Too Many Tabs: If You Could (Re)Read Me Now
My TBR list got waaaaaaayyyy too long - these are the fics I most want to read currently (subject to - probably frequent - change)
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Penelope by NerdyGay
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics)
09 Mar 2024
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"Odysseus was clever, but his vanity and ego would have killed him long before his return home if not for his wife.”
“Penelope?” Tim asked.
“Exactly, child, Penelope," his nanny smiled. "The men of Ancient Greece would have you believe that she was idle, waiting for her husband to come home and solve her problems, but this is far from the truth. For routine and ritual are not powerless things. In pouring her love for her son and husband into her weaving, she called out to the goddesses Hestia and Hera. Despite never lifting a finger in violence herself, Penelope saved her family.”
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Tim finds that there are more ways to protect the Bats than just Robin. A little magic never hurt anyone, after all. -
how easily we turn into those we hate by DSS1101
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics)
30 Jan 2024
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Tim goes to Titans Tower that day on Bruce's orders, to get away from Gotham and the Red Hood.
Jason goes to Titans Tower that day of his own volition, to get to Robin.
Neither of them expect their trip to San Francisco to end the way it does.
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“This is because he won’t kill the Joker?” Tim’s voice is a hoarse whisper, so soft he’s not even sure Jason heard him. Tim lifts his head, a steely determination in his eyes, and glares straight down the barrel of the gun. Suddenly, he’s struck by the petty, vindictive urge to just be mean, and if he’s going to die anyway, he may as well give in.
“You’re no better than he is.” He spits out, jaw clenched. For the umpteenth time that night, there’s a fresh bloom of pain on Tim’s body, this time across his cheekbone as Jason’s gun comes down hard against it.
“Don’t you dare compare me to Batman.” There’s fury in Jason’s voice, and satisfaction curls in Tim’s gut.
“I’m not.”
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Bullying?
Damian scoffed at the word. He wasn't being bullied.
What a quaint idea. It conjured up visions of being smacked around or shoved into toilets. Of being forced to ingest alcohol or some other mind-altering drug. Of having his locker defaced with filthy insults or stuffed with trash. Which wasn’t what was happening to him at all.
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The Best Laid Plans of Robins by Aleena_Pallaz
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics), Batman: Hush (2019), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
30 Jun 2025
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Tim's dad is dead, killed by a boomerang to the chest, and Tim is an orphan now. He knows Bruce would adopt him if needed but he couldn't possibly impose himself on the Wayne's more than he already has. It's okay though, because he has a plan for this, he just needs someone to play the role of his estranged "Uncle Eddie".
Except... the guy he hires is weirdly concerned about his well being and Tim can't figure out why.
Meanwhile, Jason Todd is forced to reevaluate his plans for his debut as Red Hood, because, as it turns out, his replacement is a suicidal idiot who can't be trusted to stay out of trouble.
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Tim Drake fails to recognize Jason Todd, back from the dead, and hires him to be his Uncle Eddie to avoid getting adopted by Batman. Somehow this ruins everyone's plans.
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- Part 1 of The Best Laid Plans
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Tim Drake dies, then wakes up eight years old and feverish. Who knew the afterlife was so strange?
Alternative Title: How Long Tim Drake Is Capable of Living in Denial, a Saga