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With teams run by a small handful of big names, recruitment based almost entirely on who you know, and unchecked interteam dating, the superhero community is practically designed to encourage interpersonal abuse. When a former sidekick comes forward to say that she was abused by her mentor, the entire community has to reckon with the part they may have played—and with the abuses that may still be going unnoticed.
(A story of systems, told through chats, texts, and transcripts.)
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10 Jun 2024
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Boravia’s grand casino, once a hotbed of European crime, has reopened with a high-stakes poker tournament Bruce Wayne suspects may be the work of Roulette. In a country where superheroes are banned, the only way to foil a criminal conspiracy is to enter the tournament as himself, and play his way up to the top.
But not just any card-playing billionaire can get his name on the list. The real price of admission is a lot higher than the two million dollar buy-in. You also need a secret to offer up as your stake. A dirty one. The kind a man like Bruce Wayne would pay dearly to keep quiet.
Enter Dick Grayson.
Though he agrees to accompany Bruce to the tournament in the guise of his illicit lover, to help him fake a blackmail-worthy secret besides the one with masks and capes, Dick's not wild about spending so much time with his old friend in flirtatious playboy mode; but somehow it's harder than expected to watch Bruce direct that legendary charisma at other people, and Dick doesn't quite know why. Over the course of four days, what began as a straightforward undercover job devolves into a messy emotional tangle which forces both men to confront truths they’ve kept hidden for years . . . even from themselves.
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- English
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- 135,385
- Chapters:
- 9/9
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09 Jun 2024
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Take Me Out by Petroica
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
01 Oct 2023
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Four years on from his brutal escape, Dick Grayson has managed to carve out a simple, if a little lonely, life for himself – that is until he meets the imposing but kind hearted “successful businessman” Jason Todd.
Four years on from the incident at the Court of Owls, Batman finally has a lead and wrangles Red Hood’s help to track down the last remaining Talon. It’s a case that Jason isn’t awfully concerned about until traces of the Talon keep popping up around his sweet but naïve new boyfriend Dick – a man he would do anything to protect.
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- English
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- 73,564
- Chapters:
- 9/9
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- 16
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- 1,391
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10 Apr 2024
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Wishing On a Shooting Star and Thinking that a Heart Can’t Lie by Dragonbat
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
06 Oct 2024
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Divergence AU in which Neal doesn't abandon Emma in "Tallahassee". Years later, the son Emma was pressured to put up for adoption tracks them down... but breaking the curse will mean forcing Neal to confront the father he never wants to see again.
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- Part 1 of Wishing-verse: A Swanfire AU
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- English
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- 237,620
- Chapters:
- 58/58
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- 4
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- 1,951
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23 Jan 2024
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Batstream by RandomReader13 for Ginevra_Benci, MousesizeDragon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
06 Feb 2022
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“I want it on record that I think this is a terrible idea and I’m only doing this to mitigate the damage."
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Red Robin decides it's a great idea to livestream patrol while Batman's off-world. It goes about as well as you'd expect.Series
- Part 1 of Bat Socials
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- English
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- 6,822
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- 1/1
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- 534
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31 Dec 2023
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Teach And Learn by Birdlovers4
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
27 Jul 2025
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Omega Dick Grayson is Detective Alpha Jason Todd’s daughter's new preschool teacher.
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- 227,238
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- 74/?
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17 Jul 2023
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The Cover Mother by BoredomBeckons
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
14 Apr 2024
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Bruce tells the story of the only time Dick made him laugh whilst out as Batman and Robin.
It leads to a running joke amongst the family.
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03 Feb 2023
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A trip to the circus spells out disaster as Dick loses his precious stuffed elephant Zitka.
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14 Nov 2022
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don't save the world, save yourself by HowDoTheyRiseUp
Fandoms: White Collar, Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
30 Mar 2026
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He’d chosen justice once, and it hadn’t brought them back. He’d chosen vengeance once, and he’d betrayed everyone and everything that mattered.
Or;
Neal Caffrey hates guns.Series
- Part 1 of you tragic, misfiring bird
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- English
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- 134,030
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- 25/?
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- 1,286
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17 Sep 2022
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A Defense Mechanism by Spee (birbsandbats)
Fandoms: White Collar (TV 2009), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
02 Oct 2024
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Neal Caffrey is a nonviolent con who doesn’t care about breaking the law.
Before, he was Dick Grayson, a violent vigilante who did.
He's running from his past.
What will he do when the past comes to him?
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- English
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- 49,636
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- 19/31
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- 1
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- 952
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- 3,416
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17 Sep 2022
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soft clocks by dustorange for FlashInThePan
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Grayson (Comics)
12 Aug 2022
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Side effects of being revived by Lex Luthor may include amnesia, going undercover into a high-level espionage agency, not recognizing your family, fighting your family, and dealing with the emotional weight and guilt associated with encountering said family.
Ask your doctor if being revived by Lex Luthor is right for you.
(a.k.a. Dick has amnesia during his time at Spyral. The family grapples with finding out he's alive. Dick grapples with finding out he has a family. Inspired by this post by bigskydreaming.)
Re-uploaded and finished.
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- 35,233
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- 1/1
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- 17
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- 194
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- 4,221
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15 Aug 2022
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birds and brothers and other assorted synonyms by Ao3time, hoebiwan, quandaries_and_contradictions
Fandom Batman - All Media Types
08 Dec 2022
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A Reverse Robin AU in which Damian is a tired older brother, Duke is a ray of sunshine, and Dick is a baby talon.
(Each of us has their own slightly different spin on things, so timelines may not add up perfectly.)
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- 15,511
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01 Jul 2022
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The unofficial subreddit of Gotham City.
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- Part 1 of Gotham Reddit-verse
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- English
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- 6,367
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 7
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- 746
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- 9,405
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27 Jun 2022
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“Are you gonna join?” Dick asked.
“No,” Bruce said instantly.
“Why? Don’t you wanna have super friends?”
“A team like that shouldn’t be about friendship. It should be a professional coalition.”
“Can’t it be both?”
He watched the newly formed Justice League fumble to answer the most basic questions. It didn’t look like they had hashed things out at all before starting the press conference. No forethought went into this whatsoever. “Not with a group like that.”
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In which Batman is dragged, kicking and screaming, into loving relationships.
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- English
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- 24,040
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- 10/?
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- 752
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24 Jun 2022
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pound the alarm by TheResurrectionist
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
27 Apr 2022
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“Okay,” Batman said, “You’re going to open the properties and check the dr--”
Barry looked up as the comm let out a burst of static, cutting the vigilante off.
“--oh fuck,” someone said on the other end of the line, muffled in the sudden static. Barry and Oliver exchanged a worried glance.
“Batman, are you okay?" Barry asked in the ensuing silence. “Sir?”
“Apologies,” came the reply a moment later, flat as ever, “Where was I?”
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- English
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- 5,555
- Chapters:
- 2/2
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- 4
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- 163
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- 11,728
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25 May 2022
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Third Wheel by Unpretty
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
05 Nov 2016
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It isn't quite a love triangle. For one thing, Clark's the only one romantic enough to even think the word 'love'. For another, Clark and Bruce would be beating the holy hell out of each other even without Lois' involvement. And if Lois was aware of the secrets they were keeping, she'd be beating the holy hell out of the both of them. Overall, Bruce's visit to Metropolis has been a mixed bag for everyone involved.
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- Part 10 of Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts
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- English
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- 24,305
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- 11/11
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- 6,796
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15 Feb 2022
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Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts by Unpretty
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, Catwoman - All Media Types, Constantine: The Hellblazer (Comics), DCU, Justice League - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, Wonder Woman - All Media Types
03 Mar 2025
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A DC universe where moms are awesome and raise their kids right. Now with more melanin and queerness. Also, Gotham's in Michigan and Metropolis is in Connecticut. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Fics are in chronological order but are all standalone.
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15 Feb 2022
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deep roots (are not reached by the frost) by fanfictiongreenirises
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics)
04 Jun 2022
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Dick gets reverted to a younger self after being kidnapped on during a case. But this is far from a routine de-aging.
In which the author attempts to mend a few relationships here and there.
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- Part 24 of Batman Bingo 2020
- Part 2 of Lighthouse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 85,213
- Chapters:
- 11/?
- Collections:
- 9
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- 960
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- 3,375
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25 Jan 2022
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Hard Truths and Other Realities by CKBookish
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, Batman and Robin (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Superman - All Media Types
06 Mar 2026
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So because I am incapable of writing things in order here is a timeline. You don't need to read them in this order, I just want to make it clear when each thing takes place. Thursday Misadventures flashbacks not included in this timeline. Maybe when the series is done I'll post on tumblr the whole timeline I have for it.
Essential Actions
The Irrefutable Truth Chapter 1
The Irrefutable Truth Chapter 2
Epiphanies in Avalon Heights Chapter 1-16
Turbulent Spaces
Epiphanies in Avalon Heights Chapter 17-18
The Gratitude Trap: The Irrefutable Truth Remix
Glimpses of Home
The Irrefutable Truth Chapter 3
Mona Lisa Smile
The Deracination of Scars
Nothing but the Truth
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15 Jan 2022
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Rewind by AJElementus
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
14 Jun 2025
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Bruce edges closer to the crater, rubble crunching under his foot. He eyes the bottom then lifts his eyes to the partially standing alley walls that surround the area.
“We were supposed to merge… right?” Tim says hesitantly. “Older Me said we were supposed to merge but—”
“We didn’t,” Bruce finishes somberly. “We didn’t merge.”Or...
After the events of Deja Vu, Past versions of Bruce and Tim are left in a new, branching timeline with vital information about the future. Bruce has learned that at some point in the future, he and Dick make up. That Jason is alive and terrorizing Gotham as the Red Hood. And that Bruce has a son: Damian Wayne, who is being kept somewhere in the world by Ra's al Ghul. Not much about this new timeline is certain, but Bruce is sure of one thing. He is going to Save. His. Sons. and bring them all home.Series
- Part 2 of Deja Vu and Related Stories
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 41,163
- Chapters:
- 24/?
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- 648
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11 Jan 2022