In this episode we discuss time travel fanfics: what they are, why they exist, and how they’ve influenced mainstream culture.
Fic Recs
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by sunalso
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/6261235/chapters/14346949
Starts post NFA in 2004 and loops back to 1997 and a very AU Season 2. Having fallen into a deep depression following the destruction of her entire world, Buffy attempts to take her own life. In a desperate measure to save her, she is sent into the past. Only she doesn't go back entirely alone. Faced with becoming a ghost in her own past can Buffy figure out how to live again? And what's with that echo that traveled with her?
Starts out dark but doesn't stay that way.
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Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue by starbrigid (Series)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1765369
All it takes is one look in a mirror and an ill-advised attempt to shatter it, before an embittered Draco Malfoy fresh out of Azkaban is sent back into his body on the day he gets his Hogwarts letter.
Suddenly, Draco has an unwanted second chance, with a Sorting Hat that doesn't know what to do with him, a certain Muggleborn who won't leave his study table alone, and green eyes he just can't get out of his head. And then there's his new wand, whose choice of him could just mark him as every bit as dark a wizard as his name means he should be.
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The Poison Garden by turtle_wexler
Fandom: Harry Potter
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16780603/chapters/39378724
Upon finding herself thrown back in time to 1987, Hermione decides to befriend a young Potions Master. He has other ideas.
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Battle is the Great Redeemer by Lady_in_Red
Fandom: Game of Thrones
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18924034/chapters/44926084
Jaime Lannister dies in a tunnel under the Red Keep, and wakes up days earlier at Winterfell. And then it happens again. And again. But he's not the first to live the same battle over and over again. Arya Stark, the slayer of the Night King, went through it first in the Battle of Winterfell.
Edge of Tomorrow AU
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