LINKDING

Summary: Harriet explores the unexpected landscape of marriage. ➜ yuletide fic - for the Lord Peter Wimsey books ➜ Harriet's POV on v-shaped polyamory negotiations, Harriet/Peter and Peter/Bunter ➜ the voice is so well done, of Harriet's whole pov but also every line of Peter's dialogue is dripping with the exact right kind of piffle he likes to talk, with all the casual references and so forth ➜ and the way they work out the relationship dynamics between the three of them, what is and isn't said, and what each of them is looking for, feels so right too! ➜ 10k words in length

Summary: Lin Chen did not look up from his book. “What on earth,” he said, clipped and precise, “makes you think that I would want to meet the man you're busy dying for?” / In which Lin Chen joins the Consort Jing fanclub, Mei Changsu re-evaluates several tenets of his existence, and Xiao Jingyan decides that if everyone else is having an emotional crisis, he might as well join them. ➤ HELLO it's a 12k Lin Chen/Mei Changsu/Xiao Jingyan ship fic I am there with bells on!!! ➤ mcs has a thing with jingyan and separately a thing with lin chen. he wants to make them be in the same room with each other. ➤ mcs gets what he wants and immediately gets to regret it in like five different ways, which is exactly what I love to see ➤ it's got so many delightfully fraught conversations between various iterations of the characters! ➤ it involves lin chen and jingyan talking about mcs behind his back! ➤ it involves lin chen and consort jing teaming up! ➤ LOVED IT.

Summary: The Institute of Religious Studies was housed in one of the oldest structures at the university, an ornate hipped-roof building that overlooked the campus from the foot of the northern peaks. Aside from the narrow drive that wound up the rise from the other side of campus, the only access was via a steep staircase or a switchbacked path that took twenty minutes to ascend. Most people on campus called it the Mountain. ➤ songxuexiao t4t4t modern au where they're grad students in china ➤ I had the pleasure of getting to see this fic as it came together, and the thought and care verity puts into their writing is always so evident in their beautifully written and beautifully constructed stories! ➤ from song lan's pov as he watches creepy stalker xue yang entwine herself into his bff (and object of pining) xiao xingchen's life ➤ sl DOESN'T trust xy, he DOES find it super hot to put her in her place and have sex with her, he DOES struggle to be fully vulnerable with xxc despite everything she is to him ➤ the vibes are so good, I love how real and present each character and their complex emotions about each other are, and I love the way the theme of the weather runs through the whole fic holding things together ➤ highly recommend! ➤ 12k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Don and Kathy would move in together. They would have a dog or two and then inevitably, a small parade of adorable little brats who would call him Uncle Cosmo, and they would spend less and less time with him, not on purpose but busy with the rest of their lives, and ultimately Cosmo would learn to make his peace with it because he’d have no other choice and he would have to try to move on and not live too much in his memories. He could picture it so clearly, he figured if the songwriting gig with Monumental didn’t pan out, he could always return to the backwater circuit with a new act: The Amazing Cosmo of the Cosmos—ladies and gentlemen, he sees the future, he reads the stars, he silently pines for his best married pal and all the while tap dancing! Don and Kathy inviting him along on their honeymoon, though—that part was a surprise.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Zhuzhi-lang turns up at the bamboo house years after Maigu Ridge, Shen Qingqiu quickly discovers that Tianlang-jun has succeeded in resurrecting his nephew—by binding Zhuzhi-lang's soul to Shen Qingqiu's in a spiritual marriage, one that must be consummated within three days or Zhuzhi-lang will die. Rather than cheat on (the unfortunately absent) Luo Binghe, Shen Qingqiu opts for the alternate solution: marry Zhuzhi-lang for real in an elaborate (but very bloody) traditional Snake Demon marriage ceremony.</blockquote> ➤ focused on the sqq/zhuzi-lang, fuck or die but it's marriage or die

<blockquote>Many people, when they are blessed with a goose, take it as life direction. They learn from it. Alex chooses a different course.</blockquote> ➤ one of those soulmate matchmaking geese fics

<blockquote>When Jaskier finds out that his ex-boyfriend is getting married, he convinces Yennefer to help him stage a fake proposal so he can ruin the wedding. There's just one problem: it turns out they both know the caterer.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Obi-Wan Kenobi is accused of killing Chancellor Palpatine. The galaxy is hunting him. So why did Bail decide to hide him in Breha's private medical suite? "Breha," Bail pleaded. "If nothing else, we owe him."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Hannah was born in the city of the Shrine of Asa, some two hours north of the capital by train. She had never seen Omri before her wedding; the country of Giveah had been occupied by the Asturian Empire for nearly thirty years, and all the rail systems had been seized and the roads closely monitored. But the Empire had grasped beyond its reach, and the king of Giveah negotiated a peaceful transfer of power back to his family barely two weeks after he relieved his mother of regency. He had been fifteen years old. He was seventeen now. Hannah's grandfather was Asa's high priest; the city and the shrine had both grown considerably while the occupation had restricted travel to the Central Temple in Omri. The young king sought to consolidate his power, and Hannah was betrothed to him not long after her own seventeenth birthday. She was studying law, and her mother told her that the University of Omri would have far better resources for her education than their own schools, and that a law scholar would make a very fitting wife for the king. Hannah supposed she wasn't unhappy with the arrangement. She accepted that it was her time to grow up.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"My aunt Valaria means to give us Nissa as a wedding present, to go with us and spy on me!" Cottia cried.</blockquote> ➤ series consists of: A Wedding Gift The Fire of Vesta Daughters The Threefold Tie

<blockquote>#this is the story of that post #where Yennefer & Jaskier become drinking buddies after the dragon hunt breakup #bitch about Geralt #and accidentally on purpose sleep together #and instead of playing Despacito he writes a song for her #not to make Geralt jealous you understand! #Geralt internally when he sees them together: #WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK #only a jealous threesome can resolve that kind of mess #ft. the only m/f dynamic that means anything: #if she can't have him executed #there's too much equality going on #and he is Into That </blockquote> ➤ (look the tags are much better at summing up what's fun about this story than the summary)

<blockquote>When Luke Skywalker winds up in trouble, Wedge Antilles and Mara Jade team up to try to save him. They don't trust each other and they don't like each other, but they're both willing to do what's needed to save Luke.</blockquote> ➤ I love Wedge and Mara's Very Stressful Road Trip in which they get to figure out how to appreciate each other!

<blockquote>Amir Tarabi is scrubbing himself down in the misting rooms the first time he meets Mani Rizk. The mister in Beirut-4 is being upgraded, the zone’s residents using Beirut-3’s misting rooms on rotation, so it is especially crowded that day. Amir avoids making eye contact with the bathers in adjacent patches with rigorous politeness. At sixteen, he’s already spent a hundred personal growth hours thinking about civic decency, appreciates the role of uninterrupted private rituals in fostering social cohesion—</blockquote>

<blockquote>Horatio returns from Russia suffering the aftereffects of typhus. Caring for him may be too much for Barbara to handle alone.</blockquote> ➤ I like how the fic characterizes Barbara, and her relationships with Horatio and with Bush

<blockquote>Spiraling down. The Wraith are many and the Daedalus is just one ship. Things go very, very badly.</blockquote> ➤ Very effective use of structural choice

➤ in which the main character regularly smuggles information across a Wall in a fantasy dystopia, and ends up getting roped into smuggling a couple of people across. I had so many feelings????

<blockquote>Men who want to dress as women and women who want to dress as men know the person to ask is a seamstress called Musichetta. This unusual trade brings Musichetta in contact with Manon Lesgle and Anne Joly, two young women who wish to live as gentlemen in order to pursue their educations. But it's 1823: the King is dying, France is changing, and there is more to learn about the world and about themselves than either expected. Gender-swapped Joly and Lesgle AU. Written for the Les Mis Big Bang 2016.</blockquote> ➤ canon-era crossdressing lesbian poly! WHAT A GOOD.

<blockquote>Grandmother kept her cloth of winds in the orange room, a storage chamber painted in fire and lit to a translucent glow by dozens of floating candlebulbs created by the older women’s magic. As a small child, I remember hiding between the legs of a polished pearwood commode, safe and stuffy-warm behind the ancient embroidered material that draped it, hiding—just to be sure—also behind the veil of my hair. Grandmother-nai-Leylit would come in always just before the afternoon meal, and her smell—saffron and skin and millet dough—spread through the room like perfume. Her shuffling steps rang for me a music more exalted and mysterious than the holy sounds of the dawnsong that drifted each morning from behind the white walls of the men’s inner quarter.</blockquote> ➤ interesting gender-related and relationship-style worldbuilding. Contains a trans character and an autistic character, though neither are the main character. ➤ I really enjoyed it, and cared about the characters. But I feel like the ending isn't quite enough of the ending; I kind of wanted to read a novel about this!

<blockquote>Snow White and Rose Red live peacefully in the forest with their mother, but their earliest memories are of a different life: a blighted homeworld and a journey through the stars. A winter visitor and a falling star lead them on a journey to discover the truth about their home and about their own mysterious powers.</blockquote> ➤ what an interesting and great scifi reimagining of snow white & rose red, that actually makes some sense of the weirdness of the story

➤ Mostly Poe/Leia, with some Poe/Han, Leia/Han, and Poe/Leia/Han ➤ Series consists of: Love is like a border skirmish by ineptshieldmaid How To Meet Your Childhood Hero, by Poe Dameron, Age 25 3/4 by ineptshieldmaid The Organa-Solo Guide to Fraternising With Subordinate Officers by ineptshieldmaid A Guide to Hazards of Relationships With Subordinate Officers, by Gen. L. Organa (Supplements by Comm. P Dameron) by ineptshieldmaid Organa and Dameron. (34ABY). ‘Notes on Grief’. by ineptshieldmaid

<blockquote>Mark is pretty sure there's something up here with him, hunting him.</blockquote> ➤ tagged with "psychological horror" and holy crap, this is really good and intense/effective. I am deeply hoping that the demon-alien was just a figment of Mark's mind because otherwise there's MORE of them there on Mars for future missions to have to deal with and just NO. (also the relationship stuff was good))

<blockquote>It was her own damn poor luck to be in love with both of them. (The three work a job, deny their feelings, and get kidnapped. In that order.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Three weeks after the plane crash, Brian sat down on the beach next to him, threw another empty coconut into the water, and said, “All right, come on. Other side of the island and back, have to get one of the mangos on the eastern beach on the way. Winner gets to fuck the loser.”</blockquote> ➤ I appreciated that this fic shipped the four of them without including the incest (and frankly a little surprised given that astolat has definitely written incest in other fandoms)

<blockquote>Metélla has won her Gardefeu's hand in marriage; Gardefeu is learning to cope with his instinctual panic at the mere thought of matrimony. The only cloud on the sky is that Bobinet, their dear friend and Metélla's occasional lover, remains stuck in an unwanted engagement to his cousin. Luckily, Gardefeu has the perfect plan of how to get him un-engaged.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Alec thinks back to that conversation in the van, to Eliot saying, casually, that he'd be dead before too long, and that Alec shouldn't get too attached. Like an old dog, about to die, adopted out of pity.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A story about the benefits of cultural exchange, contraception, the downsides to television stardom, and what counts as pre-watershed in the Pegasus galaxy.</blockquote> ➤ oh look, yet another why-was-this-not-already-bookmarked fic. ➤ Also, the one with the term "ice farmer"; I'd forgotten that was from this fic

<blockquote>Teyla had heard an Atlantian aphorism that seemed to express it: "I wouldn't throw him out of bed."</blockquote> ➤ apparently I never bookmarked this one? okay. ➤ endgame ship is teyla/ronon and rodney/john but still lovely teamfeels all the way

<blockquote>Ragnar and Lagertha hear Athelstan busking in a park by chance on the same day they lose their opening act. They convince him to come along with them as they tour their way across the country, and he fits into their lives better than they ever could have hoped.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Annie, Troy, and Abed bake a pie and have sex. I have no idea why it's eleven thousand words.</blockquote>

➤ In which Parker recruits Eliot for a job: figuring out how to get Hardison to notice/want her. And then it turns into a threesome. Also there are kittens. ➤ series consists of: The Underwire Job The Cat-Burglar Job House Rules