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think how great it is to fall asleep (and how terrible it is to wake up) by mikkal
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
04 Jun 2023
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Jason was fifteen, barely five foot, and underweight for his age when he died. When he came back to his body, suddenly he was too tall, too scarred, too much, too different. And he just... never got used to it.
(Or: 5 times a Bat noticed/discovered his body dysmorphia post resurrection)
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24 Apr 2026
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Some lunatic in a bat costume is running around Gotham clowning on fools, but local delinquent Stephanie Brown has way bigger problems. When her father and friends start joining mob wars Steph knows she has to do something about it before Gotham collapses. If that means joining up with rich dudes playing dress up, pasty nerds with hacking and photography habits, and throwing on a costume herself, then that’s just what she’ll have to do. Even if Batman works alone. She’s convincing.
In which Stephanie Brown rocks the radical nineties and becomes the first Robin, ruining Batman’s life and giving Tim Drake a hobby.
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20 Apr 2026
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Tim Drake is good at surviving.
He knows how to keep his head down, how to read a room, how to make himself useful enough to be tolerated. Between school, a café job, and a home that never quite feels like one, Tim doesn’t expect much more than that.
Babysitting Damian Wayne was supposed to be simple. Temporary. A paycheck.
Instead, Tim finds himself pulled into a family that notices too much, bruises that linger, smiles that don’t reach his eyes, silences that say more than words ever could.
The Batfamily sees one of their own.
And Tim?
Tim is learning what it feels like when someone stays. -
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When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar.
Jason Todd was dead—but he wasn’t.
That still body back in the morgue wasn’t Jason. Jason was somewhere else—maybe asleep in the library, or playing videogames on Dick’s couch, or sitting on a rooftop in Crime Alley. Dick would go home and walk by Jason’s favroite gargoyle and he would be sitting up there smoking a cigarette, and maybe they’d lie on their backs and watch the stars.
He isn’t dead, Dick said to himself. He isn’t dead.
And this time, his dreaming worked.
Dick convinced himself that his little brother wasn’t dead.
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- Part 1 of Birds and Glass and Time
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20 Mar 2026
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one of the best fics ever. love this made me cry so much its so well-written and vivid
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Gotta Roll With The Curveballs by justapoorboy
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Young Justice (Comics), We Are Robin (Comics)
11 Aug 2022
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“How’d you cry so easily?” Duke asks, still entirely too awkward because no matter what Steph says, Duke still thinks Tim is kinda cool in a weird way. A really weird way.
“Oh, I classically conditioned myself over winter break when I was eleven. All I have to do to tear up is pinch a certain point on my arm. See?” Tim viciously pinches a spot on his inner forearm. Immediately tears start to well in his eyes.
Or: Duke Thomas dealing with Tim Pod-Baby Drake and what exactly that entails.
EDITS MADE: 09/16/2024
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- Part 2 of Achilles Tendons and Their Extensions