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Title: Blake's Corollary
Fandom: Batman Begins Verse
Pairing: Bane/John Blake; Bruce Wayne/John Blake
Categories: Action Adventure, Angst, Crack, Humor, Post-Canon
Length:Epic (91,250)
Warnings:Blake's Potty Mouth, Cannon typical violence

Author on LJ: pagination
Website: Pagination's A03

Summary: If there are any two men less likely to share their toys than Bane and Bruce, John doesn't want to meet them. Also? John is not a toy, goddammit.

Review: This was going to be my rec for last weeks Humor theme.

It is absolutely hilarious, and surprisingly true to the 'Batman Begins' fandom for all that it's basically a romantic comedy between three men.

I can't say much more without ruining the various punch-lines, but this is definitely a story to read if your in the mood to roll on the floor laughing.

Blake's Corollary

Title: Toil Until the Old Colours Fade
Fandom: Les Misérables
Pairing: Javert/Jean Valjean
Categories: Action Adventure, Angst, Repeating-time, Romance,
Length:Epic (94,300)
Warnings:Suicide, Failed Revolutions, Cannon typical violence

Author on LJ: drcalvin
Website: Drcalvin's A03

Summary: After his leap into the Seine, Javert finds himself back in Montreuil-sur-Mer on the morning of his first appointment with M. Madeleine. He soon discovers that while his choices can change the outcome of things, nothing can stop death from delivering him back to that same morning.

Now he has to defeat the game of fate or keep returning to 1820, eternally dying without finding peace.

Review: This started out as a Kink-meme fill that grew, got betaed, and was recently reposted in it's entirety on Ao3

Beautifully written and extremely touching, Toil Until the Colour's Fade is one of the best ground-hog day redemption fics that I've seen. A lot of that has to do with DrCalvin's very stong Javert voice.

He fails, falls into depression, falls in love, and continues this cycle for years never knowing why or when he will be called back to the first moments of his life. What makes this so different from many of the ground-hog's day fix-it fics before it, is that Dr. Calvin doesn't give Javeart a particular time period that he is forced to repeat. Instead he has a whole life to try and piece together.

If he manages to find a way to fix on piece of his life, he gets to live further and learn more about what went wrong. Until finally he is able to live all the way through the events of "Le Mis". And then even further...

Toil Until the Old Colours Fade

Title: Darkness, Flooded in Light
Fandom: Thor/Avengers MCU
Pairing: Gen
Categories: Angst, AU, Family, Hurt-Comfort
Length:Epic (43,000)
Warnings:Brainwashing, Body Dysphoria, Mentions of past child-abuse and murder, Depression,

Author on LJ: glaxysoup
Website: Galaxysoup's A03

Summary: “When much is taken, something is returned.” - Terry Pratchett, Nation

Loki falls. Injured and unable to access his magic, he must struggle to restore himself physically and mentally before the Bifrost is repaired and Asgard comes to find him. That would be difficult enough, but one of Asgard’s deepest secrets has followed him...

Review: As the author puts it: "In many ways, this story is my fannish love letter to the town where I grew up. Several of the characters are composites of or inspired by people I knew when I was a kid, lo these many years ago; the Pike Free Library was given a name-change but is otherwise pretty much identical to the one I frequented (including the bathtub in the children’s room, which I have never grown out of wanting for my very own)."

The love she holds for both the area and the townfolk, shows in all the loving details and backstory. In a lot of story's that are some richly populated with OCs things tend to get bogged down in the detils, but Galaxy soup not only manages to keep the story moving, she also makes you want to move to this town.

Also she writes an absolutely amazing gender-queer Loki voice!

Darkness, Flooded in Light