LINKDING

<blockquote>hdjngjjbg you guys earlier i was waiting at the bus stop just outside a bookstore and the owner, a little upper-middle aged man who gives off immense gay vibes, walked by on his way in and just. handed me a bag of fun size almond joy????</blockquote>

<blockquote>Julian wakes lying on his front, with a mild but insistent headache, an uncomfortably dry throat, and a dim sense that the bed he's in is not his own. And he's right: it's Garak's. Because he and Garak got possibly a little bit too drunk at Quark's, and then possibly also a little bit married on top of it, and there's just no way this is going to be anything but a disaster.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Mmf," said Shiro, catching crumbs with his robot hand, and then he chewed and swallowed and looked arrested. "Wow, that's really good." He looked around at them all and said, "Do you guys realise you're not talking when you do that?"</blockquote> ➤ I don't know who anyone is or what's going on but I am charmed and this is charming! ➤ (note: platonic team soulbond!)

<blockquote>Damen steals Nikandros' thunder. "I’m going to ride home tomorrow and begin preparations to ask for her hand,” Nikandros says, and Laurent smiles wider and says, “Oh, wonderful,” as Damen leaps to his feet with a thundering crash of chair against flagstone. “Nikandros!” he shouts, papers flying, arms wide, “This— amazing! She sounds amazing! Congratulations!”</blockquote>

<blockquote>Victor wishes he had a collection of Yuuri's memorabilia. Yuuri doesn't think there is any. Yuri Plisetsky knows better. Just a silly-sweet thing, set about six months after the show. Relationships in the background and the Otayuri is very slight.</blockquote>

<blockquote>‘You’re impossible,’ Yuri says, picking up a robe to wrap himself in. ‘I’ll get the 1989.’ Minami watches him go, and then turns to find Viktor watching him watching. ‘Ah,’ Minami says, and Viktor wonders for a second if he’s going to apologise. That’s happened before, and it always makes Viktor feel weird. He’s the one who commissions Yuri’s competition costumes, after all: how anyone could think he has a problem with other people checking out his husband, given that, is a mystery to him. He likes it, likes knowing that other people want what he, Viktor, has got.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Yuri wouldn’t categorically say that he’s moping. It’s just a crush, after all, and Yuri is fine. He is in control of his feelings. He hasn’t even checked Otabek’s Instagram account today yet! So, it’s completely unjustified that both Victor and Yuuri are holding this thing they aren’t calling an intervention for him. (Or, the Companion Fic to the one where Otabek pines for years.)</blockquote> ➤ Yuri's pov on the events of "But I'm Not There Yet"

<blockquote>There's two types of dates Victor and Yuri go on in St. Petersburg. Yuri likes them both.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It started out as a joke, socked feet on hardwood flooring, but somehow the pair skate became something much more for Yuri and Otabek in the end.</blockquote> ➤ the image of them doing SOCK PAIRS is just too amazing

<blockquote>Yuri convinces Otabek to get snapchat, just to send selfies of himself making faces at Victor and Yuuri. He gets more than he expected.</blockquote>

<blockquote>‘It is no good asking me,’ Laurence said at last, pushing the pattern-book away over breakfast, ‘I am not the one–’ Not the one who would be living with the result, he had been about to say. But they had hardly accepted Tharkay’s invitation as casual houseguests.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A new country, a new language.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It wasn’t that Jack was an unreasonable person, of course. He understood how things were supposed to work, that there was an order to them, and that deviations from that order led to problems that ranged from “Top NHL Draft Prospect Drops Out of Hockey, Drops in to Rehab” to “this might be a little hard to explain.” It was just that Eric Bittle made him forget that order.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Spock likes McCoy. McCoy won't take a hint.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It was the Queer as Folk that tipped him off. But for the four months leading up to it, Gautam just blamed his brother.</blockquote> ➤ In which Gautam has a friendship with a ghost in his apartment, who talks to him via movie titles pulled up on Gautam's netflix account

<blockquote>“I dare you,” Kent said, echoing himself through years and miles. How many times did shit go terribly, terribly wrong in Juniors because of Kent Parson looking at Jack that way and saying those words? “No way,” Jack said. “Aren't we a little mature for that now, Parse?” “I double dog dare you,” Parse said. And. Well. Or: Jack wakes up married to Kent Parson. It's annoying.</blockquote> ➤ it's neat to see a fic where the woke-up-married couple is not actually the fic's ship. treated with basically zero angst, which is also nice.

<blockquote>"You're the Resistance's best pilot, and he's wearing your jacket. Just go talk to him!"</blockquote>

<blockquote>It’s only when he finishes his dinner that Gumshoe thinks of his patrol car, left abandoned at the accident site. It looked pretty damaged by the pole; he can just imagine the chief yelling about the expense. At least the chief won't threaten to fire him again, not when Mr. Edgeworth apparently urged for him to be reinstated. Still, Gumshoe's delight at the thought of Mr. Edgeworth's support is squelched by the fact that getting a replacement car will take a while. He'll have to use the bus. Well, he thinks sadly, there goes all his noodle money. After the trial, Gumshoe realizes that his car is totaled and he has no way to get home. Powers offers to let him share his hotel room. Things don't exactly go as planned, but Gumshoe's not complaining.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The video, when they Skype, is clearer, though the sound is delayed on Carlos's side. Or rather, the video is premature; at Carlos's best estimate, he receives the visual transmissions ten seconds before they're sent. He's getting used to seeing Cecil's expressions in reaction to what he's just about to say.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In spring, the fort of Castellum is blanketed by a pollen that causes desire among those who breathe it in. This includes Alexios and Hilarion.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In an attempt to interest Esca in a game of latrunculi, Marcus suggests an unusual wager: the removal of clothing. The ensuing game is not quite what Marcus was prepared for. (Yes, it's another Strip Latrunculi fic!)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Every morning's the same. John wakes up before dawn, goes down to the kitchen, and starts making honey bread. Next come muffins, turnovers, cinnamon twists, single batches of different kinds of cookies, and a second batch of honey bread for later. He starts in on his deliveries at six-thirty. When he walks into Weir & Caldwell Accounting, the receptionist brightens and says, "Oh good, the bakery guy is here! Thanks!" That's basically all he ever hears her say. He doesn't mind. He only knows her name is Laura Cadman because she signs the receipt neatly.</blockquote> ➤ yet another of those delightful sga fics I read but didn't bookmark back in the day

<blockquote>“Let’s stop being awkward,” Lee decides. “Let’s kiss instead.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>Two productions of Twelfth Night.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In a quiet, private moment, Hilarion asks his lover for the story behind the dolphin ring he wears. Alexios obliges.</blockquote> ➤ (in which Hilarion ships Marcus/Esca/Cottia)

<blockquote>Lee's ready to come out, but an enchanted all-seeing camera might be ready to do the job for him first.</blockquote>

<blockquote> "Then I am glad we shall be shipmates," Laurence finally said, the faintest hint of color showing on his cheeks, but he appeared more pleased than horrified by the shock of having a familiar face onboard--so perhaps he didn't quite perceive what Tharkay meant by it.</blockquote> ➤ I seriously hadn't bookmarked this before? Sometimes my past self makes baffling decisions. Or - and more likely - I was totally intending to bookmark it and something got in the way of that happening. It certainly happens often enough today still that things don't get bookmarked when I fully intend them to. Sigh. I can but hope that one day I will be a fully responsible bookmarker.

<blockquote>Carlos is really terrible at taking care of himself. Fortunately, Cecil is happy to do it for him.</blockquote> ➤ or: cecil the service top

<blockquote>In which this whole dungeon thing really isn’t working for Kate Bishop, there are far too many nicknames from the Victorian era, socks are vitally important, and Clint insists he is Han Solo in this situation.</blockquote> ➤ clint/coulson content is minimal, and Kate is the pov character. yay!

<blockquote>When Carlos invented a spacetime machine and took off into the wild, unexplored territory of the future, this isn't quite what he was hoping for.</blockquote>