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Endophyte series .1
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Fic rec! 5K DC Comics
Summary: After Lois gets hurt because of something Batman did, Superman goes to Gotham to talk. Bruce, however, is convinced that Superman is here to hurt him. To hurt Robin.
Comments: This fic is fascinating to me, because while I have a hard time personally imagining Superman showing up to hurt Robin, and the bits from Clark’s POV show he’s not, I 100% understand why, from Bruce’s POV, he believes Clark is here to hurt Dick and Dick is panicking that Bruce is about to get hurt too. It leads to a rise-up moment for Gotham, and really sets the stage for a very different relationship between JL founding members.
The Benefactor
Have you read The Benefactor?
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Authour: @chemical-processes (Chemical_Processes), @galaxythreads
Subfandom: Batman
Media: All Media Types
Relationships: Other (Tim Drake-centric, Tim Drake ~ OC)
Year: 2025
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Implied/Referenced Underage Sex, Rape, Death
Summary:
After Tim is kidnapped, he's experiencing some strange side effects from the drug he was dosed with. And that would be enough on its own, but his kidnapper has decided to take an interest in him, and Tim is helpless to deny him anything.
Submitted by @timdrakesuperspy
Submitter's comment:
its making me fucking crazy man. its 2am and i have to be awake in 6 hours for my hour long commute to college. on a monday. but i just read this for 3 hours straight and i have so much adrenaline in me right now i could run a marathon, and i cant run due to knee problems. FUUUUUCK. this fic is so good. PLEASE read content warnings though.
Would you be interested?
Out of curiosity, I am sincerely thinking of publishing my original story on a03 and was wondering if anyone would want to read it.
I don’t know what the likelihood of me publishing is. I want to, but I don’t know if I ever could, and I still really really want to share it. The story isn’t complete, so it would be like a normal fic with the weird update schedule, but it would 100% all be mine.
Here’s the summary for reference: (of which I’m going to leave out names just in case I decide not to post on a03)
In a world where elemental magic is commonplace--but hated--seventeen-year-old [Main Character] is an abnormality among the inhuman. She’s an Elemental, one of four of the most powerful beings on Earth, and anyone who learns this wants to abuse her power. [NAME 1], a government organization dedicated to policing magic, is no different. After surviving a car crash that should have killed her, [MC] is forced into a plot by [NAME 1] to stop the Snow Queen, a young woman who cast a permanent winter across the U.S. half a decade ago. It’s a death sentence.
As [MC] prepares to fight, she meets two other Elementals and starts to grow close. With [NAME 1] keeping deadly secrets, and the Snow Queen not who she seems, suddenly this mission isn’t just about surviving anymore, it’s about keeping her newfound family safe. And [MC] would do anything for them. Even kill.
Bonus! things in the story:
Hispanic lead, found family, lots of anxiety, MagIC!, gay characters, two thumbs down to the American government, generous plot twist, (hopefully) complex plot, scars, OP characters with emotional issues about it; blend of MCU/Percy Jackson/little bit Frozen.
******PLEASE DO NOT REBLOG THIS POST*******
*show interest with likes, comments, asks, and/or DMs, please <3
If I do post, I will link the story onto tumblr and that would be the post I would ask you to reblog.
Thoughts on 12.4? I know it wasn't like a "Lucifer and Sam" episode, but when I watched the episode recently, I couldn't help noticing how tense Sam seemed through the whole thing. Every time Magna (Madgna? I can't remember XD) was called "the Devil" he'd just freeze up and look nauseous. The PTSD was so very there here. Your thoughts?
12.04 Final Thoughts
All SPN episodes are Lucifer’n’Sam episodes if you try hard enough ;) That being said, you don’t gotta try too hard in this one!
Sam defending Vince Vincente is great. Sam, I love your taste in music as much as I love your sartorial choices.
Also, Lucifer choosing a musician that Sam likes... lmaoooo. Intentional? probably not consciously, but it’s hilarious that Sam has to wonder.
Mary has left. On the nose: what’s best for a family is split them up. She’s texting with Dean, but pointedly not Sam.
Both Sam and Dean begin suspicious of the family, but once Dean hears about their ~family values~ Dean is much, much happier to buy into their framing. He’s ready to accept any weirdness in a family as long as it was meant to keep them together.
Sam’s reticence turns into open hostility. He cannot restrain his anger, not with everything he knows and everything he’s been through. “God doesn’t care what kind of live you live. God didn’t kill your daughter. You did.” There’s a lot of contempt and bitterness in his tone, but—none of it is directed towards Chuck. Sam is angry at these people for trying to deflect responsibility. He is angry that they are trying to dodge their guilt.
Having recently met SPN God, Sam finds this idea existentially comforting, that Chuck was extremely underwhelming. He isn’t some grand and ineffable arbiter of morality. Sam has struggled for so long with his feelings of impurity, and uncleanliness, and innate evil, and the need for redemption, and with guilt over having Transgressed… it’s a relief for him to realize that Chuck is not, in fact, someone who judges him, or someone he needs to prove his worth to. The world simply is, and God simply is, and the universe isn’t his judge. And I think this plays into the relative equanimity with which Sam accepts Chuck’s reveal in 14.20: Sam has already realized and accepted God’s mundanity.
Dean just wants to murder this poor Wiccan. Like, what if she’s said she liked her new job? Would Dean have summarily killed her because of her spiritual practices? Dean gets frustrated often about wanting to have one straightforward day on the job, but, uh. Dean. You guys are vigilante killers. You need to hold yourself to HIGH STANDARDS.
Sam’s CPS sweater looks so SOFT.
Lucifer is really present in this episode. The overt religion, the way that Magda’s family has told herself that she’s the devil, the torture, the castigation and guilt. Equating forgiveness and penance with pain and punishment is very Sam-coded. Gail says that she’s tried to keep the Devil locked away, that Magda’s “our cross to bear.” Sam locked away, Magda locked away, both of them suffering, both of them burdens to their family.
Sam’s protectiveness here is so gut-wrenching. He is terrified for Magda, he is heartbroken and furious at what’s been done to her, not just in body, but what she’s been made to believe about herself. I’ve got Dad!Sam on the brain and my heart, it hurts.
“Pain purges sin.” “No it doesn’t.” This is a lesson hard-learned. It’s a new perspective from what Sam said in 7.04 about the pain relieving his guilt. A healthier one and a much more tired one: I think it speaks to the way Sam’s coping mechanisms have moved on from the blatant denial and violent, white-knuckled I’M FINE of season 7, to the quieter, more melancholy and reserved way that Sam just fades back in later seasons.
Sam talking about being psychic! I’m kinda totally fine with Sam choosing in late seasons to totally reject his psychic stuff? a somewhat unpopular opinion I think, but I don’t think of it as a dropped or forgotten storyline. I think it makes a lot of sense for Sam to not want to touch that part of himself, a part that he knows, innate or not, was seeded and manipulated by Ruby and Lucifer. Dean’s judgment is also tied queasily into the whole thing, of course, but even without that element Sam has tons of good reasons to disown it.
Sure was weird that the last few seconds of this episode got cut off. So strange. Anyway, I’m glad Magda is doing well in her new home.
Endophyte .2
Driving night
Fanfic: Endophyte (series) / The benefactor
Fic TW: there's so much but tw SA, human trafficking, mind control, violence, manipulation...
https://archiveofourown.org/series/5321061
Endophyte .3