LINKDING

<blockquote>The girl does not come to Mebuyen, so Mebuyen goes to the girl. She is standing ankle-deep in the river, looking down, her mouth open. Mebuyen notices, as she draws closer, that the child’s calves are skinny, her cheeks chubby, and her SpongeBob Squarepants sando has a bullet-sized hole above her ribs. Mebuyen frowns as she steps into the river, waiting for the girl to speak.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Logan is buried alive. Very alive.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Temeraire is dead. The entire country knows his name after the Battle of Dover, and now Temeraire is dead. “Well,” says Admiral Croft, “At least you can join the navy again, eh, Captain?”</blockquote> ➤ gaaaaah this is so heartbreaking but also I am really mad that the author killed Tharkay off too

<blockquote>Strychnine is bitter, but the most pleasant to work with.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Death paused.  Death really didn’t have time to pause because there was so much work to do: but Death had discovered long ago that it could make its own time.  Souls didn’t particularly suffer if it was slow to collect them.  But sometimes they wandered off and then there were ghosts and it hated to chase down ghosts if they were happy and weren’t causing any problems— Anyway.  Death paused.  This particular soul was curled up like a cat while it waited, and blinked and stretched and demurred when Death caught up to it.  “But I’m waiting for my friend.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Loki turns up demanding Thor's help on a quest to retrieve the All-Mother from Valhalla, Thor isn't about to say no. But that doesn't mean he's forgotten anything, and what better time than a road trip through the backwaters of the universe for trying to talk things out?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Tybalt has a secret.</blockquote> ➤ in which Tybalt keeps waking up after deaths

<blockquote>Enjolras is denied heaven. Grantaire is not. But Grantaire will always follow Enjolras, and purgatory is not such a dark place, when it has Enjolras's smile to light it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>City Council announces a new secret law. The Night Vale Astronomy Club has officially denounced the existence of stars. The Night Vale Historical Society is throwing a barbecue for a tragedy that no one is allowed to talk about. It's the usual week's news in Night Vale except for one tiny detail-Cecil isn't the one reporting it. And as Head Intern Jessica ignores her normal inclination to not do any work ever (you don't become head intern by being a go-getter) to fill in for him while Carlos conducts his desperate search, she's beginning to think that maybe Cecil isn't the only one who'll disappear.</blockquote> ➤warning: head intern Jessica does end up dying and I became rather attached to her over the course of the fic! Phooey. Well, it is all very effectively done.

<blockquote>Raleigh’s never told anyone, but he’s pretty sure he died in his escape pod after nuking the Breach.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Esca has always been able to see Death.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"When he finally registered the presence of a tail, Montparnasse knew with a sickening finality that it was too late." Or, Montparnasse screws something up beyond repair.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ragnar and Athelstan meet again, a decade since Athelstan was stolen from him.</blockquote>

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

<blockquote>"She'd had the most beautiful imaginable face..."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Gymont waits for Javert to come back from the Seine.</blockquote> ➤ Gymont being Javert's horse

<blockquote>There is a time, after each death, after each life as servant to the Revolution, when they are asked to choose where they will go next. Enjolras only ever makes one choice, but that doesn't make the asking of the question any less important</blockquote>

<blockquote>This is a Five Things Plus One story about ways that Marcus Flavius Aquila and Esca son of Cunoval might have met, and fortunately did not--and one way they did, which went rather better. Basically a set of depressing canon-era AUs plus some happiness.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Warrior's Apprentice AU. What might have happened to Miles, if Ivan had not missed that ill-fated courier ship on Beta?</blockquote>

<blockquote>A man, a very old dog, and the inevitable</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Doctor cannot die. So when he does, somebody will have to take the reins.</blockquote>

➤ somehow still happy despite being deathfic...

➤ does what it says on the tin

<blockquote>James Tiberius Kirk! they say again. Had you the chance, what would you change? It’s an easy enough question—Vulcan’s destruction, of course. Interesting, the light-people muse. And what would you give up, to change that? Anything, he thinks.</blockquote>

➤ The one where Napoleon dies in the 60's but a young version of him shows up out of nowhere 30 years later. ➤ (the death is a real death)

<blockquote>Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. (Willa Cather)</blockquote> ➤ After they win against the Wraith, including some deaths of main characters, John chooses to exile himself on an abandoned planet and act as rememberer for the dead of Athos and Atlantis. ➤ The kind of fic where the dead do stay dead.

<blockquote>“Forgive me! Forgive me, please, but...but the irony is incredible,” Zelenka gasped. “Every time we are in perilous situation, Rodney tells me-- He says, ‘Tell my sister I died saving little children from terrible danger!’ Now I will not have to lie, no?” He collapsed on the table, sniggering wildly, with a note of real hysteria. </blockquote>

<blockquote>The first time Jack died, he had enough time to look round confusedly, see the figure in black and go “Wha-” before he was gasping back to life. The second time he got as far as “Who ar-”. The third time he was rather more badly minced by the experience, and got out a whole “Look buddy, you'd better have a pretty good explanation for-”. The next few times were along the same lines. </blockquote> ➤ or: Jack becomes friends with Death