LINKDING

<blockquote>Wu Yanzi barks out a laugh. "I used to have another student," he tells Shen Jiu as he takes a swig of his wine. “I picked him up when the Cang Qiong brats rejected him.” “I don’t care,” Shen Jiu says coolly. He doesn’t. What does it matter that Wu Yanzi had a student before him? That has no effect on him. "He was far less obedient than you, though,” Wu Yanzi continues, not bothered by Shen Jiu’s lack of reaction. “He kept trying to escape. He had some kid he wanted to see, this Xiao-something he promised to return to." His grin is made of black teeth and nastiness when he says, "Make sure I won't have to bury you next to him." (Or, there is a very good reason why Yue Qi never returned for Shen Jiu.)</blockquote> ➤ the one where yue qi really did die instead of being able to rescue shen jiu - but sj reanimates him in the end

<blockquote>After three years of planning, the young Lan brothers play Inquiry for their mother. Unfortunately Inquiry compels answers and prohibits lying, and Madam Lan had plenty of secrets.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Hikaru dreams about Sai. Some parts of the dreams are true. Some of them are memories, and some are things that he cannot know – fragments of a time long past, echoes of houses and homes and soft courtiers whose graves have been overlain with a changing land and time. Sai might be gone, but Hikaru dreams, and dreams, and dreams. Sometimes he hopes he never stops dreaming.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Laurence never goes on to Russia or finishes the war. He stays in China, instead, with Temeraire.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“You remember your grandmother,” they’d said to Sofia when she was seven, and she’d looked up and said, “Not this one.” Her parents always told it smiling, like it was clever of her to have noticed Grandmother had changed; who could have told the difference, they asked each other, and her grandfather nodded his familiar amazement, and in the corner the machine that wasn’t her grandmother looked back and forth with a smile.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Temeraire finds that the present is a foreign country. Set two hundred years after the events of the novels</blockquote> ➤ oh no it's so SAD

<blockquote>If you’re not familiar with The Singularity, it’s the point where computers become ZOMG SO POWERFUL that it ushers us into a new paradise, where super-powerful AIs will tend to our every whim. Ted was skeptical of The Singularity, as was I, and I said, “When the Singularity comes, it’s going to be a fucking madhouse of advertisement-bots enslaving us to their whim. Mark my words. I even wrote a story about that.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>On Elephantine Island, a young Egyptian girl is sold to a Jewish officer of the military garrison.</blockquote> ➤ series consists of: From the Sun to the Shade I From the Sun to the Shade II From the Sun to the Shade III

➤ post-R's-death J goes through R's office

available on the wayback machine <blockquote>“They didn’t know the details. We didn’t tell them. They never would have let us do it if they’d known that we were blinding, deafening, and crippling little orphan girls.” “You couldn’t do it any other way. We were the only ones—” “—the right age to accept the implants, I know. I helped design them. We should have found a way to make it work with adult brains. Doing this to little girls was—” “We all volunteered.” “And Selene’s gone insane and Jayna just unvolunteered.” “I want to keep working.”</blockquote> ➤ about the relationship (f/f) the pov character has with her caretaker: <blockquote>“She only loved you because you were broken. She liked taking care of you, having power over you. You had to know that, Alice. You’re not a stupid woman. You can do so much better than that now.”M</blockquote> ➤ CONSENT ISSUES