LINKDING

<blockquote>Pop-star uber-sensation Jaim Janan rockets off to promote their third album atop a SpaceX Dragon VII capsule today, where they will stream a live musical performance from orbit, some 350 kilometers above the Earth. Before today’s launch, when asked if they were feeling nervous about the trip, the young pop star coolly responded, “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” It’s not clear how many of Jaim’s obsessive fans, or “Janatics” as they are sometimes known, recognized the star was quoting twentieth-century pop legend Elvis Presley [click for bio]. But by mid-afternoon #TruthIsLikeTheSun was the most popular hashtag on Twitter. —Naydeen Johnson for The Washington Post</blockquote>

<blockquote>Laurence is happy in Scotland, happy with Tharkay and Temeraire and their new life. Mostly.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The night is humid and warm, sticks to our skin like a wet T-shirt. Luz pokes the fire with a piece of scrap metal she found lying by Gunner’s feet. It sends a swarm of sparks flying into the air. Taking that as an invitation, others come flocking to our little circle. No matter the temperature, the kids gravitate towards the fire at night, so I always try to have one going near sundown. “Give us a poem, Daddy?” the new kid says, one of Luz’s strays. His name is Roy. He’s probably a little older than Luz. Maybe in his twenties. I think of asking for something in return—the kids need to learn the rules of this world, and better I teach them in my way than someone else in theirs—but I hold back. Just this once, I feel like giving one away.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Gregor carries her mother's vorfemme knife.</blockquote> ➤ trans Gregor who must remain closeted

<blockquote>Jade was the sort of backwoods girl who had a map of the countryside tattooed on her heart, and she could feel it in her bones when the pieces of her world shifted. So when the new family moved into the house across the road that late summer, she felt ripples of wrongness radiating out from them and their too-bright clothes, their bizarrely old-fashioned wood-paneled station wagon, and their rolling words that felt just a little to the left of normal. “Time travelers,” said Jade’s brother, watching them from the window the day they moved in. Jade stood nearby, not daring to move or breathe.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Avi Cantor Has Six Months To Live Avi comes across these foreboding words scrawled on the bathroom mirror, but what do they mean? Is this a curse, a prediction, or a threat from Avi’s emboldened bullies? And how to they know his real name when he hasn’t even told his mother yet?</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Intemperance," a story from the secret journals of Doctor John H. Watson, intimate friend and long-time companion of the infamous Sherlock Holmes: A most curious and instructive report of the great man's improbable fecundation, gestation, and parturition.</blockquote> ➤ the way Mary, Watson, and Holmes all relate to each other is a total delight

<blockquote>The reality I was born in ceased to exist when I was three years old. So Mama and I moved to a different reality. We moved a lot, actually.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Anne was always the only girl.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Grandmother kept her cloth of winds in the orange room, a storage chamber painted in fire and lit to a translucent glow by dozens of floating candlebulbs created by the older women’s magic. As a small child, I remember hiding between the legs of a polished pearwood commode, safe and stuffy-warm behind the ancient embroidered material that draped it, hiding—just to be sure—also behind the veil of my hair. Grandmother-nai-Leylit would come in always just before the afternoon meal, and her smell—saffron and skin and millet dough—spread through the room like perfume. Her shuffling steps rang for me a music more exalted and mysterious than the holy sounds of the dawnsong that drifted each morning from behind the white walls of the men’s inner quarter.</blockquote> ➤ interesting gender-related and relationship-style worldbuilding. Contains a trans character and an autistic character, though neither are the main character. ➤ I really enjoyed it, and cared about the characters. But I feel like the ending isn't quite enough of the ending; I kind of wanted to read a novel about this!

<blockquote>Telimezh has devoted himself to the Emperor's service, but he has always kept something back- a secret that he fears, if exposed, would strip him of every honour.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Dear Bluma, I heard that Hershel Schmulewitz, that blockhead, has also presumed to ask for your hand in marriage, which gives you two proposals to consider. Now, you needn’t worry that this will be a sentimental or a wheedling sort of letter. You already know how I feel, and I suppose Hershel’s not so much of a blockhead that he doesn’t feel the same way. I’m simply writing to lay out the reasons, plainly and concisely, why it would certainly be more to your benefit to marry me.</blockquote>

<blockquote>I was in the middle of telling Lis I needed Bitty to mentor a trans frog when the tadpole comics came out. When Lis said, "Trans Whiskey?" I said, "Whiskey is shaped like a Dorito; how has he been on T for less than a year?" but we decided this was insufficient reason to stop me. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Once, I dreamed that I had a son named Sheldon, and my grief tore a hole in the fabric of the world.</blockquote> ➤ In which Sarah finds connections to an alternate universe where she was born a cis woman (Sarah's a trans woman) and has a kid. Sarah is ultimately happy with the universe she's in because she has her partner Janet

➤ someone reblogged my 10 captivating stories rec list with this one as an additional rec and I think it's one of my fave additions I've gotten yet. Described as a "latina lesbian werewolf witch" story in counterpoint to the canadian lesbian werewolf baby story I'd recced

<blockquote>Hannah and Melanie: sisters, apart and together. Weather workers. Time benders. When two people so determined have opposing desires, it’s hard to say who will win—or even what victory might look like. This stunning, haunting short story from rising star Alyssa Wong explores the depth and fierceness of love and the trauma of family.</blockquote> ➤ Timeloop, basically, though it doesn't follow fandom's rules about how they're supposed to go. Which is fine, just disconcerting at first because I've had genre expectations trained into me! ➤ Also: Melanie is super definitely trans, and I love the deft way it's shown without ever saying the word or making a huge deal out of it.

<blockquote>When I was twelve, my hada madrina came to visit. My fairy godmother hadn't come to see us since my baptism, so I didn't even know her except from the stories, like the one about cousin Tomasita and the goat who could play futbol.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mineappolis writer Abra Staffin-Wiebe brings us a new take on an old Russian fairy tale: the quest for a blessing from the elusive firebird. In this iteration, young Ekaterina celebrates her fourteenth birthday, and a rare firebird sighting sets in motion a chain of events that will change her life forever.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Would you like to have sex with me?"</blockquote>

<blockquote>Additional Tags: #Cecil is a monster #Trans Male Character #the previous tags imply that cecil is a monster for being trans #he is not trans that's carlos</blockquote>

<blockquote>Me Romeo, you Juliet.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Enjolras needs Grantaire's help, and Grantaire is unwillingly sober. Set at the end of the July Revolution of 1830.</blockquote> ➤ (the e/r is unrequited)

<blockquote>Esca wants Marcus to see and love him, Cunoval’s son, and not the slave woman Rome thinks him to be. FTM!Esca.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mary's entire being is based around hiding who he is.</blockquote> http://archiveofourown.org/works/221211

<blockquote>I knew what story I wanted to tell (Kirk has trouble with Starfleet because of trans stuff), but then I realized that story didn’t make sense of tell, because presumably that wouldn’t be such a huge deal that far in the future? So mostly it’s a story about some minor falsified documentation annoying some people. YOU’RE WELCOME.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Rebecca is young and desperate when he meets Ethan Rayne.</blockquote>

<blockquote>having to out himself as trans to a female friend when his period catches him unawares.</blockquote>

➤ in which Arthur is FtM, and also there are cool details about forging. Also it is awesome.

➤ FtM Rory, happy ending, lovely

➤ Fraser as FtM, never had surgery. ➤ Fraser and Ray on their Franklin's Hand adventure.