because i am incapable of entering a fandom without consuming a shit ton of fics.
relationships: artemis’s familial relationships, artemis/wally
summary: Artemis leaps to her feet, vaults over the couch and tries to punch him, red hot fury pouring through her veins. How dare he be like that, how dare he say something like that, how dare—
Robin grabs her arms, holding her back. “Hey, c’mon now, he didn’t mean anything by it!”
“What did I say?” Wally demands.
“I’m trans, you ass,” Artemis snaps.
poster’s note: i love a good trans fic, and i love a good character study and this is both. i highly recommend it.
summary: Ten years after the Reach failed on Earth, Jaime Reyes goes on with his life, day by day. So, too, does Bart Allen.
poster’s note: if you have ever in your life thought “hm, i wonder what jaime and bart are like when they’re all grown up and married” this is your fic. like wow. you have to read this. jaime’s a doctor and the scarab’s a little shit, and bart’s the flash, and jaime has a flash pinup okay. you need this.
also, since this is the first bluepulse fic on the list i’d like to mention that i’m not recommending every single bluepulse fic that i like, because then this rec list would be waaaaayyyyyy too long. this is restricted to my absolute favorites.
by: walkawayfromemptygold
relationships: zatanna & giovanni, zatanna/artemis
summary: How Zatanna deals with Doctor Fate.
poster’s note: if you were disappointed by the lack of zatanna focus in the second season, this fic is for you. if you were disappointed that they didn’t focus more on the way that her dad becoming doctor fate affected her, read this fic. if you were disappointed that there was no snaibsel reunion, read this fic.
if you like zatanna zatara at all read this damn fic.
by: the author orphaned it
summary: Birthday fic for a friend. Bart and Jaime end up body swapped.
poster’s note: i just really love body swap fics and jaime and bart.
blue like a prison, a kiss and a dream
pairings: jaime/bart, jaime/bart/khaji da
summary: Bart Allen was born to a soulmate who was already dead.(Bluepulse Soulmate AU) Bart goes back to the past to kill the Blue Beetle, only to find out Jaime Reyes is his soulmate. Things get… complicated after that.
poster’s note: warnings for tentacle sex at the end. also, the timeline is wildly different from the show, but the heart of the pairing and the way that they get together still feels like the show. plus, the characterization of khaji da is cool and i can… understand adding him into the dynamic even if it sorta squicks me.
mainly, i like it because bart was born with a dead soulmate and jaime doesn’t get his mark until bart comes back, so it’s a really interesting take on the trope.
pairings: artemis/kaldur and m’gann/connor
summary: "What concerns me is the children. We now know the league is willing to employ young heroes to do their dirty work. That’s a dark twist.“
A darker twist. The Light employs the young would-be heroes. Recovery of Dark!TeamAU.
poster’s note: this fic is so interesting! it places all the members of the original team except wally on the light, and builds a really interesting dynamic and backstory for each of them. if you’re looking for a mirrorverse of young justice, this is definitely for you.
relationships: every platonic relationship artemis has, artemis/wally, and artemis/dick
summary: Most people only die once, but Artemis always was one of a kind. [Before, during, and after Depths.]
poster’s note: this is a fantastic look at the way that artemis’s “death” affected everyone involved. like hot damn this is a good fic. also it has minor zatanna/raquel which is my jam.
additional fandom: under the red hood
relationships: jason todd & dealing with his death, the batfamily, artemis/wally, jaime/bart, the flash family, artemis & bart
series summary: the first fic focuses on jason todd’s trip to the young justice universe. in the second fic, wally ends up in jason’s universe after “dying” and shit goes down in the young justice universe, with bart at the epicenter.
poster’s note: a great fic series. there are some spelling errors that you might find glaring to begin with, but the overall writing is very good. the plot and characterization is solid, the character relationships all feel natural, and it’s one of my favorite pieces of yj fic because it focuses on all my favorite characters and does a good job with them.
pairings: kaldur/red arrow roy
summary: It was only a matter of time. Or, Kaldur'ahm of Shayeris Can Fool The World, But He Still Hasn’t Learned How To Lie To Roy Harper
poster’s note: i really love this author’s stuff, but this is my favorite of their kaldur/roy fics. it’s the fic that sold me on this ship.
drunken asshole guilt-party rumpus 2016
relationships: artemis & kaldur, past artemis/wally and kaldur/red arrow roy
summary: The Invasion’s over, Wally’s dead, Dick is busy avoiding everyone, M'gann and Superboy are on Mars, and all Artemis Crock wants is to get drunk on Kaldur’s couch and talk about her feelings.Too bad things never go the way she wants them to.
poster’s note: you need this in your life. like, if you’re at all interested in artemis or kaldur’s characters you need this fic in your life.
summary: It was his smile, his touch, his warmth… but it wasn’t him. Hollow, mind-numbing panic begins to percolate through Bart’s skin. His heart throbs, shuddering in attempts to break free of the prison his chest has suddenly become. The back of his throat tastes caustic from the hot surge of bile. He swallows it back down, clearing his throat.
"How long?” Some part of his mind, the logical part, already knows, but he can’t accept it. Isn’t willing to. He wants to foolishly believe it hasn’t been that long, because that makes the taste of guilt milder, but he knows, he knows.
poster’s note: i thought that i’d better give warnings on this one because it’s.. warnings worthy. there’s some sexual content in this fic and both boys are underage (bart’s thirteen, jaime’s age isn’t stated), plus the consent is really, really dubious. i would probably go as far as to say that it’s mutually nonconsensual because jaime’s on mode and bart’s been tricked and coerced by a jaime who’s not jaime.
a lot of the fic deals with the after effects of that, and it’s really good, but if that is going to freak you out then this is not the fic for you.
relationships: bart allen & the abstract concept of legacy, wally & queen perdita
summary: There are 7 billion people in the world, and only 100 know about Wally’s sacrifice. Bart wants to change this, but he’s not sure how, or if, he can.
poster’s note: this fic is such a good look at superhero lineages and legacies, and bart’s character, and also it has queen perdita who is my favorite minor character.
summary: M'gann M'orzz has always been fascinated by the human concept of love, the special bond between a man and a woman. But when she finds herself falling for a snarky, blond, and undeniably female archer, she doesn’t know what to do. So she hides her feelings and tries to move on with her life.
Then one night, she learns that maybe she doesn’t have to.
poster’s note: everyone’s gay and everyone’s okay, the fic. or: the reason that i ship artemis/m’gann.
pairings: artemis/zatanna, past artemis/wally
summary: “Is it wrong to love two people at once?” she asks him.
poster’s note: this fic is everything i ever wanted. like, it deals with artemis’s pain over loosing wally but also makes a great case for my favorite ship with her, snaibsel. but it never disregards or devalues her relationship with wally.
it’s the way that you fake it
pairings: artemis/dick, tim/connor, and jaime/bart
summary: Dick and Artemis are not a topic of conversation, Tim’s not a stalker, and Jaime’s not sure how he and Bart are the functional ones. (Non-Superpowered High School/College AU.)
poster’s note: this is a funny little fic, and all three of the relationships are well written and tie together well. i came for the bluepulse (i’m not a big fan of traught and don’t care for timkon, the supermartian shipper i am) but all three ships worked here and i enjoyed it a lot.
relationships: lex luthor & connor
summary: Lex sues for custody of Superboy. A comedy about family dynamics.
poster’s note: connor has bad dads, but at least the one that’s a supervillain gives a shit about him. also includes the line: Please let him grow up to be a communist vegan musician, Lex quietly prayed. Please.
summary: It takes Jaime five years to see what’s been there all along.
poster’s note: this is a really great one. it’s very in character for the both of them, and has a good mix of the characters dealing with their shit and humor and fluff. the pacing feels right and the happy ending is well deserved.
also, the scarab doesn’t partake of the porn so i appreciate that. like… i like khaji da but… that’s not something i want in my life….
places no picture contains
summary: It’s the middle that really counts.
poster’s note: if you have any interest in this pairing, this is the fic you want to read. it deals with zatanna’s character and her relationship with her dad well as well.
somewhere under the rainbow series
relationships: connor kent & lois lane, lois lane/clark kent, lois lane/lex luthor, clark kent/lex luthor
summary: lois lane, clark kent and lex luthor and the way their lives intertwine. and then of course, there’s their son.
poster’s note: this is such a great fic series. it’s vague in a lot of areas that i wish that it wasn’t, but everything that it does reveal it does so wonderfully
also contains the line— "If I told you he was just a boy with terrible parents,“ Lex rasps, breath warm and uneven against Clark’s skin, "Would that make it better or worse?”
strength in all its forms
pairings: jaime/bart, past bart/omc
summary: He isn’t broken. Bart Allen has secrets, secrets that define him and that cannot be revealed. As events collide and old enemies discover what even friends do not know, the character that wears the Kid Flash uniform is only one part of his personality. Also, Blue Beetle getting kicked off a roof, ex-boyfriends, clean operations, and a Justice League just reaching the limit of what they’ll put up with.
poster’s note: this fic is really good, and really long. there is definitely a plot, and a compelling one at that, but saying that it’s a really really long bart character study wouldn’t be out of left field.
submarine, swim, all of our friends have kids (maybe we should steal one), and oh no our life’s become a no doubt song
pairings: artemis/kaldur, past artemis/wally
summary: artemis and kaldur’s relationship, from the undercover mission to their kids to wally’s return.
poster’s note: an interesting series. i feel obligated to warn for the cheating, but other than that i really love this series. i especially love the second to last one, because i feel like it explores the two’s similarities and the meat of their relationship the best.
summary: Jaime’s gaze flitted from Bart’s wide-set green eyes to the object in his hand. Suspended from a tarnished chain was a minuscule pendant with an hourglass affixed to its center. Bart’s knuckles were paling from gripping it so tightly, clutching it as if it were his lifeline, or the most precious thing in the world.
“Is that—?”
“A time-turner.”
poster’s note: the perfect hogwarts au for bluepulse. like, i can’t stress how much i love this fic enough because it works perfectly with canon but also creates it’s own little universe in less than 7k words.
relationships: jaime/bart, jaime & his family, and jaime & tye
summary: Freed from Reach control, Jaime struggles with the reality of the two months he was on mode.
poster’s note: this is my favorite jaime-centric fic. it deals with jaime’s relationships and feelings after being freed from the reach’s control so well, which is exactly what i wanted after what he went through. here’s the jaime heals fic we all need in our lives.
