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Steve gets hit with a curse that can only be lifted by true love's kiss. Too bad he's too oblivious to realize that Bucky's as in love with him as he is with Bucky. This is hilarious.

To break the cycle sometimes you need to let go.

Everybody knows how to make babies // But nobody knows how to make dads. OR These fucking Skywalkers.

Bucky finding his way to Steve through all the years, ice, death, and assorted other mishaps. Lovely.

“I don’t know. I don’t know what I’m—” Sirius ran a hand through his hair frantically; he thought he might vomit, or pass out, or both. “I really want to kiss you, Remus.” The words hung over them on the still summer air like a mosquito net. Sirius took a shaky breath and closed his eyes, thinking that if he gave in to his current impulse and apparated to Iceland, he’d probably splinch the majority of his vital organs in the process. The resulting image didn’t seem too far off the mark, really: Remus sitting at the end of the dock next to a heap of wet guts. Just as his resolve to stay put began to falter, Remus broke the silence. “So kiss me.” Sirius spends the last full moon of the summer with Remus and they finally get it together enough to act on their feelings. Oh my heart. This is so lovely and evocative of long summer days full of yearning and nonsense.

Tim is surprised to find Jason is a student in the class on Shakespeare he's auditing, and they have to deal with each other. I could have read ten thousand more words of this.

Damian ducks into a safe house and finds it's already occupied by Jason. Nice look at the two of them finding some common ground.

Steve wasn't the only one. The little kids had their own version of it, riding their bikes all over town: getting out and getting exercise, from an adult perspective ("It's so wonderful you're not staying cooped up in your room all the time, Dusty!" Steve heard Dustin's mom enthuse, one of the times he was picking the kid up to drop him off at the arcade), while actually scouting the town for anything weird and dangerous. He knew that Jonathan and Nancy occasionally did the same thing in the woods in back of the Byers house, working as a team, Nancy with a gun, Jonathan with a camera to document problems for the Chief to take care of. Steve figures some things out. Nancy and Jonathan help.

5 times Jason Todd saved his siblings... and one time they saved him. I'm not sure what the timeline is here (I guess it actually follows canon?) but I enjoyed this look at Jason slowly warming up to his siblings.

The first story is exactly what it says on the tin - Bruce asking each of his adopted kids if he can adopt them - and the second is Tim's POV on when Bruce asks him. #i'm not crying you're crying

The search only lasts a minute, because the bastard is in the patch of grass out back, barefoot and wearing only his sleeping shorts and undershirt. He appears to be doing someone’s closest approximation of tai chi, if that someone had only ever seen tai chi performed from eight thousand yards away through a pair of opera glasses. It’s like watching a construction crane try to do yoga. Soldier considers the likelihood of a psychotic break, first for Captain and then for himself. Unfortunately there is probably no applicable psychological testing scale for either of them, Soldier due to his optimizations and Captain due to being a fucking alien from goddamn Mars. Whatever inscrutable ritual he’s executing is probably immune to any kind of intervention. An AU that mashes up Bucky's comics backstory with CATWS for GREAT HILARITY.

AU where Steve joins Doctors without Borders and the Winter Soldier is still sent to assassinate him, but makes a different choice. I enjoyed this.

sequel to the dogfather, or prequel, actually, since it is about how Sirius comes back to Remus and they start searching for baby Harry.

Circe stays with Penelope and sends the boys on the quest instead. This is the ending I was hoping for from the book, and it captures the language and cadences beautifully.

Batman made a noise. Sort of like a grunt but more gravely. Definitely judgmental. But most of his noises were. “You need training,” he announced like a teacher assigning more homework, before adding, “and adult supervision,” like it was a forgone conclusion that any rational person would already have assumed. “Hey!” Peter yelped. “Do not! Granted, today might not have been my best day, but I’ve got this! And I’m getting training. Sort of. Plenty of on the job training at least, but I’m working on it. I don’t need supervision. Maybe you need supervision,” he told Batman’s back as if it wasn’t half a foot taller than Peter and probably a full foot wider. “I am an adult,” Batman intoned, like he was imparting great words of wisdom. “I am too!” Batman stopped and turned slowly to face him for the first time since they started this wonderful performance review. “You,” Batman told him, “are a minor. And you are going to get yourself killed.” “Am not! I’m not either of those things!” This is adorable.

Long engrossing read about how Jim Gordon comes to work with the vigilante known as Batman.

I love that Han is able to say what Luke needs to hear at Vader's funeral pyre.

Jason gets deaged and it changes everything. Long, thoughtful, funny, and heartbreaking.

GROSS SOBBING

Mon Mothma has some news for Darth Vader. This is so great because I have always wondered how much she knows and whether she ever said anything to Luke (or Leia).

If there were magic lucky talking fish in the world, she thought as she climbed the stairs, then ... well, first of all, the world didn't work how she used to think it did -- (The world contains aliens and bulletproof guys and assholes who can control minds; what do you THINK the world is, Jones?) -- and second, they didn't dispense fishy wisdom peppered with fish jokes; they just didn't. This is adorable teamfic.

Misty and Colleen, using arm wrestling to flirt. Excellent.

Nancy, Jonathan and Steve go on a road trip to track down another instance of the Upside Down and also find each other in the aftermath. Lovely.

Jefferson wants to talk to Miles about this whole Spider-Man thing. It takes a few tries. Oh heart. #precious spiderbabies

Peter B., Miles & Gwen have an interdimensional group chat. Oh heart. #precious spiderbabies

“Bucky,” Steve said, still helplessly smiling, “I mean, we’ve met, right? You know I have to do everything the hard way. It’s the fundamental fact of my nature.” Bucky sighed. “Well, obviously," he said, and sounded just a little bit exasperated, but one corner of his mouth was tilting up. Oh Steve. Oh Bucky. This is lovely.

Claiming to own L3 seemed like a good way out of a bad situation, but Lando's beginning to regret it. Lovely little bit of Lando/L3.

BORTLES!

Steve and Bucky are (fake) fake dating. This is killing their teammates. Hilarious.

Perfect snippet of M/McGonagall.