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The Tisroc and the King by nasimwrites for cofax
Fandoms: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
15 Jan 2022
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Something went very differently, and Cor and Aravis never met. As two enemy nations crown their new rulers and are faced with the threat of imminent war, Aravis and Cor find themselves dreaming of a mysterious boy and girl, and a life that could have been.
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Bookmarked by towardsmodernism
20 Sep 2025
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The destination he has in mind is unclear — unnamed, yet, more accurately. Jason doesn’t know where he’s going, or what he’s going to do when he gets there. A few hours’ drive just didn’t seem far enough to be away from the expanse of Gotham, not when Bristol itself rolled out several miles around the city proper, so he cranked it up a few hours. Chicago seemed like a far enough place away, until he got onto I-80 and a terror seized him as he remembered Dick had spent a brief stint as an officer in Chicago. So he kept driving west.
Keeps. Keeps driving west. Jason Todd has no idea where he’s going or no idea what he’s going to do when he gets there, but he knows with certainty three things:
Jason Todd is a wanted man.
Jason Todd is the Red Hood.
And Jason Todd absolutely cannot go back home.
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The one where Jason flees to Montana, hides from his family, and inadvertently finds another.
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02 Aug 2025
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a savage place, as holy and enchanted by athoughtfox
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia (Movies), Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
23 May 2021
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'"Safe?" said Mr Beaver. "Who said anything about safe?"' - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Narnia - like her lion, like her kings and queens, once they'd breathed the air for long enough - is good, but not safe.
A collection of shorts based on implications, oddities, and strange eerie happenings that are glimpsed in the canon Chronicles of Narnia series, here expanded to view Narnia through a darker, wilder lens.
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Bookmarked by towardsmodernism
10 Jun 2025
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The day after Aslan left, taking the magic with him, just about everyone else left, too.
After the coronation festivities, the real work begins. During/post "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe".
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- Part 1 of Carpetbaggers
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- English
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- 119,269
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- 10/10
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05 Jun 2025
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“What they say about him—” Alfred cuts off suddenly, and Tim says, “Oh, Alfred, I know."
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17 Jan 2025
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Declensions by dustorange
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU
29 Sep 2018
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“My father,” Dick says, “worked the rope. It cut him. His hands were never clean.”
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12 Jan 2025
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to be buried alive by FromStarstuff
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
17 Oct 2024
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Bruce died and Cass couldn’t breathe for a week. She didn’t want to believe it at first, didn’t want to even think of it. She knew Bruce and she knew death and they didn’t fit together, not at all.
He was gone, gone like Brenda and Bludhaven, gone like Steph had been. Like Faizul. She felt it inside of her, so keenly it was as if she had killed him by her own hand. She could search the whole earth and not find a trace of him. It was too much. The pressure was squeezing her insides, left her constantly choking for air. She couldn’t stop dry heaving.
Or: Bruce is dead. Instead of leaving, Cass stays in Gotham. She learns a thing or two about being Batman.
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last light in a darkened room by bigdamnher0
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
21 Nov 2024
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“I—” Tim recalibrated. Desperately, he scanned Dick’s face—his features blurred over, a wall of nothing; Tim chipped away: “You were a kid, who’ll blame a kid? They won’t hurt anyone again. If you want to, to, to talk to anyone—but it was a long time ago, you’re Nightwing now—”
Tuesday morning: a video was uploaded to one of the deep web black markets. The footage, shot on those grainy vintage camcorders. But Tim knew that boy in the thumbnail; his eyes had memorized him, the heft and shape and dazzle of him, imprinting like an afterimage.
Or: a brother is a witness; there's your tragedy.
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27 Dec 2024
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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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Bookmarked by towardsmodernism
28 Oct 2024
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“It’s fine, Jason,” Dick says. “Chill out. I’m a grown adult, it’s not like Slade’s bothering a teenager anymore. It’s enrichment for me. I get a little shot of adrenaline and a bug treasure hunt. Sometimes he even makes me coffee.”
“And you drink it?”
“Well, yeah. It’s my fucking coffee, I’m not going to waste it.”
“I’m going to kill him,” Jason decides aloud. “Next time I see that man, I’m gonna kill him.”
“No, Jason, do not,” Dick says in the same tone Jason uses to tell his dog not to chew on his boots.
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- Part 1 of priusverse
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i'll write you harmony in c by magneticwave
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
01 Aug 2012
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“Mum, the fact that Lydia was the first of us to end up barefoot and pregnant is honestly a source of continual surprise to me.” // As it turns out, Mary Bennet’s internal checklist to Being a Good Person—go to medical school; join Médecins Sans Frontières; save lives—is a somewhat oversimplification of matters.
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02 Aug 2024
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kiss your knuckles (punch me in the face) by stupidandsad
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), DCU
04 Nov 2023
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Jason doesn’t talk to his dad anymore.
He doesn’t know why it only just hits him. He’s in the horror section of his favorite book store downtown. It’s his lunch break, and the shift lead likes him, so he gets a few extra minutes to window shop. He’d seen the new Stephen Graham Jones in the display case, an ominous orange red, a record needle stretching across a bleak expanse, and he’d gone in, listening to the far off chime of the door bell.
He’s just got it in his hands, the feel of the velvet dust jacket on his fingertips, the smell of warm pastry from the instore cafe, when it hits him.
Jason doesn’t talk to his dad anymore, and he hasn’t really talked to him in years.
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A college!Jason, no capes/celebrity AU. Featuring: complicated telecommunications, all of the familial issues, and so many cigarettes.
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Bookmarked by towardsmodernism
10 Jul 2024
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On the television, the camera pans across Gotham’s skyline, and Jason’s mind goes blank.
The clocktower, Babs’ new base of operations, is a smoking ruin.
Scrambling up, mashing the mute button on the remote, he rushes to the desk in the corner, wrenching open his laptop, fingers shaking as he activates the nuclear option.
Putting the headphone to his ear, relief floods his chest when he hears Barbara’s voice for the first time in three years, then sours when he can process well enough to hear what she’s actually saying.
It’s not Barbara that’s dead.
It’s Robin.
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13 Jun 2024
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untouched by greatness by yellow_caballero
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
17 Jul 2022
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Cassandra Cain learns what a partner is before she learns to speak. Partners share birthdays, fathers, and the language of death. Partners share first birthday parties and sweet sixteens. Partners know each other better than they know themselves, and Cassandra Cain knows who Tim Drake is.
Death can't change that. Tim Drake can't either. No matter how hard he tries.
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- Part 4 of Reverse Robin AU
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the prophetic spring by yellow_caballero
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), Young Justice (Comics)
27 Oct 2019
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When Tim Drake was seven years old he found 4chan. This would eventually kill him, and then proceed to kill very many other people afterwards, thus adding to the website’s already considerable body count. It would also save a few lives, which was a first for 4chan.
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- Part 3 of Reverse Robin AU
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Bookmarked by towardsmodernism
09 Jun 2024
Bookmarker's Notes
hellooooo excellent characterisation great yes very good
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Reverse Robin AU by yellow_caballero
Fandom: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Impulse (Comics), Teen Titans (Comics), The Flash (Comics), The Flash - All Media Types, Young Justice (Comics)
17 Jul 2022
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09 Jun 2024
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Damian stretched his legs, yawning as the heavy summer sun beat down on his exposed throat. “Jeez, kid, I thought that you had slit someone’s throat or something.”
“I wouldn’t do that!”
“I have,” Damian said casually, and Tim froze. “Slit my first throat at eight. My nanny, actually. She had betrayed us and my grandfather thought that it was a good lesson for me.”
“Just like in Homestuck,” Tim whispered.
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eye in the sky by TheResurrectionist
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Injustice: Gods Among Us
24 Nov 2024
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The Justice League went dark ten years ago. The only thing that remains is the Regime.
Batman, stripped of his cowl and suit, has been imprisoned on the Watchtower since the JL dissolved, forced to train the Regime’s younger superheroes. The leverage keeping him compliant? His own kids are part of the Regime’s program.
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- English
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- 10/10
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08 Jun 2024
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Chaseverse by copperbadge
Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, White Collar
27 Mar 2011
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If Neal Caffrey ran and Sherlock Holmes gave chase, who would win?
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25 May 2024
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The Most Amazing Things (Some Terrible Lie) by copperbadge
Fandoms: Marvel, The Avengers (2012)
06 Apr 2013
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Tony's decision not to reveal his identity as Iron Man to the world was shrewd and calculated. Too bad it's about to backfire on him like a Jericho missile.
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- English
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- 3/3
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23 May 2024
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Tim Drake stops stalking Gotham’s nocturnal wildlife when she goes to college. Unfortunately, they don’t return the favor.