LINKDING

<blockquote>The bear wife took the cub to mommy and me yoga. She didn’t look much like a bear without her fur, but somehow the other mothers seemed to sense it; when she came in carrying the cub they shifted away, drifting on their yoga mats closer to the windows, to each other. She was left alone in the middle like a stone dropped into a lake, each woman a wave rippling outward. In tree pose she was a lightning-struck pine at the center of a clearing.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Aimee’s big trick is that she makes 26 monkeys vanish on stage.</blockquote> ➤ love the ending, reveals just enough to be satisfying while still leaving things mysterious

<blockquote>Three months after the two men had pushed a needle into his thigh, Sheru learned something new about being sad. It happened just after the last of the strange dreams. They were not the kind of dreams that you’d expect a dog to have. The dreams he’d had before the men came had been doggy dreams. The dreams he had after they grabbed him, though, these dreams were entirely new. He had never seen anything like them.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Paseia takes care to observe her supplicants before every consultation; a successful interpreter must read and accommodate any mood. Fortunately, Lady Ouridia Diphan and Lady Biota Leanax descend from their shuttle in high spirits, which gain altitude as Paseia leads their ladyships to the appointed room. They are a pair in their early thirties, fiancées, both of them pretty as puddings straight from the mold. Though tall Lady Biota wears spectacles, and though Lady Ouridia has neglected to powder her freckles, their styles of dress and speech are otherwise nigh identical not only to each other, but to every other wealthy woman whom Paseia has served. Their gowns bell from this or that season’s new waist-line; their hats perch upon the inevitable curls; their lips shape each syllable with gushing precision. The oracles, oh, just look at them! Paseia, too, could rhapsodize about the parrots, but she will not subject their ladyships to the interpreters’ orisons, most of which are fond insults and complaints.</blockquote>

<blockquote>- Benton Fraser has a dog. (Or wolf. Or wolf-dog.) - Benton Fraser’s dog is Diefenbaker. He’s deaf (sometimes), and freakishly smart, and maybe-probably-doesn’t-but-maybe talks back. - That’s Fraser. That’s who Fraser is. He’s the guy with the wolf (dog). And that hasn't changed since 1981.</blockquote> ➤ HOLY FUCK

<blockquote>The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across the universe. But I and my fellow parrots are right here. Why aren’t they interested in listening to our voices?</blockquote>

<blockquote>This fic contains Old Men and squirrels. ...nope, that's basically it. That's the fic. Old men and squirrels.</blockquote>

<blockquote>or in other words, “Why Nonhuman Homosexual and Asexual Behavior has both Survival and Reproductive Benefits" aka that lit review i’d like to write if i could ever be arsed to get around to it</blockquote>

<blockquote>Face squirrel Seine rescue. I don't know what else to say.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Prompt is: "Courfeyrac adopts seabird!Marius"</blockquote> ➤ or: Actual Booby Marius Pontmercy

<blockquote>In which Cosette encounters a booby in the Ménagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, and Valjean is relieved. (Knowledge of Aubrey-Maturin canon not required.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Grantaire," he says slowly. "What do you have in that box?" Grantaire looks up at Enjolras, his eyes very blue even with the glaze of drunkenness at the edges. "A favor," he says.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Absolute and utter crack, also Hugo pastiche flash-fic. My apologies to the Quartier de Picpus, though as one folk etymology of the name is pique-puce (flea-bite) I feel octopi are an improvement.</blockquote>

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

<blockquote>Hilarion decides to take Alexios's measure, by means of biological warfare (which is to say "ferrets"). Faintly pre-slashy.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Okay, whoops," John said, just after Rodney turned into a dolphin. At least, he was pretty sure that the dolphin was Rodney: it was better than thinking that Rodney and the dolphin had unexpectedly switched places, and Rodney had been transported to the middle of the ocean somewhere.</blockquote> ➤ That's weird that I never bookmarked this before; I've totally read it!

<blockquote>Bericus was minded of his wolf often.</blockquote>

<blockquote>it isn’t until eames shoots the first mate of the fisher in the chest with a harpoon gun that he wonders how this will affect his chance at tenure.</blockquote> ➤ eames fell into being a prof (ornithology), arthur is cobb's ta, and there are illegal whalers in the bay they want to infiltrate and take down

<blockquote>He was an intelligent, intuitive pet, but he wasn’t going to start sniffing out ZPMs or hidden Ancient weaponry or detailed instructions on how to kill a Wraith with a common household item. A pen, for instance.</blockquote> ➤ http://archiveofourown.org/works/483010

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

<blockquote>It is a well-established fact in marine biology that the octopus is the drunk texter of the cephalopod family.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Abelard and Bernard are pomeranians and they have been bad.</blockquote> ➤ theological disagreements in a cute-fluffy-animal au!

<blockquote>The part of her that was still Loki was astonished, after the long months of clumsy, heavy pregnancy, at how quickly the birth occurred. She should, of course, have remembered that: mares in the royal stable tended to foal at night, preferred no one to be watching, and by the time the two princes arrived in the morning, still in their night clothes, to admire the new foal, it was generally up, dry, and wobbling about.</blockquote> ➤ http://archiveofourown.org/works/334096

➤ the one with the unicorns and the mpreg and the catbaby, all done in ~totally serious~ romance style

➤ A story about ponies and sunshine and creepiness, and about the lengths people are willing to go to in order to fit in

<blockquote>A tale of <del>mystery, intrigue,</del> alien critters!</blockquote>

➤ the one with the dodo still being extict, only rather more recently