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number 81 for the writing prompts: "It's cold, you should take my jacket."
(mostly cause I wanna see Tim wear Kon's leather jacket and Neither of them being normal about it but do what you want with it it's your fic <3)
“Here.”
Tim looks up as Kon waltzes back into the living room, two enticingly-steaming mugs in his hands. Hot spiced apple cider sounds absolutely divine right now—the blustery Kansas day outside is reaching its icy fingers into the farmhouse despite the fire blazing merrily in the hearth, and Tim has to admit, he maybe should’ve packed warmer for this trip.
Kon presses one of the mugs into his hands—the nicer one, Tim notes, without the chip in the rim—and Tim accepts it with a grateful hum. The warmth seeps into his palms immediately. “Thanks.”
“No problemo, Rob-lemo.” Kon plops down next to him on the couch, his TTK keeping his cider perfectly still in his mug as he makes himself comfortable. “It’s pretty chilly out today. Gonna be a good night to go skating—the pond down by the McAllister’s place is frozen over, and this time of year, they string up lights ‘n’ invite all the neighbors to come by in the evenings. Wanna go?”
Tim hums in consideration. “Could be fun, but just warning you, it’s been a hot minute since I did any skating, so I’m kinda rusty. And I didn’t bring any skates.” Mmm, the steam rising up from his cider smells amazing. “Did you make this?”
Kon’s eyebrows shoot towards the ceiling. Then he puffs out his cheeks in mock offense, folding his arms across his chest. “You don’t have to sound so surprised! I’m good in the kitchen.”
Yeah, Bart keeps calling him malewife material about it. Tim grins into his mug; it’s not his fault it’s so easy to ruffle Kon’s feathers, or that it’s so funny to do so. “I guess it is Ma’s recipe, so it’d be hard to make it bad.”
Kon politely waits for him to lower the mug from his mouth and then swats him on the back of the head. Tim does appreciate the pause, even as he ducks away, laughing. The cider tastes like apples and cinnamon and honey; warmth spreads through Tim’s chest.
“You’re rude,” Kon tells him. “Just for that, if you fall on your face when we go skating, I’m not helping you up. I’m just gonna laugh.”
“Oh, it’s a when we go skating now?” Tim quirks an eyebrow at him in turn. “I just said I didn’t bring any skates.”
“We can get you some, that’s no trouble,” Kon says, flapping a dismissive hand. Tim opens his mouth to ask where, exactly, in Smallville, can they get a pair of new ice skates in a matter of a couple of hours, but then closes it again when it hits him that even if there isn’t a big sporting goods shop in Smallville, geography isn’t really a concern to someone who can crisscross the entire globe in a matter of minutes.
“Yeah, okay, sure.” Tim lightly elbows him. “Don’t tell me you’re actually good at skating. I bet you just TTK your way through it.”
Kon elbows him back. “Yeah, right! I’m pretty decent, no powers required, actually. Been going plenty with Jon. He particularly loves this one roller dome in Metropolis that always has Super merch in the arcade claw games.”
Okay, Tim has to admit, he’s melting a little about that. Kon loves his little brother. The image of him taking Jon skating is really cute—he can just picture Jon wobbling along, holding Kon’s hand, and rambling about his day like he loves to do. He bites back a truly sappy smile; his toes curl instead, where they’re tucked under a cushion to stay warm.
“Lemme guess. The claw games are where you TTK it up.”
Kon snickers. “They’re rigged as hell, but the kid wants his misshapen Superman plushies, so obviously I gotta win ‘em for him.”
“Obviously,” Tim agrees. He curls his fingers around his mug a little tighter, soaking up its warmth; he’s got an actual winter coat for when they go out, but he really wishes he’d brought some thicker sweaters or hoodies for hanging around in the house itself. He’s used to the damp, creeping cold of Gotham; the blustery Kansas winters might be about the same temperature, but the wind out here blows right through him.
Kon shifts next to him, setting his cider down on a coaster on the coffee table. Tim glances up just in time to see him unzip and shrug out of his hoodie—it’s fleece-lined and light pink with a strawberry cow printed on the front breast pocket, very cute.
And then Kon leans over and wraps it around Tim’s shoulders. Tim’s face heats.
“It’s cold,” Kon explains. “Take my jacket. I don’t really need it that bad, anyway, so you may as well get some use out of it.”
It’s still warm from his body, and Tim lifts one hand from his mug to pull it more tightly around himself like a blanket. His nose brushes the collar when he turns his head a little. The jacket smells like Kon’s cologne.
…It’s the citrus-and-spice one Tim bought him last Christmas. He’s wearing the cologne Tim picked out for him last year, the one Tim definitely didn’t spend almost an hour agonizing over as he imagined tucking his face into Kon’s shoulder and inhaling this specific scent from his collarbone. He’s…
Tim’s face gets even hotter. Abruptly, he takes a gulp of hot cider, hiding in his mug. Kon’s jacket smells like him, and it’s warm, and it’s big and cozy and soft, and…
Kon is staring at him, Tim realizes belatedly. He didn’t notice because he was busy, uh, processing, but Kon’s looking at him like he’s…
Like he’s the last morsel of dessert on the table, and Kon has a ravenous craving for some sugar?
Tim swallows hard. Deliberately counts to eight on his next inhale and exhale. If he lets his heart rate pick up, Kon will definitely notice.
“Thanks,” he manages, finally. “That’s, uh. Yeah. That’s nice.”
“I’ll say,” Kon mutters. He drops his gaze, his cheeks a little pink, and then reaches over to ruffle Tim’s hair. “Bring warmer lounge clothes next time, dumbass. The farmhouse is kinda old. Gets drafty in here.”
“Yeah,” Tim says wryly. He shifts his weight, rearranging his legs so that instead of leaning on the armrest, he flops himself against Kon’s side, dropping his head to his shoulder for a moment. “I noticed.”
Kon leans his cheek against Tim’s hair. “At least you got me to keep you warm,” he sighs, slipping his arm around Tim’s shoulders. “What would you do without me, huh?”
Tim bites back the first response on the tip of his tongue (“Go into a huge depressive spiral?”) and goes for something a little less insane. “Freeze to death before you even get to laugh about me falling on my face at the McAllisters’ pond?”
Kon snorts. He’s comfortably warm against Tim’s side, and Tim snuggles a little closer, relishing his warmth. “Yeah, that sounds about right,” Kon agrees. “I hope I can get it on video.”
Tim just smiles to himself and raises his mug for another sip of cider. The honey and spices are heavenly on his tongue, but if he’s being entirely honest, he can think of something sweeter.
#answers#barbitchian#this ended up being less about the jacket than i intended but i AM thinking abt other reasons tim might end up wearing kon's jackets.#i just also think kon in a cute pastel pink strawberry cow hoodie is cute :)#timkon#rimi writes#its such an awkward length skdjhsdjk like this feels too short to bother putting on ao3 but so long for a tumblr ficlet. man#maybe i will expand timkon wintertime fluff (inspired vaguely by hallmark vibes) later into a real fic. idk!#tim#kon
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DUDE HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
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art-n-fandoms-n-stuff-idk is now barbitchian!!
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WAIT I WANNA SEE THE PANEL OF KON IN A SKIRT WHAT PANEL!!!
its from sb94 issue #93 iirc! theres a lot going on this issue its a wack one (joker-related tie-in) but the main thing i took away from it is that kon is cute in a ruffly skirt <3
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a tuppence for your bi4bi Clois thoughts 🪙... I'm luv them so much and I'd love to hear if you have any specific headcanons about them 🥺
YESSSS!!! i DO have some thoughts. i love them,
generally i think lois has her bisexuality figured out by the time she's in her mid-20s. she and cat grant have had some rage-filled makeouts on at least one occasion, but an actual relationship would never in a million years work out between them. they respect each other but do not see eye to eye nearly enough. she never bothered to come out to her father, but just knows it's one more thing about her that he'd hate.
clark, by contrast, does Not have it figured out. he has spent his entire life repressing every single thought, feeling, and ability that set him apart from the classic good all-american boy because he had to fit in. and being superman, exploring his kryptonian heritage, etc., has helped, of course, but he is still. so repressed. he has no idea that he's ever experienced attraction to guys before. he's got some internalized homophobia to work through, about himself. He Has To Be Normal. so as far as he's concerned, there was lana, and then there was lois.
to me, clark's journey toward self-acceptance is very intrinsically tied to his family. there's kara, talking about how sexuality and gender stuff on krypton wasn't like it is on earth, especially in western culture. there's kon, suffering through his own repression and depression and trying to pretend he's fine. there's chris and jon, both too young to fully grasp it all (probably), who make clark incredibly aware of every step he makes in terms of parenting them.
so one day, after kon's finally come out to the family, and kara's muddled through trying to figure out earth labels that she's comfortable with, the two of them decide they wanna go to pride, and ask lois and clark if they want to make it a family affair. lois says hell yeah, and clark says yes of course he's happy to support them! and jon says YAY, GLITTER!! CAN I GET STICKERS? and chris says if you get glitter all over my nintendo ds again i will punt you into the ocean, baby brother or not.
and there's just this innocuous moment while they're out when kon goes "here i got you these!" and hands lois and clark two simple lil heart-shaped bi flag buttons. and lois is like aw thanks squirt! and ruffles kon's hair. clark meanwhile goes oh i think there's been a misunderstanding... ... . . . .. . .. .. . or. has there?
and that night he's just sitting on the edge of the bed holding this tiny like $3 button in his hands having a whole crisis. lois hooks her chin over his shoulder and asks what's wrong? and he's like. lois i'm not. i'm. except maybe i'm not not. but i don't know, i thought i... i never thought i could think about it. clark kent is supposed to be normal. i... i'm already an alien, lois, i thought i was already set apart enough, and if i'm... if i'm this, even when i'm clark, not superman, then... then...
and lois digs her matching little $3 bi flag heart button out of her purse and bumps it against his and says, even if you are queer, you're still not alone. and then clark gives her the patented kent family big soft puppy-dog eyes. that night, he falls asleep in her arms with his head tucked snugly under her chin. it's where he feels safest.
but the next year, he lets kara get him a flag, and lets kon tie it around his shoulders like a cape. and he's here as clark kent, but it's kind of funny when he looks at his shadow. because he might not be superman right now, but the silhouette still looks the same.
#answers#barbitchian#superfam#clois#clark#lois#as a small town queer who had a lot of Feelings with a capital F about attending pride for the first time. well#here we are. have my clark kent thesis
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okay I'm going off of the assumption that you know about superman's army of personal robots that reside in the fortress of solitude that look identical to him that only show up in Some superman stories nowadays which is valid imo because it's very obviously something from a very campy but earnest era of comics that just kinda becomes creepy and uncanny in any other era
anyways. I think I might have cracked the code to make it slightly less creepy, or at least explainable outside of "he wanted an army of robots that look like him"
so the fortress in some stories has a zoo, right? full of all kinds of alien wildlife
*well* when he FIRST builds this zoo, it's fine because there's only 1 or 2 animals and he doesn't need to be around them ALL the time
but then the zoo starts growing. and he realizes, oh no, some of these animals need more constant attention and supervision than I can give them, being both a journalist and Superman
so, he builds robots to take care of them using the advanced Kryptonian technology he has. but Oh No! turns out of some these alien animals, being as skittish as they are, don't trust anything except for him, and are Not willing to be feed or groomed or cleaned after by a weird metal thing
well, the logical conclusion to *that* is to make the robots taking after them look like him. and have his voice, and even smell like him, for the animals that have a better sense of smell
this is a very straightforward and logical thought process that makes sense as he's making it, but then absolutely sounds insane to anyone he tries to explain it to. namely, Lois, the first time he takes her to the Fortress. either for an interview before she knows about his identity, or maybe just sharing more of his life after she finds out, take your pick
imagining Lois's face as she looks on to an Army of robotic superman as Clark just stands to the side looking sheepish, trying his best to explain, "well you see... I really don't know where to start with this, I'm sorry." this gives me much joy to think about
anyways if you have any comic recommendations with references to superman's zoo or anything with Lore stuff about his fortress I'd love to read them! it's stormy where I'm at right now and I'm think I'm going to pirate some superboy comics to get even more cozy
GOD. SLDKFJLDKS okay ive been sitting on this for... a day? 2 days? now and my brain has refused to come Unfried from being sick so im SO sorry i have nothing to add but this is absolutely hilarious. youre so right. this is 1000% the best explanation for the superman bots theyre just supposed to be animal caretakers
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i was walking through Walmart with a friend the other day, like ya do in small towns, and when we went to the toy isle I found this little dude!
cute!!!! except..... I made a very unfortunate discover about the quality of these dolls.....
oh.... oh buddy..... listen male pattern baldness happens to a lot of people it's nothin' to be ashamed about.....
(also wasn't this literally the plotline to an incredibly stupid Superboy comic where lex luthor's genes ""activated"" in kon and he became evil and bald.....)
NOOOO WHYD THEY DREAMWORKS FACE SUPERMAN KSDJFHJSKD
also its actually worse. lex mind controls kon into shaving his head bc i guess baldness is the lex luthor signifier. its so bad its so stupid its SO bad lmfaooo
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I have a hot take that you may not care about but you are the person who's superman media takes I trust the most and I GOTTA talk to somebody about it so
anyways. Lois Lane. from My Adventures With Superman. the one that everybody calls a tomboy? is not a tomboy. not in the slightest
like?? she wears makeup! and earrings!! and the things she wears are still fairly feminine!!! "oh but she wears pants" pants aren't inherently masculine!!! this isn't the 1800's!!!! and also the pants she wears are very form-fitting and high-waisted which are traditionally feminine cuts of pants!!!! "oh but she's feisty" LOIS LANE HAS ALWAYS BEEN FEISTY AUGH WHAT. FEISTY AND FEMINIE AREN'T INHERENTLY OPPOSITES. THAT'S LIKE THE WHOLE POINT OF HER CHARACTER.
anyways. I haven't seen this show. I'm sure you don't give a single shit about it. I just keep seeing this take and then looking at this Lois and going. No. That's Not A Tomboy I'm so sorry. short hair + brown skin + feisty personality does not. make her a tomboy. she is still Very Feminine words have meaning sometimes. please
SLDKFJDLSK i didnt know this was discourse but no youre right. i did watch maws and i thought it was overall pretty cute, like i have my nitpicks but it was a fun show to watch with my friends yknow?
but yeah maws lois isn't particularly tomboyish/not feminine, she just has short hair? jksdhf you're right about this i just genuinely did not know this was a thing people are saying. help. im so sorry
#answers#barbitchian#honestly one of the things they did in maws i'm still on the fence about is making the lanes korean#like on the one hand i love it lets go lois#but on the other hand sam lane in the comics (at least postcrisis) is like. a vehemently xenophobic white nationalist piece of shit#who is half of the team (the other half being lex luthor) behind the genocide of 93000 kryptonians who survived in kandor#so im kind of like. of two minds re: him being more redeemable than waller in maws. but thats not Really related
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hey I sent another person this ask but I GOTTA know your opinion on this. do you think Kon would call Jon + Kara weird mash-up terms (and vise versa) on purpose to be funny and confusing to outside people because of the whole nontraditional family ties thing. like
"hello brother-uncle Kon how are you" "I'm good nephew-bro Jon I just visited our cousin-aunt Kara she says hi" and Clark is just standing there like "you two *please* keep it down I don't want people actually thinking our family is the product of incest"
if anyone i think jon would be the one getting a kick out of that moreso than kon. it feels to me like the ongoing bit a kid would do just to get a rise out of their parent lkdfjs
like to me i guess kon's just straight up Not labeling most of his relationships. there's no brother-dad-uncle-cousin-guy in his life, there's just clark. ma isn't "mom" OR "grandma" she's just ma. lois isn't any sort of mom or stepmom or sister-in-law she's just lois. jon himself is kind of the exception bc kon points at him and goes "baby brother. my baby now" but i think that's about the Only one who gets a label that isn't just. them. you ask him what he and clark call each other and he just goes uh... he's just? kal-el? and then gives you a weird look bc why does it matter. kara gets simply "cousin" bc that can be vague and general enough it doesn't imply any specific relationship.
but also not to overthink a joke ask but that DOES also have me pondering the way "conner kent" has to define his relationships to outsiders. if jon's his little brother, people will assume he's clark's son. which he doesn't really like, but at the same time, they definitely have a strong resemblance (haha, #justclonethings, amirite fellas?) and clark's adopted, so it's hard to say they're just brothers or cousins as opposed to the story people assume, which is he's the product of some sort of teenage fling clark had. i don't think kon likes this story at all, but it's probably the most convenient, secret identity-wise. hmm... much to ponder.
#answers#barbitchian#like i think kon takes the idea of clark as his actual dad and just. NOPE. NO WAY. its the best cover story theyve got tho#so he just grits his teeth and grins and bears it#but i Don't think he likes it. it's Not what they are to each other#but it's quite hard to just be like ''oh btw. we're biologically brothers. uh... nope no idea who our shared parents are tho''#''i just kind of spawned from the aether at age 15 don't worry about it''
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are you a Kryptonian? because you're SUPER-cute ;)))
alternatively: the only L's you get are El's, because. because you. you GET them. like you get their- their character's- this one's worse slfjskdks
SDJFALKSDJFLKSDJFLKSDJ no i see it. i see what you were going for and i appreciate it. SUPER cute is a good standard one all the time anyways though ♥ low res pumby for you!
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14, 16, and 19 for the violence ask game (you don't HAVE to answer all of them I just wanted to give you some ✨ variety ✨)
14. that one thing you see in fics all the time
the writer holding up a giant banner that says "I HAVENT READ SUPERBOY (1994) (OR ANY KON COMIC FOR THAT MATTER) BUT IM STILL GOING TO TRY TO WRITE ABOUT KON!!" :/
like... the treatment of him as just an extension of/accessory to tim. it's rampant. it makes me want to bite people. the thing is that timkon might be the most popular kon ship by a boatload, but timkon where the writer has actually like ... read any comics or pays attention to their characters in general... is a rarepair. 😔
16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)
answered once here, but another one i'll say is uh. ok i was gonna say the constant degradation of kon and clark's relationship for edgelord points but that i do know why they do it and it's yja. um... people who act like lex luthor (world's biggest xenophobe) would ever be a decent parent to an alien child? like i get it the idea of a supervillain being a good dad is funny but uh. not that one lmao. his entire shtick (at least in postcrisis) is extreme and violent xenophobia. this would be like a white supremacist with a mixed child.
19. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...
oh this one's easy! i don't have guilty pleasures i just like what i like dksjfh the only stuff i have any shame about is like... the leftover religious trauma going "how DARE you have a sexuality" or whatever, not related to fandom opinions.
"choose violence" ask game!
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hey, I have no idea if you're the correct person to ask this, but... my dude, how do you resist the urge to not re-write your fic 8,000 times to get it right. I have written so much the past month but I've started over and re-worked basically *everything* from the ground up like TWICE now and I'm. REALLY itching and fighting back the urge to do it again for a scene that could flow better, because this is supposed to be for a friend and I can't just leave them hanging for 3 months for one 10k chapter when I ALREADY HAVE IT WRITTEN 😭😭
i do have that urge a lot asdfhjdks i restarted "under the small fire of winter stars" about... 4 times? 3 or 4 times. so i do get it!! i eventually just kicked my own ass like okay stop bogging yourself down in perfectionism and just make something. perfection is all well and good to strive for, but in the end, it's way better to have something real.
SO if you want actual advice rather than just to vent about it, i think theres a couple components to consider:
a) what's driving your perfectionism? is it just a vague general feeling that something can be better, or are there specific things bothering you about the flow? if it's the latter, it may be worth taking a step back and examining your process. would outlining or planning more help you figure out the flow issues? would simply changing a few lines be more useful than a full rewrite? or is it the general malaise of "i've been looking at this for too long"?
b) what do you realistically think you can fix? once you've figured out what is driving the feeling, you can think about how to actually tackle it. the key word here is "realistically" - part of why i restarted "small fires" so many times is that i had to keep downsizing from my original outlined plans, which means i was cutting scenes and reworking my outline into something more manageable for the timeframe i was working in. other ideas might be sitting down to make a detailed outline if you're just struggling with things feeling choppy, or trying to trim certain segments, or experimenting with your narrator. many options to think about!
and of course i cannot understate the value of taking a clean good old fashioned break. sometimes you really have just been looking at your work for too long. try going a day or two without looking at it at all and see if that improves the reading experience, too!
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I have always had ideas for fanfiction but the one time I actually got motivated and insane enough about it I dropped it after a week because I hated how it was turning out because I don't think of these scenarios in words I *see* them in my head and that can be really hard to translate to writing when you just wanna *make* it
anyways I joined superfam secret Santa and have written 11k (+ more that I haven't counted just sitting in my notes app) in a week. the biggest bulk of that I have written has been in the past 4 days. thank you <3
ALKSJDLA YIPPEE!!!!!!!! WAHOO!!!!! thats so exciting im happy to hear it!!!! :D
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re: the silent enjoyers post you just made. I have re-read your timkon sex pollen fic at LEAST twice now, and now that I've thought about it, I'll probably read it again tonight. it's so good. both for how hot it is and how dumb these two are
anyways I just figured I should give some Actual Feedback since. I never do that slhfskfj
omg thank you!!!! i love when they are stupid and in love hehe im so glad to hear it :D
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