LINKDING

Summary: <blockquote>Your unfaithful husband has defected back to the USSR, and been returned to you in poor health, both physically and mentally, having apparently been tortured due to a clerical error. You don’t char-havechar- to pick up the pieces, but you are curious to see whether among the unwelcome emotions you are experiencing there hides the one you used to label ‘love’.</blockquote> ➤ fic about the musical Chess! ➤ Anatoly/Svetlana navigating their relationship in the aftermath, in all its complexities ➤ navigating the feelings and the realities of their lives and what they are and aren't capable of being for each other, but being connected on some level despite it all! ➤ second person pov ➤ 6k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>"Twins are the same" is a cliché. Or, Dorachar- Clifford, the early years. char-and Jean</blockquote> ➤ Fic for the two-person roleplay game Debrief (I LOVE DEBRIEF!!!!) ➤ featuring Dora and Jean, the wives of the player characters in the game, and I love how it makes them real people with their own complex relationship with each other! ➤ I also love what it does with footnotes, it is a GENIUS way of doing pov things for this particular canon ➤ ahhhh there are so many great details in the fic too! ➤ 3k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>In which Vucub-Kamé is worried, Hun-Kamé is in denial and Casiopea Tun is perfectly happy. (post-canon)</blockquote> ➤ fic for Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow ➤ such a fun pov choice to have it from Vucub-Kame's perspective! ➤ I loved the arguments between Vucub-Kame and Hun-Kame, and between Hun-Kame and Casiopeia! ➤ 2k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>For the first sentence meme on tumblr, rains-sleet-snow prompted: "The sea was deceptively calm: turquoise and untrustworthy." I can’t tell you why but this prompted a pirate AU. Sir Walter is appointed governor of Nassau and takes his two eldest daughters with him. Anne greatly enjoys her voyage until pirates attack, and their captain seems very familiar….</blockquote>

<blockquote>Liesel is not lucky. Liesel is disciplined, and careful, and her plans have redundancies on redundancies. The Scholomance is very motivating that way— it rewards her clarity and her dedication, and punishes remorse and indecision. It is, she frequently thinks, the most real version of the world that exists.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Something had happened which Cosette did not immediately understand—but she thought, obscurely, that it must have something to do with fighting.</blockquote> ➤ a truly impressive arm joe fic integrating the stuff from the fighting game beautifully into worldbuilding in the novel

<blockquote>Edward accompanies Nancy on her first visit home.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Irina is a far better tsar than Mirnatius could ever have hoped to be. Mirnatius adjusts to marriage.<blockquote>

<blockquote>Theoretically he knows it’s possible to bake bread using nuruk as the yeast starter, and he’s sure he’ll figure it out eventually, but making the bread is just the first step! Then he’s got to somehow recreate Italian seasoning from scratch, and that’s not even getting into the cheese— In the past, in the future, Bong-hwan and So-yon navigate their appetites.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Who the hell is this? D’you know what fucking time it is?” “Hi, Patrick. And yeah, sorry about the time. It’s just—I kinda need you to bail me out? Well. Me and like seven other girls.” “...Kat? Kat Stratford?” Or, five times Kat calls Patrick, and one time Patrick calls Kat. Post-movie.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Malcolm Connor is staring at my bike. It’s not for the first time. </blockquote> ➤ pre-ot3

<blockquote>Perhaps the Crofts' arrival at Kellynch Hall was not quite as innocently serendipitous as previously thought.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Besides, I wanted to give Rebekah another lesson in numbers. And now that he had suggested it, I wanted to teach her alef-beit, too. Perhaps I would paint her first page of letters with honey, to teach her that learning what she does not yet know is sweet.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Anne Elliot unexpectedly gets recruited to the Aerial Service. Frederick Wentworth is forced to wait and does not enjoy it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Maia Drazhar comes to the Ethuveraz to take his throne. Csethiro, like everyone else at court, is desperately curious about the pirate prince.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Five times Tom proposes to Susie, and one time she says yes.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Thanks for putting us up, sir, ma'am." “No problem.” Mike had given Lee the hairy eyeball of his professional evaluation when Vicki called the boys over; it took him approximately half a second, and by the time it was over Lee Nicholas had officially been judged and found worthy. Vicki had let it happen, because Mike was his own person—but so was she, and she’d judge for herself. Vicki caught Lee's eye as they both passed under the security mirror. "Call me ma'am again and see how long it lasts," she said, not joking. "It’s Vicki. But you're welcome; Tony's an old friend of ours, we’re happy to help out."</blockquote>

<blockquote>What if that day at Lyme had gone just a little differently?</blockquote> ➤ Anne falls instead of Louisa

<blockquote>For long it has been the work of a young couple, once finally married, to bring reconciliation between love and labor, between dreams and reality, and between words said before and after the happy event.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“If I wanted easy comfort, I should not have become a captain’s wife.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>Emmett realizes Elle has nowhere to go during her first Thanksgiving at Harvard, and rectifies the matter.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Letters from a Wren at a post she can't talk about to a typist at the BBC, and who they might be thereafter.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Daphne and Osgood, from Havana to Tijuana and back again.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It was just as well they called it the Forlorn Hope.</blockquote> ➤ Jenny before the events of the book

<blockquote>Kim likes kissing Mairelon quite a bit; it follows that she'd like other things, too. Fortunately Mairelon is willing to oblige.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The thing they don’t tell you about saving a person’s life by surrendering your own: it’s a binding contract. It means he’s yours, and you’re his. (Post-movie)</blockquote>

<blockquote>The game isn't done screwing up Alex Vreeke's life yet; at the end of the game, it dumps him back in Freak House...in 2016. It isn't long before he runs into Bethany Walker again, though, and has to figure out what his future is going to hold. Also, what on earth is a smartphone?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Csethiro Ceredin did not wish to be Empress, but she was willing to do even those duties she did not choose. As a scholar and noblewoman, she first must find out what that duty is.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Glimpses of Margaret and John Thornton’s first year of married life, through the seasons.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Everyone deserves a little happiness before they die.</blockquote> ➤ does a great job of Barney's pov