LINKDING

Summary: After the Immortal Alliance Conference, Shen Qingqiu eventually recovered from his grief. A reasonable man, he accepted his limitations. Of course, there were—other options. ➜ a genius svsss bingqiu canon divergence au fic ➜ sqq decides to take care of the unavoidable abyss plot-arc by body-swapping with lbh to do the abyss arc for him ➜ meanwhile the bodyswapping didn't work QUITE as intended so although sqq is indeed in lbh's body running the abyss, lbh is in lqg's body and lqg is in sqq's body ➜ cue: time for lbh and lqg to learn how to appreciate each other! ➜ anyway I loved EVERYTHING about this fic. sooooo many good things it's doing ➜ the way sqq has such a great time testing out his abyss speedrun ideas! lbh and lqg's gym bro friendship style! meng mo providing internal colour commentary the whole way through! ➜ and like holy shit, sqq’s weird as fuck identity issues wrt bodies and self and sexuality and stuff! EXQUISITE. ➜ a totally delightful fic, highly recommend ➜ 36k words in length

Summary: Ling Wen wakes up in Hua Cheng's bed. ➤ omg I am LIVING, someone wrote me so many words of ling wen fic wherein post-canon ling wen bodyswaps with xie lian ➤ the ling wen pov in this fic is sooooo good, her pragmatic approach to dealing with whatever happens in her life, her disinterest in attending to her emotions, her independence and unwillingness to rely on anyone who isn't her ➤ and seeing xie lian and hua cheng through ling wen's eyes is so good too!! ➤ there are so many fun character relationship dynamics, connected with a really fun premise, and I loved it all ➤ 8k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Never let it be said that Bertie Wooster will abandon a pal in need, even if that pal is a woman who is temporarily in possession of his body and he doesn’t fully understand what’s going on.</blockquote> ➤ a delightfully charming Jeeves/Wooster story wherein Wooster is bodyswapped with Honoria Glossop ➤ I loved the original character Tilly and I was SO cheering on the Tilly/Honoria ship! ➤ and of course Wooster and Jeeves are beautifully themselves as always ➤ 6k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Hua Cheng wakes up in a long-robbed tomb older than Xianle, cursed shackles on his neck and ankle and hope hammering in his stolen heart. Xie Lian awakens in a bed. This is somehow more disconcerting. / In which a body-swapping curse brings two people together.</blockquote> ➤ canon divergence story where ghost king hua cheng manages to catch up with his god in a different way ➤ that way: xie lian accidentally triggered a curse and now he's swapped bodies with a mysterious ghost....? ➤ (INCREDIBLE premise) ➤ I love xl and hc's very different reactions to finding themselves in each other's bodies ➤ I think my favourite part though might be poor yin yu doing his best to handle the situation, between hc's firm instructions on how to treat xl, and xl's equally firm opinions on what to do ➤ a very fun read overall! ➤ 6k words in length

<blockquote>During vital negotiations, Shang Qinghua accidentally poisons the leader of a rival tribe. Then, when he tries to fix his mistake, he manages to get himself and Mobei-jun stuck in each other's bodies. Now, all he has to do is impersonate Mobei-jun convincingly enough to fool the other tribe, cure their leader, soothe tensions with a pack of angry demons, and renegotiate a once-in-a-lifetime treaty, all while ignoring his growing attraction to Mobei-jun. Should be easy, right?</blockquote>

<blockquote>"I still don't think you thought this through," says one of Shi Qingxuan's captors. "Who's gonna pay a ransom for Black Water Sinking Ships? Only Crimson Rain Sought Flower really has enough money these days and he's not going to waste it on another Devastation." / Some ghosts decide that it's a great idea to kidnap Black Water Sinking Ships for profit. There's only one problem: Shi Qingxuan and He Xuan have swapped bodies.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Madame Meiyin casts a sex curse (blessing?) at the state wedding of Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe. When Shen Qingqiu used to complain about how stultifying and unoriginal, how vapid and formulaic, and most especially how shallow and empty of true feeling Airplane's wife plots were in PIDW... well, fate was listening. Bodyswap's not so simple when the sex hasn't been so easy.</blockquote>

<blockquote>cumplane bodyswap fic. there are many ways for this to be Good but to start with I am thinking about. no-transmigration au where they haven't even interacted except like, twice on the forums & suddenly sy wakes up in a shitty apartment w a new chapter of PIDW half-written on the laptop he's in bed with</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mo Xuanyu thought that this Wei Wuxian person whose body he’d stolen must have been a really interesting person, mostly because he’d been here for three days so far and nobody’d noticed the switch yet.</blockquote> ➤ there's clearly a lot of context missing that mxy doesn't have, and it ends before any of that is resolved, but mxy's little story of accidentally possessing teen wwx's body is still lovely

<blockquote>TECHNICIAN: Recording new consent document, procedure 228. Patient is a thirty-nine-year-old female. C-could you state your name for the record? PATIENT “BLUE”: Sure! I’m [BLUE]. Is this, like, really formal? TECHNICIAN: Um. Fairly. C-can you tell me about any reservations you have regarding the procedure? BLUE: Probably what I’m most, like, nervous about—besides learning how to walk again [laughs]—is that my new body’s neural pathways won’t be developed right for engineering work. Not that I work since getting married. But you know. I like keeping up with nanomaterials and stuff.</blockquote> ➤ tbh I feel like it went a little TOO obvious at the end, but I still really enjoyed it!

<blockquote>The first clue Shang Qinghua has about his problem is that he wakes up feeling comfortable.</blockquote>

<blockquote>An accident with some sort of brain-scanning alien device leaves Owen and Ianto sharing Ianto's body. Hijinks and nightmares ensue.</blockquote> ➤ I feel like it ended without quite enough emotional resolution but still really good

<blockquote>“Listen. Lan Zhan," Wei Ying says. "I know this whole thing, with — with the soul-switch, it’s upsetting. And believe me, I know my body is the last one on earth you’d want to be inside of.” Lan Wangji chokes, then passes it off as a cough. — On a night hunt, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji get cursed and stuck in each other's bodies. As you would expect, shenanigans ensue.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“How did you manage,” asked Geralt, with infinite patience and only a desire to know the facts, and not at all a little meanhearted glee, “to insult a sorcerer while his tongue was down your throat?” “Don’t make me recount the entire sordid affair, Geralt,” said Jaskier, with a surprising note of desperation breaking through his gruff monotone. “I’m already having a rather shit day and all I’ve done so far is wake up.” “In my body,” said Geralt. “Yes,” said Jaskier, with the insolent cadence that was unmistakably Jaskier’s, but in Geralt’s voice, emerging from Geralt’s face and frame. “And I’ve got yours,” said Geralt, from Jaskier’s.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Uhura ends up in Kirk's mom's body. Then shit gets weird.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Queen of Attolia comes to understand the Thief of Eddis somewhat better than before.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“We’ve got to call that vendor,” Patrick said. “Did you keep her card? You didn’t throw it away, did you?” “Um,” David said, running his hands down his chest now, his arms, oh god Patrick’s arms. “I don’t…I think so? Hang on, though, could we just...explore this, for a few minutes, maybe, because it’s actually kind of—” “David.” Patrick came over and gripped him by the shoulders, looking very serious, and David was in awe; that was hot, that was very hot, that I-mean-business-NOW look on his own face. He’d have to try it, practice it in a mirror, once he got it back.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The obligatory Pon Farr story . . . with a bit of a twist.</blockquote> ➤ the twist is BODYSWAP

<blockquote>"What the hell, man?" somebody says, and GQ turns around and looks. There's someone off to one side of him. Another SEAL, looks like, and the only guy who was anywhere near as close to that blast as GQ. Benitez rushed forward to help him out, though, after the grenade went off; and the guy's freaking out on her, twisting out of her grip and baring his teeth, shoulders bunched, clutching his gun at an awkward angle like he's planning to use it for a club instead of shooting it. "Hey," GQ says, starting toward them, and he's distracted at first by the wide-eyed stare Benitez gives him, the way her gun comes up. It takes him a second to meet the guy's eyes, a second to realize that it's—that they're his. That's him over there. That's him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Anakin, Padme, and Obi-Wan swap bodies. Plot does not ensue.</blockquote> ➤ Anakin/Padme while Anakin's in Padme's body and Padme's in Obi-Wan's. Hints towards Anakin/Padme/Obi-Wan

<blockquote>One evening after Escobar, magical intervention forces Lord Vorkosigan and Princess Kareen to reconsider some of their opinions.</blockquote>

<blockquote>chirabella asked: Marius & Enjolras, bodyswap.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Kate has definitely considered what would happen if she ended up in a dude's body before, but it was, like, Noh-Varr, or maybe James Deen. Somebody whose ride you'd want to take for a test drive. Kate loves Clint, but let's be real: there's only one place she's going to carry this metaphor, and that's the car wash.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Bucky becomes Natasha. Natasha becomes the Winter Soldier.</blockquote> ➤ I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW. THIS IS SO GOOOOOOOOOD

<blockquote>marius/montparnasse, bodyswap</blockquote> ➤ !!!!

<blockquote>valjean/prouvaire bodyswap pre-1832</blockquote>

<blockquote>I kept trying to make this a scenario where they just woke up in each other’s body, mostly because I was highly entertained by the mental image of Bahorel’s Laughing Mistress sleepily going, “Hey, what’s the ma— you’re looking awkward and avoiding looking at my body and you’re actually blushing, WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH BAHOREL.” And thus simplifying explanations considerably, by being not so much genre-savvy as boyfriend-savvy! Sadly, that’s as far as I could manage to figure out in this scenario. [...] So I think what I’m going with is that Combeferre acquired a Mysterious Scientific Device from somewhere – let’s say a pawnshop or a seller of ill-assorted sundries.</p>

<blockquote>Combeferre and Grantaire, body swap</blockquote>

<blockquote>convent husbands bodyswap</blockquote>

<blockquote>Meg is having fun. Hercules isn't.</blockquote>