LINKDING

<blockquote>After the Blue Spirit frees the Avatar from the Pohuai Stronghold, Admiral Zhao captures Prince Zuko under suspicion of treason. Isolated from his Uncle and his crew, Zuko has only one ally: the chatty prisoner one cell over.</blockquote> ➤ Zuko & Sokka focus but the whole gaang is here

<blockquote>Mid-Season-One Zuko is held ransom by Chief Hakoda. Ozai's replies to the Water Tribe's demands are A+ Parenting. Hakoda is… deeply concerned, for this son that isn't his, and who might be safer among enemies than with his own father.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Shang Qinghua goes to take a self-indulgent peek at his baby protagonist son and gets a kick to the shrivelled heart for his troubles. He gave up on changing the story years ago! Yet he finds himself helping his protagonist son's adoptive mother anyway. Just this one change won't matter too much, right? One little change leads to more. Shang Qinghua never meant to care, but he becomes invested in making sure that his new family survives the looming plot. With the changes to the world cascading around him, with his position as a traitor pulling him between his sect and a certain ice demon, and with the protagonist growing up so quickly, how is one displaced author meant to ensure that everything turns out alright? A Pre-Canon to Canon Divergence story.</blockquote> ➤ has that pacing problem that some long-long-longfics have where they feel the need to just include EVERYTHING onscreen, but still a very fun fic that I got very invested in

➤ Series starts from the premise of Wen Qing living, and then wanders through a whole bunch of different characters. I forgot to note down anything of note about this series when I read it, but I enjoyed it. ➤ Series consists of: cranes flying west amidst the storms emerging with an unbridled heart their eyes remain clear when autumn leaves fall teach these young ones life and death's joy and grief

<blockquote>How intelligent are velociraptors? Very, very intelligent, as Owen Grady discovers in the aftermath of the Jurassic World disaster. But his quest to prove their intelligence and save his raptors will take him further than he ever expected, and the world will never be the same again.</blockquote> ➤ Consists of "Raptor, Raptor, Burning Bright", "The Raptor's Ransom", and "The New World". ➤ I very much enjoyed the first fic and the third fic; the second was a little too caught up in its emotional through-plot of the misunderstanding between Owen and Blue and I wasn't as interested in that. ➤ I enjoy the stuff about interspecies communication and relationships in these fics though! Although I don't think they go quite far enough in really making the raptors feel alien.

<blockquote>Academy fic. Dr. Leonard McCoy thinks he has nothing in common with command-track cadet Jim Kirk, until a series of events forces them together. When a simple training mission is derailed into a seemingly hopeless situation, both have to learn to trust one another, and they’ll need all their wits and survival skills to stay alive.</blockquote> ➤ reminds me a lot of the kinds of things sholio writes - h/c wilderness survival gen (with complications beyond wilderness survival) and this author does it well too

<blockquote>Through the spite of the spirits or plain rotten chance, a door that would have been better left untouched has opened. On the other hand, with Fire and Earth as one's allies, sometimes escaping is the easy part. Even the Dragon-King's temple floods.</blockquote> ➤ great worldbuilding work, a well-handled crossover, a compelling threat, fun characterizations and character interactions. I also appreciated the way the language barrier was handled. Thoroughly engaging story, well done. Could do without the stealth crossovers in the minor background characters though, and I was baffled by how everyone called Daniel "Danny"

<blockquote>When Dooku realizes far earlier Sidious' intentions to replace him, Sidious' plans never come to fruition... but Dooku's do. Across the galaxy, Anakin and Obi-Wan are shot down by their own men and try to make sense of why.</blockquote> ➤ the one where Dooku has both of them captured and uses threats on Anakin's life to make Obi-Wan do what he wants

<blockquote>ObiWan lost the duel on Mustafar, but instead of dying, he finds himself on a ship leaving Tatooine, with his old Master and a familiar young boy. As events begin to unfold, can he stop the future he knows from occuring? TPM AU, ObiAniQui bonding, DONE!</blockquote>

<blockquote>Hakoda found the boy in the ice eight days before Kya went into labor. Avatar!Katara AU.</blockquote> ➤ !!!!!!!!!!!! ➤ Probably when I finally get around to watching A:tlA I will have trouble believing Aang is really the avatar because I've internalized this fic so much but I DON'T EVEN CARE, THIS IS AMAZING FOREVER. ➤ The first two books of the series are complete, out of a projected four, so it ends with the overarching plot not actually concluded, but it is a satisfying read nonetheless as it stands. Also really long. Imagine The Ocean - Book One Listen to the Earth - Book Two Carry the Flame - Book Three (wip through part 2) ➤ As of December 2019 the author is saying in comments that they intend to keep writing so it's not abandoned yet.

<blockquote>"You want to recruit me for what? You want me to go where?" Sgt. Brad Colbert has been on a lot of strange missions, but this promises to be his most out there yet: Atlantis This is not a story about falling in love. This is a story about falling in team.</blockquote> ➤ most of this fic is absobloodylutely wonderful. The ending doesn't quite live up to the everything else but it's still totally worth a read.

<blockquote>Steve Rogers has to live the same day over and over. Bruce, Tony, Pepper, Jane, and Thor try to help him. Then things go from bad to worse.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After the coronation festivities, the real work begins.</blockquote>