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IF EVERYTHING IS TEMPORARY (I WILL BEAR THE UNBEARABLE). by orpheusaki
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
03 Mar 2023
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"Father. Do not panic. I have everything under control."
Bruce immediately begins to panic, because Damian should know his father would never panic, so whatever has happened, whatever Damian claims he has under control, is undoubtedly going to make Bruce panic. Like right now. He's panicking.
But just as Bruce pushes himself to sit up on the bed, with great difficulty due to the bandages across his stomach, eyes darting over Damian to find any injuries —
Thomas Wayne, age thirty, walks through his bedroom door.
(Or; a ten step guide of things not to do when you're sent to the past, by Bruce Wayne.)
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27 Oct 2025
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“I’m going to kick your ass,” Jason threatens. “Creeper.”
This kind of threat usually works. Jason’s gotten very good at it over the years. At the very least, it makes the target reconsider their choices.
The Replacement does not look like he’s reconsidering anything. In fact, he looks a little pitying. “Right now, you have the constitution of a wet tissue. I don’t even think you could stand up without passing out.”
He says this so evenly and plainly that Jason is automatically furious. Just to prove Replacement’s scrawny little ass wrong, he is going to stand up, beat his ass into the ground, and then kill everyone in Crime Alley who has ever wronged him. The list is long. It’ll probably last the whole night.
The fact that he only gets up to his knees before everything goes black is, like. A minor setback.
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Jason Todd is about to find out why hundred and four degree fevers are, generally, considered detrimental to one's well-being. Tim Drake is about to commit crimes against Top Ramen and humanity. Bruce Wayne is about to fret. What else do you expect?
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27 Sep 2025
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guild me, build me by 19burstraat (astardanced)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
21 Aug 2023
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Kaz was out of town when the Komedie Brute decided to have audacity in spades.
Later, Wylan thought this was probably best. Giving the actors a grace period of about a week without having to worry about the presence of Kaz was probably a good thing.
The real Kaz, that was.
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(The Komedie Brute, Ketterdam’s favourite theatrical troupe, opens this year’s season with the addition of a new character to their lineup… starting this Ghezen’s Day, come to the staves to see Ketterdam’s very own urban legend– Dirtyhands, the Bastard of the Barrel!)Bookmarked by relentlessing
02 Sep 2025
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what the water gave me by 19burstraat (astardanced)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
02 Dec 2023
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In time, he almost forgot what he had once been able to do. Water was his most ardent foe, not an ally. Water was the bodymen’s boats, Reaper’s Barge, and Jordie’s corpse. The water had given, and could give him, nothing that he wanted. It would make no bargain with him that could be worth it– so he would not try. He eked out his fortune and his revenge with every bloody punch and petty swindle and broken bone. He ignored the hiss and slap of the filthy water in the canals that wended through the city, the roar of the waves at the harbour that smashed boats to pieces, the sinuous curl of the mist on wet nights that got you jumped if you weren’t paying close enough attention. The Ketterdam water had a touch of the mocking about it– a determination to be as awful and monstrous and polluted as he was. But Kaz didn’t need a reminder of what he’d become. The water had his brother; it would not have him, too.
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Assuming Kaz was a Tidemaker; what, then?- Language:
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02 Sep 2025
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Flying back to Cherry Street, weaving reckless in the dark, it comes down to this: Dick is the only one of his siblings that Jason has any real claim on. Dick is the only one of that whole mess of victims to Batman's cult of self-immolation who belongs to Jason. Even more than that - Dick is the only person in the world who he shares a parent with, who knows what it meant to be the Robin to Batman of nearly ten years ago.
It's just not the same anymore.
So if Dick fucking kicks it, Jason's the only one left. Jason becomes an only child. Jason becomes the last of his kind. Jason becomes the sole keeper of that memory, of a brotherhood shared under a man who no longer exists. There is no way to replace Dick, because the world that they lived in together is gone, and can never give Jason a surrogate.
The Red Hood pulls the thread on a mystery big enough to bridge the distance between two cities, two brothers: The plot they unravel is far deeper and darker than a garden-variety drug trafficking scheme. A story about siblingship, hauntings, and rivers.
1. Ostium, osti(i): Latin noun, II Declension: Door, opening; (river) mouth; entrance (to the underworld).
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- Part 1 of these and other tragedies
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28 Aug 2025
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"Where's your pops?" Terry shouted down the sidewalk.
"Dunno," Jason said. "Haven't seen him in a week. I stopped goin' lookin' for him a long time ago."
Hell, Jason was happy with the man's absence. Maybe it would stick, this time.
"He owes me fifty bucks." Terry, closer to Jason now, was still shouting.
Jason spun around and started walking backwards. "What'a'ya know," he said. "Me too."
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AU where Jason is seventeen, his parents are alive, he works nights at a convenience store, and everything is about to go to shit.Series
- Part 1 of something in the static
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06 Aug 2025
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Jason is small, when Bruce first brings him home. Dick comes back from Bludhaven to meet this kid that Bruce effectively kidnapped and he’s ready to see this kid and accuse Bruce of having a complex, the kid of being a scammer, Alfred of being irresponsible, and it all wastes away when he sees this thirteen year old with scarred, knobby knees and elbows and too-big hands and a chipped tooth and his first thought is: he’s too small. His second thought: he looks like Bruce. His third thought: shit.
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Dick feels like his relationship with Jason has always, always been a struggle, one where he’s never on the right foot. After helping Jason recover from being abducted by Mask, though, he thinks he’s starting to figure it out.
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The voluntary parentification of Dick Grayson by Dick Grayson
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- Part 14 of Like Father Like Son
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03 Jul 2025
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@NightwingHater1's Foolproof Guide to Anger Management by lunarcrab
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
02 Sep 2024
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Jason liked to think he was a writer. He’d tried his hand at poetry, short stories, novels, memoirs, and even a collection of essays. Usually, when he was upset or emotional, he’d sit down and write whatever his heart told him to. Tonight was no different.
He was just following his heart, which was maybe how he ended up staring at the newly created Twitter account: @nightwinghater0
Apparently, Jason’s heart had a lot to say about a specific hero.
In which Jason creates an anonymous Nightwing hate account and chaos ensues.
(Alternate title: The Seven Habits of Recently Revived People)
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04 Jun 2025
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Curl by SilverSkiesAtMidnight for sElkieNight60, TheyReapWhatWeSow
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
13 May 2023
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Even without context, as always Dick is enthralling in his storytelling. “What’s happening?” Tim asks, fascinated to know what’s got Dick so animated this time.
It’s the smallest of expressions.
Dick blinks at him, like for a moment, he forgot Tim was there.
Then he’s twisting in his chair to face him, eyes bright with the promise of a new audience. “Okay, so - remember how I told you about my new manager at the studio? Well get this - he made this new rule that audience members aren’t allowed to wear hats when they come to see the kids’ recitals. It’s part of the ‘audience dress code’, a thing which one hundred percent he just made up himself - ”
Tim watches Dick attentively. He laughs at all the right points. He even lets out a small gasp when he knows it’s expected.
And it’s good. It’s a good story, and Dick is so happy to tell it.
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The frustrating thing when he gets like this is that it’s never triggered by anything real.
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07 May 2025
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“Jason,” Dick says, with extreme gentleness. “You do…know what a turn signal is, right?”
“Totally,” Jason lies.
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Jason Todd breaks some laws. No, not those ones. No, not those ones either.
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- Part 1 of birdie does jay todd week 2025
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30 Apr 2025
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Dick wanders down the steps into the Batcave on what initially looks to be a smooth, easy night. He even thinks something along these lines: Man, this patrol is going to be a breeze.
Obviously, this is a mistake, because when he gets to the end of the steep stone staircase he is immediately greeted with the sight of Steph and Jason absolutely beating the shit out of each other.
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Steph and Jason deal with their interpersonal issues in extremely healthy and normal ways. Dick is also there.
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- Part 2 of told the world i had a plan
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30 Apr 2025
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Jaxton prattles on, oblivious. “And instead you want to, what? Read some dumb poetry some dumb chick wrote, like, a hundred years ago? Hang out with your weird, shrimpy roommate?”
Jason has to take a deep breath, trying to center himself. Jaxton’s an idiot. He’s too stupid for Jason to waste time fighting him. “First of all, don’t call Tim shrimpy.”
“You call me shrimpy literally every day,” Tim mutters.
“That’s different,” Jason says, without looking back. “Second of all, the knee brace makes extended athletics a little difficult. And third of all, dumb chick? What the fuck is wrong with you?”
“Am I wrong?” Jaxton says.
“Yes,” Jason says, throwing a hand out wildly. “Yes, obviously you’re fucking—do you even understand—the impact of sonnet 43 alone—"
“Oh my God,” one of the guys says, less quietly than he thinks. “This guy’s a freak.”
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Jason gets into a fistfight over literature. As one does.
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- Part 5 of birdie does jay todd week 2025
- Part 3 of told the world i had a plan
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30 Apr 2025
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Katara's ambition, so long set aside for the good of others, breaks free and sets fire to her soul. Or, Katara has a vision of her canon future, casts it aside, and becomes a world-changing politician instead.
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- Part 1 of such selfish prayers
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14 Apr 2025
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Hope is the Thing with Feathers by TheSilencer
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
27 Oct 2022
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"Oh." Nightwing said. "It's your first time."
"My what?" Jason said.
"It's like 'The Time Traveler's Wife.' Except I'm not your wife. Not that I'd be a bad wife, but not for you. That'd be gross - Wait, is that movie even out, yet?" Nightwing rambled, and Jason stood up on wobbly legs. "Shoot. I guess it doesn't matter. Not relevant -"
Or Jason Todd is a time traveler, and Dick Grayson is always his destination.
A story about brothers doing their best.
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27 Feb 2025
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“I don’t know. Testing ground, possibly, unless there was some kind of turf war here at some point, then I guess it could have been a field of--”
“Mines.”
Jason’s head snaps up, squinting at Damian, only a yard ahead of him. “How do you know?”
“I think, Todd, this may be a good time for you to turn back.”
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- Part 9 of DC One-offs
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07 Sep 2024
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"Good morning, sunshine," said Dick.
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22 Aug 2024
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two vigilantes carry a cake across gotham by JBS_Forever
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
26 Apr 2024
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Jason's had a nagging suspicion that Bruce keeps stalker-esque levels of tabs on all the places he’s lived, so when Tim Drake shows up at his apartment door, it takes only a half second for Jason to level his gun directly at Tim's stupid face and to say, bored, “Give me one reason not to shoot you.”
Honestly, he knew Bruce had a problem, but sending a bat to his doorstep? This is just ridiculous.
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Or: in a scheming attempt to make them bond, Bruce forces Jason and Tim on what should be a simple quest: retrieve Alfred’s birthday cake from across town and make it back before the party.
But this is Gotham. And nothing is ever simple in Gotham.
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when you say "it's gonna happen now" by pentaghastly
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
11 Jun 2020
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She should have known.
Still, it takes four weeks, several photo exchanges, hundreds of blush-inducing messages, and three days for Katara to realize that Lee, Age 23, Ten Kilometers Away—
Lee is Zuko.
Zuko has seen her bra.
She really, really should have known.
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02 Aug 2024
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When Loki turns up demanding Thor's help on a quest to retrieve the All-Mother from Valhalla, Thor isn't about to say no. But that doesn't mean he's forgotten anything, and what better time than a road trip through the backwaters of the universe for trying to talk things out?
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11 Jun 2024
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On the brink of confirming what he already knows is true, Loki meets a familiar stranger in Odin's vault.
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09 Jun 2024