recs and links

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.)

Steve and Bucky, finding equilibrium. Also, seriously hot metal arm porn.

Some excellent backstory for George.

But he was on his feet faster than she knew, even off his game like this, so that when he caught a hold of her and called her Natalia in that tender urgent voice she wasn’t ready, wasn’t ready at all. She could love Bucky Barnes if she let herself. She was halfway there already. She’d never really stopped loving the Soldier. It hadn’t exactly been the sort of situation where you got closure and moved on like normal people; maybe in a few more years, or if he’d never come back. The jet was spinning, and he was so warm behind her, and it hurt, everything hurt all the damn time, like a muscle she could never relax, and she didn’t know how to make it stop. Achingly lovely Bucky/Natasha.

Sequel to Sun in Chains (previously recced); Luke and Vader face the Emperor on Tatooine (RotJ AU). Some good Luke stuff here.

Finn and Rey get high on some space weed and have some Force-enhanced sex. This is both sweet and hot, with a hilarious end note. And there's a sequel: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6598819 i heard (he's got a weak spot for you), where they loop Poe into their shenanigans.

Barriss comes to Malachor in search of Ahsoka. Lovely.

Lovely look at Princess Leia.

Lovely story (with illustrations) where Steve decides to stay in paradise and fade away but Thor's not having with that, so they track down Bucky to go and save him.

Bucky goes back to the Alps to try and find the remnants of himself, and Sam goes along for the ride. Things do not go smoothly. Oh Bucky. Sigh.

Fantastic look at how Barriss ends up the way she does, and how she has sort of the opposite problem from Anakin. With some lovely bits of Snips and Skyguy just to make it extra heartbreaking.

Fantastic Batfamily fun with Steph as Batgirl on a routine patrol.

Rey pretends Finn and Poe are her husbands to get them out of a difficult situation and of course, Poe is pining to be part of their relationship. This is so great, both sweet and hilarious.

Leia visits the Falcon in the aftermath of Starkiller base. *sobs*

Poe can't help but be enchanted by the way Rey and Finn wear his clothes. oh heart.

"Heard there's gonna be a party this weekend," Finn says easily over breakfast. "About time, I mean, I was beginning to think the Resistance was so morally upright we'd never cut loose. All that 'decadent and loathsome Resistance' talk we got in trooper barracks, and I have to tell you, I haven't even seen one thing I was promised." "...Huh," Poe says weakly, once he's swallowed the mouthful of caf threatening to choke him. "Yeah. Morally upright, that's us." Poe pines until Finn and Rey pull him onto the dancefloor.

Bucky poses for a (tastefully) nude calendar to raise money for a veterans' organization. Steve is pleased with the results.

Really lovely story of Poe and Rey bonding while waiting for Finn to heal. (Could use another editing pass for typos.)

the one where Dooku is obsessive about Obi-Wan and kills Sidious before Anakin falls

"You're not hugging me because I'm dead in the future, are you?" she asked. "Ma! No, you're fine. I just saw you last week and I come home for holidays." "You invited me last Christmas," Bruce added helpfully. "Is that what you wore?" "Yes," he said, and she didn't think she believed him. "But with a sweater over it." Martha Kent protects her son from time travelers. Excellent.

He keeps thinking of Bitty as the plane taxis and takes off. He’s spent the past two months sorting through pieces of Bitty, connecting the dots and filling in blanks. It’s a familiar exercise: stats to player performance, tempered by the variables of the ice and game play. Primary to secondary sources, altered by time and perspective. And then there’s Bitty. Teammate to friend to boyfriend. A man whose hospitality and ability to be a total little shit both know no bounds; a talented hockey player whose soft hands work magic with dough; and a solid, comforting weight in Jack’s heart that, only two months in, seems unlikely to be dislodged. Lovely story set during Jack's 4th of July visit to Bitty's.

Im looking for a specific AU fic actually, set after RotS, where Obi-wan somehow falls into an AU where everything is (more or less) nicer than his own universe. Anakin and Xanatos didnt turn, Qui-Gon is alive, Palpatine is good. Oh, and Jar Jar Binks is evil. Any other…