Re-Entry, by flamethrower

He faced Qui-Gon a pensive expression on his face.  “Qui-Gon—wait.  That isn’t right.  Master,” he said, bowing with his eyes closed, as if fighting off the dizziness that Terza had warned him about.  “I owe you an explanation, yes, but I feel it is one that the Council should hear, as well.”

Qui-Gon realized he was staring at Obi-Wan.  Who was this ultra-polite, refined, bewildering man that had replaced his exuberant Padawan?  

Mature, AU, warnings for torture. After an injury put him into a strange coma, padawan Obi-Wan wakes remembering a whole history that now will never happen – at least not if he can help it. This is a mega-epic, spanning several novels – including a complete retelling of the canon as part of a vision in this awesome AU.

Re-Entry, by flamethrower

Vid: Starlight, by Sue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn5stA0D34M

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Oh, my Obi-Wan… This vid is full of his heartache and his realization that all he wants is hold Qui-Gon Jinn one more time. Music by Muse.

How I Defeated the Tolkien Estate, by Austin Gilkeson

As anyone who’s read the appendices to The Lord of the Rings knows, both it and The Hobbit are Tolkien’s translations from the so-called “Red Book of Westmarch,” an ancient manuscript written in Late Vulgar Adûni. How Tolkien came to possess the Red Book is a mystery, and the Tolkien Estate has never allowed other scholars access to it.

This is made of so much win – and made even funnier because apparently some people were confused whether it was true or not. 🙂

How I Defeated the Tolkien Estate, by Austin Gilkeson

Vid: The Things That We Don’t Say, by JJ Prods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwmnnFxrwFY

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Because Sense8 has eaten my brain, I went back and re-watched Brian J. Smith in “War Boys”, which has a gay storyline between two best friends (my favourite kind!) in between all the angst. This vid captures the lovely hesitant building of something beautiful – and it spares us the ambiguous ending. (I’m firmly in the “he lives” camp, btw.) Music by Britannia High.

I’ll Get By, by Jamesina

He doesn’t say Before I saw you again, I used to wonder if I hadn’t died after all, and this was hell. It crosses his mind often, when things don’t seem quite real. It could be hell, or some other kind of punishment for killing without any reason except vengeance. But he always knows he’d do it again if he had the chance.

Adult, post-Winter Soldier, warnings for PTSD and some mild D/s. 

Bucky might be the one who has to remember and then learn to live with the memories, but Steve needs him just as much. “Rain and Darkness Too” is wonderfully long, delving deep into these two and the immense, life-defining love they share. The follow-up fics are great as well – also, insanely hot.

I’ll Get By, by Jamesina

The Fallen Son, by radialarch

Captain America 3: The Fallen Son is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Meta!fic, RPS. I absolutely adore this, it’s brilliant and had me laughing out loud in delight at how true it all rang (esp. the fan reactions, omg). The crossover into RPS made it even better – meta heaven! 🙂 

The Fallen Son, by radialarch

It’s not over, by Mattalexa

Shit! Why the hell was this so difficult? The shock of actually seeing Olli again hit him much harder than he thought and no mental planning could have prepared him for this. His stomach was beginning to protest and the heat from the stove behind him made him feel dizzy. Yet, all Christian wanted to do was rush across the room, wrap his arms around Olli and just hold on, feel his warmth once again envelope him and his breath in his hair. But he no longer had that right, did he? He had given up that privilege when he signed those damn divorce papers after they had been returned to his attorney with Olli’s signature.

Adult, AU post-(final) break-up. I stopped watching the Christian/Olli storyline long before Christian’s final departure (before their first wedding, even) but had heard about the mess the fans were left with. This story manages to have our guys act like actual adults, acknowledging the importance of their relationship without erasing the mistakes they made. Also, the sex is hot, as befits the chemistry we saw on screen.

ETA: Sadly the fic has been deleted.

It’s not over, by Mattalexa