LINKDING

<blockquote>It was just as well they called it the Forlorn Hope.</blockquote> ➤ Jenny before the events of the book

<blockquote>Arabella said that if Jonathan took too long coming home, she'd go fetch him herself. A year is too long. With the help of some friends, she's going to save her husband.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Everyone deserves a little happiness before they die.</blockquote> ➤ does a great job of Barney's pov

<blockquote>And now, knotted among all his familiar desires, here he found a new one, woven partly out of obligation and partly out of curiosity. And partly out of loneliness, of course. Yes, Diaval thought. I am needed.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Millie struggles with control.</blockquote>

<blockquote>One man can alter the course of history. A random encounter leads Duv Galeni to change his mind and return to Komarr.</blockquote> ➤ aaaaaa this is so great!! actually challenging the unchallenged imperialism of the original books!

<blockquote>A wedding night requires a good deal of compromise and discussion. On, for example, the size of the queen's guard and whether getting married was perhaps a terrible idea.</blockquote>

<blockquote>She had burned with love. It was a fire that had lasted over twenty years. Well, all fires ran out of fuel in the end. A study of Hesero Nelaran and Setheris Nelar, in the first spring after their reunion.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Third grade has far-rippling effects. About twenty years on, the kids remember Ms. Frizzle's impact on their lives, each in their own way. Gen.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Donna's begun having terrible headaches, and Shaun struggles to help her.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“I refuse to get married twice,” Sophie snapped.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After the excitement of navigating the Ulanga and plotting to blow up a boat, Rose discovers the prospect of going home to England sounds unbearably dull. Also, she misses Charlie.</blockquote> ➤ A PRESENT FOR MEEEEEE and what a great present!

<blockquote>"I have had my fill of Montague lies and found them not to my taste; may I not see if Capulet lies are the sweeter?"   Romeo's ex-girlfriend Rosa is pissed and heartbroken; Tybalt is convenient. (Based on the Hungarian musical production; Rosa's unique to it, I think.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>For the kinkmeme, prompt is "blood, love and rhetoric, either concurrent or consecutive." Prompt elaboration is: "Les Mis is all blood, love, and rhetoric, you see." So I tried to do the compulsory elements with absolutely zero Stoppard. And with Marius and Cosette with kidz.</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>Grantaire and Eponine get drunk and have sex while roleplaying as Marius and Enjolras, respectively.</blockquote> ➤ damn, how to tag pairings when the sex is one thing but the feelings are other things entirely?

<blockquote>The thing about being young is that it happens to most everyone.</blockquote>

<blockquote>These are the lessons which Richard Burton did not learn, these are the ways in which he applied them.</blockquote> ➤ written just for meeeee and it is GREAT.

<blockquote>Three times Sarah invites Jareth in.</blockquote> ➤ Note in 2015: DANG. This fic works a lot better after having seen the movie. ➤ Series consists of: The First Time The Second Time The Third Time

<blockquote>So the thing is, I liked the Spock/Uhura in the movie. I really, really did. I want to see it work out. And then I write things like this. No, I don't get me either. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Rodney quickly added this new, annoying quirk of programming to his mental list of 'Why the Ancients Were Total Assholes.' It was, he agreed, handy to travel the galaxy by stargate and understand everything that was said – it certainly made it easier for Sheppard to offend the local leaders' daughters, and enabled the team to negotiate for imak root without mastering the (alleged) seventeen syllables of 'imak' in native Hi'ichga'akian. But why the hell couldn't they turn the damn function off? "It is quite all right, Rodney," Teyla said (or did she?, Rodney wondered bitterly), laying a hand on his arm. "I am touched by the gesture, but it is not necessary that you learn Athosian for my sake. Or Kagaan's."</blockquote>