LINKDING

Summary: <blockquote>Gotta move, gotta choose / You've got a difference to make / Don't let it happen again Judas makes an agonizing decision, again and again and again.</blockquote> ➤ a Jesus Christ Superstar vid which draws on many different productions of the musical, both stage and film, to look at Judas's relationship with Jesus ➤ I love how it gets across how intense and agonising a relationship it is, and the use of many different sources helps hammer home the inevitability of its tragedy too ➤ 3:45 in length. music only, no added sounds/dialogue. subtitles are available.

<blockquote>Stephen took hold of Jack's face again, but not this time to cherish. He held him still—Jack making a mild complaining sound—and moved back far enough for the lantern-light to fall upon Jack and bring him into focus. There—there, on his jaw, where Stephen's hands had grabbed him—a faint smudge of the silvery dust. And on the side of his neck where the shirt lay loose, another trace of it, glittering like assassins' knives; Stephen remembered how he had combed all of his treacherous fingers through Jack's hair, stealthily savouring him. Contaminating him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Malcolm Connor is staring at my bike. It’s not for the first time. </blockquote> ➤ pre-ot3

<blockquote>It is not the same blade; yet it is still a good weapon.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ali told himself that he had not come here expecting to be embraced and kissed like a brother. He had not come here expecting to find Lawrence full of joy, or apologetic for not having sought to contact Ali himself. He had not come here expecting to find Lawrence sane. In these regards, he was not disappointed.</blockquote> ➤ a wonderful small look at their complicated relationship

<blockquote>Psmith thinks, Mike sleeps, and some kind of resolution is reached.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"A slight AU where Clive and Maurice are at school together. Clive understands his own desires better than Maurice does, but the younger, more physically vigorous boy makes it hard for Clive to keep his feelings within the safe confines of Greek poetry."</blockquote> ➤ the tone feels very reminiscent of the book, in a good way

<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>He had always thought he would end up married to his work. He had studied hard, worked diligently, brought himself to the attention of the right people--and ended up with an appointment to the Chrestomanci’s personal staff, as high as one could rise in Flavian’s chosen profession if one hadn’t happened to be born with nine lives. And when he got there he’d found Mordecai waiting for him. Mordecai, who threw all his previous ideas into confusion.</blockquote> ➤ AUUUUUUGH OVERCOME WITH FEELINGS

<blockquote>Two productions of Twelfth Night.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"When they ran away together for the first time, Don was fifteen and Cosmo had just turned fourteen, and Cosmo's father had been teaching him to shake hands with city men." Don and Cosmo, the travelling show.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The longing was strong in Cunorix to take that outstretched hand, slim and strong, and follow Alexios wherever he would go. That was the soulbond speaking: it pulled at him, like the current of a river, and if Cunorix had looked into Alexios’s eyes, perhaps it would have drowned him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After WWI, Clive and Anne travel to Florence. It is the perfect setting for new and old romances to be understood.</blockquote> ➤ I read this just after finishing Maurice for the first time, and this fic gave me all the feels the book failed to. YES GOOD PERFECT ENDING TO THE BOOK

<blockquote>Geoffrey Tennant made a career out of not allowing magicians to interfere with his productions. Darren Nichols, on the other hand, once turned his audience into grains of sand for a production of Beckett. The disagreement accidentally shapes their lives.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Darren doesn’t find out that Geoffrey’s dead until three days after the fact.</blockquote> ➤ odd, intense, and interesting

<blockquote>The problem is nobody knows how fucking terrifying it is to be Bruno Walton all the time.</blockquote>

<blockquote>John Bender gets a life.</blockquote> ➤ I know nothing about Breakfast Club, so: it is a fic about a angry high schooler who drops out and winds up a mechanic, making something out of his life, and the other half the pairing is the nerd from high school