LINKDING

Summary: <blockquote>The far stall in the ladies room in the Land of the Dead was backed up again. The day had already started terribly, with an email that hit my phone as I walked the 387 steps from my staff cabin to the front desk, an email from Lana saying Vera, I wanted you to find out directly from me that I’ve started seeing somebody. Call if you want to talk.</blockquote> ➤ about queer intergenerational friendship and mentorship, about being a young adult trying to find your place, about death and what it means to you, about living through the death of all your peers and coming out the other side, about hope and love and making connections. ➤ holy shit this gave me so many emotions. READ IT READ IT READ IT. ➤ also I adore the title. pinsker writes great titles. ➤ 6k words in length

<blockquote>He Xuan is Shi Qingxuan's dream, his nightmare, and whatever else can be found in the in-between.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The second time he dies, it’s almost funny. He laughs—or well, he tries to. It catches on his broken ribs, comes out a rasping gasp instead. It’s funny. Really. The Flower Crowned Martial God, dying of a broken neck amidst the wildflowers.</blockquote> ➤ xl's many experiences of death over his hundreds of years

<blockquote>OH. IT'S YOU AGAIN. </blockquote>

<blockquote>On her layover in Munich, she stops in the ladies’. She’s washing her hands when someone pulls up at the next sink, and says, “Corporal Freeman?” Forcing herself to breathe slow, raise her head slow, she looks. The sight of desert camo takes her right out of the bathroom, back to the heat and the buzz of flies swarming to her own blood.</blockquote> ➤ note: andy dies permanently in this one, as a warning

<blockquote>After Merrick, Nicky can't stand seeing any of them die. It takes Joe a while to put it together.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The girl does not come to Mebuyen, so Mebuyen goes to the girl. She is standing ankle-deep in the river, looking down, her mouth open. Mebuyen notices, as she draws closer, that the child’s calves are skinny, her cheeks chubby, and her SpongeBob Squarepants sando has a bullet-sized hole above her ribs. Mebuyen frowns as she steps into the river, waiting for the girl to speak.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Logan is buried alive. Very alive.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Temeraire is dead. The entire country knows his name after the Battle of Dover, and now Temeraire is dead. “Well,” says Admiral Croft, “At least you can join the navy again, eh, Captain?”</blockquote> ➤ gaaaaah this is so heartbreaking but also I am really mad that the author killed Tharkay off too

<blockquote>Strychnine is bitter, but the most pleasant to work with.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Death paused.  Death really didn’t have time to pause because there was so much work to do: but Death had discovered long ago that it could make its own time.  Souls didn’t particularly suffer if it was slow to collect them.  But sometimes they wandered off and then there were ghosts and it hated to chase down ghosts if they were happy and weren’t causing any problems— Anyway.  Death paused.  This particular soul was curled up like a cat while it waited, and blinked and stretched and demurred when Death caught up to it.  “But I’m waiting for my friend.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Loki turns up demanding Thor's help on a quest to retrieve the All-Mother from Valhalla, Thor isn't about to say no. But that doesn't mean he's forgotten anything, and what better time than a road trip through the backwaters of the universe for trying to talk things out?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Tybalt has a secret.</blockquote> ➤ in which Tybalt keeps waking up after deaths

<blockquote>Enjolras is denied heaven. Grantaire is not. But Grantaire will always follow Enjolras, and purgatory is not such a dark place, when it has Enjolras's smile to light it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>City Council announces a new secret law. The Night Vale Astronomy Club has officially denounced the existence of stars. The Night Vale Historical Society is throwing a barbecue for a tragedy that no one is allowed to talk about. It's the usual week's news in Night Vale except for one tiny detail-Cecil isn't the one reporting it. And as Head Intern Jessica ignores her normal inclination to not do any work ever (you don't become head intern by being a go-getter) to fill in for him while Carlos conducts his desperate search, she's beginning to think that maybe Cecil isn't the only one who'll disappear.</blockquote> ➤warning: head intern Jessica does end up dying and I became rather attached to her over the course of the fic! Phooey. Well, it is all very effectively done.

<blockquote>Raleigh’s never told anyone, but he’s pretty sure he died in his escape pod after nuking the Breach.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Esca has always been able to see Death.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"When he finally registered the presence of a tail, Montparnasse knew with a sickening finality that it was too late." Or, Montparnasse screws something up beyond repair.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ragnar and Athelstan meet again, a decade since Athelstan was stolen from him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Javert isn't singing in Barricade Heaven, but it's not because he committed suicide.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"She'd had the most beautiful imaginable face..."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Gymont waits for Javert to come back from the Seine.</blockquote> ➤ Gymont being Javert's horse

<blockquote>There is a time, after each death, after each life as servant to the Revolution, when they are asked to choose where they will go next. Enjolras only ever makes one choice, but that doesn't make the asking of the question any less important</blockquote>

<blockquote>This is a Five Things Plus One story about ways that Marcus Flavius Aquila and Esca son of Cunoval might have met, and fortunately did not--and one way they did, which went rather better. Basically a set of depressing canon-era AUs plus some happiness.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Warrior's Apprentice AU. What might have happened to Miles, if Ivan had not missed that ill-fated courier ship on Beta?</blockquote>

<blockquote>A man, a very old dog, and the inevitable</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Doctor cannot die. So when he does, somebody will have to take the reins.</blockquote>

➤ somehow still happy despite being deathfic...

➤ does what it says on the tin

<blockquote>James Tiberius Kirk! they say again. Had you the chance, what would you change? It’s an easy enough question—Vulcan’s destruction, of course. Interesting, the light-people muse. And what would you give up, to change that? Anything, he thinks.</blockquote>