LINKDING

summary: <blockquote>“If you died,” Huaisang started, not knowing quite where he was going with this. “I mean, you did die, da-ge, but if someone had killed you… what would you want to happen next?” / In the wake of Nie Mingjue’s death, Nie Huaisang realises how much he’s been left in ignorance. How could the artsy little brother be left to run their ancestral asteroid-mining clan? What other secrets are hidden in his san-ge’s past? And how should he get revenge? Maybe having da-ge’s personality backed up on a server was supposed to help with all this. Maybe.</blockquote> ➤ mdzs space au about nie huaisang and his years-long project in avenging his da-ge ➤ a repeated theme throughout the fic is nhs visiting and talking to back-ups that had been taken of nmj's personality before death, and the way that this makes literal how HAUNTED nhs is by his brother's absence is just sooooooo good ➤ the worldbuilding is great, the things that are changed from canon due to this different context are great, the anguish and monofocus of nhs are great ➤ I AM ALL EMOTIONS ;_; ➤ 8k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Lucy could play pretend in the countryside with the Professor and Miss Plummer and Peter and apparently Edmund, who Lucy had said was meeting him in London where they could easily get Susan before they met up with Eustace and Jill at the junction and on to Professor Kirke's— What fun, all the Friends of Narnia in one place, and just after they all thought they'd seen a Narnian. Well, I wouldn't go again, not for the richest jewel in all Narnia, Susan decided. One goes where one's invited, and Susan was going to a party.</blockquote>

Summary: <blockquote>“I think the member coordinator saw our Chinese names and was like, ‘Better send all the Chinese Jews to these guys,’” Ning said. “All the better!” Wuxian said, grinning. “Double holiday for everyone!” / The Wens host Sukkot/Mid-Autumn Festival.</blockquote>

Summary: <blockquote>“Wait,” Wei Wuxian said, goggling at Jin Guangshan and not caring one bit that he was being incredibly rude by interrupting the other man’s announcement, nor the fact that he was implicitly challenging Jin Guangshan on his own home territory, being as virtually the entire cultivation world had returned to Lanling City for the feasting following the Phoenix Mountain hunt. “Wait, wait, I’m sorry, are you trying to tell me that you think Teacher Lan – and just to make sure we’re being precise here, we’re talking about rule-abiding, rigid, stubborn, boring old nerd Lan Qiren, the one who used to lecture me all the time about even thinking about something unorthodox – is the Lan sect’s secret demonic cultivator?!”</blockquote> ➤ the one where lqr becomes a demonic cultivator instead

Summary: <blockquote>Jin Ling didn't mean to commit zine fraud. Surely you get a free pass if you didn't know how taxes work?!</blockquote>

Summary: <blockquote>One naturalist, obsessed with ocean fauna. One newly hatched dragon, eating up the local sheep herds. What else is there to say?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Transcript of video interview of Dr. Jiang Yanli, textile historian at the California Institute for Magic and Cultivation.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mianmian sets her drink down on the floor with a clink. “If she’s that perfect, it’s no wonder she can put up with you two.” The room goes silent. Across the room, Wen Qing’s expression has morphed from this might be a crisis to this is absolutely a crisis and we need damage control, stat. Jiang Wanyin bristles, opens his mouth to say something mean in response. Lan Wangji is more worried about Wei Ying, who has gone very, very still beside him. He knows that Wei Ying’s relationship with his adoptive family is complicated—a web of obligations and resentment that might never be untangled; he knows that Wei Ying constantly felt like a burden, and that Jiang Yanli was the only one who offered unconditional affection. / or, lan zhan reflects on sibling relationships while wei ying scrambles to get his jiejie the perfect birthday gift</blockquote> ➤ unfinished, possibly abandoned, but the one chapter stands alone just fine

<blockquote>Lan Zhan finds A-Yuan lost in the railway station. He maybe finds more than he bargined for. Some mornings you leave for the office and come back with a son (and possibly a husband too). cw. lost child and the fears that surround that, but nothing bad happens to A-Yuan. Loss and grief lightly touched on.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Shen Jiu has heard many things about Wu Yanzi, none of them good. He thought he knew what he would be dealing with, studying under him. Only, Wu Yanzi does not match up to anything he had ever expected. (Written for ShenJiuGoodEndFesta2021)</blockquote> ➤ sy transmigrates into Wu Yanzi

<blockquote>Becky is the one who rescues Mr Carrisford's monkey, and so the one whom the Magic happens to instead.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Shang Qinghua intends to diverge the plot to leave the path open for the protagonist to go to Bai Zhan and become a peerless cultivator. When Luo Binghe shows up to beg entry to An Ding instead, based off nothing but one poorly thought out encouraging smile, Shang Qinghua can't really do anything but roll with it.</blockquote> ➤ peerless cucumber is the system and lbh becomes an an ding disciple

<blockquote>lan jingyi needs a fucking break by-jingY33T getting a phd in 3 things at one time sounded like a great idea when i started out | tired but hella wired | 21+ he/they views my own Location: probably the microfiche archives Website: uni.edu/cartographicfolklore Joined: August 2012 324 Following 5,678 Followers ------------- lan jingyi needs a fucking break by-jingY33T 6/8/22 LISTEN UP YOU HISTORY-LOVING FUCKS HAVE I GOT A WILD FUCKING THEORY FOR YOU: THE YILING LAOZU PROBABLY ACTUALLY EXISTED AND MAY HAVE BEEN A HUUUUUUGE SAPPY ROMANTIC: a 🧵 [1/?]</blockquote>

<blockquote>"I'm so tired," Wei Ying complains, tossing his hand down instead of Going Fish for the sixteenth time this game alone. "I can't even remember who's said what and now I'm losing, like, the easiest card game in existence." He looks tired, too. The spaces under his eyes are sunken, a bruised purple under skin that looks thin and stretched-out to the touch. Fragile. He's looked exhausted for days now, but even when they're curled up on the couch together, Wei Ying's head in Jiang Yanli's lap, humming an unrecognizable tune softly as she strokes his hair, he doesn't sleep.</blockquote> ➤ wwx going to his sister for a safe place when he's in a bad place with depression

<blockquote>Two months ago, Emperor Palpatine died, and his presumed heir passed the galaxy off to the newly-elected senator from Alderaan. She finds her second-in-command in the strangest of places.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Lan Qiren's sister-in-law disappeared with his nephew shortly before the birth of her second child. Twelve years later, Lan Qiren encounters some teens and tweens in a teahouse. . It’s impossible. He could be stepping back forty years to his own childhood, to that very face on his brother showing how to grip a sword for the first time. Lan Qiren makes a kind of choked noise, but thankfully it must be quiet enough that none of the young men hear. Either he’s going senile at the age of fifty or-- His head is ringing, but all he can think is that the young man is the right age. It’s been just over twelve years since his sister-in-law’s second pregnancy was announced, and here is this boy, with that nose and that chin and that brow, already furrowed, just like his father...</blockquote>

<blockquote>In one world, Rey grows up on Jakku, a scavenger girl with no prospects beyond a continuation of that scavenger's life. In this one, she still grows up on Jakku, but she does it on the back of a dragon.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It takes Nile an embarrassingly long time to realize that her thesis advisor is, like, legitimately evil.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Wei Sizhui sets out on his first solo trip and finds a best friend</blockquote>

<blockquote>Perhaps things never happen the same way twice, but some stories echo through the ages.</blockquote>

<blockquote>[A Star Wars fusion, Original Trilogy era.] Imperial Cadet Tybalt Capulet has known since they were children that his cousin Julia carries the Jedi curse just as he does, a secret that would lead to the family's downfall and worse, her death, if the wrong person found out. Unfortunately, Julia has never taken his warnings as seriously as she should have. When lieutenant governor Count Paris visits and takes an interest in young Julia, Tybalt must resort to any distraction he can think of to keep Paris from noticing anything unusual.</blockquote> ➤ sequel: Signal Disruption

<blockquote>In a universe where same-sex pairs skating is entirely normal, things turn out a little differently for our heroes.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After getting thrown out of the Watchers, Joe goes back to Chicago and meets Adam Pierson.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Laurence pauses. Looks around. He finds only the quiet woods, the crackling fire, and the energetic young dragon, now chewing contentedly on a fish-bone. “...Where is your captain?” asks Laurence, quietly. But the dragon, of course, does not answer.</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>Luke kills his father and Falls, and Leia becomes the last resort.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Rey never expected that Han and Chewbacca would keep coming back.</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>"If Vader captures you, if he threatens to torture or kill you, you tell him you're Padmé Amidala's daughter."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Accidentally bonded to a Japanese Water-Spitter, the navy decides to promote Laurence to a bigger ship and let Temeraire accompany him at sea. They do not, unfortunately, inform his crew of this, and misinformation abounds.</blockquote> ➤ omg ➤ (wip through ch 10, last updated in 2018)