LINKDING

<blockquote>A collection of fragments from Angharad Scott’s research and correspondence. In which another, less familiar, world is revealed, and stories are told. I have stood in the shadows of the lamassu. I have explored a Palace of unending rooms, utterly silent beyond the rushing of waters below and the caw of birds above. Your stories are true — and more than that, they are only a fraction of the stories that can be told.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The evening before she began advanced schooling, Mahit Dzmare's best friend gave her a flower-novel about an ancient story: the man who set out to recover a legion's lost standard, and the friends who loved him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Where Genly Ai went, after Winter. [Written for Yuletide 2010.]</blockquote> ➤ oh, wow. Very effective at grounding in setting such that it evokes a strong consistent feeling throughout. Plus excellent alien anthropology

<blockquote>Breq is a traitor, a rebel, and a captain a thousand years out of date. Mercy of Seivarden is drifting without a crew.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A Staryk girl with a Jewish name</blockquote> ➤ YESSSSSSSS this is so good

➤ Anaander Mianaai's early experiments in multiple bodies

<blockquote>A few years into his reign, Henry IV is troubled to learn of mystic attracting followers to his revels in the Forest of Hainault. Some say he's a saint or prophet, others that he's a vision of Christ himself. Many have noticed that he resembles the old king, Richard II. Prince Hal - always curious about the latest novelty - takes his friends to see, but his cynicism melts away in the presence of the charismatic, kingly figure, and so eventually does his sanity. Henry must take action to restore order to his family and his kingdom, but what chance does order stand against this powerful and delicious chaos? A reworking of Euripides' Bacchae in the world of medieval Christianity and Shakespeare's histories.</blockquote>

<blockquote>An unexpected summons from Mother Proudfoot brings Millie and Christopher back to Series Ten, in an investigation of the welfare of the latest Living Asheth.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Once there was a little girl who tried very hard not to be born. Her father the king and her mother the king’s wife had six children already – all sons. </blockquote>

<blockquote>the-arkadian asked: Weird crossover - Maxim de Winter's first kiss with Halal. ;-) (I'm guessing there'd only ever be the one.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>The play proceeds as it has every night. At first, Lucheni had simply told the story, a dry progression of the facts as he knew them, without emotion or argument. He had made his argument already, with a needle file at the dock and later in the memoirs they took from him in prison, in smuggled paper and sooty ink and moonlit nights.</blockquote>

➤ consisting of the fics "Historical Reintegration", "Historical Disintegration", and "The Marat Network". ➤ I will admit to being a little bit lost at times on account to not knowing much about these dudes but on the other hand it is ALARMINGLY DELIGHTFUL OH GOSH WOW

<blockquote>Crownprince Rudolf's childhood is lonely, filled with the harsh discipline of a future soldier king. But if you never have time to sit and listen to the stories of soul-dealing demons or the Erlkings cruel court, it can be very hard to know what to make of a friend, whose hair is filled with starlight and whose hand is cold like ice.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A record of the sub-committee's interview of Maggie Farrell, Somnotician and candidate for the position of artist on the delegation which will shortly leave Earth to make first contact with the inhabitants of Toliman B.</blockquote> ➤ Again: AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

<blockquote>"It's only a story, Xury," said Téo gently. "I know it is a story, " Xury replied with wounded dignity. "I am fifteen, not five. But do you see why she is so important to us? She never quit. No matter what was flung at her, she kept on. And eventually she won. There are worse stories, Téo. Like the story that sings loudly, 'You are alone, enslaved, helpless and without hope, and thus it shall be forever.' That is a terrible story to believe in."</blockquote> ➤ AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

<blockquote>I didn’t take her voice for myself. I want to set the record straight on that, right up front. People got a lot of crazy notions in their heads, the way the story got around, and that was one of them.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Hal grows up to be a king.</blockquote>

<blockquote>However you tell the tale of Bluebeard, he always dies. Sometimes it just takes a little longer to kill him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A loose re-telling of 'King Thrushbeard' in which the princess has more issues with marriage than with pride and in which a king truly must watch what he says -- or everyone will face the consequences.</blockquote>

<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>Paul Simon may have taken a few liberties with the events, but here's what REALLY happened down by the schoolyard. In addition to our narrator, it features Mama, Papa, the radical priest (and some of his less savory brethren), a reporter for Newsweek, assorted members of the law enforcement and legal professions, Rosie the queen of Corona and, of course, Julio.</blockquote>

➤ Death comes for Sophie. (Elisabeth's daughter, not Elisabeth's mother in law)

<blockquote>The charming and delightful tale of the Ingalls family’s extraordinary life as they do their best to survive after an onslaught of unspeakable undead horror.</blockquote> ➤ okay so apparently what I need to be able to enjoy zombie fic is for it to be written in the extremely straightforward and optimistic tone of the Little House books???? ➤ also at https://archiveofourown.org/works/424713

<blockquote>Private detective Marie Slade is landed with a strange case that just keeps getting stranger. Will she be able to solve the mystery before it's too late?</blockquote> ➤ a 12 Dancing Princesses noir au. not a happily ever after.

<blockquote>Hobbes turned over in bed and poked Calvin with his tail. “Maybe you live on a different plane of existence. That somehow we both occupy the same space and that’s why we can see each other and others can’t.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>Child Ballad 32 is a loathly lady story. The only popular version I know of is Steeleye Span’s “King Henry,” on Below the Salt. I have had this album for well over a decade, and occasionally I found myself wondering about the monstrous lady in the story, and even more about King Henry, who agreed to kill his horse and hawk and hounds to feed her. I don’t know that I’d easily forgive someone who forced me to kill my dog. This had been kicking around in my head for the better part of a decade, and then I was privy to a very odd conversation in a bookstore about people with extreme forms of body dysmorphic disorder, and then I drank a lot of coffee and drove for about forty-five minutes and “King Henry” came on the CD player and I went home and wrote the story in one long jag, which probably explains a few things about it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>You don't remember what happened before you went to live in the Hundred Acre Wood. (That's a lie. If you didn't remember, you wouldn't cry at the little things that feel like home. A Baltimore Orioles cap - like Bobby's, Bobby loved baseball. A whiff of gardenia perfume - Mom, getting ready for work one morning, lesson plans spread over the counter. A brown leather briefcase - Dad keeps it beside his chair, you used to slide it out when he wasn't home and snap and unsnap the locks.)</blockquote>

➤ Racebending challenge, with Mary Poppins reimagined as an Indian ayah. ➤ as a commenter says: <blockquote>'It is a familiar arrogance she encounters; this certainty that they must be the heroes and पुरुषोत्तमs of their story.' The reason the sentence hit me so hard is that by the time I got here I was reeling with how powerful it was that This Story Is Not for Me. Which is one of those stupid points of privilege, you know? Why char-shouldchar- it be for me? And then I got to this line and it was so powerful.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In the capital, where our Queen lives, there are two universities.</blockquote>