LINKDING

<blockquote>Dying, for a Jedi Master in the line of Yoda, was a gentle thing. or "Hi, Not Listening To This Anymore," Han said, appearing suddenly. "I'm dead."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Snow and Whitehead bring back miasma theory, and not before time.</blockquote> ➤ John Snow of the cholera epidemic, in an apocalyptic future, discovers the miasma (radiation) from the leavings of the Old Ones is what is causing illness

<blockquote>Alison may run a thingy mafia, but she's not sure where the Marshall got the idea that it qualified her to negotiate with a mafia mafia.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It turns out that Marius _can_ heal your wounds with words of love. Don't worry, it came as a shock to him too.</blockquote>

<blockquote>So Courfeyrac talked to Grantaire and Grantaire hooked him up with a man who loaned him about a dozen air guns modified to fire beeswax marking rounds, and some quilted canvas protective smocks, and then Courfeyrac cajoled all his friends into spending a week at one of his father's estates playing war games, which Courfeyrac still maintains was one of his better ideas.</blockquote> ➤ or: the Amis play paintball

<blockquote>In Which Cosette Fauchelevent allows her kitchen to be annexed by a group of rag-tag freedom fighters; or: How To Tell Les Amis Apart From A Very Long Way Away</blockquote>

<blockquote>So the thing is Miles wasn't the first Vorkosigan to have one golden year with his relatives on Beta, with the result that the first time Aral actually met Mrs. Naismith the first thing that came out of his mouth was "Oh hell, you're Lizzie," and Cordelia had a sudden revelation of the fact that her mother looked younger than her husband and said "Oh god, please tell me you didn't date," and Aral said, "Of course not, I was eight," and Mrs. Naismith said brightly "And I was the glamorous older lady who lived next door to his Grandma that he had an absolutely adorable crush on! Why didn't you tell me he was Livy's boy? He used to bring me cookies," and Aral decided he was just going to curl up into a ball and never come out, but at least after that there was no question that Miles was definitely going to Beta with his grandma for a year.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In 1823, in the small, bare yard behind the inn at Montfermeil, there was a wolf on a very short chain. M. Thénardier maintained this wolf so that he could tell people it was his wolf-brother, from his days fighting with the armies of the Emperor; and tell how it had helped to carry a great general to safety amid the carnage of Waterloo.</blockquote>

<blockquote>So here is 2,000 words unpacking this old Tumblr post about e/R soulmark AUs, which still gets reblogged now and again ,and gets the best angry retags. Will there be more of this story ever? IDK does the world really need lots of depressed, cynical rambling about the classist/racist/colonialist assumptions that underlie “words on the wrist” scenarios and then everybody dies?</blockquote> ➤ aww yeah my kind of soulmate/soulmark fic ➤ also on ao3 at http://archiveofourown.org/works/3394883 where it is titled "J'ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m'en reste"

<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>Enjolras sighed, and tugged at the lacy hem of the apron with two fingers, as if it was some strange foreign object from which he feared contamination. “This costume will not fool anyone. I did grow up in the country,” he said. “I know what a milkmaid looks like. It’s nothing like this.”</blockquote> ➤ with art by nisie

<blockquote>The news from M-sur-M, where all the men are mysterious, all the women are virtuous (especially the ones who aren't) and all the domesticated rodents have complicated inner lives.</blockquote> ➤ or: Simplice keeps up a correspondence with Baptistine

➤ as of last update, contains: "The Pirates! In an adventure with threesomes," "Part two: In which the pirates receive an invitation to breakfast" "Part Three: The Pirates Encounter A Monster from the Depths of Hell"

➤ HOW long have I had this open in a tab waiting for the day when I would come up with a useful way to tag this? GIVING UP NOW. ➤ The comments to this post have Melannen's various responses across a wide variety of fandoms to that meme where a person comments with a ship and you answer with a bit about how various tropes would happen with that shop.

<blockquote>This fic contains Old Men and squirrels. ...nope, that's basically it. That's the fic. Old men and squirrels.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It’s traditional “Write random AUs instead of your nano story” time here at chez melannen. So, to inspire Sath, here is the first 1000 words of the Les Mis SF AU-Fusion-Crossover that has been haunting me since I first got into Les Mis fandom. ENJOY. I feel like this one truly captures the spirit of Les Mis canon.</blockquote> ➤ or: the space au where Marius has been in stasis for a few hundred thousand years and when he's revived all his friends are dead

<blockquote>I think want I most want out of this version is Enjolras and bb!Vetinari being VERY INTENSE at each other about politics in Snapcase's Ankh-Morpork, and then not having any sex at all. Ever. (I actually have had all sorts of THOUGHTS about the political philosophies underlying much of Discworld for a long time, it kind of needs an Enjolras to be intensely republican about it, so much.) Meanwhile, wizzard!Grantaire tries to pick up Young Vimes at a tavern, but ends up just getting him very drunk while listening to him rant about his love for his bitch of a City, and begins to suspect he has a Type.</blockquote>

<blockquote>OKAY HERE IS THE NEXT ONE ENJOY (??)</blockquote> ➤ !!!

<blockquote>This wins the award for One I Most Wish There Was a Bunch More Of! C'mon, Javert's a Sentinel, Silent and Sure! And somebody really really needs to write the one where Combeferre's the Guide of the Amis! It's practically canon.</blockquote>

<blockquote>I was arguing with someone about whether it made sense to write the Avengers as fans, realized my argument came down to "but my headcanon! it makes sense!" and decided to write this fic instead. Feel free to borrow if you need your own headcanon! Key to the references, when necessary, at end of each chapter.</blockquote> ➤ the one where Thor learns the value of the skaldic arts and Steve snuck away from the world fair to go to the first ever worldcon

<blockquote>I decided it would be a branching-from-canon AU set before the first movie, and Admiral Kirk is so very bored by his desk job that he starts hanging around and donig most of his work in the Starfleet coffee bar in his headquarters building, and one of the poor yeomen who run it gets brave enough to tell him that if he's going to be down there all the time scaring the customers he should at least do some work, and he totally does.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ahriman is an avatar of the Lone Power. Richie Ryan is a young wizard on Ordeal. Methos is all too familiar with how that story ends.</blockquote>

➤ In which Ray dances in Maeve's court, and tricks a favour out of her.

<blockquote>This is what happened, the time the Master tried to steal himself a body, and it actually worked.</blockquote>

➤ modern day Holmes au ➤ (with CoCs! And clearness that the original Doyle stories did exist in this universe!)

➤ Methos invented courtly love. Oops.