Fandom Blatherings

she/her - not American - casual fanatic

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I just found my favourite title for a fic ever.

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Spencer Reid, drunk: "if I was autistic, could I do THIS??"

Closes his eyes and falls backwards.

Spencer Reid, from the ground: "That was supposed to be a backflip."

[zestynestyyy]

… call you but your telephone busy

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Dick Grayson: Millennial coded

-Cringe sense of humour

-Baffling retro fashion choices

-Replies in gifs

-Spams instagram stories with selfies

Jason Todd: Gen X coded

-Grunge

-Inflexible political beliefs

-Buys plain shirts in bulk because he likes what he likes

-Doesn't understand social media and doesn't want to

-Misses Ask Jeeves

-Replies almost exclusively in thumbs ups

Tim Drake: Gen Z coded

-Raised by iPad

-Googles everything

-Had a spreadsheet/app for that

-Replies to group chat with TikTok meme references and emojis that no one understands

Bruce: Boomer coded

-Ominous use of punctuation.....

-Hasn't changed jobs in 50 years

-Still dresses the way he did in the 90s

-Knows how to use the essential programs on the Batcomputer but gets lost if the icons get rearranged

-Inherited generational wealth and thinks it's normal to have a mansion

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Any really good Bart Allen or Wally West fanfics out there that don’t have them acting as side characters in a Tim Drake or Dick Grayson odyssey?

I love Tim and Dick but sometimes I wanna read about their little friends and dig into the backstories of the other characters, and I have to wade through 17 pages of Robin angst fics first.

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Fic: Reverberations

Red Hood kills the Joker in the most destructive way possible.

Gotham residents converge around the wounded hero and his shattered friends like overprotective bison.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aedandraws]

Red Head Mugshot done.

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Tim: “It’s finally happening! PARENTAL APPROVAL!!!!”

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Jason Todd and…

fan art

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some roy and lian i did for my friend^_^

[genderlessdinnerhaver]

I love them! He's such a good dad!

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Their matching nail polish is perfection

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tim being weird and scientific about sex

specifically in ways that has him making lists about things he needs to try with different variables

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The thing about having sex with Tim is, you know you’re going on The Spreadsheet.

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Fic: Too Much (1/1)

Summary: Dick gets dosed with truth serum. Everyone has a miserable time.

Excerpt:

“You know I ignore your calls sometimes?” Dick told them casually.

Tim’s jaw dropped. “You- What?” Jason looked equally stunned.

Dick held a hand in front of his face and picked at his nails. “I ignore your calls. Sometimes it’s just so… UGH. Haha.” He scratched his jaw. “’S’like, no. Not today. Fix your own fucking problems.”

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Part two now up.

Jason barges into Dick’s room and forces him to talk about feelings, to their mutual horror.

Catalina Flores/Mirage/Talia consent discussions.

Feat. Revealing conversations, bros being bros, and moving towards healing.

Excerpt:

Roy was sitting at his kitchen table at 2am, bent over a dissembled AR-15, when Red Hood crashed through his window.

“Jesus fuck!” Roy leapt up and grabbed a grenade off the table before registering who was in front of him. “Jaybird? What- Grrk.”

Red Hood had picked Roy up by his shirt and slammed him against the wall, pinning him with a heavily-armoured forearm.

“What did you do with my brother?” Hood growled, the helmet’s voice distorter turning his words into a feral growl.

“Nothing!” answered Roy immediately, before amending, “Which one?”

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[kara-zor-els]

"The worst thing to happen to Jason was his death" WRONG. The worst thing to happen to Jason was being written almost exclusively by Scott Lobdell for a decade straight.

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Justice also for Roy Harper and Kori, who were assassinated.

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Fic: Too Much (1/1)

Summary: Dick gets dosed with truth serum. Everyone has a miserable time.

Excerpt:

“You know I ignore your calls sometimes?” Dick told them casually.

Tim’s jaw dropped. “You- What?” Jason looked equally stunned.

Dick held a hand in front of his face and picked at his nails. “I ignore your calls. Sometimes it’s just so… UGH. Haha.” He scratched his jaw. “’S’like, no. Not today. Fix your own fucking problems.”

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Fic idea:

Red Hood uses rubber bullets and kills someone anyway.

If you’re feeling angsty, he gravely wounds Nightwing, who either jumped in front of the bullet or was hit accidentally because he was doing something flippy too close to the fight.

Because “Red Hood doesn’t kill” is one thing, but “…so he uses rubber bullets” is another.

Rubber bullets can be absolutely lethal and I feel like the fandom doesn’t exploit the angst potential nearly enough.

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This is how big rubber bullets are btw

I figured I'd leave this here in case a DC writer feels like realizing their mistakes.

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Also, Batman, pushing people off buildings/into vats of mysteriously-steaming chemicals is basically like murdering them. FYI.

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Fic idea:

Red Hood uses rubber bullets and kills someone anyway.

If you’re feeling angsty, he gravely wounds Nightwing, who either jumped in front of the bullet or was hit accidentally because he was doing something flippy too close to the fight.

Because “Red Hood doesn’t kill” is one thing, but “…so he uses rubber bullets” is another.

Rubber bullets can be absolutely lethal and I feel like the fandom doesn’t exploit the angst potential nearly enough.

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Red Hood doing the “I am Jason Todd!” reveal but he’s got a domino mask under his helmet like a drama queen and they don’t recognise him right away.

So he gets out this little tube of solvent to dissolve the glue and he’s like, “Hang on, one sec,” while Batman, Nightwing, and Robin are standing there awkwardly wondering if they should just take him down.

And Red Hood’s trying to open the tiny tube but he can’t do it with his massive thick gloves so he tries opening it with his teeth and then it’s like, “Arg, it got in my mouth, pleh pleh pleh!”

And so he finally gets one glove off and spreads the solvent around, but it takes a little while to dissolve so he filibusters for a bit.

“You’ll be devastated when you see what I’m about to show you,” Red Hood tells Bruce, setting a 3 minute timer on his watch. “It will bring you to your knees. I can’t wait.”

And Nightwing’s like, “Jesus Christ can I just scissor-kick this guy already?”

And Batman and Robin are like, “No no, let’s see where this goes.”

And then Red Hood starts slowly peeling the mask but it snags. “Ow, fuck. Sorry. Hang on, you can’t rush this. Gimme a sec.”

And he’s just pulling the mask off in millimetres, hissing, occasionally applying more solvent.

And finally he’s standing there with this shiny red face with half his eyebrows missing like, “Ta da!”

And Batman’s had six minutes to process this because he recognised Jason when the mask was 1/3 of the way off, but he didn’t want to say anything and make it awkward.

This would be even more embarrassing if Red Hood had the mask dangling half-stuck to his face. So Batman just lets it happen.

“Oh my gosh!” he says, trying to feign surprise like a good dad. “Jason!”

And Robin’s like, “Oh wow, that was a really good reveal!” Because he wants to get on his new big brother’s good side.

And Nightwing’s appalled. “Did you steal my Gotham U hoodie six years ago, you little shit?”

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I just found this on TikTok IN THE WILD 😭😭😭😭

TikTok - Make Your Day

This is the coolest thing ever