LINKDING

Summary: Harriet explores the unexpected landscape of marriage. ➜ yuletide fic - for the Lord Peter Wimsey books ➜ Harriet's POV on v-shaped polyamory negotiations, Harriet/Peter and Peter/Bunter ➜ the voice is so well done, of Harriet's whole pov but also every line of Peter's dialogue is dripping with the exact right kind of piffle he likes to talk, with all the casual references and so forth ➜ and the way they work out the relationship dynamics between the three of them, what is and isn't said, and what each of them is looking for, feels so right too! ➜ 10k words in length

<blockquote>When Valancy and Barney return to Mistawis, their island fastness is invaded by visitors.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Dashwood ladies are mixed race. Some things change, but others do not.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Help us,” my mother begged the rishi. “Pray to Sri Lakshmi, and ask her to take away this boon.” The old woman shook her head. “That might anger the goddess. You shouldn’t appear ungrateful.” After some discussion, the rishi devised a curse, one whose words I know by heart because my mother repeated them to me every night before I slept and every morning when I awoke: “If Rampalalakshmicharan turns an object into gold for another person, they must give him whatever he demands in return. If they don’t, the golden object will turn to ash and he will lose his ability forever.” It wouldn’t guarantee my safety, especially not while I was too young to understand the consequences of my actions, but it meant that no one could abuse my gift forever.</blockquote> ➤ retelling of Rumpelstiltskin from the Rumpelstiltskin character's pov, making him a sympathetic character

<blockquote>Well, Valancy thought, that was a proposal, no two ways about it.</blockquote> ➤ Odd but surprisingly fun! Don't know though that I'm fond of switching up who's in love first though, I don't think it makes sense for Barney to be that susceptible to love so soon without some time to settle into it, after his previous experience.

<blockquote>Rita Hanson is also experiencing a time loop on February 2nd, 2017 in Punxsutawney. But it's not quite the same.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Two cousins and former comrades in arms -- one in London to accompany his sister through her first Season, the other convalescing at home in Essex -- must re-acclimatize to civilian life as they encounter Polite Society, a plot to murder a marchioness, and, most dangerously of all, romance.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Mike meets Rome, he’s young, dumb, and full of himself.</blockquote>

<blockquote>How Anna Newland made herself at home in Chicago.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Snow White and Rose Red live peacefully in the forest with their mother, but their earliest memories are of a different life: a blighted homeworld and a journey through the stars. A winter visitor and a falling star lead them on a journey to discover the truth about their home and about their own mysterious powers.</blockquote> ➤ what an interesting and great scifi reimagining of snow white & rose red, that actually makes some sense of the weirdness of the story

<blockquote>Cassie and Nick go on a Division-sponsored road trip. Cassie kicks at a few things.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Napoleon escapes from Elba. Anne and Frederick take a pleasure cruise. There are pirates.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Diana is determined to fix Sophie's life . . . including her hatred of sex. Set in the time of The Yellow Admiral</blockquote> ➤A perfectly valid interpretation of Sophie's disinterest in sex and a very good fic based on that interpretation. ➤I'm glad I read it but I must admit I am still happier with my headcanon of her being ace.

<blockquote>When the new Lady Peter begins receiving threatening notes, she decides to solve this mystery on her own.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In another world, Geoffrey Tennant is a man haunted. No, wait. In another world, Geoffrey Tennant is haunted by a very specific ghost. This Geoffrey Tennant sticks to generalities, thanks.</blockquote> ➤ the tone and the voices and so forth are absolutely perfect, and if postcardmystery errs as usual too far on the side of sparse to the point of things being occasionally incomprehensible, at least for this fic it works

<blockquote>This is a new Shakespeare play I wrote. It's a kind of sequel to A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is revealed in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan books that when Barrayar went into its age of isolation literature was preserved in the oral tradition. Shakespeare was preserved very well, extremely well indeed, so well that when his works were compared with Galactic works after the recontact it was discovered that there were three new canonical plays.</blockquote>

➤ The complicatedness of the past Laurie/Jo stuff isn't quite done being complicated

<blockquote>When Calvin finally sorts out his feelings for Susie his timing is not great</blockquote>

➤ in which Archie saves a shipwrecked maiden, who turns out to be a pirate queen of awesome.

➤ Putting on Dr Faustus

➤ more-than-seven-years-ago fic

➤ A crossover of various Wrede 'verses