LINKDING

<blockquote>Stranded on the planet Sigma Nox while searching for a missing away team, Spock and Kirk find themselves pitted against a disturbing native life form. With the captain out of commission on a regular basis and Spock struggling to preserve his stoicism, staying alive is difficult enough – but when a slim chance for escape surfaces, their resolve is truly put to the test. Together they must fight for survival in the heart of an alien jungle, and in the process, uncover the mystery of the planet’s past. Slow build K/S. Written for the 2011 Star Trek Big Bang on LJ - look for links to the mix and art there! Warnings: Minor character death. Mind control themes and sort-of-zombies. Dark at times due to twisted xenobiological shenanigans. Mild themes of stress-related weight loss. Heaps of TOS references and/or spoilers. Eventual smut. Freakishly long chapters.</blockquote> ➤ A very good fic! I loved the inclusion and importance of Longclaw, and how different she was while still able to work together with them. ➤ I was also very interested by the ecology/history/alien-anthropology of the planet, and although I am sad the fic didn't end by giving us conclusions about exactly what all is going on with this place, it leaves the characters also invested and wanting/intending to know more, which was good and worked for the fic.

<blockquote>A serial story of what-if: what if Cam had been a little more injured, and what if Jack's clone had been a little less willing to walk away.</blockquote> ➤ I've been intending to read this fic since 2009, but I'm glad I didn't read it at the time because I only had a link to "A Howling in the Factory Yard," and didn't know there was a whole 'verse it was part of. ➤ A frigging amazing story. Starts with lots of background and contextualization and becoming a community, all of which is great, then when the plot happens JD is so isolated while having to do hard things which is so much the better having come after the build-up, and then he gets to go home. ➤ This page doesn't have the concluding fic arc linked and it was several days after reading the fic that I discovered it did exist; the series wasn't actually abandoned, it just wasn't crossposted from dw. ➤ On first reading I was feeling super betrayed because that meant the emotional arc was never wrapped up. But after I found book three, it did everything that's needed and is great: http://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/tag/brokenship-wings

<blockquote>When I was a very small child my Aunt Semele was struck by lightning and died.</blockquote> ➤ HOLY CRAP this fic is good. also I don't have the right feelings tag for it and don't know what the correct feeling is to describe how the fic made me feel. Feelings are hard. ➤ also bonus A+ commentary: http://amo.dreamwidth.org/228448.html

<blockquote>Having just been given command of the Attacotti, Alexios finds himself traveling backwards in time to the very moment when he was put in charge at Abusina. He has the power to erase his greatest disgrace, but the consequences of doing so are nothing he ever expected could happen.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Jack is well acquainted with failure.</blockquote> ➤ I don't even know the tv show this is based on so I'm reading it as deeply au biblefic and holy frick this fic is just so amazing? I've already read it like three times already in the last few days

<blockquote>Screw the bet. Rodney was going to prove the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Oh, and incidentally, he might just catch the United States Air Force with their pants around their ankles.</blockquote> ➤ series still wip but the stories stand alone. Probably abandoned at this point - last updated in 2010. (I first bookmarked in July 2009, Whizzy's google docs version, which no longer seems to work. Thankfully it is on ao3!) ➤ series consists of: Black Helicopters at Dawn Big Dish Guy Wrong End of the Rescue Tensile Strength Black Mountainside Blown Away

<blockquote>Tony Stark doesn't need to be safe, sane, and consensual. He has JARVIS instead.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Marcus is a historical novelist and almost all the characters are Roman-British historical reenactors; a romance in emails and bickering over historical details, with guest appearances by EVERYONE.</blockquote> ➤ modern au of the book The Eagle of the Ninth, where they're all in a historical reenactment group together ➤ it's a delightful fic, written by someone who Knows what historical reenactment groups are like. it's exquisitely well drawn and so funny ➤ written entirely in the format of emails on the group's listserv ➤ includes Marcus/Esca but is about the cast as a whole, really, and I love to see all the different characters making an appearance! ➤ 5k words in length

➤ origfic (fantasy) in which a young man has to testify against a sodomite and succeeds in not helping by managing to reconceptualize homosexual acts as not shameful (in order to deal with truth spells)

➤ The amazing fantastic Miles/Gregor au (with its various sidebranches) ➤ Series consists of: Keep Talking Right Answer Keeping the Silence A Quiet Fortitude A Deeper Season Famine Homecoming What Passing Bells Significant Seeds This Time (the First Time) The Way On A Difference in Politics Other Ways A Place to Stand Aim High No Other Star Favoritism Analecta An Impossible Day By Example Responsible Royal Negotiations Forward Momentum; A Biography, with Preface by Elizabeth Gray

<blockquote>Arthur is a BNF and Merlin is his prized beta</blockquote> ➤ Aka fandom distilled in fic form.

<blockquote>Arthur wakes up and realizes the last ten years of his life have been a dream. He is nineteen, and he can barely remember where he is. What he can remember is the ghost of Eames’ hands pressed down on his chest trying frantically to stop the blood flooding up around his fingers as Arthur died (as he woke up).</blockquote> ➤ Takes IT WAS ALL A DREAM and makes it AWESOME.

<blockquote>Stabbing, imprisonment, several awkward conversations, a diplomatic crisis, the art of rhetoric, and many cups of tea.</blockquote> ➤ And about as adorable as Vtinari is capable of being, and also Drumknott being awesome.

➤ Shakespeare nerdery, sexuality nerdery, history nerdery, academic nerdery, all wrapped up in one delicious package of fic and commentary on Richard II http://archiveofourown.org/works/2080239

➤ Gorgeous happy fluffy fic about Methos and Duncan and that romance novel that was once written about Duncan, except that it takes place just before Comes A Horseman so it's actually secretly TRAGIC. ➤ In which Methos has a problem with honesty and a thing about his neck, and Duncan is at least five hundred times less mortified than Methos had hoped.

➤ in which Spock did not come along on the mission because he did not like the idea of being compelled to follow his "destiny". And then it is awesome. ➤ Spock! And Jim! And Bones, and Jim's mom, and Spock Prime, and AWESOMENESS.

➤ groundhog day story, only from the perspective of one of the people who's NOT aware of the loop. ➤ A fascinating look at the effects of looping for so long (Spike's been looping 80 years!)

➤ Nicholas and Danny being friends, and Nicholas being worried about messing it all up because he's crap at the whole normal social interaction thing

➤ brilliant Merlin University AU with the brilliance and so FUNNY and PERFECT and angsty in all the right ways and then it's just AWESOME the end. Very long also at https://archiveofourown.org/works/91885

➤ Joe finds out Adam's immortal

➤ In which Methos is the Master

➤ A really great look at Kronos, and how he views Methos

➤ Uh. See pairing and fandom.

➤ crime solving and media criticism, and a well-functioning partnership.

➤ warning: bittersweet heartachy ending

➤ Totally the canonical sequel to I Want To Go Home in my mind. Rudy and Mike are counselors at Algonkian. https://archiveofourown.org/series/1488 ➤ series consists of: A Very Long Summer A Very Long Summer: Epilogue II A Very Long Summer: Epilogue III A Thousand Words (An A Very Long Summer story) Five Emotions Mike Made Rudy Miller Show (An A Very Long Summer story) Five Guys That Mike Webster Never Dated (An A Very Long Summer story) Five Things That Made Rudy Miller Smile (An A Very Long Summer story) Ficlets from the A Very Long Summer universe Christmas Kisses (An A Very Long Summer story) Coffee & Gossip (a.k.a. That Self-Indulgent Story & Sequel): An A Very Long Summer story For The Love of Mike Snippets and Abandoned Works in the AVLS Universe ➤ dvd commentary: http://calathea.mediawood.net/stories/AVLS-DVDcomment.html

<blockquote>Watson is a degenerate gambler, a reluctant romantic, and the least reliable narrator in the history of the written word.</blockquote> ➤ In which Watson and the character he creates of himself on paper are basically two different people.

➤ John POV, does an amazing job of showing John's emotional/intimacy problems, and how he works to get past them.

➤ adorable nerdy romcom. Zelenka's leaving Atlantis in two weeks. Rodney's very put out.