LINKDING

Summary: In which Mei Changsu takes the poison. And wakes in a universe where the Lin family fell ten years earlier. ➜ Nirvana in Fire fic where MCS bodyswaps with himself from an alternate universe where he's an imperial eunuch ➜ a fascinating little glimpse into this alternate world! I am so curious how this is going to go....for both versions of MCS ➜ 1k words in length

Summary: After the Immortal Alliance Conference, Shen Qingqiu eventually recovered from his grief. A reasonable man, he accepted his limitations. Of course, there were—other options. ➜ a genius svsss bingqiu canon divergence au fic ➜ sqq decides to take care of the unavoidable abyss plot-arc by body-swapping with lbh to do the abyss arc for him ➜ meanwhile the bodyswapping didn't work QUITE as intended so although sqq is indeed in lbh's body running the abyss, lbh is in lqg's body and lqg is in sqq's body ➜ cue: time for lbh and lqg to learn how to appreciate each other! ➜ anyway I loved EVERYTHING about this fic. sooooo many good things it's doing ➜ the way sqq has such a great time testing out his abyss speedrun ideas! lbh and lqg's gym bro friendship style! meng mo providing internal colour commentary the whole way through! ➜ and like holy shit, sqq’s weird as fuck identity issues wrt bodies and self and sexuality and stuff! EXQUISITE. ➜ a totally delightful fic, highly recommend ➜ 36k words in length

Summary: Final Paper for HIST-232, 19th Century Europe. Profile a change agent from between 1790-1910. Describe their influence on their social or political surroundings, and attempt to analyze the limits and drives behind their actions. // Temeraire's career, after the war. ➜ yuletide fanfic, for Temeraire ➜ in the form of a student's essay written centuries later about Temeraire's political career after the war ➜ absolutely delightful, the things you can see about what the standard narrative about Temeraire must have been, that this student is trying to upend! ➜ and it's so right about Temeraire, too....his temperament is revolutionary but he loves money too much to be in favour of any politics that might lead to him having less of it ➜ also, love the very Student Essay nature of it, with most of the footnoted sources leading back to a single book, lol ➜ 1k words in length

Summary: He had got everything he’d ever dared to want, and it felt like a fragile relic in his hands. ➜ yuletide fanfic, for Temeraire ➜ featuring laurence/tharkay on tharkay's estate post-canon; laurence comes to tharkay with a business proposition ➜ and by business proposition he means -- ➜ anyway it is SO CUTE I love themmmmm ➜ 2k words in length

Summary: Just months before the Immortal Alliance Conference, Luo Binghe discovers the cure to Without-a-Cure. With his own heritage still sealed and mostly unknown to him, there seems to be only one solution: Shen Qingqiu must receive the cure from the last known Heavenly Demon, Tianlang-Jun, even if it means that Luo Binghe has to grit his teeth and set his precious Shizun up with another man. Shen Qingqiu does not want to receive the cure from Tianlang-Jun. He doesn't particularly want to receive anything from Tianlang-Jun. Shen Qingqiu somehow ends up fake-dating Tianlang-Jun anyway, if only to swindle the System into delaying the Endless Abyss plot for as long as he can. ➜ svsss canon divergence au fic ➜ luo binghe, not yet aware he's a heavenly demon specifically, discovers the cure for Without-A-Cure....and is determined to get shen qingqiu the cure. from tianlang-jun. ➜ and goddamn this whole fic is SO much fun?! I adored ittttttt ➜ sqq awkwardly fake-dating a doesn't-trust-cultivators tlj while lbh resentfully but determinedly wingmans......along with the far less conflicted wingmanning of all the other peak lords ➜ teen binghe is so CUTE and sqq is the most sqq and I love them forever ➜ and wow I am genuinely so compelled by this understanding of tlj's character. he's a major character in this novel-length fic but I would happily read so much more about him! ➜ all the character dynamics in this fic are just. SO GOOD. ➜ 67k words in length

Summary: I was not in kemmer. He would always be. He had said to me once that my people were single, whole, undivided. But now we would now always be in a pair, ourselves and the other, the inside and the out, the left hand and the right hand. ➜ yuletide fic, for The Left Hand of Darkness ➜ Genly and Estraven, post-canon, from Estraven's pov ➜ suffused with this unshakeable sense of the connection between the two of them in a really gorgeous way ➜ what a perfect coda to canon! ➜ 2k words in length

Summary: Martin Pale learns from Catherine of Winchester, several centuries too late. ➜ a yuletide fic, for Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell ➜ About the tudor-era magician Martin Pale and his relationship with his tutor, Catherine of Winchester, from the golden age of magic ➜ gosh wow I am just -- so blown away by this?! it feels like it fits so perfectly into the interstices of canon. The undeniable weight of reality that the whole piece has, even as it is shot through with shards of the numinous....the characters all being people who are difficult, and real, and not altogether pleasant, but you love them for how real they are. ➜ Pale and Catherine are so different from each other, yet so connected, and though we get to hear much of Pale's life, Catherine remains as mysterious to us as she is to Pale. And yet we know her from who she is. ➜ idk, idk, I'm not sure how to explain this better! I just....really recommend reading this fic. it is so satisfying. ➜ 16k words

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: But here, now, was my chance. I was not the young master to Jeeves now - in fact, Jeeves, in his current role, had no y. m. at all. He was a gentleman of means and breeding, and I a rather fantastically attired birdcatcher of presumably Viennese extraction; and two such fellows could hold a conversation without any wayward “sirs” inserting themselves where they were not wanted. // Or: In which a gentleman and his valet both attend a masquerade under false pretences. ➜ yuletide fic, for Jeeves & Wooster ➜ in which Jeeves and Wooster separately attend a masquerade ball, each in costume ➜ hidden identity shenanigans are such fun and this one is great! ➜ I love how much Wooster loves getting to interact with Jeeves without Jeeves's feudal spirit getting in the way ➜ and the vision of Jeeves at a party flirting with a flighty young master of unknown identity.....so good ➜ 11k words in length

Summary: The day after Sara's visit to the Carrisford house, Becky leaves Miss Minchin's for her own happily ever after. ➜ yuletide fic, for A Little Princess ➜ Becky's pov on the day after all the climactic reveals, when she gets to leave Miss Minchin's and go join Sara next door ➜ this does such a good job of capturing the tone of the book, the magic and wonder and the depths of emotions, and the kind of relationship Sara and Becky have ➜ these two young edwardian-era girls doing their best to navigate what they can be to each other within the bounds of societal understandings of power differentials, and their own internalized senses of such things.....I'm so emotions!! ➜ 3k words in length

Summary: [bjornruffian] ohhhh like a friend for him???? YES omg I LOVE THIS. Wait it’s going to end badly for this robot right? OH NO IM ALREADY HEARTBROKEN HOW CAN I BE SO INVESTED ALREADY ➜ yuletide fic - for Fandom For Robots ➜ Computron and bjornruffian work on their next collab, and Computron revisits memories of his creator ➜ and hello I had SO many sad robot feels and robot friendship feels! shrieking with delight ➜ 2k words in length

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: Richard Merrill has a conversation with his mother. ➜ yuletide fic - for Mairelon the Magician ➜ set mid-canon, a conversation between Mairelon and his mother about the realities of Kim being out in society and the male attention she'll attract ➜ Mairelon's oblivious focus on Kim's magical education and inability to follow where his mother is going with this line of questioning is so fun and so him ➜ what a cute and fun fic! ➜ 1k words in length

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: Lin Chen is exactly where he wants to be, thank you very much. ➜ pre-canon Nirvana in Fire fanfic ➜ outside pov about Lin Chen being his bestworst self at unsuspecting people ➜ it's so funny. I love Lin Chen. ➜ 2k words in length

Summary: Kirk is not, in fact, an Admiral. He has no desire to be an Admiral. He's fine pretending to be one for Spock, though.

Summary: Falcon yao Liu Qingge, injured and trapped in a gulley, is taunted by his nemesis Shen Qingqiu (definitely not transmigrated monster enthusiast SY!SQQ). ➤ an svsss liushen au where lqg is an injured gyrfalcon yao who sqq wants to help ➤ it's both so sweet and so fun! lqg's pov with his total mistrust of the human cultivator, slowly evolving over time to becoming willing to let sqq help, is great ➤ and how clear it is that sqq finds lqg both fascinating as a creature of the world of pidw, and very handsome as a man ➤ the parts with the wing repair were soooo good to me, I love how seriously this fic takes the bird and feather details! ➤ a delightful fic from start to finish ➤ 12k words in length

summary: The air conditioned chill of Wei Ying's office gave way to a wall of humid heat as soon as they left the building. The walk to the station was only a few blocks, but the back of Lan Zhan's shirt was damp with sweat by the time she went underground. "So what's the curse, exactly," Wei Ying said as they jammed themselves into a packed subway car. At lunchtime on a weekday during summer break. Lan Zhan steadied herself against the car door. "I believe it's bad luck." "Holy shit," Wei Ying said. "Did she curse you to step on a Lego?" ➤ modern au f/f mdzs wangxian fic ➤ lwj and wwx are academic colleagues; lwj comes to wwx for help dealing with a minor curse ➤ I love the glimpses into their broader world, the way cultivation is a part of modern life, the dynamics lwj has with her family, etc ➤ the way lwj being a poet affects the prose of the piece, and her point of view! ➤ and the dynamics between lwj and wwx are soooo good <3 ➤ 1.7k words in length

summary: In the present, Wei Ying finds himself separated from his family and friends when he travels to help Lan Zhan move into a new home. In the past, Nie Huaisang brings a new friend back from summer orchestra camp. ➤ an #mdzs #wangxian modern au set during the early days of the pandemic in 2020, with flashbacks to 2003 ➤ this fic is everything to me. it's just. so beautiful & good? grounded and present to its settings, seeing its characters with open-eyed affection, funny and heartbreakingly painful-hopeful and so, so gentle ➤ I love how the fic is about many relationships at once - wwx & the wens, wwx & jiang cheng, wwx & whatever he had going on with nhs back in the day, and of course, of course, wangxian. and all of these are vital relationships in wwx's life; all of them make him who he is ➤ a "straight boy wei ying" type fic; I love how compassionately wwx is viewed as he goes through his years-long process of realisation. the fic is never mean-spirited about wwx's lack of self-knowledge. he had a lot going on & was doing his best! ➤ I've read this fic at least 3 times and it hits just right every time ➤ 25k words

summary: Three times Mobei Jun learns to trust Shang Qinghua, one time that trust is broken, and one time Mobei Jun returns the favor. // In which Mobei Jun learns to trust one (1) person (and falls in love). ➤ svsss moshang fic about the journey of developing trust that Mobei-Jun goes on ➤ I love mbj's pov in this, the way he thinks about sqh and what his priorities are! ➤ cute!!!! ➤ 3k words in length

Summary: Xie Lian lounged across from him, the dice cup on the tea table askew to reveal two sixes beneath. His Highness had - helped along with subtle doses of luck as the dice were passed to him - won decisively. Still, though he had drunk much less, the effect on him was more pronounced. // Xie Lian can have a little to drink and do a bit of gambling, as long as he maintains a tranquil heart. That should be very easy. ➤ tgcf hualian post-canon fic ➤ god this is cute, they're so CUTE!!! ➤ hua cheng and xie lian happy and comfortable together, having fun teasing and playing a drinking game ➤ the vibes are sooooo good I'm so charmed! ➤ 2k words in length

Summary: It was easy to want what you couldn't have. Ever since her father had told her that she was destined for the royal harem, Jian Lan had been confident she'd make it to the rank of consort. But she'd also known that, in the meantime, she'd be having a passionate love affair with some unsuitable man around the palace. ➤ TGCF fic about the era after xianle falls to yong'an, when Jian Lan finds work in a brothel ➤ Jian Lan's perspective on her developing relationship with Feng Xin ➤ I love the sharpness, the awkwardness, the quiet ground-down miseries - and yet the grasping onto what hope and beauty and love that can be found in the midst of it all ➤ Jian Lan and Feng Xin are doing their best! I'm emotions ➤ and I love the gentle femdom that Jian Lan leans into when Feng Xin's women issues make it challenging for them to have sex <3 ➤ 5k words in length

Summary: Shizun needed to go back to Cang Qiong. Whether or not Binghe liked it. or, Binghe's first steps to getting back onto Qing Jing Peak. ➤ svsss post-canon bingqiu fic ➤ lbh realises that sqq needs more enrichment in his life. he needs to be able to go back to qing jing ➤ therefore lbh needs to make it possible for lbh to be allowed back at cang qiong again! ➤ he goes about this in the most luo binghe way possible ➤ as always, tshirt's sense of comic timing in this fic is PERFECT omg ➤ I love it ➤ 1k words in length

Summary: Horatio attempts to use his humanist education to mold the new king of Denmark into an ideal ruler, with mixed results. ➤ post-canon fanfic of shakespeare's Hamlet ➤ from Horatio's pov as he considers how best to mould the new young king Fortinbras in useful directions ➤ I love the evolution of Horatio's thoughts over the course of the fic, and the brief glimpses we get of Fortinbras ➤ love the integration of various minor characters and OC's, to good effect! ➤ 9k words in length

Summary: If Shizun was hoping to hide his mysterious visitor from his peak, his edict for everyone to leave and not remark on her made it impossible for her to go unremarked on. Ming Fan was currently scurrying around, punishing anyone who suggested anything untoward was possibly happening. This mostly meant people waited to gossip until he was gone. The leading theory was that the woman was from one of the brothels Shizun was rumored to have frequented in the past. Luo Binghe had never seen any evidence that this rumor was true (he was actually concerned that Shizun didn’t know what sex was), so he’d dismissed the claims as slander. Then a woman had prostrated herself at the bottom of the stairs of Cang Qiong and begged that a message be delivered to all on the mountain. It was urgent, she said. She could not say more at this time, but lives depended on the right person hearing these words. “What is the message?” a disciple had asked. The woman raised her head. “Beyonce,” she had said clearly. “Internet. The general concept of astronauts.” ➤ svsss fic featuring another transmigrator coming to qing jing during the pre-abyss era, to talk to sqq about how to derail the plot ➤ I love her perspective on the whole experience! and how baffling sqq finds her desires and priorities ➤ the whole fic is very funny! ➤ 6k words

Summary: Airplane-bro, I'm tired of filling in all your plot holes!!! Shen Qingqiu writes, and then pauses, brush held dangling over the page. ➤ endless abyss era svsss ➤ sqq writing angry notes to sqh about his worldbuilding, sqh accusing sqq of pulling his pigtails to get his attention ➤ god I love these emotionally constipated nerds <3 ➤ 1k words

summary: They say he may ascend and reach immortality, come the rumors. Sect Leader Yue is so powerful- perhaps he is ready to transcend this world. The very idea leaves Shen Qingqiu cold and nauseous with anger. Escape this world? Yue Qingyuan can’t be allowed to. ➤ pre-canon/canon divergence maybe? in which original sqq hears a rumour that yqy is going to ascend, and he'll do anything to keep that from happening ➤ it's SO them <3 all tangled up in each other, terribly possessive, unable to communicate like normal people, I love them ➤ content notes: dubcon, babytrapping attempt ➤ 2k words

summary: It was one thing to know what his qi felt like in his meridians–although he didn’t know what his neili was called, only that it had a name–and to know that, if he started running his sword forms, his arms and legs would guide him where his mind couldn’t. Muscle memory felt familiar. Reliable. But this? This free-floating knowledge, not connected with any event, any memory, any movement or motion? Just facts appearing in his mind? Assertions he was supposed to accept unquestioningly as truth? With no memory of how he learned them? Nothing to prove their validity? He clenched his hand around his dao’s scabbard. There had to be a better way than this. ➤ I didn't notice the "missing scene" tag on this fic, it ends without the pov character having learned much of anything about himself or his history and relationships, because canon covers it! I'm left as in the dark as I began! ➤ if you're familiar with mysterious lotus casebook you may enjoy this fic, and if like me you're not familiar with the canon but you have fun being confused, you also may enjoy this fic! ➤ ft. two men with an ambiguous fraught-yet-intimate history between them, connecting as best they can while one of them doesn't know what's going on because of amnesia. Includes wound tending and bed sharing, and sexual interest that isn't acted upon!

summary: -dick jokes [screenshot of a text from Peerless Cucumber that reads “Do you still take commissions?”] -passionate ranting no fucking way he’s still alive??? -binghe obsession of course this is how we find out -homoerotic undertones maybe he really was dead and he just rose from the grave to commission art of lbh one last time in a totally hetero way ofc -binghe obsession ofc ➤ it's an outside pov fic consisting of a chat between pidw friends in a discord specifically for discussing Peerless Cucumber ➤ Peerless Cucumber has reappeared after being absent from the internet for a year, and he wants to commission art of himself and his husband in sqq x lbh cosplay ➤ cue the chat going wild ➤ it's SO FUNNY and so much fun, I love this fic both in premise and execution, chef's kiss ➤ 2.4k words