LINKDING

<blockquote>Sometimes they’ll also ask him why he hasn’t gone out and chased his soulbond yet. Jim will point to the sky, and say, “The moon’s always there, babe. Don’t need to go chasin’ after her.” It is January, year 2063. Humanity has quietly achieved interstellar travel, and Jim Kirk’s soulbond stretches into the stars.</blockquote>

<blockquote>An AU where David becomes a wedding and event planner after the Roses lose everything. And Patrick is still...Patrick. With apologies for anachronisms, as I haven't seen the latest season.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“You didn’t tell Illyan the truth about your little topple off the balcony, did you.” [...] “...how did you know?” “He doesn’t talk about you with secret terror in his eyes.” - The Vor Game, Chapter 17 In another timeline, Gregor makes a different choice. (And Miles underestimates Illyan.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Luke kills his father and Falls, and Leia becomes the last resort.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Rey never expected that Han and Chewbacca would keep coming back.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Anonymous asked: Okay friend, here’s a fun idea. YOI AU where everything is the same, but Viktor never cut his hair."</blockquote> ➤ that's....literally all this is, yup, and for some reason I'm here for it

<blockquote>What might have been if Julian Bashir had not “mistaken” a preganglionic fiber for a postganglionic nerve. A canon divergent Garak/Bashir meeting for the Deadly Sins G/Bfest.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Told to “go up there and start some trouble,” Crowley bypasses humanity and goes straight for an angel: The Guardian of the Eastern Gate. An AU. (Book canon, but TV canon references are there)</blockquote> ➤ oh my gosh???

<blockquote>Summary: There are some people the universe really, really wants you to meet. // After about twenty seconds of silence, the guy in the peacoat says, “I really promise I’m not going to murder you.” Notes: Or, Sansa is a genetic counselor, Jon is a Targaryen (maybe?), and it’s secular Christmas in modern Westeros. In which I take a fandom to work for like the fortieth fucking time and it’s a lot of exposition because--I do what I want? And what I wanted was a big joke about inbreeding depression. (Please take none of the below seriously.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>At seventeen Jim says that he wants to leave, and T’Sol suggests the Vulcan Science Academy, and that’s that.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Keith was younger, he used to wish that his soul would lead him to Shiro, that wherever Shiro went, Keith could follow him forever—that he’d be hearthbound to Shiro instead of a place, or none. They were both orphans without a home. Maybe theirs could be each other.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Lady Therese Vorkalloner," Esterhazy announces. He ushers her in and then makes a discreet retreat. Aral pushes himself up higher in the chair and looks at his ex-wife. He can't recall when he had last seen her. Their circles haven't crossed very much since her remarriage and, when they have, she's made it clear that they've already said all they've needed to each other. But she's not the first one of Aral's old enemies to come see him on his sick bed.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Regret . . . And what if she and Miles had met at twenty, instead of she and Tien? It had been possible; she'd been a student at the Vorbarra District University, he'd been a newly minted officer in and out of the capital. If their paths had crossed, might she have won a less bitter life? - pp. 534, A Civil Campaign</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ekaterin isn't going to settle for anything less than what her aunt has. Author's note: So, I got incredibly snarky about how the custody policy presented in two (2) of the books would, ad absurdum, mean that Ekaterin would go to the Vorthyses after her mother died and the Vorvaynes wouldn't have any hold on her. Then I was like, screw it, let's take canon at its word and write that. </blockquote>

<blockquote>"Ripley." She turned her head slightly. The voice, flat and synthesized, came from a small speaker set into the side of her pod. "Yes," she said, with some difficulty: her tongue felt strange and thick. "Yes, this is Ripley. Who is this?" There was a pause, followed by a click. "This is Bishop, but I'm speaking to you on behalf of the Sulaco. There's been an accident." Under normal circumstances, Ripley knew, this statement would have produced a series of emotional and physiological reactions: alarm, adrenaline, fear, galvanized limbs, dread. But the effects of the hypersleep were still gripping her body, keeping her numb and apathetic, and instead all she felt was a faint curiosity. "What kind of accident?" She sat up. The room seemed to spin. "A fire. I think. It's hard to tell." </blockquote>

<blockquote>Katherine Climpson explores the documentation of an unusual example of medieval matrimony.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Gilgamesh, legendary space general and ruler of Uruk Prime, has an unexpected encounter with a pirate.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Starving artists will do anything to achieve greatness.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Tharkay is the only one on the Reliant who is not already tied to a position, and so he is the one chosen to harness the dragonet when it hatches. (Or: the one where Tharkay is a reluctant aviator, and Laurence is an outcast wanderer.)</blockquote> ➤ seems to be abandoned, but what does exist is amazing

<blockquote>"If Vader captures you, if he threatens to torture or kill you, you tell him you're Padmé Amidala's daughter."</blockquote>

<blockquote>A prompt from meri47-- what careers would each Bennet sibling have, if there were five Bennet brothers instead of sisters?</blockquote> ➤ all of this is fun but oh dang the Eli/Charlotte bit is INCREDIBLE I love it

<blockquote>No one will sleep until the Princess learns the Stranger’s name. Liù the slave girl, who has loved the Stranger since before his exile, when he was a Prince, when he smiled at her—Liù alone knows who he really is. So it is Liù who is dragged to the Princess’s garden by night, bound, ankles twisting as she stumbles through the peonies.</blockquote> ➤ Not sure I quite follow the ending but it works anyway

<blockquote>Accidentally bonded to a Japanese Water-Spitter, the navy decides to promote Laurence to a bigger ship and let Temeraire accompany him at sea. They do not, unfortunately, inform his crew of this, and misinformation abounds.</blockquote> ➤ omg ➤ (wip through ch 10, last updated in 2018)

<blockquote>It starts, embarrassingly enough, with an ad from Craigslist: "I’m a 21 y.o art student (male), writing a thesis on the relationship between performance and the awareness of the audience. You don’t care about that. I’m an actor offering to give you the most dramatic night of your life. I’ll be your date to any event/function/family gathering, and convince your friends/family members that I’m either: the biggest mistake of your life or the best thing that ever happened to you. Up to you. I’m very good at what I do."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Look, he’s easy to notice, okay? Like Thor trying to blend in with regular people by wearing Clark Kent’s nerdy glasses.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The next time Jasmine sneaks out of the palace, she leaves her tiara. (Or: Jafar never existed and Jasmine never gets caught by the guard on her first meeting with Aladdin. Instead she keeps meeting up with him without telling him she's the princess. Along the way she learns more about what goes on in Agrabah and the laws that are set against so many people in the city, as well as how she could change them.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Have you ever accidentally committed fic? There are lots of Yuri-is-adopted stories on the AO3, mostly with Victor and/or Yuuri as the adoptive parents. Seeing those stories, I found myself thinking of real Russian orphanages and international adoptions from Russia. And almost before I could stop myself, this fic happened. It's rather dark, in its way, so be warned.</blockquote>

<blockquote>AU from the beginning of Queen of Attolia. Attolia decides to take what she wants.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Even if I had the creds for a cloning unit… If I could ever have gotten the boys to make more than a partial stim download, it would be ten years at least before Mahlon and Kilion's clones would be adults and capable of," Naomi made a little gesture with her fingers, which was such pure Naomi that it made Ruth's heart ache. "It's just a thing we have to live with. Our boys are gone." Orpah started crying again. She'd barely stopped since Mahlon and Kilion died. She and Kilion had only been married two cycles and had just begun trying for a baby.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Jeeves feels insecure about his cyborg status, Bertie must take drastic action to teach him his true value.</blockquote>