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Leia has to deal with memories of her parents when she's assigned Bail Organa's old apartment on Coruscant.

This is a very cute story of Bucky Barnes blowing up twitter, but then there were musical references and I died trying not to howl at my desk.

Marci joins Nelson & Murdock for a bit and sorts out her life. Lovely. And the sequel: http://archiveofourown.org/works/4242351 How to Unmask Your Neighborhood Vigilante, in which Marci figures out about Matt. Oh heart.

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Sweetly domestic post-TRK Adam/Ronan.

Great image of Rey being terrifying on the battlefield, from Poe's POV. ♥REY♥

Sam POV from the end of CACW through the mid-credits scene. Lovely.

Sam, Bucky, and punchbuggy. I could read a million more words of this.

Jack's doing great in his first year out of Samwell. Shitty, not so much. Oh my heart. I love their friendship so much. (check if there's an AO3 link)

Bruce and Diana spend Christmas with Clark and the Kents. Sweet and lovely and melancholy and hilarious. Oh my heart.

Bucky, surviving on his own pre-CACW. Oh my heart. *GROSS SOBBING*

Leia and Rey finding family in each other. GROSS SOBBING. This is everything I want for their relationship. Oh my heart.

13 postscripts Steve could have written on the back of his letter to Tony. Exactly what it says on the tin. Oh Steve. Oh my heart.

Rey accidentally time travels and meets young Anakin. Oh my heart.

CA:CW alternate ending. What if Steve had taken Bucky to Pepper for help? Pepper, being sharp, clear-eyed, and pragmatic in the wake of CACW. Yes, good.

It's mainly that she never expected to live this long. She has a contingency plan for everything except, as it turns out, surviving past her twenties. And it keeps surprising her, the way that aging catches her off guard in small ways. It's not the big things -- those she expects, can prepare for. But she never anticipated how differently she'd think about things at thirty than at twenty; she never understood how a lifetime builds up, in ways that can't be undone. Everything she's done, every person she's loved or lost leaves a trace like scar tissue. It drags at her like half-welcome, half-unwanted luggage that she has to carry around with her everywhere, making it harder than it used to be to slip in and out of her many chameleon skins. Habits and likes and dislikes, old friends and old enemies weigh her down. Natasha, at the end of CACW, pragmatic as always.

Five times Leia spent the night with Han. Lovely. (though personally I can't believe Leia wasn't trained to shoot before she went off to Coruscant to be a senator.)

Rey's a fast learner. This is a really lovely look at what and how she learns. Oh heart.

It's not Clint's first time in prison, but it might be the most annoying time. Hee! CACW spoilers.

Lovely and joyful coda to TRK. Could use a beta pass, though.

Lovely domestic moments for Adam and Ronan post-TRK. (spoilers, obv.)

Bucky has a groundhog day experience, and his day resets every time Steve dies, so he's just going to have to figure out how to stop Steve from dying. Oh Bucky.

Pepper has some important news for Tony. CACW spoilers. Ha, yes, this.

Scott does his best to keep morale up. Aw heart. Major CACW spoilers.

She and Finn are still really just learning how to be people who know how to be around people, and maybe that’s part of what makes it work. The fact that they have each other to ask questions, and try to sort it all out together. And maybe neither of them would even be offended if Poe found them just a little bit ridiculous. Like when they make it their mission to try and rank every single dessert served in the mess, or when Rey grabs Poe’s helmet in the middle of a conversation and pulls it on without comment, only to grin manically at him. Or the way that Finn has to sometimes consciously stop himself in the middle of a sentence, when he’s about to remind them about the rules. But the best part is that Poe never does find them ridiculous, and even makes a point of indulging them whenever possible. Rey catalogues the things that are hers. Lovely.

Blue and Ronan grieve in their own way, post-TRK.

I don’t want to be anyone’s possession, he thought, testing, but this did not feel like ownership. This felt like belonging. A distinction Adam once had not understood, but which Ronan had always known. And now he was trying to make Adam a part of the place Ronan had always belonged. Lovely, quiet story of Adam moving into the Barns with Ronan post-TRK. Oh heart.

Lovely, melancholy Natasha POV on the events of CATWS, featuring some hot and achy Steve/Natasha.

Lovely bit of Finn/Rey/Poe from Finn's POV.

Sweet, awkward glimpses of the Cheng/Sargent/Gansey road trip. Aw heart. (though I think the HP-matching is off a generation. IJS.)