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“I haven’t really been to a wedding where I’ve, uh… let loose. But, hey,” Dennis shrugged, “maybe I’m doing it wrong.”
“If I hadn’t already agreed to go to this conference, I’d offer to go with you,” Robby said casually. “Show you how it’s done. I’ve got a good track record as a plus-one, too.” Dennis had to say something. To interrupt. To shut this down. But what was he supposed to say? No, you can’t be my plus one, because I lied about my cousin, and there is no wedding, and it seems a little weird to bring a date to a fucking funeral– “Apparently parents love it when you bring home a doctor.”
And just like that, the bubble popped.
“I’m not gay,” Dennis snapped.
He had never hated the sound of his own voice as much as he did right then.
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Or, Dennis is anxiously headed home for a "wedding" in Broken Bow, Nebraska, the details of which are increasingly fuzzy. Robby's got a medical conference in Omaha that same weekend. So they carpool. Seventeen hours both ways in an enclosed space with no way out except a tuck and roll. This'll go great. -
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Merlin is struck with a curse while he and the knights are out on patrol. He must confess his darkest secret or he will die. Arthur thinks he already knows what Merlin is gonna confess, trying to coax him into saying it, but what happens when what he's expecting isn't what comes out?
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“Damn it, Merlin, the witch said this curse would kill you if you didn’t confess! It’s one secret, just say it! I won’t care no matter how deep and dark it is, but I will care if my useless servant dies taking it to his grave!”
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15 Oct 2026
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and with my opened mouth i join the singing light by intothefirewego
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
11 Apr 2022
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Merlin frowned, and tried to inhale, but choked on a cough. He opened his mouth, trying to speak but his mouth was sticky and full and he felt warm, warm, warm, warm spilling down down down down…
The world tilted on its axis a little bit, and Merlin leant into Arthur’s body. Why was the world tilting?
Arthur’s face shifted from annoyance to horror.
**content warning: graphic descriptions of blood**
update: now with epilogue!
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your makeup running down your face by Spooky_Vanilla for strawberrykiwitea (iloveyourrosecheek)
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon)
03 Oct 2023
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“Got a hot date?” Nightwing asked teasingly.
“Maybe,” Wally said, quirking an eyebrow, “You?”
Nightwing grinned, and it looked a little smitten. Wally leaned forward, intrigued. “Yeah.”
“Had to cancel?” Wally asked, sympathetic.
Nightwing sighed, “Yeah.”
Or: Wally starts dating a great guy that he wants to spend the rest of his life with. Coincidently, Nightwing does too.
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- Part 36 of Birdflash drabbles
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10 Oct 2026
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Useless by Spooky_Vanilla for strawberrykiwitea (iloveyourrosecheek)
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon)
20 Jul 2023
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Dick made a frustrated sound, “It’s not just this mission, Wally,” he said lowly, “You do this all the time. You always put yourself at risk! What if you died!? Or-Or got hurt to the point where you couldn’t be on the team anymore?”
“It won’t matter,” Wally said, his voice softer than it had been, “We all know I’m useless to the team, Dick. You guys can replace me easily.”
Dick stared at him for a long moment, not really believing his ears.
Or: After a mission gone wrong, Dick and Wally get into an argument. It escalates and feelings are revealed.
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- Part 21 of Birdflash drabbles
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08 Oct 2026
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Dick is plagued by a technological phantom, bringing up painful memories, and driving him to exhaustion and desperation. Is this some cruel trap and a new enemy, or something else entirely?
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- Part 33 of Watercolour
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29 Sep 2026
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oh where have you been, my blue-eyed son? by azablue
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon)
15 Nov 2024
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“Yup.” Jason said, popping the ‘p.’ “I’ve never been. There’s a new drug thing set up in nice-”
“It’s pronounced neece.” Dick said, before he could stop himself. Bruce would’ve corrected it, but it was something so ingrained in him it was hard to let it slide. Jason stopped aiming and rolled his eyes.
“Of course you know that.” Jason shook his head. “I bet one of Bruce’s fancy tutors-”
“I used to live there.” Dick said, cutting him off. Jason gave Dick a lot of flack for the fact that he got the Wayne sliver spoon placed in his hands first and earlier, which was fair, but this was different. This was from before.
“What?” Jason stood up straight.
“I spent the winters there when I was in the circus.” Dick shrugged. “My parents loved the beaches so sometimes we’d stay longer too. It was some of the longest stretches of time I’d spend in one place, I think.” He cleared his throat, “well, before moving here.”
OR Dick Grayson and his relationship with home throughout the years
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- Part 1 of in the shadow of the stars
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29 Sep 2026
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rare is this love, keep it covered - i need you to run to me by TheCopperPan
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, The Flash - All Media Types, The Flash (TV 2014), Teen Titans - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types
29 May 2024
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“The mask stays on.”
“Not happening. The mask stays on.”
“Do not touch my mask.”
“I’m not taking it off.”
Wally tries, over and over again, to get his teammate to take his mask off. It doesn't work.
OR Wally and Dick go from teammates with issues to friends with issues to best friends to being in love with each other.
OR a bunch of times Dick won't take off his mask and reveal his identity, and the one time he does.
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29 Sep 2026
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i want, want, want by Spooky_Vanilla
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), DCU, Batman - All Media Types
05 Apr 2023
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He didn’t want to die. There’s still so much he wanted to do. There was still so many things he wanted to say and experience and feel. But there was no other way he would rather go, there was no one he’d rather spend his last moments with.
Ten, nine, eight…
Dick leans forward, can’t stop himself, and places a hand on Wally’s cheek. Wally shudders, more attacks are sent their way, and then the speedster leans forward. There is so much he wants to say, so much he wants to experience, so much he wants to do. But he only has so much time left, so Dick presses their lips together, presses as close as he dares, holds as tight as he can, savors all that he can get.
He wants to linger. He wants to press his forehead against Wally’s and just stare into his eyes, wants to hold his hand and see him smile, wants to trace his freckles with his fingertips. He wants and he wants and he wants, but he cannot have.
Or: Dick kisses Wally, knowing they wouldn't survive this mission. He doesn’t expect to wake up to find everything perfectly fine, nor does he expect anything to become of the kiss. He was wrong, even if it takes some time.
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- Part 4 of Birdflash drabbles
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28 Sep 2026
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Train for Failure by SecurityNotebook
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
09 Mar 2022
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"You didn’t do anything wrong.” Dick pointed out, confused.
Wally looked away, tapping his foot. He had closed the bathroom door, but Dick wondered how many super-hearing metahumans were eavesdropping on them.
“Neither did you.” Wally pushed the words out, like he was scared to say them.
Like he was scared to push Dick.
He turned to meet Dick’s eyes.
“It was a train for failure exercise. Whatever choice you made as team leader was meant to fail. We were all going to die regardless.” Wally spoke emphatically, speaking faster with each word like he’d been holding them in. “You can’t blame yourself for losing a rigged game!” Wally insisted.
Dick is struggling to process what happened in the simulation. Basically my take on what happened in the aftermath. Lots of angst with a good ending.
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28 Sep 2026
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The Other One Where the Justice League Almost Didn’t Figure Something Else Out by batsandthebirds
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
03 Aug 2025
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The thought occurred to Hal suddenly and with such force that he spat his coffee out as he pointed aggressively across the Justice League meeting table at Nightwing. “You! You know who Batman is!”
Nightwing, who had been idly tinkering with what looked like a new version of his escrima sticks, raised an eyebrow at Hal. “I should hope I know who Batman is. He is one of the founding members of the League. And my father. Are you feeling okay, Hal?”
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Or, a lot of people asked for an identity reveal sequel to my Batfam meets the Justice League fic, so here it is. Plenty of sheneanigans and a touch of birdflash thrown in for more sheneanigans and my own amusment (and Barry's anguish).
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- Part 2 of Batfam and Justice League
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“Not—not that you’d be my rebound! I mean, you’d be helping me take my mind off of this guy, but to be a rebound, I’d have to have dated him first, I think, and he doesn’t even know I like him, so. You wouldn’t be a rebound. At worst, we become badass partners-in-crime with a grudging respect for each other, at best, we’re soulmates for life and this is fate trying to help us find happiness. So. Um.” Lance swallows and looks up at the Blade of Marmora soldier through his lashes. “What say you?”
They look down at their hands for a moment, fingers twisting together in deep thought. Then they’re pulling their gloves off, revealing pale, half-bruised knuckles of the human variation, and their mask is dissolving, giving way to big blue-purple eyes and an achingly familiar jet-black cowlick. “Who,” says Keith Kogane, in that low-pitched rumble that makes Lance’s stomach roil in the good way—holy fuck—“is this guy you’re trying to get over?”
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20 Sep 2026
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In Good Hands by Corentine
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
19 Jul 2026
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He’s not much of a talker, Grace has quickly discerned, the words he does share are spoken gruffly but quietly, even the gratuitous swearing. More habit than actually irate. Still, Grace is just wondering how to fill the silence without just rambling when Simon cautiously ventures, “Say I’m not dead. Say it is real… why rescue me? Why fix me up?”
He tilts his head, nonplussed, “Because you were stranded and you were hurt.”
“That’s not what I’m asking,” spoken through gritted teeth. “At least, at least be honest with me. For what reason? What do you want in return?”
In his lap, Grace’s fingers flex.
“I don’t want anything in return,” he says steadily.
(A bloodymary fix-it fic with extra emphasis on touch starvation, and boy is Grace ravenous.)
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An entity wears the face of whoever they desire most, and solitude gives it room to hunt. Bound together by fear, Naim and Ryan travel through coaches and cheap motels, trying to outrun a punishment shaped exactly like love. But as guilt, grief, and unspoken betrayal follow them, Naim begins to wonder whether Ryan stays because he loves him — or because the monster wearing Naim’s face has left him no other choice.
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Yet Naim knows it’s watching, waiting to rip him open like spoiled fruit. He hears the flies buzzing and feels himself rotting into something sticky-sweet and dripping, splitting down the middle.
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23 Aug 2026
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What the Fall Couldn't Take by KillingButterlies88745
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types
05 Aug 2026
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The hardest part of saving the world wasn't losing everyone who knew Peter Parker.
It was learning how to keep living afterward.
After one night at a party that leads to a rooftop changes everything, an unlikely friendship with Frank Castle becomes the first thing Peter has built that the universe can't erase.
A story about grief, depression, recovery, and choosing to stay.
(This is post/set in the new Spider-Man movie Brand New Day so Spoiler Warning!!)
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- Part 1 of Everyone Who Caught Him
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05 Aug 2026
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Frank castle you mean the world to me and to peter
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honey, tell me: are you good at staying still? by BeeLove
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
12 May 2026
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(wake up your saints, ryland, i need them)
In which Ryland Grace makes it his mission to rescue the broken, bloody man he and Rocky found drifting among the stars. (He just doesn't realize that this broken, bloody man is going to rescue him too.)
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The Empire got a lot more unfriendly towards “unauthorized” mages, after the attack.
Molly hadn’t even been aware that “unauthorized” mages were a thing beforehand, but suddenly they were. That was just the way things worked in the Empire, now more than ever, and it was one more thing The Mighty Nein had to roll with.
(Or, post Episode 12, the Mighty Nein get in trouble with the law by virtue of being a group containing a goblin, two tieflings, and a couple of mages. Caleb pulls off some heroics to let them get away, and by the time they find him again he's been hit with the Feeblemind spell as punishment. Rather fumbling attempts at coping ensue while the rest of the group tries to fix things.)
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- Part 1 of The Branding of Caleb Widogast
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Caleb’s running a fever by the time the rest of the Mighty Nein find him.
He was expecting that much – he’s done this before, after all, knows that it’s a bad idea and will not go well in the long run. However, bleeding out in the middle of a forest is also not a good idea, and will also not go well in the long run. The difference is that bleeding out in the middle of a forest will go exceptionally poorly in the short run, so it’s a lesser-of-two evils sort of thing. He’s well-versed in Faustian bargains, made both unwittingly and otherwise. It’s fine.
(In which Caleb gets separated from the rest of the group, and then injured, and then some rather ill-advised DIY field medicine involving fire. The rest of the Mighty Nein are left to pick up the pieces when they find him.)
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Caleb wakes up on Rumblecusp with no memories of who he is or how he got there. The people around him seem to care for him greatly, and he wants to do his best to help them, even when they fail to return his memories with their divine magic.
Many things are confusing, but none more so than what appears to be his personal journal, written in a cipher he can no longer remember. Perhaps the handsome drow his friends brought him to in Rosohna may be of help.
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Two Hearts, Born to Run by seeingreverse
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
23 Jan 2026
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In a shocking display, the unfamiliar drow began to speak Zemnian: “Entschuldigung, aber mein Zemnisisch ist nicht gut genug für dieses wichtige Gespräch." He took one step closer, in small increments as if approaching a wild animal. “Bren.”
“How-” His throat caught as his heart seized. Fuck. He’d already slipped up. Master Ikithon was going to be furious. “No, you have the wrong-”
“No need to lie.” The elf lifted his palm. His violet eyes caught Bren’s frantic gaze, and he visibly came to a decision. “Bren, you are suffering from acute psychic temporal displacement. I highly suspect it is due to a magical experiment we just performed.”
“Amnesia,” he translated. “You- You’re saying I have amnesia. Memory loss.”
(Bren Ermundrud wakes up twenty years later and finds a Kryn drow living in his home)