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Damian watches over Bruce after he's injured.

Released February 1 2016

Dick finds out that Damian cut Tim's line and they all have some very necessary conversations.

Sweet, hot, mildly angsty Dick/Jason with some breathplay thrown in. (some minor typos)

Tim's life takes a different turn, so he doesn't get involved in Bat-business until a few years later, but he does get involved. I enjoyed this.

Due to fear toxin, Jason gets to see Bruce relive the moments after his death. It's not as satisfying as he thought it'd be. Ouch.

When Steve goes back to see Peggy, things don't go exactly as he planned. This is a lot of fun.

“You know how when you’re little, people make you feel like you’ve been chosen for something great? And then one day it’s like it all vanished when you weren’t looking. Like you’ve disappointed them, somehow.” Nine years after almost causing the end of the world, Adam is working backstage in university theatre when he meets a high-strung, melodramatic, manipulative American director who happens to share his birthday. this is adorable.

Post-RotJ Leia gets sent back in time to Shmi Skywalker just before the Clone Wars start. This is a lot of fun and also has some lovely moments for Leia and Shmi and Padme.

“You got my name from Barton—you a friend of his?” She was glad to know that Barton had kept his word and used her most recent alias. “Live in his building.” Rosa nodded—he was the only Avenger who lived in Brooklyn besides Captain America, and the only one she’d ever met when she fixed up his purple Barracuda. It made her feel bad, sometimes, that she’d never told Jake about that, since he got so stupid about the Avengers all the time, but then the second of guilt would pass. Adorable crossover where Bucky and Rosa strike up an acquaintance.

Death walked into Stupid Nick's Wing Dump in Gainesville, Florida, but Jason Mendoza was running late. This is so much fun!

Harry and Luna write to each other while she travels the world. Lovely.

A really fun Musketeers vid. There was so much handsome on this show, honestly.

Great ensemble vid!

Really sweet ot3 first time fic.

Charming Harry/Draco AU.

This is a really lovely duology featuring two weddings involving hte Leverage crew. Oh heart.

When she visits Diagon Alley, Hermione hates that the first thing the shop clerk in the apothecary tries to sell her is a potion to “tame her hair.” She likes her hair the way it is, curls and frizz, heavy around her shoulders. She thought the wizarding world would be different. Oh Hermione.

Bucky gets zapped to an alternate dimension where there never was a Captain America. He does find a Steve, though, who helps get him back home.

Peter and Nightingale are called on to assist in a case of modern slavery. Gets Peter's narration just right.

This is a quiet, meditative post-sequels series in which Rey tries to figure out what's next.

Raymond and Kevin spend some time with baby Peralta-Santiago. This is adorable.

Objectively, losing the Bucharest safehouse and its contents was the least of Bucky’s problems. The balding agent he’d seen directing the raid was apparently affiliated with SHIELD, which was a shadowy government agency that made representatives from other shadowy government agencies suddenly remember urgent appointments when Bucky tried to bribe, threaten, and otherwise shake them down for information on what the hell SHIELD might want with a former brainwashed assassin. Dodging SHIELD should be his number one priority. Subjectively, he wanted his fucking cat back. AU where Steve and Bucky don't have any history but they meet when Steve accidentally kidnaps Bucky's cat. This is adorable.

Clint Barton drops in to visit his brother-in-law, Eliot Spencer. This is fun!

“So you’re saying we should go on a fake date and catch a serial killer so that we can have the moral high ground over Bruce,” Jason said. “Just to be clear. That’s what you’re suggesting.” Steph and Jason have fakeout makeouts (that are maybe a little too real) to catch a serial killer and it is ADORABLE.

Mace Windu survives, and begins to put together his own small rebel crew. Oh heart.

What happens when Steve Rogers steps onto the quantum platform to return the Stones? Where does he go? What challenges does he find? Who does he meet? How many lifetimes can one man have? This is a five part series that explores Steve Rogers' travels through the multiverse. Lovely, elegiac series that explores what Steve might have been and done while he was returning the Infinity Stones to their places in the timeline.

Bucky didn't want much. Just to keep his head down, to sell his scavenged flowers in peace, and to stay off Shield's radar. His life would have been a lot easier if his flowers weren't dead and if being a necromancer wasn't illegal, but easy or not, he was getting by. Steve didn't want much, either. He was happy working for Shield, he had good friends, and overall his life was going just about the way he wanted it. Problem was, being happy with your life was generally an invitation for fate to throw a spanner in the works—and in Steve's specific case, it was going to be a spanner named Bucky. This is a really lovely AU.

Ahsoka finds Poe Dameron on Jakku. This is fun.