Batfam, Brains, and Ballet

Fido | full-fledged adult | she/her | I write fics sometimes (find me on Ao3)

[marlynnofmany]

*giant wind gust outside*

Me: “Don’t say it.”

My Brain:

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags which bands/artists you've listened to the most, lately

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so strange when people assume 'waking up early' means increased productivity bc no??? im awake so i can read fanfic in bed before breakdown

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

BREAKFAST

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Who wants to hear a DIY tiling pro tip that the experts won't tell you

[hazelriver74]

Yes!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Do not drop your phone into the bucket of tile adhesive. This step is actually completely unnecessary and massively complicates the tiling process.

[fueles]

You say this but my uncle is a tiler and he swears by the “drop phone in putty bucket” technique. I think you’re just posting this for clout

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Your uncle is caught up in a tradition that he was taught as an apprentice that he never questioned. Modern putty doesn't require phone, the formula has changed.

[perfectly-disfigured]

MY uncle says some customers still demand the phone putty technique because it "doesn't look right otherwise"

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Drop an empty phone case in and those customers can't tell the fucking difference because there is no fucking difference.

[lithiumdoll]

My mum renovated houses for thirty years, she says “you’re half right, but in some cases - particularly in houses built before 1930 - the phone does add some benefit. Could be a tablet too if you’ve an old one in the garage. And anyone who says it’s got to be a particular model is just being precious about it, whatever the forums say.”

[00venator]

IPhones and tablets where invented in 1898, what did they do before then?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Nothing, tiles were invented in 1899.

[ip2lb]

x

[thehappysnail-deactivated202210]

Holy fuck

[musingsofaraven]

This works best if you keep windows closed.

Another design is using 2 20x25x1 filters, taping them to the sides of the box fan and then to each other so they sort of make a triangle, then cutting cardboard to make a top and bottom to the triangle.

This was discovered as a more effective design during the 2020 US west coast fires.

https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-box-fan-air-purifier.html

Better Box Fan Air Purifier

A better more efficient and odor eliminating homemade air purifier than just taping a 20x20x1 filter to a box fan. Sometimes you need to

[runcibility]

If you live on the west coast of the United States, fire season is coming and this is vital.

[turtlesandfrogs]

We’ve been using one, and they’re great. Might try to make the double filter version this year.

[objectconstancy]

theyve been doing a bunch of studies on this during the pandemic and this design is best! 4 filters and a shroud to optimize flow rate.

Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

https://encycla.com/Corsi-Rosenthal_Cube

[greenbloods]

oh sick someone paved this whole road with good intentions. i wonder where it leads

[aspiringsorceress]

[starvulture]

Collecting these rn

[sunflowersandink]

Fic Rec Friday!

July 17th, 2026

Ended up skipping last week's rec list because I just hadn't read enough to justify it - but some very kind person on discord this week said they were looking forward to it, and it turns out sometimes that's all the motivation you need 💛

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Fandom: DC

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Completed works:

🌻 The Cherry on Top - RavenRavell ( @ravenravellx ) Gen, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings 3,812 words, 1/1 Published: July 5th, 2026

Summary: 

The boy was maybe twenty cherries in when Bruce felt his blood suddenly run cold.

"Hey, chum, have you been eating the pits of the cherries?" he asked, trying his best to keep his voice level. He wasn't sure why he asked, because he already knew the answer, but maybe, just maybe—

The boy looked at him curiously, red juice dripping down his chin, his jaw still crunching through the new handful of cherries in his mouth.

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Or, Bruce can hardly blame himself the first time the Talon dies in his care.

Rec: great little Bruce and baby talon!Dick fic — I love how much it makes you feel the stress and burden that Bruce feels trying to care for his new little creature of a son as best he can — it’s exhausting, and it makes the stress of the situation when things go wrong all the more stressful to read 💛

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Ongoing Works:

❀ - updated within the last 6 months

❀🌻 heavy is the head - Myrime ( @blancheludis ) Slade Wilson/Dick Grayson, No Archive Warnings Apply 14,559 words, 1/2 chapters  Updated: July 15th, 2026

Summary: 

“The punishment for treason is death,” Slade says, glaring at the trembling form of Dick on his knees. “You will be tried once your bastard is born.”

Slade locks up his husband in a tower for endless months – right until his daughter is born and the real traitors reveal themselves. Dick returns to Slade’s side, saying all the right words and smiling at all the right times. When Slade finally realises he is fading, it might already be too late.

Rec: A follow up to one of my recent recs from Slade’s perspective that I was not expecting and was SO excited to see pop up in my inbox!!! It takes a really careful hand to write a version of Slade who’s treated Dick the way he has in this and still has me wanting things to work out for the two of them. This one has all the delicious feelings of guilt, concern, and affection on Slade’s side that were clear subtext in Dick’s POV, now brought to text. And seeing Dick through his eyes, and the way his captivity has changed him, only makes the first fic ache even better. Just an absolute treat, especially with more still to come 💛💛💛

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❀🌻 Elsewhere, Everywhere - MoonBoo Gen, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings 44,320 words, 14/? chapters  Updated: July 15th, 2026

Summary: 

Tim, stuck on comms due to a broken leg, is attacked by a familiar cowled figure in the Batcave.

The problem? Bruce is still out on patrol.

An alternate Batman stranded far from home should be nothing more than a temporary complication. Instead, Tim finds himself growing close to a Bruce Wayne who has a Dick, a Jason, but no Tim.

And some doors, once opened, are hard to close.

Rec: when I tell you I am GLUED to my inbox watching for updates on this one —

It has taken a couple turns now that have had my jaw on the FLOOR - I keep running back to check the tags in the best way. 

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❀🌻 Broken Wings, Open Sky - greenlimetea  Gen, Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings 9,264 words, 7/? chapters  Updated: July 14th, 2026

Summary: 

Fathers disciplined you. It was just what they did.

Damian has survived years by following the rules, keeping his head down, and shielding his brothers. Then another Batman arrives — one with a soft voice and gentle hands.

Damian is certain it's a trick. He just has to make sure he's the one who pays the price for it.

Rec: Damian-centric, reverse robins, through the looking glass is just such a great whumpy combo, especially once good!bruce shows up and we get to see the horror of it set in. I especially love this one’s take on Alfred — it’s so unsettling, seeing him as an actual villain in the story, rather than the more common approach to this trope where he’s dead before the story starts. And getting to see Bruce confront a version of his adoptive father who’d abuse his children? ough 💔

Unfortunately, as of the latest chapter, the author has said they’re taking a bit of a break due to rude comments — they’ve indicated they do intend to return, and I very much hope they do. But if they don’t, I still think that as it is currently, things end on a hopeful enough note to still be a satisfying story, and certainly one that deserves some love 💛

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[yesterdayiwrote]

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

[zaziki1412]

Reblog cause FACTS

[huilian]

batman@batcomputer:~notes/interpersonnel_notes/robins$ nano introducing_robins

keep previous robins in the know as much and as early as possible. do not wait months before doing introductions.

do introductions in a neutral place with neutral names. as much as possible introduce as something else first, like "your new brother" rather than "my new robin"

make sure to emphasize that the new robin is not intended to be a replacement for the previous robin

[depsidase]

[hopeless-eccentric]

if i met a genie and fixed the world and all its ills with my first two wishes, my third wish would be that sabrina carpenter would get gradually taller. she'd be in on it and think it was hilarious. we'd have a strong cap at 7 feet here, maybe an inch a week so people have time to theorize--let's not be ridiculous. but she'd still keep up the "ooh! im so little and small!" schtick. but shed be gradually getting taller. she'd be like 6'1" and still jumping for the microphone. and she'd never say anything about it. and if anyone asked shed act like she had no idea what they were talking about. and shed cheekily play into it a little bit but mostly still keep up the "ooh im so little and small" schtick. do you see my vision. do you get it

[hopeless-eccentric]

ok and so if i met a genie and fixed the world and all its ills in one wish i would do the sabrina carpenter thing second and third i would wish for all evidence of one random taylor swift song to disappear from the world once every month or so. taylor would have no memory of it. her fans would remember it and there would be an outcry over where it went (it's not even in concert videos anymore!) but taylor would have no memory of it

instead, all her brainspace spent on that song would be replaced with the vivid memories of roman gladiator, taylaurius velox. she's able to hide this at first, but her music begins to take on a gradually romaner and romaner tint. at first, people are like "damn, she's getting REALLY conservative, huh" and other people are like "wow, she's so deep, she knows what a rubicon is" but eventually travis kelce leaves her out of nowhere (he wasn't sure if dating someone possessed by a roman gladiator made him gay or not and anyway he was getting sick of being like "we're going to play the lions" and taylor being like "LIONS? WHERE?") and taylor publishes an entire brutus themed album about this betrayal and it's beginning to weird people out

and so eventually travis kelce is getting like, bomb threats sent to his family for leaving taylor and eventually he's like "okay, okay, i left her because she kept having all these vivid nightmares of gladatorial combat and she kept saying that football was giving her the ick because we never actually killed anybody for the glory of rome" and then he just gets more bomb threats because he left a struggling woman during a mental health crisis

and eventually taylor is writing music about her forbidden roman senator lover and her fanbase is either whittled WAY down or WAY up because people want to watch this trainwreck happen (or maybe she influences culture so hard that we're just all really into rome now) but she's being super cagey about the name of this roman senator. until. and now here's the twist:

weird al has been getting all of the same vivid memories of taylaurius velox. and he still has all his memories of her old songs. so he's writing all these detailed song parodies of taylor swift songs that don't exist anymore including specific details about their shared gladiatorial reality that taylor has never shared with anybody else. including that her lover's name was publius, and she's been calling him Poob for short

at this point a lot of original swifties are leaving. they could do the brutus stuff, but they really can't survive poob. taylor makes a clapping back at the haters song including the lyric "these bitches don't know publius" and it ends up all over all sorts of merch. there's a renewed archaeological interest in roman gladatorial combat

most importantly, the internet discourse is the best it's ever been. does this make taylor swift transmasc? is travis kelce problematic for leaving his fiancee while she gradually morphs into a roman gladiator? is this good queer representation? if taylaurius velox was a gay man, does that mean the gaylors were technically correct? is weird al morally wrong for capitalizing off of her music if she cant remember it anymore? was weird al sent by god to torment taylor swift?

anyway thats what id do if i met a genie

[bbbbbbbbatman]

you know that story about the cheetah that left her babies with a wildlife photographer while she went off and did stuff? That but it’s merman bruce finally trusting fisherman clark and putting merbabies on his boat one by one to Clark’s increasing anxiety and panicked questions (which bruce doesn’t even acknowledge) so he can go off and hunt for a little while

[sreppub]

fishies updated.... sometimes u never stop being a useless fangirl of ur friend's fics

[deltaomicronfive]

Hey kids! Don't smoke. Just don't do it. It affects your body in the worst ways possible, even if you never get cancer.

Hey kids who smoke! You are still fucking worthy of love, dignity and respect and anyone who mistreats you because of your addiction alone is a fucking cop.

[thesulkycroissant]

dick & babs calling bruce "boss" frequently in the 90s/2000s comics is really fun to me because in my heart of hearts i imagine it's a holdover from them being young teens and being halfway between mocking and sincere but over time it's become so familiar to them that it's just affectionate really at this point as bruce's success rate at telling them what to do has definitely gone downhill significantly

[ataraxetta]

Do y'all remember years and years before we had AI writing fake human there was that guy on twitter writing fake AI, like "I forced a bot to watch 1000 hours of x and write a script", and he had a batman one and it had a joke like "Joker gives Batman a gift. It is a coupon for new parents. It is expired." ??? I need to track it down it was so so funny to me

[ataraxetta]

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