#and so forth! but genuinely like... a lot of reader fics default to having a thin reader

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god i rarely write chubby!reader fics because my fics by default dont include any (intentional) descriptors to paint reader as thin or fat or any race so that they're accessible for everyone. but i saw some absolutely rancid takes and i lowkey wanna write another multi-part chubby reader fic. i should finish some plans tbh

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For the record, I focus a lot more on Dick and Jason’s relationship than I do Dick and Tim’s, but that’s because I don’t tend to agree with a ton of the more popular Tim takes out there, so there’s not much....drive for me to interact with Tim content too much. And also, I was a fan of what little we got of Dick and Jason being brothers before ADITF, like right when I first got into comics as a kid, and then I quickly burned through that and caught up with what was being currently published, and found out Jason was dead, lol. 

And then Jason was dead in the comics for like 15 years while we had plenty of Dick and Tim bonding on the page, and then Jason came back and was written very shittily IMO, so I was mostly just flip-flopping back and forth between “yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay they brought Jason back” and “noooooooooooooooooo they’re making me almost sorry they brought Jason back” with little else in between.

And then they stopped being Completely The Worst with Jason, and when I popped back up in fandom again this past year, Dick was still...not super popular with Tim fans these days, because of the whole RR thing with a lot of people.

While meanwhile, after yeeeeeeeeeeeeeears of a lot of fans defaulting to the take that Dick hated Jason and was an asshole to him before he died and Jason never liked him either, people seemed to actually be receptive to the same kind of “hey what if Dick and Jason were brothers who actually loved and valued each other and Dick missed him and mourned him” takes I’ve been making for like twenty years, because I AM a broken record, in fact.

All of which is just to say.....I write a lot of stuff about Dick and Jason and focus on their sibling relationship for a lot of reasons. I’m a reader before I’m a writer, particularly when it comes to fandom content - I’m never lacking for ideas, and the more I can read of what I’d like to see, the easier it is to pick from what’s left over and write just the stuff that I’m NOT finding anywhere else, that’s less likely to exist if I don’t write it myself. 

So basically.....I tend not to write for stuff I don’t see a lack of. If I can already find enough I like in some specific direction to read, I’m doing that. Its the stuff I can’t find anywhere outside of my own thoughts that I most focus on, writing-wise.

And given that I’ve been wanting to see more of Dick and Jason as brothers since I was ten, and had a lot of years after that of Dick and Tim......I just have a lot more stuff to say about Dick and Jason, and a lot more that I want to read/write of them.

BUT its never been that I don’t like Dick and Tim’s sibling relationship, or Dick and Damian’s, or Dick and Bruce’s parent/child dynamic from when he was younger and they were really close. Its just....I don’t see those as really being things that lack for content if I’m not writing things myself. So I don’t hate Bruce and Dick getting along.....but there’s a ton of content out there where they’re just Good Dad Bruce and son, and far less that delves into the less pleasant aspects of things, but which I very much have thoughts on. 

I LOVE Dick and Dami together, honestly, because for years now, Damian has pretty consistently been one of the only characters shown.....meeting Dick half way, and like, ‘putting up with stuff’ he’s not comfortable with for others, just for Dick’s sake and because Dick being happy matters to him, and then shown grudgingly liking the hugs and whatnot in return as well. 

That’s ideal for me, a dynamic where Dick isn’t just constantly the only one changing to be what the other person wants or expects him to be, or the only one putting up with things that maybe he’s less than comfortable with just to make someone else happy....a dynamic where he’s not the only one expected to change in order to make things work.....that’s ultimately all I’d like for any of his relationships to be. With Damian, I tend to find a decent amount of that already existing in fandom, at least far more than any of the others, so there’s never been much of a pull towards writing that specifically.

And while Dick hasn’t tended to be too popular with a lot of Tim’s fandom in recent years, at least comparatively speaking, there’s still a decent amount of older fic I find, pre-BFTC, that has the dynamic I really enjoy from them. And aside from that....I’d say they actually have the most canon content out there of the two of them being brothers who love, value and respect each other, going all the way back to Tim’s earliest appearances. I’d argue they actually have more along those lines than Dick and Damian, just because sheer length of time involved......Damian’s still only been around a little over ten years, whereas Tim and Dick were close for almost twice that by the time Damian came along, so there really is a ton of canon content out there of them being close.

And of course, there hasn’t been much of Dick and Cass in aaaaaaaages, and there’s basically no Jason and Cass, which in turn fuels a lot of my recent “What if Dick and Jason and Cass were all close as the three eldest kids” talk of late, etc, etc.

So, if you were ever curious about what pulls my focus the most and why, that tends to be how things break down for me. The more I have to say about specific characters, stories, scenes or dynamics, and the less I see anyone else saying it....that’s what tends to get most of my energy.

BUT also just for the record.....that doesn’t ever mean that I actually dislike or am open to hate on any of the Batfamily, I always say I’m here for the WHOLE found family, and I mean it. I’m critical of Bruce in areas and times where I think he’s done things that are worth criticizing and that don’t go away when I just pretend otherwise.....but the criticism comes from a genuine desire to see him written BETTER, without the abusive overtones and outright abuse he’s been written with at times. 

And yeah, I’m occasionally petty about Tim, sure, but that tends to be more me just knee-jerk reaction to seeing a thing elsewhere and tbh is not usually meant all that seriously. He’s not my favorite, but I don’t hate him, and I could never imagine writing any of his siblings as actually hating him for the same reasons I don’t write them hating any of each other either. I don’t like writing families that play favorites, or have members they actually hate or don’t like. It just....defeats the point of them being a family, for me? Like, that’s really all it comes down to. People have asked me about whether I’d ever write Dick leaving the family to strike out on his own, and tbh, that’s usually a no, because that’s not what I want, as I also don’t think its what his character would ever want.....he wants his family, I just want to write them as ALL getting along and being healthy for ALL of each other.

But bottom line there is just....Dick is unabashedly my favorite, Jason my second fave, the others all tending to ebb and flow at times to different levels.....BUT I never actually hate any of them, and I’m not trying to give that impression or receive a lot of takes based on the assumption I am or looking for solidarity on hating any of them. Sometimes some of the other characters tick me off, sometimes fans of another character tick me off, I be petty or vent, and then its usually over and I’m back to good. *Shrugs*