LINKDING

summary: After another day of tutoring children at Bai Jin’s cabin, Ling Wen sticks around to watch the sunset. There are no clouds, no thunder rumbles in the distance, and she’s getting restless. ➜ ummmm canonverse fic about ling wen and bai jin?? I'M YELLING omg! ➜ apparently the revised edition of tgcf goes more into the xuli backstory and you get to see more of bai jin, and this fic is based on that ➜ anyway holy shit I love seeing ling wen's perspective on a little slice of life scene back when bai jin was just a human with potential for ascension, and I love the way it's written, too! ➜ 1.5k words

Summary: Final Paper for HIST-232, 19th Century Europe. Profile a change agent from between 1790-1910. Describe their influence on their social or political surroundings, and attempt to analyze the limits and drives behind their actions. // Temeraire's career, after the war. ➜ yuletide fanfic, for Temeraire ➜ in the form of a student's essay written centuries later about Temeraire's political career after the war ➜ absolutely delightful, the things you can see about what the standard narrative about Temeraire must have been, that this student is trying to upend! ➜ and it's so right about Temeraire, too....his temperament is revolutionary but he loves money too much to be in favour of any politics that might lead to him having less of it ➜ also, love the very Student Essay nature of it, with most of the footnoted sources leading back to a single book, lol ➜ 1k words in length

Summary: A grim narrative of fraud, deception, false advertising, murders, robberies, puttings in fear and operating without a Board of Trade Certificate. ➜ yuletide fic - for the song Barrett's Privateers ➜ omg it's an outside pov of the events of the song, told through the medium of correspondence and other written records in relation to the ship the Antelope. and it's SO GOOD ➜ I love the way all these letters build up such a picture of what happened! and there are so many fun details ➜ 2k words in length

Summary: Guet Imm and Tet Sang reunite with Lau Fung Cheung by happenstance at a festival celebrating the Protectorate's victory over the Yamatese. ➜ yuletide fic - for The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water ➜ post-canon, Lau Fung Cheung runs into Tet Sang and Guet Imm at a festival ➜ lovely voice and povs! I really enjoyed this glimpse into their lives after what happens in canon ➜ 1k words in length

summary: Life is better with the other around. ➤ ahh what a lovely sweet little ficlet about Jingrui and Yujin's friendship!! I love them ➤ 400 words exactly, two double drabbles

summary: Quan Yizhen would like a little extra time with his shixiong this morning, though he couldn’t say why. ➤ sweet fic about yin yu doing preteen quan yizhen's hair ➤ qyz full of many emotions but not good at figuring out what they are ➤ or at figuring out what yy might be thinking ➤ <1k words

Summary: When Xiao Xuan tells her of the Chiyan rebellion and that her beloved grandson Prince Qi is to die, the Grand Empress Dowager takes drastic action. ➤ omg it's NiF genfic focusing on Tai-nainai and Gao-gonggong ➤ canon divergence AU where Tai-nainai hears about the Chiyan rebellion and decides to take her own action ➤ I love how well Tai-nainai and Gao-gonggong understand each other! ➤ thanks to @aegtx@wandering.shop for the rec! ➤ 1.3k words in length

Summary: I don't know if this helps or hurts the current conspiracy theory, but Piotr Vorkosigan was involved in something similar. ➤ epistolary outside pov vorkosigan saga fic ➤ about someone from another planet who knew Piotr Vorkosigan solely in the context of his interest in horses ➤ very funny to see this pov, where everything Piotr is infamous for is simply irrelevant! ➤ technically a fic in a longer series (that's about Gregor being a fan of underground Komarran radio) but can be read without that knowledge ➤ 700 words in length

Summary: “You honestly don’t mind?” Shen Qingqiu’s long fingers hover over Zhuzhi-Lang’s forearm, just shy of brushing against a patch of dark green scales. They shimmer beneath unforgiving sunlight. A sharp contrast to the wan skin that cuts through in uneven splotches. “How could this humble one mind?” Zhuzhi-Lang ducks his head, smiling. “If Immortal Master Shen wishes to further his education on the snake race, it is my honor to be of assistance.” ➤ an svsss fic wherein zhuzhi-lang lets sqq examine him to make notes about snake demons. they're both into it. ➤ it's so cute!! and funny. and very them! ➤ slash-flavoured gen ➤ 2k words in length

summary: <blockquote>Wen Qing’s world was small these days, but she was alive.</blockquote> ➤ this is a remix but you don't need to read the original to follow this one, as it follows a character who gets less focus in the original ➤ about wen qing and her interactions over the years with jin guangyao, in an au where she's imprisoned by him and helping him, after surviving leaving the burial mounds ➤ a great look at wen qing and her choices, and what she is and isn't able to do to affect things, and what she's willing to help with ➤ 2k words in length

summary: <blockquote>“I’d rather the devil we know. Wouldn’t you?”</blockquote> ➤ a tgcf fanfic about ling wen and pei ming, written for mxtx remix as a remix of my ling wen fic ➤ SHRIEKING. FLAILING. CLAWING AT MY FACE IN DELIGHT. I am so honoured that my fic could inspire this piece of absolute perfection ➤ the dynamics between Ling Wen and Pei Ming throughout are soooooo good. the affection and the insults combined, the way selfishness is manifested differently in each of them and the way it does and doesn't affect their connection ➤ ling wen nonsexually domming pei ming! ➤ the vibes of three tumours are so perfectly rancid! ➤ and the unofficial junior official chats! ➤ the way heaven in general thinks about ling wen's takeover! ➤ I'm just. blown away. this fic is EVERYTHING to me. ➤ 2k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>"I've got a new girl to do about the house and look after Cissy for me," Roaring Abel said as Barney was digging both of their fishing poles and the half-bucket of bait out of Lady Jane's trunk.</blockquote> ➤ a fic about The Blue Castle! a fic about Abel and Barney's friendship!!! ➤ I love this look at what their friendship is like - and at what Abel's perspective on Valancy is like! ➤ 1k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Little Ash and Uriel, some two hundred years later, and a very important box</blockquote> ➤ another fic for When the Angels Left the Old Country, this one set 200 years later in the present day ➤ Ash and Uriel have continued to live in the US, and have brought Essie and Rose's papers to donate to a Jewish archive ➤ I love the archivist, and I love Uriel and Little Ash, and I love that from both sides there's kindhearted delight at seeing young people interested in preserving history! ➤ 1k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>An exploration of how different parts of Tortall dealt with the famine caused by the Dominion Jewel and Roger's earthquake</blockquote> ➤ Tortall fic set in the Alanna era, about the ways different parts of the country deal with the famine, in the year after the use of the dominion jewel ➤ I liked the realistic look at what the differences would be in how hard the famine is depending on the main sources of food, eg in Pirate's Swoop which can look to the sea, vs Trebond with its field crops, and the people who have to go hungry vs the people who merely have to eat less deliciously than usual. ➤ I would have loved the inclusion as well of a place where the people in charge don't care as much about the well-being of the commoners through the famine, but I understand why the fic didn't want to go there! ➤ 2k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Everyone knows of the horses of Iceland, wild-maned and hard-hooved and free, but few have heard their story. Here is the tale of the nameless mare, the mother of all Icelandic horses, she who travelled from the great steppe to the land of fire and ice.</blockquote> ➤ Take the beautiful novella All the Horses of Iceland, and tell it from the perspective of one of the horses! ➤ just as beautiful and numinous as the original! ➤ 1k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>In his defence, how was he to know that the screaming hellion who’d attacked the slave traders he’d infiltrated (and been promptly captured) was the young master of Thousand Swords Sect? And he wasn’t a monster. It wasn’t like he was going to let the kid get killed, not when he’d provided him the perfect distraction to take out the slave traders while their backs were turned.</blockquote> ➤ an original xianxia short story on ao3 ➤ in which an unorthodox cultivator gets himself adopted by a small child who turns out to be part of a major righteous sect, despite the unorthodox cultivator's attempts to remain a lone wolf unencumbered by attachments ➤ totally adorable and delightful! ➤ 1k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Ming Yi (really Ming Yi) has a few things he wants to say . . . Earth or black water, which is stronger, / Which will last longer? (100ships prompt 029: bone)</blockquote>

Summary: <blockquote>The villagers worry about Xie Lian. One of them decides to pay him a visit.</blockquote>

Summary: <blockquote>"He's in the sword," Wei Wuxian realizes. "Shuoyue is the man and Xichen is the sword."</blockquote>

Summary: <blockquote>In the aftermath of Guanyin Temple, Jin Ling has one question for Nie Huaisang.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Hua Cheng dreams of a dark coffin.</blockquote> ➤ perfect remix of "this slumber that creeps to me"

<blockquote>In the three-layered coffin in Yong'An, Xie Lian dreams.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Three sisters, one suitor. The stakes are life and death.</blockquote> ➤ A Fitcher's Bird retelling

<blockquote>Beth Morgan has to earn everything she wants. She's surprised when she's given what she didn't know she needed. -- Beth's POV of the last two weeks of camp.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Meng Zhi is a good friend.</blockquote> ➤ yessss

<blockquote>Shen Yuan wakes up as Ning Yingying and promptly decides he must befriend Luo Binghe because it's honestly so sad that the protagonist doesn't have a single friend. The results are... mixed.</blockquote> ➤ it's just the introduction to this AU rather than a fully realized retelling, but it's fun for what it is!

<blockquote>Yue Qingyuan knows he is seen as an able negotiator, a skilled leader, someone who accomplishes any task set before him, no matter how impossible. He does not feel it now, as his two greatest failures sit before him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A triptych on the theme of half-belonging.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Shen Yuan doesn't remember writing a 300k PIDW fix-it fic, but he must have, because it's been posted to his AO3 account. (He doesn't remember getting an AO3 account either.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>People think Ben is mad, but Ben is the only one who sees Rebecca for what she really is. No would would ever believe him. (In which Rebecca came from the depths and returned to the depths, and definitely isn't human.)</blockquote>