LINKDING

<blockquote>1. POSTMORTEM EXTRACTION a. Ensure physical vessel is secured in the supine position. Proceed only after confirming vessel is unresponsive by lightly striking facial area. when I was fifteen my younger brother slapped me hard in the face to prove to us both that he was the stronger faster meaner one. in my twenties I took up boxing pretending it was for self-defence but the whole time I was thinking of how my fist would feel against his face even though he was in the army and halfway around the world by that time</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>

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<blockquote>Twelve excerpts from Teixcalaan and from Lsel Station.</blockquote> ➤ every time I read a fic like this, composed of excerpts from various documents, I think to myself that I really need a tag for that but can never come up with one I'm happy with or remember what I've used in the past. SIGH. Anyway this is a truly excellent specimen of the genre!

<blockquote>Pop-star uber-sensation Jaim Janan rockets off to promote their third album atop a SpaceX Dragon VII capsule today, where they will stream a live musical performance from orbit, some 350 kilometers above the Earth. Before today’s launch, when asked if they were feeling nervous about the trip, the young pop star coolly responded, “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” It’s not clear how many of Jaim’s obsessive fans, or “Janatics” as they are sometimes known, recognized the star was quoting twentieth-century pop legend Elvis Presley [click for bio]. But by mid-afternoon #TruthIsLikeTheSun was the most popular hashtag on Twitter. —Naydeen Johnson for The Washington Post</blockquote>

<blockquote>The thrilling sequel to Coco that you've all been waiting for! Miguel visits ... wait for it... wait for it... A LIBRARY. Or : Miguel probably can't prove that Ernesto is a murderer, but stupendous fuckbucket is still on the table.</blockquote> ➤ ohhhh dang this fic is INCREDIBLE

<blockquote>Wherefore art thou, Romeo? New York Magazine March 13, 2045 Let’s get the obvious out of the way: yes, in Broadway’s latest iteration of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is an alien. And no, that doesn’t necessarily make it worth the ticket price.</blockquote>

<blockquote>What's the most important thing that happened in 2048?</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Mars Light began as a ten-minute short that Bryan Sebold made without a crew after wrapping his Google fantasy series Anvil of the Sun. Now it’s a five-part documentary, which NASA Films released today online and in select theaters. Mr. Sebold spoke with me via Skype about shooting remotely on Mars; about working with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which runs the Mars Rover project for NASA; and about what the Mars Light is, which the documentary reveals for the first time. </blockquote>

<blockquote>This is a food blog, not a disease blog, but of course the rumors all over about bird flu are making me nervous. I don’t know about you, but I deal with anxiety by cooking. </blockquote> ➤ the chronicles of a family dealing with an epidemic as told through a food blog. This worked REALLY WELL and by the end I was SO ATTACHED to everyone in the story and ughghgh I hope everything does work out for them in the end

<blockquote>Darcy I have strong opinions Liza Benítez Nope, you are mean. Darcy I’m sure my dedication to giving you feedback is terribly offensive Liza Benítez well one day I’ll figure out your motives Darcy Will you now?</blockquote> ➤ oh no how does this au work SO WELL. It continues a little past the point where it needs to, where it's just pointless relationship fluff, but it's just YEAH.

<blockquote>A classic work of Fire Nation Empire-era propagandist theater, rediscovered.</blockquote>

<blockquote>'The epic popularly known as The Lord Of The Rings is at heart a simple adventure story and has no real historical relevance.' Do you agree? Discuss with reference to Cox et al. (Essay set for first year undergraduates at the University of New Bree, F.A. 3011)</blockquote>

<blockquote>You know what they say: the more things change... (Carol stays the same.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>This started in a conversation between us about how knotting without permission is practically non-con and how important it is to know exactly what you’re about to sleep with, or, as coruscera summarised it: “I'm just saying, it's good to know what you're signing up for char-beforechar- cocks are in places and shit cannot be taken back.” And then linbot realised that a bunch of truly bizarre things have happened in slash stories she’s read, so the questionnaire got longer and longer.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Hobbes turned over in bed and poked Calvin with his tail. “Maybe you live on a different plane of existence. That somehow we both occupy the same space and that’s why we can see each other and others can’t.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>Thanks to improved signals from the Department of Communications, all television sets will turn on automatically at the designated times for your convenience and cannot be turned off. If you are in a rural District and do not own a television, report to your Neighborhood Entertainment Assembly. All of the following programs are mandatory viewing:</blockquote>

<blockquote>The cast and crew of Horrible Histories CBBC takes the piss out of Gay and Lesbian history. Sketches include: “Internatyonal Man of Myfterie”, “The Lesbians who Don’t Do Anything”, “Henry Bollingbroke Doesn’t Like Dick”, and three new Savage Songs!</blockquote>

<blockquote>What it says on the tin.</blockquote>

➤ the Doctor writes Dumbledore/Grindelwald fixit fic. The Master disapproves of the Doctor's ending.

➤ The story of Ray's aborted college attempt, via his academic advisor's records of him. ➤ The unusual format is very well done

<blockquote>Network Command Final Examination Paper IV: General Knowledge Candidates must answer ALL QUESTIONS in Section A and AT LEAST THREE QUESTIONS from Section B</blockquote> ➤ (question/answer #4 is particularly good)