LINKDING

Summary: “It started with the ghost,” Horatio said after a moment, clearly coming to a decision. He looked upset, finally, but in a frustrated way, not in the way you would expect from someone who had just witnessed four people die, and one of them in his arms. “I got roped into it because of the ghost.” // Why Hamlet chose to put his trust in Horatio. ➜ yuletide fic - for Hamlet ➜ taking an interpretation that Horatio and Hamlet barely knew each other before the start of the play, and running with it from Horatio's pov ➜ I love the way this interpretation shapes the story! ➜ And Horatio's pov is so good. the way he feels helplessly drawn into the mess by Hamlet's charisma, never sure what he can do or what he should do, but unable to make himself step back and leave Hamlet alone ➜ because Hamlet IS so charismatic, and so visibly struggling at the same time! and there's so much depth there that Horatio simply cannot have the context to understand, but he wants to, he wants to be there for Hamlet ➜ but in the end, of course, all he can do is tell everyone what happened. ➜ I'm so emotions!!!! ➜ 9k words

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: <blockquote>Adventuring party? Check. Disaster? Absolutely.</blockquote> ➤ so I have not actually seen the dungeons and dragons movie yet but this vid about the adventuring party was just so fun and charming to watch ➤ upbeat and loving look at the characters and their various misfortunes as they make mistakes and keep going ➤ 3:12 in length. music only, no added sounds/dialogue. no subtitles.

Summary: <blockquote>“Ladies, it seems, seldom have strong feelings and, if they do, never never let them show. God’s thumbs! I always have strong feelings and they are quite painful until I let them out, like a cow who needs to give milk and bellows with the pain in her.” ― Karen Cushman, Catherine, Called Birdy</blockquote> ➤ vid for the movie Catherine Called Birdy, about Birdy and her relationship with her parents ➤ I haven't actually seen the movie but I have loved the book for many years! ➤ and this vid felt like it exactly captured the feel and the mood of the story. It's lovely. ➤ 3:24 in length. music only, no added sounds/dialogue. no subtitles.

Summary: <blockquote>One of Kazul's grandchildren is shoved not-so-gently out of the nest.</blockquote> ➤ an Enchanted Forest Chronicles fic that takes place post-canon, about one of Kazul's grandchildren ➤ featuring a dragon who doesn't want to have to choose a gender in order to be considered an adult, and a princess who's also a prince ➤ the next generation finding their own ways to be "improper" and shock the the older generation! gender experiences outside the binary! a very fun dragon-and-princess relationship! I loved it all ➤ 8k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>interregnum /ĭn″tər-rĕg′nəm/ n. The interval of time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor. In the days between the death of Varenechibel IV and the coronation of Edrehasivar VII, more lives than Maia Drazhar's changed.</blockquote> ➤ Goblin Emperor fic set during the period between the crash of the Wisdom of Choharo and the coming of Edrehasivar VII ➤ featuring various other people whose lives were changed by what happened! ➤ I loved seeing all these other little perspectives on the upheaval of that time ➤ 5k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>It's been more than a week since Artemisia last got a letter from Marguerite.</blockquote> ➤ Artemisia/Marguerite fic for the book Vespertine, a post-canon adventure ➤ look I have a terrible memory and don't remember most of what happened in Vespertine but I DO remember I loved the book, and this felt like a great addition to it ➤ Artemisia stops getting letters from Marguerite and immediately knows it means something is wrong and goes after her ➤ investigating a creepy group of people with the help of her revenant! ➤ Marguerite isn't just a damsel waiting for rescue! ➤ I really enjoyed it ➤ 8k 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>In which Vucub-Kamé is worried, Hun-Kamé is in denial and Casiopea Tun is perfectly happy. (post-canon)</blockquote> ➤ fic for Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow ➤ such a fun pov choice to have it from Vucub-Kame's perspective! ➤ I loved the arguments between Vucub-Kame and Hun-Kame, and between Hun-Kame and Casiopeia! ➤ 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

<blockquote>It’s not that Odette minds the wings, exactly, mostly. But it’s midnight, and she’s at the lake. She doesn’t have wings at midnight. Not even in her head, if she can help it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Becky is the one who rescues Mr Carrisford's monkey, and so the one whom the Magic happens to instead.</blockquote>

<blockquote>So they decide to go to Erid. It's not like the sciencing stops there.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Jane believes herself to be alone in the world, but she is not alone.</blockquote> ➤ Helen's spirit continues to follow Jane and protect her, after Helen's death

<blockquote>It's hench week at Ask a Manager!</blockquote> ➤ Perfect pastiche!

<blockquote>The Dashwood ladies are mixed race. Some things change, but others do not.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Something had happened which Cosette did not immediately understand—but she thought, obscurely, that it must have something to do with fighting.</blockquote> ➤ a truly impressive arm joe fic integrating the stuff from the fighting game beautifully into worldbuilding in the novel

<blockquote>He never calls, he never writes -- as the years go by without word, the last Homeward Bounder's friends make their own attempts to reach him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Anna, and how she searches throughout the years.</blockquote>

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

<blockquote>Or: 3 looks at Jack Aubrey in the Temeraire world.</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>

<blockquote>"I was coming home, in a yellow bus." The adventures that Ms. Frizzle and her class get up to in the Magic School Bus can be awfully hard to believe.</blockquote> ➤ to the tom chapin song "long way home"!

<blockquote>In which Cimorene becomes a Chief Problem-Solver and Kazul worries about the power of stories.</blockquote> ➤ tbh it's a fic about how important Cimorene & Kazul's platonic relationship is to both of them and it's GREAT

<blockquote>Harriet Vane bestows a murder on her college, to the benefit of all.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Stephen, use your spectacles, tell me if I don’t mistake what I read.” Maturin took the paper from across the table. “Your eyes do not deceive you, dear. You are made full Admiral, Admiral of the Blue, effective this week. I give you joy of it.” “Admiral of the Blue,” repeated Jack, wonderingly. “Can it really be so. It seems just yesterday…” And here he gazed off, thinking, as Stephen was, of the very moment he had first raised a blue pennant at his mizzen-mast.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Now I know that people have been heard to say that I am prone to a little exaggeration, but can I help it if the things that I have seen are so miraculous that a few people may be so small-minded as to not believe me?</blockquote>