LINKDING

Summary: “It’s only on paper,” Shen Qingqiu says soothingly, even voice doing very little to calm Liu Qingge’s nerves. “This contract with the former Junshang’s descendant will make an excellent stopgap until we can broker a more longterm peace with the demonic realm.” He directs his warm smile at Liu Qingge. As if Liu Qingge doesn’t already know this! He wipes his hands on his fine, embroidered robes. Stupid things- much too thin to give any protection against a blade. “The duel,” he says, trying to keep his head in the game. “It’s still the most likely outcome, right?” ➤ svsss au fic where as part of peace efforts between the human and demonic realms, marriage has been arranged between lqg and lbh ➤ nobody's pleased with the thought of the marriage actually taking place and everyone expects a duel rather than a completed marriage ceremony ➤ stands alone as a fun glimpse into the world of this story, but author hints at the possibility of it being the first chapter in a longer fic (that would probably end up bingliushen) ➤ 1.7k words in length

<blockquote>“What’s going on in there?!” the raspy voice of a slightly inebriated ruffian comes from outside the thicket. Shen Jiu, one arm of the corpse slung around his shoulder and the other around Yue Qi’s, stares dead ahead into the shallow freshly dug grave, thinking furiously. “We’re not doing anything!” he gasps out performatively, trying to make his voice less snappish and more flustered. He fails, miserably, judging by the wide-eyed trapped look that Yue Qi fixes him with. “Quick,” he continues, pitching his voice quieter- but loud enough to carry to the man on the path- “quick, put your clothes on, ge!”</blockquote>

<blockquote>Stevie and David get married on a whim during a time loop. It would really be a shame if the loop ended at that point, wouldn't it?</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Romeo and Juliet try to be impulsive and romantic, Rosaline and Benvolio get drunk and stupid, and what happens in Vegas... does NOT stay in Vegas.</blockquote> ➤ this appears to be fanfic of a canon source that is itself a modern au of Romeo & Juliet? But it works just fine if you only know the original shakespeare

<blockquote>Ivan knew better than to accidentally marry Gregor Vorbarra. He absolutely, absolutely knew better. But that still didn't stop it from happening.</blockquote> ➤ (sequel from Gregor's point of view, A Marriage In Motion Will Stay In Motion: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20223463

<blockquote>Temeraire pushes to pass a law that lets dragons adopt human families. Issues with the paperwork lead to some unexpected, but not unpleasant, consequences.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Julian wakes lying on his front, with a mild but insistent headache, an uncomfortably dry throat, and a dim sense that the bed he's in is not his own. And he's right: it's Garak's. Because he and Garak got possibly a little bit too drunk at Quark's, and then possibly also a little bit married on top of it, and there's just no way this is going to be anything but a disaster.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“I dare you,” Kent said, echoing himself through years and miles. How many times did shit go terribly, terribly wrong in Juniors because of Kent Parson looking at Jack that way and saying those words? “No way,” Jack said. “Aren't we a little mature for that now, Parse?” “I double dog dare you,” Parse said. And. Well. Or: Jack wakes up married to Kent Parson. It's annoying.</blockquote> ➤ it's neat to see a fic where the woke-up-married couple is not actually the fic's ship. treated with basically zero angst, which is also nice.

<blockquote>I've been joking about writing this fic for a while - ever since I learned that as far as Tolkien was concerned, sex = marriage for Elves. The Elf marriage customs here are from History of Middle-Earth ("Laws and Customs among the Eldar"). The Dwarf marriage customs I just extrapolated from what we know of Dwarves.</blockquote>

<blockquote>No matter how hard you try, pretending you didn't get married while blackout drunk doesn't mean it didn't happen.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which angelic marriage bonds are apparently stupidly easy to trigger, Cas wages multidimensional war in Heaven, Dean can't catch a break like ever, Sam rather enjoys being a dick, love saves the day, and nobody consummates anything.</blockquote> ➤ also at https://archiveofourown.org/works/244596

<blockquote>Sinbad wakes up in bed next to Gunnar in a dark room. This is a thing that has happened before.</blockquote>

➤ Merlin and Arthur are high-powered divorce attorneys who have this heated rivalry thing going on. ➤ And then there's the accidental Vegas marriage and pretending to be really in love with each other

➤ does what it says on the tin. Also, Gaila to the rescue!

➤ an explanatory pamphlet from Starfleet.