LINKDING

<blockquote>Lee's ready to come out, but an enchanted all-seeing camera might be ready to do the job for him first.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After the war, Rick searches for his place.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"When they ran away together for the first time, Don was fifteen and Cosmo had just turned fourteen, and Cosmo's father had been teaching him to shake hands with city men." Don and Cosmo, the travelling show.</blockquote>

➤set to "We are never ever getting back together." I KNOW RIGHT

<blockquote>Look, Bender says to Brian, I'm trouble. You know that. What are you still doing hanging around with me?</blockquote>

<blockquote>The longing was strong in Cunorix to take that outstretched hand, slim and strong, and follow Alexios wherever he would go. That was the soulbond speaking: it pulled at him, like the current of a river, and if Cunorix had looked into Alexios’s eyes, perhaps it would have drowned him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"If you must hear it," said Mike, in a manner calculated to strike terror into the hearts of strong men, "I don't bother with anyone else because I don't care for anyone else. I'd rather stop with you. But you already know that." "Ah, well," said Psmith, "you'd be surprised. There exist surprising gaps in my knowledge of the world. I have yet to get through Aristotle's enlightening remarks on Ethics, and I am apt to confuse Idaho and Oregon without a map. As for long division, my tutors have laboured for years to strengthen my grasp on the concept, but to no avail -- "</blockquote>

<blockquote>Seven years after the events of the book, Marco is beginning to think differently about The Rat.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Rat has been kissing everybody except Marco.</blockquote>

<blockquote>I would have known this was his home had it been anywhere in the world.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After WWI, Clive and Anne travel to Florence. It is the perfect setting for new and old romances to be understood.</blockquote> ➤ I read this just after finishing Maurice for the first time, and this fic gave me all the feels the book failed to. YES GOOD PERFECT ENDING TO THE BOOK

<blockquote>Marco drinks something he shouldn't at the Samavian New Year.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Russell has a test for his dates. He calls it The Mr. Fredrickson Test.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sinbad wakes up in bed next to Gunnar in a dark room. This is a thing that has happened before.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Stephen has a fancy for being flogged, and Jack is terrible at roleplay.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Hilarion discovers that Alexios is a virgin, he decides to help relieve his friend of this burden in a time-honored manner: a trip to one of the local prostitutes. Events do not exactly go as planned.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Alexios teaches Hilarion Greek... in bed.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Hilarion returns to visit Alexios the next night at Onnum.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It is not a thing you do, in the Frontier Wolves, to ask how a man has come to the frontier. Alexios pries when he should not, and Hilarion takes it rather ill at first.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Alexios could still feel that dreadful final twitch that Cunorix’s body gave before he died, and the suffocating weight in his own chest as the soulbond snapped back, like a rock in his lungs. He still could not get a deep breath. A soulbond story. Or: what do you do when you've killed your own soulmate?</blockquote> ➤ noooooooooooooo

<blockquote>No one in their right mind would play Flash the Fingers with Hilarion in the dark.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"It's a commercial, not a competition," Meng says. "The only person who cares how you play is you." He laughs. "Our job is just to look good. Can you do that, or are you too busy hating me?"</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ling's Motivation: "My competition challenges me to work hard. There are certain players who I constantly play against... [laughs] [eds note: likely referring to fellow All-World player Ben Watkins as the two have met in international competition a staggering fourteen times over the last three years] and I know that if I'm not playing my best game, they're going to blow me by."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Geoffrey Tennant made a career out of not allowing magicians to interfere with his productions. Darren Nichols, on the other hand, once turned his audience into grains of sand for a production of Beckett. The disagreement accidentally shapes their lives.</blockquote>

"A pair of immoveable combatants, locked in an eternal struggle.” He puffed his pipe. “That’s what one o’ them newspapers called us,” he added, complacently.

<blockquote>By the third time that Danny wound up with a window or door directly across from Eli Gronkowski's, he had to wonder if the universe was trying to tell him something.</blockquote>

<blockquote>While making the rounds of the fort, Alexios accidentally stumbles across Hilarion in an intimate situation. And again. And then again. One might almost think it was more than just a coincidence. But that can't be true, can it? (Or: a story in which there are freckles and strigils, Alexios is exceedingly oblivious, and Hilarion flirts in wildly shameless ways.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Hilarion is determined not to repeat past mistakes, nor to trust his new commander without good cause -- but he finds Alexios far more tempting than he should. And this time it is not only his own heart that is in danger, but the safety of the entire Ordo. (Also, there are kittens.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Written during Wimbledon 2011: Rudy, contender for the Wimbledon trophy, baffles the BBC commentators.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Darren doesn’t find out that Geoffrey’s dead until three days after the fact.</blockquote> ➤ odd, intense, and interesting