LINKDING

<blockquote>Written 12/10/18 for syrena_of_the_lake, in response to the prompt: Star Wars, any droid, misheard voice commands</blockquote>

<blockquote>At the end of his life, retired Stabile of the Ekumen Genly Ai shares a part of his story on Gethen that he never told.</blockquote> ➤ Wow, that was really good. Did an amazing job of feeling like something that fits with canon

<blockquote>It wasn’t that she’d joined up because of Polly, per se. The notion had been percolating for some time. Somewhere between the coffee fiasco and the sack of beans delivered straight to her skull via pigeon, her military record had gotten a little … embarrassing. Mal did not generally do embarrassing. She was quite sure that she could do better the second time around. The question she’d been stuck on was how much difference that would make if Borogravia itself could not do better.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The first thing he does, when everyone is dead, is listen.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Gregor carries her mother's vorfemme knife.</blockquote> ➤ trans Gregor who must remain closeted

<blockquote>Feelings are a luxury Qi'Ra can't afford. Notes: Written for this prompt at the Star Wars Kink Meme: So, exactly how did Qi’ra go from being part of Lady Proxima’s gang to working for Dryden Voss and the Crimson Dawn? What are all the terrible things she’s done? How did Dryden Voss find her, and how did she become his most trusted lieutenant?</blockquote> ➤ YEAH. THIS FIC!

<blockquote>Therem Harth rem ir Estraven. Estraven the Traitor. “A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness</blockquote>

<blockquote>Leia dreams of a beautiful woman with long curly hair. Sometimes, she's smiling brightly, and sometimes, she's sad, but Leia knows, deep in her heart, that this is her birth mother, and that she loves Leia very much.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A tale of the first Thief of Eddis, as told by the Queen Thief.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Grandpa likes to call Yuri's cat—his other cat—Matroskin, because she talks so much. Maya hid under Yuri's bed for their first two months of cohabitation and yowled every time he kicked his shoes under there. She’ll cuddle up to Yuri now as long as they both pretend it’s not happening. That’s the proper order of things when it comes to humans and cats.</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>fine, here’s some bike fairy nonsense</blockquote>

<blockquote>Lien would like to return to her egg now.</blockquote> ➤ Lien's hatching and childhood

<blockquote>Sometimes people in the Resistance act like Finn grew up in a bacta tank. Or a trash compactor.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“What is taquitos,” she asks her house, carefully, in its tongue.</blockquote> ➤ this is SO GOOD

<blockquote>Menolly has a new life, the life she could never have dreamed of, but still Half-Circle won't leave her alone.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Psmith thinks, Mike sleeps, and some kind of resolution is reached.</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>In which what was meant to be a silly fic about Luke's farmboy water obsession turned into a story about grief, mourning, culture shock and friendship.</blockquote>

<blockquote>For a moment, Luke's half-amused at himself, for misunderstanding such a simple question, one that's asked all the time on the homesteads - who are your people, where are you from? / On Yavin Four, after the Death Star, before the battle, out of the ashes, Luke Skywalker becomes a Rebel pilot.</blockquote> ➤ Luke is asked about his next-of-kin

<blockquote>"It's so green here," Rey says, wonderingly, the first morning; the first sunrise. "And the clouds! There's just so much color." "Just wait until it's really spring," Luke says. "I know patience is tough at your age—" Without looking, he can feel her tense, irritation scratching at the back of her mind. She's spent her whole life waiting. "Or maybe that was just me," he adds, smiling. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Two planetary landings, two desert planet teenagers, and one Han Solo.</blockquote> ➤ great Han Solo pov

<blockquote>"How'd you learn all this stuff, anyway?" Finn says. Rey says, "Hand me the conductive grease." Finn doesn't move; she snaps her fingers. "Come on, it's the blue tube, the one—" "Oh, yeah, I see." He slides it to her across the ship's floor. "So? How did—" "Like that," says Rey.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“The Force is with all my family,” Luke says. “But so is the dark side. It comes to us all easily, with great power.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Instead of going to his father's funeral mass, Tybalt picks fights with Montagues.</blockquote>

<blockquote>For her twelfth birthday, Júlia received two gifts from her mother: a songbird and a dagger.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Five things that happen when you get stuck on Mars and have to be dramatically rescued. Or, Mark Watney meets pop culture.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Miriam was elbow-deep in the water purification system when Elisheva came running. "Abba says I have to but I don't want to!"</blockquote>

<blockquote>Julia and Romeo and Tybalt have been feeling their way cautiously around something new and strange since Tybalt came to Mantua; what finally sparks the tinder none of them could have expected. (Set in an assumed fix-it universe in which nobody dies, Tybalt fled Verona and has been trying to mend his relationship with Julia, and Romeo and Tybalt are already sleeping together but Julia and Tybalt are talking around the elephant in the room. One of these days I'll actually properly write a whole fix-it, I swear.)</blockquote> ➤ YES GOOD

<blockquote>Her mouth is a delighted curve that belongs to him now and yet does not belong to him, and sometimes Benedick wonders what it would be like to marry someone who did not know all of his flaws already.</blockquote>