LINKDING

<blockquote>Eric has landed his dream job: social media manager for the Providence Falconers! Not only does he get paid to tweet, for an NHL team at that, but it’s a job where he’ll be able to make good use of his magic - when nobody’s looking, of course. Everyone on the Falconers is a joy to work with… with the notable exception of Jack Zimmermann. Eric understands that Jack doesn’t like social media, but he could certainly be a little more polite about it. Luckily, Eric has support from his Samwell buddies, as well as his best friend - a man whose face he’s never seen, and whose name he doesn’t know. They met on an online forum where witches can gather anonymously, since it isn’t safe for them to advertise their existence in a world where magic isn’t trusted. They’ve been friends for years now, but Eric is only just starting to realize that he might have deeper feelings for someone he can never meet face-to-face.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A novice forest witch wracked with self-doubt is sent to an icy land where she is inadvertently soul-bonded to a fearless silent warrior.</blockquote> ➤ loved the worldbuilding and the interrelationships and the main character, did not feel like the ending did enough to resolve things (especially the romance) but still really enjoyed the story overall

<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>He had not even been allowed to keep his morningstar -- Mike Jackson, whose mastery of the instrument had been admired by all at Wrykyn! Here at beastly Sedleigh they would not even know what a morningstar was, probably.</blockquote> ➤ OH MY GOD

<blockquote>Five times Peter practiced magic on the Victorian farm (and one time the farm had a magic all its own)</blockquote>

<blockquote>My parents knew I was a witch before I was born. The signs were there, they told me. They were unmistakable. Well. Not all of the signs, or they never would have kept me as long as they did. </blockquote>

<blockquote>The witch had a favorite saying: where there’s life, there’s magic. There was a second part — where there’s magic, there’s death — but she usually kept that to herself.</blockquote> ➤ strange and creepy-sad and compelling

➤ someone reblogged my 10 captivating stories rec list with this one as an additional rec and I think it's one of my fave additions I've gotten yet. Described as a "latina lesbian werewolf witch" story in counterpoint to the canadian lesbian werewolf baby story I'd recced

<blockquote>"Now I do wish it, love it, long for it, And will for evermore be true to it." Four lovers come to terms with the aftermath of a wild night. Modern AU, with magic.</blockquote>

<blockquote>All the awkwardness of seeking a volunteer for an attempt, which every soldier was convinced was as good as asking a man to cast away his life to no purpose, naturally recommended Colonel Hamilton's offer; in any case, Washington allow'd himself to be persuaded, and the operation was carried out an hour later, in a deserted and fallow field some half a mile from the encampment.</blockquote> ➤ TOO INTO THIS OMG ➤ (though the attempt at historical apostrophes in place of the e in "ed" words was kind of a fail. Occasionally there was even an apostrophe in a word where the "ed" is DEFINITELY PRONOUNCED. How am I supposed to pronounce "frustrat'd", please? Oh well, I'm willing to overlook this for a brilliant magician au)

<blockquote>“Burning Girls” by Veronica Schanoes is a fascinating dark fantasy novella about a Jewish girl educated by her grandmother as a healer and witch growing up in an increasingly hostile environment in Poland in the late nineteenth century. In addition to the natural danger of destruction by Cossacks, she must deal with a demon plaguing her family.</blockquote> ➤ WOW THIS WAS REALLY GOOD

<blockquote>I don't even know. I wanted to write some trope-y drabble to entertain myself. Instead, have some "Javert becomes Valjean's possession by accident because Enjolras does blood magic" fic?</blockquote> ➤ yessss

<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>

➤ The one with the illusionist-pyromancer and the dragon palace in the mountains in the snow

<blockquote>“Don’t heal me with medicine,” he wheezes. “Stitches—fail. They fail like doubt. Tell Aelana what you want... want done, and—if you truly want it, she will give you the power to forge it....” “Are you mad?” I scream, my nostrils filled with the fetid scent of blood and bowel-shit again, and oh my Goddess my father is just like the soldiers—</blockquote>

<blockquote>Not that anyone from the Guild is going to change their mind about Ray’s status after one night of fake smiles and handshakes, but. Well, it’s not like it could make things any worse. Ray meets Brad at a party, but things aren't quite as they seem.</blockquote>

<blockquote>While on a mission to the city of the Genii, Rodney McKay, master alchemist, is given a gift of a slave.</blockquote> ➤ An interesting and well put together AU https://web.archive.org/web/20160506210656/http://rhymer.org.uk/sga/slave.htm