LINKDING

<blockquote>Amir Tarabi is scrubbing himself down in the misting rooms the first time he meets Mani Rizk. The mister in Beirut-4 is being upgraded, the zone’s residents using Beirut-3’s misting rooms on rotation, so it is especially crowded that day. Amir avoids making eye contact with the bathers in adjacent patches with rigorous politeness. At sixteen, he’s already spent a hundred personal growth hours thinking about civic decency, appreciates the role of uninterrupted private rituals in fostering social cohesion—</blockquote>

<blockquote>Horatio returns from Russia suffering the aftereffects of typhus. Caring for him may be too much for Barbara to handle alone.</blockquote> ➤ I like how the fic characterizes Barbara, and her relationships with Horatio and with Bush

<blockquote>Spiraling down. The Wraith are many and the Daedalus is just one ship. Things go very, very badly.</blockquote> ➤ Very effective use of structural choice

➤ in which the main character regularly smuggles information across a Wall in a fantasy dystopia, and ends up getting roped into smuggling a couple of people across. I had so many feelings????

<blockquote>Men who want to dress as women and women who want to dress as men know the person to ask is a seamstress called Musichetta. This unusual trade brings Musichetta in contact with Manon Lesgle and Anne Joly, two young women who wish to live as gentlemen in order to pursue their educations. But it's 1823: the King is dying, France is changing, and there is more to learn about the world and about themselves than either expected. Gender-swapped Joly and Lesgle AU. Written for the Les Mis Big Bang 2016.</blockquote> ➤ canon-era crossdressing lesbian poly! WHAT A GOOD.

<blockquote>Grandmother kept her cloth of winds in the orange room, a storage chamber painted in fire and lit to a translucent glow by dozens of floating candlebulbs created by the older women’s magic. As a small child, I remember hiding between the legs of a polished pearwood commode, safe and stuffy-warm behind the ancient embroidered material that draped it, hiding—just to be sure—also behind the veil of my hair. Grandmother-nai-Leylit would come in always just before the afternoon meal, and her smell—saffron and skin and millet dough—spread through the room like perfume. Her shuffling steps rang for me a music more exalted and mysterious than the holy sounds of the dawnsong that drifted each morning from behind the white walls of the men’s inner quarter.</blockquote> ➤ interesting gender-related and relationship-style worldbuilding. Contains a trans character and an autistic character, though neither are the main character. ➤ I really enjoyed it, and cared about the characters. But I feel like the ending isn't quite enough of the ending; I kind of wanted to read a novel about this!

<blockquote>Snow White and Rose Red live peacefully in the forest with their mother, but their earliest memories are of a different life: a blighted homeworld and a journey through the stars. A winter visitor and a falling star lead them on a journey to discover the truth about their home and about their own mysterious powers.</blockquote> ➤ what an interesting and great scifi reimagining of snow white & rose red, that actually makes some sense of the weirdness of the story

➤ Mostly Poe/Leia, with some Poe/Han, Leia/Han, and Poe/Leia/Han ➤ Series consists of: Love is like a border skirmish by ineptshieldmaid How To Meet Your Childhood Hero, by Poe Dameron, Age 25 3/4 by ineptshieldmaid The Organa-Solo Guide to Fraternising With Subordinate Officers by ineptshieldmaid A Guide to Hazards of Relationships With Subordinate Officers, by Gen. L. Organa (Supplements by Comm. P Dameron) by ineptshieldmaid Organa and Dameron. (34ABY). ‘Notes on Grief’. by ineptshieldmaid

<blockquote>Mark is pretty sure there's something up here with him, hunting him.</blockquote> ➤ tagged with "psychological horror" and holy crap, this is really good and intense/effective. I am deeply hoping that the demon-alien was just a figment of Mark's mind because otherwise there's MORE of them there on Mars for future missions to have to deal with and just NO. (also the relationship stuff was good))

<blockquote>It was her own damn poor luck to be in love with both of them. (The three work a job, deny their feelings, and get kidnapped. In that order.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Three weeks after the plane crash, Brian sat down on the beach next to him, threw another empty coconut into the water, and said, “All right, come on. Other side of the island and back, have to get one of the mangos on the eastern beach on the way. Winner gets to fuck the loser.”</blockquote> ➤ I appreciated that this fic shipped the four of them without including the incest (and frankly a little surprised given that astolat has definitely written incest in other fandoms)

<blockquote>Metélla has won her Gardefeu's hand in marriage; Gardefeu is learning to cope with his instinctual panic at the mere thought of matrimony. The only cloud on the sky is that Bobinet, their dear friend and Metélla's occasional lover, remains stuck in an unwanted engagement to his cousin. Luckily, Gardefeu has the perfect plan of how to get him un-engaged.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Alec thinks back to that conversation in the van, to Eliot saying, casually, that he'd be dead before too long, and that Alec shouldn't get too attached. Like an old dog, about to die, adopted out of pity.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A story about the benefits of cultural exchange, contraception, the downsides to television stardom, and what counts as pre-watershed in the Pegasus galaxy.</blockquote> ➤ oh look, yet another why-was-this-not-already-bookmarked fic. ➤ Also, the one with the term "ice farmer"; I'd forgotten that was from this fic

<blockquote>Teyla had heard an Atlantian aphorism that seemed to express it: "I wouldn't throw him out of bed."</blockquote> ➤ apparently I never bookmarked this one? okay. ➤ endgame ship is teyla/ronon and rodney/john but still lovely teamfeels all the way

<blockquote>Ragnar and Lagertha hear Athelstan busking in a park by chance on the same day they lose their opening act. They convince him to come along with them as they tour their way across the country, and he fits into their lives better than they ever could have hoped.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Annie, Troy, and Abed bake a pie and have sex. I have no idea why it's eleven thousand words.</blockquote>

➤ In which Parker recruits Eliot for a job: figuring out how to get Hardison to notice/want her. And then it turns into a threesome. Also there are kittens. ➤ series consists of: The Underwire Job The Cat-Burglar Job House Rules

➤ does what it says on the tin

➤ cdnshack eventually