This week's theme is Time Travel!

So okay, I adore time travel stories-- I love any story that deals explicitly with time, but I'm a super fan of the kind where Our Hero, armed with foreknowledge and a hell of a lot of emotional Baggage goes back in time to avert whatever horrible thing that fucked him up. Sure, it's oddly specific, but... uh. Shut up.

I have mostly Harry Potter recs, because the fandom is fuckhuge and everything that there is to do has been done by someone somewhere in it. I'd love to see some Watchmen ones, but I suppose the fanbase is still a little niche.


Creevy At Large, http://bigbang.inkubation.net/bbb3/creevey.html is at the moment my hands down favorite.  Summary: In order to set right what is wrong, Dennis Creevey travels in time with unfortunate consequences.  

Our hero, in this case, is Dennis Creevy, the little brother of that kid with the camera who was ambiguously gay for Harry. His brother dies in the Battle of Hogwarts, and five years latter Dennis siezes the chance to go back to first year and fix everything. Only things of course do not work out as planned and it turns out that eleven-year-old Dennis has the attention span of a chihuahua on cocaine. Everything comes pretty much unglued from there on out. It's wonderful because it rather subverts the trope-- even though Dennis starts from where /he/ thinks it all begins,  and even though he's armed with years of knowledge no one else has, the story has already begun without him and still revolves around Harry Potter. He's out of his depth, and he knows it. It's also wickedly  funny.

A shining example of the trope played strait is Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past, http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2636963/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Nightmares_of_Futures_Past . Basicaly everyone dies and Harry goes back to being eleven years old to fix things. It could be boring, but it's not. Harry, despite being clever, knowledgable, and insanely powerful, is very much damaged goods. He fucks things up nearly as often as he saves the day, because he's operating off of a set of conceptions that are at best grim and at worst wildly paranoid or just plain wrong. The writing is superb, and the characterization is spot-on.

I'm partway into another Harrycentric one, Back Again Harry, http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3693052/6/Back_Again_Harry, and it's very enjoyable. Instead of going back from some hypothetical doomsday future, Harry chooses to come back to life from his near-death experience at Voldemort's hand--- only he comes back to life in his first year. It starts out a little rough, but so far so good. Harry seems very methodical but there's a sort of kindness to his characterization that so frequently gets lost in other stories' grimdark badassery.

Finaly there's Twelve Again, http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1007136/1/Twelve_Again Snape is caught in a time loop, if I recall correctly, and actualy ends up in the future. Tragicaly unfinished, but very nice while it lasts.

For something completely different, try  Circles, http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4031076/1/Circles . It's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and maybe doesn't completely qualify, but it's a great headtrip.



That's about all for now. If anyone wants to share I am all ears. Or eyes. Eyes with ears on them.