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vinelark · 10 months

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ALL timkon recs I BEG

hello hi! here are some of my favs! it got long so putting some under the cut

💄 Lipstick on the glass by @cairoscene read for timkon being soft and goofy and disgustingly in love, set in vague future college-y years with amazing core four dynamics too. cair is one of the funniest people to ever exist and we are so blessed that they decided to write some timkon. (also read for my own greatest contribution to literature, the fictional “jerry the void nexus” meme)

🎢 been a number and a name by @wynterstars i had SO MUCH FUN reading this one, a 90s comics-divergent AU where robin and superboy become friends—and crushes—when superboy is pretty new on the scene. feat. lex luthor being terrible, tim staging a rescue operation that at one point involves platform shoes and a blonde wig, spice girls references, and fantastic action sequences. it’s also a series, with an installment focusing on kon & clark, and a currently updating longfic sequel with SO MANY timkon identity shenanigans (my beloved) and kon feelings (also my beloved).

📸 the surveillance series by @smilebackwards i feel like i rec this all the time but it’s because it’s THAT GOOD. a tim-centric AU where tim joins the family late, but is still involved in bat business without the bats realizing. there’s some fun timkon identity shenanigans at the top, and some of my all-time favorite tim characterization (ruthless! lonely! brilliant!) plus a great tim & bruce arc, too.

🦉 Detours by miyaji_08 this is part 2 of a series and i def recommend reading the whole thing! a reverse robins + joker jr au that has lots of trauma and lots of healing, and in part 2 there’s timkon identity shenanigans that’s simultaneously enemies to lovers + And They Were Roommates. tim sure does run a gauntlet of horrors in this series, but it has so much healing and also one of my fav reverse robins concepts i’ve read so far.

📱 unfurl by @burins tim and kon might be dating, and there’s no kryptonian sex ed handy. bruce, being bruce, makes it his business, which means talking to clark and Realizing some things about his own feelings. superbat are billed first here, but i think timkon steal the show—i laughed out loud like five different times reading this. hilarious and sweet on all sides. (and if you like this, check out their timkon road trip fic!)

🌾 A Saturday Evening by malcyon in which tim visits the kent farm for family dinner with kon, feat. very sweet established relationship timkon and fun superfamily dynamics, and it touches on tim’s past grief over kon’s death (and complicated feelings post-undeath).

🤼‍♂️ Sore Loser by @hearteyeshayley kon learns that tim always let him win while sparring, and has to process that. this was such a fun exploration of tim’s prowess as a fighter—one who regularly has to go up against superpowered friends and foes alike—and also tim as a person who is always doing mental calculations about the people around him (in an endearing way). kon, too, got his time to shine and grow, and the ending was so smart and sweet.

🔮 Ascension by Violet_Witch an AU longfic where tim is a witchling and kon is a fallen angel who has (oops) just lost his wings. tim sets out to help get kon’s wings back, and there’s a ticking clock because angel wings are dangerous in the wrong hands—and tim has a big, horrible secret that’s about to come due. the plot/worldbuilding of this was WILDLY cool, and there was a big ol misunderstanding in the middle that had me clawing my face off (in a good way).

🌌 straight on ’til morning by merils kon vs. the terrifying ordeal of growing up, feat. sweet friends-to-lovers timkon and really thoughtful exploration of some of kon’s canon past relationships and their abusive dynamics. i haven’t finished this one yet but it’s been rec’d multiple times and i’m excited to dive back in (and it's recently complete!)—and what i have read so far gave me an amazing sequence of kon and dick interacting and dick’s big brother mode activating in an instant, which is something i now desperately need more of.

📧 aaaand would it even be a reclist by me if i didn’t include send to all by @cairoscene the absolute moment i find myself feeling down i go reread this and boom. i am instantly laughing again. timkon are just one part of a bat grab-bag here but they are so so funny and cute and in-character. maybe one day i’ll compile the timkon-centric sequel that exists in my head but for now i’ll just go reread this for the zillionth time.

okay yeah!! i’m probably missing so many good fics here because i constantly have like a zillion tabs open that i plan to read someday. also i reserve the right to reblog later like OH I FORGOT— but in the meanwhile, happy timkon reading!

#timkon #fic rec #asks

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scribe-of-maat · 10 months

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Ranking DC Pride 2023

9. Love’s Lightning Heart (???, ???)

Starring The Flashlight and The Flash, I think? When he called the dude “Ray” in the beginning I thought it was gonna be The Ray, you know? This only scores so low because I’m not at ALL familiar with anything Multiversity and this story especially seemed to be absolutely thick with that corner of DC lore. I get there’s a Parallax type of thing happening but... this was kind of hard to follow for a payoff that’s pretty lukewarm if you’re not well-versed in who this story’s about.

8. My Best Bet (Jon Kent/Superman, John Constantine

This is hit especially hard in my ranking because it’s the last story in the book and the only thing DC Pride about it is that it stars two Bs. They’re popular queer characters but I’m here for stories that are specifically ABOUT LGBT stuff, not about LGBT people doing stuff. There’s nothing to really talk about here.

7. Found (Xanthe Zhou, Batwoman/Kate Kane)

I’ve been meaning to read Spirit World, and since I hadn’t gotten around to it Xanthe being LGBT was a surprise to me, but not as much as Kate Kane showing up was. It feels like someone threw a dartboard at WLW women and plopped in whoever came up, cuz I guarantee if I flip the newest Batwoman issue open to a random page she’ll have a girlfriend-slash-situationship that won’t be too happy about her seeming receptive to some flirting. But hey, I like Xanthe more now so there’s give-and-take.

6. And Baby Makes Three (Xiomara Rojas/Crush, Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn, Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy)

I like Crush. I can’t claim to have read much of her, because for now that means enduring way too much Damian Wayne, but she seems like an incredibly interesting character. But I could not tell you why she’s here with Harley and Ivy. This, moreso than anything else, has a less than negative chance of being referenced again and it’s giving me even more of that dartboard feeling the last story did. Plus if there’s one thing Harlivy can do, it’s carry a story by themselves. I wish we’d gotten something about JUST Crush, is what I’m saying. I feel like this was a status update for Crush, like her washing ashore was meant to bridge the gap between this story and whatever she was doing the last time she showed up.

5. Teamwork Makes the Dream Work (Natasha Irons/Steel, Nubia)

Listen, I will always have space in my heart for the Irons family. I love Natasha, and I love John Henry, and when DC lets either out of the ether every other year I’m front and center. That, and the recent super-push Nubia has been enjoying made this story one I was pretty excited to read when I realized who it was about. But THIS ART. These faces are TRASH. Even without looking it up I feel like there’s a 0% chance DC would give a nonblack artist this story, so it makes it especially confusing as to why the characters look like THAT. The actual content was fun and even though Io needs to come up off our queen posthaste, I didn’t have any (other) complaints. But it’s SOOOOO UGLYYYYY.

4. The Dance ( Minhkhoa Khan/Ghost-Makes, Thomas Blake/Catman)

I knew Ghost-Maker was bi prior to reading this, somehow. I’ve been meaning to read anything about him because his design is so awesome but I was only really guessing this was Catman alongside him. I really don’t know anything about him, so this ranks so highly just because of Ghost-Maker. I don’t really have anything else to add here since this story’s ultimate purpose seems to just show off muscley dudes post-sex.

3. Anniversary (Lucas Trent/Midnighter, Andrew Pulaski/Apollo, Alan Scott/Green Lantern)

These showcases tend to have like, one story that directly addresses inequality if you’re lucky. This is that story, and it’s such a good one. Midnighter and Apollo’s fame as the canon gay Superbat sort of eclipses anything else about them, but that reputation is put to excellent effect here. Plus, Alan Scott, one of my favorite Green Lanterns, finally shows up. Revitalizing that old slogan to make it clear the LGBT isn’t going anywhere was fun, too.

2. Subspace Transmission (Jules Jourdain/Circuit Breaker, Jess Chambers/The Flash, Andy Curry/Aquawoman)

Jess was an extremely fun and memorable character from the start like, half a decade ago and that holds true here. I was super uninvested in the Circuit Breaker part of this story. I don’t know who that is, and even after reading this I genuinely don’t care. This made my heart hurt for more Teen Justice and Future State stuff in general. That Jackson Hyde cameo at the end was also perfect.

1. Hey, Stranger (Connor Hawke/Hawke, Tim Drake/Robin)

I was definitely in diapers the last time these two characters spoke to each other. When there’s been THAT big a gap in timeframe I can’t be sure how emotional a reunion can be to a modern readership. None of that matters to my enjoyment, because Connor Hawke is far and away my favorite Arrowfam member and his recent resurgence (even if too much of it is attached to Damian Wayne for my taste) has been such a blessing. DC only trots this guy out three times a year but god do we eat good each time. They just need to do a LITTLE more with him.

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brendaonao3 · 2 years

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Hi~ do you have any Superbat fics and blog recs? I’m usually a more comics or animated verse rather than live action person, but superbat are lovely in all their variants~ Thanks!

Sorry I'm SO late with this, but here goes (I'll warn you now, it's a LOT)

I mean, obviously, I'll say, read my Superbat fics, because I'm biased :D, but in no particular order, read everything Superbat by the following authors, because they are all consistently great:

Susiecarter Liodain Mithen Linndechir KathrynShadow

And if you read NO other fic in the Superbat fandom, read this one:

Suadade (it's one of the best fics - period - I've ever read in any fandom)

As for the rest, here goes (again, in no order):

What I Need

Unexpected Scoops

The Whole Truth

Slow Down The Days

Situational Awareness

See Something You Like

Prussian Blue

Muddy Shoes

I'm Struggling To Exist With You (And Without You)

Hive Mind

Happy To Help

Gone Too Far This Time

Ten Things That Go Boom

The Closer I Am To Finding God (You're A Miracle To Me)

The Moon And Its Eclipse

Someone Call For A Ride?

Take One Last Look At This Sacred Heart

In A Life To Come

The Long Hangover

Silenced By The Night

Clarkia Amoena

Failsafe

Snowed In

Punctuated Equilibrium (Series)

Looking At You

Nor The Rain

Fame Is The Bait (And The Switch Is Your Desolate Smile)

How To Date A Superhero (Series)

Five Times Batman Got It Wrong (And One Time Brucie Didn't)

Dark Knight, Bright Son (Series)

Teachable Moments

It's A Shot In The Dark (Waiting For You To Open Your Heart To Me)

Little Things

Before Dawn (Series)

A Uniform Intermittent Rotary Motion

A Spoonful Of Sun

Take It

Convergent Evolution

Asking Out

Someone To Talk To, And A Little Of That Human Touch

The Farthest Shore

Small Things

The Curve Of Your Neck (Like An Invitation)

Twenty Questions

A Pleasant Diversion

Serendipity

Coffee Scented Kisses

Holiday In The Sun

Comfortably Numb

The Salmon Incident

Night Is Young (And We're Living)

Some Things To Get Used To

Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang

Enjoy and happy reading!!!!!!!!!! <3

#brenda recs things #superbat #brucexclark #bruce x clark #dceu #dcu #dc comics #fic recs

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blorb-el · 2 years

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saw your post about the things you'd like to see in a superman story and now i'm curious about the nsfw version 👀 if you'd like to share ofc!

mmm. see I have tried not to nsfw on this blog but you know what. fuck it. if famous author vladimir nabokov wrote a horny superman poem and had the absolute temerity to make it good and then send it to the new yorker and ask them to publish it for money in 19fucking42... (x) then i can do whatever i want on my blog

anyway. some Concepts. this turned out as less fic ideas and more personal headcanons. LONG post since i mostly haven’t talked about this. all of these are Free Real Estate if anyone is inspired by them

Even more for nsfw headcanons than sfw, I am above all interested in what the author is interested in. like, choking does nothing for me in and of itself, but everyone was so dang enthusiastic about it that now i'm invested and would absolutely read That Fic

for nsfw headcanons I have two different headcanon versions of clark for any piece of dc media. (yes this is how my brain works. blorbo all the way down). one looks identical to or nearly identical to a human. usually a cis man, however trans man clark also very good. the other has genitals that cannot be mistaken for human, usually some kind of retractable system. plus or minus some good ol' tentacles depending on the vibe. I went a little more into this + the Kryptonian names for such parts here. most of my headcanons are for alien biology clark, but going into a fic I think of any alien biology as a bonus, I don't expect it (there are, after all, a whole bunch of canon panels that go He Looks Totally Human No Xeno Here Guys!!. Every time I see one of these I like to imagine that some poor sucker at DC has seen something they do not like in the alien biology tag on ao3.)

A Clark who looks human I think is fairly well adjusted, he's had sex, he knows what he likes and what he doesn’t even if he may have hangups about asking for it. A Clark pre-serious relationship that doesn't look human, I hc has either not had sex or has only ever had sex with his clothes on and without being touched himself, only giving (for some reason allstar gives me this vibe) (sidenote: i do not mean to imply that this is not a perfectly valid and fulfilling sex life for many people!). he does genuinely enjoy being a service top. he just would also like to be in a relationship with someone who he could trust with his identity...

then he meets Lori in college (lori lemaris, for the uninitiated, is precrisis superman’s hot mermaid college gf, which is a sentence that rules. she should come back in a comic not written by frank fucking m*ller). alien4mermaid. for the first time he’s in a relationship with someone who not only knows that he’s not human but is not human herself. When she has to return to Atlantis it breaks his heart (canon). this ties into my Ideal Superman Timeline, where this is where he leaves college, at the end of his sophomore year, and scrapes together the rest of his degree with remote credits while traveling the world, learning what doing good looks like worldwide, and Finding HimselfTM. however this post is not about that.

that’s the background I usually have in the back of my little brain when I’m writing. Other stuff, mostly superbat but relevant to clois...

despite not having much experience he’s like. annoyingly good at pleasing his partner because 1. i said so 2. he is incredibly focused on their pleasure and 3. he’s got built in biofeedback receptors.

early on i think he absolutely ties himself in knots about wanting something, being allowed to want something, and feeling strange about judging himself for wanting something. the queer experience. man’s on three levels of overthinking. like, i think he enjoys the feeling of holding his partner’s arms down or thighs apart while he’s going down on them, feeling the muscles flex against his hands, knowing he has them pinned, but at the same time feels guilty about liking it.

ultimately he’s pretty vanilla himself, but since his partner’s pleasure is so important to him, he’s open to experiment and try things out.

Again early on, I think this backfires. There are certain things he is really uncomfortable with that i don’t think he’s aware of until they come up. He doesn’t like feeling examined or scrutinized, which I think would come up with Bruce early on in their relationship. Something about an old childhood fear of being looked at too closely. For the first few times, I think he’s more comfortable with the lights off.

dcau. bruce wants to try some sort of roleplay scene involving ropes/bondage and clark goes along with it because he can tell bruce likes it, but at the same time he’s lowkey getting triggered... clark’s very good at hiding stress, but bruce notices and pauses before it goes too far. clark just lies there still as a statue for a few seconds, says the safeword (’pearl’), and just as bruce is reaching out he’s bolted straight out through the window and up and away. bruce feels like garbage. clark feels like garbage. clark comes back once he’s ready, and because bruce doesn’t press for details, clark feels safe enough to choke out a few words explaining that it reminded him of what happened on apokolips with lashina. clark Gets Help. this fixes the ENTIRE dcau from that point on and neither of them die sad and alone in bapmanbeyond.

similarly i know it’s a fic trope but i don’t think he finds depowered/blue kryptonite sex inherently more enjoyable. in my headcanon he’s grown up with his powers - while they can be overwhelming at times, they’re also comforting, and the sudden silence is distracting. Also at any given time when he’s depowered there’s a little voice in his head going ‘what if an airplane has a jet engine failure right now. do you know how many people could die? and you’re doing this to get off? selfish.’ this is a statistical improbability, of course, but it’s bronze age canon he has anxious thoughts like this.

retractable dick very handy in such emergency circumstances. the annoying thing about sex with clark is that it’s very very good 92% of the time but 8% of the time they will be deep into it and then clark will freeze, do the damn head tilt and then WOOOOSH. and his partner can’t even feel bad about it because they’re adults and both understand that saving a life is more important than an orgasm. besides he will make it up to them thoroughly.

he gets WAY better at communicating about sex and desire eventually, but only really with his partner. i think at heart he’s a modest and reserved person, i don’t think he’s ever going to be joining in “locker room talk.” (however AU where he does is incredibly funny)

("praise... 'kink'??? what do you mean praise 'kink.' what do you MEAN. are you people not praising your partners??? ARE YOU NOT LETTING THEM KNOW HOW WONDERFUL THEY ARE??? THAT'S - PEOPLE THINK OF PRAISE AS A KINK?????!!" - a man at the absolute end of his rope. facial expressions going through all five stages of grief.)

leaves hickeys on bruce’s neck, mostly because he wants to and he knows bruce is into it, but also knows the man’s got an inexhaustible supply of turtlenecks. he is aware of exactly where the turtlenecks end and does not leave hickeys higher than that. possessive streak, in a very considerate way, but still.

as he gets more secure and comfortable he loses the jealousy. possibly he enjoys the idea that bruce has so much experience and still chooses him.

if his partner says ‘do what you want with me, i’m all yours,’ i think 9/10 times it’s slow body worship and massage. sometimes not sex, sometimes it’s just too relaxing. it’s an indulgence for him to just be allowed to be slow and present. physical touch is a big love language and once he’s in a relationship he can freely give it, he loves to do just that.

the last 1/10 times is when he’s tired and stressed. he can and will pick up his partner and rail them into the mattress/against the wall/into thin air while floating. this is where the auxiliary tentacles come in handy. he gets them off though even if it’s supposed to be just about him for once, he feels too weird if he comes and his partner doesn’t.

on really really bad days his partner will pick up on how down he’s feeling and will uno reverse card and body worship him and it will make him cry a little

finally here are some panels that made me break out laughing. first off. he can tell just how hard he's getting. ah. impacted.

(action 423) imagine he's the one getting railed and it’s going Great and then all of a sudden he’s just like. “velocity - 4mph. impact pressure - 15ppi.” in his best Broadcaster Anchorman Voice. i think this would be very funny. bruce would be into it lois would NOT, however it would make her crack up laughing, which is what he'd be going for, so everybody wins. he’s a doofus at times and sex is NOT excluded from that

(WF 104) vibrators don't work on him. very sad! however. with superspeed. he IS the vibrator. (supers :handshake: flashes). I don't think he'd be much for toys himself, I think there's something very satisfying to him about body-to-body contact, but if a partner requested them he's happy to indulge them.

#januariat #thanks for the question :^)#you'd think if i could write this much as meta i COULD FINISH MY WIPS HOWEVER.#what do i even tag this as. unhinged.#nsft #superbat

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3hobbitsinatrenchcoat · 7 months

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A graveyard snip from my Superbat WIP

I cut this whole scene because it wasn't working but I want to preserve it somewhere because I like the Lois and Clark friendship dynamic.

For some context this is a fic where Clark started dating Matches Malone before he met Bruce Wayne or Batman. Matches has just shot down Clark's request to go to a work function as his plus one. Again.

Under a cut because minor spoilers for my fic XD

Clark’s halfway through throwing on his least terrible suit when his phone pinged three times in rapid succession and he finally decided he’d had enough. He picked it up, expecting to see Matches name splashed across the lockscreen, but felt the blood drain from his face when he’s met with increasingly furious texts from Lois instead.

Lois Lane: [one hour ago] Just a reminder that you signed up to help me organize decorations, so get here asap so we can start setup. Lois Lane: [twenty minutes ago] We have less than two hours before this shindig starts, get your ass over here. Lois Lane: [five minutes ago] Where are you? Lois Lane: [three minutes ago] I swear you better have a good reason for leaving me high and dry with these stupid streamers. Someone better be dying. Lois Lane: [now] That came out wrong. I hope you’re ok, wherever you are. But you owe me big time if you don’t show up in the next ten minutes.

Clark dropped his phone back onto his bed and scrubbed at his face with his hands. In his excitement to ask Matches to come with him he’d forgotten that he’d promised Lois his help.

She knew him well enough that she’d take one look at his face and know something was wrong. Waiting would only make it worse.

“Damnit,” hissed Clark, snatching his phone up and pressing a few buttons before jamming it between his head and shoulder as he struggled with his tie.

It only rang once before Lois’s voice crackled through the speakers. “Clark! I’ve been texting you for an hour! Are you ok?”

“I..” his voice cracked and he knew trying to lie to Lois would end badly. “Physically, yeah. But… I think I fucked up.”

He could hear the odd stereo of Lois both over the speaker and in the distance as she pushed open a door, probably the one into the alley stairwell. A moment later her heels clicked down concrete stairs, confirming his suspicion. When she spoke, her voice was filled with concern. “What do you mean you fucked up?”

Clark let a bark of humorless laughter fill his voice as he slid open his bedroom window and climbed out onto the fire escape. “You know how I wanted to ask Matches to come to this as my plus one?”

“You’ve only been dithering all week,” Lois said. “Don’t tell me you waited until today to ask.”

Clark’s silence seemed to speak for itself and Lois made an exasperated noise. Even over the phone Clark could tell she was pinching the bridge of her nose. “Clark. That is not the kind of thing you spring on your partner.”

“Yeah, well, it wouldn’t have mattered anyway,” Clark bit out, glancing around to see if anyone was watching. No one ever was, but it didn’t hurt to check. “I’ll be there in a minute, Lo’.”

“It wouldn’t have mattered? Clark, what…” Clark hung up before Lois could finish asking. He didn’t think he’d be able to get to the Planet office safely if he had to answer over the phone.

Though… he’d hung up on Lois. He’d probably just traded one dangerous situation for another.

The flight across Metropolis was unmercifully quick, with no interruptions to delay the inevitable. Clark winced as he touched down in the usual alleyway, right in front of Lois and her thunderous, toe-tapping fury.

Fury that melted into frank concern as soon as she caught a glimpse of his face.

“Oh Clark,” she sighed, stepping forward and cupping a hand to the side of his face, thumbing away the damp he knew still clung to his cheek. Her mouth thinned into a grim line. “I’m not above killing him for you.”

Despite himself, Clark chuckled. “I’d rather you not kill my partner.”

She relaxed a fraction, patting his cheek before stepping back and fussing with his lapels. “I’ll stick to some light maiming then. You’re still together? Over the phone it sounded like…”

“No!” Clark said a bit too loudly, then winced and dialed his volume back a notch. “No, he just said something stupid and I had to go cool off.” He ducked his head sheepishly. “I was out of cell range for a while there. That’s why I didn’t see your messages.”

“Out of cell… where the fuck did you go?” Lois followed his gaze as his eyes flicked upward and snorted. “Only you, Smallville.”

Clark quirked a lopsided smile and shrugged, shimmying past her to get to the stairs. Lois let him get as far as the door before she reached out and snagged his wrist, spinning him to face her. He could have stood firm, but instead he turned into her touch with amused resignation.

Her face had gone back to thin-lipped worry. “You aren’t getting away that easily. What did you mean ‘it wouldn’t have mattered’?”

“He…” Clark sighed and slumped against the doorframe, staring away and into the dim stairwell. “Matches was never going to come with me to this. He said that putting a man like him in a room full of reporters was ‘throwing chum to sharks’. So I left before I could start yelling.”

#superbat #minor but its still there under all the layers of plaid and smarm #lois and clark friendship #clark kent: disaster man #clark kent #my writing #wip #lois lane #matches malone

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froizetta · 4 months

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20 Questions for fic writers!

Tagged by @ginbenci! Thank you! :)

How many works do you have on AO3?

12! All since last August

What’s your total A03 word count? 134,798

What fandoms do you write for?

So far just DCU, but I like a lot of things! I will branch out one day, when the brainrot loosens its grip.

What are your top five fics by kudos?

Padam Padam - superbat, E (7.5k)

Batman's heartbeat keeps speeding up whenever Clark is around. For instance: when Clark greets him, half-naked, on a Gotham rooftop. Or when he uses his superstrength to save a busload of schoolchildren. Or sometimes even just when he smiles. Clearly the poor man is terrified of him.

By far my most popular fic! Probably because it found it's way to tiktok (this still feels wild to me). Despite the fact that borderline crack and I wrote it in about 3 days, it has twice the number of kudos as the fic below in this list. Or perhaps it's because I took the idea from a tumblr post rather than coming up with it myself? Hmmmmm.

2. An Honest Conversation - superbat, E (60k)

“So Bruce’s longtime best friend had suddenly decided to start eye-fucking him at random. So what? Bruce was used to being the object of this kind of attention. It didn’t bother him. It was—should have been fine. The issue was that it was Clark, and Bruce had enough trouble remaining rational about him at the best of times.” or Bruce and Clark go from friends to lovers the long, long, long way round. Featuring a number of revelations, a well-meaning but nosy son (Dick) and, most prominently, two adult men being completely and utterly useless.

My first fic, and the closest one I have right now to a magnum opus! It started off as a silly oneshot and then got surprisingly angsty towards the end (although no less silly tbh, that's apparently just my whole vibe as a writer).

3. Hiding In Plain Sight - superbat, T (3.5k)

Clark Kent, reporter for the Daily Planet, is clearly just Superman wearing glasses. For some reason, no-one but Bruce can see that. There is a distinct possibility that Bruce has lost his mind.

Written for Bruce Wayne Week 2023, as are the rest on this list! Written because...well. He totally is just wearing glasses. I'll happily suspend my disbelief, but I'm still not letting it go, damn it.

4. Holding Onto A Hero - superbat, T (2.5k)

Clark squinted sleep-tired eyes and frowned. “B? Everything okay?” And then Bruce shivered. In a fraction of a second he was beside the bed, and in another he was settling a knee onto the mattress and wrapping his arms around Clark’s waist, cowled face pressed into Clark’s chest. “So,” Clark said conversationally. “I’m gonna go ahead and take that as a no.”

The prompt was cuddle pollen, and it really is just a short-n-sweet, soft, cuddly, getting together fic. Also, I got to insert a little vague allusion to neuroscience, which is always nice (although oxytocin doesn't actually work like that, the effect is sex-specific and increasing it can actually promote aggression in some- okay, okay, I'll shut up).

5. More Fun Than Counting Sheep - superbat, E (5.5k)

When Bruce can't sleep, Clark proposes an unconventional solution. (The solution is sex.)

The prompt I took was sleep-deprived Bruce. Nothing about that suggested it should be smut, and yet here we are. I wrote this because I thought it would be funny to have Clark try to seduce Bruce into sleeping (and for it to work), and honestly? I stand by that.

What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Hmm none of them really. Maybe A Stitch In Spacetime (Gen, 4.5k - in which Batman meets a version of himself whose parents never died so he became a surgeon like his dad). But only because the ending is more hopeful than actively happy. Batman has still lost Jason, but he's finally trying to heal; Doctor Bruce still wants kids he doesn't have, but maybe after this that will change. (Also, unrelated but I'm really proud of the title for this one lol. I love a pun, what can I say.)

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Again, they're most all happy, but probably An Honest Conversation? Just because the finale was INCREDIBLY sappy, and there was a lot bullshit preceding it that they had to get through, which certainly made the ending cathartic to write!

Do you get hate on your fic?

Not yet! Apart from a couple of slightly iffy comments, everyone has been lovely. But then, I'm not writing anything particularly controversial lol. Hopefully the trend continues outside of genfic and superbat.

Do you write smut?

Yes, a lot lol, nearly half of my fics are E-rated. Look, if I write a romance in which the pairing solves some kind of relationship issue and grow closer as a result, some part of my brain is always gonna be thinking, "Hm. What if they banged about it?" Also, I love a sex comedy, so there's that too.

Do you write crossovers?

No. I don't think I'm into any fandoms right now that I would WANT to cross over tbh. I've read my fair share, though!

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of?

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I know of!

Have you ever co-written a fic?

No, but I'd theoretically be open to it! I think it would be tricky in practise though, unless you an your co-writer are really on the same wavelength. Even writers I really like don't necessarily write in the same style as me, so that could create difficulties.

What‘s your all-time favourite ship?

I mean. Superbat right now for sure. I'm usually a multishipper, but for whatever reason they have a death grip on me. I'm still basically an omnivore though!

What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Hmm, this feels like a very defeatist question since I do plan to finish everything I start. Probably the fic I started writing for a friend's birthday based on a premise we discussed nearly a decade ago. It's a wholesome romance between two of the sidest side characters in Haikyuu!! (Tanaka Saeko and Tsukiyama Akiteru, for the curious; they do interact, but barely), because my friend was there with her Charlie Kelly conspiracy board saying, "They're both in uni! They're in the same prefecture! They knew each other in high school! They're both older siblings of main characters on the same team, so they can go watch the matches together! There's so much to work with!!!" This has apparently been her lowkey white whale ever since, but she's never managed to write it, so I offered to have a go. Tragically, them being SUCH side characters means I have to all but invent a personality for one of them, which makes figuring out their dynamic a lot harder lol. But I still want to finish it one day, for her sake!

What’s your writing strengths?

Comedy I think, specifically deriving humour from awkward situations (that I have made up) - and often it's the quiet chuckle kind rather than the knee-slapping kind. But YMMV on whether anything I write is actually funny! I can only hope :')

What’s your writing weakness?

Well, I have lots of things I don't feel good enough to write (e.g. long, dramatic epics that I can't fill with jokes), but I mostly haven't wanted to try so I wouldn't say that's a weakness per se. And I have plenty of little things I feel like I need to work on, but none are an easy-to-identify kryptonite-style Weakness. Probably flow and pacing, as it's something I'm very particular about (especially for comedy, where imo it needs to be correct for it to work) but it doesn't always come naturally to me. I do a lot of rounds of editing trying to tweak things so they flow right. Hopefully that will come easier with experience! I'd be fascinated to know what other people thought my weakness was, though; it's often hard to judge yourself, since you're the audience you're writing for.

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

In what sense? As in, for example, writing a French-speaking character in French in an otherwise English-language fic? I think that's appropriate when the POV character doesn't speak French, but perhaps can be avoided if they do, as then the average reader is understanding as much as the POV character is.

As to whether I personally would do it, I only really speak one non-English language at a decent level, and even then it's hard to convey nuance in any language you're not fully fluent in. So only sparsely, only if necessary, probably only if I could get a native speaker to check it.

First fandom you wrote for?

I think it was Free!, the anime about the swimmer boys. Back when I was a teenager in school, probably ~16, I anonymously posted a gen crackfic on the LJ kink meme based on an experience I had with some schoolfriends, where a few of us tried to give a less birds-and-the-bees version of The Talk to a sadly uneducated member of the group during a camping trip. (Our school did actually give proper sex education, with the putting expired condoms on dildos and everything, but didn't go into the specifics of, say, doggy style). ANYWAY, that was the only thing I'd ever posted until this year, but apparently my proclivity for writing sex-related comedy has remained unchanged lol.

Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

Man I don't know. I just did a similar tag thingy that asked this, and I wasn't sure then, and it feels boring to put the same answer twice? So I'll pick another that's my favourite for a different reason: Master of All Trades (Bruce & Hal, T, 4.5k). I think of all my fics, it has the highest ratio of good to not-that-deep, if that makes sense? Writing Hal's POV was incredibly fun, and I think it turned out really well! And it's definitely one of the few I can reread without cringing lol (reading your own writing after posting it is just embarrassing somehow).

Tagging: I nominate @burins and @unbreakabledawn, but literally 0 pressure at all!

#my fic

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someoneistired-art · 2 years

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Don’t know where to put this idea so obviously I’m putting it here.

Basically superbat soulmate au where you can’t see color until you meet/touch your soulmate but with a twist, you can see some colors when you make/have a core memory and that transfers to your soulmate. Also for the purpose of this au Kryptonian physiology/biology does not negatively affect soulmate bonds (if that makes sense), and they are the same age.

Anyways all I could think about is just snippets of this au for example one of the times that Clark sees color is on a day that he wakes up really early, right before the sun comes out. Ma and Pa earlier that week had explain to him some of the colors that they could see and told him of the beauty that was the sunrise colors. He hadn’t been able to experience seeing that but he really enjoys the warmth of the sun, the feel of it on his skin and so he decides he wants to experience a sunrise even if he can’t admire the colors he can still appreciate it (he thinks). And so on top of the Kent’s farm house he waits for the sunrise and he isn’t sure what set it off but as the sun begins to peak out on the horizon, hearing Ma and Pa’s words he see it, the first ray of the sun the bright, yellow, sun.

And it was beautiful, just the way they had told him. Somewhere far out in Gotham little Bruce is able to see yellow in the bright lights that shone all around the city, not white as he was used to but actual yellow and somehow he finds them beautiful, like he was seeing them, really seeing them for the first time.

There is another one where Bruce experiences a color, how could he not when he had witness the death of his parents. The bright, warm blood pouring out of them coating their clothes, their skins. It was so vibrant, the red of it all was just so overwhelming for him and he hates the fact that that is how he got see another color, by watching his parents death. Red is one of Bruce’s least favorite colors, well until Clark, but still. The only other color that causes such distaste for him would be green.

And so they get a few more colors up until they meet, blue, green, purple. Not enough to see the world fully in color, or experience the different shades of said colors they can see but that changes the first time they meet.

I’ve been watching/re-watching some of the DC animated universe movies, so I thought it fitting that the moment they get hit with the full spectrum of color is during a world-wide invasion, not to mention the two of them fighting right away.

I mean Batman wanted to speak to Superman from the very beginning but of course GL wanted to make a show out of it, prove some kind of point so as B is watching him get his ass handed to him, he can’t avoid the incoming man crashing into him/the box he had trapped him in originally. Followed that up with getting grab and rapid pushed against a brick wall. Bruce is slightly disoriented he hears Superman talking but not quite make the words, he also hasn’t realize that shift in the world. Superman notices, but he can’t focus on that right now, his soulmate is right in front of him and for a second he doubts himself because he saw the man carrying the motherbox, what were the chances of his soulmate possibly being evil and trying to ruin the world?

And so the fight carries on about the same as in the movie with some slight changes and neither of them really gets a chance to fully discuss the situation once the invasion fully starts. Bruce only gets a small moment to really think on it when he decides to chase after Superman when he gets captured and then proceed having to fight him again to snap him back to his usual self.

And yeah, they find each other so what now? Well if you are one Clark Kent, aka Superman, then well you try to do what you had planned when you said you would find your soulmate. He asks out Bruce, right after their award ceremony. Bruce just stares at him, making the man fidget and actually a bit flustered because they really did not get on the right foot. (If you asked Clark it was nothing like he imagined it would happened, he really expected a more romantic way but still).

Batman just walks away, his backed turned to him and he answers very quietly, “I’m free in two weeks, we can plan something then.” Leaving it at that, with a happy, Clark smiling bright, just like the sun as he waves at him telling him that he will make it the best date and that he will call him soon.

But yeah happy ending for these two in the end if I have anything to say about it.

#superbat #superman #batman #clark kent #bruce wayne #dc universe #shawn rambles #i've had this idea since last week and it would not leave me alone #I don't have enough motivation to make it into anything solid #but i needed to put my thoughts somewhere #hopefully someone enjoys my silly idea

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assignmentimprobable · 1 year

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17, 20, and 23!

17. what is your favorite line you’ve ever written?

This is such a hard question! But I’m glad you asked- as number one hater and detractor of my work I don’t officially pick out the stuff I like- and I should more often. It’s better for the soul that way.

After some thought, I’ll give you two explained a specific caveat: my preferred medium to keep up my writing is RPing, because I rarely ever finish anything out of my stash when in the echo chamber of me. Is it the writer’s desire for perfection or just the archetypical self-loathing that comes with being a creative in your 20s?? Who knows! So here’s my favorite line from a short fic + a line from my multimuse blog:

A line from a Superbat fic I wrote, which you can read here

They are at one rarely: day and night as they say, but when they meet, be it in battle, sweeping away the enemies at his flank... Under Gotham's stygian skies, soft lips at his mouth, his throat. Between wanting more and having it— him… there is the dusk.

From my writing blog:

It is with little fanfare that Krypton’s son descends upon Gotham’s knight, whose fealty is sworn to the great city and the sweeping dark of her eves, and whose back is now at the wall of his haunt. He has been blessed with the knowledge of what he means to the Bat, if not the words out of the man’s mouth

20. what is your favorite trope to write?

Friends to lovers!! Either that or when a character is haunted to the point of paralysis. I love the horrors man

23. how do you deal with writers block?

Short answer: I don’t! I have so much unfinished shit

Long answer: I keep myself writing on a micro level no matter what. I can only write on a macro level during certain times of the year, so between recharges what I’ll do is revisit something and I’ll write a single sentence. Maybe even do a sprint every now and again. Doesn’t matter if I like it or I hate it, I do filler sentences to place hold for when I can actually function. I figure I can delete it or add more when I get the bug.

I also take the block for what it is. Maybe I’m burned out, maybe I just need time. However long it takes. In the meantime I do a lot of reading. I try new authors, revisit beloved fanfics and continuously piece apart what it is about the media I love to its constitutent pieces so that I can put it back together in my own words. I pour over dictionaries and thesauruses (thesauri?????) to shake up the monotony. I try to get a sense of my influences so that I understand what it is I dislike so much in my own process and what the outer limits of my style are before they cross into pure derivatives. Then I go work on mundane chores in pure silence while my brain marinates.

I don’t write with the primary goal being finish anymore, which sounds super counter-productive, completely antithetical to writing fanfiction to begin with! but my ultimate goal is this: to stay writing. Because once the block gets me for long enough, that skill decays and it gets easier to stay away.

#stevie speaks #thank you!!! ❤️

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superbattrash · 2 years

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⛔ 👀

Love ya

⛔ Do you have a fic you started, but scrapped?

Hmm. I mean I have several little ideas that may never evolve into more than a few sentences in my notes app if we’re being honest here, but I haven’t (yet) started a fic and scrapped it. I’ve abandoned a few in my day though (I still sometimes look longingly at my ff.net profile), but not before putting in too much effort and then sharing them because I’m a moron XD here’s to hoping it won’t come to that with my ao3 account 🤞🏼

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!

Okay, um. Well, the only one I’m properly working on right now is WHOE, which is… porn. Chapter 2 (which is the last chapter, I promise) is a bunch of scenes of superbat’s sexual adventures, lol. We have office bjs, exhausted-by-life shenanigans, not-quite-rooftop sex, ya know. The usual :3

And despite the chapter literally being called “the one without plot” I’m struggling to keep it pure PWP, lol. It’ll be PWP but with feels. Because I’m me :D

Love ya right back, anon! Thank you for playing 💖✨

#misha answers #ah this is so much fun #I should do ask games more often #except I don’t wanna clog the dash lol #if only I didn’t have to go out today #I would write all day

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ramonahblog · 2 years

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Well, time to dump my Superman and Lois(CW) bisexual headcanons on you lot. By that, I mean when they had their Bisexual Awakening/Panics and what age and what started the Bi Awakening/Panic. And by “Superman and Lois (CW)” I mean the Kent family.

Also I used one word and there is a link to a song that propels this into 18+ content. So Obligatory 18+ warning under the cut.

Except for Lois (which is why I said Kent instead of Lane-Kent). Because apparently my brain decided she’s the token straight in (the family) this show. I don’t know why. I can’t even make a joke about how that’s because she’s the token alienfucker because Clark fills that spot as well. And my brain is “he bi too”. 🤔🤔🤔

Damn it, it’s all the Superbat fanfics I read in my teen years, isn’t it? I’m sure there are ones where Lois wasn’t straight but the ones I read, she was (supportive) straight.

Clark:

Bi Awakening: Pirates of the Caribbean. No, I am not projecting at all.

He does not know the plot. Granted, being Superman meant the first few times, there was an emergency so he just assumed that was the reason for not understanding the plot. It wasn’t. It didn’t help but it wasn’t the reason.

Clark deserves to be thirsty, okay.

Why does that sound like a threat?

Age of Bi Awakening: Whatever age he was in 2003. How old are Clark and Lois supposed to be in this show?

Reason for Age: Sometimes you discover your sexuality in adulthood. Also just wanted him to realise his sexuality because of Pirates. Once again, not projecting at all.

Jordan:

Bi Awakening: He watched Domo Wilson’s Bisexual Anthem music video and was like 😍😍😍 to everyone in the video.

Age of Bi Awakening: Sixteen

Reason for Age: Don’t have one. Also RIP Jordan being the odd bi out. He just doesn’t like pirates.

Jon

Bi Panic: It was Pirates of the Caribbean. Lois wanted to watch it and Jon decided to watch with her. He may or may not have thought Elizabeth Swann was very pretty. Was surprised at how much he liked Will Turner. Got surprised at how much he liked the first fight scene between Will Turner and Captain Jack Sparrow.

He also doesn’t know the plot.

Side note: Lois thinks he was just humouring her until he comes out to her at twenty-one. She wants to facepalm because she really should have put it together considering how Clark realised his bisexuality.

Age of Bi Awakening: Thirteen.

Reason for Age: “Even normal people hide stuff” lives rent-free in my head and everyone probably forgot about that line because it happened in like 1x07 or 1x08 or something BUT IT LIVES IN MY HEAD RENT-FREE. Fuck, at this point, I’m probably paying rent to it. So Jon was referring to being closeted. He already knows he is bisexual, just hasn’t come out.

Maybe I should do which family member they came out first to next post.

Huh, I just realised my intro by saying “Kent family” I would also be referring to Martha and Jonathan Sr.

You know what. Martha was bisexual. Jonathan was an ally (subject to change due to sexuality headcanons and how I end up here).

#headcanons #bisexual headcanons #superman and lois cw #jon kent cw #jordan kent #clark kent cw #bi panic headcanons #bi awakening headcanons

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Can I ask if there is anything percolating in the Suffer a Sea Change series? That "pre-ship" tag is haunting me.

I am also equally haunted by the I'm Not Ready for Whatever This Is series. The impending poly situations. help.

Yes, you absolutely can, thank you for asking, and yes, there is! The latter will be out well before the former, but both are very much in the works.

I am kind of a classic case of ADD “takes on too many fics” kinda writer. Right now my top priorities/fics I feel driven to write are:

My winter exchange fic for the Sprizzy server (currently untitled, about halfway done, will be posted third week of January come hell or high water)

The next Stizzy installment for I’m Not Ready for Whatever This Is, which is going to be titled "Add a Flourish" (I was hoping for this next part to plunge into the SteddyHands but Stede wasn’t done wallowing in angst. Almost done, will be posted second or fourth week of January depending on how progress on the exchange fic goes)

Finishing Fuck it Through as a Crew (draft of the chapter is done but needs some heavy editing, also January)

Final chapter of Paid with Sighs and Rubies (about half done, aiming for late January/early February)

Always another chapter of my “Batman becomes a cat” fic, whenever I have time

Past that, things get hazier. I really want to get back to my Marvel time travel fix-it but I’ve been a bit blocked on the next chapter. I have a T4T4T modern GentleScribed that I keep meaning to finish but have barely touched since Season 2 came out. The next chapter of Burning Like Embers, Falling Tender is actually about half done but every chapter of that thing is a monster, now, so it still has a lot of writing before it'll be ready to post.

Annddd yes, the sequel to Soaked to the Skin, which is titled Cut to the Bone and explores Izzy and Lucius settling into Stede's crew and figuring out what Lucius being polyam actually means for them, while Ed wrestles with having lost Stede and Izzy! I have about 35K written for it, but most of that was drafted in late 2022 and very early 2023. I haven't had the motivation to work seriously on it for a while, I'm afraid, but I do really want to get back to it.

To be honest, I have some insecurities about it being not as good as Soaked to the Skin—I don't want to follow my baby with something that'll disappoint readers! But I'm hoping once I clear the decks from some of my top numbered priorities above (assuming they don't immediately get replaced with new plot bunnies, lol), I'll find the energy to focus on it again. I've had some beta readers go through the current in-progress chapters recently and they have been giving me some more hype about it!

(Although if it's the Ed/Izzy pre-ship tag that's haunting you, that plot thread isn't going to pick back up until the third — and final? maybe? unless I turn in into a quartet? — installment for that series, tentatively titled Struck to the Heart. Except for how, you know, his devotion to Ed is always driving Izzy's character and motivations. But they're not going to be in the same zip code at any point during Cut to the Bone. I'm so, so sorry. )

And then finally, down here in my purgatory, I have my "I swear I haven't abandoned you" fics like Unmoored (next chapter started, at least?), Dining is Pageantry, my three Good Omens WIPs, the sequel to Learning at the Foot of One of the Greats, the next chapter of What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor (I swear I'm gonna finish that fic one day, I swear), Praying on the Height, and that Rizzy cannibalism fic I keep promising HopelessScribe I'll finish :D

And below that I have my graveyard fics that I haven't worked on in months but really do want to go back to one day—the DC/Slayerverse crossover, the insane Dragonriders of Pern OFMD AU, my winter piece (from last year, oy) for Dragonmuse's Leda House series, and all my poor abandoned SuperBat wips!

#my writing #fanfic writing #fanfic wips #ask answered

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taiblogcomics · 2 years

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Gonna Have a ‘Stroke

Hey there, glowing eyes in the dark. More Green Team, I guess? I mean, I got nothin' else for you, not 'til we finish this~

Here's the cover:

Ah yes, the best mercenary money can buy: Deathstroke. He looks exactly as thrilled as you'd expect to be hanging out with Commodore and Mo. I hope Deathstroke also knows that $1000 bills have been discontinued since 1969. And to show we're down with the kids, here's some hashtag humour! Haha, those kids, posting hashtags on their social media and replacing words with numbers! Also, whose bikini top is this?

I'm not sure if we somehow skipped an issue or are just in an "in media res" situation, and the captions aren't helping. But here we are, Deathstroke is already teamed up with Mo and Comm (and Mo's bodyguard), exchanging witty banter with them. Most pertinent, Deathstroke hasn't heard of Riot in the merc circles (mercles?). There's also a bad colouring error here when Deathstroke asks why Mo is in a yellow cape (it's Robin's, they found it in the Batmobile). It is coloured yellow on the first page, but then you flip the page to where the question is asked, and it's coloured grey like the rest of Mo's suit. So this is off to a great start~

Commodore puts in a phone call to JP, so we can cut over to him and Cecilia and make JP our narrator for the issue. The pair are in a pickle now, as their hotel is surrounded by paparazzi. And worse, JP spots a Riot on the roof opposite the building. The conceirge comes in, delivering Cecilia's leopard(?) cub Bubbles to her. And that's how the paparazzi (and by extention, Riot) found them: a hotel conceirge traipsing all over New York City to track down and deliver a famous movie star's exotic pet. I'm not sure if I should hate Cecilia for being dumb yet.

Speaking of things that are dumb, what's Commodore's solution to this? He phones in to the news crews that this is a publicity stunt for an alien movie that Cecilia is going to star in, and then several VTOL jets with crews in alien masks airlift the entire hotel out of the ground and to a secure location. I don't care how much money you have or if you live in a comic book, there are so many reasons why that shouldn't work. There's suspension of disbelief, and then there's suspension of an entire hotel from aircraft~

Back over with Deathstroke and friends, Deathstroke's kind of pissy about being called to do this job. He's only here as a favour to Mo's bodyguard (whose name is Abisha, but I'm just going to keep forgetting it). In fact, he's on another assignment right now, and has just brought Comm and friends along so he can watch them while doing his other job. Commodore decides to help out, pulling out and throwing a grenade that turns out to fill the hallway with expanding foam, trapping the goons shooting at them. But the actual mark Deathstroke is after is at the other end of that hallway. Oopsie!

After some more banter, Commodore then pulls out a glove that allows him to just gesture and move the foam around, keeping the goons trapped but clearing the way through the hallway. Okay, what's in that stuff, nanites? Like, I'd accept technobabble thrown at me to explain this, but I don't even get a cursory handwave. Commodore being rich isn't enough to explain these things. He's like Most-Excellent Superbat, but his power of having enough money to do anything extends to reality-warping in some cases, and that's too much for me.

Anyways, Deathstroke's mark, a dude named Manfredi, escapes on the very zipline that Deathstroke used to infiltrate the building to begin with. That's gotta be some harsh irony there. Deathstroke pursues, and Mo and Commodore follow right after. Commodore uses this as a chance to extend an official invitation to the Green Team, and Mo accepts. At the bottom, Deathstroke apprehends Manfredi easily, and then requests payment from Mo: twice the usual fee and a personal favour from Mo's dad himself. Mo accepts, despite his bodyguard's objections.

We never find out what became of the airlifted hotel. Instead, JP, LL, and Cecilia just meet up with Commodore and Mo the next day. They're on the way to meet with Deathstroke again, see if he's got the low-down on Riot or some lead that can help Cecilia with her metal arm problem. JP has reservations about the whole thing, but he's not willing to leave his sister or his two-timing romantic partner alone with Comm. Before they can get there, though, another car going the opposite way deliberately speeds up and plows into theirs.

It's Riot, who's tracked down their meeting location and intercepted them. JP tries to use Comm's super suit disc, but it turns out one of the safety features is that it locks on the DNA of the first user and won't let anyone else activate it. But just to deus ex machina it, Mo comes in with his own super suit and punches Riot in the face. Before Riot can recover, Deathstroke appears out of nowhere and follows it up with a jumpkick. Deathstroke reveals he's here early because he was using the meeting to lure out Riot. In other words, the Green Team was just bait.

Deathstroke shows off another nifty feature of Riot's powers: he can transfer and disperse his pain through his other duplicates, so no one of them ever gets too hurt. Still, you can only take a taser for so long before you pass out, even with that power. Riot goes unconscious and Deathstroke takes his payment and leaves, with a pithy explanation that he was only hired to find one Riot, not multiples or even their boss. That's some real "letter of the law" dealing, there. And the comic ends with Commodore unmasking Riot off-panel and exclaiming "But I thought you were dead!", leaving the viewer on a cliffhanger. Oh joy!

Boy, this issue is... something else, to be sure. Like, I’m not sure it’s necessarily bad, but it makes my head hurt. It’s not anger or disappointment I feel towards this comic, it’s more... exasperation. Every scene change leaves you repeating “What?“ in an exaggerated and incredulous tone. It’s the ultimate culmination of these feelings battling: everything I like in comics being absurd, and being so absurd it takes me out of the story.

My brain is constantly replaying this panel as i read, and Hobbes is winning. Though if the comic can keep it up the next five issues, this might turn out to be something actually memorable. Not if it’s ending on cliche tropes like this one’s cliffhanger, though~

#comics #reviews #Green Team #The Green Team: Teen Trillionaires #Taiblog

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profoundalpacakitten · 2 years

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Is it still WIP Wednesday? I mean it must be Wednesday somewhere...

So here's a little snipsnops of the Superbat fic I'm working on, where after Clark admits that sex with supers is nearly impossible and always uncomfortable, Bruce and Clark attempt to have sex... For science. And maybe catch some feelings in there... somewhere. Dorks.

Clark was in the middle of typing up an article about gentrification in Metropolis’ suburbs when his phone pinged with an incoming message. He checked it, frowned, then checked his other phone, the superphone as Dick had taken to calling it, to Bruce’s greatest aggravation. It was basically the JL work phone, and was used mostly as a gossip network for the superhero community — again, to Bruce’s greatest despair.

“Batcave, 5 minutes.” It read.

Shit, must be an emergency. Clark sped through closing his computer and zipping into his costume, before flying as fast as he could without breaking the sound barrier — it could be an emergency, but if it had been life threatening, Bruce wouldn’t have given him five minutes to get ready. He landed in the batcave with three minutes to spare, and found Bruce there, visibly just showered, and calmly talking with Dick and Jason who looked ready to go out, domino masks already on their faces.

Calmly talking to Jason, well. Seemed like Bruce was in a good mood.

“Hey Clark!” Dick smiled wide and twirled one of his escrima sticks. Next to him, Jason teetered precariously as he was leaning on one hand against the desk, legs crossed.

“Hi guys,” Clark greeted, he cleared his throat, uncertain of the protocol. What did you say to your best friend’s children when your relationship with said best friend had started to recently involve the nether regions of the body? “Patrol time?”

“Yup!” Jason checked the bullets in his charger, which would have been normal, usually, on any other day, but with whatever was happening between him and Bruce, Clark felt like today it mostly rang like a threat. Or part One of a shovel talk.

“Came to spend some quality time with daddybats?” Jason asked in the silence punctuated by the clicks and clacks of him checking his weapon.

Clark blushed, cheeks going hotter than the last time he’d gone into a nuclear reactor. “W-what? Quality what?”

Bruce frowned ominously.

Jason raised his eyebrows and Dick missed a stick twirl.

“Holy shit.” Jason murmured.

Clark raised his hands, and was one second away from using superspeed to take some time to parse a good answer, but luckily, Bruce came to his help in the form of a darkly growled “Patrol, now.”

Dick turned to Bruce. “But, Bruce!”

Jason wasn’t done with Clark though. “No no, this is too funny, come on, you and Bruce?”

Hiding behind his hands, Clark declared “I know my rights, I don’t have to say anything that could incriminate me before a court of law.”

“You and Clark?!” Dick exclaimed, waving his recovered sticks around.

“This conversation is over.” Bruce crossed his arms over his chest, which coupled with his black turtleneck ensemble gave him an air just as inviting as a jail door.

“Sorry I’m late! Sorry!!” Duke sprinted down the stairs coming from the locker room, his helmet in hand and half his armour flapping around unsecured.

“Bruce! You can’t do that to us!”

Bruce frowned even harder at Dick, while Jason leered at Clark. Duke skidded to a stop, and looked at the scene, puzzled.

“For once in your life it’s not you adopting children, it’s us adopting a new dad and you want us to go patrol?” Dick asked, scandalised.

“We’re adopting dads now?” Duke asked, perplexed.

“No, we aren’t.” Bruce cut in, teeth gritted.

“This is a family emergency!” Dick said, just as Jason sniggered and commented that Clark was daddy enough though. To Clark's utter despair.

“Patrol now. Stay, and Arsenal and Flash get sent off-planet for a month.”

“Ugh.” Jason rolled his eyes heavenward and walked away. “You’re such a fucking buzzkill. Okay come on, Signal.” He passed Duke and hooked a finger in the armour to help tighten it and then use it to lead Duke away. “Let’s leave daddybats and daddysupes to their freaky shit.”

“Daddysupes?” Duke looked back as he stumbled forward, eyeing the way Clark hadn’t taken his hands off his eyes.

Dick was the last one to go, parting ways with a heartfelt “This isn’t over.”

#wip wednesday #wip whenever #superbat fanfiction #superbat fanfic #with some batfam in there #superbat #dick just wanted to adopt a superdad #bruce wayne is a good dad

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the-bat-collector · 3 years

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SUPERBAT Rec List!! AU NO POWERS ish PART 1

I love NO POWERS NO CAPES AUs but its been so hard to find them!! so decided to make this list to help y’all in your search :D

The length varies, but I prefer long fics so most of these are 10-20k up to 200k

Heart and Soul by Pandamomochan

E - 150,044

Clark Kent used to be a renowned composer who was said to be able to write masterpieces that were designed uniquely for each individual player. Famous musicians around the world would flock to him in hopes that he would write for them because his pieces were always said to bring out any player's crowning performance. That is, until one day Clark loses his wife in a tragic accident and decides never to write again.

Years later, Clark's son, Jon, gets admitted to the famous "Gotham School of Performing Arts". It is there that Clark meets Bruce Wayne, a strict, uptight, by the book piano instructor who is said to be able to craft the best musicians around the world.

this is one of my favorites. I'm not really into Hurt/Comfort but this is so beautiful!! highly recommended I'm biased cause I play the piano

Seeing Bruce Wayne by Evilpixie

E - 15,089

Clark Kent is the only male midwife working in Metropolis General. Bruce Wayne the residential pediatric surgeon.

I'm so into medicine/doctor AUs this is also one of my favorite fics!if you have to pick one from this list, pick this one!!!

On The Cusp by vesper_house

E - 47,378

Clark's life isn't going so well. He's in his thirties, he works at a coffee shop run by his old crush, his journalism career is going nowhere, and he's broke. It takes only one tall, dark and handsome stranger to change everything.

COFFE SHOP AU COFFESHOP AU!! We need more of these, the dynamic between Bruce and Clark is Great!!!!

A Game You Can't Win by NightFoliage

T - 78,328

Injustice is the hottest MMORPGs available to play! Set in a world where superpowers exist, players can become civilians, heroes, villains, and anybody in-between. Designed by Hiro “Toyman” Okamura, and Timothy Drake-Wayne, Injustice was created with the best Wayne Industries technology available and has the most human NPCs. The game is beyond it's time and is planned to be at the top of the charts for a while.

By accident, Clark finds himself pushed into the spotlight and new found fame. To him, Let’s Plays are a means to stay in touch with friends and to make money. He never got into LPing to become famous.

Bruce, who funded the game after Jason’s accident, is irritated (not jealous) that a video game player is such a big topic among the kids. After the nth time they mention him, Bruce decides to take matters into his own hands and see what all the fuss is about.

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ONE OF MY FAVORITE SUPERBAT FICS OUT THERE!!!!!! this is great and fun and Clark is the best!

As We Grow by butterflyslinky

E - 23,451

Clark Kent is a farmer deep in debt to Lex Luthor.

Bruce Wayne is a billionaire with seven children and no luck in love.

But their families have a scheme to get them together and hopefully make life a little bit better.

Modern Medicine by BuckinghamAlice

G - 5,208

Pediatrician Dr. Clark Kent becomes beloved to his patients, the Wayne boys... as well as to their doting father Bruce.

ABSOLUTELY lovely and adorable, you get the feels!

Hellooooo, nurse! by weirdraccoon INCOMPLETE WIP

T - ?????

Clark enjoys his job at the Free Clinic. He loves helping people and tending injuries. Saving lives. But this man... Bruce Wayne is going to kill him if he doesn't get killed first.

Bruce is still Batman on this one but HERE ME OUT, Clark is a nurse! is incomplete but looking forward to the following chapters!!

Two Cities by EllenD

E - 96,152

Clark Kent, is simply Clark Kent, junior reporter for the Daily Planet who moved to Metropolis from Smallville with big dreams. Bruce Wayne is a billionaire playboy from Gotham, who also happens to be Batman. They meet, date, and fall in love, though not without hurdles because mild-mannered Clark is also socially awkward as heck. But when the most dangerous criminals in Gotham are gunning for Batman, Clark gets caught in the middle of it all. (He's basically Batman's Lois Lane) Meant to be set in the Dawn of Justice movie universe, but also draws inspiration from video games, comics, and those awesome Batman cartoons.

This is part of a series, but this is the main fic of it. Love this trope of Clark is just a civilian and Bruce is Batman. Warning this fic does contain disturbing topics so read the tags.

Here Comes the Sun by batsy_rocks

T - 18,815

Clark Kent is a kind-hearted reporter working in the big city. Bruce Wayne is a stressed dad of four with no idea of what he's doing.

Then they meet.

Seasons of Love by littlechinesedoll

G - 4,603

Clark Kent took over that farm at the edge of the Town of Smallville. He likes Smallville's resident doctor, Bruce Wayne.

The best gifts for Bruce are ginger ale, salad, coffee, and any kind of flowers. He hates gems, and bars of copper, silver, and gold.

Petals and Ink by drunkraiinbow

T - 12,976

With a new kid joining the family, Bruce tries a new tattoo artist to continue the tradition of adding them to his sleeve, but he won't trust just any artist. Clark manages to win him over with his incredible talent and his farm-boy friendly demeanor, and he may even have begun to win Bruce's heart. However, Clark might have a few things to learn first.

FLOWER SHOP TATTOO PARLOUR AU! what else is there to say, this is extremely cute and a fast read! :D

Faceless Killer by Batsymomma11

E - 51,519

Detective Bruce Wayne from the GCPD and detective Clark Kent from the MPD have been asked to create a joint task force in an effort to catch the John Doe Killer that has been ravaging their sister-cities. Aside from their long-standing animosity towards one another, it should be a breeze to work together. Besides, lives depend on them getting along.

They never expected they'd trip headlong into a romantic entanglement that feels a lot more serious than even the killer they're chasing.

The Tailor by maderi

E - 16,026

When Clark is assigned to cover the Wayne gala, he finds himself in need of a professionally tailored suit. His tailor though is drop dead gorgeous, which brings up a lot of awkward situations during their appointments.

Heroes of the Squared Circle by Mithen

M - 226,687

They've gone by many names: Billionaire Brucie, Country Clark, the Kryptonian, the Dark Knight. But no matter what their stage names are, one thing has always been true: Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne are the world's finest wrestlers.

Six's a crowd by Untoward INCOMPLETE/ABANDONED

G - 10,133

When Alfred has to make an emergency trip back to England, Bruce soon finds out he can't manage running a business and taking care of six kids all alone.

He turns to a nanny agency for help, and is astonished when he finds Clark Kent, who seems like he can handle anything.

Clark not only can take care of the kids incredibly well but seems to be breaking Bruce's walls down rather well too.

After Hours by ????

E - 3,175

At the end of a long semester Clark can't hide his attraction to Professor Wayne any longer. Grad School AU.

This is practically a one-shot, not really my type of fic but worth adding!! Haven't come across this professor trope in Superbat so if you got any recs, send them my way!

Wings and Fangs by DanielleN3

E - 17,224

Clark thought he could never fall in love with anyone, especially not after being alone for such a long time… but all of that changes when he encounters a sexy vampire in Gotham.

TECHNICALLY they both have powers in this one but there are soooo different from cannon that I think this fic still qualifies for this list

thirteen by CapnWinghead

T - 22,890

Drowning in student loans, Clark Kent takes a summer job as the Wayne family nanny.

OKAY. so this is not entirely NO POWERS, but I mean Clark is a NANNY so this is great! TRUST ME

Kiss me, take my breath away by J_Jubilee

E - 37,934

There were legends about Gotham Reef. Legends that said it was haunted by a beast of foul temper. Stories told of a ravenous sea beast that feasted on the flesh of men, and was said to be more hideous than Satan himself. Others told of a woman with eyes that glowed like gold to lead sailors to their death. Some even spoke of a witch that cursed men and wreck their ships, taking all their treasures with it. When Clark’s catamaran is wrecked by a terrible storm, he learns that the stories were oh so far from true.

Baby Bats by AlmondRose

G - 4,003

this is a short series of adorable and simple domestic fluff

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Haven't read this one but heeey the art is sooo pretty soo decided to add it anyways

Dragon Heart by Hells Angel 921

T - 27,660

Kal wants to make up for his past.

Bruce tries to move on with his future.

They eventually meet in the middle.

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I didn't know that Dragon/DragonSlayer was a thing but hey... apparently it is, so here it is.

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hehe and so my rant ends here! let me know if you know fics that fit any of these tropes! I’m all ears

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marisandini-chu-blog · 3 years

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Bruce Wayne is a Simp for Bad Bitch

OmG I can’t believe I’m writing the obvious but the idea is in my head and I need a place to word vomit.

Okay, so it occurred to me that Bruce has a more serious and intense relationship canonically with three women, as far as I know; Andrea Beaumont, Talia Al’ghul, and Selina Kyle. All of whom are the epitome of Bad Bitch with the capital B. (Yes, I’m ignoring Rachel Dawes from Nolanverse. The only thing I like about it is the Iconic Joker. No batman movie is good enough without the Batfam.)

Why do I raise this point, you might ask? Well, that’s because I want to rant that Bruce, my boy, my man, my childhood comfort character is actually a SIMP?!?!

Like... I’m just... urgh.... okay... I am very vocal for a healthy relationship with commitment and based on mutual love and respect. So the fact that Bruce has only bad, iffy, or casual relationships really want to tear my hair out. And why my heart don’t want to ship with any of them, even though BatCat is one of my favorite pairing!

I am a WonderBat shipper because I love watching them in JLAU as a kid and even though I’m not slash shipper unless it’s canon, SuperBat made much more sense to me. Heck even a threesome with the Trinity would have been healthier relationship rather than whatever Bruce had with the three of them and here’s why:

You might not have heard of Andrea, but she’s canon from the Timmverse movie called Batman and the Mask of Phantasm which is A REALLY GREAT MOVIE. Totally recommend. One of the best Batman movie at all times (Yes, I say Batman movies not Batman Animated movies). Has great plot twist and good pacing. so Spoiler Alert! Andrea was Bruce’s fiancé, making her possibly Bruce’s first love, before his journey and possibly could have stop him from becoming Batman (I would say he’s a simp in this case, but he would have had a much more happier, healthy household so it’s not bad thing) if she hadn’t disappear for being a Mob Boss’ Daughter!!!

I repeat, a mob boss’ daughter.

And she came back only to be a mask avenging assassin that went toe-to-toe with Batman.

And she could have choose to stay with Bruce but she didn’t because she choose vengeance over him. Like.... Bats, you should stop with the “I am Vengeance” routine you’ve got going on because she does it better than you ngl.

So she left and I cried at the end of that movie because trauma wasn’t enough, you put heartbreak after heartbreak to my boy. Thanks DC.

Then there’s Fucking Talia Al’ghul which is a no brainer why she’s not Bad but BAD. Like, Talia groom Jason, supervise Damian’s harsh, brutal, and abusive training, control Damian through the implant spine to kill Dick, orders Damian execution before regretting it, DRUG BRUCE when CONCEIVING DAMIAN!!! And that’s only the top of my head.

And if you want to blame it on Morrison’s writing, THAT’S FINE. We’ve bitched about Tom King’s writing enough to know it’s valid.

But, BUT, bUt... it needs to be address that even before Morrison, Talia CHOOSE to stay in the League of Assassin. People can tell me that she’s a complex character that’s loyal to her father but love Bruce and that her upbringing makes her complicated or whatever. Nuh-uh. You don’t get to make Talia helpless when it suited you. Talia is a fucking Bad Bitch (TM). She’s been taught to do whatever the fuck she wants according to her belief and ideal. At some point, Talia knew she wanted to be in position of power in the League rather than staying with Bruce.

But it’s canon that Talia, if I remember correctly, doesn’t like Gotham or Bruce’s mission. She thinks being a hero is beneath them or whatever. And doesn’t understand why Gotham is special to Bruce. So yeah, you might not agree how Morrisons write her. But do not fucking tell me she’s not a character who will not be willing to do what she thinks it’s necessary to get what she wants, including training her son as an assassin. I mean, she likes being the Demon’s Daughter in the league. She may not agree with her father but Talia wants to give Damien what she wants. Power.

Talia loves Bruce. That’s a fact. He’s probably the only person that makes her feel like she’s a person instead of the Demon’s Daughter. Bruce has a knack for that. To make people want to be better, even just a little. Talia could have chosen him, if she wanted to. The fact that she helps him so much when fighting against her father numerous times is proof enough.

I'm highly suspecting the reason she stays is because she knows Bruce would always forgive her (SIMP ALERT) unlike her father who would straight up stab her if she ever betrays him.

I’m not saying there’s no love for her son, I’m just saying if she even looks at the batfam funny than I will raise my flamethrower on that bitch’s face. Because you can’t rely on Bruce on that. That man would give bullshit excuse for her or want to handle her himself because your “history” with her makes you entitled.

Aaaah, don’t you just love it when there’s a great villain you can hate on so much?

I'm not saying she can't be a good person. Pre-morisson made Talia more of an anti-hero. But I do like Talia "I'mma cut a bitch" al'ghul. It's just... I like ruthless Bad Bitch like her. Though preferably she could have balance it with more of her maternal side through Damian.

Okay, I’m getting off tangent. Now comes to my favorite girl. Catwoman. Selina Kyle. The famous ship of all Bruce’s relationship sans SuperBat.

I... am conflicted the most about this.

See, Selina is one of the few people who understands Bruce. Who was there when he needed a shoulder to rely on. Someone who doesn’t take Bruce’s shit, and one of the constant person in Bruce’s life.

But not... constant enough. Which is a theme of her, even in her fursona... I, I mean PERSONA, PERSONA!!!

Anyway, I love seeing these two broken people. One handles it with violence and vigilantism, the other through thieving with a Robinhood-esque thing going on. So of course they get each other. It always helps that they try to make each other better. Selina taught Bruce to be okay of being selfish of wanting to be happy, and Bruce believed there’s good in her that makes her feel she’s not a hopeless case, y’know? It’s even canon that in one universe, they’re married and have daughter, Helena Wayne. So... yeah? Happy end! (Until they died but that’s non issue here at the moment.)

Then Tom King (Urgh, him again) wrote Bat proposing to Cat, and by the time they’re about to be married. Selina left him at the altar.

So yeah.

But then they get metaphysically? Figuratively? married after the Flashpoint which they turn Thomas Wayne into a villain (At least make him from alternate universe instead of timeline!!!) and kill Alfred (WhYYYYYY?! Bruce suffered enough why do you go kill both his fathers dammit!!! Let the goddamn butler rest in peace). And basically Selina and Bruce promise each other forever. Which is sweet. BatCat Forever, am I right???

Yeah, here’s the problem. (And I’m just nitpicking here, okay). For all Tom King’s character assassination of Bruce, he did Selina right in one thing. Which is the fact she doesn’t like being tied down by anything.

If Talia puts importance in power. Selina puts importance in freedom and her self-independence.

I remember as a kid watching BTAS, that Selina didn’t want a relationship with batman if it meant changing who she is. So when Selina left the altar, I wasn’t surprise at the news. Then she actually agreed to marry him, only this time, she didn’t need a judge or a paper to make the marriage legit, y’know. And I thought, yeah that’s so her.

But the thing is Bruce. Accepts. Her. Every. Single. Time.

Without a single thought. She asked, “Do you still want to get married?” and he asked “When?”

Even though it’s not the first that Cat leaves him hanging.

Tell me he’s not a simp for that.

It’s great that he accepts her for everything she is. But I’m conflicted because Selina stays static. She stays with the cat theme in the fact she doesn’t want to held back by anything. She takes what she wants. She loves who she loves. And no one was gonna change her. But then where’s the character growth?

Is it regressive of me to think Selina should be ‘tied down’ or express commitment when she never has been tied down before even though she loves Bruce?

Is it not-feminist of me to think Selina has to change herself for a man?

I just don’t like the fact Bruce and Selina enables their masked persona. Their relationship is strongly base on their cat-and-mouse chase. They nicknamed each other “Bat” and “Cat” for God’s sake. Even though yes, it’s canon that “Batman” and “Catwoman” is their real selves and their civilian life is their masks. Heck, she didn’t go for the altar because she believed (though manipulated) that making Bruce happy would make Batman insufficient, or losing him entirely (Thank Tom King for that).

That would be true, and stay true if not for one thing. Which is some thing what Bruce has that Selina doesn’t:

The Batfam.

Bruce’s real identity isn’t just the Batman anymore. He has to be a single father with growing children he never plan to adopt but did anyway because they needed each other. He can’t use his batman persona to be a father at his house, but he will when training them to be his partner. His family became the strength to Bruce’s fight for Justice.

Bruce is the Batman, but he’s not everything who he is. Selina is supposed to be part of the batfamily yet sadly, I haven’t read or watch anything that has her interact with them in a positive way or actually bond with them. Heck, when Alfred inform the proposal to the batfam they were shocked and thought it was a bad idea even (And they’ve known her for almost half their life by the way.)

The fact that Tom King implied Bruce was never happy or wasn’t happy enough without marrying Cat when his Batfam should be the source of his pride and joy?! Apparently family means nothing to Batman. Woah DC, what a great message you’re sending here.

I guess that’s why, I was a bit iffy when Selina “marriage” with Bruce isn’t official. Because she commits to the man but she doesn’t say she’ll commit to the family (though I suppose it could be imply or I just forget stuff). The batkids are grown up enough that they don’t really need a maternal figure, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need more emotionally available people in the family. And that I haven’t seen much of her taking effort to bond with the people that’s the most important to Bruce.

It just makes her want to commit to Batman instead of Bruce Wayne, in my eyes I guess.

So yeah, that’s why Wonderbat and Superbat makes more sense to me. Because they’ll make an effort to be THERE for the family and they’ll be just generally be a healthier relationships because, again, emotionally available so they might talk when they have a problem instead of running off the altar when you think a Happy Batman is Bad Batman. But no, DC have to make Bruce is a simp and his life edgy.

Anyway, I might be wrong in some things because, you know. Canon becomes a blur to me after a while.

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