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“Don’t move,” is what Roy says first, crossing his t with a smirk. “Be a shame to lose those curls.”
Richard Grayson looks at Roy with eyes made of churning waters, and it looks nothing like the tabloids.
(a.k.a. Roy Harper kidnaps Dick Grayson for a mission. Said mission goes slowly, but surely, off the rails.)
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None of his Gotham acquaintances look upon his old life favorably — this, Damian knows. Was his life not noble before? Damian feels like a waterboarded gnat, swirling towards a drain.
Gently, as though he has not ripped out Damian’s stomach with his teeth, Alfred says, “Attempting to take his father’s place won’t work, Master Richard…”
Their voices peter out, and the last thing Damian can hear is Richard huff and say something that sounds like, “No shit,” and he is alone.
Somewhere, a clock ticks. Damian pictures it melting.(Dick and Damian over the years.)
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Loss, again. This loss was by his hand, by his own tongue, with words so sharply edged that they tore apart his mouth and left his lips bloody.
The manor was silent, and he was alone.
And Alfred’s half birthday was in three days.
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Grief paints Dick’s days in muted shades of red and yellow and green. He grows to expect sleepless nights and sweat-drenched sheets.
In turn, he finds late night companions in Alfred, with his old movies and stories, and Bruce, who wears the colors of his own grief to prevent its spread to others.Dr. Thompkins writes a letter to Bruce diagnosing Dick with PTSD.
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Combs and Curls by newsical
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
30 Dec 2020
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He ran one hand, then another, through his still-knotted hair. It was unsalvageable. It was nothing of the ringlets that papá tugged at after a perfect landing, nothing like the perfect coils that maman so painstakingly arranged while humming a song of the green rolling hills from her home.
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After Dick's parents’ deaths, Bruce Wayne teaches Dick Grayson how to care for his curls.
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The story of how John Carter ended up in soft restraints in the neurology step-down unit at County General Hospital is, if you ask him, the story of a gross overreaction on the part of his teacher, Peter Benton.
If you ask Benton… the restraints were a completely necessary medical intervention made on behalf of a severely concussed and extremely dizzy idiot.
OR: After getting attacked in the ER, Carter has a severe concussion and refuses to stay in bed.
Bad Things Happen Bingo prompt: Vertigo
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- Part 7 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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09 Apr 2026
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September 14, 1998, is the hottest September day in Chicago history, beating out September 2, 1953, at a seasonally unprecedented and nauseating 102 degrees.
September 14, 1998, is the day the air conditioning at Cook County General Hospital goes down.
Noon on September 14, 1998, marks thirty hours John Carter has been on shift.
And September 14, 1998, is the seventeenth anniversary of Bobby Carter's death.
Written for the County General More Cake Challenge and Bad Things Happen Bingo Square "Put Down Your Gun and Step Away."
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- Part 8 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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The Sun, the Stars, the Moon by piratesPencil
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
01 Dec 2024
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When Viktor says, “Jayce, your leg…” his voice does not reverberate with an otherworldly echo. He sounds like Viktor—just Viktor. Jayce’s partner.
“It’s okay,” Jayce says. He wraps his fingers around the hand that Viktor offers him, and as their skin touches, an electric tingle goes down Jayce’s arm. For a moment he expects them to be back in that other place, blinding blue light and the glow of countless souls surrounding them, but no—they’re still here, in the bright midday sunlight, on the shattered dome above Piltover. They are real.
Jayce and Viktor survive. There is still so much for them to figure out.
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02 Dec 2024
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Batman always seemed like a force of nature, more god than man.
Injured from taking a blow meant for Batman, Dick muses on the man and the mask.
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13 May 2024
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It’s as he’s assessing Goon #1’s shoulders that he hears it.
Grhk.
The sound of someone choking.
(You are ten-years-old, and the world is wide open before you. You don't yet know how to worry for yourself. It is your father's job.)
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Bookmarker's Notes
this is a very important piece of literature. perhaps the most important due to its heartwarmingness !