LINKDING

<blockquote>Among the towering, crumbled ruins of Ravenwind, barely visible through the trees, a distant light grew brighter. "There," Khadgar said. "That's where it is." "Fantastic," Lothar said, panting and wiping black blood off his sword. "And how many more harpies do you suppose there are between here and there?"</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Jim and Spock meet as teenagers on Tarsus IV and endure unspeakable horrors together, it seems like nothing can separate them. Until, that is, Jim is forced to burn every last trace of himself from Spock’s mind to keep him safe. Years later, Jim is still a smoldering husk, but it seems amnesia has been good to Spock. To remind him of the world they built together before the famine—and of how it ended—would be too cruel. Wouldn’t it? But when Starfleet tasks the Enterprise with hunting Kodos down, old scars will be torn open and hidden secrets will come to light, forcing Jim and Spock to reconsider everything they thought they knew about their shared history on Tarsus IV.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"I'm sorry," the librarian said. His voice sounded genuinely regretful. "But I can't possibly grant access to a lone electron."</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Mmf," said Shiro, catching crumbs with his robot hand, and then he chewed and swallowed and looked arrested. "Wow, that's really good." He looked around at them all and said, "Do you guys realise you're not talking when you do that?"</blockquote> ➤ I don't know who anyone is or what's going on but I am charmed and this is charming! ➤ (note: platonic team soulbond!)

<blockquote>After Jim's (very) near death experience, Spock finds himself exponentially more aware of Jim's consciousness, even when they aren't in physical contact. But he doesn't need to bother a recovering Jim with that knowledge, especially since they've been spending so much time together lately. Nothing could possibly go wrong.</blockquote> ➤ doesn't do as much with the bonding thing throughout most of the fic as I wanted but still a good fic for other reasons

<blockquote>Post-JL: Steppenwolf isn't interested in accepting defeat and walking away. Superman's proven that he's the key to conquering Earth, and Steppenwolf returns with a plan for how to deal with him. A plan that Bruce is able to throw a wrench into—but not without certain unintended consequences. Written as a fill for the dceu_kinkmeme prompt: Bruce/Clark, involuntary soulbonding. (Full prompt in author's notes.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sere Gulliarme is brought into custody for treason against the state in the week of her forty-eighth birthday, eight months after she fled her position as Deputy Commissioner, but it is the youth in her pain-set face that unsettles those who had searched for her. She was not meant to be life-laced with anyone. They cannot execute her if she can prove the lacing.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Some kumbaya zen wedding bullshit. Our little Rudy is getting married.” “Little?” Brad asks, and thinks of how fucking ridiculous it all is, Rudy and his love bond. Rudy feeling the need to tell everyone how soft he’s gone over one person, how fucking compromised he is. It makes Brad feel uneasy, watching someone put their weaknesses out there on display like that. “Rudy takes shits that are bigger than you.” Or: Brad wants to get married. Ray doesn't.</blockquote> ➤ sequel to The Latent Bonding of Devil Dogs at War

<blockquote>Victor used to glance in the windows of marque studios and look at the flash on the walls sometimes, with curiosity more than longing. What would it be like to feel someone else’s soul? There are songs about it on the radio. Romantic. In his actual life, it’s always Yakov saying, “get over yourself, get more sleep, stop daydreaming on the ice.” Or it was.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Sit down,” the doctor said. He took blood, three vials filling up dark red. “Any medical conditions?” “No,” Dom said, and then his mouth kept going and said, “What if I want to volunteer for bonding?” The doctor peered at him over the glasses. “Do you want to volunteer for bonding?” It hung in the air. Dom felt it like a noose around his throat, squeezing. Twenty-five to life. “Yeah,” he said.</blockquote> ➤ idek, enjoyed this despite not being familiar with the franchise. ➤ I enjoyed the way that the plot revolved around a) road tripping and b) driving cars dangerously FOR THE GREATER GOOD; obviously a car-focused franchise needs car-focused fic. ➤ But basically I liked the characters and their choices and interactions and stuff? And enjoyed how despite the premise and the summary the majority of the fic is about them NOT bonding. ➤ (though I would also have enjoyed seeing the version of the the story that DID have them bond early on.)

<blockquote>Don't touch strange stones you find in the woods. Really, don't.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The longing was strong in Cunorix to take that outstretched hand, slim and strong, and follow Alexios wherever he would go. That was the soulbond speaking: it pulled at him, like the current of a river, and if Cunorix had looked into Alexios’s eyes, perhaps it would have drowned him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"You should be so lucky,” Brad says, and he watches Ray tighten his grip on the steering wheel before looking back out the window. “Nothing worse than getting tied to one person and having no say in who you have to fuck for the rest of your life.” “Oh, yeah, Reporter,” Ray says, as if this is only now occurring to him, “Brad only likes prostitutes. Write that down.” In which Brad winds up bonded to Ray, and isn't exactly happy with the situation.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ray and Brad are apparently soul mates. They're not thrilled.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Enjolras is still a virgin and Grantaire is his unicorn of destiny.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Esca, son of Cunoval, has known from childhood how his life will be. When he first feels the soulbond in his mind, he will be made a man of the Brigantes. He will be inked. He will become a warrior. In a few years, his soulmate will come in search of him from a neighboring clan. His soulmate will be proud of him, proud that Esca is heir to a clan chieftain, proud that Esca will one day be lord of five hundred spears. They will marry. They will lead the clan together. It will be a good life. Then Esca discovers his soulmate is a Roman soldier. This is, shall we say, problematic.</blockquote> ➤ sequel to the one with the silphium. And GDI I HAVE TOTALLY READ THIS ONE TOO, what is with past!me's failure to properly bookmark stuff!

<blockquote>Everyone knows that somewhere else in the world is the person who is the other half of their soul, destined for them by the gods, a person whose very emotions they can feel. Lonely and in disgrace, Marcus soldiers across the empire, certain that his own soulmate is out there, and he strives to find him even as duty and misfortune would keep them apart.</blockquote> ➤ the one with the silphium. And I have no idea why this wasn't bookmarked already, as I've totally read it before and it's great

<blockquote>Alexios could still feel that dreadful final twitch that Cunorix’s body gave before he died, and the suffocating weight in his own chest as the soulbond snapped back, like a rock in his lungs. He still could not get a deep breath. A soulbond story. Or: what do you do when you've killed your own soulmate?</blockquote> ➤ noooooooooooooo

<blockquote>Jack and Stephen accidentally become telepathically bonded, but Stephen still has to complete his mission in Minorca.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Often, strangers would look at me, with my cane and my wolfsister, and either understand nothing about us at all, or think they understood far too much. The young man with the test tube only shook my hand, with a strength I should hardly have credited him, and said, "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive." OR You give me a challenge which comes down to "psychic soulbonds make them have sex" and I write a story where psychic soulbonds make them not have sex.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In Iraq, he figures the low-grade headaches are a result of too little sleep, too many hours of forced hyperawareness, too many packets of instant coffee crystals dumped straight onto his tongue. The part of him that always knows where Brad is, like the needle of a compass or a divining rod, he passes off as being a good CO, always knowing where his men are. He'll sleep it all off when the war is over. Whenever that is. Right now, what he wants most is to get everyone through this alive.</blockquote>

➤ In which, because of alien bonding stuff, Clark can't not touch Lex, for several days. And then they live obsessively ever after.

➤ In which Clark has bonded to Lex, so he comes back to him for sex purposes, but despite loving him cannot let himself be in a relationship with him, because he knows he can't deal with Lex's amorality

<blockquote>In which Merlin saves Arthur's life. Uh. Mostly.</blockquote> ➤ Merlin's father being mysterious, involves the fairy-tale immortality thing with the egg and the hare etc, and accidental soul-bond causing problems.