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Bucky and Peggy come to an arrangement about Steve. Hot and funny.

Hippolyta pretends she is nothing but a doting mother now, that the milk of war has soured on her lips. It is a lie of course but she wears it well, even if Antiope sees her lips thin when Diana looks at her puzzled disappointment. Antiope could pretend, she could file down her rough edges, put on a covering of velvet and make herself a soft child’s toy, but — no. No, Antiope loves Diana with a fire that only battle has ever matched, but she will not fold herself small, make herself smooth and palatable like cutting off the crusts from a piece of bread or plucking out the bones from a fish so that Diana can swallow her safely. Her niece will take her as she is, and will not choke, whether Hippolyta likes it or not. This is beautifully written.

“Oh, Tony. Trust me, the very last thing I want to do is go out and shoot fire at things with stupid numbers of people watching. Also, I’m pretty sure ‘Human Torch’ is trademarked already.” Tony sighed theatrically. “I get it,” he said. “But trust me, you don’t know what you’re missing.” Tony fixes Extremis for Pepper, and it gives her a whole other suite of superpowers. Hee!

Prequel to "No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Pine" (previously recced), in which Bucky rescues Wanda and Pietro from HYDRA. Aw, Bucky instinctively being a good big brother even with his memories still hazy is so great.

“There is nothing,” Baze said, “that would induce me to get into that water.” “They are not dangerous,” Chirrut told him. “They are beautiful .” Baze regarded him with a heavy, thoughtful gaze. The sharks swarmed around Chirrut’s legs, their bodies seething, elegant shadows under the ripple of clear water. They curved around him, tested the billow of his robes beneath the water with their curious mouths. Chirrut stretched a hand out towards Baze in invitation, his palm upturned, his damp sleeve spilling like ink away from the bare curve of his wrist. “Beautiful things can be dangerous too,” Baze said, for the sake of the sudden pleased curl to Chirrut’s sharp mouth. Lovely alternate ending for Rogue One.

When a PhD student accidentally uncovers a plot to summon a demon and destroy the world, Captain America is the only one she can get to listen to her. Steve, Sam and Bucky will fly half-way around the globe to investigate, but can they get there in time to stop the ritual and save the world? (All signs point to yes as an answer to at least one of those questions.) Hee! This is hilarious. And it also has an equally funny sequel: http://archiveofourown.org/works/10902531 Herd of Goats?

No one in the galaxy could be more different from her mother than Han Solo -- but here he was, giving her exactly the same advice. Two people who wanted a child gave her a home. Before they died, the taught her that family didn’t have to be defined by blood. Han was right; that was as much as she needed to know. Bail and Breha try to keep Leia's parentage from being discovered. Leia has a hard time with that.

Leia grapples with Anakin Skywalker's legacy. Oh heart.

AU where Steve is born in the modern era and never becomes Captain America, but Bucky still became the Winter Soldier. They meet and fall in love after Bucky breaks his programming. Lovely.

Five times Poe saves one of his squad and one time they save him. Exactly what it says on the tin. Aw heart.

"It's really tragic that he's saddled you with such a cliche nickname, Blue," Henry told her seriously. "I think he did it on purpose. Dick and Jane. What a poet." Gansey reached over and shoved the side of Henry's head without looking away from the road. "Ow! Richard, please." Henry's POV on the post-graduation Blue/Gansey/Cheng roadtrip. Quiet and lovely and occasionally hilarious.

Five years after Shara's death, someone is working miracles in her name. Mulaghesh investigates.

Long, sweet slow burn for Han and Leia, covering the OT era (especially the years between ANH and ESB).

How Leia and Han chose their son's name. Lovely.

Steve doesn't die in the explosion and he works his way back to Diana. Lovely.

Fusions!

The Wayne family is hosting a gala in honor of the birthday of Cassandra Cain, who would really like it if all her brothers were there. Oh heart.

Antiope and Hippolyta on their first day on Themyscira.

They touched each other with hands that knew every contour and angle, even after all these years, all these lifetimes in between; kissed like they’d never forgotten the taste of the other’s mouth. And Bucky almost forgot what a brutal ruin of a human being he was when he saw Steve’s luminous smile as he drew back, pressing a thumb to Bucky’s lower lip. Lovely AU of Civil War where Bucky gets some time to recover and the plot makes more sense.

In which Pepper meets the Winter Soldier, long before Project Insight. Nicely done.

Exactly what it says on the tin - three people who figure out who Luke's mother must be. Lovely. (Needs spaces inserted between some paragraphs but I liked it enough to read it anyway)

Ways to make it not totally suck.

In which the Batkids actually act like siblings. Oh heart.

Lovely Steve POV on his relationship with Diana.

Diana visits Steve's family. *sobs*

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In which Steve Trevor doesn't die and is instead picked up by an evil agency and used as an assassin for decades before he runs into Diana again. Or, the melancholy reunion after that.

They meet, as is fitting, on a battlefield. Icy cold, covered in snow, a tundra empty of all life except for a partially buried HYDRA base. Soldiers dressed all in white spill out from the base, weapons in hand. Captain America and Wonder Woman! Crossover OTP! This is lovely.