LINKDING

summary: During her decades of service to the Imperium, Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan commanded a special place in the hearts of queer Barrayarans. Explore their stories today at the Vorbarr Sultana Capitol Museum. ➤ document fic about the vorkosigan saga, presented as a posthumous museum exhibit about Cordelia and her role in the queer community of Barrayar ➤ wonderfully done - I loved all the different voices we hear from, and the looks at different aspects of queer culture and history ➤ and the sense of queer joy and love and resilience throughout! ➤ 6k words in length. podfic available.

Summary: [🥒] STOP ASKING TO SEE MY “CUCUMBER” For the final time, I picked this username as a joke and I thought I’d be able to change it later! I can’t make a new account because I’ve bought all the limited time chapters here and they can’t be transferred! [🎲] wow, that is incredibly fucked up. You don’t deserve this kind of harassment. Don’t worry cucumber bro, i’ve got your back. Send me your dickpics and i’ll keep them safe for you / an insight into Shen Yuan's forum history ➤ reverse transmigration bingqiu story, told through the forum posts of peerless cucumber, cucumber bro's fans, shizunsheavenlykitten, and all the people who think shizunsheavenlykitten is a tradwife ➤ a quick and fun read! I loved seeing the other internet people being endlessly baffled by bingqiu ➤ 5k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>All Lady Pole and Arabella Strange want to do is forget their time in Faerie, but a message comes from a certain king... and he has gifts to offer.</blockquote> ➤ post-canon Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell fic, about Arabella and Emma and a trip to Faerie ➤ much of it told through letters and journal entries ➤ I love the developing relationship between the two women, how important they are to each other, and how Arabella's relationship with the missing Jonathan is treated at the same time ➤ and the sense of the numinous (and of the things that cannot be known) fits just right into the way it's handled in canon! ➤ what a good fic. one I will definitely want to return to to reread. ➤ 9k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>i don’t know, writing a paper with her could be… fun? i mean, what’s the worst that can happen? / From: leldiwanyby-uea.edu To: mwright21by-kcl.edu Subject: Re: Re: Re: Fuck you M– If you think we’re citing fucking Samuel Kline[...] [three paragraphs snipped – click to expand]</blockquote> ➤ fic about the made-up film Goncharov, by which I mean, fic about the made-up academics who study the real-in-their-world film Goncharov and have fights about it in academic journals, and also write fic about it ➤ told entirely via text messages, ao3 comments, academic paper abstracts, and emails ➤ yes obviously it's enemies-to-lovers ➤ it's completely delightful, I love everything about it ➤ 6k words in length

<blockquote>Transcript of video interview of Dr. Jiang Yanli, textile historian at the California Institute for Magic and Cultivation.</blockquote>

<blockquote>lan jingyi needs a fucking break by-jingY33T getting a phd in 3 things at one time sounded like a great idea when i started out | tired but hella wired | 21+ he/they views my own Location: probably the microfiche archives Website: uni.edu/cartographicfolklore Joined: August 2012 324 Following 5,678 Followers ------------- lan jingyi needs a fucking break by-jingY33T 6/8/22 LISTEN UP YOU HISTORY-LOVING FUCKS HAVE I GOT A WILD FUCKING THEORY FOR YOU: THE YILING LAOZU PROBABLY ACTUALLY EXISTED AND MAY HAVE BEEN A HUUUUUUGE SAPPY ROMANTIC: a 🧵 [1/?]</blockquote>

<blockquote>It’s a three-day journey through the Donchad jungle’s muggy labyrinth to our research site. As such, I wish to gift you in advance an extraordinary breakthrough in our understanding of the Telperi flower’s time-bending properties: A first-hand account from the sole survivor of the tragedy that occurred during the last blooming season.</blockquote> ➤ the footnotes do work and they're important

<blockquote>The excavation of the tomb of Xiao Jingyan, Emperor Wu of Liang, reveals some ancient secrets on national television. The history nerds have their moment.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In his recent article in Contemporary Theories of Cultivation, Lan (2019) sets out to study the correlation between instrument choice and outcomes in the liberation of spirits. While his main thesis appears sound, his decision to limit the study to the qin, dizi, xiao and pipa undermines his conclusions. This decision falls prey to the fallacy that tradition cannot be questioned. It ignores, too, the fact that many practising cultivators will encounter spirits that will have no exposure to such “expectations.” In a small study comparing the use of a dizi with a theremin—undoubtedly a non-traditional choice—the theremin produced optimal outcomes in liberating spirits where: time since death was less than 6 months; spirit was younger than 25 and older than 17 at time of death; or spirit motivation included aspects of revenge. The conclusions reached in Lan (2019), while providing a foundation for future study, are therefore as yet incomplete. Mo Xuanyu Cultivation Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian, and musical cultivation: a love story, told through academic articles, emails, texts, and videos.</blockquote>

<blockquote>About “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” (5 contributors, 5 notes, 7 comments) →“Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” (Roud 423, Child 313) is a traditional English folk ballad. Like many traditional songs, the lyrics are unattributed. Child transcribed twenty verses, and a twenty-first got added later (and is included here for some unknown reason—I keep writing to the Lyricsplainer mods to get someone to delete it or include it as a separate entry, but nobody responds, and all they’ve done is put brackets around it. Sometimes I hate this site.) Most modern recordings pick and choose verses and include far fewer than the full twenty. There are several variant titles, and the characters’ names shift through the various broadsides and folk and rock versions.– BonnieLass67 (11 upvotes)</blockquote> ➤ the entire story is told through a) the lyrics of a "traditional" folk song, and b) the conversation held between various people on a music website analyzing the song. There's plenty of questions left unanswered but enough is told to make some things very clear! I love it.

<blockquote>“For too long our people have lived, figuratively if not literally, in the shadows of these constructs,” Green-Blag said at a campaign speech in Bright Bird City. “We allow dangerous myths to keep us away from our history, instead of embracing one of the greatest pieces of the Ancients’ legacy. Our district may not boast the most biodiversity or historic schools or newly-efficient synthesizers like others, but we should take pride in what we have here, and take steps to share this beauty with the world.” Moon, for her part, has attempted to downplay the issue. “Payokona Mountain is the home of people of all faiths and none. Our diversity is what makes our district thrive,” she said, when asked for comment in a recent press conference. “The Pyramids’ status as an uninhabited preserve is due not to any sect’s beliefs, but rather to provide a refuge for glo-kits and other native species of the area. As well, the extreme temperatures make it impractical to cool or make accessible. Green-Blag accuses me of being in the grip of history; I ask him, what experience does he have in advocating for the issues our people care about? None.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>Twelve excerpts from Teixcalaan and from Lsel Station.</blockquote> ➤ every time I read a fic like this, composed of excerpts from various documents, I think to myself that I really need a tag for that but can never come up with one I'm happy with or remember what I've used in the past. SIGH. Anyway this is a truly excellent specimen of the genre!