LINKDING

<blockquote>The war is over and Bodhi Rook has been away from Jedha for too long. It’s time to go home. He winds up with an unexpected passenger. A love story between two people and a place, about all the different meanings of home.</blockquote> ➤ (and then a sequel about finding & rescuing Rey, and then a meta post describing the events that led to this au) ➤ Series consists of: Stone and Sand Different Deserts For Those That Read Stone and Sand

<blockquote>Arya is the only one of them to have met the Targaryen’s Young Dragon, and even then it had been a short battlefield acquaintance when the Ironborn had tried to take the Rock and a hasty alliance had been formed to push them back. Arya had come back from the south covered in blood and filth and said, he’s adequate, I suppose, which meant he probably was the greatest living swordsman.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Ripley." She turned her head slightly. The voice, flat and synthesized, came from a small speaker set into the side of her pod. "Yes," she said, with some difficulty: her tongue felt strange and thick. "Yes, this is Ripley. Who is this?" There was a pause, followed by a click. "This is Bishop, but I'm speaking to you on behalf of the Sulaco. There's been an accident." Under normal circumstances, Ripley knew, this statement would have produced a series of emotional and physiological reactions: alarm, adrenaline, fear, galvanized limbs, dread. But the effects of the hypersleep were still gripping her body, keeping her numb and apathetic, and instead all she felt was a faint curiosity. "What kind of accident?" She sat up. The room seemed to spin. "A fire. I think. It's hard to tell." </blockquote>

<blockquote>Pierre Vorrutyer leaves the countship to his cousin By -- if he can be persuaded to take it.</blockquote> ➤ Stands well on its own but I'd love to have more in this au!

<blockquote>When he brings Owen and Beru their nephew, Obi-Wan collapses at the Lars farmstead instead of exiting stage left to a hide-out in the Jundland Wastes. Several things go quite a bit differently, after that.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"No, see, we've all been trained a certain way. The training system is traditional; it's centuries old. Nobody taught you. You ballist like it's got nothing to do with war at all." A sleepy, extraordinary smile crawls over Victor's face. "Nobody else does it like that. That's why we're going to win."</blockquote> ➤ I don't know if it quite works for me as a YoI fic, but as an origfic it's GREAT, I adore the worldbuilding, I would read more set in this world! (and in fact can and have, the sequel is Gravity, ft. arranged marriage for Otabek and Yuri P.!)

<blockquote>In a world where a certain submarine never arrives, Burt Gurney and Hobie Doyle play a cat-and-mouse game.</blockquote> ➤ charming

<blockquote>confluence. noun. - the joining of two rivers, especially rivers of approximately equal width. - an act or process of merging. They are the blazing sun and the surrounding sea, life force and lifeblood. They are everything and everything is theirs.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Minerva navigates the family politics of Olympus Worlds, Inc. as she investigates a promising developer who may have something very interesting to add to the company's shared-world virtual reality systems.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Methos finds Richie first.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Galavant knows more than four chords, Isabella and Sid are long-suffering, and Madalena and Richard are actually the worst. Or, the origin of indie legend Rock Paper Scissors.</blockquote> ➤ yessss

<blockquote>Cosette/Eponine, dragon AU</blockquote> ➤ in which Cosette is a human and Eponine a dragon

<blockquote>In 1823, in the small, bare yard behind the inn at Montfermeil, there was a wolf on a very short chain. M. Thénardier maintained this wolf so that he could tell people it was his wolf-brother, from his days fighting with the armies of the Emperor; and tell how it had helped to carry a great general to safety amid the carnage of Waterloo.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Directed-verse Gen Kill. Because conversations with surexit result in things like this.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Damen and Auguste talk about brothers. (canon divergent AU)</blockquote>

<blockquote>That night on the parapet, Valjean forces Javert to live. Some time later, Javert finds himself returning the favor.  "Do you think," Javert said slowly, in a tone that perhaps meant to mock but trembled with another emotion entirely, "that once you have saved a life, you must also save that man's soul?" "I know nothing of saving souls," Valjean said. "My soul was bought for God, not saved. But it is my belief that you are better than the fate to which you have consigned yourself."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Six weeks before the group stage of the World Cup, the French national team plays Patron-Minette in a charity friendly. It all goes downhill from there.</blockquote> ➤ wip through part 3 as of bookmarking

<blockquote>There are certain truths that are universal, though Javert has to learn that they are not quite what he thought. And so, when Valjean stops him from jumping, he finds that his life must be built anew.</blockquote> ➤ (...I will not lie, my fave part of this fic is the subplot about Montparnasse. I just find him so interesting! The other stuff is good too though.)

<blockquote>After the Seine all previous convictions and habits lie in a rubble. Valjean saved Javert's life, but he can't give him the will to live on. With Cosette leaving to marry, it is hard for Valjean to find the energy to help. Now two old men have to learn how to navigate life anew, and try to cope without the certainty of the past before they drown in the dark waters inside.</blockquote>