LINKDING

<blockquote>Through the spite of the spirits or plain rotten chance, a door that would have been better left untouched has opened. On the other hand, with Fire and Earth as one's allies, sometimes escaping is the easy part. Even the Dragon-King's temple floods.</blockquote> ➤ great worldbuilding work, a well-handled crossover, a compelling threat, fun characterizations and character interactions. I also appreciated the way the language barrier was handled. Thoroughly engaging story, well done. Could do without the stealth crossovers in the minor background characters though, and I was baffled by how everyone called Daniel "Danny"

<blockquote>When Mary Crawford finds herself trapped in London on the eve of the French invasion, Lady Hamilton recruits her to help spy on the French forces. For all Mary's knowledge of the rears and vices of admirals in the draconic aerial corps, she must now match her wits against marshals and Celestials-- a much more dangerous proposition than even she realized. Mansfield Park/ Victory of Eagles crossover.</blockquote> ➤ wip through part five as of last reading

<blockquote>Or: five projects that Knives Chau regretted letting Darren Nichols talk her into.</blockquote> ➤ HOW IS THIS SO GOOD, HOW DOES IT WORK SO WELL

<blockquote>I’m not sure this is pairing fic or breathplay, melannen, but uh, here it is. Warnings for…violence and strangulation and Montparnasse, I guess….</blockquote> ➤ yessssssssssss

➤ the one where Javert falls through a hole in reality from the Seine onto the Ankh. ➤ continued at http://ceruleancynic.tumblr.com/post/80004250086/i-am-from-the-gutter-contd

<blockquote>Fantine finds work at the dragon breeding grounds of Vernon, with the help of General Georges Pontmercy and his dragon Hyacinthe.</blockquote> ➤ wip through ch 3 at time of bookmarking

<blockquote>In which Tony Stark ditches a boring party, makes an addition to the household staff, throws a much better party, and tries not to sexually harass his new butler. Or, in which Thomas Barrow has a little trouble getting home from the pub, is generally unimpressed with many aspects of the 21st century, never thought of himself as a conservative dresser before, and may or may not be falling in lust with his new employer. tl:dr: Thanks to time travel, Thomas Barrow becomes the Avengers' butler.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The advertisement is a spiky red impact bubble on the back of his box of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. Mail in just five box tops for your very own HOW TO BE A WIZARD KITchar- .</blockquote>

<blockquote>A recently uncovered letter by British captain John Aubrey solves one part of the Gros mystery that has puzzled art historians for over half a century.</blockquote>

<blockquote>enjolras, in the parlor, with a gun.</blockquote> ➤ or: combeferre is left a pair of pistols by a professor of his after the professor's passing

<blockquote>Being the Account of a Madcap Decision Made by Two Young Ladies of Quality, for the Good of People Everywhere.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Matilda turns hacker, impresses Tony Stark, and fails to be swayed by Charles Xavier.</blockquote> ➤ THIS FIC IS BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT

<blockquote>"You want to recruit me for what? You want me to go where?" Sgt. Brad Colbert has been on a lot of strange missions, but this promises to be his most out there yet: Atlantis This is not a story about falling in love. This is a story about falling in team.</blockquote> ➤ most of this fic is absobloodylutely wonderful. The ending doesn't quite live up to the everything else but it's still totally worth a read.

<blockquote>When Combeferre, rogue scion of a line of French Watchers, learns that a Slayer has been called in the South of France, he decides to set out and find her himself.</blockquote>

<blockquote>I think want I most want out of this version is Enjolras and bb!Vetinari being VERY INTENSE at each other about politics in Snapcase's Ankh-Morpork, and then not having any sex at all. Ever. (I actually have had all sorts of THOUGHTS about the political philosophies underlying much of Discworld for a long time, it kind of needs an Enjolras to be intensely republican about it, so much.) Meanwhile, wizzard!Grantaire tries to pick up Young Vimes at a tavern, but ends up just getting him very drunk while listening to him rant about his love for his bitch of a City, and begins to suspect he has a Type.</blockquote>

<blockquote>This wins the award for One I Most Wish There Was a Bunch More Of! C'mon, Javert's a Sentinel, Silent and Sure! And somebody really really needs to write the one where Combeferre's the Guide of the Amis! It's practically canon.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Geoffrey Tennant made a career out of not allowing magicians to interfere with his productions. Darren Nichols, on the other hand, once turned his audience into grains of sand for a production of Beckett. The disagreement accidentally shapes their lives.</blockquote>

Susan has never had the greatest respect for linear time. Now, slipping through it like water through a sieve, she wonders if it hasn’t just stuck around because no one’s bothered to point out how ridiculous it actually is.

<blockquote>You know all those Betan survey ships that go into wormholes and don’t come out? They go to Narnia</blockquote>

➤ in which Dawn Summers and Susan Sto Helit are college roommates

<blockquote>Okay, so basically I shoved the GK boys into 19th century Napoleonic England, added Naomi Novik's dragons, shook vigorously, and then RAN LIKE THE HELL</blockquote> ➤ also on ao3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/554685

<blockquote>How the Goa'uld Therem came to infiltrate Stargate Command and make an attempt to commandeer the Gate, as told by Susan Pevensie to SG-1 (with necessary omissions).</blockquote> ➤ a remix of An Alternate Solution to the Problem of Susan, by cofax

<blockquote>Often, strangers would look at me, with my cane and my wolfsister, and either understand nothing about us at all, or think they understood far too much. The young man with the test tube only shook my hand, with a strength I should hardly have credited him, and said, "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive." OR You give me a challenge which comes down to "psychic soulbonds make them have sex" and I write a story where psychic soulbonds make them not have sex.</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>Ms. Frizzle has always enjoyed the third grade.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After the year that wasn't, Martha tries to move on with her life.</blockquote>

<blockquote>fundr (n.) - Old Norse — a meeting; a battle.</blockquote> ➤ in which, post-movie, Loki falls into the TARDIS

<blockquote>Captain Jack Aubrey, on shore leave in San Francisco, meets a stranger at the opera.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Doctor does not want a horse in his mind. The psychic horse doesn't seem to care.</blockquote>

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