LINKDING

<blockquote>Miss Gibson said, “In the spirit of truthful admission, Miss Bennet, I intend to spend some time devising the right question for you. If I may see you again?” Why did that sound strange? But she always sounded strange to people herself. And it was a familiar kind of strangeness, as if it were something she had heard before, only not like this. Mary, constrained by the principles of truth, could only admit that she would enjoy that very much.</blockquote> ➤ this fic is SUPER GOOD, I love everything about it!!!

<blockquote>Grandmother ruled Gir Niajra, and always had. Jummai felt certain this was so, mostly because it was impossible to imagine otherwise: anyone, anyone at all, seated so comfortably on that great golden throne except Grandmother? Anyone who could look or speak with such authority, to whom so many great and worthy people bowed down? No—only Grandmother. It had always been Grandmother, and it always would be. Then Grandmother died; and there was a war. (Or: Jummai is a princess without a throne—but she has no intention of leaving to others what is rightfully hers. She needs a wife with an army, and gets one; but her wife seems impervious to her tactical charm, she keeps making mistakes, and her cousin still wants her dead.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>How Bodhi Rook temporarily misplaced the two most important things in the galaxy, and how he found them again (with a little help).</blockquote> ➤ a fixit that still makes you cry is the best/worst. This was so good and now I care so much for Bodhi's family and for all of Jedha auuuuughhghg

<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>An Imperial officer loses a bet and has to get Darth Vader a present for Life Day.</blockquote> ➤ omg. from the premise I thought this would be silly crack but it's actually treated pretty seriously as a premise? ➤ Great outside pov perspective with these little indications of what the Imperial propaganda teaches about Jedi, for example. ➤ In which an imperial officer does research to figure out the identity of the pilot who destroyed the (first) death star.

<blockquote>Captured in battle and stuck in the Mede capital, Costis has given up all hope of seeing his country again. But Eugenides has a habit of turning up where he's least expected.</blockquote> ➤ cackling with glee over how perfect the characterization is throughout this fic. WHAT A GOOD.

<blockquote>Having just been given command of the Attacotti, Alexios finds himself traveling backwards in time to the very moment when he was put in charge at Abusina. He has the power to erase his greatest disgrace, but the consequences of doing so are nothing he ever expected could happen.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Jack is well acquainted with failure.</blockquote> ➤ I don't even know the tv show this is based on so I'm reading it as deeply au biblefic and holy frick this fic is just so amazing? I've already read it like three times already in the last few days

<blockquote>Hamlet in space, starring sensible and heroic Ophelia, genderswapped Claudius, clones Rosencrantz and Guilderstern and alien Fortinbras. (Alas, there are no sharks in space riding motorcycles, nor is there a time machine.)</blockquote> ➤ HOLY CRAP THIS IS AMAZING

<blockquote>In the two weeks following the events of Star Trek Into Darkness, a Starfleet officer tries to put Starfleet back together again. As a friend pointed out, anyone looking for a fic with plot and subtlety should probably not read this fic. It might work whether you liked the movie or not, but I wrote it in order to address multiple aspects of fail. It should probably be titled, Why I Love Starfleet.</blockquote> ➤ I cannot even with how perfect and right this fic is.

<blockquote>To the city of York, in the year of our Lord 1780, there came a young man who had fallen upon hard times.</blockquote> ➤ or, how Childermass came to work for Norrell. ➤ An interesting story, and somewhat unsettling and stick-in-your-head in the way that any good fic about the magic of JS&MN ought to. ➤ It's -- oh, I'm describing it wrong. But this fic is extremely effective at feeling utterly like a part of the world of JS&MN.

<blockquote>The first time she saw the boy across the classroom, Ah Lee knew she was in love because she tasted durian on her tongue. That was what happened–no poetry about it. She looked at a human boy one day and the creamy rank richness of durian filled her mouth. For a moment the ghost of its stench staggered on the edge of her teeth, and then it vanished. She had not tasted fruit since before the baby came. Since before she was dead. After school she went home and asked the aunts about it. “Ah Ma,” she said, “can you taste anything besides people?”</blockquote>

<blockquote>Arthur wakes up and realizes the last ten years of his life have been a dream. He is nineteen, and he can barely remember where he is. What he can remember is the ghost of Eames’ hands pressed down on his chest trying frantically to stop the blood flooding up around his fingers as Arthur died (as he woke up).</blockquote> ➤ Takes IT WAS ALL A DREAM and makes it AWESOME.

<blockquote>Stabbing, imprisonment, several awkward conversations, a diplomatic crisis, the art of rhetoric, and many cups of tea.</blockquote> ➤ And about as adorable as Vtinari is capable of being, and also Drumknott being awesome.

➤ Shakespeare nerdery, sexuality nerdery, history nerdery, academic nerdery, all wrapped up in one delicious package of fic and commentary on Richard II http://archiveofourown.org/works/2080239

➤ groundhog day story, only from the perspective of one of the people who's NOT aware of the loop. ➤ A fascinating look at the effects of looping for so long (Spike's been looping 80 years!)

➤ brilliant like all of frostfire's stuff. The hittite fic.

➤ adorable nerdy romcom. Zelenka's leaving Atlantis in two weeks. Rodney's very put out.

➤ the genderfuck story where something like a third of the population gets hit with an illness that causes them to change gender. ➤ Also has excellent insight into the Aubrey-Maturin relationship

➤ Sam follows Richard. It's what he does.

➤ modern-day retelling of 12 Dancing Princesses, on the back-from-war part of the mc

➤ Kirk being awesome, surprise!competence, and fun with languages https://archiveofourown.org/works/17969

➤ Putting on Dr Faustus

➤ Geoffrey's breakdown and madness

➤ Rodney and Radek can only communicate with each other -- to anyone else it sounds like duck quacks. ➤ While working to solve this problem they come up with the Absurdity Theory (which is TOTALLY AWESOME). ➤ And the whole time the two of them are adorable and geeky and awesome.

➤ The yeshiva AU

➤ A universe where the world is not divided by male vs female, but dom vs sub.

<blockquote>By the eighth time John Sheppard married Rodney McKay, they were old pros at the wedding thing, having weathered not only an Ouishan blood wedding, but also a twelve-hour Avalonian handfasting, a Malanese necklace exchange, and a Thurtu joining ceremony that invoked a fire god and featured seven kinds of cake.</blockquote>