LINKDING

<blockquote>Enabran Tain has retired, and Garak has been second-in-command of the Obsidian Order for over three years. His next assignment is the interrogation of Cardassia’s newest detainee, a Federation doctor charged with espionage. AU in which Garak was never exiled. Set during early season 3.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Julian has no soulmark. He knows what that must mean, and he's learned to accept it. Meeting Garak, getting to know him, is almost enough to make him think—but it's not possible. Garak must have a soulmate, and there's simply no way it could be Julian. Right? (Or: five times Julian thought he was alone, plus the time he realized he'd been wrong all along.)</blockquote>

➤ backstory between Cameron Mitchell and John Sheppard in Afghanistan

<blockquote>Victor used to glance in the windows of marque studios and look at the flash on the walls sometimes, with curiosity more than longing. What would it be like to feel someone else’s soul? There are songs about it on the radio. Romantic. In his actual life, it’s always Yakov saying, “get over yourself, get more sleep, stop daydreaming on the ice.” Or it was.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“No,” answered my father. “Better.” He sat on the bench behind him. My brothers and I knew better than to sit ourselves. “He wants to end the curse on his line. And Artau Ehat, the lord of the sky and protector of Therete, has said to the king of Therete — or to his priests, since because of the curse the king himself isn’t able to enter the god’s presence — that the curse will be ended when the prince Atehatsqe marries your sister. And,” he continued into our perplexed silence, “if he can get a better price for timber, so much the better.”</blockquote> ➤ part of leckie's godsverse

<blockquote>- Benton Fraser has a dog. (Or wolf. Or wolf-dog.) - Benton Fraser’s dog is Diefenbaker. He’s deaf (sometimes), and freakishly smart, and maybe-probably-doesn’t-but-maybe talks back. - That’s Fraser. That’s who Fraser is. He’s the guy with the wolf (dog). And that hasn't changed since 1981.</blockquote> ➤ HOLY FUCK

<blockquote>Detained far from where he should be by random chance, Obi-Wan meets an unusual slave.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Five ways Ges shows his love.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Count Paris returns to Verona and finds everything tiresomely unchanged—with the exception of one intriguingly grown-up Tybalt Capulet. Pre-canon.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A few hours before, Steve was Captain America, flying a plane into the ice to save his country, save everyone. There's no United States of America on Earth anymore, but there's one on Mars.</blockquote> ➤ I am so into this

<blockquote>The Prime Minister makes a visit to Komarr while Galeni is posted there, and the political becomes personal for them both.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Of all the things that had and could happen to Carlos in Night Vale, becoming a vampire was practically mundane. Hardly worth mentioning, really. One day you're a regular mortal human, and the next night you wake up with fangs...</blockquote>

<blockquote>This was what Bilbo noticed: for all that the dragon was a monstrous thing beyond Bilbo's imagination – it reminded Bilbo of the little lizards that would sometimes sunbathe on the rocks in his garden back home in the same sense that this mountain palace reminded him of those rocks – the dragon seemed prey to the same ordinary failing as any creature that thought rather too much of itself. And that was, of course, its vanity.</blockquote> ➤ this is not a story I would ever have expected to read but it is amaze and I love it

<blockquote>"In the little cobblestoned passage of the Rue Mondétour, under the high awning of a house and a lantern-arm's iron lacework, for some time now a ghost had lived." Or: in which everyone is a ghost, and there are many snails, as well as a certain amount of spiritual progress.</blockquote>

Summary (from author's tumblr post): <blockquote>This is like 3000 words of Valjean/Prouvaire that is a little more troubled/troubling than what you originally asked for, though ultimately happy. It contains SEX and AN OLD MAN and AN OLD MAN HAVING SEX so there is that. Also a briefly graphic description of a dissection. Also a corpse flower (yes, again) even this is not really the same universe as the corpse flower story.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Greed may have been what forced Marley to walk the earth for all eternity, but he felt more bound in life to never be able to love whom he wished.</blockquote>

AU based on the following: <blockquote>Because it was impossible, he allowed himself to imagine, just once, what it would be like to face Laurent as a man...if there had been no animosity between their countries, Laurent journeying to Akielos as part of an embassy, Damen's attention superficially caught by the blond hair. They'd attend banquets and sports together, and Laurent...he had seen Laurent with those he cultivated, charming and edged without being lethal; and he was honest enough with himself to admit that if he had encountered Laurent in that mode, all golden lashes and needling remarks, he might well have found himself in some danger.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ianto Jones finds himself far from home. But there are guns, aliens, and more Strange Happenings than one can shake a stick at, so sometimes it’s like he hasn’t left. Of stories within stories, and the adventures of small characters.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Carlos woke up, everything was backwards. (Even Cecil.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Carlos was born perfect.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It's indisputable that Night Vale exists.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Would you like to have sex with me?"</blockquote>

<blockquote>This is a question.</blockquote> ➤ the one where there's a satedan tradition of giving a gift of clay to ask a question and the recipient shapes the clay in answer

<blockquote>Cecil and Carlos deal with life, sex, pancakes, and possibly being anthropomorphic personifications. Also, Night Vale history as told by Night Vale, and a step-by-step guide to defying Death. Today's weather is by Ray Bradbury.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Courfeyrac entertains his curiosity; Javert is charmed in spite of himself.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Instead of latching onto Enjolras and Les Amis, Grantaire latches onto Montparnasse and Patron-Minette. Everything is different but oddly all the same.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It's a big city for one more lost soul in a mask.</blockquote> ➤ I think by the end I was more engaged in the Draxie-Ghostly-Blackbindings part of the story than the Kurt/Blaine part

<blockquote>Javert calls what he thinks is Valjean's bluff about needing three days to find the child Cosette and intercede for her. The Inspector comes along for the ride -- and gets much more than he bargained for, in the process.</blockquote> ➤ I don't believe a word of this but I enjoyed it anyways. I'm terribly afraid my entire stay in Les Mis fandom will be full of reading fics I don't agree with....

<blockquote> He's a jaded socialite who moonlights as a civilian informer for the secret police. He's a solid, desk-bound officer with a passion for following orders and chasing skirt. Together, they fight (crime) the free press! AU splitting off between Diplomatic Immunity and the upcoming Captain Vorpatril's Alliance.</blockquote> ➤ I read this last night when I should have been asleep, the whole thing even though I wasn't quite into it, because I was also fascinated at the same time. ➤ It's a very good fic for what it is, which is largely plotty and the kinds of stuff I actually care about being backgrounded by plot. ➤ But also -- I am currently reading Les Miserables, and going from a book where Revolution Is Good to a fic where Revolution Is Bad is a fascinating mindtrip. And I just wanted to mention that mindtrip. ➤ ANYWAYS for my own future memory, this is the fic where there's the seditious pamphlets, and By convinces Ivan to get involved, and also Ivan is under the thumb of his cat Xav.

<blockquote>it isn’t until eames shoots the first mate of the fisher in the chest with a harpoon gun that he wonders how this will affect his chance at tenure.</blockquote> ➤ eames fell into being a prof (ornithology), arthur is cobb's ta, and there are illegal whalers in the bay they want to infiltrate and take down