LINKDING

Summary: Lin Chen did not look up from his book. “What on earth,” he said, clipped and precise, “makes you think that I would want to meet the man you're busy dying for?” / In which Lin Chen joins the Consort Jing fanclub, Mei Changsu re-evaluates several tenets of his existence, and Xiao Jingyan decides that if everyone else is having an emotional crisis, he might as well join them. ➤ HELLO it's a 12k Lin Chen/Mei Changsu/Xiao Jingyan ship fic I am there with bells on!!! ➤ mcs has a thing with jingyan and separately a thing with lin chen. he wants to make them be in the same room with each other. ➤ mcs gets what he wants and immediately gets to regret it in like five different ways, which is exactly what I love to see ➤ it's got so many delightfully fraught conversations between various iterations of the characters! ➤ it involves lin chen and jingyan talking about mcs behind his back! ➤ it involves lin chen and consort jing teaming up! ➤ LOVED IT.

Summary: Good stories end. In fact, good stories quickly become bad stories when they don’t know when to quit; it’s half the reason why Proud Immortal Demon Way had become so insufferable by the end. Well, Shen Qingqiu knows when his story is over. Mai Gu Ridge is a distant memory and he and Luo Binghe are married. There’s nothing more to say. In fact, he wouldn’t dare having character development this late in the story—if Proud Immortal Demon Way had had an epilogue, then Shen Qingqiu is firmly in the epilogue now. Everything’s been resolved. And since all the related plot threads were resolved in the main storyline, any good epilogue is a story about nothing in particular, and therefore not worth reading at all. ➤ post-canon bingqiu ➤ sqq is in the sort of epilogue where absolutely nothing happens, no matter what some people might say. there's no storyline and he's definitely not experiencing character development! ➤ this was SUCH a delightful read omg. extremely bingqiu of them! ➤ I've been thinking a lot about bingqiu's sexual dynamics of late due to my current wip, and I can say authoritatively that this fic Understands them ➤ 18k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Kirk meets a Vulcan, marries a Vulcan, and apparently outrages the entire Vulcan government in one day. He's an overachiever like that.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“The last thing I remember, I was at Meiling. I don’t remember this ambush you’re talking about. We were fighting Da Yu. Winning.” Lin Shu scrubbed a hand across his face. “Now they told me everyone thinks I’m a traitor and if anyone sees me, I’ll be arrested and killed… it’s ridiculous. That can’t really have happened. Even if someone framed us, the Emperor would figure out we were innocent in the end.” “I’m sorry,” Jingyan said. “It’s true. The Emperor believed everything.” Lin Shu was quiet, considering. “Wait,” Jingyan said. “Who’s ‘they’?” Or, the one where a young Lin Shu shows up out of nowhere and leaves Jingyan doubting the truth of what's happened in the past twelve years--and especially doubting his closest advisor.</blockquote> ➤ ahhhhh this is mostly AMAZING. the ending feels like it's lacking something to feel like it's a proper resolution and ending point for the story, but everything up to that point is perfect. And a good ending is hard to write!

<blockquote>Liu Qingge was beautiful, and delicate, or so everyone assumed when they saw him, and he hated it. Shang Qinghua was the big, dumb packmule of An Ding. Or so Liu Qingge first assumed. But Shang Qinghua is cursed with very, very bad luck and Liu Qingge is about the only cultivator strong enough, fast enough, and resourceful enough to keep him out of harm's (or at least inconvenience's) way. When the two are assigned as mission partners, Liu Qingge steps up.</blockquote> ➤ love their dynamic in this!

summary: "Shang Qinghua. You are safe. You are mine. You were given a poison that affects your memory. Dual cultivation will cure the effects. We will wait until you are ready for it. Do you have any questions?" Shang Qinghua wakes up to find that not only has he transmigrated, he's also lost his memory. And for some reason, neither the world of PIDW nor Mobei Jun are quite how he remembers writing them... ➜ an svsss moshang fic which I've read before but felt in the mood to reread tonight! ➜ post-canon fic in which sqh wakes up with amnesia in mbj's bed and tries to figure out what in hell is going on ➜ mbj does his best to communicate but uh. his communication skills are not strong ➜ it's very cute! and full of so many great little details. ➜ even if the way that amnesia'd sqh is constantly on edge, due to his anxiety about the situation, also kinda stresses me out lol 😅 ➜ 14k words in length

<blockquote>Some days you find yourself having sex with your academic nemesis in a storage closet and that’s just how it is.</blockquote> ➤ series consists of: Explaining Is Losing A Brief Report On Being In Love (diGenova, 2019)

<blockquote>In 1988, Crowley met his freshman roommate at the University of Saskatchewan and accidentally fell in love. Over the years, he and Aziraphale have settled into their roles as a director of stodgy classics and big-budget musicals respectively. But now Crowley has been tasked with finding a student at their alma mater who the Festival's Marketing department are sure will put the final nail in the coffin of the classical drama side of the Festival with his new play, a theatrical retelling of Paradise Lost. Crowley has been instructed to guide the student—whose name his boss has inconveniently forgotten—towards their goal, but Crowley's not going undercover alone. He's bringing Aziraphale with him, hoping that they'll bring enough balance to young Warlock's life that he won't bring about the end of the Stratford Festival with his play. Meanwhile, Adam Young becomes thoroughly distracted from writing his play by the pining professors who seem to be teaching all of his friend Warlock's classes.</blockquote> ➤ I love everything this chooses to be

<blockquote> “Hey, Boots,” said Bruno. There was a muffled thumping noise. “No.” “You haven’t even asked what this is about yet!” “I don’t need to. It is—” There was a pause while, presumably, Boots checked his clock. “Four forty-five A.M., as in in the morning, and I have never, in all our many years of acquaintance, known you to come up with a good idea between midnight and five A.M.” “You’re correct. This isn’t a good idea. This is a great idea.”</blockquote> ➤ this is incredible and I love it very much

<blockquote>(it's more likely than you think) Warlock "Lockie" Dowling summons a demon. Or, he buys a book off a suspiciously familiar bookseller and is convinced into demon summoning. It goes about as well as you'd expect.</blockquote> ➤ YESSSSSSSSSS

<blockquote>Lando is constructing plans to take back Cloud City and get the galaxy's only Jedi Knight into his bed. One of these things may be harder than the other.</blockquote> ➤ I am extremely charmed

<blockquote>So his new partner was surprisingly not completely un-attractive, for a human. Gavin Hayes had impressive aptitude scores, and a friendly smile, and eyes sharp as winter currents, taking in the station and remembering names and details with an ease that belied his causal charm. All things that transcended species boundaries and general integumentary inadequacies. It didn’t mean Sezin found him sexy.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It takes a few decades to really get to know a person. Especially when they keep changing; especially when they're unsure of themselves.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Haruhi said to the stranger, "The food's good, isn't it? Have you tried the small quiches?" She'd spoken English on the assumption that most people in the room would likely understand it, but when the man turned it became apparent that he was Japanese. Haruhi knew this because she recognised his face. It was the face of Japan's ace skater, Katsuki Yuuri. "K-K-Katsuki Yuuri-senshu!" Haruhi clapped her hand over her mouth, feeling the blood rise to her face. "Ah," said Katsuki. He was different off the ice. His spectacles reduced the impact of his eyes, and the shape of his face was somehow softer, less distinctive. "Do I know you?"  / Yuuri makes a friend. Viktor hates it.</blockquote> ➤ I don't know the fandom yoi is crossed over with but the knowledge is unnecessary for appreciating the fic

<blockquote>The ATF has questions about how some explosions on Greendale's campus tie into the local rumors of a cult led by Troy Barnes. The study group has answers. Sort of.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Uh,” Geralt said, staring down at the glass bowl. “Ribbit,” said the frog.</blockquote> ➤ You know, I know nothing and care nothing about this fandom (five fics in, I'm still having trouble remembering the main character's name....sorry, witcher fans!), but I hope astolat keeps writing these ridiculous tropey delightful fics about these dudes at such a fast rate because they're such fun to read

<blockquote>Jensen shifted his gaze to Cougar. “I really thought that if I ever had to say the words ‘telepathic disaster,’ it’d be a lot cooler than this is turning out to be.”</blockquote> ➤ telepathy and also truth-telling

<blockquote>features trade routes, magical fertilizer, and one girl's centuries-long effort to impress a woman who is already in a committed relationship with a boat.</blockquote> Yeah!!!! I've already read it twice since I discovered this story yesterday. the fantasist no longer has the story up so it's now posted on the author's website https://rebeccafraimow.com/2023/08/20/suradanna-and-the-sea/

<blockquote>Men who want to dress as women and women who want to dress as men know the person to ask is a seamstress called Musichetta. This unusual trade brings Musichetta in contact with Manon Lesgle and Anne Joly, two young women who wish to live as gentlemen in order to pursue their educations. But it's 1823: the King is dying, France is changing, and there is more to learn about the world and about themselves than either expected. Gender-swapped Joly and Lesgle AU. Written for the Les Mis Big Bang 2016.</blockquote> ➤ canon-era crossdressing lesbian poly! WHAT A GOOD.

<blockquote>A spirited young student and a world-weary Jedi master are equally determined that they have no interest in each other.</blockquote> ➤ author's note: <blockquote>one day we sat around chatting about Heyer, and Heyer books we like, and certain Heyer quirks and tropes, like the masterful hero, and the sizeable age difference, and something went pop in my brain and I said: flambeau: oh, you know flambeau: if Heyer were a fan today flambeau: she'd be in Phantom Menace fandom </blockquote> ➤ AMAZING. Extremely Georgette Heyer, as promised, and though the characterisation is not at all canonical, it's (again as promised) very Heyer. I am delighted, and would read a million words of this. But it's great as is too.

<blockquote>"Not all over the table, venerable sir!" cried Xiao Zhen, but it was already too late.</blockquote> ➤ A charming and delightful Chinese fairy-tale type story

<blockquote>Jack and Stephen in space. No, really.</blockquote> ➤ I don't know how I managed to never notice this fic's existence before but it's SO DELIGHTFUL omg I'm so pleased that that amrev fic got me looking through astolat's archives again

<blockquote>Mojo presents: Love Across the Multiverse! In tonight's episode, a battle-hardened supersoldier finds himself drawn to his handsome, genius teammate! It's an agonizing duel between his long-held beliefs and the secret passions of his heart! Will true love conquer all? There's only one way to find out! Don't miss the highlight of the season! (Viewer discretion is advised. Mojoworld residents who do not vote for their favorite participants of the season will be summarily sent to the arena. All hail Mojo.)</blockquote> ➤ Ultimates versions of these characters

<blockquote>Captured in battle and stuck in the Mede capital, Costis has given up all hope of seeing his country again. But Eugenides has a habit of turning up where he's least expected.</blockquote> ➤ cackling with glee over how perfect the characterization is throughout this fic. WHAT A GOOD.

<blockquote>Mike Webster had already been dreading a return to Camp Algonkian as the oldest camper, but his new counsellor seemed determined to make Mike's summer even worse.</blockquote> ➤ I AM SO HAPPY ABOUT EVERYTHINGGGG. ➤ And like I really love AVLS and it is in some ways the quintessential "back at Algonkian" fic for me, the AVLS Rudy always kind of bothered me with how very on top of every single situation he always is. I like that this Rudy is a little more, mmm, human and sympathetic?

<blockquote>"Oh my God," Rodney says, stricken. "This is—this is one of those British costume dramas Ronon always wants to watch and I'm the uncouth American!"</blockquote> ➤ I SERIOUSLY NEVER BOOKMARKED THIS??? what a travesty!

<blockquote>A story about the benefits of cultural exchange, contraception, the downsides to television stardom, and what counts as pre-watershed in the Pegasus galaxy.</blockquote> ➤ oh look, yet another why-was-this-not-already-bookmarked fic. ➤ Also, the one with the term "ice farmer"; I'd forgotten that was from this fic

<blockquote>A Mongol woman warrior, a Chinese princess who overthrew the Emperor, a cross-dressing French writer and an Egyptian inventor-mathematician help a city of quasi-Roman lesbians to outwit and defeat a host of aliens who treat humans as toys to be tested to destruction. Also features clockpunk attack robots, lesbian kissage, assorted dinosaurs and a telepathic pteranodon.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Feuilly joins the Amis and objects to everything , Joly and Combeferre try not to objectify patients, Enjolras cannot help but objectify the People, Courfeyrac is an object of merriment and Jehan makes Combeferre into an object of the sublime.</blockquote> ➤ aw fuckin hell, here's all my TEEEAAAAM feels back in yet another fandom. Only what do I call it here? Not "team" or "pack" or anything like that..... ➤ ANYWAYS THIS IS DELIGHTFUL IN ALL THE WAYS ➤ (I tag it as les amis; the viewpoint one is Joly)

<blockquote>Jack and Stephen accidentally become telepathically bonded, but Stephen still has to complete his mission in Minorca.</blockquote>