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You’ve Got These Pretty Eyes (I Could Stare Forever)

Authour: @otooga (olooga)

Subfandom: Young Justice

Media: TV Shows

Relationships: Shippy (Jaime Reyes/Bart Allen)

Year: 2023

Rating: Teen

Warnings: None

Summary:

Jaime thinks the scarab couldn't have chosen a more pitiful humanity-enslaving host, and the scarab probably - most definitely - agrees. But you need to make the most of your circumstances, and if that means parading around in metal bug armor while playing should-we-kiss-should-we-not with one (1) impulsive Impulse, well... Jaime thinks he can handle it. Hopefully. Saving the world seems like a pastime in comparison to that.

Submitted by @gennydreams

Submitter's comment:

My favorite bluepulse fic of all time, depicts a really interesting relationship between Jaime and the scarab. I love it!

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despite everything

Authour: @capricioustube (Yellow)

Subfandom: Batman

Media: Comics

Relationships: Shippy (Dick Grayson/Jason Todd)

Year: 2023

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Unknown

Summary:

“Fancy meeting you here,” Dick says, half-hanging from meat hooks on the wall. -- Jason patches Dick up after getting him out of a pinch. Thing is, it's been happening a lot more often lately.

Submitted by anon

Submitter's comment:

[clenches fist] it's about the way dick and jason circle around each other and keep drawing closer

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Superboy comic outfit? :

https://www.tumblr.com/artisicallya-rambo/785813838826258432/unironically-this-kind-of-slays-i-honestly-like?source=share

When I was but a smol bb teenage comic fan, I read the OG run of Generation X and Jono Starsmore and Penance happened to me.

Jono was a British ex-musician psionic atomic bomb who could only speak via telepathy after his mutant powers manifesting blew up his reportedly very pretty face and very good singing voice and all his internal organs and also halfway his GIRLFRIEND who could barely keep said OP-as-fuck psionic powers from blowing up what was LEFT of his body and physically could not eat or drink or even SLEEP anymore, and Penance was a deaf-mute, illiterate, and halfway-feral trauma victim who was the just-freed prisoner of an asshole supervillain that'd been torturing and mutant-vampiring on her endless well of superpowered indestructibility for so long that he was starting to LOOK like her and her entire body was as dense as hell and diamond-hard and diamond-SHARP to the point that no one could even LIGHTLY touch her without getting sliced the fuck to FUCK for it; to the point even her HAIR was like that; to the point she could barely even make FACIAL expressions; to the point that the literal fucking WHITE QUEEN could not even get THROUGH it all to get into her actual HEAD, yes she was literally physically-but-also-possibly-psychically dense enough to be TELEPATH-resistant, that was literally a thing. She could cut through just about fucking anything and did not necessarily have to be TRYING to cut anything to do said cutting-through. The only clothes she could actually wear without them immediately shredding right off her were made of black leather straps and buckles, and were actually made out of the restraints that her asshole former captor had been keeping her in while he was, once again, HABITUALLY EATING HER ALIVE. Eating her alive bite by bite, over the course of YEARS, and always hungry, and always coming back for more. Jono also wore black leather straps ( and sometimes-buckles, for him ) wrapped up around his torso from his groin to the bottom half of his cracked and half-blown-off face to hold in the literal "has in at least one continuity been depicted as capable of one-shotting Ghost Rider, yes I do mean the ACTUAL Ghost Rider, and also been depicted as capable of actual CREATION in addition to all the overwhelming burny destruction we are barely keeping reined in at any given moment" furnace of psionic energy that was ever-burning in the hollowed-out remains of his "technically still alive, we THINK" body, frequently in place of bothering with an actual shirt. Which was for the record the only way he could ever pass for human long enough to even just go the fuck outside, and Penance could never pass for human at all, no matter what she did or wore.

In ( I think ) the second issue of the series, Jono was the one who, despite being the designated "Angsty Dude Who Lives in the Basement" of that particular X-Men series, very gently and compassionately talked Penance down from trying to slice-and-dice murder the entire team AND both their teachers after she'd just spent the whole damn issue getting chased by/chasing them around the biodome in the rain and just generally freaking out on them due to getting portal-dumped on their campus out of nowhere from her cell by a weird maybe-mutant/maybe-magic dude who refused to explain anything about her, and who just said "Penance" and literally nothing else when he left her there, and ALSO did not in any way explain anything TO her either. Therefore no one knew if she had a name, thus why they called her "Penance", and Jono called her "Penny". And Penny-ance herself didn't call anyone else anything at all, because she was, again, deaf-mute and illiterate and so deeply traumatized from the solitary confinement/torture/being LITERALLY EATEN ALIVE ON THE REGULAR that she was basically the feral version of a human being, and she spent most of her time hiding from them all in the biodome anyway.

Also, when Jono talked Penny down from trying to slice-and-dice murder everyone, he had literally JUST arrived at the school for the first time after getting attacked in an airport by a dude who wanted to eat him ( WONDER WHO THAT COULDA BEEN ) and knew literally NONE of these people, and had never seen Penny herself before in his life nor been given any semblance of a briefing on what the fuck was going on here; he just saw her a-creepin' out there in her terrified murder-death-kill/I-will-hurt-you-before-you-can-hurt-ME mode and then the, again, LITERAL FIRST TIME HE EVER SPOKE TO HER was him reaching out his bare hand to her, again, RAZOR-SHARP LITERAL EVERYTHING, LIKE THIS GIRL MIGHT AS WELL HAVE BEEN A PERSON-SIZED SCALPEL MADE OF ADMANTIUM OR VIBRANIUM, and talking her traumatized feral ass down from that freakout absolutely COLD and with literally NO information about who the fuck she was or where she'd come from or what the fuck was even going on in this fucking place, seriously they told him it was a SCHOOL, and all that happened five minutes after he was being stressed out into nearly blowing up the airport-dude, who was the same dude who'd been eating Penance all this time and wanted to eat HIM the same way, not that either he or she knew that. And also Jono's psionic speech was actually wildly, wildly unpracticed when he first debuted in the comics and therefore he was very slow and stilted while he was DOING said extremely-compassionate-talking-her-down, because he was literally shit at the telepathic shit and straight up just COULDN'T communicate any more effectively than that.

And then Miss "A-Living-Knife-Made-Of-Trauma" ( literally, LITERALLY she is a living knife made of trauma, TEXTUALLY she gets sharper AND harder when she feels unsafe and part of her character arc pre-retcon was the team noticing her should-be-invulnerable face had somehow randomly gotten scratched, wtf?? ) reached out BACK to him with these huge-ass machete-claws that she half-wrapped around his face/head and could've thereby sliced said face/head into fucking SEGMENTS with if she'd just SLIGHTLY closed them, and he did not even blink or even take his eyes off her face even when SHE was too scared to be looking directly at him. Because, you know, his own trauma and passive suicidal ideation and what did he REALLY care if he lived or died and all, but also because for anyone who for whatever reason can't read the embedded comic page I am about to include:

". . . I believe we are . . . kindred spirits, you and I. Being mutants has clearly . . . cost us more . . . than anyone . . . should have to pay. But myself? I'm tired of . . . running. What about you, luv? Come on . . . let's prove to these guys . . . . . . you don't want to . . . hurt anybody."

Just for the record and as a quickie lil' reminder, the dude on that page is currently unknowingly giving this speech to an illiterate deaf-mute Yugoslavian trauma victim who has up until this afternoon been imprisoned in solitary confinement for literal YEARS and never saw another person unless they were there to hurt her in all that time, and he is doing it without even having any lips she could conceivably be reading or even enough of a face left to smile at her with or even really EMOTE all that much with, and YES he's speaking telepathically, but this girl's brain is virtually impenetrable to WAY stronger and more experienced telepaths than Jono "literally just found out he even WAS a telepath and is never depicted as using said telepathy for anything but basic short-range communication" Starsmore's ass and EVEN IF IT WASN'T, the likelihood of her having any grasp of any verbal language whatsoever--much less of having any grasp of specifically the ENGLISH language--is extremely fucking low at this point, if not literally in the NEGATIVES! Extremely! Like, that was a thing! All of those things were canonically things that were things!!

AND HE STILL CONVINCED HER SHE WAS SOMEWHERE SAFE.

Like yeah, just for the record. The toooootally chill and normal record that teenage me was totes chill and normal about. So chill. So normal.

( her favorite food was apples, and one time he went out to the biodome and fed her apple slices off a little plate in his hands despite the fact his hands were his only remaining way to make music and the fact that she was MADE OF RAZORS ANYWAY and could just slice her OWN damn apples if she'd wanted to and also he could have JUST SET THE PLATE DOWN FOR HER, and she actually ATE them straight off the plate/out of his hands with her RAZOR-SHARP MOUTH without even so much as nicking him in the process, and anyway teenage me was fucking fundamentally ALTERED, we are talking CORE MEMORY SHIT here asdfghjk-- )

ABSOLUTELY inexplicably, all this aside, Jono's sole canon relationship in that comic ( aside from his pre-canon girlfriend, I mean ) was a blonde farmgirl who hated his entire personality/outlook on life and effectively thought he should get the fuck over being half-blown-up and unable to talk or sing or even EAT anymore or even go out and TALK to anyone without outing himself as a mutant and also his constant lurking deep-seated fear that sooner or later his powers were going to overload again and burn him into fucking NOTHING this time, or just leave him as nothing but psionic energy and bone, because being a mutant is THE BEST, oh my GOD, when HER powers manifested she was so happy she CRIED!!!! Jono did not cry when HIS mutant powers manifested and blew him and, again, his GIRLFRIEND up badly enough that they thought she was permanently paralyzed at first, because he was no longer actually physically capable of crying.

And then for apparent I'm-not-qualified-to-diagnose-but-I-have-theories reasons the next writer retconned Penny's origin/background in some truly buck-wild ways that literally made her a different character in the sense that he LITERALLY MADE HER A DIFFERENT CHARACTER, because from this side of the page it genuinely appears that the dude had a hard-on for a fictional sixteen year-old girl that two fictional EIGHT year-old girls had made up to pretend to be and were passing as thanks to their "straight-up it's just gem fusion like in Steven Universe, they just turn from two identical twin eight year-olds into one looks-exactly-like-them-but-older sixteen year-old girl" mutant powers, and he wanted to retcon "her" into an actual character that he could write as looking and dressing like a mid-twenties sexpot while ACTING like a mid-THIRTIES sexpot despite that making zero sense even by the internal logic of the retcon ( much less the actual canon timeline or any of the involved characters' personalities/life choices, god forbid ), as opposed to the bratty and snobby and deeply autistic mentally-and-PHYSICALLY-unstable fusion of prepubescent twin sisters who just had the superpowers they THOUGHT the perfect all-arounder mutant would have and made, again, a deeply autistic and snobby spoiled brat together. But teenage me did not yet know the pain that comics or people who write sixteen year-old girls like thirty-five year-old women were going to visit upon me, hahaha.

For no reason whatsoever, I think comics might be a little weird and also that maybe Marvel coulda used some better and more-ethical editors on that particular. Like, just maybe.

( THE PERSONALITY THAT CAME OUT OF THE TWINS' FUSION WAS CANONICALLY AUTISTIC, BY THE WAY, AS WAS IN FACT ONE OF THE TWINS. LIKE THEY FUCKING ON-PAGE AND IN-TEXT SAID THE WORD IN A TEEN-TEAM BOOK IN THE FUCKING NINETIES AND IT WAS ACTUALLY A THING THAT COULD BE AN ACTUAL PROBLEM FOR HER/THEM AND THE TEAM WITHOUT HER/THEM/ANYONE BEING FRICKIN' VILIFIED OVER IT. LIKE GODDAMN WRITER-DUDE SORRY YOU DON'T WANNA WRITE ABOUT A MASKING "TECHNICALLY I'M SIXTEEN IF I'M MADE OUT OF TWO PEOPLE WHO ARE EIGHT, THAT'S JUST MATH" TEENAGE BROWN GIRL WHO WENT WITH "HYPER-FEMME OVERACHIEVER WITH GREAT HAIR" FOR HER MASKING STRAT, SORRY THAT'S NOT AS NARRATIVELY-INTERESTING TO YOU AS "HOT MEAN GIRL WITH PRETTY PRIVILEGE WHO GOT HERSELF INTO TROUBLE FOR BEING A MEANIE ABOUT BACKTALKING A MAN WHO WAS JUST OFFERING TO BE SUPERVILLAINS WITH HER". SORRY THAT DOESN'T WORK FOR YOU, BUD! )

Also Jono accidentally blew up the entire girls' dorm when his love interest tried to surprise-kiss him and Penny had claws twice the length that her fingers and toes should've been and enormous all-blue eyes the size of the fucking MOON. His codename was "Chamber" and it was totally psychologically uninteresting that his codename had nothing to do with any of his actual powers and was just about being the vessel that struggled to CONTAIN those powers! TOTALLY psychologically uninteresting! And she liked butterflies and didn't remember how to be a person, and her codename WAS her name, and she didn't even choose it herself, and it wasn't even HER "penance" she was left with them for.

Anyway, those are my thoughts on black leather straps and jackets and why I'm really super totally normal about even joke-panel inclusions of them in media.

Do you guys think I have a type? 🤔

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Like a Summer with a Thousand Julys

Authour: TheFlashFic

Subfandom: Flash

Media: TV Shows

Relationships: Shippy (Joe West/Cisco Ramon)

Year: 2015

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: None

Summary:

Joe finds himself being drawn to the last person he ever would have expected, but a dark spot from Cisco's past threatens to to end things before they can even begin.

Submitted by anon

Submitter's comment:

A masterpiece of a fic, taking two characters who rarely get the focus and shipping them beautifully. Sweet, funny, hot, all the good things!

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Gargoyle

Authour: @bowditch

Subfandom: Batman, Superman

Media: Comics

Relationships: Gen (Lois Lane & Clark Kent & Bruce Wayne)

Year: 2017

Summary:

Batman sometimes checks on Clark Kent after traumatic situations. He’s just about as awkward and dramatic about it as, well, Batman.

Submitted by @kiragecko

The ways Lois and Bruce show they care, and deflect from their emotions! The way they're both struggling with their personas, and the raw vulnerable authenticity underneath! Their SINCERITY!!!

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O'er the Dark Green Sea

Authour: @pluckyredhead (poisonivory)

Subfandom: Green Lantern, Green Arrow

Media: Comics

Relationships: Shippy (Connor Hawke/Kyle Rayner)

Year: 2012

Rating: Gen

Warnings: Minor Death

Summary:

On his first mission as a captain in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, Kyle Rayner finds himself aboard the pirate ship Green Arrow, prisoner of the dreaded Captain Queen. As Captain Gardner, Commodore Jordan, and Kyle's fiancee Jenny launch rescue missions, Kyle finds himself struggling with a growing attraction to Queen's son Connor. But is the Green Arrow really what it seems? What does Sinestro the pirate king want with Kyle? And does Kyle really hold the secret to the green light that can give its bearer the power to rule - or destroy - the world?

Submitted by @thrakaboom

Submitter's comment:

This is, hands down, one of my absolute favorite fics I've ever read in any fandom. And I've been reading fic. since I was 8 or 9. I have made a tradition of rereading it every fall. Do you like pirates? Do you like historical fiction? Do you like romance? Do you like fics that mimic styles of historical writing? Do you love pen and ink drawings? You will fucking love this fic. Its a regency/golden age of sail adventure/romance and it had me absolutely on the edge of my seat the first time i read it. If I remember correctly I skipped class to finish it. I did not know much at all about Green Lantern lore the first time I read it so every time I reread it I appreciate it more to see how Green Lantern concepts were adapted into a golden age of sail universe. Also, did I mention it's beautifully illustrated in a pen and ink style that reminds me of the plate prints from when I read Horatio Hornblower? If you ship Connor Hawke/Kyle Rayner or like 90s Green Lantern or like historical AUs its a must read. You really dont need to be overly familiar with the characters, though that makes it 100x better. I don't want to give spoilers because I want everyone to get to be surprised by the twists and turns as I was, so I'll end with this- I look forward to the weather turning again so I remind myself "oh! it's time to reread O'er the Dark Green Sea!"

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I think if B is that rare, the fact that you’re going to all the work of aging up A, rather than just writing B, would bug me a lot if I was a B fan. Especially if I liked B a lot more than A. So tagging it B/Z would feel more like B erasure - “B is BASICALLY just A, right?”

I might have a different opinion if you’re including B in the story, and letting them contrast with each other, though. Weirdly, showing how A and B are different would make me more comfortable seeing the aged up A tagged as B.

I have a tagging question. I'm writing a fic where character A is aged up from his canon age and shipped with character Z. I realized that aged up A is actually nearly the same character as his prototype version, character B, because A is just a younger B with a slightly different personality and background. But because this is an AU, the background doesn't matter and the grown up personality is all speculation anyway. The fandom considers A and B as different characters despite having the same name, but B is a very rare character that's almost never written about while A is a main character.

For this fic, should I only tag A/Z or is it fine to also tag B/Z, since this was intended to be older A but he's so similar to B he might as well be the same character, and I think B or B/Z fans may also like this fic? I like both A and B and their ship with Z, so I know I'd like it, but I don't know if I'd help or hinder people with this. I'd mention that this character is basically a fusion of A and B in the author's note so that people who don't like one or the other are still informed and can leave.

Hmmm. I think I'd personally just tag A/Z but then add a sentence in the summary along the lines of "Can be read as B/Z too"

That said, I can definitely see the case for tagging both since A and B have the same name. Now you've got me second-guessing.

I think I'll need to open this one up to a poll:

Please add nuance and/or explanation in the notes!

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[Image shows ten birds designed to look like stickers, with little phrases like “im angy” and “2cool4u” beside them. End ID.]

My kid pretended to pass out from the cute. Kept squeaking “oooowww!” and “cuuuuuuute!” Told me they couldn’t tell which one they liked best, because they were all “sooooo cute!” Eventually decided the “disco baby” starling was. I personally SLIGHTLY prefer the “sus” blue tit. Just something about how you blocked the colours.

Thank you!

I painted very round birbs

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Proposal for new fandom etiquette:

If you read a fic because it was linked/recced somewhere, you leave a comment saying "came from XXX" and that comment doesn't need to include anything else.

Because when all of a sudden there's a lot of activity on one particular fic I WANNA KNOW WHY!!!!!

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Scallion Pancakes (I Still Love You)

Authour: @cetaceans-pls (whaleofatime)

Subfandom: Batman

Media: All Media Types

Relationships: Gen (Bruce Wayne & Jason Todd)

Year: 2024

Rating: Gen

Warnings: Unknown

Summary:

It's April 27th, and Bruce decides to go on an undercover mission at the farmers' market. Jason is there.

Submitted by anon

Submitter's comment:

I don’t know how to describe this fic besides “warm and optimistic”. It reads like the warmth of the sun on your face after 3 days of rain. Immaculate vibes 10/10

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A Night on Hope's End

Authour: @everythingandthekitchensink (Mist-managed)

Subfandom: Wonder Woman

Media: Comics

Relationships: Gen (Diana of Themyscira & Natasha Teranova)

Year: 2025

Rating: Gen

Warnings: Minor Unhappy Ending

Summary:

It takes a grand total of two weeks for Natasha to christen their new prison-planet ‘Hope’s End’.

Submitted by anon

Submitter's comment:

It has Natasha Teranova in it and also has Diana being the HOPE and LIGHT she is!! Even if you don't know Natasha, I think it reads okay as outsider pov.

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Discipline

Authour: @chemical-processes (Chemical_Processes)

Subfandom: Batman

Media: Comics

Relationships: Gen (Dana Winters & Tim Drake)

Year: 2022

Summary:

Dana comes home and finds Tim locked in the closet. He's been in there for nearly nine hours.

Submitted by @kiragecko

I've never read a story written from Dana's perspective, but I LOVE Dana! She is written SO well here, and it makes me like her even more!

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like a lily alive in full bloom

Authour: @augustheart (tziporim)

Subfandom: Other (Justice Society of America)

Media: Comics

Relationships: Shippy (Dian Belmont/Wesley Dodds)

Year: 2025

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Minor Death

Summary:

Wesley Dodds has two secret lives. One as the Sandman, and one with Dian.

Submitted by @Conner

Submitter's comment:

Beautiful amazing rewrite of Sandman Mystery Theatre with the premise of transgender identity in the 1930s/40s and love. Genuinely so wonderfully written, I hope to bind it someday if I can get the author's permission.

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CARNIVORES

Authour: @likerubies

Subfandom: Batman

Media: All Media Types

Relationships: Shippy (Dick Grayson/Jason Todd)

Year: 2024

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Unknown (but it looks like there definitely are some!)

Summary:

Dick perches at the window and peers into the darkness of his apartment, and doesn't want to go in. If he doesn't go in, he doesn't have to see it: the blood, the small bodies in the second bedroom, his omega beaten and broken in their nest. - The villain of the week decides to target Nightwing's family, but fails to realise his omega is the Red Hood.

Submitted by anon

Submitter's comment:

I feel like this fic understands both of these characters really well. Both of their actions feel very real to them and everything feels plausible. I love the sense of dread that changes shape but remains throughout the entire fic

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One Last Conversation Between Friends

Authour: Lizardwoman_From_Earths_Core

Subfandom: Other (Justice Society of America)

Media: Comics

Relationships: Gen (Wesley Dodds & Carter Hall)

Year: 2025

Rating: Gen

Warnings: Minor Death

Summary:

As his time draws near, Wesley Dodds invites Carter Hall over to tell him about a dream he had.

Submitted by @Conner

Submitter's comment:

I love the sense of voice and continuity in this

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city with no children

Authour: @takemetothe-river (blueshift)

Subfandom: Batman

Media: All Media Types

Relationships: Gen (Jason Todd-centric)

Year: 2021

Summary:

Dick catches Jason just as he finishes patrol. One minute he's alone, standing on the rooftop taking inventory of his gear, and the next he's not. A familiar blue silhouette swings up and over the edge of the building and lands neatly beside him. “I brought you a plant. For your new apartment.” The lack of preamble in this family, Jesus. “It isn’t my apartment, just a safehouse.” Jason doesn’t look up from where he’s emptying the cache on his guns. Dick laughs, low in his throat. “Okay, Jay.” Or: Jason's still alive, and maybe that counts for something.

Submitted by @kiragecko

Jason quietly builds a life, struggling to believe that's possible for him. WONDERFUL slice of life! Quiet and elegant and ... it feels like dusk? Cool, the time for rest has come, and not MELANCHOLY, but a positive feeling version? Not sure the word, but the experience is lovely!

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Retirement Ended Up Super

Authour: Rhino

Subfandom: Superman, Other (Agents of SHIELD)

Media: TV shows

Relationships: Shippy (Kara Danvers/Daisy Johnson)

Year: 2023

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Minor Death

Summary:

Daisy was tired of all the fighting, heartbreak, and being left alone when she was no longer useful. But as long as she was in her universe, there was no stopping. It’d never be allowed. So if she wanted out, it meant going somewhere that’d never heard of Daisy Johnson, Quake, or the Destroyer of Worlds. So a universe where there never was a Daisy Johnson. She wasn’t exactly expecting a world with a brand-new and shiny Superhero. One who clearly had no idea how to protect themselves from being chewed up and spat out.

Submitted by @thisisnotmynamefml

Submitter's comment:

I absolutely love weird wacky crossover fics that are extremely niche and that makes you think "I wonder how the author even had this idea, but god I wish more people have the same visions as them" and this is that and very well done.