LINKDING

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

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

<blockquote>On Posthe Tuwa of the Year One in the reign of Argaven XII, Harny Sord of Gernahan gave birth to a pervert.</blockquote> ➤ I like what it does with pronouns, just no third person pronouns at all for people in somer (not in kemmer)

<blockquote>Jane believes herself to be alone in the world, but she is not alone.</blockquote> ➤ Helen's spirit continues to follow Jane and protect her, after Helen's death

<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>“Therem,” Genly said to me, “you’re trembling.” I looked at my shaking hands. I was too tired to try and maintain shifgrethor. “I was afraid you might die.” “There’s a good chance I might yet,” Genly said, “we’ve got four hundred miles to go.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>I’ve done all this before. Hundreds of times, every morning since I was made captain.</blockquote> ➤ does not end with the time loop resolved

<blockquote>“Well,” Rudy drawled. “Mike Webster. It seems that, once again, we find ourselves as lone islands of sanity amidst a sea of clones.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>What it says on the tin</blockquote>

<blockquote>Maybe the real Jumanji was the friends we made along the way.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Fenella meets Queen Gold-tree on her wedding day, and meets the king at the same time. Gold-tree becomes a friend, and when she dies, Fenella and the king are left to pick up the pieces together.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Millie receives a mysterious set of postcards, the Bletchley girls must work together to solve a case that's bigger than any they've faced before.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Dilemmas are discussed, and solved (with the aid of some tea).</blockquote>

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

<blockquote>“Anyway, he’s staying with me for a while,” John says. “My place got firebombed,” Matt says, reflexively.</blockquote> ➤ pretending to be a couple for insurance purposes

<blockquote>Over the course of his first six months as the heir-apparent to the Ethuveraz, Idra learns a great deal of his uncle the Emperor.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Not all is as it should be in a world down the Series, and Janet is not just a raw ingredient.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Stephen's letter, folded inside his jacket, pressed against his heart like a hot poker. To Captain Jno. Aubrey, R.N., HMS Surprise: I ask you to sail on as scheduled. Do not come looking for me.</blockquote> ➤ I AM NEVER OVER HOW MUCH I CARE ABOUT THEIR FRIENDSHIP

<blockquote>"Hsst," said one of the girls next to them. "Do you fight sharks a lot?"</blockquote>

<blockquote>In a world where a certain submarine never arrives, Burt Gurney and Hobie Doyle play a cat-and-mouse game.</blockquote> ➤ charming

<blockquote>Horatio returns from Russia suffering the aftereffects of typhus. Caring for him may be too much for Barbara to handle alone.</blockquote> ➤ I like how the fic characterizes Barbara, and her relationships with Horatio and with Bush

<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>Five times Peter practiced magic on the Victorian farm (and one time the farm had a magic all its own)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Snow and Whitehead bring back miasma theory, and not before time.</blockquote> ➤ John Snow of the cholera epidemic, in an apocalyptic future, discovers the miasma (radiation) from the leavings of the Old Ones is what is causing illness

<blockquote>Letters from Mars to Earth, between early colonists and their loved ones.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mindy asks herself, "What would an Ares astronaut do?" (Colonize a planet with potatoes, hijack a space radio, then fly into space in a vehicle with no windows. Man those folks are cool.)</blockquote> ➤ Mindy being mentored by Kapoor for roles of greater leadership within NASA

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

<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