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>"It's only a story, Xury," said Téo gently. "I know it is a story, " Xury replied with wounded dignity. "I am fifteen, not five. But do you see why she is so important to us? She never quit. No matter what was flung at her, she kept on. And eventually she won. There are worse stories, Téo. Like the story that sings loudly, 'You are alone, enslaved, helpless and without hope, and thus it shall be forever.' That is a terrible story to believe in."</blockquote> ➤ AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

<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>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>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>In which Servius Placidus wants things (and people) he shouldn't want, finds his legate and his career eternally frustrating, thinks himself above just about everyone, and finally manages to reach a mutually beneficial accommodation with his wife. Placidus/OFC, some one-sided Placidus > Esca, and some implied background Marcus/Esca. Warning for extremely awkward dutiful marriage sex in a not very happy marriage, early on. Also, heed the tags (my working title was "Placidus's Jerky Sexual Awakening").</blockquote>

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

<blockquote>Course provides advanced instruction in avoidance of the phenomenon commonly known as "jumping the shark." Prerequisites for this course include Introduction to Friendship, Contemporary Best Friendship, The Politics of Emotional Baggage and Cohabitation 207. Students may wish to simultaneously enroll in our sister course, Introduction to Non-Traditional Romance, but said enrollment is optional.</blockquote>

➤ An excellent explanation of what the so-called "passive voice" actually IS, and why it's been hideously and erroneously maligned by people talking about good writing style

<blockquote>A huge proportion of American women are not happy with their breasts. The media images make them believe the ideal is big and perky breasts with a small nipple and areola. But, in reality female breasts come in all kinds of sizes and shapes. These breast pictures are here to let you see normal breasts - big, small, sagging, asymmetrical; big areolas or nipples.</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>

➤ SO PERFECT

<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

<blockquote>After the coronation festivities, the real work begins.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In the fourteenth year of Rishti Tisroc's reign, a demon in the shape of a beaver is captured and brought to Tashbaan. Shezan Tolkheera, high priestess of the goddess Achadith, is given the responsibility of guarding the demon until its sacrifice at the Spring Festival. Complications ensue.</blockquote> ➤ also on ao3 at http://archiveofourown.org/series/12008 where there's a prequel I haven't yet read but apparently already downloaded

<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 one where they're all in fandom.</blockquote> ➤ ...Goddamn, I read this and it BREAKS MY HEART that the links are all face because OH MY GOD I NEED THIS BARRAYAR FANDOM TO EXIST. Reading posts like this are EXACTLY how I get into all of my fandoms, and doing it for a fandom that doesn't actually exist and yet sounds awesome is just...TRAGIC. Because this fic has totally pimped me hard into the nonexistent Barrayar

➤ a musician, devout christian, and graduate of an ex-gay program falls in love. ➤ Handled really thoughtfully and well.

<blockquote>Days off are really challenging when you're a Strong Female Character. Dang, Susan can’t even go out to pick up the newspaper in the morning without posing strategically in her action negligée and punching out the mailman.</blockquote>

<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>Ms. Frizzle has always enjoyed the third grade.</blockquote>

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

<blockquote>"John," Rodney's mind-voice trembled, "Would you ever... want to pair with me?" "There's nothing more that I've ever wanted than to cradle our egg with my feet," John told him. "Aside from flying." "Well, yeah," Rodney said, "I'm working on that."</blockquote>