LINKDING

<blockquote>"The king is dead," says Samuels. "Long live the king." A story about fealty and destiny, spies and secrets, and the things we do to hold onto power.</blockquote> ➤ okay this one actually is as good as frostfire's fic, though in different ways. I'll probably still reread frostfire's fic more often though because it's shorter

<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>“Think of your poor sister, alone in a strange place. Come now, Costis. Even you can’t possibly be so hard-hearted.” And then the king was beside her, grabbing her hand and Costis’ and clasping them together. He looked up at Costis with laughing eyes. “I can make it an order.” / In which Thalia Ormentiedes meets royalty....and Costis is definitely in over his head.</blockquote> ➤ awww I had a smile on my face through practically the entirety of this fic. What a great fic. ➤ (note to my future self who I'm sure will need the help: Thalia is Costis's sister.)

<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>George Cooper sees Alan Olau working at a coffee shop. For some reason, Alan has breasts now.</blockquote> ➤ Series consists of: Your Boys Have Grown Soft and Your Girls Have Gone Wild Catch You When the Current Lets You Go Catch You When the Current Lets You Go (Alanna POV) A History of Blisters Battle Born The Drop Dead Dream, The Chosen One You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone Send My Condolences to Good Sometimes I Get Nervous When I See An Open Door Waiting on Some Beautiful Boy Gone Through Life White-Knuckled All I Want to Do Is Try My Regards to Soul and Romance Outside the Sun is Shining My Whole Life is Thunder Four Weddings and a Funeral Do It For the Vine Stewart's Coat Born a Little Damaged, Man Sometimes In Dreams of Impact I Still Hear I See London, I See Sam's Town Don't You Worry, It'll All Work Out When You Were Young Because I've Been Coming For You Or Are We Dancer? Brand New Year, Coming Up Ahead You've Got Another Thing Coming

<blockquote>When Charles Xavier was five years old, he worshiped his father. When he was eleven, he learned to loathe his abusive stepfather. When he was sixteen, he gave up any claim on the family fortune just to escape. At twenty-four, he's moved away from home into a crappy, standard-issue graduate student house, and gone through his degree program with his best friend, Moira, by his side. He's adjusted. He knows who he is and where he comes from and what his future holds. At least, until a stranger in a bathrobe shows up in his living room, having used his shower, eaten his lunch and, oh yes, broken in uninvited. Suddenly, everything Charles knows to be true about himself may turn out to be wrong, and his future and past both may be more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. (aka the bathrobe fic)</blockquote> ➤ the one where Charles' father managed to do something to suppress his mutant ability

<blockquote>No one noticed the one man who left the city gates on foot, following a flock of starlings winging towards Mantua. A sequel of sorts to sail upon the bosom of the air: a few things that might have happened next.</blockquote>

<blockquote>For drcalvin: "do write us crackfic where Mercutio gives everyone in Verona sexually transmitted wings!" Less...cracky than originally intended. More of a fairytale fix-it. Where everyone in Verona has sexually transmitted wings.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Jim spends three years at the Academy, and he totally manages it all by himself. Well, Bones helps a little. Or a lot. Maybe. This is Jim's Starfleet education and all that entails: the ups, the downs, the prank wars, the winter vacations, and the awkward boners.</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>In another world, Geoffrey Tennant is a man haunted. No, wait. In another world, Geoffrey Tennant is haunted by a very specific ghost. This Geoffrey Tennant sticks to generalities, thanks.</blockquote> ➤ the tone and the voices and so forth are absolutely perfect, and if postcardmystery errs as usual too far on the side of sparse to the point of things being occasionally incomprehensible, at least for this fic it works