recs and links

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…

"I like all dogs. I'm a dog guy." "I like dogs, too. And cats. Both." Frank shrugs at this. "Can't trust people that don't." "Can't trust people just because they do, either." "Can't trust most people." 'But you can trust most dogs," Karen says, not hiding her small smile for him this time. For anyone like me who worried about the dog, this story gives him a happy ending.

The bond between Master and Padawan is the closest the Jedi permit themselves. Forming it, letting go of it: the hardest lesson, which needs to be relearned throughout one's life. Melancholy story that explores the Master/Padawan relationship via Yoda and Dooku, (Dooku and Qui-Gon; Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan), Obi-wan and Anakin, Anakin and Ahsoka. *sobs* (spoilers for the s2 finale of Rebels)

“Shitty totally wants to bone Jane Austen,” Ransom says as a matter of fact. “Dude, who doesn’t? Bits excluded, I guess.” “The studio audience needs to shut the fuck up, and Jane Austen is my soul mate stay away from her, brah.” Hilarious and adorable Jack/Bitty, featuring jeopardrink.

Vader discovers Palpatine made a clone of him, and he decides the clone should have a better life than he does, and things rapidly spiral out of his control as things are wont to do. I enjoyed this a lot. (lbr, my favorite part was 16yo clone!Anakin's immediate crush on Princess Leia.)

In which Josh Lyman convinces Steve Rogers to run for President. hee!

Nicely fraught, hot Karen/Frank.

They didn’t sit next to each other in meetings; they rarely left the building together, and Natasha never, ever called him James in public; usually he called her Romanov, sometimes Nat, the same way Steve did. They worked together as flawlessly as they always had, but she was fairly sure that most of their friends thought they didn’t much like each other. Only she caught Steve frowning sometimes, when something happened where they could or should have brought up their relationship, or at least relaxed a little. She couldn’t. James couldn’t. It was fine to touch and kiss and hold hands when the people around them were perfect strangers, or when they could play a role of a kind, but as soon as it was all a sea of familiar faces and cameras in strategic positions she froze up into a kind of panic mode Bucky and Natasha move in together, but don't tell anyone they're a couple. Oh my heart.

AU where Obi-Wan is a lady; she and Anakin get captured by Dooku and try to figure out what he wants with them. A good read. (Ugh, bring me all the lady!Obi-Wan fic; it scratches an itch I didn't even know I had.)

Wistful, meditative look at Jack deciding to be honest with himself about what he wants, and doing something to get it. Lovely.

Very hot Frank/Karen in the aftermath of the s2 finale.

Jack poses for the ESPN body issue. Bitty tries to deal with it. Hilarious and hot and adorable.

Very enjoyable story of when Natasha Romanoff met Matt Murdock. Oh heart.

Really lovely look at Rey deciding what to do with her hair after she joins the Resistance.

Ahsoka Tano has survived, but she has not been spared. Ahsoka, in the years after the Jedi purge. *sobs*

How do I write a thank-you card to a sister-in-law who is dying?

Interesting take on what might happen when the kids find Glendower, and then the aftermath. With a lovely Ronan/Adam/Blue relationship at the heart of it.

She disassembles ovens and covers canvases with paint in the studio she gets to use for working at the gallery, and he works in a tiny office downtown, and their fridge is covered in pictures from their friends’ lives, and Lardo has framed every picture Jack ever gave them. They hang in their bedroom, next to the pieces from her senior thesis, their diplomas, books they haven’t bothered to shelve and dirty-cheap paintings that Lardo adds improvements to. And there’s too much sugar in her drink, but she doesn’t mind it. Lovely established relationship future fic for Shitty and Lardo.

Luke finally turned to look at his father’s ghost. Despite everything, Luke noted with some amusement that his father still preferred to appear as his twenty-three-year old self. Even ten years ago, it had felt strange seeing his father this way; now it was downright ridiculous. To see them sitting together, one might have thought Luke the father and Anakin the son. “I would prefer to be remembered this way,” Anakin said, reading Luke’s thoughts. “As your mother saw me.” “Mother.” Luke sighed and looked back to the horizon, at the trailing orange-red glow of the set sun. “What would she have done?” “Oh, something brilliant, probably,” Anakin said, smiling. “Something well beyond the likes of us.” Exactly what the title says: Luke and Anakin's ghost and Rey through the years.

AU in which Sirius is sorted into Slytherin and everything is different, except for the things that are the same, which is that he and Remus are still stupidly, tragically in love and it doesn't end well at all. *sobs*