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AU where Erik never becomes Killmonger, and Heimdall visits Wakanda to negotiate a treaty. (and not one where's Wallace joke in the whole thing!)

Thor asks Sam for help finding his father's ravens. Sam apparently can't say no to earnest blond Avengers seeking help. Oh Sam.

Ryan Coogler’s film is a vivid re-imagination of something black Americans have cherished for centuries — Africa as a dream of our wholeness, greatness and self-realization.

Dutch and Johnny have to deal with sex pollen. They're not happy about it.

Alec and sex: a history. Oh Alec.

Max and Alec go undercover as a fake couple! Max has to deal with her feelings about Alec! Oh Max.

Steve and Bucky through the years. Lovely.

all right. so. this is a Harry Potter AU, in rambly and abbreviated form. this is a version of events where, on the morning of November 1st, 1981, the police are called to a house in Surrey. when they arrive, a large man with a red face and a moustache is waiting for them, brandishing a baby. to be more accurate: he is brandishing a basket. the basket contains a baby. he tells the police that his wife found the basket on their doorstep that morning. “Gave her the shock of her life,” he says, with a chuckle that does not seem the least bit sincere.

A nice bit of early season 1 Eleanor/Tahani.

Scenes from the reboot where Jianyu is Eleanor's soulmate. Aw. This is very sweet and also highlights how much Eleanor and Jason might have in common.

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Team Awesome Force goes to war.

H*ckin good vid. I'm not crying it's just raining on my face.

Let's hear it for Team Cockroach! An amazing hug of a vid.

Han, Leia, and the five first times there weren’t (plus the one there was). Exactly what it says on the tin. Hot and sweet and achy.

Sensing something wrong with young Ben, Leia takes him to visit her exiled bio-dad in the hopes that he can help. Sharp and painful but hopeful at the end.

Long, plotty, highly enjoyable AU where Luke meets Ezra (now an Inquisitor) and Aphra on Vrogas Vas, and goes with Vader when Vader finds him on the planet. I especially enjoyed the scenes where Vader finds out about Leia, and where Luke and Leia team up to do Force things. Plus Rex and Ahsoka and the Ghost crew have small parts to play, too.

"Miss Fisher," Jack said, unable to force the words out past a hoarse whisper. He made the mistake of looking up, and Miss Fisher's unperturbed gaze pinned him like a rabbit under a hawk. "People are beginning to talk." "Oh really?" she said, pulling Jack's tie out of his collar in a slow slither. "What are they saying?" Jack couldn't look away. "That I'm a kept man." Miss Fisher smiled as she fished the tie out of the box and looped it around Jack's neck. "And are you?" Jack's mouth was dry. "If you'll keep me." Phryne likes to buy Jack gifts. Jack likes to wear them. This is super hot even though nothing untoward happens.

Soft and lovely story of the beginning of Frank and Roberta's friendship.

before and after pics of the apartment

Exactly what it says on the tin. Hee!

Once upon a time, Katara and Sokka did not discover the Avatar trapped in an iceberg. Ten years later, the Fire Nation rules a world on the edge of destruction. But all hope is not lost... Really well done AtLA/SW fusion.

Really nice LoK/TFA fusion with Asami as Finn, helping Mako escape from the Equalists and finding the map to Master Katara (and, in the process, an Avatar stuck in the desert).

“You know what the reward is for a job well done?” she asks as he settles back in his seat. He snorts at the familiar question. “A harder job.” “Yes,” she says. “And when you’re the leader, it’s the reward for a job poorly done as well. Because the only other option is to step aside and pray someone else takes care of it.” She looks at him. “Could you do that?” He sighs. “And you’re absolutely sure we just can’t blow everything up?” She gives him a very speaking look. Poe and Leia discuss his choices in the aftermath.

AU of the author's ongoing Leia time travel story, in which TFA-era Luke is also back in the ANH-era in his 19yo body, and he gets to reveal himself to Vader. Brief but excellent Skywalker Family Drama ensues.

In which Bucky Barnes emerges from cryofreeze, gets therapy, buys a house, some chickens and a few horses, and finds himself under the care of a few capable women and one capable girl; and in which Steve Rogers comes home. This is really lovely - quiet and melancholy and achy and hopeful all at once.

In which Alfred appears on the Great British Bakeoff. Delightful!

Long, complicated, plotty story of Jason slowly coming back to Gotham, and coming home to the Batfamily. Lots of good Batfam interaction, plus, Jason Todd: orphan collector. The apple really doesn't fall far from the tree. And the adorable sequel: http://archiveofourown.org/works/12766956 ParentHood

Peter and Bucky end up roommates at ESU when Bucky goes back to school. The author calls this an odd couple buddy tragicomedy and they're not wrong. Oh Bucky. Oh Peter.