer rim.

<blockquote>When Dooku realizes far earlier Sidious' intentions to replace him, Sidious' plans never come to fruition... but Dooku's do. Across the galaxy, Anakin and Obi-Wan are shot down by their own men and try to make sense of why.</blockquote> ➤ the one where Dooku has both of them captured and uses threats on Anakin's life to make Obi-Wan do what he wants

<blockquote>Through the Force, everything is connected. Anakin and Obi-Wan find this out first-hand.</blockquote> ➤ prequel-era Anakin and Obi-Wan are brought forward in time to post-OT and meet Luke, Leia, and Han. wip through part 53 as of last checking

<blockquote>ObiWan lost the duel on Mustafar, but instead of dying, he finds himself on a ship leaving Tatooine, with his old Master and a familiar young boy. As events begin to unfold, can he stop the future he knows from occuring? TPM AU, ObiAniQui bonding, DONE!</blockquote>

<blockquote>In the chaos of conflict as a Republic crumbles into an Empire, two babies are smuggled to safety to keep them safe from a Sith Emperor's attention. It will not be enough. Their lives take very different paths, one raised as the Alliance's New Hope, the other as the Empire's Son.</blockquote> ➤ ft. Luke as raised by Palpatine and Leia as raised by Obi-Wan. Mostly Han pov. This fic is complete. ➤ The sequel, Empire's Son II, is found here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11540131/1/Empire-s-Son-II ➤ Read sequel through ch 10. (Since completed & I need to reread & finish.) ➤ The first fic was a lot about Luke but the character with the growth/change arc that actually reached a conclusion was Han. ➤ The sequel is clearly setting itself up to be about Luke having his own character arc now because it has done a thing that is going to make Luke have to finally, like, make a decision. Eventually. At some point. I hope. LUKE YOU CAN LEAVE PALPATINE IT'S OKAY.

<blockquote>"How much do you know about legends?" the man asked abruptly. Brian shrugged. "There's lots. They involve magic." "No, they involve fear."</blockquote> ➤ In which Sarah's university classmate is taken by the Goblin King so she goes back to the Labyrinth to save him. ➤ I felt like this was a fic that properly understood the appeal of the movie, and captured the right feel. Which is tragically rare for Labyrinth fic as I'm finding! ➤ I'm not super convinced by the ending, but I'm not sure that there's an ending that would have felt totally right to me so it's good enough.

<blockquote>A serial story of what-if: what if Cam had been a little more injured, and what if Jack's clone had been a little less willing to walk away.</blockquote> ➤ I've been intending to read this fic since 2009, but I'm glad I didn't read it at the time because I only had a link to "A Howling in the Factory Yard," and didn't know there was a whole 'verse it was part of. ➤ A frigging amazing story. Starts with lots of background and contextualization and becoming a community, all of which is great, then when the plot happens JD is so isolated while having to do hard things which is so much the better having come after the build-up, and then he gets to go home. ➤ This page doesn't have the concluding fic arc linked and it was several days after reading the fic that I discovered it did exist; the series wasn't actually abandoned, it just wasn't crossposted from dw. ➤ On first reading I was feeling super betrayed because that meant the emotional arc was never wrapped up. But after I found book three, it did everything that's needed and is great: http://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/tag/brokenship-wings

<blockquote>"The colloquial name is bloodstone," says the man from StrexCorp's Acquisitions division. "Heard of them?" Carlos shakes his head. "No, but I'm not a minerologist. Are you certain this wasn't intended for the geology department?" / Carlos is a loyal company employee, who has never been to any place called Night Vale and never met anyone named Cecil…which doesn’t explain the mysterious woman appearing in his lab, or these dreams he’s started having…</blockquote> ➤ My god, it's finally finished! I've been following this WIP from the beginning and it's been a great experience. What a good fic!

<blockquote>Hakoda found the boy in the ice eight days before Kya went into labor. Avatar!Katara AU.</blockquote> ➤ !!!!!!!!!!!! ➤ Probably when I finally get around to watching A:tlA I will have trouble believing Aang is really the avatar because I've internalized this fic so much but I DON'T EVEN CARE, THIS IS AMAZING FOREVER. ➤ The first two books of the series are complete, out of a projected four, so it ends with the overarching plot not actually concluded, but it is a satisfying read nonetheless as it stands. Also really long. Imagine The Ocean - Book One Listen to the Earth - Book Two Carry the Flame - Book Three (wip through part 2) ➤ As of December 2019 the author is saying in comments that they intend to keep writing so it's not abandoned yet.

<blockquote>First Officer Spock of the USS Enterprise is part of the away team that discovers the survivors of Tarsus IV. Captain Pike assigns him to the curious case of James Tiberius Kirk, who steals one of Spock's sweaters. There were no sufficient Vulcan poetics to describe the emptiness of the colony as it was found on the morning of stardate 2249.43. The fully-completed residential sector was neither ugly nor beautiful but simply remote; a hollow landscape of metal alloys and sensible architecture, with determined vegetation growing alongside the support beams. They did not flower.</blockquote> ➤ This is the problem with bookmarking fics waaaaay after I read them: I no longer remember my opinions! And this is entirely too long to reread to remind myself. I'm pretty sure I thought it was awesome, iirc?

<blockquote>Prince S'chn T'gai Spock of Vulcan, engaged to Prince James Tiberius Kirk of Earth through an arrangement made by their parents many years ago, writes to his intended on the day of his birth in the interest of diplomacy. Jim is not interested in diplomacy. Though there is no precedent set for the commencement of a written correspondence begun due to these specific parameters, I will strive to maintain, to the best of my abilities and with ample preparatory research previously conducted, the appropriate level of formality between us, based on a number of factors, primarily examples of a similar nature.</blockquote> ➤ particularly good characterization-wise. ➤ I liked the first part that was all epistolary the best.

<blockquote>"You want to recruit me for what? You want me to go where?" Sgt. Brad Colbert has been on a lot of strange missions, but this promises to be his most out there yet: Atlantis This is not a story about falling in love. This is a story about falling in team.</blockquote> ➤ most of this fic is absobloodylutely wonderful. The ending doesn't quite live up to the everything else but it's still totally worth a read.

<blockquote>Screw the bet. Rodney was going to prove the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Oh, and incidentally, he might just catch the United States Air Force with their pants around their ankles.</blockquote> ➤ series still wip but the stories stand alone. Probably abandoned at this point - last updated in 2010. (I first bookmarked in July 2009, Whizzy's google docs version, which no longer seems to work. Thankfully it is on ao3!) ➤ series consists of: Black Helicopters at Dawn Big Dish Guy Wrong End of the Rescue Tensile Strength Black Mountainside Blown Away

<blockquote>Steve Rogers has to live the same day over and over. Bruce, Tony, Pepper, Jane, and Thor try to help him. Then things go from bad to worse.</blockquote>