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Is Central City the Safest City? The Results of the SafeCity™ Poll and How Superheroes Influence Public Perception of City Safety by layspotatochipabs
Fandoms: DCU, The Flash - All Media Types
20 Jun 2025
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The annual SafeCity™ Poll from the Daily Planet asks viewers to vote for the safest city in the United States from the thirty most populous cities. Central City has won for the three years since the poll’s creation, despite it not being the safest based on crime rate statistics. Previous studies have suggested that superheroes influence city safety and shift public perceptions, which could explain why Central City and other hero-cities ranked so high. However, these studies focus on individual cities and have differing conclusions, creating controversy in the community. Here, we investigate eight superhero cities to understand why people perceive Central City as the safest by evaluating the role of superheroes on city safety. We use statistical data to analyze how superheroes influence crime rate and how those changes impact population growth. Our results are twofold: superheroes increase city safety, and Opal City, not Central, is the safest city. This suggests that multiple influences impact the SafeCity™ Poll rankings, including superhero popularity, public perception, and outside meddling, which warrants further study.
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23 Jun 2025
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Jayce Talis papers, 959-995, bulk 980-991 by straddling_the_atmosphere
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
17 Jan 2025
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Repository: House Kiramman Archives
Creator(s): Talis, Jayce, 959-991; Viktor, 957-991
Abstract: Jayce Talis was the founder of Hextech, a short-lived proprietary technology that was a revolutionary blend of science and magic. He, along with his now-named partner, Viktor, created the Hexgates, the now-defunct rapid transit that put Piltover on the map. Talis was an inventor during the fraught period of time when tensions between Piltover and the Undercity (as Zaun was called then), began to boil over, leading to a brief stint as a Councilor, where he attempted to keep the Hexgates and Piltover safe. Encompassing his time during those years which included the Council Bombing, and culminated into the Battle of Piltover, the Jayce Talis papers (inclusive dates: 959-995, bulk dates: 980-991) include materials related to his early childhood and personal interests, the founding of Hextech and unreleased inventions, the Hexgates, a deeper look into his previously unknown partner's life, and what the world thought of him, both during and after his presumed death after the Battle of Piltover.
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06 Mar 2025
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How To Wrangle A Commune (A Story From The Assistant Cult Manager) by insanityinakeyboard
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
14 Feb 2025
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Huck quite enjoys the feeling of importance he gets from his various jobs in the commune. No, he isn't a leader, but he is important to The Herald, and Huck feels as though his life is worth something.
Now if Salo could stop complaining about The Defender, that would be nice.
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A cracky, fun, fluffy fic with a take on the commune that likens it to a discord server.
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20 Feb 2025
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"I think I'm cursed." Kaldur said.
"Cursed?" His therapist repeated.
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16 Feb 2025
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Recovery by RocksCanFly
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice, DC Animated Universe, DCU, DCU (Animated)
13 Jan 2026
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No one's really been okay since the invasion ended. Artemis is back on the Team and back to school in Central City, M'gann and Connor are helping the Team stay afloat, Roy's quit the business to take care of Lian, and Dick has retreated back to Blüdhaven.
With all this, everyone can't help but notice how Kaldur's reacting to the last year of trauma, and to it finally being over.
Or, in better words, how he's not reacting.
(This is a story told through communications logs, security camera transcripts, and letters home that were never sent. It is a story about recovery and redemption, about heroes and what it really means to have sacrificed everything to save the world.)
(A/N: Updated to fix all broken links)
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16 Feb 2025
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Dress me in midnight, feast upon my bones by hexhomos
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
12 Jan 2025
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The rocket strikes through the heart. Reality collapses in less than five seconds.
Jayce rebuilds Viktor, little by little, piece by piece.
And if his partner comes back from the dead a little different, well... what's not to love? Jayce is a quick study. He can adjust himself into a suitable form. He pledged himself to this task a dozen years ago; he's in it for the long haul.
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To put it bluntly: this is the one where Dr. Frankenstein runs away with his bride.
( Jayce follows Viktor down to the depths of Zaun, and amid the riots and war-banners, everything changes. )
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- Part 3 of Arcane Works
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26 Jan 2025
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the unsolvable equation by red_dragon_rising
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
27 Dec 2024
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He sits down, flanked by His radiant people, on the throne of His kingdom at the end of time. Where peace is eternal. Where death never arrives. It is a beautiful world He has created.
It is His, it is perfect, and it is silent, and He is so, very, all alone.
The Herald has won. The Evolution is complete. Yet, He cannot shake the itch that something remains missing.
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- Part 2 of studies in the arcane
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12 Jan 2025
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The distant look in the Mage’s eyes snapped to the gap of the roof, to the near-silent tuttering of other, watchful machines down below. “No, it doesn’t matter. You will be safe up here. It should be simple enough, to lay protective wards into the earth of the tower. I won’t let anything happen to you,” he vowed.
Promises held no impetus in this world, where nothing happened, nothing changed.
The Machine reset its position on its knees and replaced its hands on the weapon of a fallen era. I can’t stop you from making useless promises, can I?
Somehow, without doing anything, the Machine had gained a visitor and protector.
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30 Dec 2024
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they would rue the day I was alone without you by LiterallyThePresident
Fandoms: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
21 Sep 2021
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“You warped my very being merely by being near me, by being my friend.” K-2 said lowly, the light of his optics a bit brighter than normal, though that could have been the head injury talking, “In doing so you wrapped my code and my processes around you like a blanket, and you tangled yourself up so thoroughly that I could never hope to break free. If you could see my code, you’d see your name in every line break, sometimes repeated like a skipping record. You’re everywhere. You monster.”
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31 Oct 2024
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After Scarab War, Jaime's trust in Khaji Da is broken.
Or: Jaime and Khaji actually talk about their feelings. Starfire helps mediate.
Takes place during Blue Beetle (2023) #8
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09 Jul 2024
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“Of course, there was no way in Hell that Viktor would ever be able to shift the memory: Jayce’s weight and warmth hovering between his legs, half-lidded eyes and shaking breath. The way his lips tasted like sweet lip balm and his mouth tasted like shitty beer. Clumsy and inexperienced, Jayce had moved against Viktor like he was trying not to drown: frantic and afraid and desperate desperate desperate.”
In the moments before a revelation, Viktor ruminates on the dichotomy of love and power.
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12 Jun 2024
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Stannis makes a discovery beneath his hated new castle that will change not just war and politics, but the king's least favorite brother himself.
Or: The One In Which Stannis Has A Dragon, And It Goes Great At First But Problems Soon Arise.
Complete.
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09 May 2024
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Jaime's working on his dream of becoming a dentist, but when there's a catastrophe, the world can always count on Blue Beetle.
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21 Nov 2023
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Even life is like funeral practice:
half of us already dead to our families before we die,
half of us still on our knees
trying to crawl into the family photo.
-Andrea Gibson, Orlando
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covers three moments during the undercover mission.
1. One year after infiltration, Kaldur is appointed to his first command position.
2. Two months before her death, Artemis goes for a run.
3. Two days after burial, Dick has drinks with a friend.- Words:
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19 Nov 2023
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08 Oct 2023
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Angelology by notbecauseofvictories
Fandom Christian Tradition Lore & Folklore, Original Work
14 Feb 2022
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18 Sep 2023
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Future Perfect by poisonivory
Fandoms: DCU - Comicverse, DCU, Blue Beetle (Comic), Booster Gold (Comics)
17 Dec 2012
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Milagro's brother doesn't want her to be a Green Lantern. Rani's sort-of dad doesn't want her to be a Time Master. Clearly, there's only one solution: rescuing Ted Kord.
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29 Aug 2023
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He hesitantly opens his eyes, bracing himself for whatever disaster Bart has planned, but—oh.
“Happy birthday, Thad.” In Bart’s hand is a cupcake with a birthday candle stuck in the frosting, the flame illuminating the broad smile on his face. Thad stares, his eyes wide.
(or; it's the boys' birthday!)
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13 Apr 2023
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Ask the GCPD about the Joker’s death, and they’ll tell you he died of natural causes. Ask the Justice League, and they’ll tell you that it’s a matter that’s been resolved internally. Ask Batman and he won’t give you an answer, because he’s Batman. The truth of the matter, however, is this: Dick Grayson beat the Joker to death.
[Or: A few months after the death of the Joker, Tim Drake comes to Haly’s Circus, looking for Dick Grayson.]
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- Part 1 of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
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31 Mar 2023
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and there will be safe harbour by MashpotatoeQueen
Fandoms: Young Justice - All Media Types, Young Justice (Cartoon)
02 May 2020
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Bart Allen lived during the apocalypse: it's bound to leave a few scars.
(Barry Allen worries. So do a lot of people. Bart's really not good at letting himself be helped.)
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29 Mar 2023