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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Sunrise in Exile by Ragdoll (Keshka)
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Doctor Strange (2016), Iron Man (Movies), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
16 Aug 2025
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Tony does the math and realizes their best chance to save the universe is by... not confronting Thanos on his own turf.
So he steals a wizard and a spider and a space ship. And he runs.
(Three humans and an A.I in space, the alien friendships they make along the way, and discovering how science and magic might coexist in a universe where they can be one and the same.)
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- English
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- 436,970
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- 58/58
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- 29
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05 Oct 2025
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(M: Violence, torture & coercion (& death) ch.18-20, 30-1, 37-8, 42, 49, 50-1, 53-4)
(S/M: (occasional brief refs/mild innuendo)
implied/ref.d c.90% ch.24, mid ch.27, (beginning ch.58; mostly vague);
c.4/5 ch.31 (not very long or detailed; feels-focused) )
S/E: middle third ch.36 (very long & detailed, skippable),
c.1/4-1/2 ch.42 (convo-focused, not plot-critical),
3/4-c.90% ch.48 (long, detailed, not plot-critical) -
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This is a time-travel fix-it transversing the entire MCU canon, with a very loose hold on actual canon events :p
characters go from Infinity War (2018) --> Iron Man (2008)
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27 Nov 2025
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Dr. Strange looks into 14, 000, 605 different futures on Titan and decides to take time into his own hands.
Stephen wakes in a scrub room in Metro General, with a new sense of purpose. Tony wakes on the sands of Afghanistan, chest throbbing. Loki & Thor wake in the gardens of Asgard, just really confused.
and the timeline continues to unravel from there.
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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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- 185,361
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- 132/132
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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? -
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Jason doesn’t know how he got here or who that red-helmeted asshole is, but he’s not going to stand by and watch him kill people.
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What if Stephen Strange had just looked a little further into the future, and seen what would happen after the Endgame?
He really would have had reason to want to avoid the Multiverse of Madness. Fortunately, there was a way.