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“Are you okay? Do you remember me?” “What does it look like, jackass,” Barnes says, and Steve puts his free hand on his waist, looking at Barnes like he hung the moon. “I remember enough to know that you’re about to say something sappy.” “I missed you,” Steve says, as if on cue, and that happy and wiggly thing in Barnes’s chest goes into overdrive. Barnes is pretty sure his heart is gonna pull out a fucking vuvuzela any minute now. “Yeah, yeah,” Barnes mutters, happy and embarrassed about it. Bucky sets up as a hitman taking commissions on tumblr. Hilarious.

on luke in TLJ

Peter learns to deal with life as a superhero, with a little help from his friends. Oh Peter. #precious spiderbabies

Boy Wonders!

fun, in character Han/Lando in the years between Solo and ANH.

dreamy, melancholy sirius/remus over the years. *sobs*

Bruce interns with Mulder and Scully to learn profiling. Mulder loves having an intern. Scully's not as sanguine about it. This is a lot of fun.

Awesome vid of men supporting women, and lifting them up (sometimes literally). I'm not crying, it's just raining on my face.

Chewie points out that at least when Lando owned this ship, it was clean, and flaps a hand at the latest set of scuffs from Han slouching on the couch without taking his boots off. Han never had a mom, but if he had, and she’d been terrifyingly tall and hella hairy and weirdly specific about hygiene, then he guesses she’d have been just like Chewbacca. “When I first met you, you were living in a mud cave,” Han reminds him. “This is definitely much, much better. Besides, you know, we’re the not-exactly-bad-but-definitely-neutral guys! We need a few scratches, a few dents, a few caf-cup rings on the tables, you know?” Chewie has been gathering mugs with a look of great suffering, and departs off toward their galley with a grumble that Han catches nonetheless. “Awesome smugglers don’t use coasters!” he calls after him. “Ask anyone!” Han doesn't even like Lando, okay. He doesn't know why Chewie is even friends with that guy. This is hilarious.

"The future's fixed a lot of things," Steve agreed. "But not my dancing." "How bad could you be, captain?" Shuri had come up behind them without Steve noticing, arm in arm with her mother. Steve and Bucky both winced. "He can move his feet," Bucky said carefully. "And I suppose you could say that if that's happening at the same time as the music, then technically it's dancing." "But that's getting pretty technical, ma'am," Steve said. "Buck was always the dancer of the two of us." "Yes, he is quite accomplished," Shuri said, producing a phone from the pocket of her sleek white gown. She makes a show out of inspecting its screen. "I found it very enjoyable to watch. Judging by the number of retweets, so did Twitter. Mother, you two already have your own hashtag. How sweet." Bucky starts keeping company with Ramonda, Queen Mother of Wakanda. Steve just wants to avoid an international incident. Darling!

AU where Bruce doesn't let any of his kids fight crime until they're 18. Some things are much better. Some things...don't change as much as you'd think. I love it when Bruce is a good Batdad to his Batkids and this story is full of that in spades.

Jason understands where the kid is coming from. Damian’s made enough digs over the last year that Jason can point out every single check-mark against him that now applies to Damian as well. He had been disobedient. He had been too weak to defeat an enemy and killed. He had been resurrected in the tradition of the al Ghul in an act that defied Batman’s moral code. All the rules have been broken, and by his own estimation, Damian comes up wanting. The only thing the kid has left is the hope that—like Jason—the others want him anyway. Jason comes up behind the kid, and musses his hair roughly. The little guy didn’t have a clue, but that was something that could be fixed. Damian didn’t have to become Jason. There are plenty of people here to make sure that he doesn’t. After Damian dies, Jason takes the step that the others can't, and brings him to a Lazarus Pit. *sobs*

awesome multifandom vid of characters of color. i'm not crying you're crying.

Ventress runs into Rey on Jakku and mentors her for a while. Oh heart.

Thoughtful, melancholy series that looks at Damian and his relationships with various Batfamily members - Cass, Jason, and Kate in particular.

Leia carries many ghosts with her, but Padme's was the first. This is achingly lovely (but could use another editing pass).

Poe gets the chance to fix his mistakes and he takes it. Oh heart.

Phil Holland shot some aerial footage of NYC that he stitched together into a video with a resolution of 12K. That's a 100-megapixel image, folks, "48.5 times the resolution of HD 1080p". Holland has a writeu

Batfamily conspiracy theories meet social media. Oh heart.

GROSS SOBBING

AU where Vader survived at the end of RotJ, and years later (post-TLJ), Leia reluctantly comes to him for help fighting the First Order. Fascinating and heartbreaking.

Lovely look at Leia over the years (pre-movies). I especially love how this highlights her relationship with Breha.

Steve travels to the underworld to bring everybody back. Oh Steve.

Rey, Finn, and Poe find their way forward together after TLJ.

The kids undertake a mission to rescue General Organa from the First Order. This is a rollicking good time.

Peter Parker's POV of IW. (Spoilers, obv.) Oh my heart. *sobs* #precious spiderbabies

the Avengers regroup and plan to defeat Thanos. Oh Thor. Oh Steve. (IW spoilers)

Lovely post-IW fix-it for Steve and Bucky.

Tony and Nebula have to work together to return to earth (from Tony's POV this time).