LINKDING

<blockquote> a longfic study in why dating someone in your highly competitive field is not, perhaps, the wisest of ideas. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Chirrut and Baze die and wake up in the Jedhan desert on the day the Empire rises. They have twenty years to make sure it all happens better this time.</blockquote> ➤ I continue in my endless love for star wars fic where character(s) are sent back in time to make things better

<blockquote>Luke Skywalker's parents are never going to be able to afford the college of his dreams. Luke resigns himself to community college. His best friend, Wedge, has a different idea. / Mind still scrambling for some sort of solution, Wedge asked, "Marriage? It's legal for you to get married." "And thank God for that." Luke rolled his eyes. "I don't know if you've noticed, buddy, but supreme court decision aside, there's not a lot of options for gay guys around here. Besides, how does that pitch go, marry me for the student loan debt?" "Okay," Wedge responded. </blockquote>

<blockquote>The moment he saw David, Patrick's heart started pounding. Hey, I think I’m in love with you felt dangerously close to being something he wanted to say out loud, even though he knew it would be a terrible idea. Especially this early on. Especially with his business partner. Especially because he’d only recently figured out the whole liking other men thing. Especially because now he was officially—having sex—with the other men. Man. With David. This is fast, he thought. char-char-char-char-char- A story about sex, intimacy, and falling in love way before you meant to.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Julian Bashir has been on Cardassia for six months. He thinks he's adapted pretty well. But when it's time to learn the language, he realizes he's nowhere near as clever as he thought. Set post-canon, about a year and a half after the series ends. Light stuff, with occasional dips into darker territory.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It started out as a simple lie. He should have known better than to get involved in a lie with Elim Garak.</blockquote>

<blockquote>But then Rodney would stand close to him, or be unexpectedly kind, or do something stupid and heroic, and John’s entire body would shout him, that one, Rodney McKay, him. Like the world was a candy store where John could just point and say I’ll have the genius with the big blue eyes and Rodney would be his with a bow on. / John did not ask to sprain his ankle, to be reassigned to the best quarters in Atlantis, or for Rodney McKay to become his new neighbor. But that’s what happened. Post-series. Here’s wishing callunavulgari a very Merry Christmas. She gave me a detailed letter with lots of avenues to explore. I was struck by “domesticity” and “a slow, lazy kind of jam that just makes me happy.” Here’s my attempt at that. <3</blockquote> ➤ aaahhhh I love it

<blockquote>The one where Keith and Shiro decide that pretending to be dating at Shiro's ex's sister's wedding is the best idea ever.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Clark Kent woke up, ate breakfast, went to work—the same way he did every day. Ordinary. Except for the part where Superman hadn't been seen in at least a week and nobody knew why, Lois was acting kind of weird, and Bruce Wayne was insisting that Clark was the only reporter he'd allow to run a feature on the crashed alien ship in the park, since Wayne Enterprises had been granted control of the site. And the way Clark felt every time Wayne looked at him a little too long definitely wasn't helping. But it was fine. Clark was normal, there was nothing wrong with him, and everything was fine.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Working within the cultural norms of different planets can be difficult. The Voltron team have become adept at rolling with the punches. Having to pretend to be married to Keith is not the worst or the strangest thing Shiro has done in space. It might be the hardest. Or, rather, hiding that he's actually in love with his best friend will be the hardest.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Don’t read it,” Damen says, urgently, and he tries to pull Laurent back. In Akielon and, oddly, Veretian, the wall of the cave says: What does your heart desire? Laurent already has everything that his heart desires. Everything except- Auguste.</blockquote> ➤ I love this fic and everything about the alternate world and Laurent and Damen's experiences with trying to deal with it. I do not love the open-ended ending though.

<blockquote>In which Jim finds himself fake-married to his first officer every other month. It's not his fault. Mostly. Dowries and Klingons are involved. Starfleet is decidedly not amused.</blockquote> ➤ what excellent fun with tropes. And I love how it ends!

<blockquote>Daniel is free to act without consequence. A 'Window of Opportunity' AU.</blockquote> ➤ I particularly appreciate the focus on Daniel and Teal'c's friendship

<blockquote>What if Jack and Daniel never joined the Stargate Program? AKA the Chicago AU.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Plagued by his poor performance at the GPF, Yuuri’s disastrous free at Japanese Nationals ends not just in eleventh-place, but deals him with a lasting injury, resulting in him retiring before the events of the show. He becomes a commentator, determined to move on from his uneventful skating career. Yet, a series of chance meetings with a smitten Viktor and his own yearning for the ice keeps drawing him back to competitive figure skating. In which everything's different, but it all ends the same anyway.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sometimes Brad thinks Iraq is a parallel universe in which all manner of bizarre things occur with no regard to the logic of the cosmos. Things like Ray being in a band that's actually good, or like Brad sort of not really maybe falling in love with him. Crazy shit like that. Because seriously, what the fuck?</blockquote> ➤ the one where after Ray leaves the marines he starts a band

<blockquote>McKay and Sheppard in the universe from SG ep. 10.13, "The Road Not Taken". After Carter returns to her universe, someone's got to finish saving this one from the Ori.</blockquote>

<blockquote>So I asked for prompts on DW and potted_music said "Geralt/Emhyr AU in which Emhyr is a witcher too" and I was all lol, how on earth could Emhyr have ended up as a witcher, and then this story happened.</blockquote>

<blockquote>‘I think,’ Yuri says, still watching Chris like Chris is a puzzle he’s trying to solve, ‘that you had a good thing with Théo. If you know he doesn’t need you, and his partner doesn’t either, and they still want you around? They still want to care for you? That’s… that’s love, Chris.’ Or: Working title 'Christophe retires, has a breakdown, and a threesome'.</blockquote>

<blockquote>I had often wished for the chance to meet His Imperial Majesty, of course, but hardly under these circumstances. I’d really envisioned something more along the lines of a command performance for the court, or perhaps a ceremony of decoration as a Master of the Arts.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“You need not thank me,” Emhyr said. “I have an ulterior motive.” It annoyed Geralt to be surprised. He should’ve known from the start. “Yeah?” The words came out with a little bite. “Have another daughter you need me to track down?” “If I wished to hire you, I would hire you,” Emhyr said. “No: I want you to come to my bed.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Waking up in a world where the best possible turn of events was a literal doppelgänger was not exactly what Victor considered a great morning. The other Victor apparently begged to differ. “Amazing!” he said, poking Victor in the shoulder." Just as Victor and Yuuri are about to start the final dash of preparing for the Grand Prix Final, Victor finds himself in a different reality- one where he, rather than coaching Yuuri, is in the middle of skating his retirement season. They don't know how it happened, or how to fix it, but neither Victor has ever let details like that stop him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Howie is a directionless sophomore slacking his way through classes. Arthur is a long-suffering RA who's not having the finest of years. The more things change, the more they stay the same.</blockquote> ➤ I'm charmed by this random college au for a fandom I don't know, idek

<blockquote>When Childermass is targeted by those who would use the Raven King’s Book for their own gain, he turns to Mr Segundus for help.</blockquote> ➤ the mpreg is creepy faerie body horror mpreg, not romantic babymaking mpreg

<blockquote>Napoleon sends a letter to the upstart sea-captain who stole his dragon, Laurence sends one back, and a correspondence begins under the uneasy eye of the admiralty. ------When Laurence had admitted the matter to Granby his lieutenant exclaimed, “God, does Boney want you drawn and quartered as a traitor?” which seems perfectly possible.</blockquote> ➤ the main plot turns out to be the dragon plague which means auuugh (the laurence/napoleon is not any kind of endgame relationship in this particular fic ftr)

<blockquote>AU. A divided Vulcan is at civil war and at war with the Federation. After crash-landing on Vulcan, McCoy and Spock must work together to survive the desert and the war.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The first thing I noticed were his hands, which were stained beyond all washing by brown-black grease hiding in the creases of his knuckles and beneath what little of his fingernails hadn't been bitten down to the quick. They were delicate, though, I could see by the way that he set his glass on the bar and ran his fingertips around the damp rim where his mouth had just been; he touched it like he'd touch a lover, I thought, long before I knew he'd never in his life touched a lover that way. The scent of new money rolled off him, not in that flashy, obnoxious way tasteless barbarians turn gilded lilies with a few extra notes in their billfolds, but like a man who'd come to enjoy all the things that wealth could get him but still didn't feel like he fit in any of the places you had to go to get those things. He waited until the starched-collared bartender had wandered his way to the other end of the bar before inclining his head in my direction and saying to me, "I'll buy you a drink if you let me see that arm."</blockquote> ➤ steampunk arm-fixing

<blockquote>Poe turns big dark eyes on him and Finn feels something ache in his chest. “Tell me, Finn, how is that gonna look, buddy? You save my life, we take you in and then we throw you back when it suits us? I wouldn’t fight for a Resistance like that and neither would you.” He wants to say, yes I would, but with Poe looking up at him the words die on his lips.</blockquote> ➤ in which Leia prioritizes saving Poe from the First Order over having the chance to attempt to convince Kylo Ren back to the side of the light.

<blockquote>Sometimes it's not what you remember, but what you forget.  At the turn of a New Year, Jim is struck with amnesia after what should have been a simple diplomatic mission.  And with the help of a few reluctant co-conspirators, he struggles to piece together the clues of the past so he can embrace the future.</blockquote> ➤ I like that it doesn't end with Jim recovering his memories

<blockquote>He doesn’t get nightmares. He doesn’t dream about the mask, the cries of the villagers, waking up in the desert with a blinding headache and his mouth filled with blood and the man who’d saved him gone, most likely dead. Instead, he just can’t sleep.</blockquote>