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atlantablackThis is for Day 2 of the Fannish 50! I'm genuinely obsessed with anything time loop/travel related so I figured I'd gather up a bunch of my favorites!
Most of them are under cuts but I left one for each fandom out to lure you in. I apparently only have one rec for BBC Merlin which seems wrong but I cannot for the life of me find any others I've saved so.
Merlin/Arthur Pendragon
20,653 | Teen+ | No warnings apply
groundhog day | time loop | getting together | angst with a happy ending | humor
Most of them are under cuts but I left one for each fandom out to lure you in. I apparently only have one rec for BBC Merlin which seems wrong but I cannot for the life of me find any others I've saved so.
The Silmarallion (Tolkien)
- Come back from the future (before we didn’t fall) by MYuzuki
35,246 | T+ | no archive warnings apply
Fëanor & Fingolfin
time travel | angst | hurt comfort | sibling bonding | angst with a happy endingHe expects to open his eyes, metaphorically speaking, in the Halls of Mandos. That is where the dead go, after all, and after being killed by Morgoth he is indisputably dead. And after the unbearable weight and pain of the last few centuries, he finds himself almost looking forward to the supposed peace of it.
He is therefore moderately bewildered when he finds himself awakening in Barad Eithel. - you have come to love what you will always fear by Dialux
27,627 | T+ | creator chose to not use archive warnings
Finduilas & Celegorm
time travel fix-it | PTSD | angst | fake marriageYou can save the world, says Vairë quietly. You can save the world, my daughter. Are you brave enough to reach for it?
[Time travel AU, featuring a furious Finduilas, a bitter Celegorm, and a number of deeply confused Fëanorians.] - into the fire by luthnethril
18,425 | Gen | creator chose to not use archive warnings | incomplete: 5/6
Fingon/Maedhros
time travel | secret marriage | hopeful/ambigious ending"My father did it his way and it made everything worse," he says, pulling back to look Fingon in the eyes. "We're going to do it my way now."
Maedhros throws himself into a chasm of fire in Beleriand at the end of the First Age. He wakes up in Valinor during the Years of the Trees right in time for his father to exiled to Formenos.
He doesn't handle that as well as he likes to think he does.
The Hobbit (Tolkien)
- Epic by bubbysbub
107,849 | Explicit | creator chose to not use archive warnings | incomplete
Bilbo/Thorin Oakenshield
time travel | fix-it | crack treated seriouslyThe up-side of being unceremoniously shoved seventy-nine (approximately) years into his past, Bilbo mused, was that at least he got the chance to murder his stupid adorable husband before, and also because, he went and got himself killed. Or... something.
In which Bilbo is pretty sure this is all Elrond's fault but is determined to see the hallucination through, and Thorin is just confused. - though the stars walk backward by baggvinshield, killaidanturner
46,783 | Mature | creator chose to not use archive warnings
Bilbo/Thorin Oakenshield | Fíli/Kíli
timeloop | PTSD | incestBilbo wakes, always in Erebor, with dark shadows to one side and the first light of a terrible dawn to the other.
- One of These Days (Again and Again) by authoressjean
13,227 | Gen | no archive warnings apply
Bilbo/Thorin Oakenshield
groundhog day | angst“Right,” Fili said. “We need to all stay alive, then. That shouldn’t be too hard.”
“You try it,” Bilbo muttered. “See how well you do.”
~
By a curse or a blessing from the Valar, Bilbo finds himself repeating the same horrific day of war outside of Erebor again and again. His repeats are always triggered when someone from the company falls. He suffers days and days on his own before the others begin to repeat the day with him.
One would think that with the whole company, an elf king, and a bowman all knowing what was to come, Bilbo would have an easier time getting them all through the day alive.
One would think that, wouldn't they.
Marvel Cinematic Universe
- As Subtle As Cognitive Recalibration by petroltogo
8,949 | T+ | no archive warnings apply
time travel | humor | POV outsider“Your sole job as Director of SHIELD is to keep track of global threats and you’ve narrowed down the whereabouts of the mad god with mind-control Jedi tricks to the planet Earth,” Tony summarizes flatly. “What’s the plan? We wait till he blows up another super secret facility whose mysteriously undocumented existence doesn’t make me suspicious at all?”
“Germany!” Rogers blurts out, interrupting Tony’s epic stare-down with Fury.
In which the surviving Post-Endgame Avengers find themselves back in 2012, trying to stop Loki from invading the Earth. Without tipping their not-in-the-know team members off. Things go— sideways. - Been There, Blown That Up by GwendolynStacy
68,659 | T+ | no archive warnings apply
Nebula & Tony
time travel | outsider POV | miscommunicationAfter Loki’s defeat and his fall from the portal, Tony starts preaching about a murderous purple titan out to get them in the depths of space.
Wait. What?
On the other side of the universe, Nebula loses her cool approximately two seconds after laying eyes on Thanos and finds herself on a wild chase through the galaxy. Now, where exactly was that pathetic piece of rock Terra again? - Peter and Morgan's 40-Year-Long-Day by thisMarvelousLife
26,964 | T+ | no archive warnings apply
Peter Parker & Morgan Stark | Peter Parker & Tony Stark
irondad | time-travel fix-itMorgan is far too clever for her own good. She knows that the infinity stones can do anything, so surely they'd let her see her dad again.
Peter never planned on using the stones, he just wanted to keep Morgan out of trouble.
(The time-travel fix-it fic in which Tony lived his life with his kids from the future showing up at random intervals thanks to time stone shenanigans) - this is not by surgicalstainless
10,932 | T+ | no archive warnings apply
Bucky Barnes/Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers
time-travel | fluff and angstPeggy Carter stepped out of 1946, and into 2015.
This is not a story about that. Not really. - at least you'll learn (to be okay) by Chill_with_Penguins
10,835 | T+ | Major Character Death
pre-Tony Stark/Loki (if you squint)
time loop | fluff & angst"Help," Loki says, his voice completely flat, "I've fallen and I can't get up."
"Did you just," Stark begins, staring over at him with some sort of horror. He's standing in the kitchen, cradling what appears to be a gallon of coffee close to his chest as if to protect it from Loki's villainy. "No! No, no, no! You aren't allowed to make jokes that I would make! You're evil! Be silent and brooding!"
"Oh, I'm sorry, is my existence bothering you?"
"Yes," Stark says, "there are actually few things right now that bother me as much as you do."
OR: in between the "puny god" scene and his sentencing on Asgard, Loki gets caught in a time loop. He'd his refund now, please.
(Odin is a shitty parent, the Avengers are confused, Loki is just trying not to go even more insane than he already is, and the author is starting to wonder why she has so much dialogue from these movies memorized.)
Stranger Things
- the lathe by palmviolet
82,547 | Mature | Graphic Depictions of Violence
Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
time-loop | PSTD | survivor's guilt | implied/reference self-harm | hurt/comfort | implied/referenced child abuse"This time, do it right. This time Eddie won’t bleed out in his arms, in anyone’s arms. This time, Steve will do it right."
— or, steve relives the day they try to kill vecna over and over, and eddie just can't seem to stop dying. steve finds this totally unacceptable. - Star of the Masquerade by glorious_spoon
64,826 | Mature | creator chose to not use archive warnings
Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
time loop | groundhog day | fix-it | angst with a happy endingSteve jerks awake, sitting up so quickly that Robin almost topples over and staring wildly around the room. When his gaze lands on Eddie, he blanches visibly.
"Oh, shit,” he mutters. “Come on, no. Come on. Not again.”
“Harrington?” Eddie asks slowly. He does not love the way that Steve is staring at him right now. He really doesn’t. Steve looks like he’s staring at a ghost, a bloodied monster, like Eddie is something that should not exist in the light of day. “You good, dude?” - Series: let's do the time (loop) again by alchemystique
34,082 | Mature | no archive warnings apply | 11 parts
Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
time-loop | post-time loop introspection | mentions of suicidal thoughts | implied/referenced suicide | hurt/comfort | POV alternating“Did you, uh… did you sing to me, once?” Eddie asks, sitting on the hood of Steve’s car and staring up at the sky so he doesn’t have to pretend he isn’t desperate for everything promised in the eyes that haven’t left Eddie since Eddie woke up in that hospital bed. It’s just –
Time loops, and the King of Hawkins High going back over and over and over again just to stop Eddie Munson from dying, and –
“Fuck,” Steve says, and Eddie doesn’t remember, but there’s a song that won’t leave his head, and the voice is soft and warm just like the way Steve smiles at him and – “I didn’t think you remembered any of it.”
---
Eddie died in a time loop a hundred times and all Steve got was this tee-shirt.
BBC Merlin
Broken Days, A Guide and How To Manual by arsenicandsunshineMerlin/Arthur Pendragon
20,653 | Teen+ | No warnings apply
groundhog day | time loop | getting together | angst with a happy ending | humor
In which if Merlin has to see the cracked gray of his bedroom ceiling one more time, he’s gonna scream. Or punch someone. Maybe the wall. Definitely Arthur, who can’t seem to find the words to say what he wants to, but after the morning Merlin’s had, whatever it was can’t possible help.
