LINKDING

<blockquote>Told to “go up there and start some trouble,” Crowley bypasses humanity and goes straight for an angel: The Guardian of the Eastern Gate. An AU. (Book canon, but TV canon references are there)</blockquote> ➤ oh my gosh???

<blockquote>Where Genly Ai went, after Winter. [Written for Yuletide 2010.]</blockquote> ➤ oh, wow. Very effective at grounding in setting such that it evokes a strong consistent feeling throughout. Plus excellent alien anthropology

<blockquote>Anakin has always had an easy time getting what he wants. (He never means to do it.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Val had lost hope. Routine carried her where hope had stopped: up the stairs to tend the lamp. Into the forest for wood, apples, berries, more rarely a deer or a grouse. Her stores of magic and wild rice came from the same place, though not from the same method: the smaller, murky inland lake, the one too small to need a lighthouse, only the canoes and the flat-bottom boats of the rice harvest.</blockquote> ➤ I enjoy how the story never tells you directly what horrible thing it was that happened in the past, you just get to see the results of it. ➤ (Author says it's set on the north shore of Lake Superior, which is absolutely correct.)

<blockquote>"Lady Therese Vorkalloner," Esterhazy announces. He ushers her in and then makes a discreet retreat. Aral pushes himself up higher in the chair and looks at his ex-wife. He can't recall when he had last seen her. Their circles haven't crossed very much since her remarriage and, when they have, she's made it clear that they've already said all they've needed to each other. But she's not the first one of Aral's old enemies to come see him on his sick bed.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Breq is a traitor, a rebel, and a captain a thousand years out of date. Mercy of Seivarden is drifting without a crew.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A Staryk girl with a Jewish name</blockquote> ➤ YESSSSSSSS this is so good

<blockquote>Katherine Climpson explores the documentation of an unusual example of medieval matrimony.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The night she left to follow the King, it wasn't raining or anything like that.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Rita Hanson is also experiencing a time loop on February 2nd, 2017 in Punxsutawney. But it's not quite the same.</blockquote>

<blockquote>An isolated farmer finds a badly wounded man in a ruined farm. Six hundred years later, a historian researching King Elessar comes across a sealed letter. What links these two events is a story long forgotten.</blockquote> ➤ Love the frame story, love the outside pov, love the assumptions on why it's unreasonable to believe that the letter is actually Aragorn's because of assumptions about kingliness!

<blockquote>Enabran Tain has retired, and Garak has been second-in-command of the Obsidian Order for over three years. His next assignment is the interrogation of Cardassia’s newest detainee, a Federation doctor charged with espionage. AU in which Garak was never exiled. Set during early season 3.</blockquote>

<blockquote>No one will sleep until the Princess learns the Stranger’s name. Liù the slave girl, who has loved the Stranger since before his exile, when he was a Prince, when he smiled at her—Liù alone knows who he really is. So it is Liù who is dragged to the Princess’s garden by night, bound, ankles twisting as she stumbles through the peonies.</blockquote> ➤ Not sure I quite follow the ending but it works anyway

<blockquote>There's a guy lives down the road, swears he's Gregor Vorbarra. Notes: This started life a long time ago because of a tumblr ask from cosmictuesdays and then I spent a while trying to make Gregor Raised By Esterhazy actually work, to no real avail. The summary is based on the song title 'There's A Guy Works Down the Chip Shop, Swears He's Elvis' by Kirsty MacColl, which, in remembering that was a thing that existed, was the key to actually getting this into a thing that contained words.</blockquote>

<blockquote>AU from the beginning of Queen of Attolia. Attolia decides to take what she wants.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A chance meeting between two women in Monte Carlo.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Count Dono Vorrutyer gets curious about Escobar.</blockquote> ➤ (Dono doesn't ever get a conclusive answer. But he suspects.)

<blockquote>Julian has no soulmark. He knows what that must mean, and he's learned to accept it. Meeting Garak, getting to know him, is almost enough to make him think—but it's not possible. Garak must have a soulmate, and there's simply no way it could be Julian. Right? (Or: five times Julian thought he was alone, plus the time he realized he'd been wrong all along.)</blockquote>

➤ backstory between Cameron Mitchell and John Sheppard in Afghanistan

<blockquote>Victor used to glance in the windows of marque studios and look at the flash on the walls sometimes, with curiosity more than longing. What would it be like to feel someone else’s soul? There are songs about it on the radio. Romantic. In his actual life, it’s always Yakov saying, “get over yourself, get more sleep, stop daydreaming on the ice.” Or it was.</blockquote>

➤ Anaander Mianaai's early experiments in multiple bodies

<blockquote>Shangguan Wan-er could think of no reason for the Empress to summon a palace slave to her presence. No good reason. It would be the first meeting of two of the most powerful women of Chinese history.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A few years into his reign, Henry IV is troubled to learn of mystic attracting followers to his revels in the Forest of Hainault. Some say he's a saint or prophet, others that he's a vision of Christ himself. Many have noticed that he resembles the old king, Richard II. Prince Hal - always curious about the latest novelty - takes his friends to see, but his cynicism melts away in the presence of the charismatic, kingly figure, and so eventually does his sanity. Henry must take action to restore order to his family and his kingdom, but what chance does order stand against this powerful and delicious chaos? A reworking of Euripides' Bacchae in the world of medieval Christianity and Shakespeare's histories.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The sorceress keeps her magic on the hearth, under a big, iron cauldron where its red glow can mix in with the always-dying embers. --- Days of a nightingale & dreams of her lover</blockquote>

<blockquote>Yuri Plisetsky wakes up and makes a hideous discovery: himself, but old. The horror!!!</blockquote> ➤ crack treated seriously. I tagged it as time travel bc I think that's the closest tag I have

<blockquote>Gregor Vorbarra was not a man born to be Emperor. Sequel to I Dwell In Possibility.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Teyla.” Her name sounds more like a curse than anything else, and she supposes she deserves that, given what he’s seen her do over the years.</blockquote> ➤ a snapshot of one moment far into Teyla's experience of a timeloop. dark.

➤ in which Vimes doesn't get to go home ➤ (From Vetinari's perspective)

<blockquote>What happens in the War Pups' nursery on the day a group of feral crazy women take over the Citadel. (And a glimpse of the changes that come after.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>After capturing the Amitié, Captain Laurence meets an odd French officer who refuses to give his parole.</blockquote>