LINKDING

summary: The air conditioned chill of Wei Ying's office gave way to a wall of humid heat as soon as they left the building. The walk to the station was only a few blocks, but the back of Lan Zhan's shirt was damp with sweat by the time she went underground. "So what's the curse, exactly," Wei Ying said as they jammed themselves into a packed subway car. At lunchtime on a weekday during summer break. Lan Zhan steadied herself against the car door. "I believe it's bad luck." "Holy shit," Wei Ying said. "Did she curse you to step on a Lego?" ➤ modern au f/f mdzs wangxian fic ➤ lwj and wwx are academic colleagues; lwj comes to wwx for help dealing with a minor curse ➤ I love the glimpses into their broader world, the way cultivation is a part of modern life, the dynamics lwj has with her family, etc ➤ the way lwj being a poet affects the prose of the piece, and her point of view! ➤ and the dynamics between lwj and wwx are soooo good <3 ➤ 1.7k words in length

Summary: “Also,” Elizabeth says. “This place is hard on panties. You’re not supposed to laugh when I say things like that.” ➤ SGA fic featuring Elizabeth/Teyla ➤ I love how this combines soft affection, practical conversation, and comfortable sexuality all at the same time! ➤ so lovely ➤ 1k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>"Ask me something only I would know." You say this to your wife because you know you’re human. You can feel it in the familiar ache in your back, and the fear writhing in your guts. You feel it in the cold seeping into your bare feet from the kitchen floor. You know you’re real because you remember. You know I’m the duplicate. The imposter. The monster.</blockquote> ➤ a woman with a gun is faced with two identical people who both claim to be her wife ➤ it's a fascinating short horror story about shape-shifting monsters who can duplicate human forms ➤ told through the pov of a shape-shifter! ➤ 2k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Chu Wanning went up the stairs with the same hesitation with which she'd descended. Each moment was an opportunity to turn back. To be good. She unfastened the latch instead.</blockquote> ➤ rule 63 modern au f/f ranwan ➤ chu wanning has atticwifed taxian-jun ➤ cwn is SO horny for her wife (wives) but can't let herself just enjoy that ➤ CHU WANNING. ➤ 1k 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

Summary: <blockquote>"Shh, shh, I know. It's alright. I can keep a secret. Female gods ought to look out for one another." Ling Wen didn't put much stock in this sentiment herself—she didn't owe anyone anything, just because they happened to be women in the male-dominated world of Heaven—but she figured Shi Qingxuan might, and sure enough, Shi Qingxuan relaxed a little, nodding quickly. She really was tremendously easy to sway.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Outside, San Niang has long finished the quota of charity Xie Lian allotted her. She's drinking something from the bakery on the corner—probably one of their dreadful, bitter coffees. The wind is making a mess of her hair. Yearning plants a seed in Xie Lian's heart.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Lots of people have opinions on Li Shang's relationship with Fa Ping, later revealed as Fa Mulan, but most of them are missing something: Shang is General Li's daughter.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Rainbow refuses to be as plebeian as her sisters and brothers. They might have had to bedazzle and enchant their wives to keep them from gibbering in madness, screaming the whole way as they were dragged down into the depths, but Rainbow is better than that. </blockquote> ➤ don't know canon, don't need to know canon

<blockquote>Sha Hualing's wives aren't getting pregnant. What gives?</blockquote> ➤ written for the Discovery Channel Exchange, with whiptail lizards as the prompt

<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>Shen Yuan hates Shang Qinghua's sex scenes. Or so she claims.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Penelope, and her nights undoing her weaving. Athena has a special interest in clever Odysseus, but weaving is her domain just as much war is.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sha Hualing has always wanted to have a rival.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Gideon," Harrow said. "I ... " "You think I look hot in this body, and you want to apologize for every nasty thing you ever said or did to me, by preference by offering me whatever slightly demeaning and/or kinky sexual favors I desire?"</blockquote>

<blockquote>Fatima foresees a terrible future if Güyük becomes Great Khan, and Töregene makes a different choice: history diverges.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"There aren’t many clinical studies on how a slow-acting truth serum is going to affect the immortal, self-healing body," Copley had said the last time Nile checked. "Though it will be a fascinating record for science and history, if you want to ask questions and take some notes."</blockquote>

<blockquote>The day you arrive at the academy, you spend just three minutes outside the car before begging your mom to drive you back home. There are too many girls. They’re too loud. They’re laughing. Some of them are flying. Even if you weren’t a mindreader, you’d be overwhelmed.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Of how much Helen knows, and all the bad decisions that follow.</blockquote> ➤ Ooh I love this!

<blockquote>A wounded stranger, a snowstorm, a homesteader, and more...</blockquote> ➤ Female Wounded Stranger/Female Homesteader

<blockquote>Three girls that Cosette Fauchelevent never fell in love with, in the convent, in another universe, and in a carriage.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Bethany!” Martha says, and then they’re both giggling. “Can I ask something?” “Sure.” Bethany says, and Martha tilts her head to one side, a flush appearing across her nose. “Do you miss having a penis?”</blockquote> ➤ needs a proofreader for dialogue punctuation but still worth reading

<blockquote>Bethany and Martha go to a waterpark, make a video, and figure some things out about their future.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Do you, like, maybe want to go out and celebrate?” Elle’s face instantly lit up and that gleaming smile of hers spread across her face. “Yes!” she said. “I’d love that!</blockquote>

<blockquote>It wasn’t that she’d joined up because of Polly, per se. The notion had been percolating for some time. Somewhere between the coffee fiasco and the sack of beans delivered straight to her skull via pigeon, her military record had gotten a little … embarrassing. Mal did not generally do embarrassing. She was quite sure that she could do better the second time around. The question she’d been stuck on was how much difference that would make if Borogravia itself could not do better.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Amita rolled her eyes, because of course Daphne Kluger was a triple threat.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Bitty has a silver medal and the rest of her life ahead of her.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"The first time Amilyn Holdo meets Princess Leia, Amilyn is starstruck, just a little."</blockquote>

<blockquote>here's a little something i threw together to celebrate that I was there to see Leia and Holdo hold hands and share meaningful eye contact in the classic film Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Quantum Fountain pulls smoothly into the space station dock.</blockquote>