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And here are this week's batch of recs for Tropey Thursday! They're all about time travel!

[AO3] Tea and No Sympathy, by who_la_hoop
Harry Potter; Harry/Draco
70,045 words. Rated Explicit.

It's Potter's fault, of course, that Draco finds himself trapped in the same twenty-four-hour period, repeating itself over and over again. It's been nearly a year since the unpleasant business at Hogwarts, and Draco's getting on with his life quite nicely, thank you, until Harry sodding Potter steps in and ruins it all, just like always. At first, though, the time loop seems liberating. For the first time in his life, he can do anything, say anything, be anything, without consequence. But the more Draco repeats the day, the more he realises the uncomfortable truth: he's falling head over heels for the speccy git. And suddenly, the time loop feels like a trap. For how can he ever get Harry to love him back when time is, quite literally, against him?

[AO3] Let's Stop the Time Warp (Again), by lettered
Marvel Cinematic Universe; Gen with background canon het; ensemble but Steve Rogers-centric
113,146 words. Rated Teen and Up. Content warnings: mild gore.

Steve Rogers has to live the same day over and over. Bruce, Tony, Pepper, Jane, and Thor try to help him. Then things go from bad to worse.

[AO3] Between That Which Exists, by MiraMira
Narbonic and Li'l Mell; Artie/Sergio
3,522 words. Rated Teen and Up.

Artie didn't think there was any situation too strange for even his super-intelligence or vast reservoir of past experience with weirdness to handle. But the only thing stranger than the one he finds himself in right now is that Mell may be the only person who can guide him through it.

[AO3] Visited Upon the Son (A Thousand Shattered Futures Remix), by Woldy
BBC Merlin; Merlin/Arthur
7,408 words. Rated Teen and Up. Content warning: violence; character death.

Merlin will keep doing this until he gets it right.

[AO3] And Indeed There Will Be Time, by kaydeefalls
Torchwood; Janto; Torchwood ensemble (incl. Martha) and OCs
42,433 words. Rated Teen and Up.

In 1919, Harriet Derbyshire was killed while investigating the disappearance of Torchwood Four in Dublin. In 2009, UNIT pulls a dying man out of the Irish Sea with a one-word message: Torchwood. Martha joins up with Jack's team in Cardiff to track down the errant branch of the organization -- before a time-traveling race of aliens can change the course of history as we know it.

[AO3] National Cherry Turnover Day, by Sock_Lobster
Gravity Falls; Stancest
9,876 words. Rated Mature. Content warnings: sibling incest, temporary suicide, temporary murder.

Reliving the same day over and over sounds a little like hell to Stan. Enough to drive even a sane man crazy.

So luckily for him, he's not the one doing it.

[AO3] Holding Pattern, by Arcanista
Undertale; Gen; Sans, Frisk, Chara, Papyrus.
Series of 14 fics; 102,865 words total. Rated Mature. Content warnings: themes of self-harm, suicide, and abuse.

This is a story about choosing, against all obstacles, to become a better person. This is a story about the mundane power of names. This is a story about treading water so high you need to crane your neck to breathe, and the undertow is building, and it hates you. This is a story about communication when all lines have been cut.

This is a story about putting yourself back together even while someone else is smashing the pieces with a hammer.

[Dreamwidth] A Moment's Grace, by Branwyn
Doctor Who; Gen; Martha and the Second Doctor
4,426 words. Rated PG-13.

On the eve of her return to England, a weary Martha Jones meets an old friend for the first time.

[365 Tomorrows] Fleet of Ages, by Jared Axelrod
Original; Gen.
473 words. Not rated.

I never could wait. That was my problem. That was a failing we all shared.

[AO3] here at the end of all things, by lonelyghosts
Homestuck; The Handmaid/HIC (all quadrants)
1,736 words. Rated Mature. Content warning: major character death; suicidal thoughts.

The Handmaid's final duel.

[AO3] Like Clockwork, by JaneTurenne
Big Finish Gallifrey; Brax/Romana
33,688 words. Rated Mature.

Irving Braxiatel, master manipulator, has been playing a very long game where Romana is concerned. What precisely victory will mean for him, however, is a question yet to be determined.

[AO3] Raw Data, by sabinelagrande
Welcome to Night Vale; Cecil/Carlos
1,261 words. Rated Explicit.

Just your average, run-of-the-mill temporal anomaly. Nothing serious.

[AO3] Free Bitch, by thefourthvine
Doctor Who/Bad Romance music video crossover; Gen; Ten, Rose, and Jack
5,203 words. Rated General Audiences.

There's time to fix.

[AO3] Stuck, by CompletelyDifferent
Steven Universe; Gen; Stevonnie, Rose Quartz
5,386 words. Rated General Audiences.

Flung back in time and unable to defuse, Stevonnie must find a way to return to the present... and perhaps, get some answers along the way.