LINKDING

quote: Andrew was convinced the writer had been trans. By this point his friends were tired of hearing about it, but he had no one else to tell besides the internet, and he was too smart for that. That would be asking for it. ➤ short story about a trans man who's obsessed with the m/m novels of a dead historical novelist who he's convinced was trans ➤ and about the dreams he has where he meets her and talks with her ➤ it's a story that feels unsatisfying but like, in a satisfying way? ➤ idk how to explain! it makes me want to reread it 3 more times and think about the way one's relationship with oneself is mediated through the stories one reads and loves ➤ it's really good ➤ 6k words in length

no summary ➤ mdzs/cql time travel au fic where Sect Leader Yao travels back in time at the point of his death, and intends to Make Changes For The Better ➤ a funny and fun look at how things happen, with and without his intervention! ➤ 6k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>sometimes second chances are given to the person you least expect. Or, the Wen Chao time travel AU that literally nobody, and I mean no one on this entire planet, asked for.</blockquote> ➤ damn, I'm so invested in this tbh, the way wen chao's trauma overwhelms all his other priorities, but also mean that he can barely bring himself to actually do anything to change the course of history, and the steady care wen zhuliu provides him but which wen chao is unable to trust as unshakeable.

<blockquote>An experimental medicine of Lin Chen's makes Mei Changsu dream his way back into the past. Dream, of course, of Lin Shu.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Théo travels in time (mostly by accident), meets a new friend, has a one-night stand, goes to see a play. A fairly ordinary day in the life of a young Romantic poet, really.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The weak link was, as ever, Lan Xichen.</blockquote> ➤ in which nhs does a time travel fixit

<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>Vanyel wakes up Sovvan morning to try to change the world</blockquote> ➤ Time travel fixit. Interesting to read when I only ever read the later valdemar books, and don't know the story of vanyel at all, but very enjoyable! I can see the shape of the original through this, aided by my knowledge of the kind of thing lackey is into

➤ time travel from the non time travellers perspective

<blockquote>Now, Yue Qingyuan won't pretend to be anything he is not. He is achingly aware of his own guilt complex and how he rarely, if ever, questions Xiao Jiu because of it. He wouldn't have been able to become Sect Leader if he was blind to his faults. But it has been two weeks. Two weeks of Xiao Jiu following him around, existing in his periphery, only slipping away for a few hours in the morning to teach his students. Even then he returns the moment the lessons are over, never lingering for longer than he needs to. Presumably he went back to his Peak at night to change his clothes, but Yue Qingyuan has never seen him leave. / In which Shen Qingqiu gets a second chance, but is still allergic to talking it out. Instead, why shouldn't he plaster himself to Yue Qingyuan's side and refuse to leave?</blockquote> ➤ time travel fixit from the non-time-traveller's pov, always a delight

<blockquote>I never wanted to turn out like her. When I met her, I was twelve. There was no one else to take care of me. Before she showed up, she was preceded by this man in a pinstriped suit. A harbinger. He sat me down in his sterile office and he said, “Time Law is not a joking matter.” He told me all the horrible things that would happen if I broke any Time Laws. Worlds would collapse. I would turn inside out. Important people would die and important things wouldn’t happen. And that’s when I first felt that clutching sensation in my chest. Like he had his fingers inside my rib cage and he was squeezing my lungs. Do not fuck this up. “So are you the one I’m going with?” I asked. Because I was a newly coined orphan and I needed someone. The pinstriped-suit man shook his head. “No,” he said. “The system is hard on children so we’ve come up with a better option. But you can’t go live with her. She must come to you.” Because she lived in the future. </blockquote> ➤ the one where an older version of Marley comes back in time to take care of her younger orphaned self, and it does interesting things with the inevitability (or lack thereof) of the future

<blockquote>Nie Huaisang snapped open his fan and covered his face. "Be careful. I'll take advantage."</blockquote> ➤ outside pov of time travel fixit! (nhs is the time traveller, jyl is the pov)

<blockquote>I hate when I have a call in Inglewood. It’s still the 1990s in Inglewood, and for all I know, people still care about Madonna. Los Angeles County has a forty-bed psych facility there. Arrowhead looks like a nursing home: a long one-story building with a wide wheelchair ramp and glass doors and overly bright, easy-to-clean floors. I stop at the reception desk and check in. “Rosni Gupta,” I say. “I’m here to do an evaluation.”</blockquote> ➤ the one with the time traveller who speaks Old English

<blockquote>You’ve lived this all before. That’s the thought that keeps me going, through the acrid sting of mage-smoke in my nostrils and the terror of almost having lost you already. There’s fear on your face, too—you’re only now straightening, one trembling hand clutching at your sleeve, and—and—no. I find I cannot call this woman you. You look older than your years, your hair streaked with silver. This woman is barely thirty. She does not have your easy calm; she flinches at the sight of the Tierran assassin pinned neatly to the floor by my sword. She is not you, and will not be for years to come. So be it; she is Fallon Deere, First Minister to the Free State of Altorania, and you are you, the woman who sent me to her side.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Experimental faster-than-light travel sends Genly ten years into his own past, onto the Gobrin Ice.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sandy Nissley was the youngest of five children, and by the time she was ready for high school her father was retired. The Nissleys’ large old early twentieth century duplex at Twenty-Four-Twelve North Second Street had become three bedrooms and a whole storey too big for them, and Sandy’s parents decided to move into something a lot smaller. They weren’t going far, and Sandy would be closer to her school. The change didn’t turn Sandy’s world on its head. But she dreamed about the house she’d grown up in.</blockquote> ➤ about the relationship between a girl and a house

<blockquote>Gregor is going to save his mother.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Garak picked through the detritus that remained of his shop, and considered his options. It wasn't going to be easy. Of course it wasn't. The Federation had every reason to be exceptionally careful with the artifact the Bajorans had so courteously lent them—and every reason not to let a Cardassian in the same room with it. (Set during 1.01. Garak receives an unexpected visitor—and is taken to an even more unexpected place.)</blockquote> ➤ Garak receives a vision of the future, before his first meeting with Julian

<blockquote>“There is the past and the not-past,” Heron said, blood dripping from their arm onto the nightingale floor. “Which is this?” “The not-past, you idiot.” Dog grunted as he peeled back Heron’s sleeve. He was in Heart of Storms, shoulders tense and eyes alive with lightning. With a tsk, he tore off a clean strip of bandage. “Hold still.”</blockquote> ➤ I love this!??? About an undefined relationship that is nonetheless vital to the characters involved (one male, one nonbinary)

<blockquote>Laurence awakens in 1804 during the moment of Temeraire's hatching. He weighs his knowledge and makes a choice.</blockquote> ➤ oh nooooooooo :(

<blockquote>Half the people running this mission probably think Killer Croc doesn't know what "time travel" is. And the other half probably just think he doesn't give a shit. All of them are wrong.</blockquote>

<blockquote>An unexpected trip through time and a chance encounter has Julian Bashir contemplating the consequences of certain actions and their reactions.</blockquote>

<blockquote>An accident involving a Kryptonian device meddled with by Lex Luthor sends Bruce forward, into a future that must not—cannot—be his own. Because sure, Clark's joined the Justice League. Clark's willing to work with Bruce to save the world. Clark's even forgiven him for what he once tried to do. But that doesn't mean they're going to—that doesn't make it plausible that they'd ever be—that they would get married.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Poe gets a second chance.</blockquote>

<blockquote>(Time goes by so slowly / and time can do so much) Daystar must always destroy the barrier, enter the castle and find his father. He must always be at least sixteen years old when he did so in order to wield the sword. But what if — what if he had been sixteen years old already when the wizards cast their spells? What if Cimorene could fix it so no one had to wait very long at all? In that case, what she and Daystar would one day do need not be changed; it was only a matter of when. In which Cimorene ignores thaumaturgical convention and decides to get those sixteen years back.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Jade was the sort of backwoods girl who had a map of the countryside tattooed on her heart, and she could feel it in her bones when the pieces of her world shifted. So when the new family moved into the house across the road that late summer, she felt ripples of wrongness radiating out from them and their too-bright clothes, their bizarrely old-fashioned wood-paneled station wagon, and their rolling words that felt just a little to the left of normal. “Time travelers,” said Jade’s brother, watching them from the window the day they moved in. Jade stood nearby, not daring to move or breathe.</blockquote>

➤ this is a free audiobook download that I have saved to my computer, hence why this bookmark isn't actually a link. A time-travel romance in which a Roman soldier ends up in the regency period and meets a bluestocking. 40 min long, I'm guessing on the wordcount.

<blockquote>Sixteen year old Victor spontaneously travels to the future, where he's... retired? And married?</blockquote> ➤ OH MY GOD. the oustide pov of Viktor's teenage self is amaaaazing

<blockquote>Yuri Plisetsky wakes up and makes a hideous discovery: himself, but old. The horror!!!</blockquote> ➤ crack treated seriously. I tagged it as time travel bc I think that's the closest tag I have

<blockquote>Gregor Vorbarra was not a man born to be Emperor. Sequel to I Dwell In Possibility.</blockquote>