recs and links

After Jason gets injured, he convalesces at the manor, and eventually Bruce takes him on a road trip of recovery. Oh my heart.

Leia & Rey and all their relationships. *sobs*

Steve likes the wild ones. Barbershop quartet!

Rory & Lorelai through the years.

Beautiful multi-source love letter to fandom. #i'm not crying it's just raining on my face

The Resistance. *sobs*

Captain Solo and General Syndulla, on the subject of shipcraft, idealism, and love. In no particular order. oh my heart.

An AU where Ozai arranges a political marriage between Zuko and Katara in order to further his plans for world domination, but things don't quite go according to plan. I enjoyed this a lot.

Debbie and Lou receive a recruitment pitch from Leverage International.

Really good look at Rachel, especially in the final season. (And I can't get the song out of my head.)

Superhot Shuri/MJ/Peter.

Achilles’s shield tells no tale of glory at all. Here is what is on the shield of Achilles: the land, the sea. The sowing and the harvest. The meeting-place where the lawgivers debate. The dancing-place where the youths link arms. The city and the country, the procession and the sacrifice, the sons and the fathers, the faithful friends. The gods give Achilles all of human life to bear on his arm. That almost-more-than-human arm. He shoulders the shield and the fate of humanity together. Afterwards people tell Achilles’s story with the rest of the hero-songs, but he’s not a hero, do you understand? Hephaestus knew it. In the end, he’s not a hero, not a demigod, not a thing apart. He’s one of us. Lovely retelling of Achilles' story.

Missing scene from "the dogfather" by hollimichelle - Sirius shows up on Remus's doorstep and has to convince him of the truth. Oh my heart.

"You should bring your pie friend," Thirdy suggests. "Find your own pie friend," Jack fires back. Adorable AU where Eric makes pies for people in the neighborhood and Jack is in need of a pie.

Breathtakingly lovely story of M'Baku and Bucky finding common ground with each other while stoically pining for Okoye and Steve, respectively. With a great M'Baku voice and lovely art as well.

The year is 1999 and a little girl has been found with no past and nowhere to go. Someone is about to get the surprise of a lifetime. Again. A Post-DH, Pre-Cursed Child Crack Fic. This is both hilarious and disturbing.

Grace tells Robert about her and Frankie being together. Robert gets some form of absolution. This is lovely.

Regulus spit out a mouthful of pumpkin juice when Dumbledore announced at staff breakfast that Remus Lupin would be taking over the Defense Against the Dark Arts post. Or: The AU where Regulus Black is the Hogwarts Potions Professor instead of Snape and Prisoner of Azkaban goes a little differently. This is exactly the kind of wry and melancholy yet hopeful story I wanted out of that prompt and this is fantastic! Sirius and Regulus getting the chance to be brothers again! Remus getting his potion and thus Peter being captured and Sirius exonerated! Regulus atoning and still a little incredulous at being the adult in the room! Love it!

Bucky healing in Wakanda, with a little help from Steve and a lot of help from T'Challa and Shuri. Lovely,

Residents rallied for decades to save a nearly century-old dilapidated bridge in Kew Gardens, Queens. Now it will be repaired with the help of the M.T.A.

Grace is a little cranky about having to go on a Bergstein-Hanson family vacation, even more so because nobody knows she and Frankie are together. Oh heart.

After the events of Infinity War, Jess and Matt make terrible decisions in New York City, like unto two wrecked trains crashing into each other. (Also post JJ season 2, so spoilers for that contained herein). I enjoyed this a lot.

Nice look at Leia dealing with everything in the six months after ESB.

Lovely look at Beru's relationship with Shmi.

Faith and Buffy as adults still navigating their prickly friendship. This felt really true to both of them.

As he knew would happen, Ronan didn't answer. Not in words. Ronan was teaching him a new language, where asshole was a term of affection, Adam was the answer to a question, and there was no word for no. Yes, said the touch of Ronan's lips on his cheek. More, said the brief press of his body against Adam. Now, said the clasp of his hand. Yes, Adam responded, following him up the stairs. really lovely post TRK Adam/Ronan.

“on jakku giving people food freely (i.e. as a gift with no expectation of return) and saying its a gift is how they propose marriage. Giving different food back is how you accept. Rey in the resistance is SO CONFUSED. Why are you all into polygamy resistance people. Everyone is proposing to me. Im flattered general but really jfc where did this come from. I don't even know you random mechanic #6! Oh.... poe/finn... thank you for the apple. Would you like a space potato?” Rey is killing it at being married to Finn and Poe. ADORABLE.

I'm not crying you're crying

Sharp, heartbreaking coda to Jessica Jones season 2.