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Dick was the last to be adopted, Jason became the black sheep post-resurrection, Tim made himself Robin, Damian was dropped in Gotham after ten years of being kept secret, Cass possesses killer instincts that run counter to Batman's philosophy, Duke is a meta whose parents are still alive (albeit jokerized), and Steph has zero legal connections to the Waynes. All of the batkids have reason to believe they're the only one Bruce doesn't want around and Bruce is unaware of the problem because they don't vocalize it not just out of the usual emotional constipation, but also a deep-seated fear of being proven right. In this essay, I will—

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The Old Guard 2 (2025) directed by Victoria Mahoney

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Apple - Charli XCX

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Alex Rider/Archer

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After much painstaking, dedicated research, I present my findings on

The Alex Rider vs. River Cartwright Blonde British Spy Venn Diagram.

These two are basically the same. I couldn't even use circles bc it's almost all overlap. Anything else you'd add?

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BTW i see these posts all the time like "ohhh i dont know what to comment on fics.." and every response is "keysmashes! or hearts!! anything works :3" and thats GREAT!! thats helpful!!

but: consider. if u genuinely like analyzing writing.. do u know ur just allowed to go through and quote your favorite parts and ramble abt what they mean to u and the author will LOSE IT WITH HYPE?

genuinely. i felt SO WEIRD the first time i did it.. but like. holy shit authors love it. its crack for authors. the first time i did it, it was on a fic that hadnt updated in half a year, give or take, and the author made 3 updates that month BECAUSE OF MY COMMENT.

LIKE. as an author every comment is INCREDIBLE!!! but also, dont feel like your comment has to be short or otherwise ur invasive or smth!! authors ADORE long comments more than ANYTHING.

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@coffe-notebooks luckily you only have to read a light 42 chapters before you can switch over since mine diverges from the original fic after that 😄

Any fans of the epic Alex Rider fanfic masterpiece that is "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by Pongnosis here? 👀 Because I'm attempting to join the ranks of the many fanfic authors writing in the Devilverse with an AU set after Yassen gets promoted to the SCORPIA board.

Now if I could only finish outlining said fic so I could actually start writing it, THAT would be awesome!

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The first chapter is officially live! You can find it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61397821

Any fans of the epic Alex Rider fanfic masterpiece that is "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by Pongnosis here? 👀 Because I'm attempting to join the ranks of the many fanfic authors writing in the Devilverse with an AU set after Yassen gets promoted to the SCORPIA board.

Now if I could only finish outlining said fic so I could actually start writing it, THAT would be awesome!

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the peak of "wouldn't it be awesome to be a child soldier? JUST KIDDING! it would be incredibly fucked up. anyway here's the main character getting eaten by wolves" is the alex rider series, which takes the wish fulfilment premise of being a teenage spy and then makes it explicitly clear from day one that alex is being blackmailed into acting as a spy for adults who have neither love nor even basic care for him and will let his life fall apart the moment he says no. coincidentally it's due to this career that alex is both an orphan and without a guardian in the first place; spying led directly to both his parents' and uncle's deaths. alex is repeatedly traumatised and nearly killed in increasingly horrifying manners, and it becomes clear that the only way for him to protect himself is to keep throwing himself in danger; he hates this and is completely aware that the only person he trusts could be ripped away from him at any moment and that his social life and academic standing is being ripped to shreds the longer he continues living his double life. the kicker is that he was raised in, perhaps intentionally moulded for, this lifestyle and the longer he continues it the harder he finds it to leave; he's essentially addicted to life-and-death situations and almost doesn't want to keep coming back to it. he turns to the other side only to turn that his bosses' enemies are just as bad as they are; at the age of just thirteen he finds himself completely alone in the world. and it slaps both as a thriller series and a deconstruction of the horrific violence both literal and structural that undergirds alex's life and job and the ethics of using a literal child to do your bidding as the lines between work and home life blur beyond recognition

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Writing is a process that often undergoes heavy edits… that includes responding to feedback. 

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your first draft is going to suck. And that’s okay. It’s supposed to suck. Your first draft isn’t about writing something good, it’s about writing something. You’re just shoveling sand into the sandbox so you can build castles later. Get the words on the page, even if they’re clumsy, even if you cringe while writing them. The magic happens in the revision, but you can’t revise a blank page. So let the first draft be messy. Let it be flawed. Just get it down, because that’s where the real work begins.

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HO BOY, I can't believe it but I think I might have finally finished said fic outline?! Um, okay - time to stop dilly-dallying here and actually WRITE!

Any fans of the epic Alex Rider fanfic masterpiece that is "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by Pongnosis here? 👀 Because I'm attempting to join the ranks of the many fanfic authors writing in the Devilverse with an AU set after Yassen gets promoted to the SCORPIA board.

Now if I could only finish outlining said fic so I could actually start writing it, THAT would be awesome!

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Stand-alone version of this gif I included in my gifset last night because honestly Yassen's reaction is such a mood lmao

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horowitz really said, ‘alex and yassen are parallel characters who have both suffered incredibly and been pushed to extremes and even tho one made the ‘wrong’ choices and the other made the ‘right’ ones things are much more complex than that and i am going to drive that home every ten seconds thru paralleling their losses, their recruitments into intelligence, the way they are both trapped in lives they didn’t choose for themselves, their conflicting mentor-mentee relationships, their ties to john rider and their eventual final push to committing their first kill as well as looking at the way they recognise something of themselves in the other’ and we just had to take that

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#king and queen of being done

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@mcskullmun Thank you for the screenshots! And @archerofunspeakablelove thank you for the insight into how in-depth (or not) Yassen gets about this period of his life in the book.

Can someone who has read Russian Roulette please explain what happened to Yassen during his 3 years trapped with Sharkovsky? I haven’t read the book (only googled the plot to get the broad strokes) but I’d love to pull from this section of the book for a fanfic scene.

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Can someone who has read Russian Roulette please explain what happened to Yassen during his 3 years trapped with Sharkovsky? I haven’t read the book (only googled the plot to get the broad strokes) but I’d love to pull from this section of the book for a fanfic scene.