LINKDING

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.

<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>The reign of Varenechibal IV is over; the reign of Edrehasivar VII has begun. The transition, however, is anything but smooth, as the Alcethmeret household navigates grief and worry as well as adapting to the new emperor. A series of missing scenes and unseen moments centering around the Alcethmeret household over the course of the first few months of Maia's reign. A post-canon sequel with more Maia is being lined up to follow.</blockquote> ➤ Outside pov, telling the stories of all the smaller characters that happened around the edges of the book

<blockquote>At the end of the day, you've just got to say It's all right</blockquote>

<blockquote>Teenage dreams in a teenage circus/ Running around like a clown on purpose</blockquote>

<blockquote>Preparing for the Emperor's wedding, everyone has some things they need to learn about.</blockquote> ➤ Consists of "A Complete Education", which is marked complete, and "Continuing Education" which is a WIP. ➤ A Complete Education ends on a sort of endingish note but with lots you want to still see explored. Continuing Education is very clearly just....stopped partway. It seems to be abandoned, from the author's latest reply in the comments section, which is too bad. ➤ But the series as a whole is truly excellent, really enjoyable, with all the various character interdynamics, that it's worth reading regardless.

<blockquote>To be a part is to be truly whole.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Not all is as it should be in a world down the Series, and Janet is not just a raw ingredient.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mark is back among his crew. How does he handle it? How do they? Snapshots and practicalities as the Hermes crew returns to Earth.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The first few days on the Hermes, everyone is still getting used to having Mark back.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Mark Watney never manages to make contact with Earth and NASA never realizes that he survived the storm and evacuation on Sol 6. So, needless to say, the crew of the Ares IV is incredibly surprised when they land on Mars to find a scruffy, malnourished, mentally unbalanced, but still-alive astronaut waiting for them.</blockquote> ➤ There are sequels but I don't find them nearly as compelling

<blockquote>“Hey Hermes!” The ambient suspicion level in the Rec ratcheted up significantly. Kapoor was disturbingly cheerful. “We’ve sent you some mission updates in the data dump, but Mitch and I wanted to personally let you know—” Mitch visibly rolled his eyes in the background. “—That thanks to some…strong suggestions from the White House, and on Annie and Director Sanders’ recommendation, we’ve started releasing Watney’s Mars logs to the public.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>ARES 3 by-AresIII Boy's onboard. We're headin' home.</blockquote> ➤ I mean, how are you supposed to have a lander for a gas planet? But other than that detail it's a really great fic

<blockquote>for gusface's prompt: I want to know what the fuck Sean Bean's character was doing at a golf course with kids. IS HE NOW A GOLF INSTRUCTOR? If you've read the book and there's an actual answer to this question you are forbidden from using that answer, you have to make up a dumb story instead. Bonus points for having the Fail Team Six come and take lessons from him and give him a hard time.</blockquote> ➤ I don't even remember this scene but this fic is great

<blockquote>You can go home again, but it's going to take seven months.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Everyone has their first year story, and at the end of the day, they're all the same. New Burbage was always more seductive then it should be.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Exactly what it says on the tin.</blockquote>