LINKDING

<blockquote>In which Wei Ying plans his return to the theater world (again) and a-Yuan moves in.</blockquote> ➤ I adore everyone in this fic, I love that everyone gets arcs, either relational or professional, and half the relationship arcs are platonic; and I love how much they all care about each other and support each other in their various ways! (and I love that nhs's arc is about his relationship with himself and his identity?)

<blockquote>A modern OC arrives in Yiling before the start of the Sunshot Campaign. She has no friends, no money, and no cultivation. She knows what's coming, but what could she possibly do about it? / “Well…” I looked down at my fingernails and tried not to squirm. “If there were a way to separate Wei Wuxian from Madam Yu without ruining his relationship with his siblings, I’d encourage it. Like, as an example, marriage.” Xichen blinked. “To you?” “No. Absolutely not. What even—?” The thought was so abhorrent I couldn’t hold it in my head. My brain spat it right back out. “To your brother.” Xichen blinked. Again. “To Wangji?” “Obviously?” “This is a concern of yours?” “I realize it’s not my business at all,” I admitted. “But you asked.” </blockquote> ➤ ah, you know, it's been a long time since I've read this kind of fic, and done well it really is a lot of fun! I enjoyed this a great deal

<blockquote>Frederick Wentworth has always loved to skate, but skating has not always loved him back. Especially when it came to his Olympic dreams and pairs figure skating career with Anne Elliot. (Persuasion Olympics figure skater/ hockey player AU.) TW: for some mild modern racism-in-sports talk, and Louisa's canonical head injury.</blockquote>

Summary: <blockquote>Talking at someone is only fun for so long. That's all being a sect leader is: talking and talking to people bound by courtesy to listen to you. It's so fucking dull. A relief, then, to face one’s equal, and no less an old friend who is inclined to interrupt you whenever you ramble. He likes it. It’s one of Jiang Cheng’s best qualities. In the years after Guanyin Temple, Nie Huaisang attends to unfinished business.</blockquote> ➤ REALLY GOOD, but I tore through the majority of the fic when it was only nearly done, and then waited for the conclusion to be posted, and that created a feeling of very uneven pacing because of how I read it and so the ending felt more distant for me. I think if I'd read it all in one go I would think it was ALL great though!

<blockquote>And now it’s time for the canon divergence AU where Jin Zixun has the tactical sense to station archers on both sides of Qiongqi Path for his murder ambush, and Jin Zixuan shows up fifteen minutes late with Starbucks.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sansa finds it difficult to look at Jon’s face, with its weathered lines and cragginess. It is the face of the North and a face that northerners trust; the face of Sansa’s brothers and her father, who had been loved and respected by their tenants as their forefathers had been when they were kings. How can Sansa feel anything but resentment, looking into that face and knowing that all of her years of hard work will never earn her the respect that that profile engenders within seconds? But she does. It is a small, burning coal of something that must be smothered.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Preparing for the Emperor's wedding, everyone has some things they need to learn about.</blockquote> ➤ Consists of "A Complete Education", which is marked complete, and "Continuing Education" which is a WIP. ➤ A Complete Education ends on a sort of endingish note but with lots you want to still see explored. Continuing Education is very clearly just....stopped partway. It seems to be abandoned, from the author's latest reply in the comments section, which is too bad. ➤ But the series as a whole is truly excellent, really enjoyable, with all the various character interdynamics, that it's worth reading regardless.

<blockquote>"So," Arya declares as she signs her name at the bottom of the contract. She finishes off the final k with a flourish, a swooping curve that loops once and underlines the preceding letters. "We're in agreement." Gendry nervously takes the pen from her and signs his own name, a shaky and unsure signature that differs so incredibly from hers. "We are. I look forward to fake dating you until this wedding business is through." Arya grins at him, and she feels a twinge of pride at seeing him gulp at the flash of her teeth. "That's what you think." (Or, the fake dating AU for Gendrya Week that no one asked for.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Romeo and Juliet try to be impulsive and romantic, Rosaline and Benvolio get drunk and stupid, and what happens in Vegas... does NOT stay in Vegas.</blockquote> ➤ this appears to be fanfic of a canon source that is itself a modern au of Romeo & Juliet? But it works just fine if you only know the original shakespeare

<blockquote>"Jyn talked herself into a corner with her grandma," Han explained. "Now she needs a fake boyfriend for Christmas." "Why doesn't Cassian do it?" Luke asked, and Jyn scowled at him. [In which Jyn, in an attempt to get her mother's overbearing, gossipy, and traditional family off her back for one freaking Christmas, conscripts Cassian to join her as her (fake) boyfriend for the whole week in England. Shamelessly, wildly, gleefully AU.]</blockquote> ➤ Feels more like origfic bc it's so far divorced from canon, but I enjoyed it regardless

<blockquote>Alternate ending to "An Ever-Fixed Mark," diverging from chapter ten, on. The Battle of Waterloo ends just a little bit differently for Elizabeth and Colonel Fitzwilliam.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Elizabeth was fifteen her father died and she married Mr. Collins to protect her sister Jane. Now years after he died, will the memories of his mistreatment keep her from finding happiness with the friend of Netherfield's new tenant?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Darcy and Elizabeth become better acquainted over the course of their engagement.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"The king is dead," says Samuels. "Long live the king." A story about fealty and destiny, spies and secrets, and the things we do to hold onto power.</blockquote> ➤ okay this one actually is as good as frostfire's fic, though in different ways. I'll probably still reread frostfire's fic more often though because it's shorter

<blockquote>The Sith Lord Darth Vader lived his life. He probably didn't live it well, but he lived it as well as he knew how. At the end there, he'd even managed to woman up and kill Sidious. But he was dying, and at peace with the past. The past wasn't at peace with him.</blockquote> ➤ I always enjoy the time-travel fix-it trope, and this one doesn't disappoint. It does get a little boring eventually because it spends so much time on its ideas of what Dark and Light really mean (though its ideas are interesting!), but I enjoy a great deal about this fic, including the way that Anakin and Padme have to actually WORK on their relationship

<blockquote>“You see what a strange circumstance it is,” Elizabeth said, feeling some fleeting relief. “You know our acquaintance has not been easy.” “I admit we did not have the best of beginnings,” Darcy said, “but you must understand, that was many years ago. We have moved beyond all of that.” Elizabeth wakes up to discover she and Mr. Darcy have been married ten years.</blockquote> ➤ I've read and enjoyed this fic before but apparently did not bookmark it the first time, idk why

<blockquote>Behind the scenes of Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, Byerly grapples with bomb threats, Council of Counts politics, fallout from a previous case, and the difficulty of maintaining a romance when one's profession blurs the lines between lovers, colleagues, witnesses, and suspects.</blockquote> ➤ the main story in this series. and GOSH it's like this fic was written JUST FOR ME, I have so many hearteyes. Lots of fictional politicking, and a main character who hits just about all the notes necessary to make a character particularly dear to me. so great.

<blockquote>"The vows were short, perfunctory; Clarke was asked to say I do, and she did. There were rings, too: Bellamy’s fingers were warm against her hand when he slipped a ring on her finger, and she put a ring on his. They were instructed to kiss. His lips were dry, pressing against her mouth for a moment, and that was it. They were done. She was a wife, and her husband was a stranger." AU. Clarke winds up in an arranged marriage with Bellamy.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Jupiter Jones needs a green card. Caine Wise needs a place to live. What's a little marriage of convenience, between strangers?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Six awful months and Elizabeth Bennet loses her respectability, her home and her hopes for the future. What she doesn't count on is Mr. Darcy appearing to help. His ideas are unorthodox, but he might be the only chance she has.</blockquote> ➤ The one where Elizabeth becomes Darcy's mistress. An interesting and well written story, but also I do not actually believe it of the characters

<blockquote>Sophia Wentworth was devoted to her brothers before she found happiness. Then she wanted the same for Frederick . . .</blockquote> ➤ THIS IS SO GOOOOOOD. I mean, the forward momentum disappears towards the latter part of the fic after Sophia and Croft are happily together and the focus shifts more to Frederick's romantic woes, and I could wish it had focused a little more on Sophia/Croft's comfortable happy adult relationship, but even so the fic was fabulous

<blockquote>George Cooper sees Alan Olau working at a coffee shop. For some reason, Alan has breasts now.</blockquote> ➤ Series consists of: Your Boys Have Grown Soft and Your Girls Have Gone Wild Catch You When the Current Lets You Go Catch You When the Current Lets You Go (Alanna POV) A History of Blisters Battle Born The Drop Dead Dream, The Chosen One You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone Send My Condolences to Good Sometimes I Get Nervous When I See An Open Door Waiting on Some Beautiful Boy Gone Through Life White-Knuckled All I Want to Do Is Try My Regards to Soul and Romance Outside the Sun is Shining My Whole Life is Thunder Four Weddings and a Funeral Do It For the Vine Stewart's Coat Born a Little Damaged, Man Sometimes In Dreams of Impact I Still Hear I See London, I See Sam's Town Don't You Worry, It'll All Work Out When You Were Young Because I've Been Coming For You Or Are We Dancer? Brand New Year, Coming Up Ahead You've Got Another Thing Coming

<blockquote>When Charles Xavier was five years old, he worshiped his father. When he was eleven, he learned to loathe his abusive stepfather. When he was sixteen, he gave up any claim on the family fortune just to escape. At twenty-four, he's moved away from home into a crappy, standard-issue graduate student house, and gone through his degree program with his best friend, Moira, by his side. He's adjusted. He knows who he is and where he comes from and what his future holds. At least, until a stranger in a bathrobe shows up in his living room, having used his shower, eaten his lunch and, oh yes, broken in uninvited. Suddenly, everything Charles knows to be true about himself may turn out to be wrong, and his future and past both may be more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. (aka the bathrobe fic)</blockquote> ➤ the one where Charles' father managed to do something to suppress his mutant ability

<blockquote>Google politely tells her there are no poisonous spiders in Manhattan. Judging by her symptoms -- fever, superstrength, newfound desire to shove herself into small dark spaces, and sudden reputation as a masked vigilante -- Gwen would beg to differ. [AU.]</blockquote> ➤recognizes and integrates into the story stuff about racism and sexism and so forth! also Gwen is awesome ➤also on ao3 at http://archiveofourown.org/works/1416808

➤ a modern Pride & Prejudice AU where Darcy's an actor and the tabloids spin out a story about Elizabeth and him with basically no reason, and eventually an actual relationship develops. ➤ An interesting look at celebrity and gossip, as well as being an excellent story

<blockquote>This isn't exactly a series, but it's my collection of Alys/Simon fics, in their approximate order.</blockquote> ➤ series consists of: Five Conversations in Alys' Office Steel Beginner's Lessons Winterfair Interlude Silver Lining The Honey Trap Dancing Lessons Invisible Domestic Affairs Last Hope Lightheaded Recollection and Recovery Commentary The Glowing Wormhole Tunnel of Love Off Duty The Lovers Busman's Holiday Damage Control The Pleasures of the Senses Progress Trading Rescues

<blockquote>A wildly inappropriate crush, twenty-year-old Dawn thinks, is the perfect minor distraction from her studies. Safe, easily contained. But she doesn't know who she's dealing with . and neither, it turns out, does he.</blockquote> ➤ An exploration of Dawn's true nature.

➤ Backstory of perfectitude. ➤ Arthur and Mal as best friends, and the life and choices of the four of them, and how they end up where they are at the time of the movie, but better than I am making it sound.

➤ that genderfuck P&P where Mrs Bennet died giving birth to twins, Elizabeth and Edward, and Edward died at birth so Mr Bennet raised Elizabeth as Edward in order to ensure the estate wouldn't be entailed away. ➤ Edward is just so perfectly characterized, adn the friendship between him and Darcy is wonderful, and then -- oh man, basically it's epic.

➤ Donna of the alternate universe with Doctor 10.2 and Rose etc