#basically any jason centric ship

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Prompt:

soulmate au but instead of immediately feeling like they found the person they're supposed to be with, they take one look at each other and just fucking despise each other

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Batfam Time Travel Fic Recs

Because @clarenceislazy requested it on my last fic rec compilation, here's a list of my favorite DCU time travel fics! They're all pretty Batfam-centric, but eh niche is niche what can you do

Damian fics:

A Good Place by LemonadeGarden - Damian gets sent back in time to a Batman who's never had a Robin. Very sweet, very fun.

The Rule Stands by Engineerd - After Dick's death, Damian has to deal with a time-displaced ten-year-old Dick Grayson. Love a good Dick and Damian bonding moment, PLUS this gets a happy ending <3

to stay in one place by Jezebunny - Injustice!Universe Nightwing!Damian time-travels/dimension-jumps to a timeline where Dick Grayson is still alive and his counterpart is still Robin. Ugh this is so angsty -- I have an unreasonable amount of love for Injustice Damian

looking for the shapes in the silence by popsunner - In a world where Dick died on the job, Damian falls through a hole in reality where Dick is still alive and finds that some things don't fit the way they used to. SUCH an amazing representation of complex grief -- literally every time I read it, I cry

Steph fics:

time slip by almondrose - A mistake in time leads to six Robins meeting. Honestly, this one is kinda cracky, and only barely qualifies as Steph-centric, but I still like it a lot

and we'll never be the same by almondrose - Steph and Tim go on a road trip to figure out the post-universal-reboot anomalies. This is more of a post timey-wimey-bullshit fic than a real time travel fic, BUT I think it's real cute regardless

Tim fics:

Tractors by lieu42 - Ooh this one is honestly so so fun! In a reimagined universe where DC's heroes operate out of the UK, Red Robin Tim finds himself right back in the year before everything went to hell. He has a duty to get back to his correct timeline so he can find Bruce, but with Bart and Kon still alive, there's a part of him that doesn't want to leave. Literally SO well written and trippy as hell -- this fic deals a lot with addiction, drug use, and grief, so definitely go into it forewarned. TimKon

not for very much longer by CreamOfTomatoSoup - ugh what CAN'T I say about this fic, apart from the fact that it's one of my favorite time loop fics of all time. Post Cult of Dionysus Bernard Dowd finds himself reliving the worst day of his life -- the day Darla got shot. Featuring identity porn, Steph as Robin, Original-Personality!Bernard, the grief of a childhood you can never return to, and the weirdness of having to interact with your significant other when he's currently a sixteen year old who doesn't know he likes dudes. Don't look at the incomplete warning -- it's not abandoned, just a wip, and I legitimately cannot recommend this fic enough. This fic made me read War Games. This fic made me a Darla Aquista stan. This fic made me ship timbern. Please read this fic.

Jason fics:

The View From Jade by lowflyingfruit - Jason Todd accidentally travels back to before Bruce took Dick in. I feel like this is on every time travel rec list, but what can I say: I'm a basic bitch

Two Dead Birds by InsaneTrollLogic - Jason Todd wakes up in the middle of his Mob Boss Era and immediately decides to rewrite his own history. This is very funky fresh of him, just in my personal opinion.

Dick fics:

So It Goes by 60sec400 - Bruce from Dick's Robin era receives a troubling call from Nightwing. Be warned -- this fic is angsty as hell. Implied major character death. Don't look at the incomplete warning -- it's a lie (the author has specified they intended it to work as a oneshot)

In This Or Any Other Universe by wildsofmarch - Dick-as-Batman ends up in Battinson-era Gotham. Again, I think this counts more towards the Dimension Travel pile than the strict Time Travel variety, but I'm still putting it here because I enjoy the hell out of it

a million dreams by CaptainOzone - In the seconds between the trapeze line snapping and their bodies hitting the ground, John and Mary Grayson find themselves transported twenty years into the future. SO GOOD I honestly can't stand it.

If you think I missed a fic you love (or if you've written any yourself and want to self-plug), feel free to drop a link in the reblogs! Especially if you know of any that center around Steph, Cass, or Duke -- istg I've scrolled through fifteen pages of the AO3 Time Travel tag, and I've found like maybe two fics that center around any of them. It's honestly a little ridiculous

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thought it was abt dam (iykyk) time to make an intro post

FREE PALESTINE🍉

Basic Info/Fun Facts:

- My names are: Owen, Ezra, Ash/Ashen, Oracle, Glitched, and Doppelgänger

- I’m transmasc and I go by he/him/his pronouns

- MINOR!!!

- SAW AND MISSES SKZ🫩🫩

- I also hate nats park and LN🥰

- Mike Wheeler, EPIC Odysseus, and Jason Grace defender first, human second

- Furry! Antis and z00s dni

- Kandi kid X3

- I live in the EST time zone

- Violinist/Pianist

- Favorite color is blue

- ENFP

- Member of Cabin 7 (PJO ref)

- I’m trying to get into Hellenism/Polytheism so if you have any tips PLEASE GIVE ME THEM

Current hyperfixations:

- STRAY KIDS💥💥

- Stranger Things/Byler

- EPIC: The Musical

Other socials!!

- Twitter/X (i don’t suggest following this one bcs im barely active and there’s a 95% chance imma make a new account)

- My new Twitter/X

- Pinterest

- YouTube

- Archive of our own

Other fandoms!!!

- The Riordanverse (Percy Jackson, The Kane Chronicles, The Heroes of Olympus, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, The Trials of Apollo, The Senior Year Adventures, and The Nico di Angelo Adventures)

- Object Shows (It’s Time for The, hfjONE, Object Fool/Animatic Battle, Love of the S*n)

- The Life Series, Empires SMP (both seasons), Witchcraft SMP

- Stray Kids

- Hamilton

- The Song of Achilles (i finished it. end me.)

- Alien Stage

- Hunter x Hunter

- SK8 the Infinity

- My Hero Academia

- Demon Slayer

- The Owl House

- Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun (i haven’t finished s2 yet don’t come for me pls💔💔)

- Five Nights at Freddy’s

- Nocturnals

- Tangled the Series (still on s2 no spoilers!!)/Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure

- I’m trying to get into Heathers and The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals

AU’s I am making!! Most of these are either byler or skz and these are all wips!

- Stranger Things (byler centric) x EPIC: The Musical

- Stranger things (byler centric) x The Camp Half-Blood Chronicles (PJO/HOO/TOA/TSATS)

- Stranger Things (willel centric with byler subplot) x The Kane Chronicles

- Stranger Things (byler centric) x Magnus Chase

- Strangely Wonderland (ST x Alice in Wonderland, El centric)

- Stranger Things (El centric with byler subplot) x

My Hero Academia

- Stranger Things x Demon Slayer (kinda ditched this one bes im stumped so if anyone wants to offer up ideas i'll take them and twist them in my own ways)

- Stranger Things (can't decide between elmax or byler centric) x SK8 the Infinity

- Stranger Things x Urban Legends/Creepypastas (drop some ideas but i have a couple alr)

- MCYT x Urban Legends/Creepypastas (abandoned, you can pick it up if you want)

- Stranger Things x The Owl House (byler centric)

- Stranger Things x Arcane (i have too many variations istg)

- Stray Kids x PJO/HOO/TOA

- Stray Kids x PJO

- Stray Kids x PJO/HOO/TOA except they don’t have the same quests as the actual books

- Stray Kids x TKC

- Stray Kids x MCGA

- Stray Kids x MHA

- Stray Kids x Demon Slayer

- Stray Kids x SK8 the Infinity

- Stray Kids as EPIC deities

- Stray Kids as literal gods and have their own Pantheon and shit like that

- Stray Kids x HxH (maybe?)

- Stray Kids x ALSNT

If you want byler fic recs click here!

If I have a poll happening, you can find it here!

Favorite ships!

- BYLER💙💛 from Stranger Things

- Minsung from SKZ

- Literally every SKZ duo

- Odypen from EPIC

- Percabeth from PJO/HOO/TOA

- Solangelo from PJO/HOO/TOA

- Valgrace from HOO/TOA

- Sodapack from hfjONE

- Lumity from The Owl House

- Lams from Hamilton

- Patrochilles from TSOA

- Mizisua from ALNST

- Ivantill from ALNST

- Killugon from HxH

- Leopika from HxH

- Hisoillu from HxH

- Renga from SK8

- Matchablossom from SK8

- Tododeku from MHA

- Izuocha (yes i ship both we exist) from MHA

- Inotan (LISTEN-) from KnY

- Mitsukou from TBHK

- Ted x Diego (someone pls tell me their ship name if they have one) from Nocturnals

To be read list (oh gods)

- Circe by Madeline Miller

- The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

- Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling

- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

- Wings of Fire by Tui T. Sutherland

- Warrior Cats by Erin Hunter

- Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli

- It’s a Love/Skate Relationship by Carli J. Corson

- If you have any recs lmk (fanfics too)!

DNI LIST! If you’re any of the following you are not welcome!

- Z*onists

- NSFW accounts (unless ur a gore artist)

- Antisemitists

- Islamophobes

- Homophobes/Transphobes

- Z00philes

- P3dophiles

- R4cists

- Gr00mers

- TERFs (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist)

- Anti-furries

- Proshippers/Comshippers/Darkshippers

- TOXIC Noah Schnapp supporters AND antis. If you have a “I don’t support him but I don’t hate him” type of mindset or smth along those lines you are welcome.

- Will Byers antis

- Toxic milevens (i respect most of yall, but some of yall need to chill.)

- Sharpwolf (Antinous x Telemachus) shippers

- Hisoka Morrow defenders. If you just like him as a character you can pass, but don’t DEFEND HIM WITH YOUR LIFE because that is a KID LIKER YOU ARE DEFENDING😭😭

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༊*·˚ eye emojis helwo .. im so intimidated by hatchetblr LMFAO but im DINO or BEAR !! i hope to have a good fun time ,'] my inactive asf main blog is @sleebiebear , the weird-activity hf oc rp blog i share with my wife [ @misshollowayss ] is @swinginthehatchet , my FRESH NEWBORN sideblog is @watcherwrld and my reblog account is @strlitestage if anyone even caresss and i currently have art comms open ! ask me about it if u want :p

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༊*·˚ on the topic of the blog itself , i feel like its kinda obvious but to state it again ; this is a mainly STARKID / HATCHETFIELD-CENTRIC BLOG !! hatchetfields been a pretty big fixation for the past few months for me and Boy do i have thoughts on it as well as starkids other projects . there will [ hopefully ] be pretty 50/50 ratio on my own posts vs reblogs , but whenever i go on about a certain chara or charas , i will be tagging accordingly !! i like sorting :33 and in terms of warnings , ill try to tag certain things that need trigger and / or content warnings , but also theres a lot of crazy shit going on in hatchetfield !! i cant even remember everything but ill tag depending on posts !!

DNI⠀:⠀basic dni criteria we all know it . terfs . ai users or enablers / enjoyers . vivziepop / helluva boss / hazbin hotel enthusiasts sorry i just am not too comfy w that .

BYF⠀:⠀i will mainly be interacting w other starkid-related blogs n posts , if you are 16 or below or just have 'minor' in your bio i dont mind if you interact but i most likely will not interact / follow back just because im not fully comfy w that . i do need tonetags and i will use tonetags regularly ! i do make kms / kys jokes but most of the kys jokes will most likely be in the context of me talking abt characters and will be tagged accordingly .

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༊*·˚ in terms of whooo i’ll be talking about ,  i usually have a few specific characters rotating my brain like a revolvin door ,  but on top of canon hatchetfield characters ,  i also have a lot of ocs for hatchetfield !!  i will most likely throw some of them into the wind every now and then because oc creation is a big outlet for me and a key way of how i show my love for a media !  if i make an oc for it u KNOW im in deep lol ,  but for now i’ll mostly have a concise list of charas i’ll mainly be talking about on here ,’] ofc this list is not set in stone and i’ll prolly talk about a lot more !

༊*·˚ i ALSO indulge very heavily in . a good amount of oc/canon shipping ,  non-canon shipping ,  and multi-shipping ,  so i may speak on that sometimes too .  if thats a bother to anyone then feel free to click off ,  idrc !  i do it because its fun and im abnormal about characters lmfao ,  but i know its not everyones cup of tea .  just a warning !!

CANON⠀:⠀[ my interpretations of ] the spankoffski family ,  the matthews family ,  the chasity family [ specifically mark and karen ] ,  the jägerman family ,  ruth fleming , charlotte sweetly ,  the workin boys ,  emma perkins ,  gary goldstein , linda monroe ,  the foster family ,  pokotho ,  bliklotep ,  t’noy karaxis , jason jepson , melissa dean , roman murray .

ORIGINAL CHARACTERS⠀:⠀dania + didrika kumar ,  olive matthews [ yeah we alr know where this ones going ] ,  penelope + samson kline ,  fredrick + erica + james buchanan ,  goldie rosalind cross [ ... lol ] ,  cj + gabriel elijah + elodie mae walker ,  blake + beau + brahm devaney ,  adonis heliach-ancunín ,  benjamin kingston , genevieve grosven , yori + himika + hansik kutsuki , evelina florentino , quinn dersey , jay macnamara [ ..... LOL. ] , magdalena whitstone .

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༊*·˚ i was gonna talk abt my taggin system but bah. literally just put #dino talks hatchetfield or any characters full name [ ex. #dino talks paul matthews or dino talks whatever family ] , #dino yaps , or #dino does art , and smth will def show up .

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[kbirbpods]

Any additional information will be found on my year-round letter x

Fandoms & Characters I Would Love to Receive:

I am hoping to have my main gifter make me something from one of the following fandoms!

(1) Star Wars: I love so much Star Wars that to split it into subfandoms would make this post too long. I think it’s easiest to say this: I prefer Clone Wars, Rebels, Rogue One/Andor, anything about Jon Antilles, anything about Hevy & the Domino Squad, anything Ahsoka Tano, Mandalorian culture (including Din & Grogu content!), and Mando'a as a language.

My main ships are: Cody/Obi-Wan, Kallus/Zeb, Hevy/anyone (consensual), Finn/Poe or Finn/Poe/Rey, blackkat rarepairs (mainly Jon Antilles/anyone), Jon Antilles & Fay (platonic), Waxer/Boil, Fives/Echo, Kanan/Hera, Quinlan/Fox(/Jon), Quinlan/Obi-Wan(/Cody), & Fox/Bail/Breha [also Clone OC ships!!] My favorite characters are: Hevy, Fox, Cody, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Leia, Poe, Fives, Luke, Jon Antilles, Fay (Legends)

(2) Batfam/DC: I can be picky and yet not? Basically, I just prefer no inner-Batfam fics of the boys because I truly view them as brothers. Jason is my boy forever & always. My favorite ships are Jason Todd/Roy Harper(/Kori), Dick Grayson/Wally West, Harley/Ivy, Tim Drake/Kon, Tim/Bernard, Tim/Kon/Bernard, and Wally/Artemis from Young Justice. I am pretty knowledgeable about comics, too, and I keep up with the current runs of: Poison Ivy, Gotham City Sirens, & Red Hood: The Hill. This is the fandom that I specifically am obsessed with found family in. – I love exploring Alfred being the boys’ Grandpa and Bruce’s complex dadhood!

Honorable mention here to Bucky Barnes/Clint Barton/Jason Todd as a ship I love. This is why I put MCU in my signup request, as DC/Marvel crossovers are [chef's kiss] to me.

(3) DPxDC: I have been tentatively eyeing this crossover since last year's Pod-O-Ween but I was fully flung into it during last year's summer swap. It got me writing again! This fandom is so rich with potential regarding like... when you fling them into one another's timelines, meaning my ships go EVERYWHERE. Take one of my DC ships and put a character from Danny Phantom in it and you will probably find a ship I like. But I really love: Tim Drake/Danny Fenton, Danny Fenton/Jason Todd(/Roy Harper), Steph Brown/(Cass/)Sam Manson, Cassandra Cain/Sam Manson, Jazz Fenton/Barbara Gordon. I've podficced some Danny/Dick, too!! Like I said, it really depends when you cross the timelines over. As always, I will EAT UP genfic for this fandom!! I REALLY love the "demon twins" AUs, which are Danny & Damian as twins (or Danny as one of the Damian clones). So, yes... I love this so much.

(4) A RARE ASK: I am super into both Dragon Age & Mass Effect. The former is much easier to find fandom for and there are a lot of fics with blanket permission statements. For Dragon Age, DA:O is my favorite (especially Alistair) or any sort of Hawke!centric fics. But in April 2024 I became re-obsessed with Mass Effect & it has continued. My rare ask is for Mass Effect fics - specifically Shep/Garrus or Shep/Liara (or them as a triad). Or gen fic!! But I feel like I am on an island here lol

NOW on my signup I mention that my additional fandoms will be in my letter for the purpose of treats! If you want specifics on these fandoms, please see my year-round podficcer letter. But I will briefly list them here:

Ted Lasso, The Locked Tomb, All for the Game, Murderbot (books & show), X-Files, Zelda, Fallout, The Last of Us, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tolkien, Jane Austen, Teen Wolf, Star Trek, Avatar the Last Airbender

Things I Like, Regardless of Fandom:

THEMES: trans/nonbinary characters (extra points for neopronouns); gender exploration in general; found family (genfic or otherwise); angst with a happy ending; polyamory; good asexual or aromantic representation; genfic

TROPES: fix-it fics!! extra points for time travel or time loops in fix its; fake dating/marriage; mutual pining; soulmates (AU or just clearly soulmates); crack treated seriously; rivals-to-friends/lovers; oops only one bed; secret identities; CROSSOVERS!

AUs: soulmates soulmates soulmates; regency era (or any different era); modern AU; crossovers, provided i know the other fandom or the fic doesn’t require knowledge of the other fandom!; college/sport AU; fantasy/fae AUs

Star Wars AUs/Tropes (yes they need their own categories): force sensitive clones; Jon Antilles lives; [insert clone here] lives; Anakin doesn’t fall; Palpatine dies; Domino Squad Lives; "no Order-66"/"Order-66 happens differently"; force sensitive Leia; modern AUs; trans clones

PODFIC SPECIFIC: anything epistolary (texting/chat fics especially but letters and such are also fun to explore); including music / SFX if you’re comfortable; including bloopers if you have them/are comfortable exposing them

RATINGS: Contrary to popular belief I do not hate explicit fics so really any rating but I generally prefer G-M because I can be picky about what explicit content I’m absorbing.

Do Not Wants (triggers, squicks, please no):

major archive warnings (major character death is okay so long as it’s temporary and resolved or implied/referenced)

I really don’t like pregnancy, which includes MPREG (I like omegaverse dynamics minus that aspect) - kidfic is cool I just don’t want pregnancy as a theme & especially not graphic depictions of pregnancy or childbirth

suicide/self-harm “on screen” (mentions of past suicidal ideation/self harm are fine if not a flashback/graphic)

non-/dub-con or any depictions of rape (once again, recovery is okay if done well)

adult/minor relationships or relationships with unaddressed/starkly imbalanced power dynamics

any sort of poorly depicted mental health tropes (no BPD or other personality disorder bashing, no institutionalization, no “split personality” as a trope) - i really like explorations of PTSD/trauma but it has to be handled with fidelity and gentleness

I have a random trigger about cockroaches

Offering the following fandoms & ships:

Anything I listed above with any of the caveats! This would get really long if I repeated those again. That includes the fandoms I said I would like to receive as treats; those are all fandoms I am down to offer to my giftee THAT BEING SAID: I will create content for those fandoms even if it’s not one of my listed ships.

However I will not create podfic for the following ships: STAR WARS: Rey/Kylo, Leia/Luke, Rex/Ahsoka, Cody/Rex, any Master/Padawan relationship, or Palpatine/Anakin. BATFAM: inner!Batboys as mentioned, Joker/Harley, Bruce/any of the kids (including Dick, yes)

Additional fandoms I will create content for:

(1) Marvel/MCU: Steve/Bucky, Clint/Bucky, Kate Bishop/America Chavez, and Spideypool (as long as they’re both adults). (2) Stranger Things: Steve & Robin, Steve/Eddie, Robin/Chrissy, Chrissy & Eddie, Chrissy/Eddie

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Captain of the Requiem

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/uA538DI by Mina-Sanno (DarkVincentFantasy) The Space battleship Requiem needs a captain. There must *always* be a captain - whether they are willing or not for the forces beyond space do not rest. it is a neverending battle and Requiem has gone through a thousand captains (Avatars), each soul laying their own imprint upon the ship forged from a cold star, each soul breathing power into it and information rolling over to the next Avatar. Only those the Requiem deems fit to be their Avatar and the Requiem has found their newest Avatar on Earth....   | Dick Grayson has been missing for a little over 6 and a half months ago during a nightly patrol in Bludhaven and there have been no traces left behind of any possible culprit. Bruce Wayne and the JL have tried the League of Assassins and Shadows but *nothing*. The Batfamily haven't been the same since Dick's kidnapping and there were a lot of regrets from them all. During a Justice League meeting an unknown contact breaches their security and a video recording is broadcasted in the meeting room, an unfamiliar figure with spiked up white hair and a mask gives a little wave.   *"H-hey...long time no see...so this is a recording....-"* Words: 1287, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake (DCU), Jason Todd, Damian Wayne, Clark Kent, Diana (Wonder Woman), Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Wally West, Zatanna Zatara Relationships: Batfamily Members & Jason Todd, Batfamily Members & Dick Grayson, Batfamily Members & Bruce Wayne, Batfamily Members & Tim Drake (DCU), Batfamily Members & Justice League & Members of the Team (Young Justice) & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson & Justice League Additional Tags: Angst and Feels, Dick Grayson Needs a Hug, Dick Grayson-centric, Hurt Dick Grayson, Hurt Bruce Wayne, Hurt Damian Wayne, Hurt Tim Drake (DCU), Dick Grayson gets kidnapped by a sentient spaceship, Kidnapping, Hurt Jason Todd, everyone is hurting basically because Dick has been missing for a while, Dick Grayson Needs Help, Dick Grayson Needs Therapy, this is just a prompt kinda fic unless someone wants me to make this into a full series, idk much about DCU, Batfamily (DCU) Feels, Jason Todd is a Batfamily Member, Batfamily-centric (DCU), Batfamily (DCU), t for swearing bc Dick deserves to swear in this fic, Suicidal Thoughts, trigger warning for suicical thoughts, requiem has no care for feelings it is dead set on having a captain to fight in intergalactic war, dick grayson is requiem's "avatar", there must always be a captain, think like davy jones heart kinda situation, Jason Todd Loves Dick Grayson, Platonically! read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/uA538DI

[windona]

are there any YJ fics you might recommend?

Yes!

The Things We Must Do is an excellent Jaime centric fic, centered on him building a rebellion against the Reach in Reach space. Honestly, all of Parvu's fics are excellent. Out of Reach is about Tye and Jaime's friendship, and has an interesting look into what assumptions Tye might have made in canon. The Forgotten Future is an excellent look at Bart's past that I take as canon.

Hedgi compiled a lot of her Damn It Hedgi Day prompt fics on AO3, so it's a variety work. One of my favorite of hers was prompted by me, full disclosure. It has a very atmospheric fairytale feel, and is Tara centric

The King's Red Guard is what made me ship Brion/Jason. It's really well done, and has a good balance of these characters hurts and bite.

At The Gates of Gethsame is a great look at Superman's relationship with Conner. Fair warning, it very much goes into the assault allegory of Lex taking Superman's DNA to make Conner.

With This Ring is a self insert, but it's great with a broad look at the DC universe and incorporating everything. Fair warning, it's over 3 million words.

Prince of Embers is an excellent what-if, focused on Brion joining a rebellion against Bedlam. It's complete, and has an excellent look at the internal politics of Markovia.

If you don't mind some self promotion, I cowrote a fic with Parvumautomaton years back. Publicity is a Beetle-centric, basically alternate s3 fic.

Golden Age is a good Bart-centric one shot.

There's a lot more on LiveJournal from the old anon meme days, but sadly it's hard to go find them and the links. I may be able to dig up more in the future though!

[river-bottom-nightmare]

hi, I was wondering if you had any fic recs for dc? i dont mind what ship/character they might include so you can just go wild. also, I love your blog and writing!! thanks in advance if you answer this <3

oh but of course, babe! i’ve got so many fic recs dear lord. hopefully the ones on here will be ones that i haven’t already recced before. and also ahhhh thank you so so much!! 

a heart just cant contain all of this empty space by TheMermaidLord (if anyone knows their tumblr, please let me know!) ~27k. the young justice universe, except after season 1, the canon events of the batfamily get woven in. you get to see dick leaving robin, jason joining then dying, how tim first meets the team, how they react to learning jason’s alive again all through the eyes of the yj team (mainly artemis, wally, and dick, but there are others.) this fic is beautiful and heartbreaking and oh so satisfying.

Candle Light and Plastic Bats by @jackdaw-kraai 10k. you know all those hc and concept fics about the relationship batman has with the city of gotham? well this fic is an absolutely gorgeous homage to that. told from the pov of the people of lower gotham, it goes through their relationship with this demon that seemed to haunt their city, going from mistrust and fear to acceptance and kinship. just a really really beautiful fic. 

Detective Work by @bekkoni ~8k. i don’t actually ship superbat for a multitude of reasons, but this fic was so goddamn hilarious and cute that i can’t not love it. set in the jlu universe, wally discovers that superman and batman are acting a little ~odd.~ then he does a little more snooping and dear god the consequences are hilarious. featuring identity porn by the bucket-load. 

It’s Your Right to Hurt Me Baby (If You Wanted To) by @pluckyredhead  8k. granted, jayroy doesn’t make much sense outside of specific rhato runs, but inside those runs its an actually beautiful ship, and this fic is just one of many testaments to that. smut with feelings, and jason gets the love and affection he sorely needs. 

Little Talks by @theo-ography 26k. who here doesn’t love dumb boys in love finally talking about their feelings?? because i love it more than words, but this author somehow did the impossible and managed to put it in words. in this series, dick and wally have some important conversations, do some cuddling, and finally get together. gosh, i love birdflash so. fucking. much. 

The Maybe Man by @dustorange ~48k. this is me, screaming about dustorange’s works again because i am such a fangirl for her writing oh my god. after dick leaves bruce and while jason is robin, dick gets abducted and tortured by the court of owls, and then is sent to kill bruce. and bruce fights with every fiber of his being to get his son back. also, jason and bruce’s relationship is so good in this jesus christ. i love reading fics that show just how close jason and bruce were before jason was killed, and this fic had that and more. 

Those Who Wait by @last01standing 11k. in a reverse robins fic done beautifully well, this entire fic is written from jon’s pov, and explores damian and jon’s relationship over the years. (basically, jon just falling more and more hopelessly in love with damian.) also, everyone ships it because jon is basically all of the kids’ “uncle jon” and it’s hilarious and i love it. one of my favourite damijon fics, and the p i n i n g is just AHHHH.

un haeng il chi by @danishsweethearts 17k. i can’t actually put into words how much i love this fic, so everyone needs to just go and read it right now so you feel what i feel when finishing this fic. a cass centric fic, this piece of art has the literal best characterizations and metaphors for those characterizations i’ve ever read in my entire life. cass’ relationship with each member of the batfam is unique and beautiful and dear god i could reread this fic a thousand times over without ever getting tired of it. 

Watch This by snackbaskets (again, if anyone knows their tumblr, please let me know!) ~2k. this fic is just a oneshot of pure adorableness. the league meets little baby robin!dick for the first time. hal and barry are, at first, terrified for the kid’s life, and then terrified of the devious little mastermind in bright green hotpants. this is just humor and fluff and i love it. 

Yesterday’s Voices by @lemonadegarden 49k. oh god i cannot scream my love for this fic enough. bruce, in a time with most of the batfam (including up to steph, damian, cass), gets de-aged to a time where jason was robin and dick was barely speaking to him. and it’s absolutely heartbreaking, because the rest of the batfam get to see how open, kind, and less jaded bruce used to be. if you want a good cry but a happy ending, this fic is wonderful.

if it were deemed socially acceptable, i would build a shrine to all of these wonderful authors in the middle of the street, but unfortunately i have neither the time nor the resources to do that, so i guess screaming about how talented and brilliant they are will have to do instead. hope you enjoy reading these babe!

[stxleslyds]

I try not to let the fandom ruin a character for me but it's becoming really hard to appreciate C*ss (censoring her name to avoid getting this being in her main tags) as a character when (some) of her fans are annoying as hell, I sometimes really can't stand them and honestly I'm sorry if I come off as rude, that really wasn't my intention. I've been in this fandom for a while now and while I mostly only really care about Talia and Damian, it seems like I can't avoid seeing C*ss stans being really annoying.

I know it's not all of them, certain character stans are always gonna have bad apples but damn they get on my nerves.

Hi Anon! I have to say, I completely understand where you are coming from. It happens in all fandoms from whatever piece of entertainment. Every time we join a new fandom, we are always going to find people that are really mean and gatekeep-y or people who we just cannot see eye to eye with.

It doesn’t make you rude, at least I don’t think so. One can easily get fed up with people’s narratives when they revolve around bringing other characters down.

I joined this fandom quite late and even though I have been a Dick Grayson and Jason Todd stan for a very long time. Dick was the one that I met first and then Jason. When I found the fandom side of comics, we were already a bit into the Rebirth era of DC, and the fandom was wild.

It was like nothing I have ever seen; it was like the Jason and Dick that I knew didn’t exist, and it was really difficult for me to like any Jason Todd centric blog because they usually came with a horrendous amount of Dick Grayson hate.

I even had a really bad experience with a Dick stan, who acted like Dick’s most distinguishable trait was having a bad temper. It was true that person probably had read more comics than me but them using out of context panels to prove Dick’s bad temper kinda put me off.

I understand now, that they probably were trying to fight the “sunshine and happiness” characterization of Dick, but they still were extremely rude to me and it made me feel bad.

It took me some time to find blogs that made me feel welcome to the fandom and that felt were willing to educate the newies without treating us like we were less.

My advice to you? Mute and block every tag that you feel makes you have a bad time in fandom. And don’t feel bad about muting tags, sometimes it is the best thing that could happen to you.

I grow attached to characters and pieces of media a lot so when something bothers me a lot it can make me anxious. A long time ago I was part of the Supernatural fandom, it is basically my second favourite show, and one ship destroyed my experience of it, whenever I looked it was all about that ship, the show seemed to come second to it. It really made me separate myself from all that and I decided to not only enjoy the show on my own but also, I muted tags and everything involving that ship.

This fandom is the same, granted it doesn’t reach Supernatural Fandom levels of toxic but it does have its moments.

In a way or another fandom is the reason that I kinda hate Tim Drake but I am also not interested in him that much, but I have gotten tired of him and some of his stans in the past quite easily.

I know it is frustrating, but what we have to do is make ourselves look the other way, sometimes all we can do is look away. Maybe some day we will come across a story involving a character that we don’t like (due to fandom) and might find ourselves still enjoying it.

I know there is this ever existing “soft beef” between Jason and Dick stans but I know very little of it because I have taught myself to dodge it.

It is not worth having a bad time here on tumblr (or anywhere else) when we are trying to find people who like the same stories/characters that we do!

I hope your experience in tumblr and fandom in general gets better Anon, I can assure you, once you find bloggers that make you happy even though they might post something you don’t quite agree with, it all gets better!

[jackdaniel69nice]

Ninjago Jay-centric fanseason (no ships)

“change one thing change everything”

Time gets screwed up where Jay never became a ninja and they have to fix it

Jay is worried about his importance to the team and feels left out and ignored, he’s“the expendable one” and doesn’t have any strong skills to add.

Well Clouse screws with time trying to destroy the ninja (go figure) and puts jay back with Cliff Gordon. The ninja find out he’s trying to mess with time and interrupt him so stuff gets screwed up and an alternate timeline is created instead. The ninja are thrown into it.

Jay never becomes a ninja and peruses his career in entertainment. It’s a very dark and negative place (think season 9 but everything’s still functional). the “other ninja” (from this timeline) absolutely do not get along and act more like soldiers. There are no jokes, very serious and unhappy. They wear all black with only colored headbands. They all have secret identity’s and go about their other lives like normal citizens. None of them have reached their full potential or know each other’s identities.

Nya: takes the place of the “blue ninja” in the prophecy, She wants more out of life than some job and craves adventure

Cole: He still does dance as a cover up for his ninja life, he always argues with his dad because he’s unhappy and closed off from others, ninja-ing is his excape from the real world

Kai: lacking in confidence and angry at the world, he’s just trying to support Nya and himself and get by, thinks Nya’s selfish for wanting to give up everything they’ve built together

Zane: he knows he’s a robot but is super unemotional, was taken in by Borg

There is no green ninja either because after the ninja defeated Lloyd in the treehouse they left him there (due to the bad relationships). Garmadon came for him though and now they have been trying to take over ninjago together for YEARS. Basically a war. Garm is on the dark island with the stone army sending attacks to ninjago and Borg’s nindroid army fights them while the ninja take on garm and Lloyd.

So yeah this world sucks and the ninja need to get back to their timeline but how?

Other jay is named Jason Gordon and Cliff died a number of years ago at this point. Jay lives alone with a cat and his career is well. He’s cheery but unhappy. He still refuses to become a ninja though.

Bad stuff starts happening to jay where he’ll “glitch” this of course causes everyone to freak out. Other Zane figures it’s because of the major difference in the two versions of jay and this timeline sees him as an “error” and is trying to erase him. If they can figure out how to get back to their timeline before that though he’ll be fine but it’s a race against the clock.

Other Kai picks at him though saying it wouldn’t be so awful if he did disappear because he hasn’t been very useful. Jay feels awful but our ninja come to his defense. The other ninja are seeing how they act like a family and are kinda jealous. So slow character development for them where they begin to be nicer to each other.

Garmadon attacks!! They have figured out how to return but need Jason so Lloyd goes to get him. It’s spoiled by other Lloyd who fights him and tries to kidnap og Lloyd for his powers. Jason has been thinking hard about the whole ninja thing and realizes how unhappy he is with what he’s doing. He shows up just as other Lloyd is about to kill og Lloyd and start talking to him about Starfairer (which he still loves). He tricks him or distracts him or something so og Lloyd can get away.

Meanwhile the other ninja are fighting garm and his stone army and are helping the og ninja to get to a new portal at borg tower. Jay’s really not well and keeps disappearing. Other Kai offers to stay and fight as they run but the others won’t leave him behind and refer to each other as brothers. Jason helps og Lloyd to get away with a helicopter (what, he’s rich Ok) and takes him to borg tower. Unknown to them other Lloyd follows them.

So jay’s dieing in front of the portal, garmadons burst through the door, Jason and Lloyd get in through the roof. Everyone’s pretty shocked by their entrance and then other Lloyd reveals himself again meeting up with his father and are ready to fight. Jason starts talking to him and try getting him to rethink this, Lloyd’s just a kid and shouldn’t be doing this. Lloyd is pissed and yells at the other ninja for abandoning him. They have all grown since the beginning and are sincerely sorry and apologize. Lloyd is frustrated and emotionally confused (because he never really has wanted to do this, but his father is the only one who’s ever loved him). Garm sees his indecision and begins to criticize him. They argue before garm gets frustrated and says he’ll dispose of him if he won’t help. Lloyd’s hurt and confused, taken aback. Og Lloyd notices garm looks strange and declares he’s actually the overlord (PLOT TWIST!). other Lloyd is scared and the overlord admits he had been manipulating Lloyd through garm to get the golden power because now he knows he’s supposed to be the green ninja. Lloyd gets angry and begin to fight him demanding he release his father. The ninja (all of them) help and Jason is kinda just there.

Jay asks him if he’ll help and Jason says he doesn’t know how and that he’s useless. Jay realizes his usefulness isn’t in his ability, but in his willingness to keep fighting, he tells luke this. Jason decides to go fight and unlocks his lightning (Woah!) and makes a dumb pun about this “shocking development”, the other ninja laugh. Jay isn’t so glitchy anymore and joins in with the fight too. The overlord, up against two sets of ninja, retreats.

Other Lloyd is worried about his father and tries to follow but og Lloyd tells him to stay and that they will save him eventually. The other ninja (Kai) offer to let him stay with them and make amends for last time. He only agrees so they will help save his father (he’ll certainly warm up to them in time tho).

Jason is just gushing about his new powers and being a goofball the other ninja are much more relaxed and laughing along. Og Cole comes over and points it out to Jay. He kind knew jays struggle the whole time and mentions how vital he is to the team and how the first real victory they had was only when he had helped. Cole points out how they were all so serious as well as their rude behavior towards each other was because they didn’t have him. He calls jay the “glue that keeps them together” and as being crucial to them making a good team, even the most important person on the team. Jays all teary-eyed and hugs him (what a sap). Zane reminds them they need to get home and they open the portal, returning to their timeline.

[cheryls-blossomed]

Yeah I was excited at the beginning of the season because I heard that we would get more focus on Starfire this season but that hasn’t been the case. This season we’re barely getting anything with her story and yes they are nerfing her powers, Dickkory seem to be a figment of my imagination now. Whereas this annoying Red Hood & Scarecrow story keeps going and going. Red Hood story had potential but all they do is show Jason hooked on drugs, whining and basically being a puppet for Scarecrow. I’m so not caring about Dick & Babs, their ship is so dry and forced. They are just all over the place with these stories and there’s only 3 episodes left and I just feel like Titans are doing a whole bunch of nothing. What happened to Dick? What are they doing with his character? Rachel has been pretty much nonexistent this season. Beast Boy powers are still not being explored. Yet we are constantly giving screen time to guest stars or supporting characters. I feel the Connor/Blackfire ship is rushed. They have good chemistry but still rushed

Exactly! I'm so mad that they promoted this season as Starfire-centric and told Kory fans that we were finally going to get the Kory story-line that we deserve, and then they did a complete 360 and did not in fact do what they told us they would. They utterly baited Kory fans, and I've been waiting the entire season for Kory to get the focus that she deserves. I was so excited for Starfire and Blackfire, but we've barely scratched the surface with Kory and Kom's story arc and the season is nearly over. I wanted an exploration of Kory's history and Tamaran and of her powers. Instead, this season was absolutely not Kory-centric, and the show is downplaying her powers. As a Kory fan, I am utterly frustrated with this show. I want her to get the focus that she deserves. Anna is amazing as Kory, and Kory is such a great character and the clear fan favorite, and yet TPTB want to focus on things nobody cares about.

Dick/Babs was boring as hell, but again, this ship was clearly meant to implode. I've always said that the Titans writers seem to operate from the position that Dick needs to be a certain level of miserable, so Dick/Babs was specifically meant add to his misery. I'm so tired of this. The show needs to move on from this version of Dick. Like it gets tiresome to reset every season and obsess about your protagonist being miserable.

Gar has had barely any development. Rachel has been a raven this whole time, apparently, which while cool, I guess, is also a very convenient way to sideline her. I miss Kory and Rachel, and Kory and Gar. I miss the core four together.

The show's fixation on Jason, and also their portrayal of him are two other things I'm tired about. Comics Jason Todd deserves better, and TPTB really have to reassess their priorities, because I don't understand how they keep making the same mistake in season 3.

And yeah, the Kom/Connor ship had no development and was extremely rushed. But that's par for the course: TPTB waste so much time on literally nothing and then rush through other plot points and relationships. The pacing of the story-telling is just terribly constructed.

[jupitermelichios]

2020 Creator Wrap: Favorite Works

I was tagged by the the wonderful @irolltwenties​ (which goves some way to provie my theory that any conversation which starts with someone yelling “motherfucking Lex Luthor” is always going to be a possitive interaction)

Rules: it’s time to love yourselves! choose your 5 (or so) favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought to the world in 2020. tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

According to AO3 I published 122,561 words across 15 fics in 2020, which is wild. The only year I’ve published more words that than was 2012, and this year’s words are definitely of a higher quality! I really thought I’d been unproductive this year!

A lot of my very favourite things I’ve written this year are unposted WIPs, and some of them are sadly likely to stay that way - I publish maybe half of what I write, because I have far more ideas than free time - so shout out to ‘I Would Die For You a Thousand Times’, ‘A Boy With a Crooked Shadow’ and ‘let me take you by the hand (and drag you through the streets of london)’, which most of you will probably never have the chance to read, and the fic which definitely isn’t going to be titled ‘Dick Goes Deep on Daddy Issues’ which hopefully you one day will!

Also picking 5 is surprisingly difficult this year. I’m definitely one of the people who writes exactly the fics I want to read, and I do actually reread my own fics fairly often, which makes narrowing down the list really difficult.

Highschool Never Ends - DC Comics, a grab-bag of YJ and Titans ships mixed with a whole lot of found family bonding

I didn’t start this fic with the intention of using it to just fill the DCU with all the representation it’s missing, but it’s kind of turned into that anyway, and I love that about it. Someone reccing it described it as ‘possitive about all sorts of things’, which is pretty much exactly what I aim for. It’s not often you can write a high-school drama club AU that actually helps people, so that’s pretty awsome. It’s also the fic which made me really fall in love with Duke Thomas, who despite being neither female or from anime is still bestgirl.

A Brief History of Gotham - DC comics, gen

This may be the thing I’m most proud of of everything I’ve written because holy shit the research this required. But it was worth it to create probably the single most niche thing I’ve ever written. Also it turns out that thinking up in-world reference books and quotes is basically the most fun you can have as a writer. “In most cities they laugh at clowns and run from guns; in Gotham it’s the other way around” may just be the best line I’ve ever written.

Halogen - Batman, Tim/Jason

I think of everything I’ve ever written, this is the one that turned out the most like I wanted to. My guiding principle for this story was ‘stark’, and I think I achieved exactly that.

Know Me Better - Narnia, gen

Once again this is very niche, but I love it. And it helped someone going through a crisis of faith, and you can’t ask much more than that as a writer or a theology grad. Discovering the Narnia fandom was definitely a highlight of this year - there’s some fantastically tallented writers creating exactly the kind of beautiful thoughtful works you want from a canon like that one.

Human or Something Like It - DC Comics, gen with background Tim/Jason, Jason/Midnighter & Dick/Midnighter

This is entirely self indulgence - it’s outsider POV, which I love, it’s almost all dialogue, which I much prefer writing to any other type of prose, it’s entirely Tim Drake centric. It is, in fact, exactly the fic I wanted to read, so it was delightful to post it and find other people wanted to read it as well.

Honourable mentions (because this really was hard to narrow down): The Anatomy of a Robin, which was pretty successful (if I do say so myself) attempt to channel other writers, and Together, which turned up in my brain fully formed and was written in about a week, which never happens to me. It turned out to be the prequel to the Tim/Bart/Kon fic I actually wanted to write, but I love it anyway.

I feel like this has been a year where I really settled into my niche. My niche has turned out to be found family, happy porn, and as much queer rep as I can physically jam into the plot, and I’m pretty okay with that.

tagging @celestialbisexual​, @kiseiakhun, @kittyaugust, @lex-munro, @teland, @suzukiblu, @phcking-detective  (I’m really bad at remembering what AO3 handle matches what tumblr name, so if you’re a writer and you follow me consider yourself tagged!)

[bigskydreaming]

Hi, I'm not sure how much fanfics you read, seems like you read enough... Do you perhaps know why Tim and Jason get the most intense stories where they go on adventures or are abused by the society so they live in whump central and just generally the most interesting stories, whereas Dick gets the family/ Damian centric stories? His major whump plot is only that Tarantula thing. His role seems to be either the himbo or the happy thot big bro who means well but doesn't get the kid bros' trauma...

LOL aka the eternal source of my frustration in fandom.

*Shrugs* My view is its more than likely a result of how much both canon and fandom have conditioned readers and fans to view Dick as only existing as a supporting character in everyone else’s stories, rather than someone with stories of his own, let alone ones that the others act as his supporting cast. The exceptions, as you noted, are the occasional Court of Owls fic or Tarantula based whump-fest.

But its the whole big brother rides to the rescue thing, dialed up to eleven, and combine that with Dick’s characterization as an empathetic caregiver type personality, and it creates a perfect storm for people to just slot him in the role of designated comfort-giver in any given plot...OR to cite fanon lore and use that to cast him as the antagonistic foil to Jason or Tim

End result is....DC isolates Dick for his own stories, but then only has him interacting with his family when he’s swooping in to either help, support, or make everything all better...a la Robin War, Batman & Robin Eternal, etc...but the second the crisis (always someone else’s) is over, DC sends him back out on his own, because they have this perception that the only way to differentiate him from Batman is to have him completely self-sufficient, as otherwise Bruce would overshadow him when swooping in to save him.

Except, that’s a flawed premise, because you don’t need to send in Bruce to SAVE Dick, even in plots like the Blockbuster arc...its enough to have him show up to comfort and support Dick...but the problem is....DC is unwilling to ever let Bruce take the back seat or support role in even his children’s own stories. Thus he’s largely absent from Dick’s, even when he really SHOULD be there, he’s made into Jason’s antagonistic foil more often than not to keep him from playing the supporting role there, and DC’s take for the last several years has been just to cloud what the hell Bruce’s connection to Tim is even supposed to be. And so on and so on. The closest I’ve seen DC come to letting Bruce play a supporting role is Snyder’s use of him in the limited Batman & The Signal run....but then Duke and Cass both ended up shipped off to the Outsiders book where Jefferson and Katana occupy the role of supportive caregivers. 

All of which sucks.

But that’s DC’s problem. The problem with fanfics, IMO, is they so rarely apply the same transformative energy to Dick and his stories as they do to Jason or Tim’s because....Dick’s USEFUL in the caregiver or antagonist roles. He serves a purpose in being everyone else’s supporting cast, and they’ve got canon as an example for how that works and why, not to mention to point to as an explanation for why they so frequently put Dick and Dick alone in that designated spot.

But Dick being the heart of his own stories and adventures not only ‘takes him away’ from that caregiver slot for Jason, Tim and Damian, which much of fandom has come to see as being so synonymous with him, its like...if he’s NOT there and ready to provide support at any given moment, he’s fundamentally just failing as a brother and a character.....

But also at the same time, with Dick as the protagonist of fanfics rather than the designated supporting caregiver....someone else has to be cast in that role, for HIM. And by and large, most people just...don’t seem to want to do that. 

Typically, when it does happen its for things like Tarantula based fics, where its relatively easy to slot Jason into that role, because of the facts that Jason IS actually a very empathetic character himself, and very passionate about being an advocate for victims, as well as someone with experiences himself....but ironically, even with those fics, Dick’s trauma tends to become just as much about Jason, because of the other appeal for casting Jason in this role....Jason VERY easily fulfills a wish fulfillment role for readers projecting onto Dick and his situation and desiring to see Tarantula and/or Mirage punished in the ways Jason’s best known for.

And the other thing about keeping Dick’s trauma limited to specific instances just like Tarantula and Mirage or the Court of Owls, is there’s no need to reimagine anyone else’s role in the family, in order to take up the caregiver role more fully, at least when Dick is the one in need of comfort. Like, there’s no need to drastically redesign the status quo of the Batfamily, shake it up, or analyze or rebuild or restructure the family dynamics to account for Dick not having to be solely responsible for maintaining that position....

Because when Dick’s trauma is limited to those select story plots, the story already comes with a ticking clock for it. Its framed as a finite thing. There’s a definitive beginning or ending to someone else having to shift over into the caregiver slot in order to support Dick...because if the trauma is framed as a specific isolated or finite thing by the narrative, then Jason or Tim or Bruce’s time in the caregiver role is set up from the get go to only be a temporary thing, like just until the story’s over and Dick’s ‘back on his feet’ and able to take over his old narrative duties, as it were.

All of which...doesn’t work for me for a number of reasons, but like....I don’t think its like, really a mystery why things tend to play out this way with caregiver archetypes....because its pretty basically a reflection of how its very easy for those personality types to be taken for granted and taken advantage of in real life, and that’s like....a huge and constant part of my irritation with this phenomenon. Because ultimately, like all things fiction AND fandom related...its really just an extension and reflection of real life tendencies and behaviors...rather than really ‘just’ being about a fictional character and being frustrated there’s not enough varieties of fic to read about him, lol.

[tsaomengde]

Tiny Viewing Guide to Star Trek: The Next Generation

Just found out one of my oldest friends, a huge sci fi guy, has never actually seen TNG, or indeed any Trek. He asked if I wouldn't mind writing a viewing guide. Not all that tiny, but the blurb for each episode is tiny. YMMV.

S1

Encounter at Farpoint - Goofy but iconic, series premiere

The Naked Now - Bad but hilarious and a little important

Code of Honor - terrible racist horseshit

The Last Outpost - first time we meet the Ferengi, they're not impressive

Where No One Has Gone Before - interesting enough

Lonely Among Us - I have no memory of this place

Justice - terrible outfits, Wesley episode

The Battle - Picard episode, not terrible

Hide and Q - Riker-centric Q episode, not the best Q episode, not the worst

Haven - first time we meet Lwaxana, don't remember anything else

The Big Goodbye - first of many holodeck episodes, pretty good

Datalore - important!!!

Angel One - totally forgettable

11001001 - meh

Too Short a Season - weird, generally meh

When the Bough Breaks - Wesley episode, don't remember it much

Home Soil - no clue

Coming of Age - more Wesley (can you tell Gene Roddenberry liked the character?), but not bad

Heart of Glory - first time the Klingons get real character, important

The Arsenal of Freedom - automated weaponry is bad, mmkay

Symbiosis - nope, no idea

Skin of Evil - dark, nasty, generally unpleasant episode, important for character reasons

We'll Always Have Paris - genuinely do not remember this one but wiki says there's time travel and that's always fun

Conspiracy - real mixed feelings about this one, it's tense and interesting TV but not really good Trek and it has huge implications that are never revisited

The Neutral Zone - Romulans are reintroduced, pretty cool

S2

The Child - pretty decent Troi episode

Where Silence Has Lease - interesting space puzzle episode sprinkled with Picard philosophizing

Elementary, Dear Data - first Sherlock!Data holodeck episode, excellent stuff

The Outrageous Okona - weeeaaaak, but kind of funny

Loud As A Whisper - cool deaf character, cringey late-80s implementation

The Schizoid Man - Data episode, good acting, cringey dialogue

Unnatural Selection - Pulaski-centric, and I dislike Pulaski so this is a pass for me

A Matter Of Honor - Riker serves on a Klingon warship, some good stuff

The Measure of A Man - Easily a top 10 Trek episode of all time

The Dauphin - Wesley has a crush, receives terrible romantic advice from entire crew

Contagion - interesting lethal archaeology

The Royale - love this episode, it's terrible and bad science but I love it

Time Squared - weird time-travel stuff, not one of the best

The Icarus Factor - lot of good character stuff, terrible future martial arts

Pen Pals - excellent Data episode, thoughts about the Prime Directive

Q Who - WATCH THIS ONE

Samaritan Snare - bad episode, funny moments

Up The Long Ladder - holy shit the Irish racism

Manhunt - Lwaxana Troi at her best, love it

The Emissary - Amazing Klingon stuff

Peak Performance - good episode, lots of fun character bits

Shades of Gray - TERRIBLE CLIP SHOW AVOID AVOID AVOID

S3

Evolution - Wesley episode, not bad but not great

The Ensigns of Command - Mediocre Data episode

The Survivors - space puzzle episode, OK

Who Watches the Watchers - more prime directive stuff, mildly interesting

The Bonding - interesting stuff about grief

Booby Trap - another space puzzle, high stakes, cool payoff

The Enemy - Pretty good, Romulans

The Price - fun episode

The Vengeance Factor - ehhhhhhhh

The Defector - More Romulan stuff, is good

The Hunted - will 100% make you scream at how terrible security is in the future, not a bad ep though

The High Ground - ugh, just not great

Deja Q - good Q episode

A Matter of Perspective - let's use the holodeck to prove Riker couldn't have committed this crime!

The Offspring - WATCH THIS BUT BRING TISSUES

Sins of the Father - first of many Klingon Politics episodes, I love these with a fiery passion and my wife is bored to tears by them so YMMV

Allegiance - space puzzle, not a great one but not bad

Captain's Holiday - WATCH THIS, IS AMAZING

Tin Man - literally put me to sleep once

Hollow Pursuits - First of many Barclay episodes, my beautiful autistic space boi

The Most Toys - alright, worth one watch

Sarek - SO IMPORTANT WAAAAAAAAAATCH

Menage a Troi - bad episode, worth it for the payoff

Transfigurations - Jason Ironheart called, he knows he came after this episode chronologically but he was better

The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1 - YAAAS

S4

The Best of Both Worlds, Part 2- YAAAAAAAAAAAAAS

Family - So important

Brothers - Very Important

Suddenly Human - meh

Remember Me - very interesting space puzzle, one of the Crusher episodes where she gets to be awesome

Legacy - not the most jaw-dropping ep but important

Reunion - KLINGON POLITICS YEEES

Future Imperfect - interesting enough

Final Mission - Wesley episode, not bad

The Loss - v. good Troi episode

Data's Day - fun, wholesome Data times

The Wounded - SO GOOD AND SO IMPORTANT

Devil's Due - I love this episode even if it's not that important or good

Clues - Awesome space puzzle

First Contact - eh? okay? sure?

Galaxy's Child - fine, whatever

Night Terrors - uuuuugh, no

Identity Crisis - this one scared the fuck out of me as a kid and may be responsible for my deep-seated body-transformation-horror triggers, now it's just kind of weird

The nth Degree - BARCLAY, LOVE HIM AND THIS EP

Qpid - YES SO GOOD

The Drumhead - This is Michael Dorn's favorite episode and it is worthy of the title

Half a Life - Lwaxana is great, the episode not as much

The Host - introduction of the Trill, kind of cringey almost 30 years later

The Mind's Eye - brainwashing stuff, meh

In Theory - Data tries to date, hilarities ensue

Redemption Part 1 - GIVE ME THE KLINGON POLITICS

S5

Redemption Part 2 - MOOOOOOOOOORE

Darmok - One of my top 5 episodes in the series

Ensign Ro - so important, introduces the Bajorans and Ensign Ro

Silicon Avatar - important for Data, not a terribly interesting episode otherwise

Disaster - Troi gets to shine! cool episode

The Game - by far the worst Wesley episode. everyone is seduced into acting like a brainwashed idiot by a terrible space future video game. fuck this episode and everyone who wrote it but especially Brannon Braga.

Unification 1 - WATCH

Unification 2- THESE

A Matter of Time - So good, waaatch

New Ground - I am not a fan of Alexander but he is so important to Worf's growth, so... yeah

Hero Worship - more stuff about grief, eh

Violations - I don't remember this one that much but I do not think I enjoyed it

The Masterpiece Society - read the above description

Conundrum - amazing space puzzle episode. easily one of my favorites in the series

Power Play - meh

Ethics - very important, good Trek

The Outcast - THIS EPISODE COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER IF THE LOVE INTEREST WAS MALE. JONATHAN FRAKES PUSHED FOR A MALE ACTOR. watch it anyway

Cause and Effect - fun space puzzle, a little repetitive but totally solid

The First Duty - one of the best Picard Speeches ever, watch

Cost of Living - fun Lwaxana episode

The Perfect Mate - pretty meh but Famke Janssen is fun as Kamala

Imaginary Friend - so bored

I, Borg - INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT

The Next Phase - interesting episode about the afterlife

The Inner Light - THIS IS MY FAVORITE EPISODE OF THE ENTIRE SERIES AND I CRY EVERY TIME

Time's Arrow 1 - Such good time travel

S6

Time's Arrow 2 - Such great Mark Twain

Realm of Fear - Yay more Barclay!

Man of the People - bad Troi episode

Relics - WAAAAAAAAAATCH

Schisms - space puzzle, kind of lame payoff due to effects limitations but the journey is worth it

True Q - By far the worst fucking Q episode ever written

Rascals - uuuuuuuugh. half the crew is regressed into children. Ferengi are involved. you are missing nothing.

A Fistful of Datas - amazing dumb holodeck episode, watch

The Quality of Life - boring episode, good message

Chain of Command 1 - So dark, so difficult, so totally riveting and important

Chain of Command 2 - See above

Ship in a Bottle - Sequel to Sherlock!Data, amazing

Aquiel - could have been written much better

Face of the Enemy - by far the best Troi episode, Marina Sirtis was incredibly happy when I told her it was one of my favorites

Tapestry - fantastic Q/Picard episode

Birthright 1 - Basically exists to set up DS9 but is pretty good and has important bits

Birthright 2 - See above

Starship Mine - DIE HARD ON THE ENTERPRISE

Lessons - Very important Picard episode

The Chase - amazing space puzzle episode, has one of my favorite one-off Klingon characters

Frame of Mind - is Riker's entire life a delusion he has created to mentally escape his imprisonment in a mental asylum? spoilers: no

Suspicions - Good mystery episode, Crusher gets to do stuff

Rightful Heir - Very important Worf episode, good Klingon stuff

Second Chances - uh, kind of bad, but it gets referenced later in DS9

Timescape - super interesting space puzzle, amazing character bits

Descent 1 - WAAATCH

S7

Descent 2 - as above

Liaisons - okay. not great. not bad.

Interface - OK Geordi episode

Gambit 1 - Amazing stuff

Gambit 2 - More amazing stuff

Phantasms - Psychological horror? in my Data? it's more likely than you think. watch

Dark Page - one of the few Lwaxana episodes I don't love

Attached - great Picard/Crusher episode

Force of Nature - environmentalism! is! good!

Inheritance - important Data episode

Parallels - SUCH A GOOD WORF EPISODE

The Pegasus - very important Riker episode

Homeward - Interesting Worf and Prime Directive episode

Sub Rosa - so cringey and terrible, oh my God

Lower Decks - a fun change of pace from the main cast

Thine Own Self - I don't love it, but it is good character stuff

Masks - weird space puzzle episode, I love it but I wouldn't call it Great

Eye of the Beholder - space mystery, it's not fantastic

Genesis - look. this episode is not good. but it has amazing costumework by Michael Westmore. and has some great Picard/Data stuff. watch it.

Journey's End - super important stuff. sets up a lot of stuff for DS9 and VOY

Firstborn - Good Worf/Alexander episode

Bloodlines - More Ferengi stuff, kind of lame

Emergence - space puzzle, weird but interesting

Preemptive Strike - So so so so important

All Good Things... - it's the series finale. and some of the best Trek ever. obviously you're going to watch.

[kbirbpods]

I thought I was not going to need to make major updates to my letter by the time ITPE popped up but I discovered a few changes I'd like to make so here we are.

But! You can always take a peak at my previous letters to see my broader interests: Summer Swap '24 | Purimgifts ‘24 | ITPE '23

ITPE 2024 letter below the cut!

Fandoms & Characters I Would Love to Receive:

I am hoping to have my main gifter make me something from one of the following fandoms!

(1) Star Wars: I love so much Star Wars that to split it into subfandoms would make this post too long. I think it’s easiest to say this: I prefer Clone Wars, Rebels, Rogue One/Andor, anything about Jon Antilles, anything about Hevy & the Domino Squad, anything Ahsoka Tano, Mandalorian culture (including Din & Grogu content!), and Mando'a as a language.

My main ships are: Cody/Obi-Wan, Kallus/Zeb, Hevy/anyone (consensual), Finn/Poe or Finn/Poe/Rey, blackkat rarepairs (mainly Jon Antilles/anyone), Jon Antilles & Fay (platonic), Waxer/Boil, Fives/Echo, Kanan/Hera, Quinlan/Fox(/Jon), Quinlan/Obi-Wan(/Cody), & Fox/Bail/Breha [also Clone OC ships!!] My favorite characters are: Hevy, Fox, Cody, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Leia, Poe, Fives, Luke, Jon Antilles, Fay (Legends)

(2) Batfam/DC: I can be picky and yet not? Basically, I just prefer no inner-Batfam fics of the boys because I truly view them as brothers. Jason is my boy forever & always. My favorite ships are Jason Todd/Roy Harper(/Kori), Dick Grayson/Wally West, Harley/Ivy, Tim Drake/Kon, Tim/Bernard, Tim/Kon/Bernard, and Wally/Artemis from Young Justice. I am pretty knowledgeable about comics, too, and I keep up with the current runs of: Poison Ivy, Gotham City Sirens, & Red Hood: The Hill. This is the fandom that I specifically am obsessed with found family in. – I love exploring Alfred being the boys’ Grandpa and Bruce’s complex dadhood!

Honorable mention here to Bucky Barnes/Clint Barton/Jason Todd as a ship I love.

(3) DPxDC: I have been tentatively eyeing this crossover since last year's Pod-O-Ween but I was fully flung into it during the summer. It got me writing again! This fandom is so rich with potential regarding like... when you fling them into one another's timelines, meaning my ships go EVERYWHERE. Take one of my DC ships and put a character from Danny Phantom in it and you will probably find a ship I like. But I really love: Tim Drake/Danny Fenton, Danny Fenton/Jason Todd(/Roy Harper), Steph Brown/(Cass/)Sam Manson, Cassandra Cain/Sam Manson, Jazz Fenton/Barbara Gordon. I've podficced some Danny/Dick, too!! Like I said, it really depends when you cross the timelines over. As always, I will EAT UP genfic for this fandom!! I REALLY love the "demon twins" AUs, which are Danny & Damian as twins (or Danny as one of the Damian clones). So, yes... I love this so much.

(4) A RARE ASK: I am super into both Dragon Age & Mass Effect. The former is much easier to find fandom for and there are a lot of fics with blanket permission statements. For Dragon Age, DA:O is my favorite (especially Alistair) or any sort of Hawke!centric fics. But in April 2024 I became re-obsessed with Mass Effect & it has continued. My rare ask is for Mass Effect fics - specifically Shep/Garrus or Shep/Liara (or them as a triad). Or gen fic!! But I feel like I am on an island here lol

Other fandoms I like but are not on my "fandoms I prefer to receive this year for a main gift" list are in the linked old letters, if anyone is looking for treat ideas!

Things I Like, Regardless of Fandom:

THEMES: trans/nonbinary characters (extra points for neopronouns); gender exploration in general; found family (genfic or otherwise); angst with a happy ending; polyamory; good asexual or aromantic representation; genfic

TROPES: fix-it fics!! extra points for time travel or time loops in fix its; fake dating/marriage; mutual pining; soulmates (AU or just clearly soulmates); crack treated seriously; rivals-to-friends/lovers; oops only one bed; secret identities; CROSSOVERS!

AUs: soulmates soulmates soulmates; regency era (or any different era); modern AU; crossovers, provided i know the other fandom or the fic doesn’t require knowledge of the other fandom!; college/sport AU; fantasy/fae AUs

Star Wars AUs/Tropes (yes they need their own categories): force sensitive clones; Jon Antilles lives; [insert clone here] lives; Anakin doesn’t fall; Palpatine dies; Domino Squad Lives; "no Order-66"/"Order-66 happens differently"; force sensitive Leia; modern AUs; trans clones

PODFIC SPECIFIC: anything epistolary (texting/chat fics especially but letters and such are also fun to explore); including music / SFX if you’re comfortable; including bloopers if you have them/are comfortable exposing them

RATINGS: Contrary to popular belief I do not hate explicit fics so really any rating but I generally prefer G-M because I can be picky about what explicit content I’m absorbing.

Do Not Wants (triggers, squicks, please no):

major archive warnings (major character death is okay so long as it’s temporary and resolved or implied/referenced)

I really don’t like pregnancy, which includes MPREG (I like omegaverse dynamics minus that aspect) - kidfic is cool I just don’t want pregnancy as a theme & especially not graphic depictions of pregnancy or childbirth

suicide/self-harm “on screen” (mentions of past suicidal ideation/self harm are fine if not a flashback/graphic)

non-/dub-con or any depictions of rape (once again, recovery is okay if done well)

adult/minor relationships or relationships with unaddressed/starkly imbalanced power dynamics

any sort of poorly depicted mental health tropes (no BPD or other personality disorder bashing, no institutionalization, no “split personality” as a trope) - i really like explorations of PTSD/trauma but it has to be handled with fidelity and gentleness

I have a random trigger about cockroaches

as a note: I do not like slave!fic but acknowledge that the situation of the clones is, at it’s core, a form of slavery. so while i ask for slave!fic AUs to be fully avoided, I do appreciate fics that tackle that aspect of the Clone Wars series with tact, fidelity, and honesty.

Authors with BP that I love, as a starting point:

Flowerparrish, trixree, wanderingjedihistorian, hoebiwan, blackkat, cac0daemonia, elismor_aswell, SunsetsOverLA, friendoftheJabberwock, ziazippy5379, Rivulet027

Offering the following fandoms & ships:

Anything I listed above with any of the caveats! This would get really long if I repeated those again. THAT BEING SAID: I will create content for those fandoms even if it’s not one of my listed ships.

However I will not create podfic for the following ships: STAR WARS: Rey/Kylo, Leia/Luke, Rex/Ahsoka, Cody/Rex, any Master/Padawan relationship, or Palpatine/Anakin. BATFAM: inner!Batboys as mentioned, Joker/Harley, Bruce/any of the kids (including Dick, yes)

Other fandoms I will create content for:

(1) Ted Lasso: Roy/Keeley/Jamie, Ted/Trent, Roy/Keeley, and Jamie/Dani. Ted & Rebecca as platonic soulmates/besties in general. (2) The Locked Tomb: Gideon/Harrow, Cam & Pal, Gideon & Cam. + I really like fics where one or both of them are trans/nonbinary. Nona is my favorite character. Modern AUs. (3) ATLA: Zuko/Sokka, found family, gen fic. (4) All for the Game: Jean/Jeremy, Andrew/Neil, Renee/Allison, Andrew/Neil/Kevin. Gen fics around the Foxes or Trojans, too! (5) Marvel/MCU: Steve/Bucky, Clint/Bucky, Kate Bishop/America Chavez, and Spideypool (as long as they’re both adults). (6) Stranger Things: Steve & Robin, Steve/Eddie, Robin/Chrissy, Chrissy & Eddie, Chrissy/Eddie

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Captain of the Requiem

by Mina-Sanno (DarkVincentFantasy) The Space battleship Requiem needs a captain. There must *always* be a captain - whether they are willing or not for the forces beyond space do not rest. it is a neverending battle and Requiem has gone through a thousand captains (Avatars), each soul laying their own imprint upon the ship forged from a cold star, each soul breathing power into it and information rolling over to the next Avatar. Only those the Requiem deems fit to be their Avatar and the Requiem has found their newest Avatar on Earth....   | Dick Grayson has been missing for a little over 6 and a half months ago during a nightly patrol in Bludhaven and there have been no traces left behind of any possible culprit. Bruce Wayne and the JL have tried the League of Assassins and Shadows but *nothing*. The Batfamily haven't been the same since Dick's kidnapping and there were a lot of regrets from them all. During a Justice League meeting an unknown contact breaches their security and a video recording is broadcasted in the meeting room, an unfamiliar figure with spiked up white hair and a mask gives a little wave.   *"H-hey...long time no see...so this is a recording....-"* Words: 1287, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake (DCU), Jason Todd, Damian Wayne, Clark Kent, Diana (Wonder Woman), Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Wally West, Zatanna Zatara Relationships: Batfamily Members & Jason Todd, Batfamily Members & Dick Grayson, Batfamily Members & Bruce Wayne, Batfamily Members & Tim Drake (DCU), Batfamily Members & Justice League & Members of the Team (Young Justice) & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson & Justice League Additional Tags: Angst and Feels, Dick Grayson Needs a Hug, Dick Grayson-centric, Hurt Dick Grayson, Hurt Bruce Wayne, Hurt Damian Wayne, Hurt Tim Drake (DCU), Dick Grayson gets kidnapped by a sentient spaceship, Kidnapping, Hurt Jason Todd, everyone is hurting basically because Dick has been missing for a while, Dick Grayson Needs Help, Dick Grayson Needs Therapy, this is just a prompt kinda fic unless someone wants me to make this into a full series, idk much about DCU, Batfamily (DCU) Feels, Jason Todd is a Batfamily Member, Batfamily-centric (DCU), Batfamily (DCU), t for swearing bc Dick deserves to swear in this fic, Suicidal Thoughts, trigger warning for suicical thoughts, requiem has no care for feelings it is dead set on having a captain to fight in intergalactic war, dick grayson is requiem's "avatar", there must always be a captain, think like davy jones heart kinda situation, Jason Todd Loves Dick Grayson, Platonically! via https://ift.tt/uA538DI