LINKDING

Summary: Harriet explores the unexpected landscape of marriage. ➜ yuletide fic - for the Lord Peter Wimsey books ➜ Harriet's POV on v-shaped polyamory negotiations, Harriet/Peter and Peter/Bunter ➜ the voice is so well done, of Harriet's whole pov but also every line of Peter's dialogue is dripping with the exact right kind of piffle he likes to talk, with all the casual references and so forth ➜ and the way they work out the relationship dynamics between the three of them, what is and isn't said, and what each of them is looking for, feels so right too! ➜ 10k words in length

Summary: Richard Merrill has a conversation with his mother. ➜ yuletide fic - for Mairelon the Magician ➜ set mid-canon, a conversation between Mairelon and his mother about the realities of Kim being out in society and the male attention she'll attract ➜ Mairelon's oblivious focus on Kim's magical education and inability to follow where his mother is going with this line of questioning is so fun and so him ➜ what a cute and fun fic! ➜ 1k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Your unfaithful husband has defected back to the USSR, and been returned to you in poor health, both physically and mentally, having apparently been tortured due to a clerical error. You don’t char-havechar- to pick up the pieces, but you are curious to see whether among the unwelcome emotions you are experiencing there hides the one you used to label ‘love’.</blockquote> ➤ fic about the musical Chess! ➤ Anatoly/Svetlana navigating their relationship in the aftermath, in all its complexities ➤ navigating the feelings and the realities of their lives and what they are and aren't capable of being for each other, but being connected on some level despite it all! ➤ second person pov ➤ 6k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>On the road from Vilna to Lodz, Yudah and Bluma find shelter for a night.</blockquote> ➤ fic for the Yudah Cohen series of short stories by Rebecca Fraimow ➤ ft. exactly what the title describes ➤ and ahhhh what a DELIGHTFUL story, a perfect little addition to the world of Yudah Cohen that feels exactly right! ➤ it feels like Yudah Cohen and his family and the people around him are the kinds of people about whom endless stories COULD be told, and this is simply another absolutely correct story about his life. ➤ 2k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>"Twins are the same" is a cliché. Or, Dorachar- Clifford, the early years. char-and Jean</blockquote> ➤ Fic for the two-person roleplay game Debrief (I LOVE DEBRIEF!!!!) ➤ featuring Dora and Jean, the wives of the player characters in the game, and I love how it makes them real people with their own complex relationship with each other! ➤ I also love what it does with footnotes, it is a GENIUS way of doing pov things for this particular canon ➤ ahhhh there are so many great details in the fic too! ➤ 3k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>In which Vucub-Kamé is worried, Hun-Kamé is in denial and Casiopea Tun is perfectly happy. (post-canon)</blockquote> ➤ fic for Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow ➤ such a fun pov choice to have it from Vucub-Kame's perspective! ➤ I loved the arguments between Vucub-Kame and Hun-Kame, and between Hun-Kame and Casiopeia! ➤ 2k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Her wedding to Philip is the happiest day of her life. Then why, Louise wonders, does she have to keep reminding herself of that?</blockquote> ➤ post-canon fic from Louise's perspective! ➤ Philip is haunted by the ghost of Rachel! ➤ Louise struggles to keep up the mindset that of COURSE she must be happy to be married to Philip! ➤1k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>For the first sentence meme on tumblr, rains-sleet-snow prompted: "The sea was deceptively calm: turquoise and untrustworthy." I can’t tell you why but this prompted a pirate AU. Sir Walter is appointed governor of Nassau and takes his two eldest daughters with him. Anne greatly enjoys her voyage until pirates attack, and their captain seems very familiar….</blockquote>

<blockquote>Those Who Seek to Find a Way to Leave Their World Behind... and Those Who Seek to Return</blockquote>

<blockquote>Liesel is not lucky. Liesel is disciplined, and careful, and her plans have redundancies on redundancies. The Scholomance is very motivating that way— it rewards her clarity and her dedication, and punishes remorse and indecision. It is, she frequently thinks, the most real version of the world that exists.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Valancy and Barney return to Mistawis, their island fastness is invaded by visitors.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Dashwood ladies are mixed race. Some things change, but others do not.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Something had happened which Cosette did not immediately understand—but she thought, obscurely, that it must have something to do with fighting.</blockquote> ➤ a truly impressive arm joe fic integrating the stuff from the fighting game beautifully into worldbuilding in the novel

<blockquote>Edward accompanies Nancy on her first visit home.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Irina is a far better tsar than Mirnatius could ever have hoped to be. Mirnatius adjusts to marriage.<blockquote>

<blockquote>“Help us,” my mother begged the rishi. “Pray to Sri Lakshmi, and ask her to take away this boon.” The old woman shook her head. “That might anger the goddess. You shouldn’t appear ungrateful.” After some discussion, the rishi devised a curse, one whose words I know by heart because my mother repeated them to me every night before I slept and every morning when I awoke: “If Rampalalakshmicharan turns an object into gold for another person, they must give him whatever he demands in return. If they don’t, the golden object will turn to ash and he will lose his ability forever.” It wouldn’t guarantee my safety, especially not while I was too young to understand the consequences of my actions, but it meant that no one could abuse my gift forever.</blockquote> ➤ retelling of Rumpelstiltskin from the Rumpelstiltskin character's pov, making him a sympathetic character

<blockquote>Frederick Wentworth has always loved to skate, but skating has not always loved him back. Especially when it came to his Olympic dreams and pairs figure skating career with Anne Elliot. (Persuasion Olympics figure skater/ hockey player AU.) TW: for some mild modern racism-in-sports talk, and Louisa's canonical head injury.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Theoretically he knows it’s possible to bake bread using nuruk as the yeast starter, and he’s sure he’ll figure it out eventually, but making the bread is just the first step! Then he’s got to somehow recreate Italian seasoning from scratch, and that’s not even getting into the cheese— In the past, in the future, Bong-hwan and So-yon navigate their appetites.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Who the hell is this? D’you know what fucking time it is?” “Hi, Patrick. And yeah, sorry about the time. It’s just—I kinda need you to bail me out? Well. Me and like seven other girls.” “...Kat? Kat Stratford?” Or, five times Kat calls Patrick, and one time Patrick calls Kat. Post-movie.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Malcolm Connor is staring at my bike. It’s not for the first time. </blockquote> ➤ pre-ot3

<blockquote>She had not taken her hand from his throat. Harriet, as an author of detective fiction, had given no small amount of thought in her life to the properties of the human jugular. Even before her wretched time in Wilvercombe, she could have explained exactly where to cut to deprive a man of his life’s blood. She traced that path now with the edge of one fingernail. Peter’s eyes did not leave hers, and he did not move an inch, holding himself utterly defenseless. Harriet was the one who swallowed.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Perhaps the Crofts' arrival at Kellynch Hall was not quite as innocently serendipitous as previously thought.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Besides, I wanted to give Rebekah another lesson in numbers. And now that he had suggested it, I wanted to teach her alef-beit, too. Perhaps I would paint her first page of letters with honey, to teach her that learning what she does not yet know is sweet.</blockquote>

<blockquote>An effort to capture this Tumblr post in a vid.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Anne Elliot unexpectedly gets recruited to the Aerial Service. Frederick Wentworth is forced to wait and does not enjoy it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Well, Valancy thought, that was a proposal, no two ways about it.</blockquote> ➤ Odd but surprisingly fun! Don't know though that I'm fond of switching up who's in love first though, I don't think it makes sense for Barney to be that susceptible to love so soon without some time to settle into it, after his previous experience.

<blockquote>My new obsession. This movie is amazing and it gets better with each viewing. Johnny Flynn might be the best Mr Knightley yet.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Lady Russell and Captain Wentworth meet for the first time after she learns of their re-engagement.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Preparing for the Emperor's wedding, everyone has some things they need to learn about.</blockquote> ➤ Consists of "A Complete Education", which is marked complete, and "Continuing Education" which is a WIP. ➤ A Complete Education ends on a sort of endingish note but with lots you want to still see explored. Continuing Education is very clearly just....stopped partway. It seems to be abandoned, from the author's latest reply in the comments section, which is too bad. ➤ But the series as a whole is truly excellent, really enjoyable, with all the various character interdynamics, that it's worth reading regardless.

<blockquote>Maia Drazhar comes to the Ethuveraz to take his throne. Csethiro, like everyone else at court, is desperately curious about the pirate prince.</blockquote>