LINKDING

Summary: <blockquote>When I woke that morning, it was with the bone deep surety that kemmer was upon me.</blockquote> ➤ another Left Hand of Darkness fic!!! just as good as the other one! god I love fandom ➤ genly and estraven on the ice, while estraven is in kemmer; a classic premise ➤ this one is so sweet and loving, so full of genly being obtuse about things but trying so hard regardless, and estraven wanting him despite it all! ➤ 2k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Mel during the Wars, told through the eyes of a tattoo artist.</blockquote> ➤ fic for Robin McKinley's novel "Sunshine" featuring Mel and Mel's tattoo artist! ➤ told through the notes kept by the tattoo artist on each tattoo associated with Mel ➤ Such a great glimpse into Mel's side of Sunshine's world! ➤ 1k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>When Jiang Yanli was eight years old, she was sent on a visit to her grandmother in Meishan.</blockquote>

Summary: <blockquote>"Yes, you've been saying my name for the past five minutes," Wei Ying says, worried, and oh heavens, yes, this is indeed his husband. "It woke me up. Were you having a bad dream?" No, it was a good one, Lan Zhan wants to say. You were yourself again – He catches the thought mid-drift, and is mortified. / Lan Zhan sometimes misses Wei Ying's old body, and it's hard knowing he'll never see it again.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The birth of a twin is a special thing. Mama told us when we were young. "There are customs in every land," she said. "And our land requires sacrifice." So when our mare gave birth to twins, she told me. "Lily, one of these foals will be ours, but the other will be given to the land."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Fatima foresees a terrible future if Güyük becomes Great Khan, and Töregene makes a different choice: history diverges.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Every great warrior has to begin somewhere.</blockquote>

<blockquote>HiQIRR rates this highway U/UR: unsafe/urgent repairs needed. HiQIRR rates most highways U/UR. Two hundred four point eight miles ago HiQIRR rated a highway DC/6: degraded/check again in six months. HiQIRR experienced unexpected procedural harmony. Krace says that means HiQIRR is happy. Krace says to use round numbers like two hundred.</blockquote>

<blockquote>There is no way to carry the gods’ warnings lightly in the heart and mind.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Emma Pole has avoided sleep and magic as much as possible for many years. One night, she cannot hold them both back, and she finds herself reunited with an old acquaintance.</blockquote>

<blockquote>As old men, Scipio and Hannibal have an opportunity they longed for at Ephesus.</blockquote> ➤ written in rhyming iambic pentameter

<blockquote>Cricket and dancing in the officers' mess.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Every few months, Beata makes the 400 km trip from Reestkii to Niima Station to pick up any children orphaned or stranded with the scavengers. Every few months, one child refuses to leave.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After the destruction of the Death Star, Darth Vader finds what he's never searched for inside the reports of what went wrong.</blockquote> ➤ Vader figuring out Luke is his son via bureaucracy

<blockquote>A small missing scene near the end of the movie. Rey's been given a new home and new clothes, but it feels like she's giving up bits of her old life in exchange.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A young Daine struggles to understand why her friends don't want to play.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Elizabeth rememebers her dead sister Juliet.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Gonturan was no ordinary sword</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Methos finds Richie first.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Five things about being human that Oberon and Titania attempted to understand; and that one thing they didn’t even try to figure out.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Paris asks his cousin Mercutio (God knows why) for romantic advice.</blockquote>

<blockquote>For Majorly Minor Character Week. The prosecutor from Arras, looking for witnesses to identify Jean Valjean, sends a letter to Commissaire Reynaud at Toulon.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Cosette/Eponine, dragon AU</blockquote> ➤ in which Cosette is a human and Eponine a dragon

<blockquote>Gregor had obviously mistaken Mark for someone else. (Mark hated being mistaken for someone else.) A regular human being, who knew how to do the friend thing. He felt sick and helpless, like when he’d walked into Kareen’s dorm room to find her in tears because she’d just gotten a vid from her family and she missed them so much. “Sire,” Mark started, but no, that wasn’t right, Mark could figure out that much. “Gregor. Do you, uh, want to tell me what’s wrong?” After his wedding, Gregor has an unexpected problem, and calls Mark for help.</blockquote>

<blockquote>At finishing school, Ella and Areida learn about the language of flowers. Hattie, as usual, gets in the way.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The king of Bithynia is not what he expected, and young Caesar finds it is perhaps not quite so simple to separate personal pleasure from political expediency as he first thought.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The night before the First Attacotti Frontier Scouts leave for Belgica, Hilarion brings a matter to the attention of his commander.</blockquote>

<blockquote>He wasn’t the man she had meant when, the morning after the first ball of the season in Vorbarr Sultana, she had swept into her mother’s sitting room and announced, “Maman, I want that one.” Alys has a gentleman caller.</blockquote>

<blockquote>I’d heard that are-you-leaving-me? wobble in dozens of voices over the years; the answer was nearly always yes. But that wasn’t all; Olivia was worried about me, bless her, a High Vor lady suddenly deprived of my home and visible means of support. What was left of my own dowry was enough for me to live modestly for several years, but modesty had never been one of my virtues, as Olivia knew. In fact almost all that money had already been spent, or good as. “We have to talk,” I said. Lady Donna has a proposal for Olivia.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Isabella, future girl-queen of England, receives a visit from a predecessor.</blockquote> ➤ Richard II's child-bride