LINKDING

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

<blockquote>York, 1997. A schoolteacher reads a peculiar essay on the history of Faerie.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"It is John Uskglass's magic that we do" if so, I want a refund.</blockquote> ➤ omg this is ridic and amazing and I love it and I cackled my way through it ➤ (futurefic about academics discussing the identity of the raven king plus the everlasting strangeite vs norrellite debate)

<blockquote>The night she left to follow the King, it wasn't raining or anything like that.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Arabella said that if Jonathan took too long coming home, she'd go fetch him herself. A year is too long. With the help of some friends, she's going to save her husband.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The arrival of the Misses Enderwhild in London caused a great stir in Society, for they were to be chaperoned by Mrs Arabella Strange.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In the beginning, Lascelles would stride up to each challenger proudly, delivering his message with all the flair of a stage actor. But with enough repetition, anything can become a bore, even faerie duels.</blockquote> ➤ intriguing! I am curious about what will happen after the events of the story

<blockquote>"John Childermass!" said a voice behind him, very pleased, and Childermass turned to see the person he had met in the pub. He could still not make out whether they were a man or a woman, or their age, or indeed any feature of their face; but he could see, now, that they were wearing a long, long coat the color of moss. (Too like moss; he thought he saw insects crawling within the fabric.) In which there is a visit to Faerie, an unexpected reunion, and a bargain made.</blockquote> ➤ feels right, and does the raven king right, which is hard to do!

<blockquote>Years have passed since the events of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Strange's whereabouts are still unknown, and the Government has urgent need of him. Finding him falls to John Childermass who has Dark Forebodings of the complexity of the task. He is right, as usual.</blockquote> ➤ excellent pastiche of the style of narrative, and a well-written story.

<blockquote>Welcome to The Great British Bake Off.</blockquote> ➤ I did not expect a modern AU involving baking to have this much in the way of Lady Pole feels

<blockquote>In the aftermath of Strange's and Norrell's departure from England, who is entitled to be a magician?</blockquote> ➤ great concepts though the writing does not live up to the book

<blockquote>"A man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one." —Dr. Samuel Johnson Or: A very important fic about Childermass fighting with Drawlight and Lascelles over what waistcoat Mr. Norrell should wear to the ball.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A Les Miserables/Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell crossover. It's not only England that has rediscovered magic. Courfeyrac convinces his friends to look to a different kind of ally in their fight to free the French people-- and French magic.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Let us take a moment to discuss French magic. For several centuries it was thought such a thing did not exist, but that was only because it is nearly invisible. French magic is in essence Parisian magic. Parisian magic is panache. What turns a gamin’s crust of bread into a feast? What makes the flower in a seamstress’s hair more radiant than the diamonds on a queen’s neck? What opens the locked door of a lady’s chamber to the gentleman thief? Magic, only, no one notices it. Paris looks at the exceptional, the superlative, the truly unusual and the genuinely supernatural, shrugs her shoulders and says “Yes – that’s me!” Only when the English magicians you have heard of became notorious did France lift its head to pay attention; and Bonaparte, though in every other way a genius, did not have any sense of magic. He had no use for anything that could not be known, and French magic is most of all in those four words: je ne sais quoi. That was in 1815. In 1831 France was in a prosaic mood with a prosaic king, and magic was being studied at the Ecole Polytechnique, which is to say, leaking out of the city. These are the circumstances in which Courfeyrac and Marius went to see Combeferre.</blockquote> ➤ somewhat uneven but on the whole delightful

<blockquote>Geoffrey Tennant made a career out of not allowing magicians to interfere with his productions. Darren Nichols, on the other hand, once turned his audience into grains of sand for a production of Beckett. The disagreement accidentally shapes their lives.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Martin Pale, last of the Aureate magicians, was traveling in Faerie when he met a child who had been abducted from England over two hundred years earlier. This is what happened afterward.</blockquote>

<blockquote>an utterly self-indulgent crossover that got entirely out of hand</blockquote> ➤ sldkfjhdflksdjjfd look this is one of those fics that just STAYS IN MY BRAIN because of how true and perfect and right and wonderful it is. YESSSSS. I am so glad this fic exists.

<blockquote>Of her experiences in Faerie Arabella Strange said little even to her dearest friends: but not because there was little to say. [Crossover with Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series.]</blockquote>