LINKDING

<blockquote>There are only two ways a child can go with a name like Warlock Lovecraft Faustus Dowling, and War had chosen the other one.</blockquote> ➤ LOVE IT

<blockquote>It's the year 2000 and the Antichrist walks in Pittsburgh. Sometimes he takes the bus.</blockquote>

<blockquote>One switch too many finds Sister Mary Loquacious raising the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness. Or, as she calls him, Jude. She's always liked The Who.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The first winter.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Simon doesn't remember.</blockquote> ➤ au of what happens post-chip. I have a lot of feelings on Simon's behalf since he doesn't know what he ought to be feeling!!!!

<blockquote>In which Gregor Vorbarra accidentally acquires a baby.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Lady Therese Vorkalloner," Esterhazy announces. He ushers her in and then makes a discreet retreat. Aral pushes himself up higher in the chair and looks at his ex-wife. He can't recall when he had last seen her. Their circles haven't crossed very much since her remarriage and, when they have, she's made it clear that they've already said all they've needed to each other. But she's not the first one of Aral's old enemies to come see him on his sick bed.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ekaterin isn't going to settle for anything less than what her aunt has. Author's note: So, I got incredibly snarky about how the custody policy presented in two (2) of the books would, ad absurdum, mean that Ekaterin would go to the Vorthyses after her mother died and the Vorvaynes wouldn't have any hold on her. Then I was like, screw it, let's take canon at its word and write that. </blockquote>

<blockquote>The night she left to follow the King, it wasn't raining or anything like that.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ivan had promised his mother that he wouldn't leave the Academy.</blockquote> ➤ I love Ivan so much

<blockquote>Five times Ivan and Gregor had sex.</blockquote> ➤ I love Ivan

<blockquote>Elena Bothari is eighteen years old when Tante Cordelia, no, Countess Vorkosigan tells her about her mother. They'd been talking about the plans for the trip to Beta Colony and Elena had brought up trying to find her mother. And then... and then she'd found out that everyone had lied to her for her entire life. That everyone had known where she had come from. That they'd lied to her every day they never told her. That they gave her to the man who tortured and raped her mother to raise as his daughter. Elena doesn't want to, or even need to, hear why they'd done it. This is Barrayar. It's about honor. It's always about honor. But no one had cared about her honor.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Miles Vorkosigan is seventeen years old, he enters Hassadar District University to become an astrocartographer like his mother before him.</blockquote> ➤ YESSSS

<blockquote>There's a guy lives down the road, swears he's Gregor Vorbarra. Notes: This started life a long time ago because of a tumblr ask from cosmictuesdays and then I spent a while trying to make Gregor Raised By Esterhazy actually work, to no real avail. The summary is based on the song title 'There's A Guy Works Down the Chip Shop, Swears He's Elvis' by Kirsty MacColl, which, in remembering that was a thing that existed, was the key to actually getting this into a thing that contained words.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Gregor carries her mother's vorfemme knife.</blockquote> ➤ trans Gregor who must remain closeted

<blockquote>When Prince Xav Vorbarra first arrived on Beta Colony, he was already a veteran of a bloody civil war.</blockquote> ➤ I don't remember enough about canon history for this to have its full impact, but still defs interesting!

<blockquote>Bitty has a silver medal and the rest of her life ahead of her.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Eric Bittle gets the call from the national team at 3AM.</blockquote>

<blockquote>We may never know the true origins of Diana of Themyscira.</blockquote> ➤ the highlander-style Watcher pov on Diana

<blockquote>Sadly, saving the galaxy is easier than learning how to stop crushing on straight girls.</blockquote> ➤ one-sided Jyn/Leia

<blockquote>To the Jews of Ganymede on the question of the permissibility of selling chometz to Immortals.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Gregor Vorbarra was not a man born to be Emperor. Sequel to I Dwell In Possibility.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Cosette gets drafted in the first round to the Washington Capitals. Eponine gets drafted in the fourth to the Pittsburgh Penguins and she can do this, she can totally do this.</blockquote> ➤ oh no this is so GOOD

<blockquote>Ben Organa died during the destruction of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy. Ten years later, a man arrives on Coruscant, claiming to be Leia Organa's son.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mark Watney dies on Mars. Twice.</blockquote> ➤ the one where Mark turns out to be a Highlander-style Immortal, and only finds out afterwards

<blockquote>A seduction, a conquest, a revolution.</blockquote> ➤ from the following prompt: <blockquote>Hux really wasn't expecting Kylo Ren to present him with Snoke's severed head and a proclamation of undying love and fealty. If it takes an unstable Force warrior in his bed to get a throne, then he'll bloody well lie back and think of the Empire. At least until his reign is secure</blockquote> ➤ I loled at these lines: <blockquote>Hux rolls his eyes. "We have never had a date, Ren. Until now, I thought you loathed me." "Well, yes, but what does that have to do with anything?" Ren asks. "Hatred is the path of the dark side. I save it for only those I care about the most."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Five encounters across the years.</blockquote> ➤ author's note: <blockquote>For melannen, whom I blame entirely for the realization that Enjolras is completely Methos's type, even though I've long ago lost the documentation of this. </blockquote> ➤ TRUTH.

<blockquote>Five ways Ges shows his love.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mark Watney is a beta. Well, he was when he left Earth.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The great love story of Chris Beck and Beth Johanssen, as told by Mark Watney, who they are trying to get into bed.</blockquote>