Fic rec: through the noise and static and the call by shipyrds (@burins)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/55543189
Summary:
Dinah doesn't even know what the woman looks like. The only piece of Oracle she has is that voice, and meanwhile Oracle has probably dug up secrets Dinah didn’t even know she was keeping. It's something she tries not to think about, and ends up thinking about too much, rolling it over and over in her mind like a loose molar, a little painful, a little dizzying.
Continuity: Post-Crisis
Era: Modern Age (1985–now)
Comic/Comic arc: Birds of Prey (1999)
Main Characters: Barbara Gordon, Dinah Lance
Main Relationships: Barbara Gordon/Dinah Lance
Comment: n/a
Beyond the onslaught of comestibles are Ma and Pa Kent. They’re seated next to each other, which isn’t traditional, and also makes this feel even more like a job interview Bruce is failing. He thinks. He’s never actually had a job interview, never mind failed at one. That may be part of the problem.
“So,” he begins, a tentative foray into the awkward silence broken only by the sounds of Jonathan’s fork scraping mashed potatoes onto his plate. “How’s the, ah, harvest this year?”
“Bad,” Jonathan says, and does not elaborate.
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Three visits to Smallville over a year.
Submitted by Astro
Submitter's comment:
This is SO PAINFULLY AWKWARD for Bruce, trying hard to be liked and not finding a single opening. It makes my tummy CLENCH so much. Great fic.
Is there a fic concept you have that you'd like to just explain and share because you're not sure you'll ever write it? If so, what is it?
I have way too many WIPs as it is so idk if I'll ever get to this but I have the dregs of an idea for a SQX + SWD fic set during their adolescent/young-adult transient waif cultivators-in-training era that's just............ extremely dire. abuse cw for like, all of this below jkdfhg
my vision is something from SWD POV that really gets into the muck re: what exactly one's mindset towards one's sibling must be in order to do... the things... that he does. and exploring the idea that like. in the way of many abusive dynamics, the relationship is structured around the idea of "you need me, you're weak and fragile and can't manage on your own and it's a good thing you have someone like me who loves you more than anyone else ever will and protects you from all the things you couldn't handle," but in fact the more dominant party is the one with the fragile ego that's dependent on having this lesser status person to provide for on conditional terms. like, they achieve feelings of agency and personal power through being in control of this other person, and they can't bear to consider that their lesser status person could actually manage as a whole human being without them--that would undermine their whole worldview and sense of self.
I have no actual plot ideas, I just keep getting my interest captured by the pre-ascension life-on-the-run period where SQX is living as a boy/young man after a childhood of being raised by a girl, and the variety of crossed streams and places of internal confusion about how to understand their self-concept and navigate the relationship with SWD now, while SQX is trying really hard to seem Normal to the outside world despite all the turbulence going on around them... but all of that filtered through SWD's eyes, I guess????
genuinely the main reason I have not put pen to paper wrt this in any way is that all the reasons I find it super compelling and fascinating are also reasons why I would find it quite hellish and upsetting to write... also like, oh the joys of writing something that is not "shipping fic" and has no obviously "over the line" events but where it would also feel irresponsible to not give it an incest content warning because there's enough of a radioactive vibe i feel like it could be triggering in that regard anyway
there are certain kinds of dark content i find neutral or even fun to write because i feel in control of the events and can do thought experiments about "extreme" emotions or situations and it just feels quite "safe", but this falls into a different category of being emotionally realistic enough and distanced enough from the more elevated "genre"-y elements that i think it would be cathartic to write but also super draining and dredge up a lot of Stuff !
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Additional Tags:
Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, Rule 63, Porn with Feelings, (they're cis lesbians), Cunnilingus, Temperature Play, mild d/s with top lwj, almost tagged heat waves like an absolute fool, anyway it's a summer fic
Word count: 4k
Summary:
Wei Ying freezes, her leg hitched up awkwardly against the baseboard, her fingers still half into herself. Lan Zhan is standing in the entryway, looking at Wei Ying, her roommate of three years, who has been jerking off in the hallway outside the bathroom and saying her name. In a very uncharacteristic move, she has dropped her bags on the floor.
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oh my god they were roommates
Fic rec: to the morning come by shipyrds (@burins)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/58890925
Summary:
Clark was curled up on his couch with takeout and the Criterion channel, picking at the worn place in his sock where his invulnerable toe was poking through the not-invulnerable fabric, when the call came.
"It's Jason," Bruce said, on the other end of the League communicator, and Clark was in Gotham so quickly that he almost forgot to put shoes on, which was saying something, because they were built into his costume.
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Under the Red Hood, but Superbat this time.
Continuity: Post-Crisis
Era: Modern Age (1985–now)
Comic/Comic arc: Batman: Under the Hood, Post-Batman (1940) #641
Main Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd
Main Relationships: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent & Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne
Comment: Canon Divergent AU. Great SuperBat relationship characterization throughout! Submitted by @flibbertygigget.
“Well, that was fun,” Tim said, his hands shoved into his pockets. “It was a nice plan, but you know us. We can just drive back to San Francisco and I’ll get a flight.”
Kon looked at his posture, the quintessentially Tim tilt of his head. “No, dude, are you kidding me? You’re gonna deny me this rite of passage? Get back in the car. It’s gonna be epic.”
Tim had smiled, a big bright thing that lasted all the way until they got back on the highway and Kon tried to fight him for the aux cord because like hell was he going to listen to the same Marina and the Diamonds EP for 57 hours.
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tim and kon go on an epic cross-country road trip and have some realizations!
Submitted by anon
Mutual pining that's still obvious to us as the reader even if the pov character is not picking up on the mutual part like at all. Very sweet, I read it in pieces on my breaks at work which was a MISTAKE because I soent my whole shift thinking 'I just want to get back to my roadtrip boys :('
Enjolras’ gaze drops to the phone in his hands. “Well, sort of,” he admits. “R, last night was a bad idea. I didn’t take certain things into account, and–”
“Oh, god,” Grantaire interrupts him, abruptly exhausted. "Not that I'm not incredibly eager to have this conversation," he says, "but could we table this for a time when I don't have your cum leaking out my ass?"
