10 Bookmarks by VeryBerryQuiteContrary
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shining path/clouded mind by writingdreamboats
Fandoms: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
31 Jan 2026
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“Was it worth it, do you wager?” Bruno asks wryly, eyes tracing the thin edge where the moonlight cuts across Mista’s mid-thigh, hundreds of curly hairs camouflaging at least a dozen flaky scars underneath. It’s an early interruption. A quarter past five, the fleeting fragment of the hour where Mista’s gun is stowed away, meaning there is nothing to impede his focus as she draws his attention. “Abandoning whatever life you led before to spend all of your time watching nothing over my shoulder? Any regrets?”
“Working for you, or the circumstances?” Mista kicks back against the wall, staging a performance of taking his chin between index and thumb, gazing off into the distance at the curtains above her head. Deceptively contemplative, humming idly to the tune of a bygone conclusion. “Neither. I don’t regret a thing.”
On an early summer morning, the Don of Passione converses with her guard.
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- Part 1 of the (after) life of the party
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07 Feb 2026
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Jason was doing his best not to feel any concern for Tim – it wasn’t Jason’s job to make sure Tim ate and slept and didn’t dose himself with harmful chemicals – but he had to admit to feeling somewhat disturbed. Did anyone else in the family know Tim was this bad at taking care of himself? Did anyone else care? Someone should have probably cared. Not Jason, but… someone.
“You must really hate yourself,” he observed.
Tim made a vague hand gesture. “It comes in waves.”
That was a joke, right? Jason was going to tell himself that was a joke. This was already more than he’d signed up for.
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- Part 1 of Take Cover
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06 Aug 2025
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He spends another twenty minutes staring at his phone before he musters up the courage to call Darla.It rings for several minutes. For a moment Bernard thinks he’s gonna get kicked to voicemail, which is exactly the kind of anticlimactic bullshit the universe would drop on him for being anxious about this.
The phone picks up, a quiet out-of-breath noise in his ear.
“Hey, dumbass,” Darla’s voice says. “You okay? Tim thinks you’ve been kidnapped.”
It’s her voice. It’s young and smooth and tripping over the corners of words in the ways a gangly teenager does, and how did she ever sound this young?
“Bernard?” Darla says, worried.
Bernard hangs up.
Post-Cult-of-Dionysus Bernard gets stuck in a time loop of the day Darla Aquista dies, which sucks just, royal balls.
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22 Jan 2025
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Worried About Bernard (You know that I won't let you fall) by etpereatmundus for chamiryokuroi, IzzyMRDB, eldestnightwingsyndrome
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics)
18 Apr 2025
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Everything was normal after Bernard Dowd left the chaos cult. well, it was expected. The nightmares weren't ideal, but they weren't a complete surprise, and with Tim and his family close by, he could work through it.
But soon the nightmares break through into his day.
Soon he can interact with them.
Soon he can affect others through his new visions.
Soon he realises that he might have taken more than just nightmares back with him after the chaos cult.
Taking to the streets as a vigilante, Bernard will have to combat criminals, hiding his powers in case Batman kicks him out of the city, training with the Red Hood, and making it to his dates with Tim.
When other ex-cult members turn up dead, Bernard and Jason decide to team up with Constantine, and investigate the origins of the Chaos Cult.
And maybe get some half-baked therapy along the way.Series
- Part 1 of I'm worried what the future holds
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21 Jan 2025
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10 Jan 2025
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velveteen by suzukiblu
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice - All Media Types
21 May 2019
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Sitting here with wet skin and Superman’s symbol sticking uncomfortably to his chest and Black Canary’s costume being no distraction at all, Superboy does not feel like something that can be helped.
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03 Jan 2025
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What happens in Vegas by Ididloveyou_once
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
09 May 2022
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57 missed calls.
Bart_ahhh tagged you and one other in a postThe Gazette (4 hours ago)
Bruce Wayne’s youngest eligible bachelor is off the market: Timothy Drake-Wayne eloped in Vegas [EXCLUSIVE pictures]63 unread messag-
Tim jolted upright. His eyes scanned over the headline again. Timothy Drake-Wayne eloped… Timothy Drake-Wayne what?
And with who?
Or: Tim and Conner accidentally get married in Vegas and decide to stay that way until they can get quietly divorced. It’s simple. Except the Bats are detectives and the press is relentless and oh, Tim is hopelessly in love with his best frie- husband?
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- Part 1 of Husbands with benefits
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- English
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- 92,234
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- 23/23
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01 Jan 2025
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Can You Stand the Rain? by Peppermint_Magician_Lynn
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics), Young Justice (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types
05 Oct 2024
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Set in the Grieves High School Arc. As Tim mourns the anniversary of a fallen classmate, Bernard comes to find him. They argue over Survivor's guilt, get embarrassed about crying, then share a moment in Bernard's car that Tim can’t recognize as falling in love with a boy.
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20 Dec 2024
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In the Business of Losing Your Interest by FancifulFalters
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
03 Dec 2024
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"In flashes of sound and colour he recalled being small, being cradled by his mother after falling into a family friend’s pool. She cooed over him in a way so very unlike her usual distance. Whispered soft words usually reserved for clients and galas. And for years to come, when Tim would catch himself wandering an empty house, letting his mind ask dangerous questions, he’d remember that light touch: the press of soft lips against his wet hairline, the unusual disregard his mother had for her soaked dress, the soft fingers running along his cheeks. He’d comfort himself with the idea that, if he were to hurt himself, if they happened to be home, if the stars were to align again in such a splendid way if if if.
Maybe she’d hold him again."
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Tim resorts to increasingly dangerous strategies to get his family to hug him.
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13 Dec 2024
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Best Thing I Never Had by Lilse, mallow_chara
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
27 Apr 2025
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Tim notices that something is off with his boyfriend and resolves to fix it.
Little does he know that he and Bernard are viewing their relationship quite differently.Series
- Part 2 of Show must go on
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08 Dec 2024