LINKDING

<blockquote>Cassian and K-2 left an intangible legacy behind. They also left a literal one.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Buzzfeed, July 2019, "Top Five Off-the-Wall Theories About the Scary Instagram Plant Man"</blockquote>

<blockquote>A rare book collector posting on a niche internet forum is dismayed to discover the last missing book is only available at the best worst bookshop in London.</blockquote>

<blockquote>I’m beginning to regret my life choices, Saul. Also, hello from the edge of the galaxy. Also, surprise! I know this isn’t what you had in mind when you said “Keep in touch, Hazel” but this planet doesn’t exactly invoke the muse of letter writing. The muse of extremely long voice messages however . . . So. Want to know what’s this world’s like? Rocky, empty, and bleak in all directions, except one. The sky’s so stormy and green it looks like I’m trudging through the bottom of an algae-infested pond. I’ve got this 85-million-dollar suit between me and the outside, but I swear, I’m suffocating on the atmosphere. Also, I’m 900 meters away from where I need to be with no vehicle to get me there except my own two legs. So here I am. Walking.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Margaret becomes a privateer.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Meriadoc the Magnificent is a popular figure of folklore, but how many of the stories are true? What, for example, is to be made of the claim that he regularly corresponded with a king? After centuries of bitter debate, at last these questions can be answered. Thanks to an extraordinary discovery, Meriadoc and his king can speak to us in their own voices, clear across the gulf of years.</blockquote>

<blockquote>An isolated farmer finds a badly wounded man in a ruined farm. Six hundred years later, a historian researching King Elessar comes across a sealed letter. What links these two events is a story long forgotten.</blockquote> ➤ Love the frame story, love the outside pov, love the assumptions on why it's unreasonable to believe that the letter is actually Aragorn's because of assumptions about kingliness!

<blockquote>Maia's aunts all take an interest in Vedero's passion for astronomy.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Extracts from the correspondence of Capt. Frederick Wentworth of the Royal Navy, written during the autumn and winter of 1814-15.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Dear Readers, When a scullery maid in the Tarleton household finds a charm bag under her mattress, it's certainly enough mystery to liven up our days -- especially since Cecy is expecting, and can't work magic until the child is born! Luckily, we adore a mystery. And our ladies' maids, Reardon and Walker, are no slouches themselves at helping us sort out pickles. Love, Kate and Cecy</blockquote>

<blockquote>Teddy Bhaer had spoken to many people before, but this time, he spoke candidly about his own grief.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Dear Dan, It’s been a long time since we’ve heard from you.</blockquote>

<blockquote>TO: Commander Spock, USS Enterprise NC-1701 FROM: Sybok, Vulcan Embassy, San Francisco, Earth RE: T’Pring lol</blockquote>

<blockquote>A long, hard road to a happy ending.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Prompt: “missing scenes from Europe…the give and take between them once they’re adults.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>Letters from Mars to Earth, between early colonists and their loved ones.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Napoleon sends a letter to the upstart sea-captain who stole his dragon, Laurence sends one back, and a correspondence begins under the uneasy eye of the admiralty. ------When Laurence had admitted the matter to Granby his lieutenant exclaimed, “God, does Boney want you drawn and quartered as a traitor?” which seems perfectly possible.</blockquote> ➤ the main plot turns out to be the dragon plague which means auuugh (the laurence/napoleon is not any kind of endgame relationship in this particular fic ftr)

P31 ➤ The one with the portal to mars in the writer's cellar

<blockquote>Imperial Sanitation Specialist Yaran Avoset discovers a jam in Death Star garbage compactor 3263827. His superior is not amused. Fortunately, a resourceful man can go far in the Imperial Navy. Or, how the Death Star got dianogas. Words by Carmarthen, art by motetus.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Exiled to the University of Graz in Austria, Mercutio writes letters home.  Mine own Tybalt, if I may still call thee so, I am in such an agony of boredom that I have resorted to study. I can hear you now, as if you were here, rumpling my blankets without regard for their order and glowering at me about duty until I must stop your mouth or smother you with a pillow.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Lune, his family, his friends, and some unfortunate members of the Avran nobility. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Digory comes home from the war, but Polly is still fighting hers.</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>

➤ a letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra goes awry and goes to the Cassandra famously of Troy

<blockquote>After risking the neck of her loved ones and herself during her perilous sea voyage aboard The Basilisk, and the discoveries made at Keonga, Isabella, Lady Trent, returns to Scirland with the aim of publishing her research. And yet, given the level of secret knowledge she now possesses, she is reduced to waiting to reveal her new academic discovery until royal decrees can be lifted and a fraught political situation avoided. In her idle frustration, Isabella vents her spleen upon the shoddy research published by lesser men with swollen heads in local journals. Enjoy the following collection of letters, found in a trunk of mislaid scholarly documents left behind when she removed to Linshire for the season.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A selection of letters from Anne and Frederick's first year of marriage.</blockquote> ➤ letters from/to more than just the two of them

<blockquote>It's Christmastime in Paris, and Adele Varens de Rochester is thinking about her future. And writing to her dear (step-)mother.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A collection of letters to and from England and Brazil, 1912-13.</blockquote>

<blockquote>I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The decidedly un-epic courtship of Caroline Bingley and Colonel Fitzwilliam.</blockquote>