Divertime: This Time Around
Fics in which characters deliberately change the timeline (& thereby their or other people’s lives)
i.e.: Mostly time travel - generally covers a significant portion of the timeline (late to early/pre) - (sometimes) focusing on (ultimately) altering a climactic event
occasionally (canon-altering) time loops,
(Occasionally precognition/memory loss/gain)(Occasionally non-time travel major event alteration; mostly infinity war.)
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for a hundred visions and revisions by aventria, iluxia
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Doctor Strange (2016), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Thor (Movies)
05 Aug 2023
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Dr. Strange looks at the world after Thanos and, faced with its seemingly irreparable brokenness, breaks his own oath. Tony, Stephen, and Loki go back in time for one more chance - an intentional choice, because they are each other's insurance against repeating the same mistakes. Tony wakes up shortly before the Stark Expo with the reactor's palladium core still poisoning him. Stephen wakes up with undamaged hands and a flourishing medical career. Loki wakes up in Asgard one day before Thor's coronation.
"Do I dare disturb the universe? / In a minute there is time / for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
[ Yet another take on that time travel fic with lots of worldbuilding, hand-wavey comic book science, political intrigue, inventing, nerding out, and a broken Tony trying to fix a broken world - but this time he's not alone. ]
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Bookmarked by Scribbled_Seconds
05 Mar 2025
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(S/T/M: scattered one-word refs, surgery & (offscreen) death)
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Just Like the Sting of a Bee by AnonEhouse
Fandoms: Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Ant-Man (Movies)
02 Dec 2023
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After Tony 'steps back' from the Avengers at the end of Age of Ultron, he talks about the team with Friday and realizes he had nothing to 'step back' from. He never was part of the team.
This story is a what if where Tony makes one change, which opens up new opportunities. One among them is an earlier proposal of marriage to Pepper than canonical. That is one among many many many facets of the story, it is not the main point of the story. Tony gains a support system, while other people lose theirs. Tony explores possibilities to defend the Earth. Tony gains allies.
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29 Jan 2025
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"The number of times dad complained about losing the shield made me wonder if that was his real motivation for searching for Rogers. He wasn't sentimental about anything else, so why would he spend a small fortune in the hope Rogers could be buried at Arlington instead of the Arctic?"
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Tony Stark isn't iron. Tony Stark is RUBBER, bounces back and keeps on going.
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"FUCK," Clint said. "I thought [Wanda] just threw things around. Have you been mind-fucking ME?"
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Maybe Thor's zapping had messed [Vision] up, maybe he was a synthezoid premie.
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Tony recalled his dad saying that Erskine said he'd chosen Steve because he was weak. That he trusted a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion. Too bad that Erskine hadn't seen Revenge of the Nerds. Or Home Alone. Give a weak man power and expect him to show compassion for those he'd envied or feared? Not likely.
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PA Vision :) - Uncle (Spider) Ben :)
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Since they didn't go to war outside their nation, why did [Wakanda] need a standing army? Tony wondered if the different tribes battled each other. Or was it like an on-going Olympics, where the aim wasn't to defeat the enemy, but to earn status? -
Where's My Goddamn Dinosaur by njw
Fandom Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Red Robin (Comics)
10 Jun 2020
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Parts one through three constitute the main series and are intended to be read in order.
Part four is a collection of oneshot what-if scenarios, each chapter spinning off from the main series at various points. The chapters can be read in any order, but most will not make sense without having read at least part one of the main series.
Parts five onward are all standalone what-if scenarios and can be read separately from the rest of the series.
Enjoy! :D
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07 May 2024
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S/E: see ch. Notes
M=mostly innuendo (or threat) -
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It had been a relatively okay day for Stan, up until he got attacked by the crazy girl.
And now she and her brother want him to go on a road trip with them because apparently they need his help to...keep the world from being destroyed?
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zuko finds himself in the past, so, naturally, he decides to improve the future, to mixed results
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