LINKDING

<blockquote>Bruce doesn't exactly intend to start doing nice things for Clark. But once he has, he can't stop—and maybe Clark doesn't want him to try.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Today, Sunday, there's a sense of rightness and quiet. Outside, he hears birdsong that reminds him of home. Rashid drops sugar cubes in each tiny glass bowl—refined white for Lapsang Souchong, demerara for Earl Grey—and readies the tea tray for delivery.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ray missed a lot of things on their adventure.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The only traces of the future Vetinari were the nose, the hands, and the stillness. (Young Vetinari with Sam Vimes as John Keel, from Night Watch.)</blockquote> ➤ OH NO this is great ➤ (note extra snippet from older Vetinari's pov in comments)

<blockquote>Bodhi Rook was a local boy from Jedha. He'd kept dozens of trivial secrets for Galen and twice betrayed anti-Imperial sentiments. He was perfect for the mission. There was just one problem: Galen didn't want him to leave.</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>The Force whispers in its ageless voice, its touch peaceful and lulling against Vader’s ancient soul, “Tell me your biggest regrets.” Or the five times Anakin traveled back in time with the intention of making things better, and the one time that it actually worked.</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>Detained far from where he should be by random chance, Obi-Wan meets an unusual slave.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Poe guesses he’s a little fucked-up now, more than before. He certainly has a lot of nightmares. He tries to take it in stride. It doesn’t really surprise him. What had he expected? (Dead, he thinks. You expected to be dead.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>He had always thought he would end up married to his work. He had studied hard, worked diligently, brought himself to the attention of the right people--and ended up with an appointment to the Chrestomanci’s personal staff, as high as one could rise in Flavian’s chosen profession if one hadn’t happened to be born with nine lives. And when he got there he’d found Mordecai waiting for him. Mordecai, who threw all his previous ideas into confusion.</blockquote> ➤ AUUUUUUGH OVERCOME WITH FEELINGS

<blockquote>Here's the thing about growing up like they have, though. You get pretty used to the line between wanting and having; you get pretty used to how wide and vast and unsurmountable it is.</blockquote> ➤ or: <blockquote>Five times it was almost talked about and one time it finally was.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"In the little cobblestoned passage of the Rue Mondétour, under the high awning of a house and a lantern-arm's iron lacework, for some time now a ghost had lived." Or: in which everyone is a ghost, and there are many snails, as well as a certain amount of spiritual progress.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Featuring John Sheppard as The Man.</blockquote> ➤ oh dude so many feelings. ➤ Lovely established relationship fic about Rodney and John's actual functional relationship in amongst all the difficulties of life on Atlantis.

<blockquote>Dana's back. Intern Vithya is new. Cecil and Carlos are just the same, but different. Today, Night Vale is the safest place on earth.</blockquote> ➤ or: Night Vale during the US government shutdown

<blockquote>Maybe in Night Vale, where everything else works a little bit wrong, love works a little wrong too. Maybe in Night Vale, where time occasionally stands on end and gravity pulls slightly less than usual every second Thursday, someone like Cecil, a love like Cecil's, could come without any strings attached at all.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Carlos is having the strangest dreams, and the strangest headaches, like there's something he's supposed to be remembering. Not to mention the intern's wedding coming up, and that new chemical StrexCorp wants him to develop. It's going to be a busy week.</blockquote>

<blockquote>He found he could imagine Mercutio's voice, husky and honey-sweet for all that his words would be poison: boyhood friendship and a natural gift for cruelty had given Mercutio a well-honed skill for getting under Tybalt's skin, for finding half-healed wounds to dig his nails into, tearing them open to flaring pain. Even the Mercutio in his head was venomous, every word barbed; he could not imagine him kind.   Tybalt has complicated feelings about Mercutio. (Budapesti Operettszínház Rómeó és Júlia canon again, hooray.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Tybalt always asked, in his way: he did not order, although Bastiano would never have thought of refusing. It was most often a wordless thing, a gesture for Bastiano to remain kneeling after he had set aside Tybalt’s riding boots, a pointed look when Tybalt had spread himself out in a chair just so. If he had drunk too much wine at dinner, perhaps there might be an inarticulate request, clumsy and indirect: words had never been Tybalt’s skill, and sometimes Bastiano thought that he could only ask for this at all because he pretended not to. (some consent issues may apply due to social power differential)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Tybalt finds Romeo in an alley, sans Mercutio, and they fight a more private battle with flesh and words instead of steel. The question: who wins? (Character study via porn. Hungarian Operettszínház production as canon.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Troy and Abed meet the in-laws.</blockquote> ➤ one of those fics where I'm like I KNOW I READ THIS BEFORE AND FOUND IT JUST AS AWESOME THE LAST TIME SO WHY THE HECK IS IT NOT BOOKMARKED. Sometimes my past self is very frustrating!

<blockquote>Grantaire and Eponine get drunk and have sex while roleplaying as Marius and Enjolras, respectively.</blockquote> ➤ damn, how to tag pairings when the sex is one thing but the feelings are other things entirely?

author's summary from tumblr: <blockquote>I wrote a Les Mis fic! It’s sad unrequited E/R, because that’s what this fandom was missing. Also there’s sex in it, sort of.</blockquote>

<blockquote>To be cowardly in this, to refuse to see it through, seemed more unmanly to Laurence than beginning it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>They're not friends yet. That takes time, more than a few really disastrous missions, two anniversaries, and quite a lot of bloodshed. Jim's never been the patient type. Pre Kirk/Spock, background Spock/Uhura, but mostly the story of James T Kirk's first year in command of the Enterprise.</blockquote> ➤ Series consists of: Taking the Slower Path (we'll get there in the end) We'll Finish With Bruises (we hit all of the bumps) But We'll Ignore the Last Exit (it was light-years ago)

<blockquote>Geoffrey Tennant made a career out of not allowing magicians to interfere with his productions. Darren Nichols, on the other hand, once turned his audience into grains of sand for a production of Beckett. The disagreement accidentally shapes their lives.</blockquote>

<blockquote>High Vor gossip is both a volatile threat and a tool to be used.</blockquote> ➤ or, in which By kisses Ivan to distract the gossip from a stupid thing about Laisa

<blockquote>Ronon starts his e-mail correspondence with Sheppard's brother more or less by mistake.</blockquote>

➤ In which Eames was Calvin as a kid! sequel: The Physiological Response to Absurdity http://ae-match.livejournal.com/133332.html

➤ In which, prior to Atlantis, Rodney picks up John in a club when John's on leave, and turns out to be utterly unlike any top he's known before. Fascinating dynamics ➤ (in which I have STRONG OPINIONS on my headcanon of what happens after the end, namely, THEY MEET AGAIN.)