#anthologia

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Counting Songs for Bitter Children

Have you read Counting Songs for Bitter Children?

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Voting ended onJan 7

Authour: @syntactition (anthologia)

Subfandom: Batman

Media: Comics

Relationships: Gen (Bruce Wayne & Dick Grayson & Tim Drake)

Year: 2015

Rating: Teen

Warnings: Minor Unhappy Ending

Summary:

He has trouble concentrating on taking notes instead of watching the substitute teacher he doesn’t know, cataloguing strengths and weaknesses and strategies, and flinches when Ives grabs his shoulder to get his attention. It’s exhausting, constantly being on guard like this. He barely got enough sleep as it was, between patrolling and school. He hadn’t thought it was even possible to feel more tired than he already did, but he’s proved himself wrong. Or, Tim and Jack Drake's relationship finally reaches the boiling point.

Submitted by @kiragecko

Submitter's comment:

I love how this fic focuses on the side effects of abuse. Hypervigilance. Broken concentration. Chronic exhaustion. Tim is a mess, and trying to cover for his dad, and it's TOO MUCH.

[uniasus]

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

Fic rec! 1K Batman fic

Summary: “I wanted this to work,” Tim says, barely more than a whisper. “I wanted – you’re my dad. You said you were going to try harder, and I. I think I believed you.”

Comments: This feels like a breakup fic, except it's between Tim and Jack. Tim is so tired of Jack never falling up on his promises, and so he just...leaves. You can see how this breaks Tim, and how it shocks Jack. And the sequel is lovely too, with Tim crashing at Dick's place and Jack trying to get ahold of Tim while Dick plays guard dog. *sigh* Truely families of choice here - in both the joining and the leaving.

[my-soliloquy-chamber]

I got some lovely comments on my old fic Anthologia recently, which made me go back a read a bit of it. Which made me remember it, and more importantly the game, fondly. And now I want to go back and play it.

But I can’t. Really, I can’t afford to go back and fall back into love and obsession with that game. I have a book of my own to write and love and obsess over.

But damn if I don’t want to. It’s so beautiful.

[venceslaugama]

[caemidraws]

I'm loving the lore behind all of your work on the Anthología page! But I was wondering if there was anything you could reveal about the lovely Mr. Corso's backstory :) 👀

So glad you've read and liked the lore on the carrd (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

I made you this to celebrate your patience

[thepreciouspurrsian]

Sail to me,

Sail to me, let me enfold you.

Here I am, here I am,

Waiting to hold you...

~~ happy birthday @my-soliloquy-chamber! ❤️🎉 Thank you for being such an amazing person, a great friend and thank you for writing Anthologia! 💕

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The Joy and the Chaos (The Demons We're Made Of)

Have you read The Joy and the Chaos (The Demons We're Made Of)?

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Voting ended onJan 29

Authour: @syntactition (anthologia)

Subfandom: Batman

Media: All Media Types

Relationships: Shippy (Dick Grayson/Jason Todd/Tim Drake)

Year: 2018

Rating: Teen

Warnings: Implied/Referenced Death, Minor Unhappy Ending

Summary:

“Tim?” The word is a whisper on the wind, miles away for all that it’s only a few feet behind her. She doesn’t remember having taken her cowl off, but the same frozen wind that carries the voice to her is nipping at her cheeks and sending her hair flying over her face, briefly obscuring her view of Gotham below. “Sweetheart, what are you doing?” The voice is getting closer, and she unthinkingly shifts her weight forward, away. “Tim?”

Submitted by @kiragecko

Submitter's comment:

The TONE! It's haunting, and gorgeous, and dreamlike, and ... unsatisfying in the most satisfying way? I don't know how to describe what's going on here, but somehow the lack of a pat answer adds to the experience. (Be careful if suicide attempts are a trigger!)

[venceslaugama]