LINKDING

Summary: <blockquote>Never let it be said that Bertie Wooster will abandon a pal in need, even if that pal is a woman who is temporarily in possession of his body and he doesn’t fully understand what’s going on.</blockquote> ➤ a delightfully charming Jeeves/Wooster story wherein Wooster is bodyswapped with Honoria Glossop ➤ I loved the original character Tilly and I was SO cheering on the Tilly/Honoria ship! ➤ and of course Wooster and Jeeves are beautifully themselves as always ➤ 6k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>i don’t know, writing a paper with her could be… fun? i mean, what’s the worst that can happen? / From: leldiwanyby-uea.edu To: mwright21by-kcl.edu Subject: Re: Re: Re: Fuck you M– If you think we’re citing fucking Samuel Kline[...] [three paragraphs snipped – click to expand]</blockquote> ➤ fic about the made-up film Goncharov, by which I mean, fic about the made-up academics who study the real-in-their-world film Goncharov and have fights about it in academic journals, and also write fic about it ➤ told entirely via text messages, ao3 comments, academic paper abstracts, and emails ➤ yes obviously it's enemies-to-lovers ➤ it's completely delightful, I love everything about it ➤ 6k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Welcome to my seminar, Self-Care Secrets for Immortals! Few foxes make it to over nine hundred years old in this day and age, but you’ll be one of them with four of my time-tested, battle-honed secrets.</blockquote> ➤ the dangers of immortals falling in love with mortals

<blockquote>Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe are happily married, and no one is more surprised about it than Shen Qingqiu. Not that he’s not pleased with it! He is, is fact, quite pleased. Happy, one might say. Marital bliss, etc etc. But in terms of consistency, he just… really assumed that the protagonist was straight. All those women, seduced and bedded; wasn’t Binghe quite the ladykiller in the original? It just doesn’t seem logical that he would fall in love with anyone but a woman. Ah, but these are the mysteries of the universe. How strange, that the protagonist ended up with a man... unless...? (Postcanon, bingqiu discover they are both lesbians)</blockquote> ➤ oh my god sqq

<blockquote>Shprintze, you nudnik, Before you ask again, I’ve gotten all your letters scolding me for not writing—and Esther and Sarah’s too. Well, I’m sorry about it, but with one thing and another, my cousin’s kid crying all the time on the one side of me and Gitl crying all the time on the other, I haven’t had two wits to rub together, let alone two words to put onto a page for you. Anyway, what’s the point of going on a visit only to spend all your time talking to the same people you’d talk to at home? But everything’s calm to the point of boredom now, so I can spare a little time to catch you up, and then you can share this letter around and catch up everybody else.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Before she touched it, Leora closed her eyes and whispered a small truth to the golem: "I googled my foot pain thing, and I think I might be developing bunions?" It was a tiny truth -- nothing like enough to breathe a golem to life -- but it was still important to be respectful. She might not come from a long line of golemkraft practitioners, but some traditions were there for a reason.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Hippolyta," Lois said, really really calmly, "I think there might have been a slight misunderstanding about why I'm here."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Silas Octakiseron might be the only person that Gideon Nav hates more than she hates Harrowhark Nonagesimus. So when Harrow needs a scene partner to show him up, Gideon can hardly refuse, even if it means getting cozy with her two best nemeses: Harrow and iambic pentameter.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A fic based lightly on a reddit post— "I (21f) have a crush on my roommate (20f). I can't figure out if she actually likes me back or not or is just being friendly. She cooks for me and knows all my favorite foods, and brings me lunch. She buys me anything I want, and her family all joke about our wedding. I once fell asleep on her lap and when I woke up she was stroking my hair and I almost had a stroke. I can't figure out if she's flirting with me or not. Help!"</blockquote> ➤ do I know anything about any of these characters? No. Was I charmed anyway? absolutely

<blockquote>Shuri's paper is refuted in a subclause of a footnote. This means war. (And somehow eventually takeout and fully-funded projects and kissing.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>An intergalactic traveler and her small purple best friend, another intergalactic traveler and her small blue best friend, a spaceship crash, a missing cat, and a little bit of trouble. (Okay, a lot of trouble.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>It takes a few decades to really get to know a person. Especially when they keep changing; especially when they're unsure of themselves.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Peace was declared and Captain William Frederick is back home with his loving sister in his comfortable home in Wiltshire. Would that the French had got him.</blockquote> ➤ a fic about the Nemesis comics, in a world in which a nemesis is the most important and longed-for type of relationship

<blockquote>features trade routes, magical fertilizer, and one girl's centuries-long effort to impress a woman who is already in a committed relationship with a boat.</blockquote> Yeah!!!! I've already read it twice since I discovered this story yesterday. the fantasist no longer has the story up so it's now posted on the author's website https://rebeccafraimow.com/2023/08/20/suradanna-and-the-sea/

<blockquote>Patty took Abby by the arm and gently towed her into the booth, where they could pretend to have some privacy. Holtzmann was warming up her soldering iron and Erin was trying to teach Kevin how to use his iPhone contacts: the privacy was mildly less illusory than usual. "What's the deal with the three of you?" "We're scientists?" Abby said. "Unless you meant to include Kevin." "Bless that child, no." Patty gestured from Abby to Holtzmann (gleefully affixing things to other things with molten metal) and then to Erin. "I mean, this situation." "We all believe in ghosts?" Abby tried. "We all have Ph.D.s?" Patty looked up at the ceiling for a moment. "Is this some kind of Sisterhood of the Traveling Lab Coat or do you have a history?" "None of us wear lab coats," Abby said.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Patty. Is on the third floor. All of the time.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Jyn's hateful, she knows she is, but it's not often she meets someone for the first time and hates them on sight, hates so hard her fists clench and her jaw grinds. Leia Organa, though. Jyn takes one look at her and feels her blood pressure rise. She's soft and smooth and rounded with curves, every line of her screaming rich and powerful and too good for you, Erso. Jyn's trying to unlearn how to punch her way out of things she doesn't like but she would, she'd punch Leia in the mouth and drag her straight down into the dirt if she could, and she feels like it's written all over her. She doesn't expect Leia to see her. But the Princess' eyes land right on her, down in the ranks, and Leia curls her lip, just a little, and Jyn thinks, fuck, because Leia Organa clearly hates the sight of her about as much as she hates Leia Organa.</blockquote> ➤ I am delighted by this fic's existence (and it is very well executed too!)

<blockquote>Men who want to dress as women and women who want to dress as men know the person to ask is a seamstress called Musichetta. This unusual trade brings Musichetta in contact with Manon Lesgle and Anne Joly, two young women who wish to live as gentlemen in order to pursue their educations. But it's 1823: the King is dying, France is changing, and there is more to learn about the world and about themselves than either expected. Gender-swapped Joly and Lesgle AU. Written for the Les Mis Big Bang 2016.</blockquote> ➤ canon-era crossdressing lesbian poly! WHAT A GOOD.

<blockquote>Bar is a normal fangirl who begins to question her sanity after reading the entire works of erotic author Chuck Tingle over the course of one month. But when her hot lesbian sanity shows up in her bedroom and shows her the true cosmic significance of pounding butts things take a turn for the erotic. This erotic tale is 2,300 words of jokes and sizzling human on anthropomorphic personification action, including anal, fisting, and cunnilingus, but mostly jokes.</blockquote> ➤ the fanfic the tingleverse has always needed, opening up the joys of anthorpomorphic personification sex to more than just dudes

<blockquote>In which a young innocent maiden falls prey to the wiles of a seductive licentious vampire. Or is it the other way around? (AKA an unholy fusion of Carmilla and Dracula, Discworld-style)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Rey discovers the ladies of the resistance.</blockquote>

<blockquote>'Fanny was the mute earth to Mary's leaping fire, the gnarled oak to her fluttering songbird, the mirror-bright millpond to her restless waves. If one could somehow, with propriety, squeeze both ladies into a single body, the resultant heroine would be beyond anything shewn by Mrs. Radcliffe! She might paddle down the Amazon, contest a knotty theological point with the Pope, battle venomous water snakes with a hat pin and a bottle of hartshorn, and sink into a dead faint at the villain’s merest glance, as if he were some species of basilisk!' Or, Mansfield Park meets Northanger Abbey</blockquote> ➤ AMAZING, Mary-centric, Mary/Fanny with caving adventures and great patische voice, though I fear I do not know the canons in question quite well enough to appreciate everything as much as I ought.

<blockquote>Carol likes Jess a lot. That's not the weird part. The weird part is that Carol likes Jess a lot more when Jess isn't in the room.</blockquote> ➤ or: the one about Jess's terrible pheromone powers

<blockquote>A for effort, H-A-W-K-E-Y-E, Kate says as soon as she frees herself from her harness. They really need to come up with a real sign instead of just fingerspelling all the time. Maybe a miming drawing a bow, then pointing to the eyes. Something cool. You have to get over your boner for that boomerang arrow. "Did you just sign 'angry penis'?" Sam says, distracted from his unresolved sexual tension with Natasha. "Whatever," Kate says. She flips her hair. "I'm learning."</blockquote>

<blockquote>As a /supervillain /supercriminal contract worker with a morality deficit, Clint Barton leads a glamorous life. You know, stolen cars, dangerous women, a really confusing relationship with a meddling do-gooder, the works. It's pretty awesome. Except for, uh, medical bills, the mob, and being on the run all the time. That part isn't all that awesome. (A supervillain AU where Clint shoots arrows at people and gets beat up a lot. So, not really that much of an AU.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>What if Cinderella's adventures at the ball had gone a slightly different way?</blockquote> ➤ what a lovely queer retelling of Cinderella!