bat…man

[saggeses]

by any chance could you rec the foundational sid/geno fics and/or some of your faves they compell me but i'm a newbie to hockey

oh absolutely! i hope you enjoy <3 i also tried to section them out by certain categories

here's ones that i consider "foundational"

some other beginning's end by turningterrific

up on the arbor to your door (and more) by oflights

the state of marriage by ibear

all the way through by sevenfists

general favs:

anything that touches by saysthemagpie

looking forward by so_shhy

they say love heals all wounds by deastar

to be seen aright by deastar

the real thing by sevenfists

icebreaker by omelet

A/B/O

the biblical sense by sevenfists

base notes by snickfic

you're the greatest thing by robertgrrey

staying afloat by robertgrrey

ps i tried to directly link to all these fics but the links broke while i was saving them :/ but theyll be easy to find on the author's ao3

happy reading!

[attacusmoth]

Talia Al Ghul 💕 This was my first try at going from grayscale to colour, so it's a little rough, but she literally deserves all of the art please I love her 🫶🫶

[nickrbg]

Can’t resist making it a whole thing ahahah

It’s just so so so them

[plamtrees]

“tim was so and so love child” “tim was this love child”

to ME Tim was sprung from Bruce’s brain like athena from zeus

[nicomoru]

Was talking to a friend about how, in a body swap situation, I think Clark (who only has experienced pain under special circumstances) would not do too well in Bruce’s body (who on average has a couple stab wounds, a couple bruised ribs, and chronic back pain)

[anord-ink]

When your little brother dies and comes back wrong (taller than you)

[skulltimacy]

[possumtion]

Roumd…

[mikaelthegreat-deactivated20260]

Mitski - Why Didn't You Stop Me?

01/02/03/04

[storybookprincess]

so a very long time ago, my dad worked with an arson investigator

this guy was often one of the first people on the scene following a suspected arson, once emergency services had done what they needed to do. at times, there were also civilians on the periphery. often, they were freaking out, and understandably so; their home or workplace had just, quite literally, gone up in smoke

this investigator wouldn’t try to calm them down. he wouldn’t comfort them or be a shoulder to cry on.

instead, he’d walk up to the person most visibly losing their shit, hand them a fire extinguisher, and say “hey, can you keep an eye out for any other fires, and if you see one, can you put it out with this?”

of course, there was no actual risk of another fire. he wouldn’t be on the scene investigating if there was even a chance that the fire wasn’t completely put out. but the bystander didn’t need to know that

because that person, without fail, would immediately pull it together, take the fire extinguisher, and stand guard. they were, at least temporarily, calm enough for this investigator to do this job

my dad has told me the parable of the fire extinguisher a hundred times, and i think about it a lot. i think about what it says about people and crises. i think about what it says about the grounding power of having a purpose. and i think about the importance of letting someone help me through something, even if that help is just going to be another casserole to throw into the freezer, because useless or not, that fire extinguisher might be the only thing holding them together

[stebbinsfucks]

barkovitch shitting on gavries

❌ homophobic

❌ repressed

❌ jealous

stebbins shitting on gavries

✅ pushing them together by being a common enemy

✅ out

✅ swinging his legs from in the cuck chair

[kixystix]

I have some more thoughts !!!

There’s something so wild about the fact that like while all the guys are at least somewhat suicidal (expt maybe the naive ones like Curley and Harkeness) but like Ray and Pete are actively suicidal, when they meet at the drop off neither one of them thinks they’re making it out of this alive (even if Ray wins I think he knows that the soliders would shoot him for his wish) but then after like what two hours together that’s out the window, they start just walking for each other, they just want to spend time with each other for as long as possible and that is just so special! All this tragedy and horror, there is an definite end to their connection but they just keep walking because they just want to spend time together, rays feet must be torn to shreds and he still keeps walking with Pete even knowing that he’s going to let Pete win. It’s the moments that count and it just makes me so !!!!!!!!!

Anyways they’ve infected my very being and now they’re all I can think about !

[confusedmothboy]

"he's got dozens of us"

[dictearchive]

[stebbinsfucks]

imagine realizing you’re gay on the long walk because you spend the entire stretch of it being a voyeur to yaoi prime and you finally realize you’re flesh and blood at the worst moment and also your fathers here talking about balls

[skulltimacy]

“Why would you make a best friend on the long walk so stupid” drives me crazy bc that never crossed my mind as a large part in WHY pete and ray become so attached to each other is explicitly BECAUSE they are on the walk. In My Own Personal Opinion And Reading Of Course

Neither of them have anything going for them. Ray is actively suicidal, his “new territory” defense on the possibility of survival after killing the major isn’t an actual one because what he WANTS is to kill the major, he doesnt care at all abt what happens to him afterward. Winning is irrelevant to him outside of completing that goal. He doesnt consider how his mother will feel about him killing the major or even the possibility of dying on the walk because he EXPECTS to be dead at the end of the walk. He has no plans for his life afterward because he doesn’t care about anything beyond the major, even himself

And pete is an immensely lonely person coming from a background where he has no emotional or physical stability. The abuse & hostility he’s been through and perpetuated, even to the point of nearly dying, has shaped his entire world view. I think a lot of ppl forget that pete HAS hurt people, has admitted to doing so both emotionally and physically in the past, so of course he would latch onto ray, who is friendly from the very start and goes out of his way to uplift the other walkers both physically and emotionally BECAUSE he doesnt have any drive to live beyond the walk and death of the major; ray doesnt see the other walkers as competition.

pete himself knows how hard it is to extend compassion and care onto others in the face of adversity so he sees himself in ray and ray by this point in his life has given up faith in the world and life as a whole so he is drawn to pete who he sees as a genuinely good person, something he has not thought he would see in anyone after the death of his father. Even pete’s goal is abstract; he doesnt have a definitive wish beyond wanting to help people without a plan in place

Im sure they would both act differently if either of them genuinely intended to have a life after the walk. Like yea ofc they became weirdly codependent they both dgaf what actually happens to them after this

“This moment matters” wasnt just an offhanded line it was the crux of their entire friendship and subsequently the movie itself—what LITERALLY happens at the end ultimately doesnt matter bc the entire point is the walk itself and what happens on it. The reason ray and pete connect the way they do is because everything is about the moments of connection and compassion they share between life and death. Why would either of them, coming from their own backgrounds before the walk, NOT be inappropriately codependently attached after knowing each other for just five days is the real question

[skulltimacy]

Single commonality between mcvries and stebbins is that mcvries loves to mess with garraty (sexually) and stebbins also loves to mess with garraty (psychologically). Or maybe there is a sexual aspect to it for him as he is a deeply odd person. we just don’t know about that guy!

[skulltimacy]

he’s not even into garraty like that he’s just very into enraging people and ray is his easiest target so he’s in it purely for the thrill of the game. every interaction he has with pete is like “i don’t want to fuck your boyfriend i just get off on this very specific situation which transcends sexual desire for me”. Gavries and their third (some weird guy that slinks around with them)