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It takes Tim three weeks to realize that he’s been exposed to something. His reactions have been off since that night at the harbour when Dick almost got thrown in the river and Bruce shoved Tim to one side to get to Dick and Tim fell face forward into a weird pile of grey dust and choked on it. The dust didn’t have any immediate effects, nothing obvious. It just made him gasp and cough and made his eyes burn under the cowl for a few seconds. Then he needed to check on Dick and then they got back to the Cave and he checked on Dick again and then Dick was saying something about a movie night and Tim found himself smiling and then he stayed over for dinner and the movie and thought nothing of it. It’s only now, three weeks later, that he wakes up in his room in the Manor and thinks wait, what? It’s only now, now that he’s flooded with sudden panic, that he realizes that he hasn’t felt anything resembling panic for three full weeks.
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28 Jun 2026
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Jason Todd is dead and Bruce is still grieving when an alternate Bruce Wayne from a different dimension opens a gateway into his house. The alternate’s intentions seem benign, but while Bruce is in his manor he comes across that universe’s Jason, frightened and bruised.
Bruce takes him home but he has no idea what his alternate has truly put Jason through and for his alternate son he’s only traded one captor for another. Jason only sees one way out of the hell he’s in. Someone his old universe doesn’t have. Someone who’ll save anyone, no matter how broken they are.
Somehow he needs to find Batman.
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- Part 20 of Through the Looking Glass
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19 Jun 2026
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threadbare by inconstant_moon
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
29 Jan 2026
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That's the thing. Dick looked right at the kid, broken hand and all, and nearly let him in. He nearly let him train.
Because after all these years, he didn't process anything wrong with the image before him.
(Dick, Bruce, and the implications of raising a partner instead of a child.)
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11 Jun 2026
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That Was The Turning Point (That Was One Lonely Night) by Eznin
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
24 Jun 2026
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Seven months on the run since his escape from Arkham, Jason makes the impulsive decision to go back home. A move that leaves his ex-family in panic as they try to figure out if his peace offers are genuine, how likely he is to shoot them, and how to undo generational trauma.
Also, there are the hallucinations that keep following him, but that's probably normal. No one ever said vigilantes had to be well-adjusted.
Or,
The most dysfunctional family in the universe strikes again.
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11 Jun 2026
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Red Hood's fingerprints and DNA were freely given. Bruce had been expecting irrefutable proof of a dark miracle, but the tests all come back negative.
The Red Hood is not Jason Todd.
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06 Jun 2026
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Mark holds the truth nestled close to his heart, buried beside pearly white ribs, surely stitched into his sternum. He is thing with teeth, he knows. Cruel and ugly and monstrous. He binds himself, rightly so, holds the leash tight on his neck, self muzzled by the endless sky and sun and sand.
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Mark stays a bit too long in the desert. He still comes home.Bookmarked by ImaginaryLife
01 May 2026
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Nolan tells Debbie he killed the Guardians.
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06 Apr 2026
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Tired of Comparisons, Trying to Learn the Lesson In by Anonymous
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
16 Dec 2025
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AU where Robert has powers his dad forced him to suppress in his youth. Upon stepping into the role of Mecha Man Blue, Robert runs himself into the ground physically, mentally, and financially to uphold his family’s legacy. It’s what he was born and raised for, after all. He can’t afford to fuck it up. He’s nothing outside of it. His dad was so keen on drilling that into his head.
…with that kind of pressure on him, is it any wonder he starts to act out? It really shouldn’t be surprising that he needs to let off some steam, some charge, so he doesn’t lose his cool doing real hero work. Call him a hypocrite. Call him a supervillain in a hero’s suit. Robert’s long since past the point of caring.
It’s just a shame he’s working so closely with people who know the hallmarks of a real villain a lot better than he would like them to. He’ll have to keep his work and his fun separate, for the team’s sake if nothing else. They mean a lot to him. He genuinely wants to help them succeed in their redemption arcs.
But he has no intention of stopping. Not when he’s finally back in his prime.
Not for anyone.
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16 Mar 2026
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It's 2007 and the story shifts. Robert Robertson flees his childhood home and follows Elliot Connors.
The lessons he learns are cruel and put him on a path he was never meant to take. It's a slow downward spiral to become the man he is today: Red Mongrel, wanted fugitive, criminal and vigilante.
He hopes for a change when Shroud escapes after twelve years of prison, and gets more than he bargained for. Maybe fate is stronger after all.Bookmarked by ImaginaryLife
13 Mar 2026
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“It’s not a real kid, Chase.”
Chase is technically underage, he’s a year away from being able to drink but the bartender didn’t bother to check his ID. Chase has always looked a little older than he was, it works in his favor now.
Nobody at a hero bar like this would assume he was so young.
“How the fuck do you think that?” Chase asks, spits. His hands still shake with the memory of it. The beer in his hand shakes with the tremors of his hands. “How the fuck do you do it?”
Mechaman sighs, deep, disappointed. He leans back, taking his whiskey with him.
The rest of the Brave Brigade was downstairs, drinking in victory, dancing with the other heroes, celebrating.
“It’s the Astral Pulse.”
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13 Mar 2026
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second skin by aimlesscalamity
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU, DC Animated Universe (Timmverse), DCU (Comics)
11 Mar 2026
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Tim forgot to take his domino mask off after patrol.
Then he forgot again.
And again.
Jason notices.
Tim needs him to drop it.
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12 Mar 2026
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Parenting is Bruce's thing, and Jason isn't planning on messing with that. But when Bruce fails to spot the countless red flags about Tim's home life, it falls to Jason to step up. Of course it does. Because he's literally the only one in his family who knows how to be responsible, and if Dick disagrees, he can suck it.
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05 Mar 2026
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"How old are you anyway?"
Bruce smirks a little, “Pretty old.”
“How old am I?” Dick rephrases the question. Realistically, given the lines on Bruce's face and the grey in his hair, he has to be more than a decade or two in the future. But, well, Dick's still reeling from being twelve. He can't begin to imagine a world where there's anything past tomorrow.
Bruce's smirk sinks a little, but not quite to a frown. It's a distant smile, fighting through the shadows of whatever it is Bruce sees when he looks down at him. In a quiet, mournful tone, he says, “Not that old. Not old at all.”
(A young Robin and Nightwing swap places; Batman is always the constant.)
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20 Feb 2026
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Second Generation by lowflyingfruit
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics)
15 Jun 2017
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Nine months after the 'Blockbuster Incident', a call from Lockhaven Penitentiary regarding Catalina Flores brings all Dick Grayson's plans for his future in Bludhaven crashing down. Thrust suddenly into parenthood and hiding what happened to make him a parent in the first place, Dick must decide, adjust, and accept - and no matter what, the family has to pull together to help him.
Unfortunately, the Red Hood, a newcomer to the Gotham crime scene with a grudge, has his own ideas about Bat-family togetherness. Giving them time and space to work things out peacefully isn't one of them.
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14 Feb 2026
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The View From Jade by lowflyingfruit
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
24 Feb 2019
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Being transported to the past is not the sort of thing one normally expects. But this having happened, and with no easy way back, Jason's determined to make the most of it. Though the Bat still stalks Gotham's streets, the city's crime is run by the mobs instead of the rogues. There's no Joker yet.
There's no Robin.
Maybe there shouldn't be.
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13 Feb 2026
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Dick knows the importance of tapping out in training, so your partner doesn't accidentally hurt you. It becomes instinct, so heavily ingrained in him. He doesn't understand why his brothers don't do it, too.
(Until they do, and it's too late.)
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09 Feb 2026
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In an alternate universe, felons are routinely released to work for law enforcement agencies...wearing shock collars. Peter decides Neal should be one of them. His intentions are good, but Neal is not happy about it. AU of the pilot. See notes for warnings.
(Previously posted on LJ, February 2012. Chapter 1 is the main story; 2 and 3 are DVD extras.)Series
- Part 1 of Collarverse
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03 Feb 2026
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The Care and Keeping of Your Cross-Dimensional Hallucination by candlebreak
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Arkham (Video Games), Batman Beyond
22 Oct 2022
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Tim wakes up to a hallucination in his kitchen, making breakfast. Fried eggs and bacon. The smell makes him nauseous.
Unfortunate. Normally his hallucinations don’t have aromas. He hopes this is a one-off.Series
- Part 1 of Joker Recovery Squad (tm)
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11 Jan 2026
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“The Joker is dead. Batman is dead. One of those things is good and one is bad, but she’s not sure which is which right now.
There’s a child sitting on the floor between them, laughing hysterically. That’s an easy one—bad.”
Harley and Tim are the only survivors of Joker's plan to brainwash Robin. She does her best to pick up the pieces.
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The Happiness Game! by engraved (Ludicrously_Idiotic), shouldbeworking
Fandoms: Persona 5
15 Nov 2025
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The Phantom Thieves have nearly secured their route through Maruki's Palace. There’s only one section left: The Twilight Corridor. A paradise where everything is perfect, and everyone is always smiling.
In order to enter that place, the Thieves must first prove they've "completed orientation" and can be "happy." There are points, there is a scoreboard, and they’re locked together in an experimental space where wishes can be granted by simply saying them aloud. Everyone has to individually earn 100 happiness points, or no one is leaving.
So what is “happiness,” really? How does Maruki define happiness? What the hell is a quantifiable happiness point? Is there any way around this? Don’t these stupid kids realize this is a trick to get them to fall back into the thrall of Maruki’s reality? And why can’t Goro earn any fucking points?
(Or: I've been watching too much Dropout Game Changer and I’ve built an Akechi torture chamber.)
Includes illustrations by the amazing engraved!