LINKDING

<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>

<blockquote>An epistolary romance novella set in 1920s London among lesser specimens of the Bloomsbury genus. Young writer Jade Yeo is about to find out what a lot of trouble a negative review can cause.<blockquote>

<blockquote>Tolkien (1964) remarked in an essay on fiction writing that any storyteller's "sub-created" world should have the "inner consistency of reality" according to its own rules (p. 47); it is the primary purpose of this paper to show, by geological analysis of the two major mountain ranges - Misty and White - featured in The Lord of the Rings, that Professor Tolkien's own creation certainly achieves this goal in the area of geology. The Misty Mountains will be considered first, with special reference to the underground tunnel-kingdom of Moria which provides a cross-section of their roots at a middle latitude; then the more complex geology of the White Mountains, including the travertine caves of Helm's Deep and the exposed pluton around which the city of Minas Tirith is built, will be considered and a tentative theory of their orogeny proposed.</blockquote> ➤ access-locked

<blockquote>A friend's woes prompted me to write this fic. Uh. I guess it's fic. For nature. Or something. I hope it makes you smile.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below</blockquote>

<blockquote>Stephen is briefly indisposed (viz., a penguin), but things change remarkably little.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Tony Stark doesn't need to be safe, sane, and consensual. He has JARVIS instead.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Let me get this straight,” Kurt begins, resisting the urge to laugh, “you knocked up Finn’s girlfriend and you want to apologise to him by trying to make him gay?”</blockquote> ➤ also at: http://archiveofourown.org/works/443630 ➤ sequel: Think Of It As Personality Dialysis http://paperclipbitch.livejournal.com/135184.html

<blockquote>In the wake of the death of his Grace Sir Samuel Vimes, the various city watches across the disc are brought together in a way seldom observed among coppers.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Margaret and Mr. Thornton gradually get to know each other better. With conversation, balls, politics, and Fanny.</blockquote> ➤ wip through ch. 9A ➤ 9A is not linked from the rest of the fic, so it is at https://lettered.dreamwidth.org/130167.html ➤ also an author's note and semi-scrapped chapter at https://lettered.dreamwidth.org/130317.html ➤ also on ao3 up to ch3 (so not nearly all that exists) here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/4921414

<blockquote>Ronon has a request, Teyla has a rule, John has issues, and Rodney has his doubts.</blockquote> ➤ "Athosian sentry teams have a saying: Four beds, or one."

<blockquote>Chuck decides to make a sock-puppet. When no one reads his fic, he wonders what he has to do to get noticed in SPN fandom.</blockquote> ➤ the entire fic is written in the style of a wank-report

➤ Awkward people in love trying to navigate what they both want through communication and experimentation.

<blockquote>The patron saint of media piracy, of course, is St. Columba of Iona, who borrowed a psalter from St. Finnian, sometime in the 6th century CE, made a copy, and refused to give St. Finnian the copy when he returned the original. St. Finnian demanded the copy back, St. Columba declared it was his, and they appealed to King Diarmait of Ireland, who declared "every cow its calf, every book its copy," in favor of St. Finnian. This being 6th century Ireland, it ended in Columba raising his clan in rebellion against the king, and around 3,000 men died in the Battle of Cúl Dreimhne before Columba went into voluntary exile in Scotland to avoid excommunication. He took his copy of the psalter with him when he went, though!</blockquote>

<blockquote>Lord Ivan Vorpatril and Byerly Vorrutyer, making Vorbarr Sultana safe for (highly limited experiments in) democracy.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Esca and Cottia and their Skybax mounts Nemesa and Aethra find a shipwrecked Roman soldier on the beach. The soldier, for his part, is somewhat distressed to wake up with a giant pterosaur sticking her curious beak into his face.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Cordelia waits for her sons to come back to her at the end of The Warrior's Apprentice.</blockquote>

➤ Rated H for hugs.