Chapter 19 of Always & Forever, Out Now!
Summer has ended and Seth and Duncan are going back to school. How will this affect their relationship? Read to find out
Read from me on Wattpad here:
https://www.wattpad.com/1628151939-always-forever-an-original-work-four-years-ago
Read from my coworker emonemo here:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/77096741/chapters/222234661
Chapter 18 of Always & Forever- Out now~
Duncan spends Thanksgiving at home, then with his friends Seth and Joel.
Read it from me on wattpad:
https://www.wattpad.com/1626513575-always-forever-an-original-work-current-day
Read it from my co-author emonemo on ao3:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/77096741?view_full_work=true#kudos
Chapter 17 of Amnesia Out Now- Promises of More-
Percy remembers more about his past in his dreams, and the boys go on a date to the comic book store.
Read it from me on Wattpad here:
https://www.wattpad.com/1625891784-amnesia-a-percico-fanfiction-promises-of-more
Read it from my co-author emoemo on AO3:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/77098051/chapters/221771701#workskin
In the context of this survey and its results, I will be using the word "Batcest" to mean any pairing between two or more members of the "Batfamily", as defined using the following characters: Bruce Wayne, Barbara Gordon, Dick Grayson, Cassandra Cain, Jason Todd, Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake, Duke Thomas, Damian Wayne, and Alfred Pennyworth.
I included only the characters I regularly see in conversation about incest with at least one other character listed. This survey is largely about how different pairings are perceived in fandom, and how whether or not someone ships a certain pairing affects their likelihood to view it as incest. I am not, nor should you be, treating it as an objective determination as to whether or not "Batcest" is actually incest.
With 422 participants and 45 pairings combinations, I could just throw the raw data table at you and call it a day, but that's a lot of information all at once, so here's how this post is structured.
In the first part of this post, I will be covering the responses to the main section of the survey ("Is It Incest?" and "Do You Ship It?") in both a brief overview and a full break down by character.
After that, I will go over the responses to the optional section of the survey. Most of this part is a pretty straightforward, but I did have some fun with comparing the results from different demographics of participants.
At the end, I have included the link to a document containing all of the answers to the final question, the free response. I have also pulled several individual answers to that question to highlight throughout this post; one will be added at the end of each section. Let's start off with what is, undoubtedly, my favourite:
"Dick/Donna is more incestuous than any batcest ship, including the blood related ones"
Is It Incest?
I'm sure no one is shocked at the news of Bruce/Damian taking the number one spot for most incestuous Batcest pairing at a strong 99.29%. The next highest pairing is Bruce/Jason, with a consensus from 75.11% of participants for being incest.
Only 26.67% of Batcest pairings were voted as incest by 50% of participants or more, half of which are Batman/Robin pairings. The only pairing in the top five not between a Batman and Robin duo is Bruce/Cass.
I think even if they call each other “brothers”, none of them have any idea what a real family is like. In the real world, your adopted sibling/child is obviously your “real” sibling or child. But the “family” dynamics in Batman are so genuinely troubling that any potential “incest” is honestly the least of their worries…
It Isn't Incest!
Unsurprisingly, the bottom half of these numbers are dominated by Barbara Gordon, Stephanie Brown, and Duke Thomas. In particular, none of Steph's pairings made it above 10% of votes for being incest, while the only one of Barbara's pairings to make it above 3% was Barbara/Cass. It's only fitting, then, that the pairing with the lowest incest rating across the board was one of Barbara Gordon's: Barbara/Duke, with a stunning 0.95% of the votes for it being incest.
Congratulations to Barbara Gordon/Duke Thomas for being the least problematic Batcest ship!
They top the list of the 35.56% of pairings that received less than a 10% incest rating.
Someone told me out loud once that shipping Dick and Babs was incest and that was so ridiculous I went from anti-batcest to pro-batcest. Y'all have fun with whatever ships you want, I believe in you
It Is Incest & I Ship It!
Dick/Tim may not have been voted the most incestuous Batcest pairing, but the consensus from the shippers seems to be in. They take first place for the most voted pairing under the "Incest (I ship it)" option by a pretty clear margin, with 27.01% of participants selecting that answer. That means 42.86% of participants who view Dick/Tim as incest also ship them, and 62.64% of participants who ship them also view them as incest.
24.45% of pairings received more than 10% of votes for the "Incest (I ship it)" option.
I think it all really depends on the era and author and is super up to interpretation. I think a lot of people would consider Jason & Bruce to be family, but Jason essentially disowns Bruce in UTH, so are they no longer related? Or DamiTim & JayTim, I wouldn't consider them brothers in post-crisis, but could definitely see that argument for modern day. Or like, JayTim especially, Jason explicitly mocks the idea of them being brothers in RHatO, but Tim says Jason is the closest thing he's had to a brother in TT2011. Oh and CassDuke! I personally feel their B&tO2019 interactions suggest a more sibling-like relationship for them, but since they don't really show up together outside of that we don't really get to see the full depth of their relationship. Basically I am saying it is all vibes and not easy to define, much like family IRL lol. And also that if I took this survey again right now my answers would probably be different. Also despite not really liking my ships to be incestuous DickTim is my fav… I don't want to talk about it… Their love transcends my shipping preferences….
Batcest Breakdown!
Here's the point where I start throwing numbers at you and trust you to parse it yourself, okay? We're going rapid-fire down the list of Batfamily members. This is all the data from the first section of the survey, organised for your viewing pleasure.
Bruce Wayne
Most Incestuous: Bruce/Damian (99.29%)
Least Incestuous: Bruce/Barbara (2.60%)
Most Shipped: Bruce/Dick (47.63%)
Least Shipped: Bruce/Barbara (9.71%)
Most Shipped as Incest: Bruce/Jason (22.27%)
Most Shipped as Not Incest: Bruce/Dick (27.96%)
Barbara Gordon
Most Incestuous: Barbara/Cass (18.72%)
Least Incestuous: Barbara/Duke (0.95%)
Most Shipped: Barbara/Dick (52.13%)
Least Shipped: Barbara/Alfred (1.42%)
Most Shipped as Incest: Barbara/Cass (8.29%)
Most Shipped as Not Incest: Barbara/Dick (51.18%)
Dick Grayson
Most Incestuous: Dick/Damian (70.38%)
Least Incestuous: Barbara/Dick (2.37%)
Most Shipped: Barbara/Dick (52.13%)
Least Shipped: Dick/Alfred (5.45%)
Most Shipped as Incest: Dick/Tim (27.01%)
Most Shipped as Not Incest: Barbara/Dick (51.18%)
Cassandra Cain
Most Incestuous: Bruce/Cass (66.12%)
Least Incestuous: Cass/Steph (4.50%)
Most Shipped: Cass/Steph (71.57%)
Least Shipped: Cass/Alfred (1.66%)
Most Shipped as Incest: Cass/Tim (12.09%)
Most Shipped as Not Incest: Cass/Steph (68.25%)
Jason Todd
Most Incestuous: Bruce/Jason (75.11%)
Least Incestuous: Barbara/Jason (2.84%)
Most Shipped: Jason/Tim (56.03%)
Least Shipped: Jason/Alfred (3.79%)
Most Shipped as Incest: Dick/Jason (22.99%)
Most Shipped as Not Incest: Jason/Tim (39.34%)
Stephanie Brown
Most Incestuous: Bruce/Steph (8.06%)
Least Incestuous: Barbara/Steph (1.90%)
Most Shipped: Cass/Steph (71.57%)
Least Shipped: Steph/Alfred (1.90%)
Most Shipped as Incest: Cass/Steph (3.32%)
Most Shipped as Not Incest: Cass/Steph (68.25%)
Tim Drake
Most Incestuous: Dick/Tim (63.03%)
Least Incestuous: Barbara/Tim (2.13%)
Most Shipped: Jason/Tim (56.03%)
Least Shipped: Tim/Alfred (5.22%)
Most Shipped as Incest: Dick/Tim (27.01%)
Most Shipped as Not Incest: Steph/Tim (46.68%)
Duke Thomas
Most Incestuous: Bruce/Duke (29.15%)
Least Incestuous: Barbara/Duke (0.95%)
Most Shipped: Tim/Duke (14.14%)
Least Shipped: Duke/Alfred (1.42%)
Most Shipped as Incest: Tim/Duke (3.71%)
Most Shipped as Not Incest: Tim/Duke (10.43%)
Damian Wayne
Most Incestuous: Bruce/Damian (99.29%)
Least Incestuous: Barbara/Damian (2.14%)
Most Shipped: Tim/Damian (28.44%)
Least Shipped: Damian/Alfred (2.61%)
Most Shipped as Incest: Dick/Damian (16.11%)
Most Shipped as Not Incest: Tim/Damian (14.22%)
Alfred Pennyworth
Most Incestuous: Bruce/Alfred (52.37%)
Least Incestuous: Barbara/Alfred (1.90%)
Most Shipped: Bruce/Alfred (11.13%)
Least Shipped: Duke/Alfred (1.42%)
Most Shipped as Incest: Bruce/Alfred (5.92%)
Most Shipped as Not Incest: Bruce/Alfred (5.21%)
And that closes out all I have for the main part of the survey. Now, we venture into the scary world of nuance.
Interpersonal relationships for incestual Batcest ships should involve consistent character work, and not just a singular panel in which a familial title is used. The use of familial titles automatically implying incestual vibes removes either 1, bad writing or 2, the nuance for family dynamics and language that isn't 100% USAmerican nuclear family-centric. A "Batcest" ship being full incestual should require a consistently written familial relationship that develops overtime. While adopted siblings are "real" siblings in any context, the Batfamily is not representative of what a typical adopted family looks like, and often adoption or legal guardianship was not to foster relationships, but rather to solve current plot issues. For example, while Jason and Tim may be technically, adopted siblings, there has been no shown history of them fostering brotherly love for each other in the way that Dick and Tim did- even prior to Tim's adoption. "Adoption" is not a bludgen that can be used to make a ship incestual in a world where the only real thing these characters have in common is beating the same criminals up regularly. (and in the case of those with genuine familial relationships they are not real so shipping them reflects nothing on real-life adopted siblings.)
What Is Batcest?
For the question of how each of you determines whether or not a ship is Batcest, you were provided with two default options and an option to submit your own criteria.
According to the 65.94% of participants who took mercy on me and chose one of the two clearly defined and easily understandable options, "Batcest" is:
"Any ship between two members of the Batfamily": 22.63%
"Any ship that I personally consider incest": 43.31%
Over in nuance land, 9.49% of participants selected the "Other" option without submitting their own answer. 24.57% of the total participants in this survey, however, provided their own response. Here's a few that best showcase the kinds of responses submitted:
"ngl this wording confuses me a little like yes batfam ships can be called batcest but i dont think the cest suffix makes it bad its just like selfcest…"
"I dont consider ships with Steph, Babs or Duke to be Batcest because they feel seperate from the "Batfam" conceptually"
"Any ship between two that are legally or biologically family"
"Depending on actual interactions in canon comics. there has to be a deep bond that is familial."
"I don't think any of them (except Damian + Bruce) are incest, but rather some of them are incestuous. BruCass is something I see as already mildly incestuous in the comics, though not incest. Everyones relationships are ridiculously complicated, and it also depends on the timeline of their relationship. Bruce x Tim early on wouldn't be incestuous because they've yet to see each other as family, but they do grow to have that relationship eventually, in which case it would be incestuous."
"Both based on either legal relationship or individual personal repationship vibes. My stabdards areretty arbitrary. I can also have paralell different interpretation of the same relationship for fun."
"if theyre related?????"
"It depends on the specific relationships between characters. Age gaps, who raised whom, and being raised together all factor into the decision. Being blood-related like Dami and Bruce also plays a factor. Bruce didn't raise Steph or Babs, so it's not incest. Dick viewing Bruce as a father is a new development in comics and media. Not incest."
"BruDami is the only ship that is incest, but I guess I would consider another ship incest if I were to consume or create fanworks for it in a way that played up familial dynamics (homemade incest for kinky shipping purposes, I suppose?), but to me something isn't incest unless it's incest."
"If the characters on a one to one connection have been shown in canon material to reliably view one another as a specific family member (even if adoptive)."
Perhaps I should have put the next question before this one? In my opinion, an extremely significant portion of the answers this question received are from people who seem to view the term "Batcest" as synonymous with "incest"—and as such, would fall under the "Batcest is any ship that I personally consider incest" category—but I didn't want to arbitrate people's responses if they didn't choose that option themself.
batcest is a term i use for sake of clarity, so there are ships i consider incestuous (e.g. cass/babs) that technically don't fall under the net i cast when i say batcest. that's why i define it through legal relation, even though that's dead last in importance, out of the aspects i considered when sorting ships into the incest/not incest categories. average anti-batcest person considers damijay and brutim batcest, but does not think dickbabs or stephcass is.
whether a batcest ship is incest heavily depends on continuity to me, so for the sake of this form I voted based on my impression of current mainline comics. (e.g. I put jaytim as incest, but in post-crisis it is not. stephcass would be incest in wfa i guess, but it clearly isn't in mainline comics.) other ships are even more muddled. whether dickjay is incest depends on how we're interpretating their relationship during jason's robin era, since people range from 'barely knew each other/dick hated jason' to 'they were brothers and hung out all the time and went train surfing and on ski trips and so on'. dickjay fics where dick's a talon or whatever and the two of them haven't met obviously aren't incest.
i do not ship batcest ships, mostly because the pseudo-incestuous nature of it is a squick. however, in my experience, i find their dynamics extremely bland when that pseudo-incestuous element is not present. the entire batfamily is full of extremely complex people with equally complicated interpersonal relationships, and ignoring their close familial bonds in favor of something strictly romantic/platonic turns them into paper cutouts. batcest ships are far, far more interesting if they have both a familial and romantic/sexual relationship at the same time. unfortunately that also grosses me out.
(i suspect having the familial relationship in the past could be interesting as well, but i stopped seeking out batcest fanwork a long time ago, so i don't know how that looks in practice.)
What Is Incest?
Okay, now, we're getting dicey. Maybe Batcest is incest, but what qualifiers are people even using to determine what is and isn't incest?
This one was a multiple choice question, so why did so many participants use the "Other" option to inform me that they believe it's some combination of the four instead of just selecting all applicable options? The world may never know. I do respect the eleven separate people who used this option to submit the word "vibes", though.
Thank you for including the "transitive relation" category, because filling this out made me realize that's my line. You gave a good example of it too, since I don't think of JayCass as incest even though I don't ship it. One important but of nuance for that question is that I (and I imagine many others) only consider comics they like when thinking about relationships. So even though Jason and Tim have called each other brothers in New52! canon, I don't count them as having interpersonal relationship because I didn't like reading those comics
Incest Please!
Between all the incest or not incest, and shipping or not shipping, and debates over what is or isn't Batcest, there is still, as always, another shade of nuance. For those who do ship Batcest, there's also a question of whether or not they prefer their pairings to have both a familial and romantic/sexual relationship.
At the same time: 34.95%
In the past: 6.18%
Never: 13.71%
No preference: 34.14%
… 11.02% of participants chose to write in their own response instead. Sigh. Let's go see those now.
"I prefer it to be addressed where it's present and the resolution of any conflict it causes to be used to add depth and enjoyable character interaction tangles. I do prefer it to be something they move away from as they realise their feelings are not as familial as they thought/have developed unexpectedly/were never familial in the first place."
"It really depends, for example I'm interested in Bruce & Cass as a platonic relationship with incestuous undertones that toys the line of a romantic/sexual relationship without ever being explicitly romantic/sexual. With DickTim I can enjoy all 3. CassTim I don't want any familial relationship between them. JayTim (though I don't particularly care for it) I also don't want to see in an incestuous relationship. Steph and Barbara I don't view as having any familial relationships except for a sisterly/brotherly (though I wouldn't call them siblings) bond with Damian (Steph), and a somewhat motherly/sisterly but not really bond with Cass (Babs)."
"my shipping preferences change based on my mood for what I'd like to read. Sometimes I prefer the Batcest to have only romatic and/or sexual relationships, sometimes I prefer the Batcest to have both familial and romantic and sexual relationships because the familial relationship adds a certain level of spicy angst and je ne sais quoi to the pairing"
"sometimes the "some people would consider this incest" is a fun thing to play with, sometimes it isn't. I don't love when the familial ties are completely erased in an attempt to claim it's incest free, because it changes the vibes."
"either, the familial connection can add to the dynamic but it's not necessary to the ship"
"Depends on the ship tbh… I just don't like it when things are forced to be familial when they're not in canon but I do like the incest flavor lol"
"depends on the fic, a story that's going to delve into resolving feelings of discomfort over legal relations or a past sense of siblinghood vs a smut fantasy fic that's going to play into the incest kink vs a fic that just has two hot people mentored by the same people e.g. stephcass all offer different things"
"I can like both. But even when the relationship is non-familial I like that the weirdness of the connection or outside perception is acknowledged. I think it's interesting."
"Depends what I'm in the mood for. It can be interesting to explore the intersection of societal expectation for people adopted by the same man versus their own feelings."
"i am mainly always a brudick girlie and i prefer for their bond to be so ephemeral and impossible to describe that it neither counts as fully familial or fully romantic/sexual <3 that said i really do not like when people really lean into the "incesty" elements of it all, yknow? i just want them to have a bond unnknowable to any other human being"
Alright, reasonable use of the nuance section. You may all proceed to the next stage of the test.
I like incest in shipping and I feel like it elevates many ships, but not all Batcest is incest and some of the pairings are less interesting to me if they are treated as incest.
Favourite Batcest Ship
While you were asked whether or not you ship each pairing in the first section of the form, all of us have our favourites. 78.44% of participants submitted one or more favourite Batcest pairing, while 65.64% submitted one or more least favourite Batcest pairing.
"Batkid" is an umbrella term I am using for any answer in which the participant responded with the following: "Batkid", "Robin", "Batgirl", "[the/his] kid(s)", or other variations thereof where it was clear the participant was using personal criteria to include multiple but not all of the other characters listed.
Submissions with only one pairing listed for their favourite or least favourite Batcest ship are indicated by the darker bar on the graph.
Favourite Batcest Ship
Those submissions with only one pairing listed are also the criteria by which I am ranking Jason/Tim above Bruce/Dick for the number one favourite pairing, despite both pairings tying in the number of total submissions at 89. Jason/Tim received 62 sole submissions, while Bruce/Dick received 55.
It is notable to me that these are write-in responses. I didn't provide a list of ships through a drop down menu but, rather, allowed people to type whatever they wanted into the box.
brudick is real, canonical, and will outlive us all
It's a Match!
For the question of your favourite Batcest pairing, 77.04% of participants who answered submitted only one, but 22.96% listed two or more, so which pairings were submitted together most frequently?
A match made in heaven: Bruce Wayne/Dick Grayson & Dick Grayson/Tim Drake!
They were submitted together 19 times. That's an incredible 25% of the total submissions with more than one pairing listed for their favourite Batcest ship. No other matched pairings come close to touching that number.
i don't actually ship any batcest but if i did i would ship dicktim
Which Batfamily?
There's still the lingering issue of which iteration of these characters you're talking about. Of course, there are numerous depictions of the Batfamily, but they can be defined under several broad categories. So, what was the primary engagement with Batfamily content among participants?
Comics: 82.58%
WFA: 25.54%
Films: 35.32%
TV Shows: 39.38%
Video Games: 23.15%
Fanon: 58.47%
Another multiple choice, another casualty. Not even the emphasis on primary could salvage these results.
I've been in this fandom for almost fifteen years and almost no one thought of these ships (besides BruDami) as incest back in the day. BruDick is an important part of queer history dating back almost as long as these two characters have existed. The modern concept of the "Batfam" was built by people who shipped these characters in all sorts of configurations. The moral panic over "batcest" is 90% recycled homophobia being parroted by people who don't know their history.
Canon VS Fanon
Now, why did I save the media engagement section for the end? Well, I have taken the time to isolate certain demographics to see if and how it influenced the way participants responded. With a clear split between those who said that their primary engagement with the Batfamily was through Fanon versus those who did not, here are some of the most interesting differences between those two groups.
Participants who selected Fanon as their primary engagement with Batfamily content (regardless of whether or which other options were also selected) are:
12.57% more likely to view Bruce/Dick as incest
10.78% more likely to view Bruce/Steph as incest
17.32% more likely to view Bruce/Duke as incest
27.01% more likely to view Dick/Jason as incest
18.21% more likely to view Cass/Jason as incest
16.46% more likely to view Jason/Damian as incest
11.56% more likely to view Tim/Duke as incest
16.07% less likely to view Barbara/Cass as incest
18.65% more likely to ship Dick/Jason
17.55% more likely to ship Jason/Tim
10.82% less likely to ship Bruce/Dick
14.06% less likely to ship Bruce/Cass
12.05% less likely to ship Barbara/Tim
15.02% less likely to ship Cass/Tim
29.62% more likely to engage with WFA as their primary Batfamily content
I also have a fun breakdown of the submissions for people's favourite and least favourite Batcest ships between these two groups! This was, by far, the most drastic difference between those who do and do not primarily engage with Fanon Batfamily content.
Pairings coloured green have moved up in comparison to the overall ranking, while those coloured red have moved down.
If there are any other pairings not listed here that you are curious about in the Fanon VS Canon section, feel free to send me an ask and I can pull the specifics for you.
Although I largely consider them all to be part of a family, I really resent the concept of Batfamily when it is equated to a rigid structure & defined roles. Comic books being the source of these characters allows for so many possible, valid iterations of their dynamics. That ofc makes me a bit inconsistent with what I see as incest between them, but I'd rather leave space to explore different themes (identity, repetion, exploitation, etc) and implications (of like, Dick being adopted as an adult, him almost adopting Damian himself, Tim coming to Batman instead of being 'rescued' like Dick or Jason, Steph being the one robin that doesn't somewhat resemble Bruce as child, Babs being coupled with so many of them, me in particular choosing to see Cass as more connected to Batman than Bruce, whatever else). This serves more for subtextual analysis or headcanons and fanfiction tho, I'm not too invested in shipping in canon. [EDITING CUZ I WAS JUST NOW ON TUMBLR AND SAW SOMEONE NOT INTO DC COMICS REFER TO IT AS "schrödinger's incest" AND "batman and his gaggle of orphans". RELEVANT.]
That's a Wrap!
By far, the most frequent question I've received about this survey—in my messages, asks, and even (ironically) the nuance section of the survey itself—is why I didn't include a nuance option to the question of whether or not a pairing is incest. The short answer is that I wanted numbers, not nuance.
The long answer is this: The nuance to me was a given. Even within the realm of comic-only fans, there is a vast range of interpretation to these characters and their relationships with one another. I already expected everyone to be voting based on their own different levels and kinds of engagement with the Batfamily. Adding the option for people to avoid giving a clear answer would have only produced largely ambiguous—and, therefore, largely useless—results.
It also encouraged people to actually explain their thought process in the section specifically reserved for nuance; 46.21% of participants answered the additional nuance question.
With that being said, I have promised several friends that I would provide all of the answers to the final question on the survey, and so I shall.
Batcest: Is There Nuance?
Yes, that document really is 11.8k words. Have fun!
This survey has been reopened and will remain that way should anyone be interested in submitting their own response in the future.
Take the survey!
If you look at a relationship between a father and son and your first thought is "but what if they fucked?" you're just freaky fredric wertham.
We FINISHED!!
With it being the last day in April, we've marked off everything on our bucket list!
It was just challenging enough to be a lot of fun.
Keep an eye out for what we end up doing in November~~~
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We're in the homestretch of our challenge! It's been so much fun to do, and I'd love to see what other sorts of challenges people are coming up with. We're trying to fill the nano void and are hoping to figure out something that works well for us to help us grow as writers.
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Introducing: BOTTOM CLARK WEEK 2026! An event dedicated to fanworks featuring Clark Kent, a.k.a. Superman...bottoming!
RULES:
Bottom Clark ONLY. No switching or mention of switching. Clark may dom, but he must bottom.
Generative AI is strictly prohibited. Use of generative AI will result in the banning of participation in future events.
Must be 18+ to participate. Due to the NSFW nature of the event, all creators must be adults.
All types of fanwork are welcome. Art, poetry, fanfiction, edits, threads (Twitter) and posts (Tumblr) are accepted. Get creative!
All ships are accepted and all iterations/versions of Clark are welcome.
Have FUN!
THE PROMPTS:
Day 1 / August 23: Identity porn | Pet play | First time
Day 2 / August 24: Body worship | Exhibitionism | Mommy/daddy kink
Day 3 / August 25: No capes AU
Day 4 / August 26: Lingerie | Crossdressing | Cosplay | Roleplay
Day 5 / August 27: Inappropriate use of Kryptonite
Day 6 / August 28: Marriage | Pregnancy | Omegaverse
Day 7 / August 29: Free day
Please be respectful of all creators during this event. Please tag all of your creations either on here or Twitter with the hashtag #BottomClarkWeek2026. Our Twitter account is @/supesbottom.
An additional note: Nothing is off-limits as along as it is properly tagged. For example, if your fic contains underage sex, noncon, or anything that would require tagging/warnings. Also, though the event is obviously bottom Clark-centric, for search purposes, tagging the top/bottom dynamic is highly recommended! Thank you and an AO3 collection will be made at the conclusion of the event.
Additional clarification on "no capes AU," for those who may be wondering: Feel free to take as much liberty with this as you would like! You may make Clark human if you wish, or you may keep him Kryptonian who is not Superman. You may keep him as Superman, but change other aspects of his life. Basically, it's a chance where you can make Clark still Clark but put him in an alternate universe; no capes AU is just a catchy term. If you ever wanted to make Clark work for Lex at Lex/LuthorCorp and live out a secretary/personal assistant AU, this is for you. Hell, you can make him work for Bruce at Wayne Industries--whether or not Bruce knows his secret identity. Get creative with it!
Jon: Sometimes I think Damian married me for my farmland
Colin: Why'd you say that?
Damian: *arrives on the back of a horse Jon's never seen before* Rouhi! This is Blackjack! They were going to kill him for losing too many races. He's ours now.
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