LINKDING

<blockquote>Bahorel: a day in the life.</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>Amaresu – I really hope this doesn’t cause wank, but if Mary_Suep had been talking like this about me behind MY back, I would want to know. I really hope this doesn’t Ruin Yuletide for you, or anything. You know that if she HAS made a mockery of your request, or failed to post a completed fic, you can report her to the mods, right? char-big hugschar- A concerned nonnie and fellow REAL Ghost Soup fangirl</blockquote>

<blockquote>One is a beginning; two, opposition; three, instability; four, death. But five is justice, six is unexpected, and seven makes things complete again. Seven days of Kalasin's life.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Brick AU of the 'small canon divergence leads to slightly larger changes' variety, and also of the 'I have a lot of feelings about parallels between Eponine and Valjean' variety. Eponine throws a note at Valjean; she doesn't anticipate the consequences. </blockquote>

author's summary from tumblr: <blockquote>I wrote a Les Mis fic! It’s sad unrequited E/R, because that’s what this fandom was missing. Also there’s sex in it, sort of.</blockquote>

<blockquote>One avalanche. Three Immortals, freezing to death. And they're really annoyed about it.</blockquote> ➤ author's notes: <blockquote>The problem with trying to write h/c in Highlander is that the characters' ability to recover almost instantly from anything, including death, makes it challenging. On the other hand, you can also just embrace it.</blockquote> ➤ and this embraces it BEAUTIFULLY ➤ also at http://archiveofourown.org/works/235795

<blockquote>A chance encounter in the Luxembourg causes Marius to realize that, once again, he's doing everything all wrong. It's only fair that Javert gets to ruin one of Valjean's plans for once.</blockquote> ➤ MARIUS EVERYONE IS SECRETLY JUDGING YOU, NOT JUST VALJEAN ➤ or: this fic captures Marius's damnfool well-meaning idiocy PERFECTLY -- I was LITERALLY FACEPALMING all the way through ➤ OH MARIUS

<blockquote>To be cowardly in this, to refuse to see it through, seemed more unmanly to Laurence than beginning it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Child Ballad 32 is a loathly lady story. The only popular version I know of is Steeleye Span’s “King Henry,” on Below the Salt. I have had this album for well over a decade, and occasionally I found myself wondering about the monstrous lady in the story, and even more about King Henry, who agreed to kill his horse and hawk and hounds to feed her. I don’t know that I’d easily forgive someone who forced me to kill my dog. This had been kicking around in my head for the better part of a decade, and then I was privy to a very odd conversation in a bookstore about people with extreme forms of body dysmorphic disorder, and then I drank a lot of coffee and drove for about forty-five minutes and “King Henry” came on the CD player and I went home and wrote the story in one long jag, which probably explains a few things about it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>And then I got my Kink Bingo card, and I saw the prompt "furries", and I thought, oh lord, I can't do furries! No way, no how. And I figured I'd just have to skip that square--and then I remembered this story. So I thought I'd open it up, and take a look at it, and maybe edit it to make it more fur-kink-focused. So I opened it up, and took a look at it--and noticed that I really didn't need to edit it for fur-kink. Guys, I wrote a furry story and didn't even realize it.</blockquote> ➤ I was SURE I already had this fic bookmarked. Apparently not! FIXED. ➤ Also on ao3 at http://archiveofourown.org/works/7661905 -- ➤ 2024 update: ➤ it has been many years since I first read this fic but the memory of it will never leave me. it's an all-time classic. ➤ fanfiction shipping Jack Harkness of Torchwood/Doctor Who with Chewbacca of Star Wars ➤ Jack Harkness sees a cute wookiee in a bar and picks him up for a night of fun ➤ it's perfectly in character and delightful. I'm so glad it exists in this world. ➤ 3k words in length

<blockquote>It's acting as if it's made its choice for a new king," Telemain said. Indignation coloured his voice, as if he were personally affronted that the sword had dared do something unexpected. "But it can't be - Mendanbar is clearly, well, still alive.</blockquote> ➤ In which the Enchanted Forest becomes a republic. I CANNOT EVEN

<blockquote>The cast and crew of Horrible Histories CBBC takes the piss out of Gay and Lesbian history. Sketches include: “Internatyonal Man of Myfterie”, “The Lesbians who Don’t Do Anything”, “Henry Bollingbroke Doesn’t Like Dick”, and three new Savage Songs!</blockquote>

<blockquote>What it says on the tin.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A brief glimpse of the life of Sir Richard F. Burton, as seen by his manager at the "English Breakfast."</blockquote> ➤ written just for meeeee and it is just as epic as it sounds!

<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>It is said in the high stony reaches of Ekallatum where none live but goatherds and miners that the Great God Mithros was born in a cave. A slightly AU story of how Mithros might have come to be, and of the fall of Ekallatum, set in the Carthaki equivalent of the Bronze Age. T for Doomed Last Stand violence and character death, although you won't find any canon characters here besides some of the gods.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Tony Stark doesn't need to be safe, sane, and consensual. He has JARVIS instead.</blockquote>

➤ the famed story

➤ in which Logan fixes the events of XMFC. Like a boss.

<blockquote>In the wake of the death of his Grace Sir Samuel Vimes, the various city watches across the disc are brought together in a way seldom observed among coppers.</blockquote>

➤ Anthony Bourdain (of A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines) does Narnia.

<blockquote>Even if you'd choose to do the same thing again, it makes all the difference in the world to be able to have the choice.</blockquote>

➤ In which Eames was Calvin as a kid! sequel: The Physiological Response to Absurdity http://ae-match.livejournal.com/133332.html

<blockquote>an utterly self-indulgent crossover that got entirely out of hand</blockquote> ➤ sldkfjhdflksdjjfd look this is one of those fics that just STAYS IN MY BRAIN because of how true and perfect and right and wonderful it is. YESSSSS. I am so glad this fic exists.

➤ on issues of race in the movies author's note: "This isn't really fic, it's stupid meta speculation disguised as fic"