recs and links

At the end of WWII, the Howling Commandos call in expert on the occult Dr. Indiana Jones to help stop a last-ditch Nazi plan. This is a lot of fun.

10yo Clint goes to live with foster mom Susan Pevensie. This was lovely and wistful.

"Fancy meeting you here." She called over to the table she'd just abandoned: "She's an old friend from New York," and then with a mischievous, sideways glance at Amita, "we were in the same book club." "What are you doing in France?" Amita asked. "I'm on location. My new movie is filming here. You?" "Getting dumped." "Ouch," said Daphne, and raised a bottle. "Champagne?" This is adorable.

“When did you know? That you would do these things for me?” Frank considers this for a while. “Can’t be sure exactly. After the Blacksmith, but before the river. But I knew because it began to hurt whenever I saw you. It’s like Bob Dylan said, you know - ‘Everything about you is bringing me misery’. That’s how you know.” “Is that what I do?” Karen asks lightly. “Bring you misery?” “Sure,” says Frank. “Like the way you’re looking at me now. It’s all kinds of hurt inside.” The hard clench in her chest every time she catches his eye; the times he wakes up screaming at 3am. All their shared past; worse, the pasts they do not share. To love someone, she is coming to learn, is to constantly be reminded of all the ways you could lose them. “Sounds awful,” she says, fingers brushing over his knuckles. “It is what it is.” He tucks a stray strand of her hair behind her ear, then kisses her on the forehead. “But that’s how you know you’re still alive.” Really great look at Karen and how she puts her life together and how Frank (and Foggy and Matt) fits into it. (also, as an aside, I really want that Punisher/John Wick dogwalkers crossover AU now.)

Exactly what it says on the tin - AU where Ahsoka's the Slayer and Anakin's her watcher, but after she died and came back, there's a new, by the book Slayer, and Ahsoka and Anakin have to mend the strain in their relationship. This does a really great job of translating Landing at Point Rain into a Buffy-style monster of the week. I could have read a few thousand more words of this fusion, but it ends rather abruptly.

Rey and Chewie take a wrong turn on the way to Ach-To and end up at Hogwarts instead, where Rey learns a little bit about magic. This is a delight from start to finish.

Peter is unmasked on live television, and everyone goes berserk—you've already heard this one but here's the twist—he's wide-eyed, staring into the camera, frightened, but not because of his own safety. The first thing that comes out of his mouth is, "Someone please, please protect my Aunt May." And the entirety of New York cries out simultaneously. Heroes and neighbours and fellow students rain down on the Parker house, ready to defend her. this could use another editing pass, but I sobbed my face off reading it, because the people of NYC defending Peter Parker (and here, Aunt May) is one of my very favorite tropes and this delivers in spades.

Crossover AU where the Weechesters are living next door to Frank Castle when John dies, and he takes them in. The series is ongoing but the first two stories are complete. I enjoyed this a lot. (there has yet to be a rat pack joke but I live in hope.)

Adorable Finn/Rey/Poe.

Shuri discovers an academic rival. This is adorable.

Leia goes to Tatooine to bring Obi-Wan back to the rebellion. Complications ensue.

Steve and Bucky after the end of the world. Lovely and hopeful.

Steph takes Damian to the zoo. This is sweet.

When Vader captures Ahsoka, she has a choice to make. Oh my heart.

Regulus destroys the locket and survives, making a different life for himself away from wizarding Britain. Voldemort rises and Regulus realizes it's time to go home. Long, engrossing (occasionally overwritten) AU where he does just that, and a number of things change (like, most importantly to me, Sirius survives the Department of Mysteries). Complete, but first in a series.

Steve accidentally acquires a baby. This is adorable.

AU series (four stories so far, but I feel it reached a fine stopping point if it's never contnued) where Obi-Wan sends a 7yo Luke back in time to save Anakin from falling. Oh Luke. I enjoyed this, but it has some very heartbreaking moments in it.

“But you were chosen—” “Chosen to live when all the rest of them died. I didn’t want that. I should have fallen on Helheim with my sisters. The wings are supposed to mean glory, but all they brought me was life. And I didn’t want it.” “Maybe the glory is yet to come,” Thor said. She hated him as much as she loved him, that he could say things like that and seem as though he meant them, that he could look at her all calm and one-eyed and still not remind her of his father. He demanded things from her just by existing. And she had no answer for his hopefulness. Sharp and sad.

Obi-Wan has a run-in with six year old Luke Skywalker. Oh heart.

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Excellent Steve vid. Oh Steve.

Aunt May decides it’s time to have a serious talk with Tony Stark about Peter’s internship. Ahahahaha this is AMAZING and PERFECT and I'm only sad it didn't go on a little longer so May could yell at Steve too.

He knows what he wants. He wants Rey and Poe and Rose to be Rey and Poe and Rose, and he wants to be Finn with them. He wants to kiss them, and a little more than just kiss them. He wants to make the galaxy a better place, and he wants them all to survive making the galaxy a better place. Rey and Poe and Rose keep kissing Finn but Finn isn't sure what any of it means. Oh Finn. I especially love Leia's oblique commentary that goes right over his head. This is adorable.

Batman and Robin rescue a baby. Bruce and Damian have a talk. GROSS SOBBING. OH MY HEART. This is a really lovely look at their relationship and all the things that hang over it.

When a picture of sixteen year old Bruce Wayne resurfaces, his family will not let him live it down. Bruce Wayne is pretty good at makeup, partly because of bruise-coverage but not only for that. These things are definitely related. Teenage Bruce in eyeliner leads to hilarity and a little bit of Batfam bonding. Oh heart.

When Gina started talking about how Captain America moved in next door to her, complete with a rap breakdown including the lines, "with his glorious American-made booty, it's a star-spangled thing of beauty," and how she was initiating a five-step plan to tap dat, the precinct just assumed that Captain America was a nickname for whatever unfortunate hottie made a real estate blunder and ended up her neighbor. HILARITY. Oh my gosh, I think I scared my neighbors with how loud I laughed.

PETER JUST WANTS TO BE SPIDER BROS WITH NATASHA. OH MY GOSH THIS IS ADORABLE. Also, Steve and Nat's friendship GIVES ME LIFE.

All the awesome bending action on display. Lots of fun.

“How will you be like her, Leia?” She smiles. “Fashion queen, political mastermind, close friendship with the Jedi--” “I’ll shoot straight.” Enfys throws back her head and laughs. Enfys Nest at the court of Alderaan. I liked this a lot.