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• #1 reason why you should get better at arranging dinner dates with your friends and family: imminent death! by Excalis

  Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  27 Oct 2024

  Tags

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  • Hatake Kakashi & Namikaze Minato
  • Hatake Kakashi
  • Namikaze Minato
  • Bittersweet Ending
  • Angst
  • Missing Scene
  • Food as a Metaphor for Love
  • gratuitous reference to the trauma fuckfest that is hatake kakashi's childhood
  • Implied Cannibalism
  • sneaky lil slip of hatake clan lore
  • my specific brand of emotional whiplash
  • Hokage Namikaze Minato
  • Anbu Hatake Kakashi
  • Canon Compliant
  • Character Study
  • a little. hahahaha. i swear i don't have a problem

  Summary

  “Hokage-sama,” Kakashi said, aware he sounded like a harried retail worker. From the corner of the ceiling, Hawk's chakra fluttered with silent laughter. Kakashi flicked a glare at her before settling his gaze back onto his sensei's impenetrably beaming face, feeling distinctly harassed. “This is flagrant disregard of protocol.”

  “Yes,” Minato-sensei said peaceably, and nothing more. The smile on his face didn't budge an inch. A silence filled with expectation swelled between them.

  “What are you doing?” Kakashi asked finally, hands placed on his hips disapprovingly.

  “Abusing my authority as your supreme commander,” Minato-sensei replied smilingly. 

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• be as you've always been by Excalis

  Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, DCU  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  06 Oct 2024

  Tags

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  • Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne
  • Clark Kent & Bruce Wayne
  • Bruce Wayne & Martha Wayne
  • Alfred Pennyworth & Martha Wayne
  • Clark Kent
  • Bruce Wayne
  • Martha Wayne
  • Alfred Pennyworth
  • Meeting the Parents
  • Angst
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Bruce Wayne is Bad at Feelings
  • he's having a stress-induced headache throughout pretty much all of this fic btw
  • Temporary Character Revival
  • Character Study
  • of a sort
  • in which i repeatedly emotionally disembowel batman for fun and (no) profit
  • clark pretty much treats bruce like a skittish horse
  • Clark Kent Loves Bruce Wayne
  • their relationship is a bit complicated atm tho
  • beware! wayne family angst!
  • bruce doesn't talk to martha at all but their Feelings abt eo are still expressed. to clark ofc
  • what do you take them for! emotionally communicative people? ptooey!
  • Angst with a Happy Ending

  Summary

  “Difficult to explain,” Bruce said shortly, looking at nothing in particular.

  Slowly, Clark lowered his head, wordlessly prompting eye contact. Then, he raised a brow.

  “What was I supposed to say?” Bruce asked archly in response. “‘Hello, mother, your untimely murder opened my eyes to the glaring flaws in Gotham’s criminal justice system, and in the decades since, I’ve gone out every night in a bat costume to perform acts of vigilantism through gratuitous application of incredible violence. Would you like more milk in your tea?’”

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  Martha Wayne is resurrected for a day. Clark is mostly here for moral support and to make sure Bruce doesn’t crawl out of his skin from sheer stress, but he certainly wouldn’t mind making a favorable first impression on one of the most influential women of his best friend’s life. He just hadn’t expected her to be so incisively observant, though he really, probably should have.

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• a stolen moment by Excalis

  Fandoms: DCU, Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  26 Jun 2024

  Tags

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  • Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne
  • Clark Kent & Bruce Wayne
  • Clark Kent
  • Bruce Wayne
  • Time Travel
  • Red Kryptonite (DCU)
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Angst
  • Jealousy
  • clark thirdwheels superbat and experiences shrimp emotions about it
  • here's a fun tag that will come in useful down the line!
  • Emotional Infidelity
  • Unresolved Emotional Tension
  • sorry not sorry but the ending isn't super happy
  • Kissing
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death
  • immortality & the unfortunate reality of outliving everyone you love
  • Dimension Travel

  Summary

  Then, Clark’s eyes met his, and he pulled away so quickly that the sound of his retreat whipped through the air. His face, for a moment, was startlingly open, and naked grief cracked harshly through his expression like a fist shattering the surface of a frozen lake. Then, it was gone, and the slate was wiped clean as though there had been nothing but a mild smile there since the very beginning.

  But Bruce knew what he’d seen.

  “How long?” he asked.

  Clark’s mouth twisted. “I don’t know why I thought I’d be able to keep it from you,” he said softly. “You know me too well. Was that even five minutes?”

  “Clark.”

  Clark’s lips turned up into a smile, fracturing his face, his eyes glittering shards of lapis lazuli. “How long for what?” he asked. “For how long we were married? Or for how long it’s been since you died?” 

  Series

  • Part 3 of Hurt and Comfort Bingo
  • Part 2 of Kryptonite Week 2024
  • Part 2 of the flower, never watered, turns to the sun

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  English

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• Sunflower Care 101 by Excalis

  Fandoms: DCU, Superman - All Media Types  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  25 Jun 2024

  Tags

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  • Clark Kent & Bruce Wayne
  • Clark Kent
  • Bruce Wayne
  • Major Character Injury
  • Green Kryptonite (DCU)
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Mild Blood
  • Medical Procedures
  • of a sort
  • non explicit surgery i mean
  • can be read as pre-slash bc i'm superbat trash lmao
  • not v relevant but bruce really is the type to give aftercare and ditch while you're asleep huh lol

  Summary

  A hand snapped out, wrapping around his wrist and tightening until he could nearly feel his bones grinding against each other. Superman’s eyes were open, but his pupils had swallowed his irises until there was only a thin ring of blue. He didn’t blink at all, gaze faraway and unfocused. Not quite conscious.

  His grip certainly wasn’t weak, in any case. Batman took that for a good sign.

  He opened his mouth to say something sufficiently reassuring that would hopefully result in him without a broken wrist—he’d still be able to get the kryptonite out, of course, but having to accommodate for an injury whilst performing a medical procedure wasn’t exactly his idea of a pleasant experience. But Superman cocked his head a little, and all the tension in his body fled him, his grip loosening from around his wrist.

  “Br’ce,” Clark slurred indistinctly, his hand falling to his side, and immediately, trustingly fell back into unconsciousness.

  Bruce stared at his slack face, hands frozen, mind buzzing with white noise. 

  Series

  • Part 2 of Hurt and Comfort Bingo
  • Part 1 of Kryptonite Week 2024

  Language:

  English

  Words:

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• my heart (it digs its own grave) by Excalis

  Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M, Gen, M/M
  • Complete Work

  14 Apr 2024

  Tags

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  • Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne
  • Clark Kent/Lois Lane
  • Clark Kent & Bruce Wayne
  • Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne
  • Diana (Wonder Woman) & Bruce Wayne
  • Clark Kent
  • Bruce Wayne
  • Lois Lane
  • Dick Grayson
  • Diana (Wonder Woman)
  • Jason Todd
  • Martha Kent
  • Weddings
  • Pining
  • jfc SO MUCH PINING
  • Angst
  • Attempt at Humor
  • Bittersweet
  • Bruce Wayne Has Issues
  • in this fic however he manages to confine the blast radius to just himself
  • Unrequited Love
  • or is it? ohohoho
  • Identity Porn
  • Secret Identity
  • Bruce Wayne is Batman
  • Clark Kent is Superman
  • in which i repeatedly emotionally disembowel batman for fun and (no) profit
  • Smoking
  • Non-Sexual Intimacy
  • there should be a chapter honorarily dedicated to bruce wayne in the dsm-5 probably

  Summary

  Kryptonians ran hotter than humans by about 5.4 degrees, give or take a few decimal places. Clark felt like a radiator even on the bitterest of rainy nights on Gotham rooftops, a foot's distance between them; Bruce wondered if it would feel different somehow, if he pressed his hand against his chest, where his shield would lay, with intention—touch for the sake of touching. If it would feel different without the barrier of triple-weave kevlar and impenetrable alien fabric between them, stripped of the context of battle and the excuse of necessity.

  Bruce was, however, in possession of all his faculties and thus was sound of mind enough to create a 20-item list (organized by relevance) of all the reasons why following through on his desires would be unwise. Chiefly among said reasons was, of course, that there were approximately thirty minutes before Clark would be married to the love of his life, Lois Lane, and that Bruce would never jeopardize their happiness for something as petty as feelings that he’d failed to smother in the cradle—no matter his alleged ‘self-destructive tendencies’. 

  Series

  • Part 1 of Hurt and Comfort Bingo
  • Part 1 of the flower, never watered, turns to the sun

  Language:

  English

  Words:

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  Chapters:

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  Collections:

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