recs and links

AU where Shmi frees herself and travels with Anakin, the Jedi, and the Naboo to Coruscant. Sharp and melancholy.

Snapshots of Natasha's life in Ohio. Oh Natasha.

Hardison and Parker encourage Eliot to find a new friend to get physical with while Hardison's gone. Maria Shipp has a very distinctive allure. Headcanon accepted!

Flashes of life during and after Natasha lives with her spy family.

Confronting grief is the destiny of a Jedi Oh Luke. *sobs*

How many times do I need to save your life to pre-pay you forward for saving my soul? Excellent Anakin & Obi-Wan vid I thought I had recced before.

Finn ain't no fortunate son. Really well done!

Exactly what it says on the tin. BW movie spoilers. GROSS SOBBING.

Anakin keeps Ahsoka's padawan braid with him and it helps him make better choices when he needs to the most. Oh heart.

Bruce is caught in a time loop where Dick dies every night, and he has to figure out how to fix it before Dick ends up permanently dead. Aw Bruce. He's trying to be a good dad.

Sweeten your summer celebrations with these delicious blueberry desserts. From cobblers to pies, donuts to pancakes, these easy blueberry desserts are sure to have taste buds popping!

Long, engrossing AU where Bail and Breha are murdered by pirates and Leia is adopted by the pirate-hunting Captain Piett. I enjoyed this.

Such a fun vid!

When Inej returns to Ketterdam scarred from a run-in with a slaver, Kaz goes into murder-plotting overdrive, but Inej isn't having it. They argue and they make up.

There’s a new coffee shop in Crime Alley. It’s called the Red Hood. I enjoyed this. I always love it when Steph and Jason get to be friends.

Two long reverse Robins stories that made me achy in the chestal area. I think this is the first time Tim as Red Hood has really worked for me.

"How much more will I forget, Joe?" Nile asks, voice small. "It's not about what you forget," he tells her, searching for the right words. "It's like...negative space. You still feel the echo of where they have been, even when you can no longer fill in all the details. Maybe you lose some of the shading: the timber of a voice, the scent of their skin. Yet you still know them by the space they have left behind." Lovely.

This is a fun vid of the JLU kicking ass.

Adorable Ted Lasso vid.

Tim falls. Dick catches him. It is a near, near thing. Dick's POV on the events at the end of Red Robin when Tim returns to Gotham to spike Ra's' plans.

Two months ago, Emperor Palpatine died, and his presumed heir passed the galaxy off to the newly-elected senator from Alderaan. She finds her second-in-command in the strangest of places. Vader and his new Empress learn a little bit about each other while discussing interior decorating for the Imperial Palace.

Zoya, navigating her losses and the country she wants to build, Nikolai by her side. really lovely post-Rule of Wolves Nikolai/Zoya.

After Dick loses all his personal memorabilia in the apartment explosion/fire at Haly's, Tim gives him some of it back. Oh heart.

Carol finds Natasha and brings her home. Quiet, lovely, post-Endgame fix-it.

Neal paints a miniature portrait, of Elizabeth, for Peter. This is really warm and lovely, suffused with the delight of loving and being loved in return.

Rebecca and Keeley have a girls' night. Shit gets a little real (but remains fabulous). ♥♥♥ I love their friendship so much and it shines in this little gem of a story.

Scott is about to promise Cassie the world, but Hope is still shaking her head and Luis is mouthing no, and with this A+ parenting team in his pocket, he chews his words thoughtfully instead. Or, the Ant-Fam is having some post-Snap growing pains. Sweet and funny.

Success turns to dread, but she's weathered that storm before. All Leia has to do is rescue some Jedi, find a clone army, stick it to Palpatine a few more times, and... save the galaxy. From her embarrassing teenage father. Before he loses his mind. She can do this. She can. Shmi will help. Padmé too. Probably. Sequel to "Like Fire in Our Bones" (previously recced). Excellent and compelling read with more of Leia's adventures in trying to stop the Empire from happening, her father from falling, and Padme from dying.

Batman doesn't make it to the warehouse in time. Red Hood does. Red Hood!Jason from the comics rescues YJ!Robin!Jason from the Joker. I would read a million more words of this.

Jason had made a number of jokes about his death before. Sometimes, as a way to cope and sometimes, purely because he found them genuinely funny. They had never garnered quite that reaction before, though. Also, someone apparently wanted to murder him again so, you know, fun times. Or: five times Jason made a death joke and one time someone else did it for him. I enjoyed this.