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A sting operation at the docks spirals out of control.
The bats move like clockwork, like instinct.
Until a single gunshot shatters the rhythm—and Jason doesn’t get back up.What It Means
Kibosh refers to something that serves as a check or stop. It is usually used in the phrase “put the kibosh on” to mean “to stop or end (something)” or “to prevent (something) from happening or continuing.”
// I downloaded an app to help me put the kibosh on my high screen time.
Merriam Webster Dictionary, Word of the Day, 10/17/2025Series
- Part 41 of Word of the Day
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16 Dec 2025
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Jason’s still learning what it means to be safe at the Manor. When an injury he tried to hide becomes unbearable in the middle of the night, Alfred and Bruce step in. Jason braces for punishment; instead Bruce holds him together until the pain and panic subside, proving again that he belongs.
What It Means
To writhe is to twist one’s body from side to side. The word is often used when the body or a bodily part is twisting in pain.
// The injured player lay on the football field, writhing in pain.
// At the instruction of their teacher, the children rolled the fallen log aside to reveal worms and other small critters writhing in the soft earth.
Merriam Webster Dictionary, Word of the Day, 11/16/2025Series
- Part 47 of Word of the Day
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15 Dec 2025
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Gauche by AllThingsRepeat
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
27 Nov 2025
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Jason is still skittish, still too small and too careful, and Bruce doesn’t know how to fix it. But when Jason freezes at the dinner table, struggling with something as simple as cutting his food, Bruce finally pieces together what the last five years have taken from him. A gentle moment of guidance becomes the start of something like trust.
What It Means
Gauche describes someone or something having or showing a lack of awareness about the proper way to behave. When describing a person or a behavior, gauche can mean “socially awkward” or “tactless”; when describing an object (such as a product with a vulgar image or slogan on it) it can mean “crudely made or done.”
// Some people view giving cash in lieu of a wrapped present to be terribly gauche, but I like knowing that my friends and family will be able to pick out something they truly want.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Word of the Day, November 20, 2025Series
- Part 49 of Word of the Day
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15 Dec 2025
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Perdition by AllThingsRepeat
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
03 Dec 2025
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Jason sees one file he wasn’t meant to see and spirals off the face of the earth. Now Bruce has to track down his wayward son and explain the truth.
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Perdition refers to hell, or to the state of being in hell forever as punishment after death—in other words, damnation. It is usually used figuratively.
// Dante’s Inferno details the main character’s journey through perdition.
// It’s this kind of selfishness that leads down the road to perdition.
Merriam Webster Dictionary, Word of the Day, November 25, 2025Series
- Part 52 of Word of the Day
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15 Dec 2025
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After a long night of patrol, Jason returns to the Cave looking more beat-up than anyone else. His clothes are torn, his hair is plastered with soot, and exhaustion has finally caught up with him. He tries to brush it off, insisting he’s fine, but the signs of his adrenaline crash are undeniable.
What It Means
Something described as frowsy has a messy or dirty appearance.
// The lamp, discovered in a neglected corner of a frowsy antique store, turned out to be quite valuable.
Merriam Webster Dictionary, Word of the Day, December 4, 2025.Series
- Part 54 of Word of the Day
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15 Dec 2025
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started with a handgun (loaded with excuses) by skarmoree
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
02 Oct 2024
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Even now, years and a lifetime later, Jason still responds to being injured the same way.
Sicktember 2024 / day 27 - "this is non-negotiable"
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- Part 13 of skarmoree's sicktember 2024
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15 Dec 2025
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Three Steps to Him by thebatdadnomad (aylooktaekook)
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
03 Oct 2025
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A trilogy of 3k-word long fics where Jason Todd and Bruce Wayne take three important steps towards one another.
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14 Dec 2025
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If They Could Laugh Together by thebatdadnomad (aylooktaekook)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
31 Aug 2024
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"Wanna hear a story?" Jason asked with a tense lilt in his tone, hood off and tucked underneath an arm.
"A story," Bruce repeated as neutrally as possible, but he knew Jason would be able to tell that he was bewildered. All his children were as attuned to his emotions as he was to theirs.
"Yeah," Jason said, and when Bruce looked at him again, there was a dark, cheeky grin growing on his face. "I think you deserve to hear it."
"...If you think so."
Or, Jason tells Bruce a funny story.
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- Part 1 of Three Steps to Him
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14 Dec 2025
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Petulant by AllThingsRepeat
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
31 Aug 2025
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Jason keeps picking fights. Bruce keeps getting it wrong. After a quiet intervention from Dinah, Bruce begins to realize Jason’s anger might not be defiance—it might be grief. And it might look a lot like his own.
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Petulant describes a person who is angry and annoyed, or an attitude or behavior showing the emotions of such a person.
// I didn't appreciate being accused of acting like a petulant toddler.
// Her tone became petulant when she realized that the items on sale were no longer available.
Merriam-Webster Word of the Day for 7/31/2025Series
- Part 45 of Word of the Day
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14 Dec 2025
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“Dude,” Dustin says, sounding kind of horrified but also kind of delirious with elation. “Oh my God, you like him. You like Will. Will. As in, our Will. Our best friend Will.”
“I do not–” Mike tries, even though he’d kind of just admitted to accidentally kissing Will Byers, a little, so maybe that’s an entirely fruitless road to go down.
Listen. No one should ever let Mike make decisions right after he wakes up from a nap, okay? Especially not decisions where Will is concerned. This is so not his fault.
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14 Dec 2025
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Damian would never have remembered something so important to him if he didn't die.
The fear toxin actually helped.Series
- Part 2 of The one-shots inside my head
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14 Dec 2025
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“They-They-“ Billy stammers out, chest heaving and eyes wide.
El’s not here.
When Billy left, El was with him. They’d wanted to go out, had spent half an hour trying to convince Jim to let them go to the diner and meet up with Max, but El’s not here now.
“Where’s El? Billy... Where is El?”
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- Part 7 of Lilies’ Alphabet Soup of Pain
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13 Dec 2025
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*This story is a stand-alone story, all stories in this series are stand-alones*
He was three steps away when he heard it.
"—and how is that even POSSIBLE?" He recognized the voice immediately. Tim. And he sounded... not good.
Jason should have left. Should have just aborted the mission and come back another time when Tim wasn't around. That was the smart play. The tactical play. But curiosity was a bitch, and Jason found himself moving toward the sound instead of away from it. He peered around the doorframe and saw Tim in his office, pacing like a caged animal with at least five empty coffee cups scattered across his desk. The kid looked like he hadn't slept in a week. Maybe longer.
Oh, for fuck's sake.
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- Part 4 of The one-shots inside my head
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10 Dec 2025
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It was really just his luck that a hulking monster lumbered out of the woods and directly onto his driveway. Just his luck that he threw enough parties when his parents were gone that the neighbors had long tuned out any noise that came from his yard. Just a nice cherry on top of the fucking cake that, even if anyone did hear him screaming when claws tangled in his jacket and pulled, Steve honestly wasn’t sure they’d have cared enough to bother anyway.
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Months before El ripped open the gate at Hawkins Lab, the Demogorgon started ripping tears of its own. Months before it found Will Byers, it found Steve Harrington.
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- Part 1 of Nowhere to look but inside
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05 Dec 2025
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Steve’s never understood why adults always praise him for being a “people person” as if it’s some great accomplishment.
What, like it’s hard?
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Or: Steve Harrington is your average American teenager, he just had to work harder than most to learn how to ignore the emotions bumping into him.
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05 Dec 2025
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sparkling and invincible by sure sure (getoffmysheets)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Oct 2019
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She's just...she's really hard to look at, is the thing.
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- Part 1 of Red in Tooth and Claw
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04 Dec 2025
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“Do you want to go home?” He questions, leaning close and voice soft, and Will pauses, before nodding again. Mike lets out a breath, and lets his hand press against Will a little more firmly when he starts to sway in place again. “Okay, let’s go.”
Then he looks up and is met with smug faces, and Mike flushes when he realizes his own hypocrisy.
“I don’t talk like that,” Max recalls, voice high-pitched and overly girly and – Mike definitely doesn’t talk like that.
According to everyone in his life, Mike has a voice reserved just for Will. He tries to figure out what that says about him.
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03 Dec 2025
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When Eleven starts putting makeup on them, Mike is a little weirded out but doesn't consider it a problem. What he does consider a problem is that he starts finding Will pretty with makeup. And maybe without makeup too.
He's screwed.
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02 Dec 2025
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i’d love to see me from your point of view by unidentifiedblackthorn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jul 2022
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Now that Will’s sitting and Mike’s the one that’s standing, he looks impossibly tall. Tall and lanky, and huge. He should sit back down, Will thinks, lay back down next to Will and stay in their own secluded little bubble.
“I really want to kiss you,” Mike says, and Will’s eyes snap back up to his so violently he thinks he hears his own neck crack with the force of it.
“Don’t,” Will croaks, before his brain has even processed the words. “Don’t say that.”
“Okay,” Mike says easily, still staring. And what the actual fuck is going on? Is Will hallucinating? Is the weed making him hallucinate? “So sausage and pepperoni?”
Will stares dumbly at him. “Um - yeah. Yes.”
“Cool,” Mike replies and then just turns around and leaves Will sitting dumbly in his own room.
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Mike and Will get high on Jonathan’s weed and Mike has an amazing idea.
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- Part 1 of nobody's ever loved me like you do
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02 Dec 2025
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Candor by AllThingsRepeat
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics)
17 Oct 2025
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It started with caffeine. It escalated with sarcasm. It ended with Batman chasing Red Robin across Gotham while the rest of the family placed bets over comms. Until Red Hood dropped a figurative bomb into the pursuit, making Batman freeze in his tracks.
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Candor refers to the quality of being open, sincere, and honest.
// During the interview, the comedian spoke with candor about the nervousness she feels every time she takes the stage.
Merriam Webster Dictionary, Word of the Day, 10/07/2025Series
- Part 39 of Word of the Day
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02 Dec 2025