LINKDING

Summary: <blockquote>While Alanna is King's Champion, Jonathan forbids her to issue personal challenges--but what happens after she retires? (Alanna challenges Wyldon, that's what happens).</blockquote> ➤ fic for the Tortall books, in epistolary form ➤ Alanna was forbidden from challenging Wyldon to a duel because she was king's Champion, but obviously as soon as she's not anymore, she goes for it ➤ various people react ➤ it's perfect. it's delightful. it's everything. ➤ 2k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>An exploration of how different parts of Tortall dealt with the famine caused by the Dominion Jewel and Roger's earthquake</blockquote> ➤ Tortall fic set in the Alanna era, about the ways different parts of the country deal with the famine, in the year after the use of the dominion jewel ➤ I liked the realistic look at what the differences would be in how hard the famine is depending on the main sources of food, eg in Pirate's Swoop which can look to the sea, vs Trebond with its field crops, and the people who have to go hungry vs the people who merely have to eat less deliciously than usual. ➤ I would have loved the inclusion as well of a place where the people in charge don't care as much about the well-being of the commoners through the famine, but I understand why the fic didn't want to go there! ➤ 2k words in length

<blockquote>Thom survives the Coronation Day attack. It's hard to say whether this causes more problems for him or Alanna.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Mindelan, it may be that the best thing said of my tenure is that you were my student. Should that be the case, I am the wrong man for this post. I did all I could to get rid of you. Your probation was wrong. You know that, I know it. I was harder on you than any lad. Thank Mithros I remembered my honor and let you stay when you met the conditions—but it was a near thing. Next time, I might not heed the voice of honor." -- Wyldon of Cavall (Squire)</blockquote> ➤ The AU where Wyldon kicks her out after her probationary year but she sticks around to keep learning anyway

<blockquote>After Kel breaks orders and invades Scanra to rescue her Haven civilians in Lady Knight, she is found guilty of treason in wartime. She escapes with the help of friends and does the only thing Kel could ever conceive of doing in that instance-- she keeps fighting Tortall's war. This is Kel, however; she is always willing to fight her battles alone, but people will always rise up to fight alongside her.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Alanna and Neal investigate rumors of bandits. Along the way, Alanna is confronted with the consequences of the decision Jonathan made at the commencement of his reign and has to square the need to punish the families of conspirators from a coup twenty years old against her sense of honor.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A young Daine struggles to understand why her friends don't want to play.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In Tortall and in the Yamani Islands, children play different games.</blockquote>

<blockquote>But Buri still refused the offer of rooms by Thayet and Jonathan’s apartments, and she resigned her post as bodyguard the day after the wedding. Only Myles raised an eyebrow at that, though he wasn’t the only one who knew to do so; Thayet merely bit her pomegranate-red lip and accepted what she couldn’t change. Looking back, Buri knows that’s when Thayet realised Buri loved her, because it takes a very special kind of bitterness and grief to sever bonds like that one between a K’miri warrior and her liege, bonds tied in blood and oaths. For Buri and Thayet, nothing other than the bite of unrequited love would have been enough.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Being Queen means a lot less time to read, amongst other things.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After fleeing east from war-torn Sarain, Buri and Thayet return triumphant to the K'miri clans with the Dominion Jewel. But while its powers protect them, the Jewel also makes them a target.</blockquote>

<blockquote>On her thirtieth birthday, Fazia finds a strange stone.</blockquote>

<blockquote>One is a beginning; two, opposition; three, instability; four, death. But five is justice, six is unexpected, and seven makes things complete again. Seven days of Kalasin's life.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“And in any case, it’s not treason to notice that your sovereign has faults,” Raoul said. “It is when an Eldorne does it,” Lerant muttered.</blockquote>

<blockquote>No one meant for Dove to be queen, but they all have to learn to deal with it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>This is so unimaginably silly. Neal teaches Roald how to enjoy dick jokes, and everyone goes home happy.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Dom said that Neal had written to him so often about Kel that it felt like he knew her. These are some of the exchanges Dom and Neal have between the Immortals War up to the start of The Protector of the Small</blockquote>

<blockquote>Alanna can't be a knight, but she'll settle for being a hero.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Alanna goes to the Mother of Mountains convent, but chooses life as a guard at the Temple of the Great Mother Goddess over marriage and life as a lady. Six months after taking up her duties, she unexpectedly encounters an intruder on the Temple's grounds.</blockquote>

➤ Snapshots of fic trying to figure out Taybur Sibigat

<blockquote>All hillmen are traitors, and you always knew this.</blockquote> ➤ Or: giving Alex charaterization and motivation and backstory and a sympathetic viewpoint

<blockquote>Kel Mindelan has a dream. Tortall/Dinotopia fusion.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It is said in the high stony reaches of Ekallatum where none live but goatherds and miners that the Great God Mithros was born in a cave. A slightly AU story of how Mithros might have come to be, and of the fall of Ekallatum, set in the Carthaki equivalent of the Bronze Age. T for Doomed Last Stand violence and character death, although you won't find any canon characters here besides some of the gods.</blockquote>

<blockquote>George finds Arram Draper juggling in the snow.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Moonlight questions a kitten.</blockquote>

➤ Thom thinking about him and Alanna; creepy one-sided twincesty stuff.