LINKDING

summary: Jiang Leizhu had no intention of becoming the Peak Lord of Xun Shou Peak. But that was the curse of competency, she supposed. She had, when Ma Zelui first approached her about the position, turned her shizun down. Running a peak, after all, would take time away from her passion project. She was content to end up an ordinary master on the peak, with ordinary expectations of her contributions in time and effort back to the sect for its part in feeding and housing her. All her saying so had earned her was a smack to the head that left her ears ringing for the rest of the day, and a month mucking out the stables with the outer disciples, with the expectation she would move into the head disciple’s cabin at the end of that month with a properly grateful attitude. But at least it meant she got to meet Shang Qinghua. Even if that wasn’t how she got to know him. ➜ svsss fic, sqh/the beast peak lord ➜ the author is on a mission to write a fic for each of the peaks, about the peak lord's relationship with sqh, which is amazing. this one is for the beast peak, and canon provides no info about that peak lord! ➜ I love the character created for this role, her competencies and obsessions are great, and the kind of relationship she develops with sqh! ➜ deeply weird but oddly sweet, which is such a good approach to this ship <3 ➜ 10k words long

summary: Feng Xin is not a bow. He is brittle. He can't bend, and that means one day he’ll break. / Feng Xin during the fall of Xianle. ➜ tgcf fic about feng xin ➜ set during the time of xianle's royal family in exile, focusing on feng xin's relationship with himself, and with xianle, and with jian lan ➜ ahhhh it's so good and heartbreaking, feng xin's desperate core of instability and of want, beneath his firm loyalty and dedication 😭 ➜ I LOVE this ➜ 2k words long

Summary: It was easy to want what you couldn't have. Ever since her father had told her that she was destined for the royal harem, Jian Lan had been confident she'd make it to the rank of consort. But she'd also known that, in the meantime, she'd be having a passionate love affair with some unsuitable man around the palace. ➤ TGCF fic about the era after xianle falls to yong'an, when Jian Lan finds work in a brothel ➤ Jian Lan's perspective on her developing relationship with Feng Xin ➤ I love the sharpness, the awkwardness, the quiet ground-down miseries - and yet the grasping onto what hope and beauty and love that can be found in the midst of it all ➤ Jian Lan and Feng Xin are doing their best! I'm emotions ➤ and I love the gentle femdom that Jian Lan leans into when Feng Xin's women issues make it challenging for them to have sex <3 ➤ 5k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Even from the bar's parking lot, Lan Wangji could feel the presence of the spirits inside. This place was haunted. There was evidence of demonic cultivation everywhere from the wards to Wei Wuxian's bed. Lest he crawl back into it, Lan Wangji unsheathed Bichen and climbed on.</blockquote> ➤ mdzs wangxian modern-with-cultivation au where lwj is a trans man and wwx is a trans woman ➤ and ahhhh it just makes me so emotional about how GREAT wangxian are!!! ➤ wonderfully integrated characters/plot into a world they inhabit where friends and work and weird tastes in books are part of their lives, and also, lwj and wwx find each other and are immediately obsessed with each other, finding something in each other that allow them to best be themselves ➤ so many very funny details also, at the same time that it's many feelings ➤ 10k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>This is alarming; he has always been a solid cultivator, master of his senses and body and spirit, etcetera, as rigorously forged as his sword. Even in his deepest grief Sandu Shengshou will run in a straight line. It is not alarming. Hasn't he, hasn't the entire cultivation world, been through a shock? / Jiang Cheng attends Wen Qing's execution because he must. And then he learns about his passenger.</blockquote> ➤ after wen qing's execution, she ends up sharing jiang cheng's body! ➤ they're both dealing with so MUCH at this point in the narrative, and they're so careful with each other now that they are tied together like this, and it's so gorgeous ➤ 3k 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>The sensation of being ignored by someone playing with enough magic to blow up the castle had been outright soothing to Alex, by the end of it all.</blockquote> ➤ yessss ➤ a Tortall fic set during the era when Duke Roger is dead the first time, from Alex of Tirragen's pov ➤ omg I am OBSESSED with this minor canon divergence au that takes seriously the question of what Alex's motivations are ➤ the fucked up relationships between Alex and Delia, Alex and Roger, Alex and Thom! Alex's obsession with and failure to understand Alanna! Roger continuing to be horrible from beyond the grave! ➤ HELLO I AM HERE FOR ALL OF THIS ➤ 5k 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>In the wake of Shen Qingqiu's death, the Old Palace Master decides to take what he thinks is an opportunity. Luo Binghe makes him regret it.</blockquote> ➤ lbh is having a totally chill time of it having a breakdown after his shizun dies ➤ the old palace master of huan hua is ALSO having a totally separate chill breakdown about once again having a disciple under his control (....he thinks) who looks like su xiyan ➤ when their breakdowns intersect, no prizes for guessing who wins lol ➤ It's Time For Binghe Angst ➤ such a good view into what might have happened at the very beginning of the 5 year period where sqq is dead! ➤ 5k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>The life and times of Luo Mianmian; or, what happened after she secedes from Lanling Jin sect. As she suspected, the world is far bigger than the great cultivation sects.</blockquote>

Summary: <blockquote>In which Wen Qing and Jiang Cheng are very much not married, but everyone thinks they are. Or: 5 times Jiang Cheng gets injured and 1 time Wen Qing does</blockquote> ➤ sort of pretend relationship

<blockquote>Jiang Yanli leads Jin Zixuan away from his own birthday party to surprise him with something special. (it's her pussy.) (he loves it.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Have you ever… you know…” Shi Qingxuan fanned himself. He was lying on the bed while He Xuan worked, his scrolls spread out over the floor. “Been with a woman?” “What do you mean?” “You know. Intimately.” He Xuan hesitated. “…why?” “I’m just curious. We’re best friends, shouldn’t we know this kind of thing about each other?” “What possible use could you have for that information?” “What if you’re kidnapped by lustful ghosts? What if someone falls in love with you and asks me to mediate? What if your life is in danger and only the Martial Emperor’s virgin-detecting sword can save you?” “His what?” Shi Qingxuan laughed. “You know how the Emperor is about swords,” he said, which didn’t answer He Xuan’s question at all. “You won’t tell me? I’ll keep it a secret, I swear on my brother’s life.”</blockquote> ➤ beefleaf in feelings but it doesn't actually happen

<blockquote>The queen chooses differently on her wedding night; Eugenides, as ever, rises to the occasion.</blockquote> ➤ (chooses differently about running away. but only temporarily.)

<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>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>“She’s read more books than me! She’s told me that gender is a performance so many times. She knows theory words for things and she watches all those YouTube essays. Why is it a surprise to her that all of this stuff is work? None of it is natural or fun.” “None of it?” Wen Qing asks, her tone suspiciously neutral. Yanli narrows her eyes. “What are you saying?” Wen Qing’s eyes shift to the right, avoiding Yanli’s stare. “I guess I think some of it is fun.” Yanli sits back in her seat. “Huh.”</blockquote> ➤ ahhhhh t4t jyl/jzx is so good, and it's so believable the relationship jyl has with gender here!

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