was recently informed that discord is now stupid about link embeds for images (why! y'all were So Good before!) so now this one gets publicly posted! whee!

for those new to the dragon!Ben au: this is from my ongoing fic Mechanism!

hate the "why do writers research little details that nobody will ever possibly care about" kind of mentalities. no, people do care about those little details, actually! just because the information is niche doesn't mean that people won't either be excited for it to be mentioned correctly or that it won't break immersion if it's inaccurate. let people go on a research bender in peace.

Ben frantically slapping the omnitrix mid battle after it timed out and turned him human: Come on, come on! Work you stupid thing!!

The omnitrix, frantically retreaving data on the individual transformations of the 370,239,506,874,004 gut bacteria in Ben's digestive system and scanning said system thoroughly to make sure it has not missed or messed up on any and unleased an alien hybrid mutant plague on all of humanity and possability the galaxy at large: GIVE ME 5 MINUITES!!!

Hey, how was your nanowrimo?

managed to hit the 50k around when I decided I needed to take a break from the project :) hopefully once finals are over with next week my brain will be less fried and I can get back to working on stuff I can actually post!

i just wanted to say that i got so invested in redemption arc that it convinced me to actually watch leverage, and now i have it on the brain 24/7. i watched season one in the span of a day thanks to you

(sorry for not answering this for an age, I thought I had already)

this means so much to me fr. i'm glad you enjoyed the show and i'm super glad you enjoyed the fic!

reblog and link the fanfic that you worked your absolute ass off on but not a lot of people read i’ll go first:

witcher fandom, lambert x aiden, 1920s rum runner and assassin au. entirely historically accurate.

Me telling all my fanfic ideas to fuck off.

For those of y'all who have been waiting a while for another fic set in the takesverse, I present to you: twitch (linked here), a fic where tim, steph, and damian bird the southwest in search of a rare vagrant eared quetzal.

In traditional Takesverse format, this must be accompanied by headcanons. bird headcanons. birdcanons, if you will.

So, without further ado:

Dick: Florida Scrub Jay- smarter than they look, incredibly friendly, and under-appreciated for their rarity.

Jason: California Condor. Known for their resurrection and too often reduced to it. Provides an essential service to the local ecosystem that might seem unappealing to others. Cass: Barn Owl. Quiet, but always listening. Would terrify the shit out of someone in the middle of the night. Tim and Steph remain unassigned. Damian: Northern Mockingbird. Tiny, but notoriously fierce.

realizing I probably should have posted about it here before, but the 30th chapter of redemption arc (link here) went up about a week and a half ago, meaning the fic is finally complete!

it's so wild to think that it's finally done! this time last year, i had just barely started posting chapters, and now, it's Big!!! it's Done!!!

and so, for a final time:

are you a heist fanatic? do you enjoy reading batfamily fic but wish they stole more shit? do you, like me, go nuts over needless descriptions of shiny things? do you, also like me, need something to keep you distracted for at least a few hours? do you need some slow burn romance drama?

redemption arc is a leverage-style (is it -style if it's arguably a leverage crossover? 🤔 ) batfamily au where, instead of becoming traditional superheroes, the family has embraced a robin hood-like policy of thievery, bribery, and blackmail to help Gotham and the world at large. this delicate balance, however, is threatened by several complications- bruce has disappeared, leaving dick grayson to take up the mantle of mastermind, a man in a red helmet lurks on the horizon, and one particular speedster is, perhaps, far too curious for his own good.

or: i spend 210k words as an excuse to turn dick into my personal barbie doll.

Some of the posts in the fandom tag are making me stare curiously at my WIPs ngl

it's wednesday, my dudes (incoherent screaming)

to those of y'all who have been following the redemption arc update schedule, you know what this means:

drop day for the second to last chapter in the entire fic!

to those of you who are less familiar, may i introduce you to a longfic au that includes: extremely high doses of batfamily, heists, and one of THE slowest birdflash slow burns on the entirety of ao3

start reading here! :)

ch26 is up, folks!

or: dick never listened to the "never let them take you to a secondary location" part of the public service announcement.

pro tip: if you're a career thief with a habit of lying to people, maybe don't make heart eyes at a superhero that, in another life, you could've been on a team with!

ch 1 link here!

the tags in the screenshot also appear to not exist in any of the reblogs despite looking like they were actually posted here

time for crowdsourced decision making bc i'm an indecisive mf.

so. as some of you may know, over the last year, i have been working on redemption arc, a batfamily-as-leverage-style-thieves au that i am obscenely fond of. however, i have come upon a conundrum: i've been writing about six chapters ahead of where I've been posting, which means that now that i have completed the fic, i am left with this question:

i figure both options have fair points to them. The finale, for the record, is five chapters- 25, which is not a part of the finale, will be going up as soon as I post this.

time for crowdsourced decision making bc i'm an indecisive mf.

so. as some of you may know, over the last year, i have been working on redemption arc, a batfamily-as-leverage-style-thieves au that i am obscenely fond of. however, i have come upon a conundrum: i've been writing about six chapters ahead of where I've been posting, which means that now that i have completed the fic, i am left with this question:

i figure both options have fair points to them. The finale, for the record, is five chapters- 25, which is not a part of the finale, will be going up as soon as I post this.

24/30, The No Accounting For Taste Job -> Our Intrepid Lads react to seeing a new (and yet oddly familiar) face, and the rest of the family descends into barely mitigated chaos.

rectifying forgetting to post a chap when i finished 27 with posting one now lol.

or: dick has a (minor) crisis, jason is both concerned and amused, security guards are fooled, and Important Plot Things happen in the background.

if you're new (or just want to reread), first chapter link can be found here!