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Jason and raccoons have a lot in common. (Additionally: his so-called family are much bigger pests than the stray animals hanging around his safehouse.) ADORABLE.

The worst thing about the Black Book job, in Alec's opinion, wasn't the fact that he'd had to lie to Parker and Eliot for most of a year about why they were really in Portland. It was that they had to leave the Bridgeport Brewpub behind. Parker and Hardison get their man.

Bucky and Sarah have busy holiday seasons ahead of them: Bucky's reconnecting with his family, and Sarah's former mother-in-law has come to stay for her annual holiday visit. As if that wasn't enough, Sarah and Bucky both have to deal with well-meaning relatives trying to set them up with other people when that's the last thing they want or need. There's a simple solution to that problem though, in the form of one little white lie to get them through the stressful holiday season. They can claim to be dating each other. Oh my gosh, this is so sweet and lovely and hopeful.

Sokka’s beautiful friendship with Zuko doesn’t start with breaking Dad out of jail. That’s just what he tells people. Sokka’s beautiful friendship with Zuko started the day he realizes that he knows how to cook. Feat. breakup cake, an attempted assassination, and eating out of the pan like dirty heathens. This is ADORABLE.

Obi-Wan set foot aboard the Death Star knowing he was about to die. No one was more surprised than he to find out he was wrong. Obi-Wan makes it back to Yavin and trains Luke and Leia. Leia's not too keen on this Jedi business, but she'll do whatever it takes to win. This worries both her and Obi-Wan.

Natasha had no intention of acknowledging her feelings for Steve -- much less acting on them -- until her sister showed up and forced her hand. Oh my gosh so many excellent tropes, and Yelena being an excellent little sister too.

Tim starts his night trying to calm down a graduate student with a ray gun. He has no idea that he is part of a time loop. Future Tim (which will be him in three minutes) won a second round of the Titans Tower fight and managed to put Jason on the path to coming home. Past Tim didn't do much other than think he was dreaming when he met a much calmer Jason. Future Tim decided that three minutes was plenty of time to figure out just get everything right and stabilize a time loop on the first try. No pressure. I enjoyed this!

In which there is a direct line from Jamie's new sunglasses to Roy discovering feminism. This is so very in character.

Post season 2, Jamie does a PSA for the National Council on Domestic Violence. He does not expect anyone to notice this. He is not aware that he's surrounded by people who notice everything.

Roy has not attended shul since his zayde died. When Keeley’s mum visits for Passover, Roy has to grapple with the fact that 1) he did not know his girlfriend was a member of the tribe, and 2) she knows way more about their culture than he does. This is lovely.

I so wanted this to happen so I'm glad there's fic where it does.

"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter." Yoda, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Some Jedi are more force sensitive than others. And then there's the Jedi who aren't so much force-sensitive as straight up force beings who have somehow acquired a physical body. The clone troops roll with it. Ahahahaha!

What a sumptuously joyful vid about food and sharing it with the people we love.

Jason goes to Gotham instead of staying with the League, and that changes everything. I enjoyed this a lot.

Unbeknownst to Alfred the Cat and Bat-Cow, there was a witness. Jason Todd investigates. Post-ep for Episode 19, Bat-Cow's Day Out, featuring family shenanigans, some puns, and Jason Todd's thoughts on the case, the past, and sibling code. Adorable!

Luke finds a cryo pod with a clone inside it shortly after Endor.

Map of Beleriand, First Age 1-475.

Dick and Damian get kidnapped in their civilian guises, and Dick will do anything to protect Damian. Damian is angry that Dick thinks he needs protecting. Oh my heart. (cw: there's a definite threat of sexual violence, and Dick has a brief flashback.)

Another dead Robin, another miraculous resurrection. This time, someone notices when the grave is disturbed.

In AU where Bruce finds and adopts Cass when she's much younger, Alfred meets his newest grandchild. Oh heart. And the sequel, https://archiveofourown.org/works/35937592 Something Other Than Fear by @SilverSkiesAtMidnight.so3

Tim stops an alternate universe Talon!Dick from killing Batman. And then takes him home and makes him a big brother.

The moment Bruce returned to where he'd left the Batmobile and found it missing, he knew the night was going to be singular. Bruce doesn't know what trouble he's taking home. (On the other hand, the trouble doesn't know what he's in for either. *g*)

Five years ago, Thor died on the Statesman and Thanos wiped out half of all life in the universe. Now the Avengers have a plan to undo the Snap, but they're going to need the help of the last King of Asgard. That's not a problem; that's where things get interesting. That tends to happen around the God of Mischief. Fun Endgame AU where it's Loki who survives instead of Thor.

Kon runs into Tim at a gala and then bodies start dropping. Oh boys.

Talia tasks Jason with taking Damian to Gotham, and Jason and Bruce have to learn how to be a family again.

AU where Cass Cain is Batgirl around the time of Titan's Tower. She really, really doesn't like it when people hurt her little brothers. People should probably consider that before going after a batling. Two stories where Cass chivvies Jason back into the family.

Tim realises that his incessant stress headaches might be indicating something and tries to find a way to destress. His friends and family offer lots of advice, none of it helpful. Also there's a cat. Tim tries to find a hobby. It's harder than he expects. Adorable!

He has never argued with a punishment, not since he was a toddler, if then. Surely she’ll listen, surely she’ll see this is too harsh, that he wouldn’t be disrespecting her like this if he was simply sulking over not getting his way. He needs that food, needs to be able to eat enough if he wants to be Robin. He’s been hungry before, but back then, it never mattered if he was a little weak or dizzy. It never risked his life or the life of his partner when he was a kid. Oh, Tim.

Tim finds himself having, once again, been dragged into the social event of the season. As he slowly dies of boredom and the physical exertion of not rolling his eyes, he bumps into his fellow prisoners brothers and they decide to do something about Bruce’s tendency to trick them into going to these things. More specifically, they decide to cause as much trouble as possible in the hopes that Bruce will just straight up stop inviting them. [cue mission impossible theme] This is hilarious.

“He broke my camera!” Tim wails, incensed. “Not a crack, not a dent; it’s nothing but a pile of glass because he broke it!” “And his ankle,” Robin adds. “And my ankle!” “...I accidentally hit him with my car,” Batman reluctantly offers when Dr. Thompkins raises her eyebrow at him, causing her to choke on her next breath. (Or: One evening while birdwatching, a ten year old Tim Drake gets run over by the Batmobile.) Ahahahaha, oh Tim.