LINKDING

<blockquote>“Are you cold?” he asks, because Shang Qinghua is usually cold. Mobei-jun does his best to keep him well supplied with furs, and warm cups of tea, and other necessities, but he still sometimes catches him blowing on the tips of his fingers in between drafts of trade agreements. “Ah, a little,” Shang Qinghua says, rubbing at his cheek with one hand, “but it’s all right, my king.” Mobei-jun says nothing, only extends a hand to tap him on the head, once, carefully. He stabilizes Shang Qinghua’s temperature with the touch, and watches as his cheeks go flushed. “There,” he says.</blockquote> ➤ from mbj's perspective. So earnest and tender! and clueless! it's great

<blockquote>Rey is XO of a piece of junk, her captain is a foul-mouthed Wookiee who doesn’t respect people who respect authority, and there are pictures of naked people glued to the ceiling of the Falcon. She honestly couldn't be more thrilled.</blockquote> ➤ soooo apparently this fic is EVERYTHING I NEVER KNEW I WANTED after the movie. goddamn.

<blockquote>When I was a very small child my Aunt Semele was struck by lightning and died.</blockquote> ➤ HOLY CRAP this fic is good. also I don't have the right feelings tag for it and don't know what the correct feeling is to describe how the fic made me feel. Feelings are hard. ➤ also bonus A+ commentary: http://amo.dreamwidth.org/228448.html

<blockquote>There are too many Elaines in the lab.</blockquote> ➤ holy crap I am SO INTO THIS FIC

<blockquote>“Jane, you’re an astrophysicist, not a storm chaser,” said Erik Selvig, and he was wrong. She was just an astrophysicist too. (A Jane Foster character study)</blockquote> ➤ oh my god this is everything

<blockquote>By this point, Dorothy was my doctor. Let me be more specific. She was the geriatric specialist who was evaluating me. On Mars. I was in for what I thought was a routine check-up to make sure I was still fit to be an astronaut. NASA liked to update its database periodically and I liked to be in that database. Not that I’d flown since I turned fifty, but I kept my name on the list in the faint hope that they would let me back into space again, and I kept going to the darn check-ups. Our previous doctor had retired back to Earth, and I’d visited Dorothy’s offices three times before she mentioned Kansas and the prairie.</blockquote> ➤ THANKS FOR MAKING ME CRY. Wow what a good story

<blockquote>Bucky becomes Natasha. Natasha becomes the Winter Soldier.</blockquote> ➤ I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW. THIS IS SO GOOOOOOOOOD

<blockquote>Fuyumi can read between the lines of Mako’s file. The justification for having Mako on the base is paper thin -- strings have been pulled and favours have been bartered, and somewhere along the line someone decided Fuyumi was the perfect combination of talent and expendability to be brought into this mess. It’s only slightly closer to a compliment than an insult -- the balance tipped by the child at the centre of this, nine years old and heart-breakingly brave.    -- Scenes from the year after Stacker and Mako first meet.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Angela was stalking herself. She was packing for Japan and she had better things to worry about than doppelgangers, so she was trying to pretend her self wasn't there. She thought she would probably need one pair of formal shoes, but she couldn't decide whether she should pack the new fancy shoes—which were beautiful and appropriate, but untried—or the old stalwart black peeptoes. They were a little manky, but they had seen her through May Balls and medsoc dinners alike. "Bring both," said her old self. Her old self could not enter the room without Angela's permission. She hovered at the window, peering in. Angela was not going to invite her in. It was a cold night, but the dead don't feel the cold. "I'm travelling light," said Angela. She set the new shoes down and picked up the old pair. What did it matter if they were scuffed? They had never let her down before. "I'm not bringing you also. All the more I shouldn't be bringing extra shoes." "What lah, not bringing me," said her old self. "I'm part of you what."</blockquote> ➤ Zen Cho ilu and everything you write

<blockquote>The eerie thing about Paige Adolpha wasn’t just that she turned up right when I was reading about her in the paper. It wasn’t her fame as the star witness in the big local werewolf trial. What brought on the gooseflesh, first time I saw her, was that she was the spitting image of her murdered sister. Identical twins, you know?</blockquote> ➤ Canadian lesbian werewolf SJ fiction? Yes please!

<blockquote>Tony Stark doesn't need to be safe, sane, and consensual. He has JARVIS instead.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Marcus is a historical novelist and almost all the characters are Roman-British historical reenactors; a romance in emails and bickering over historical details, with guest appearances by EVERYONE.</blockquote> ➤ modern au of the book The Eagle of the Ninth, where they're all in a historical reenactment group together ➤ it's a delightful fic, written by someone who Knows what historical reenactment groups are like. it's exquisitely well drawn and so funny ➤ written entirely in the format of emails on the group's listserv ➤ includes Marcus/Esca but is about the cast as a whole, really, and I love to see all the different characters making an appearance! ➤ 5k words in length

➤ In which Xav named Aral his heir, and Aral must be emperor. Beautiful and bleak.

<blockquote>There is another garden, in India. These are the women of that garden, over two generations, Mary's mother and ayah, and both their two daughters. In the end, I'm afraid, this is only where the story begins, but I hope it opens up the original story and takes us out into the world beyond the secret gardens.</blockquote>

➤ In which Winona and Amanda are young and awesome.

➤ Loki's life as seen by Heimdall.

➤ origfic (fantasy) in which a young man has to testify against a sodomite and succeeds in not helping by managing to reconceptualize homosexual acts as not shameful (in order to deal with truth spells)

➤ The zombie boyfriend story, except it's so much more than that. ➤ It's a beautiful and haunting story with an almost fairy-tale quality to it, and it's a story about duty and sacrifice and what it means to be honourable.

➤ In which Ray dances in Maeve's court, and tricks a favour out of her.

<blockquote>such a disconnected girl and she becomes so obsessed with this vampire and I though, well, what if she WAS disconnected and obsessed, but not in a sweet way?</blockquote> ➤ Yeah. AWESOME. In which Bella knows and uses the power she has over Edward.

➤ In which Aziraphale is recalled to heaven, and both parties are supremely upset at being separated from each other. So they fix it. ➤ (involves Crowley accidentally making a trip to heaven! And being quite inventively terrible to Aziraphale's replacement! Funtimes)

➤ Gorgeous happy fluffy fic about Methos and Duncan and that romance novel that was once written about Duncan, except that it takes place just before Comes A Horseman so it's actually secretly TRAGIC. ➤ In which Methos has a problem with honesty and a thing about his neck, and Duncan is at least five hundred times less mortified than Methos had hoped.

➤ Yusuf/workplace safety. HILARIOUS AND AWESOME AND BRILLIANT

➤ sequel to The Little Mermaid. Beautiful and haunting and tragic and RIGHT.

➤ it's the end of the world, and Aziraphale asks Crowley to kill him. SO TRAGIC.

➤ Joe finds out Adam's immortal

➤ A really great look at Kronos, and how he views Methos

<blockquote>Watson is a degenerate gambler, a reluctant romantic, and the least reliable narrator in the history of the written word.</blockquote> ➤ In which Watson and the character he creates of himself on paper are basically two different people.

➤ in which Holmes is Stephen's grandson. Done REALLY WELL oh man so awesome.

➤ the one with the Vulcan sexual guide and all the COMMENTARIES and awesomesauce like that