LINKDING

Summary: <blockquote>The eighty-six wedding ceremonies of Prince K.</blockquote> ➤ fic for Everina Maxwell's book Winter's Orbit ➤ a timeloop on Kiem and Jainan's wedding day! oh noes, what will they do! ➤ I love the timeloop as an external factor they have to face together ➤ Kiem is so KIEM! I love him so much. the way he is delighted every time by whatever Jainan's done with his hair and clothes! ➤ and I am so glad the fic cares as much as I do about the external non-romantic relationships for both of the romantic leads. how Bel is an integral part of things no matter what, and how much Jainan and his sister love each other ➤ 4k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Shen Qingqiu closes his eyes in his prison, limbless, and wakes in a bed, with them miraculously regrown. Yue Qingyuan is beside him. He knows what he sees is false, yet he yearns for it all the same Or: OG! Shen Qingqiu gets stuck in a time loop.</blockquote> ➤ interesting snippet from the beginning of a timeloop. ➤ incorrect dialogue punctuation

<blockquote>One morning, Shen Qingqiu woke up a changed man. Yue Qingyuan is left trying to figure out what happened to make him so relaxed and affectionate.</blockquote> ➤ love getting to see a time loop from the pov of someone outside the loop

<blockquote>Yue Qingyuan dies in a hail of arrows, having failed to save Shen Qingqiu once again. Then, he wakes up.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mei Changsu dies at the age of thirty-three on the fields of Meiling, as a military strategist for Commander General Meng Zhi of Da Liang who is leading the war against Da Yu. He wakes up on the fields of Meiling, wearing battle armor that's over a decade old and surrounded by men who have long since died, killed in an unjust battle for a crime they didn't commit.</blockquote> ➤ time loop doesn't stop looping, but it's still a satisfying ending

<blockquote>“Either every human, augmented human, and artificial intelligence has had their minds entirely wiped, except for my organic memory, or I am experiencing a closed-system time loop.” At least, that’s what they called it on Timestream Defenders Orion. I’d seen this before. It was a popular plotline on multiple dramas.</blockquote> ➤ love the reason for the timeloop in this one!

<blockquote>Death number Unknown-Plus-Four, they finally manage to get Liu Qingge to orgasm. __ SQQ is stuck in a time loop at the Spirit Caves. If he doesn't save LQG, they can't get out.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Luo Binghe wakes up on the day of the Immortal Alliance Conference. He thinks he would have been more excited if he hadn’t already lived through this yesterday.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Stevie and David get married on a whim during a time loop. It would really be a shame if the loop ended at that point, wouldn't it?</blockquote>

<blockquote>By the twentieth time Geralt has gone through the loop, he decides to just throw himself off the cliff’s edge after Borch. He wakes up to his twenty-first attempt. “Fuck.”</blockquote> ➤ It's clear this is based on an event from canon that the author assumes the readers know, so some important details are glossed over, but it still works

<blockquote>I’ve done all this before. Hundreds of times, every morning since I was made captain.</blockquote> ➤ does not end with the time loop resolved

<blockquote>GQ has a thing for Croc. It's kind of inconvenient. Except Croc might have a thing for him back—maybe. If only it weren't so fucking hard to be sure. Or: five times GQ and Croc were possibly kind of having a ~moment and got interrupted (including by themselves), plus the time they finally managed to get their shit together.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Four things Jack O'Neill did in the time loop, and one thing he did after.</blockquote>

<blockquote>This time, Betty thinks, as she fixes her ponytail with a slightly manic sense of determination, she's going to try being a lesbian. In which Betty Cooper learns a few life lessons. And again. And again. And again.</blockquote> ➤ aww, this is sweet

<blockquote>Rodney is stuck in an endless Monday.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It always starts the same way, and almost always ends the same way, too.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Hannah and Melanie: sisters, apart and together. Weather workers. Time benders. When two people so determined have opposing desires, it’s hard to say who will win—or even what victory might look like. This stunning, haunting short story from rising star Alyssa Wong explores the depth and fierceness of love and the trauma of family.</blockquote> ➤ Timeloop, basically, though it doesn't follow fandom's rules about how they're supposed to go. Which is fine, just disconcerting at first because I've had genre expectations trained into me! ➤ Also: Melanie is super definitely trans, and I love the deft way it's shown without ever saying the word or making a huge deal out of it.

<blockquote>Two weeks in the life of Night Vale, wherein Cecil and Carlos finally get their act together, Carlos travels through time, and the Giant Glow Cloud goes on vacation. That last one isn’t all that important. It’s just funny.</blockquote>

<blockquote>She doesn’t want to kill the soldiers on this iteration; she’s never killed anyone before, and doesn’t want to start. But unless she can get poor, weak Sammi out of that prison in the next fifty/infinity minutes, they’ll start in on him with the rubber hoses and he’ll tell them what he’s done. And though she loves her brother with all her heart, it would be a blessing then if the Americans beat him to death.</blockquote>

➤ Groundhog day where Ray V lives through 43 timeloops before he gets his act together

<blockquote> Rodney is stuck in an endless Monday.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sheppard's in hell, and there is only one way to break free </blockquote> ➤ not quite a timeloop, but keeps on experiencing scenarios where a team-member is dying and he has to save them, and then afterwards nobody else remembers that happening. And the only way to break free is to not save someone. https://web.archive.org/web/20160506175312/http://rhymer.org.uk/sga/sisyphus.htm