LINKDING

<blockquote>In which Jonathan Strange loses his voice while in Faerie, and complications ensue.</blockquote> ➤ this fic really gets the characters and their relationship, and the world of JS&MN in general

➤ does what it says on the tin

<blockquote>montparnasse and himself at staub's (set in the same universe as What chaos, what a din! where to maintain his lifestyle with less danger to his good looks, Montparnasse has exchanged knife murder for high class prostitution)</blockquote>

<blockquote>valjean/prouvaire bodyswap pre-1832</blockquote>

<blockquote>Bahorel: a day in the life.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Lilo had been training for the life of a space adventurer since she met Stitch, though David once told her he’d thought she was destined for weirdness—“I mean greatness”—even before he came into their lives. “You would have found a way somehow, no matter what,” he said.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Vanessa and the Mystery Solving Teens Uncover a Dastardly Plot, Participate in Civic Life, Stake Out a Villain's Headquarters, Lie to a Small Child, and Ramble through Nature Au Naturel. Or, How Vanessa Dragged the Mystery Solving Teens Toward Graduation while Committing Aggravated Assault on the Rules of English Grammar.</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>Bossuet, having a mistress, soon discovers that he also has a friend.</blockquote> ➤ I LOVE BOSSUET SO MUCH

<blockquote>Aisha Darwin likes being bald. She doesn't care for other people's reaction to it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>During a quiet moment at the barricade, Combeferre and Valjean have a talk.</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>

<blockquote>Javert isn't singing in Barricade Heaven, but it's not because he committed suicide.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Valjean's sister is cold, frets over her children, and learns of Valjean's arrest. Because Thanksgiving dinner makes one pensive over the dinners of others.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Enjolras is injured. Combeferre gives him laudanum and ends up somewhat surprised at the results.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Twelve-year-old Courfeyrac faces the cost of his expressions of liberty and quotes Byron.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In the place where the unfortunate and the infamous are joined, La Thénardier is perhaps not the only one who cannot love all her children. Two Fantine drabbles.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The night after the Gorbeau robbery, Eponine wanders the streets of Paris.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which idle conversation can be dangerous, and education doesn't always equal wisdom.</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>Aral breaks an oath he made to Simon.</blockquote> ➤ or: on consent issues. (in an entirely nonsexual context.)

<blockquote>This started in a conversation between us about how knotting without permission is practically non-con and how important it is to know exactly what you’re about to sleep with, or, as coruscera summarised it: “I'm just saying, it's good to know what you're signing up for char-beforechar- cocks are in places and shit cannot be taken back.” And then linbot realised that a bunch of truly bizarre things have happened in slash stories she’s read, so the questionnaire got longer and longer.</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>In which John Sheppard is an Immortal, making him at least 30% less suicidal than he appears.</blockquote> ➤ three vignettes that don't really tell a story but offer an interesting look into this version of the universe

<blockquote>Darren wants to stage Hamlet without the wolves.</blockquote> ➤ oh my god, of course Darren would

<blockquote>Once there were four children whose names were Helen, Tom, Alice, and Walter. This story is about something that happened to them when they spent the summer at their uncle's dairy farm in western Massachusetts.</blockquote>