LINKDING

<blockquote>Shang Qinghua goes to take a self-indulgent peek at his baby protagonist son and gets a kick to the shrivelled heart for his troubles. He gave up on changing the story years ago! Yet he finds himself helping his protagonist son's adoptive mother anyway. Just this one change won't matter too much, right? One little change leads to more. Shang Qinghua never meant to care, but he becomes invested in making sure that his new family survives the looming plot. With the changes to the world cascading around him, with his position as a traitor pulling him between his sect and a certain ice demon, and with the protagonist growing up so quickly, how is one displaced author meant to ensure that everything turns out alright? A Pre-Canon to Canon Divergence story.</blockquote> ➤ has that pacing problem that some long-long-longfics have where they feel the need to just include EVERYTHING onscreen, but still a very fun fic that I got very invested in

<blockquote>Wei Ying lands a job as the Yiling Patriarch at the Lanling Cultivation Museum. Lan Zhan (Hanguang-Jun 4x per week, Sect Leader Lan 2x per week) suffers accordingly.</blockquote> ➤ the costumed interpreter fic!!!

<blockquote>Jin Ling resumes thumping on the door to room 721, and the small collection of freshmen starts chanting “Senior Wei! Senior Wei! Senior Wei!” with increasing volume until finally Wei Wuxian opens the door. “Yes?” he says with his widest, most innocent eyes. “Senior Wei!” demands Lan Jingyi, shoving himself to the front of the group. “Why didn’t you tell us you’re a contestant on this year’s season of The Great Gusu Bake Off?!?” -- Several months ago, college student Wei Wuxian secretly competed in the most popular reality show in the country. The show starts airing in the fall. The freshmen in his dorm collectively lose their minds.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Yiling Laozu was one of the biggest characters on the Sunshot LARP field. He made his own faction, raised an army of the dead, and was single-handedly responsible for destroying the yin iron economy. Unfortunately his actions caused no end of problems for the game runners - so after Yiling Laozu’s death, his player Wei Ying was very firmly asked to leave the game. Four years and a change of management later, and Wei Ying is back! Only difference - rather than being let loose on the field again, he’s crewing now and playing a stream of NPC zombies, merchants and diplomats. While he's barred from raising the dead, he still has plenty of time for important out of character shenanigans, including but not limited to avoiding his family, poking electrical wires, corrupting the youth, and bothering Lan Zhan. One year, four events, and a tale of campfires, love and live action roleplaying.</blockquote> ➤ this was so fascinating and fun! A true love letter to larping, it's clear the author is very familiar with it as an activity, and also it was great to see how things were translated from canon in terms of what was IC and what was OC for the folks in this story/in their larp. So great

<blockquote>nyonglupita prompted "celebrity AU" so I made it a Georgian celebrity AU. Mr. Bennet is a playwright, famous for his comedies of manners, and his daughters are celebrity actresses.</blockquote> ➤ series consists of: Comedy of Manners The Nymph's Reply

<blockquote>Very few jobs give you the perfect storm of moral high ground, manic energy, and being a huge dick to people on the regular that Wei Wuxian finds so satisfying about trauma surgery. However, they don't call it trauma for its psychological wellness. A year of q2 36 hour call would be unbearable if Lan Wangji weren't the other fellow that he shares a call bed with. A "What If All The Cultivators Were Surgeons?" AU.</blockquote> ➤ This fic is the epitome of Take Your Fandom To Work, making wonderful use of how closely the author is familiar with the context of the au setting and really bringing it to life.

<blockquote>"Mindelan, it may be that the best thing said of my tenure is that you were my student. Should that be the case, I am the wrong man for this post. I did all I could to get rid of you. Your probation was wrong. You know that, I know it. I was harder on you than any lad. Thank Mithros I remembered my honor and let you stay when you met the conditions—but it was a near thing. Next time, I might not heed the voice of honor." -- Wyldon of Cavall (Squire)</blockquote> ➤ The AU where Wyldon kicks her out after her probationary year but she sticks around to keep learning anyway

<blockquote>Shmi leaves Tatooine with Anakin and goes to the Jedi Temple.</blockquote> ➤ parts one through three are complete ("In all your wanderings", "Winds of change and chance" and "Messenger"). ➤ Part 4 is wip, "It will be written," and I am thoroughly enjoying this fic! ➤ Part 3 is an outlier, focusing on Beru Whitsun in freedom and her mentorship with Jango Fett and subsequent break from him, and is a wonderful story standalone as well as part of this larger universe

<blockquote>The Regal Copper Laurentius accidentally acquires a captain, Tharkay spectates, Temeraire is Not Actually an Orphan, and no one really knows who's leading France. Someone should probably get on that, considering England is at war with the place.</blockquote> ➤ AMAZING. An au in which all the humans are dragons and all the dragons are humans.

<blockquote>Mark Watney never manages to make contact with Earth and NASA never realizes that he survived the storm and evacuation on Sol 6. So, needless to say, the crew of the Ares IV is incredibly surprised when they land on Mars to find a scruffy, malnourished, mentally unbalanced, but still-alive astronaut waiting for them.</blockquote> ➤ There are sequels but I don't find them nearly as compelling

<blockquote>...for, of course, they were to have a son. This son was to join in cutting off the entail, as soon as he should be of age... (A series of what-ifs exploring in turn the possibilities had any of the Bennet girls been born male.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Immortan Joe died in the end, but what if he had died one of the other 80,000 times a badass woman threatened his life? This is that fic. (Or, 5 times Immortan Joe dies and everyone else lives.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Hakoda found the boy in the ice eight days before Kya went into labor. Avatar!Katara AU.</blockquote> ➤ !!!!!!!!!!!! ➤ Probably when I finally get around to watching A:tlA I will have trouble believing Aang is really the avatar because I've internalized this fic so much but I DON'T EVEN CARE, THIS IS AMAZING FOREVER. ➤ The first two books of the series are complete, out of a projected four, so it ends with the overarching plot not actually concluded, but it is a satisfying read nonetheless as it stands. Also really long. Imagine The Ocean - Book One Listen to the Earth - Book Two Carry the Flame - Book Three (wip through part 2) ➤ As of December 2019 the author is saying in comments that they intend to keep writing so it's not abandoned yet.

<blockquote>Cinaed: haha, jam asked for a merfolk/library Les Mis au Cinaed: maybe I should do one where Madeleine refuses to become mayor and becomes the town librarian instead (while running the factory), and Javert has to enlist his help because his squirrels are acting strangely and he’s gathered such a large collection of books </blockquote>

<blockquote>Six weeks before the group stage of the World Cup, the French national team plays Patron-Minette in a charity friendly. It all goes downhill from there.</blockquote> ➤ wip through part 3 as of bookmarking

<blockquote>Greendale really is a psychiatric hospital, but Abed has a foolproof escape plan for him and all his friends. Shared delusion? Shared delusion? Shared delusion?</blockquote>

<blockquote>They called them the Wraith, ghosts that walked and brought death on their hands, and no country objected when their brightest and best children were demanded in order to prepare to fight the alien menace.</blockquote> ➤ like Ender's Game only with SGA