LINKDING

summary: During her decades of service to the Imperium, Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan commanded a special place in the hearts of queer Barrayarans. Explore their stories today at the Vorbarr Sultana Capitol Museum. ➤ document fic about the vorkosigan saga, presented as a posthumous museum exhibit about Cordelia and her role in the queer community of Barrayar ➤ wonderfully done - I loved all the different voices we hear from, and the looks at different aspects of queer culture and history ➤ and the sense of queer joy and love and resilience throughout! ➤ 6k words in length. podfic available.

Summary: I don't know if this helps or hurts the current conspiracy theory, but Piotr Vorkosigan was involved in something similar. ➤ epistolary outside pov vorkosigan saga fic ➤ about someone from another planet who knew Piotr Vorkosigan solely in the context of his interest in horses ➤ very funny to see this pov, where everything Piotr is infamous for is simply irrelevant! ➤ technically a fic in a longer series (that's about Gregor being a fan of underground Komarran radio) but can be read without that knowledge ➤ 700 words in length

<blockquote>Hi, Greg.</blockquote> ➤ lots of fun and very interesting, consisting entirely of posts to a message board about komarran music, but doesn't ever actually like..... have an emotional arc about Gregor. but that's fine it's still real fun to read! Love that he gets to have a hobby.

<blockquote>Duv Galeni has a radio show. Gregor Vorbarra has a radio.</blockquote> ➤ the one where Gregor listens to subversive Komarran music

<blockquote>My wife promised me that she'd cosplay as Boat if I did Varadar Tau. Little did I know that it would be a journey of freeze frames, dim lighting, and bumping into Matt Schnee at the worst possible moment. A BarraCon 2008 report.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ivan had expected to have another month free before his mother returned from Komarr.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Kareen protects her children.</blockquote> ➤ the one where Gregor and Ivan are secretly twins, raised separately. ➤ Series consists of: The Emperor's Brother The Spare's Mother Secret Twin Not!Fic

<blockquote>Commander Vimes serves his Emperor, but he's sick of Vor privilege and Vor politics.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Gregor is going to save his mother.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“You didn’t tell Illyan the truth about your little topple off the balcony, did you.” [...] “...how did you know?” “He doesn’t talk about you with secret terror in his eyes.” - The Vor Game, Chapter 17 In another timeline, Gregor makes a different choice. (And Miles underestimates Illyan.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Illyan begins to suspect something is going wrong with his memory chip, he follows proper procedure and notifies his second-in-command.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"It doesn't matter how drunk I get. I don't forget any of it."</blockquote>

<blockquote>A moment from a Jackson's Whole childhood.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Lady Therese Vorkalloner," Esterhazy announces. He ushers her in and then makes a discreet retreat. Aral pushes himself up higher in the chair and looks at his ex-wife. He can't recall when he had last seen her. Their circles haven't crossed very much since her remarriage and, when they have, she's made it clear that they've already said all they've needed to each other. But she's not the first one of Aral's old enemies to come see him on his sick bed.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ivan had promised his mother that he wouldn't leave the Academy.</blockquote> ➤ I love Ivan so much

<blockquote>Ivan was not a fiendishly machiavellian five-year-old. But he did have a fiendishly machiavellian mother.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Imperial Auditors review a Time of Isolation murder case.</blockquote> ➤ Note that Miles' allusion at the end isn't actually supposed to be something the reader is able to follow, though the comments also have intriguing theories

<blockquote>Elena Bothari is eighteen years old when Tante Cordelia, no, Countess Vorkosigan tells her about her mother. They'd been talking about the plans for the trip to Beta Colony and Elena had brought up trying to find her mother. And then... and then she'd found out that everyone had lied to her for her entire life. That everyone had known where she had come from. That they'd lied to her every day they never told her. That they gave her to the man who tortured and raped her mother to raise as his daughter. Elena doesn't want to, or even need to, hear why they'd done it. This is Barrayar. It's about honor. It's always about honor. But no one had cared about her honor.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Miles Vorkosigan is seventeen years old, he enters Hassadar District University to become an astrocartographer like his mother before him.</blockquote> ➤ YESSSS

<blockquote>Gregor carries her mother's vorfemme knife.</blockquote> ➤ trans Gregor who must remain closeted

<blockquote>Ivan and Simon get drunk and talk about porn.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Cordelia's first day of snow.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After Vordarian, it takes time to rebuild, both buildings and trust.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Count Piotr is never permitted to be alone with Miles.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Pierre Vorrutyer leaves the countship to his cousin By -- if he can be persuaded to take it.</blockquote> ➤ Stands well on its own but I'd love to have more in this au!

<blockquote>Five occasions upon which Simon found it necessary to watch pornography for the good of the Imperium.</blockquote>

<blockquote>There are ordinary bad ideas. And there is making Byerly Vorrutyer head of ImpSec.</blockquote>

<blockquote>On the second day of Vordarian's Pretendership, Count Vorhalas has an unwelcome visitor.</blockquote> ➤ Love the ending, honorable enemies

<blockquote>Count Dono Vorrutyer gets curious about Escobar.</blockquote> ➤ (Dono doesn't ever get a conclusive answer. But he suspects.)

<blockquote>"ImpSec is my ... intelligence utility." - Miles in Diplomatic Immunity. Miles started young.</blockquote>