LINKDING

<blockquote>The war is over and Bodhi Rook has been away from Jedha for too long. It’s time to go home. He winds up with an unexpected passenger. A love story between two people and a place, about all the different meanings of home.</blockquote> ➤ (and then a sequel about finding & rescuing Rey, and then a meta post describing the events that led to this au) ➤ Series consists of: Stone and Sand Different Deserts For Those That Read Stone and Sand

<blockquote>Yuri Plisetsky will never step out of Victor's shadow. Not if Victor has anything to do with it. Or, the epic Nikiforov-Plisetsky rivalry in the run-up to the 2018 Olympic Games.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It also didn’t help that the average glyph message was only three characters long, used no articles or prepositions, and usually had no verbs. What was the proper response to:: Curiosity; Sensation of great speed? Was it a question? A comparison?  Why, after a brief visit by National Security Director Mearing, did four different ‘Bots send:: Emphasis; overlapping? Why was a particularly bad joke by Bulkhead derided as ::Undercharged when there were actual glyphs for Not funny and Humor fail? How did any of that work?</blockquote> ➤ an ethnographer embedded with the Transformers on Earth; the two cultures try to understand each other. I'm so into alien cultural interactions! ➤ There's sequels but it got to be a bit much, I'm happy with just the first fic

<blockquote>After a chance meeting in Colorado Springs, Methos recognizes a mysterious blue-eyed man, five thousand years dead. Daniel Jackson, meanwhile, mistakes Methos for the Goa'uld Tanith, and reacts rather poorly. The situation only grows more complicated when Amanda comes to Colorado Springs, hunting down a rogue Immortal with an unknown agenda.</blockquote> ➤ the one that works to reconcile canons such that Methos IS Tanith without ever contradicting anything from the shows. I enjoyed the crossover, though I kind of kept expecting the fic to ship Methos/Daniel (I don't know why) and was disconcerted when it never went there.

<blockquote>Following the battle of Endor, the Alliance to Restore the Republic took a single prisoner from the attack on the Death Star. Sequestered aboard a lone ship with a skeleton crew, that prisoner sits and waits for what fate will bring him, his very existence kept a closely guarded secret. Desperately trying to work out what to do with him, the Rebel leaders send a lone analyst to speak with him, to take a record of his side of the story. They want to be able to judge him when the time is right. But who exactly is it they would be judging? And why exactly did he help destroy the galaxy - and then help save it? AU, following on from an alternate ending for Return of the Jedi.</blockquote> ➤ I rather liked the OC pov character. The best part was the first half with the viewpoint character's interviewing of Darth Vader ➤ but the rest of the fic was worth reading too. And I liked the choice of how/where to end it. ➤ And I liked that in general the fic was actually engaging with the question of how to deal with someone who has done truly awful things to a lot of people but has also repented in some way or another. ➤ Also: the stuff about Vader's feelings about Luke being basically obsession were like, OH, YES OF COURSE, EVERYTHING MAKES SENSE NOW (cf Anakin's feelings about Padme)

<blockquote>After his Master's death Obi-Wan Falls. Anakin picks up the pieces.</blockquote> ➤ Very different understanding of what the dark side is than I usually see!

<blockquote>A series of one-shots set in a universe where Vader turned double agent for the Rebellion about three years after ROTS, and Leia is now his primary contact with the Rebellion.</blockquote> ➤ I was surprised by how into this fic I was! Because I am the most predictable person, though, my favourite thing is the slave folk stories from Tatooine about the trickster figure Ekkreth. But really everything is great. ➤ 20 parts as of last checking (Feb 2020, but last updated in 2017): Shape-Changer Words in the Heart (Words in the Heart) Cannot Be Taken The Slave Who Makes Free Decryption Codes A Larger World The Emperor's Speech Optimal Functioning Trickster Steals the Moon Flowers for the Emperor Bedrock The Only Verdict Aftermath Trophies Children of the Force Empire Day The Unstolen Child Rocks and Water Sometimes as Many as Seven Apology Accepted

<blockquote>"I heard FN-2187 was a Stormtrooper." -- Finn sparks a revolution.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Jonas' father has always fascinated me, so here is a story, nearly as long as The Giver itself, about him, and the Community, and Jonas.</blockquote> ➤ gosh, writing this must have been such an undertaking! ➤ And it's so GOOD, a great look at all these human people doing their best to be decent people in a horrifying cultural context that they don't realize is horrifying. ➤ Could have used a proofread, but dude, writing a novel-length fic in the span of time yuletide allows, I understand not getting to all the details

<blockquote>Sha're's husband Daniel Jackson and brother Skaara are abducted from Abydos by the Goa'uld Amaunet. To fight for their return, Sha're must join the newly created Stargate Command. But can Sha're become the woman she will need to be to get them back? (AU from approximately three minutes into Children of the Gods.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Les Amis de l'ABC, at the beginning and the end.</blockquote> ➤ or ALKDHFSLDFJDLKFS ALL THE AMIS FEELS FOREVER OH NOES

➤ In which Barrayar is attacked by Cetaganda, and Gregor and Miles are killed, and Ivan has to lead the resistance and steps up to the responsibility required. ➤ This fic is complete but there is an in-progress sequel.

➤ The one where it's basically the romance plotline between Illyan and Aral except it's not a romance it's about platonic loyalty and trust, and it's so great. I could read fic like this forever.

➤ the Robot!Rodney story! yay!

➤ Ronon and John go on a canoeing challenge and get taken by Wraith. ➤ Involves the rest of the Atlantis characters too, not just Ronon and John.

➤ Kirk and his family; Kirk's growing-up years.

➤ in which Kirk and Bones are MIPs, and Kirk is dealing with remembering a tragedy he lived through as a kid

➤ Sam tries to figure out how to save Dean from hell using the book Life of Jonathan Strange, amazing depiction of everything

➤ In which three timelines are interwoven: the time when they are first partnered, the time when Napoleon takes over for Waverly, and the time when Russia is trying to recall Illya.

<blockquote>In the annals of SGC history, it will forever be debated whether the decision to remove then-Major John Sheppard from the Atlantis expedition was an act of great folly or one of great fortune.</blockquote>

➤ The one where Rodney is chosen to be a Herald, unusually late in life. also at http://archiveofourown.org/series/1504

<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

<blockquote>Being the surprising adventures of one Rodney McKay, abducted by pyrates without realising it; and of his travails upon the pyrate ship Atlantis, and of her captain, the second most notorious pyrate in the Caribbees; and of his loyal crew.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Team, drama, h/c. Following the events of "Trinity", Teyla has a plan to repair the rift in her team ... but it may come at a terrible cost.</blockquote>

<blockquote>They trade one of John's childhood memories and the last of the medical supplies for passage on a cargo ship, and land on Bajan in mid-winter. The memory is nothing exceptional: Rachel Sheppard doing the baseball mom thing on a Saturday afternoon in 1975, at Fort Bragg. She wears a bottle green shirt, the left wristcuff stained with soda; she yells, "Show them what you're made of, Big J!" when John is up for bat in the fourth inning and Frank Sheppard has left the stands; even with the sun in his eyes, John hits a line drive that takes him to third base. Because little league is nothing anyone in this galaxy has ever heard of, the clip sells at a premium. Teyla holds his hand during the upload and hums an Athosian chant, but John's okay. He's got more where that came from.</blockquote> ➤ the one where John leaves Atlantis because he's got a son whom he loves who's part-wraith who he wants to protect https://web.archive.org/web/20140828090456/http://www.butcheredart.net/Fiction/YourCowboyDays.html

<blockquote>In a world without the SGC, John Sheppard never got his second chance and is ushered into early retirement. Nine months later he's working as a test pilot for the world's leading defense contractor on a groundbreaking new plane, and has just been introduced to his difficult new coworker, one Dr. Rodney McKay. However, not everything is as it appears to be. There's something very strange about this plane, John's employer--and Rodney McKay.</blockquote>