LINKDING

<blockquote>She stood before the judges in the dim light, Justine just to her left. Lyra pulled a sheaf of paper from her pockets. Their marriage certificate. Proof of cohabitation. Sheet music for the nocturne. “I’ve come to ask safe passage for myself and my wife to the realm of the living,” Lyra said. Her voice was loud in the chamber and she did not let it shake.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Vivian and her daughter witness the family matriarch die without leaving a corpse, Vivian can no longer ignore the family “gift” or the choice that lies before her.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The girl does not come to Mebuyen, so Mebuyen goes to the girl. She is standing ankle-deep in the river, looking down, her mouth open. Mebuyen notices, as she draws closer, that the child’s calves are skinny, her cheeks chubby, and her SpongeBob Squarepants sando has a bullet-sized hole above her ribs. Mebuyen frowns as she steps into the river, waiting for the girl to speak.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Logan is buried alive. Very alive.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Temeraire is dead. The entire country knows his name after the Battle of Dover, and now Temeraire is dead. “Well,” says Admiral Croft, “At least you can join the navy again, eh, Captain?”</blockquote> ➤ gaaaaah this is so heartbreaking but also I am really mad that the author killed Tharkay off too

<blockquote>The witch had a favorite saying: where there’s life, there’s magic. There was a second part — where there’s magic, there’s death — but she usually kept that to herself.</blockquote> ➤ strange and creepy-sad and compelling

<blockquote>Strychnine is bitter, but the most pleasant to work with.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Death paused.  Death really didn’t have time to pause because there was so much work to do: but Death had discovered long ago that it could make its own time.  Souls didn’t particularly suffer if it was slow to collect them.  But sometimes they wandered off and then there were ghosts and it hated to chase down ghosts if they were happy and weren’t causing any problems— Anyway.  Death paused.  This particular soul was curled up like a cat while it waited, and blinked and stretched and demurred when Death caught up to it.  “But I’m waiting for my friend.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Loki turns up demanding Thor's help on a quest to retrieve the All-Mother from Valhalla, Thor isn't about to say no. But that doesn't mean he's forgotten anything, and what better time than a road trip through the backwaters of the universe for trying to talk things out?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Tybalt has a secret.</blockquote> ➤ in which Tybalt keeps waking up after deaths

<blockquote>In his prison cell, a dozen years after his crime, Luigi Lucheni has an unexpected visitor.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Enjolras is denied heaven. Grantaire is not. But Grantaire will always follow Enjolras, and purgatory is not such a dark place, when it has Enjolras's smile to light it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>City Council announces a new secret law. The Night Vale Astronomy Club has officially denounced the existence of stars. The Night Vale Historical Society is throwing a barbecue for a tragedy that no one is allowed to talk about. It's the usual week's news in Night Vale except for one tiny detail-Cecil isn't the one reporting it. And as Head Intern Jessica ignores her normal inclination to not do any work ever (you don't become head intern by being a go-getter) to fill in for him while Carlos conducts his desperate search, she's beginning to think that maybe Cecil isn't the only one who'll disappear.</blockquote> ➤warning: head intern Jessica does end up dying and I became rather attached to her over the course of the fic! Phooey. Well, it is all very effectively done.

<blockquote>Raleigh’s never told anyone, but he’s pretty sure he died in his escape pod after nuking the Breach.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Esca has always been able to see Death.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"When he finally registered the presence of a tail, Montparnasse knew with a sickening finality that it was too late." Or, Montparnasse screws something up beyond repair.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ragnar and Athelstan meet again, a decade since Athelstan was stolen from him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Javert isn't singing in Barricade Heaven, but it's not because he committed suicide.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"She'd had the most beautiful imaginable face..."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Gymont waits for Javert to come back from the Seine.</blockquote> ➤ Gymont being Javert's horse

<blockquote>There is a time, after each death, after each life as servant to the Revolution, when they are asked to choose where they will go next. Enjolras only ever makes one choice, but that doesn't make the asking of the question any less important</blockquote>

<blockquote>This is a Five Things Plus One story about ways that Marcus Flavius Aquila and Esca son of Cunoval might have met, and fortunately did not--and one way they did, which went rather better. Basically a set of depressing canon-era AUs plus some happiness.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In “About Fairies,” Jennifer and her co-workers create fairy lands for a toy company, all the while cultivating their own personal fairy worlds....</blockquote>

<blockquote>Darren doesn’t find out that Geoffrey’s dead until three days after the fact.</blockquote> ➤ odd, intense, and interesting

<blockquote>John's problems started the day they nearly blew up San Francisco and he didn't die.</blockquote> ➤ in which he is supposed to be dead, and I don't have the right tags for this

<blockquote>Warrior's Apprentice AU. What might have happened to Miles, if Ivan had not missed that ill-fated courier ship on Beta?</blockquote>

<blockquote>If I should die some night and never see Dawn's light, my email, and my morning tea, I face the thought with equanimity, In fact, it would be worse for you than me.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ianto's travelled clear across the universe just to bring Jack home.</blockquote> ➤ *wibbles* (a CoE fixit, of sorts)

<blockquote>A man, a very old dog, and the inevitable</blockquote>

➤ AU of Strong Poison in which they don't manage to prove Harriet's innocence. Really well done but AGH so sad!