LINKDING

<blockquote>Sixteen year old Victor spontaneously travels to the future, where he's... retired? And married?</blockquote> ➤ OH MY GOD. the oustide pov of Viktor's teenage self is amaaaazing

<blockquote>Victor learns language through mimicry, hears phrases and repeats them back until the inflection becomes second nature. Yuuri seems to communicate best through euphemism, through metaphor, through talking around the subject rather than approaching it head on, and so Victor tries his best to mimic him, to take his words and echo them back. (Vignettes in language learning and communication, spanning the whole series.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>It was the only the beginning of a relentless campaign of terror and romance.</blockquote> ➤ knowledge of canon unnecessary

<blockquote>A single rumor could move mountains, or topple thrones. Sejanus had been very good at this game, but Hilarion knew better than to think it one of his own strengths. Then again, political acuity had gotten Sejanus imprisoned, his brother exiled, and his house doomed to crumble away with no son to inherit it, and Hilarion, for all his faults, would not make the same mistake twice. But he could not imagine standing before their cranky, sleep-rumpled king and telling Attolis that he ought to be careful of a mere rumor.</blockquote> ➤ fic about Eugenides' attendants! And it feels spot-on

<blockquote>BURR Secretary Hamilton, belay that shouting! You protest too much, there's certainly no doubting the other figments of your own brain would agree, and so far there's been seven, plus me--but who's counting?</blockquote> ➤ HOLY CRAP. I am seriously impressed.

<blockquote>“So Benny, you know it’s traditional to bring a date to a wedding, right?”</blockquote> ➤ Vecchio and Stella's wedding

<blockquote>Five ways Damen and Laurent could have met.</blockquote> ➤ all five are fabulous!

<blockquote>John always gets a little thrill when he sees Rodney sign at him across the room, casually dissing people literally standing next to him and John is the only one who knows.</blockquote> ➤ In which Rodney is mute and talks in sign language

<blockquote>Benvolio is playing spin the bottle. Tybalt is not. (They're in underground dystopian Verona, because why not.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>The greatest treat of all was sitting on his father’s lap to add his signature to the bottom of a letter to Atticus while his father corrected his spelling: kappa iota kappa epsilon, the pen slipping in his chubby hand, rho omega nu. Cicero the younger sends his greetings to Titus the Athenian.</blockquote> ➤ political and personal all mixed up in each other: awww yeah ➤ but now I get to figure out how to tag roman names. goddamnit what do I call people.

<blockquote>When I was a very small child my Aunt Semele was struck by lightning and died.</blockquote> ➤ HOLY CRAP this fic is good. also I don't have the right feelings tag for it and don't know what the correct feeling is to describe how the fic made me feel. Feelings are hard. ➤ also bonus A+ commentary: http://amo.dreamwidth.org/228448.html

<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>One of the side-effects of Drifting is that Drift partners are no longer capable of being sexually attracted to each other. At all. Dr. Newton Geiszler is not happy about this.</blockquote> ➤ this fic is perfect to me

<blockquote>A few hours before, Steve was Captain America, flying a plane into the ice to save his country, save everyone. There's no United States of America on Earth anymore, but there's one on Mars.</blockquote> ➤ I am so into this

<blockquote>“Steve's got it into his head that you’ve done more for him than he can ever pay you back for. He’s grateful.” (Sam’s taking Steve as a guest to his sister’s wedding, but first he and Bucky have a few things to sort out.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>"I didn't even know I liked cake," Steve said.</blockquote> ➤ (cake is a metaphor for sex) ➤ also I am beginning to be reminded, in all these fics about tracking down HYDRA bases, of Man From UNCLE and THRUSH.

<blockquote>Three times William Laurence was oblivious on the journey to Australia.</blockquote> ➤ oh look, another of those "wait I was sure I'd bookmarked this before" fics. It's been a while!

<blockquote>The men in their well-cut suits and sunny ties are courteous, though they make it clear their invitation isn't optional. Carlos obediently gets into the yellow helicopter, and doesn't try to look out the window, doesn't watch Night Vale falling away beneath him as they climb.</blockquote>

<blockquote>There is something captivating in their hatred. Years pass and time grows heavy yet, little changes in sweet Verona of the gardens. Only Mercutio and Tybalt are drawn ever closer to the flame of wicked rage, which they see mirrored in their fondest enemy's face. A story of two encounters between those born to share a fate of enmity and death.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In 1830, Prouvaire awakens to violence, and to the peculiar notion of being happy.</blockquote>

<blockquote>While working with Vecchio, a lonely Fraser puts a personal ad in the Chicago Tribune. Kowalski answers.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Given that Prouvaire had died in a bloody revolt, Valjean very reasonably did not expect to see him again.</blockquote> ➤ from the author's tumblr: <blockquote>For vouksen, with hate and despair— who a few weeks ago wanted more Valjean/Prouvaire. I told her that the only way I could imagine it happening, for Valjean reasons, was after the barricade. Horrifyingly, this did not prove an insurmountable obstacle. So here is a sequel to Saints and Martyrs, which takes place post-barricade and features (this is your warning) old man porn of a Valjean/Prouvaire ghostsex variety. Please know that every conceivable logistical question you want to ask has already crossed my mind and there are no answers. The working title of this story is “Exit, Pursued by Prouvaire.”</blockquote> ➤ or: further adventures of the corpse flower.

<blockquote>No matter how hard you try, pretending you didn't get married while blackout drunk doesn't mean it didn't happen.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Greed may have been what forced Marley to walk the earth for all eternity, but he felt more bound in life to never be able to love whom he wished.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Geoffrey reaches for the nearest shelf, throws a conveniently placed bowl of fake fruit at Darren, and then gets to his feet and walks out of the prop closet with his lit cigarette held too-tight between his teeth as Darren yells, “You can hurl wax bananas at me all you bloody like, darling, it doesn’t change that I’m right and you know it!” (a few snapshots of Darren and Geoffrey: The College Years)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Courfeyrac elects to make Marius his fake boyfriend to needle Grantaire, who, needled, must be borne by Prouvaire. Marius finds life imitating joke.</blockquote> ➤ Absolutely amazing in that "too many allusions to things I don't know" hugolian way.

<blockquote>Montparnasse attends the 1838 premiere of Hector Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini, at which two things happen: a riot breaks out and he encounters an old friend. These are not entirely disconnected occurences.</blockquote>

<blockquote>You think you know someone, and then you discover what they have hidden in their bedrooms.</blockquote> ➤ nonsexual kink, people being friends with their friends, lovely and not a stressful fic at all

<blockquote>When Carlos woke up, everything was backwards. (Even Cecil.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>The problem is, Enjolras had promised Combeferre two months ago that he would deal with the curtains.</blockquote> ➤ part of the permets-tu series but bookmarking separately because I'm weirdly into this particular instalment? idek why. ➤ (hhhhhahahaha probably because it's endless negotiating about CURTAINS instead of sex like the rest of the series, oh I am so predictable)