LINKDING

Summary: <blockquote>Even from the bar's parking lot, Lan Wangji could feel the presence of the spirits inside. This place was haunted. There was evidence of demonic cultivation everywhere from the wards to Wei Wuxian's bed. Lest he crawl back into it, Lan Wangji unsheathed Bichen and climbed on.</blockquote> ➤ mdzs wangxian modern-with-cultivation au where lwj is a trans man and wwx is a trans woman ➤ and ahhhh it just makes me so emotional about how GREAT wangxian are!!! ➤ wonderfully integrated characters/plot into a world they inhabit where friends and work and weird tastes in books are part of their lives, and also, lwj and wwx find each other and are immediately obsessed with each other, finding something in each other that allow them to best be themselves ➤ so many very funny details also, at the same time that it's many feelings ➤ 10k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Your unfaithful husband has defected back to the USSR, and been returned to you in poor health, both physically and mentally, having apparently been tortured due to a clerical error. You don’t char-havechar- to pick up the pieces, but you are curious to see whether among the unwelcome emotions you are experiencing there hides the one you used to label ‘love’.</blockquote> ➤ fic about the musical Chess! ➤ Anatoly/Svetlana navigating their relationship in the aftermath, in all its complexities ➤ navigating the feelings and the realities of their lives and what they are and aren't capable of being for each other, but being connected on some level despite it all! ➤ second person pov ➤ 6k words in length

<blockquote>Thirty-five years ago, two rogue cultivators vanished, leaving their son to fend for himself on the streets. Five minutes ago, Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze tumbled out of a time distortion array with only one thought: What happened to Wei Ying?</blockquote> ➤ from wwx's parents' pov

<blockquote>The queen chooses differently on her wedding night; Eugenides, as ever, rises to the occasion.</blockquote> ➤ (chooses differently about running away. but only temporarily.)

<blockquote>“Help us,” my mother begged the rishi. “Pray to Sri Lakshmi, and ask her to take away this boon.” The old woman shook her head. “That might anger the goddess. You shouldn’t appear ungrateful.” After some discussion, the rishi devised a curse, one whose words I know by heart because my mother repeated them to me every night before I slept and every morning when I awoke: “If Rampalalakshmicharan turns an object into gold for another person, they must give him whatever he demands in return. If they don’t, the golden object will turn to ash and he will lose his ability forever.” It wouldn’t guarantee my safety, especially not while I was too young to understand the consequences of my actions, but it meant that no one could abuse my gift forever.</blockquote> ➤ retelling of Rumpelstiltskin from the Rumpelstiltskin character's pov, making him a sympathetic character

<blockquote>"My aunt Valaria means to give us Nissa as a wedding present, to go with us and spy on me!" Cottia cried.</blockquote> ➤ series consists of: A Wedding Gift The Fire of Vesta Daughters The Threefold Tie

<blockquote>Sansa finds it difficult to look at Jon’s face, with its weathered lines and cragginess. It is the face of the North and a face that northerners trust; the face of Sansa’s brothers and her father, who had been loved and respected by their tenants as their forefathers had been when they were kings. How can Sansa feel anything but resentment, looking into that face and knowing that all of her years of hard work will never earn her the respect that that profile engenders within seconds? But she does. It is a small, burning coal of something that must be smothered.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Pi'maat - (n.) family, kin; lit. small clan. [Vulcan Language Institute] Notes: 10/29/2018 - I updated the name of this series because as it goes on, it's less and less about the war and more about a group of people trying to get by in an imperfect universe. Thus, family, to be interpreted how you like.</blockquote> ➤ marriage of convenience between two oc vulcans, with reflections on trauma (mental and physical) and relationships ➤ series consists of: Kal'i'farr heh T'naehm Let'thieri Khaf-spol t'M'aih Yel-nel-dath Masu-kastra Gol-tor Kal'uk Nash-veh Kwi'kusut Sarlah Nash-veh Dvin-tor

<blockquote>Arya is the only one of them to have met the Targaryen’s Young Dragon, and even then it had been a short battlefield acquaintance when the Ironborn had tried to take the Rock and a hasty alliance had been formed to push them back. Arya had come back from the south covered in blood and filth and said, he’s adequate, I suppose, which meant he probably was the greatest living swordsman.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Ripley." She turned her head slightly. The voice, flat and synthesized, came from a small speaker set into the side of her pod. "Yes," she said, with some difficulty: her tongue felt strange and thick. "Yes, this is Ripley. Who is this?" There was a pause, followed by a click. "This is Bishop, but I'm speaking to you on behalf of the Sulaco. There's been an accident." Under normal circumstances, Ripley knew, this statement would have produced a series of emotional and physiological reactions: alarm, adrenaline, fear, galvanized limbs, dread. But the effects of the hypersleep were still gripping her body, keeping her numb and apathetic, and instead all she felt was a faint curiosity. "What kind of accident?" She sat up. The room seemed to spin. "A fire. I think. It's hard to tell." </blockquote>

<blockquote>"We should take the general on a mission," Rose said. "One that's useful and not fatal." “We have those?” Finn asked. “Probably not fatal if well-executed,” Rose amended. The surviving members of the Resistance decide the best way to help Leia is to take her on a recruiting mission to Rose's home world.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Jupiter woke up, there was a small metal sphere on the pillow beside her. She blinked at it, because it certainly had not been there when she had gone to bed the night before. Then Aunt Nino began to stir and grumble as she too woke up and Jupiter snatched up the sphere, lobbing it hastily into her half-packed suitcase on her way to go and make the coffee.   In which Jupiter is propositioned by a space travel agency (but fancier!) and introduces Caine to her family.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Millie considers her position at Chrestomanci Castle and assists in an investigation.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Hey Liz, Apparently, I'm the captain of the Decathlon team. Or something. I was just wondering if you had any quizzes or guides that I could use. Thanks, MJ</blockquote>

<blockquote>The problem with owning something is suddenly it becomes your responsibility to take care of it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Prompt: “missing scenes from Europe…the give and take between them once they’re adults.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>Alianora learns that facing down dragons and wizards is nowhere near as hard as standing up to an overbearing aunt.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Finn and Rey's epic space road trip adventure, featuring pirates, kittens, and the Force ghost of Anakin Skywalker.</blockquote> ➤ I liked the way Anakin was characterized, and the interactions between the three characters

<blockquote>“Your majesty—” Leita began.  Queen Sveta laid her hand on the dressmaker’s arm. “I could not, of course, condone anyone breaking our kingdom’s laws. However, my daughter needs a dress almost like magic. Very like magic indeed.” Leita held her counsel, thinking quickly.  She avoided the queen’s gaze, and looked up at the Princess Aina who had slipped off her stool. She cradled a bolt of rose silk, swaying slightly to private music. Over the years, Leita had come to feel affection for the queen and her awkward daughter. She understood the queen’s desperation. She, too, had once borne a child she’d have done anything for.</blockquote>

<blockquote>George had only ever taken one trip without Millie, in the fall of 1951. A letter had arrived from the army asking him to fly to New Mexico.</blockquote> ➤ part 2 http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/in-joy-knowing-the-abyss-behind-part-2/

<blockquote>1. Spend a night in the smuggling compartments of the Millennium Falcon 2. Learn to fire a blaster without closing your eyes 3. Get drunk and go to bed with an unsuitable man 4. Yell at people who ask if you're okay 5. Go to bed with an unsuitable man even when you're sober</blockquote> ➤ from a prompt about how Leia's life changed between eps IV and V, with some focus on grief over losing Alderaan.

<blockquote>When Princess Talia was fourteen, her eldest sister was placed in a tower. Princess Adina was eighteen by then, and so of a marriageable age. She had grown quite beautiful, though she was more willful than winsome, and she did not care for the notion of the tower very much at all. Their mother did her best to persuade her on the subject. After all, the queen herself had been eighteen when her own parents had sent her to live in that very same tower, to be safely tucked away until her husband could be chosen, and then ride out to claim her. A tradition going back ages and ages.</blockquote> ➤ Princesses in towers making their own ultimate choices about their fates, actively

<blockquote>Eight movies Max von Mayerling made with Norma Desmond. Max, Norma, and the camera: their story from the beginning to the end.</blockquote> ➤ interesting, and also rather uncomfortable in places, in ways that are entirely fitting to the story. I was really captivated by the fic

<blockquote>Around the time that Glinda first hears Elphaba's song sung around the palace, she starts having dreams of Elphaba.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Byerly begins his new life on Jackson's Whole. His first mission: locate the Baron and Baronne's daughter Topaz by going undercover as an itinerant lichen-scrubber.</blockquote> ➤ sequel to A Bit Too Much Good Work, Byerly beginning to find his place in his new life on Jackon's Whole

<blockquote>"The vows were short, perfunctory; Clarke was asked to say I do, and she did. There were rings, too: Bellamy’s fingers were warm against her hand when he slipped a ring on her finger, and she put a ring on his. They were instructed to kiss. His lips were dry, pressing against her mouth for a moment, and that was it. They were done. She was a wife, and her husband was a stranger." AU. Clarke winds up in an arranged marriage with Bellamy.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A series of vignettes, which cover a time period from a few months after ANH to just after ROTJ. It looks at Han's early perceptions of Leia as Luke's potential girlfriend -- and the ways in which his perceptions change, over time, as he ends up falling for Leia himself.</blockquote>

<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>Some people say that there were two bloodbaths. There was Jurassic World itself, and then there was what came after. Claire Dearing and the art of survival.</blockquote>

<blockquote>They're both waiting for an awakening.</blockquote>