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Hello! Sorry to bother but your fic link for A City of Thy Making is sending me to a website called beautiful.ai that is asking for a subscription and I wasn’t sure if I was missing something or if it’s just hosted on a different platform than usual. You can answer privately if you want, I’m just a little confused lol.

Omg, thank you for telling me! This is embarassing, lol. Definitely not on a different website! I'm a AO3 truther. It's fixed now. Here's the correct link to the fic.

Beautiful.ai is a presentation website I had to try out for college. Nothing to do with fandom or writing in general. (It's pretty lame if people can already work with powerpoint or sth else, tbh.)

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people really just walk into horror movies and expect them not to deal with uncomfortable things despite the genre being dedicated to discomfort.

i saw so many people complain that lisa frankenstein, a movie where one of the leads is famously a rotting corpse, was too gross for them. when i walked out of nosferatu, i heard people say that the nudity was uncalled for... in a vampire film. nudity? in MY gothic horror?! unheard of!

a LOT of people really need to accept that maybe some genres just aren't to their taste, idk. not every movie needs to be cookie-cutter clean. sexuality is a staple of gothic horror, if not the wider genre horror in General. you don't need to enjoy it, but it doesn't make these things uncalled for.

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30 hours into the signup window …

and we are blowing past last year's (record-setting!) numbers. Can't hardly even see them in the rear view mirror …

Last year, at 29 hours we had 223 individual creators offering 312 auctions in 88 listed fandoms and 76 write-in fandoms.

This year? Well.

We have 354 individual creators offering 496 auctions in 106 listed fandoms and 124 write-in fandoms.

That's … amazing.

The listed fandoms with the most signups (so far!) are:

48 Good Omens 48 MXTX (works) * 40 K-Pop * 31 Sherlock Holmes * 31 Marvel * 21 DC * 21 Star Wars * 19 Teen Wolf

And for our unlisted fandoms:

5 Jeff Satur - Music Videos 4 Zhen Hun / Guardian (drama and novel) 3 Cabin Pressure 3 Control (Remedy Game) 3 Fire Emblem Awakening 3 Fire Emblem Fates 3 Schitt's Creek 3 The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison 3 Transformers 3 Zhen Hun / Guardian (drama) RPF

Over in our supported orgs, most creators are leaving the decision to their bidders, but among those who are choosing specific ones, the any/all option for the umbrella category is doing very well. Just below them three orgs keep changing places - MECA, the Young Center, and Freedom to Read are neck and neck with their positions swapping (again!) AS WE'RE TYPING this post.

Also of note, we have 26 fan labor offers - so far!

Stay tuned for deeper dives into the un/listed fandom numbers, and for a round up of the various types of fan labor on offer.

Signups are OPEN! Join us to boost your fandom's presence!

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Welcome to the Dick Grayson Anniversary Week 2025! From April 6th to 12th, we’ll be celebrating 85 YEARS OF DICK GRAYSON 🐦 with the following amazing prompts you voted for:

DICK GRAYSON ANNIVERSARY WEEK 2025 PROMPTS

Day 1: Prince of Gotham | Time Travel | 5+1 Things Day 2: Secrets | Everyone’s Favorite | Model Dick Grayson Day 3: Underappreciated Relationships | Trauma Recovery | Greek Mythology Day 4: Wonder Twins | “You will always be my Robin.” | Unlikely Allies Day 5: Brainwashing | Truth Serum | Cryptid of the Family Day 6: Multiverse | Dick’s Harem of Older Men | Murder Attempt Day 7: BAMF Dick Grayson | A Celebration of 85 Years | Filling in for Batman

‘A Celebration of 85 Years’ is the free prompt.

You have 3 months to create your works. 💙

WHAT'S GEN FOR 85? 🤸‍♂️ Gen for 85 means Dick Grayson Anniversary Week is adding an extra challenge to the creation process for the 2025 week. To honor 85 years of Dick Grayson non-romance and non-smut takes center stage. You're still allowed to include canon and non-canon ships in your works, they are simply not the focus.

The extra challenge was born because the DC fandom event corner looks very different right now than back in 2019. A lot of excellent ship events are happening all year around and the DG Week has always attracted more gen prompts, so highlighting Dick's gen side during his 85th Anniversary makes for a good extra challenge.

In need to talk about your process or simply all things Dick Grayson? Join us on the Dick Grayson Discord server ‘Green Booty Shorts’ (18+, ship-friendly)!

Any questions left? Check out about or rules--or feel free to send an ask.

Let the prompts awaken your muse! I wish you lots of fun during the creation process! 💙🤸‍♂️🕵️‍♂️🐦

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A City of Thy Making [FIC]

Fandom: DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Millarworld Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Nemesis (Millarworld)/Dick Grayson, Dick Grayson & Blüdhaven Police Department, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd, Dick Grayson & Melinda Zucco Characters: Dick Grayson, Nemesis (Millarworld), Blüdhaven Police Department Officers, Nightwing Ensamble Additional Tags: Truth & Lies, Death & Destruction, Drugs & Toxins, Blood & Gore, Yandere Nemesis, Police Officer Dick Grayson, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Canon, Urban Legend Nightwing, Nemesis has a Cop Kink, Brothers in Blood Jason Todd, Identity Shenanigans, Trauma, Panic Attacks, Trickster Personas, Dirty Thoughts, Dirty Talk, Melinda Zucco Lied, BAMF Dick Grayson, side character death, Hero/Villain, Inappropriate Flirting, Dubious Consent, Compromise

Mere days before Dick joins the police academy to reshape Blüdhaven's police force, a new villain enters the world stage. Nemesis decimates his first police department overnight. To keep the villain’s attention from his city, Nightwing becomes an urban legend prowling the streets, but all contingencies turn out to be for naught. Nemesis is coming. Forced into the middleman position for a villain seeking revenge, Dick’s life is turned upside down. Is Nemesis telling the truth or is his life a lie? Does it matter if the evidence of the crime sits right in front of him?

A first tag @dick-rarepairs! 🤍💘💙

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This has been a wonderful success! Maybe the first time, I ever stuck to my goals for the year. Even if this is "just" fandom. 🫶

I didn't finish it all but I am getting there.

I did in fact not end up editing all chapters of Persuasion, but I have started posting again! Two new chapters are out and a third will be posted before the year end. Much has changed since I last updated and I am much freer in what story I want to tell now. I can finally let go of some of unnecessary scenes.

Feathers Made of Ice might be put to the wayside forever, but that's also an important lesson learned. There are simply too many other stories wanting to be told to get hung up on that.

Where hope has been laid to rest might not be finished, but I at least got a much better idea of what I want to do with it now. Eventually that final chapter will come. Hopefully in Spring 2025.

Finish Em 2024 📢

I set myself a new year's resolution that I started in January. First exam phase of the year now over, I can really get into it. As it says on the tin: I aim to finish my unfinished fics this year!

🔥 The Unfinished Fics 🔥

When Life is Unkind ✅

In the Clutches of Calamity ✅

Talon & Owl (Part 8, Part 9) ✅

Persuasion (approx. 6 Chapters to go, 40k written, will be realeased once all chapters are edited because those 40k have been languishing in my files since 2018, lol)

Ascension ✅

Feathers Made of Ice

where hope has been laid to rest (Ch. 2, Ch. 3)

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Hello, how are you doing? I hope that things have been well for you. I'm also very excited for the Brudick week coming out eventually, looking forward to it and thank you so much for modderating this event and having it every year! Very thankful and grateful for the work that everyone does for this!

I also had a bit of a wondering after reading some meta posts about Brudick and their relationship alongside their historical legacy. Particularly on what someone, who was quite neutral about the ship and was just talking simply about their canon history, said how earlier like around their conception to like the 1950s one could consider their relationship to be less definied. That their relationship after that, however, is much more evidently defined as parental and only parental. That they are a father and son duo at this point, but even without the shipping goggles on, I find that a bit hard to agree with. Yes, we can look more into the text and especially the subtext of their interactions, but defining them solely as only a parental one is one that I don't think is accurate. Like I do not deny that DC is pushing their relationship much more as strictly defined as father and son, and I'm not here to deny that it is a part of their dynamics with one another. I do think that there are many labels that they have for one another and all of them are true at once such as being mentor/protégé, father/son, partners, guardian/ward, older brother/younger brother, lovers, soulmates, etc.

What I don't think is that canon is only strictly father and son even later on after the 1980s. They are much more complicated and yes, they do have comic panels where one or the other thinks in regards to one another that of a father or son, but even then, there was this particular detail that makes me certain that they are not only supposed to be considered that way. Like there was a certain story back then that did talk about the reason for why Bruce never chose to adopt Dick and they did discuss it, but its interesting how it took until 2001 for a writer, who does ship them and is queer, to even have Bruce give an adoption paper to Dick to sign as a formality, but one that could be taken in another context to finally have Dick be officially adopted within canon. For a relationship that is supposed to always be only parental, why did it take them this long to have Dick be officially adopted.

Of course, this could just be for story reasons, maybe building tension or they just didn't thought about it though that's hard to believe since they didn't hesitate to take note of that with both Bruce and Dick discussing it within canon. Maybe it's even the matter of simply following their characteristics and thinking that Bruce would not actually go for it until years down the line, but even then, the writers could have just made it happen sooner if they wanted to. So, why only then? Why did it take this long for this to happen if they are only to be looked at as only father and son? How much longer would it have taken for them to try to canonize it if Devin Grayson didn't do it when she did?

A lot of these thoughts and questions pop into my head since reading those posts made by someone. I just couldn't agree with the thought that they are only meant to be a father and son duo only, and that was the only depiction that canon supported. This is not even a matter of the potential to see them in a romantic light, I just find it hard to believe that their relationship was purely just father and son despite their sometimes inner monologues about one another for the most part, it was also seemingly more complicated than just what they said or thought from what I can tell. It just feels like a disservice to their relationship to only define them as that alone even for the comics of back then when they started to define them more. To me, it seemed like they attached the father and son label as a way of defining their relationship in an easy way rather than it being the only way that their relationship actually is.

And can I just say with or without shipping goggles, it is really fascinating how their relationship is depicted in canon. I will also admit that this look into some moments that are shown could just be more so my own biases as a Brudick shipper, but there truly have been a lot of undeniable subtext for a romantic reading of them like there are characters who comment or make an observation about how the best partner for Dick is someone like Batman or his partners get compared to Batman. There's even that one famous comic panel with Bruce going through the memories of his love life with the roses around each panel and with Dick being in one of them with roses too. Specifically red roses which usually are intended for romantic partners though that isn't to say they can't be platonic either, they can, but its an interesting choice is all. Or how a lot of the people in Dick's considered harem of morally-ambiguous men, they often are like an expy of Batman such as Slade, Owlman, and Midnighter. This is just barely touching the surface of a lot of implications that are put out there in regards to their relationship and what it could possibly mean.

All that is to say is that to read them only as father and son just does not seem right, but I do admit that I haven't read a lot of comics quite yet. I absolutely do plan to, so my knowledge is quite limited as of now. But what's your take on it? As someone who has I'm sure read a lot of comics and know way more about canon than I do, would you say that their relationship is far complicated than just being parental? I also would like to apologize for this very long ask and this very long explanation of my thoughts. I hope that they're not too confusing, and that I'm not bothering you with all of this. And that I look forward to more of your writing! You're really amazing!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, anon! I'm glad you're enjoying my writing! And I'm looking forward to your participation in BruDick Week 😊

That Dick and Bruce can be identified through different relationships is definitely nothing new nor something that only took place in the 40s. If they had strictly been father and son since the 50s, Dick wouldn't have wanted to adopt Jason in pre-crisis 80s. Bruce would have done it and labeled them brothers.

What might be happening here is conflating that the 50s, more specifically 1954, brought us Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent and the Comics Code Authority, but that didn't actually change too much. Batman 66, while not a comic, still happened, and Bruce and Dick did not suddenly start refering to each other as father and son or interact on that basis alone. I'd say Wertham actually pushed them more into the role of contemporaries because Dick already had adventures without Batman in the late 40s, which then got expanded upon in the 60s with the Teen Titans.

It would be interesting to do research on this but just based on feeling, their most common relationships descriptors by narration and themselves are probably:

Partners

Best Friends

Brothers

We do have J.L. Bell who says in her article "Success in Stasis: Dick Grayson's thirty years as a Boy Wonder" for Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder: Scholars and Creators on 75 Years of Robin, Nightwing and Batman that during Dick's Robin days Bruce and Dick interact like "devoted pals" while the father-son dynamic that sometimes appears "disrupts their normal relationship".

Their famous moniker Dynamic Duo is also quite ambigious. Batman and Robin popularized the usage of it to describe great synergy between athlets or simply between two people who work well together. People saw them as excellent partners more than ascribing a family dynamic to them. (Fun fact: The first known mention of Dynamic Duo were Teddy Roosevelt (yes, that TR) and Chase Osborn in 1910.)

What is also interesting to note here is that early comic book writers often didn't really know their character's backstories (which is how we get such stories as Superman thinking humanoid aliens on Earth are impossible), so any definitive father-son take on their relationship would have at the earliest occured during the Bronze Age when comics grew more serious. What's interesting here is that Dick didn't belong to Batman editorial during that entire era. The NTT editorial got him around the 80s and Dick wouldn't return to Batman editorial until around 1994, which is coincidentally the first time I remember them being specifically described as father and son.

Examples

Tim Seeley describes Dick in Nightwing vs Hush (2918) as "Bruce’s ward. His true confidant" and "his best friend."

Word of God-y but Grant Morrisson characterizes Bruce as thinking Dick's "my best friend and my brother and everything I wish I could be" in an interview with Fat Man, and this is reflected in Batman and Robin (2009) #7 when Dick refers to Bruce as such:

Batman: Prodigal in 1994/1995, with Dick freshly back in the Batman corner, sets the stage for father and son. Which probably explains why Devin Grayson was the one who made Bruce adopt Dick. She was interested in a deeper relationship between Bruce and Dick, while Chuck Dixon saw them more as rivals.

The Brave and the Bold #182 was released in the 80s, and here we learn that Earth-2 Robin and Earth-1 Batman regard each other as friends and partners while Earth-1 Robin is the Junior Partner. If the narrative would already see them as father-son, the conversation would have been different.

We have Bruce refering to Dick as son in the 70s but more in terms of slang. Older men would call younger men "son" more frequently and some still do today. Bruce is Dick's guardian but in a cover role.

As Dick leaves for Hudson University in the 70s Dick and Bruce are friends and brothers even as Bruce is a clear guardian figure (Batman #217):

Dick is introduced to new readers in Batman #1 as Bruce's young aid.

I hope this is a good assortment of examples and explanations, anon! I went a bit more into the narrative and editorial side, but it's always interesting to look at that too with comices.

What Anon Mentioned

Batman #600's Roses

Gotham Knights #17, the adoption! The topic actually came up before in Tales of the New Teen Titans #50 and I could imagine Devin Grayson knew that given her interest in the Titans. Another aspect that sets her apart from Chuck Dixon.

And for Midnighter, we know he was included in Grayson because he is edgy-(er) Batman.

I think at times there are attempts to make the strict father-son dynamic happen. Either to make them less "problematic" or, by now, to adhere to the fanon idea of a good family, but then writers who enjoy the complex relationship Dick and Bruce have go all in!

No matter how one defines their relationship, the core of Bruce and Dick is that they have unwavering trust in each other and have been saving each other since they met.

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The results are in! Thank you for voting! The vast majority is looking forward to changing up the flavor for Dick Grayson Anniversary Week during the 85th Anniversary! 🥰

To the suggestion to only allow gen prompts instead: Gen prompts have been submitted since this week went live! Gen for 85 is picking up a trend for this anniversary, and it's great to see participants are looking forward to the twist too. 💙

To add to that, romantic tropes like "Sharing a Bed" can be easily used as a gen prompt too. Playing with prompts is a large part of weeks, so don't be afraid to do exactly that!

We're going right in with the Best of Prompts poll, which you almost unanimously voted for, to gear up for the 85th Anniversary celebration! Each day of the 2025 week receives one prompt that has been part of the 2020-2024 weeks. The rest of the pompts will be chosen as usual.

To the Best of Prompts Poll! 🤸‍♂️

You will have a week to vote for the best of the best! The survey closes next Saturday, the 21st of December.

Join us on the Green Booty Shorts Discord (18+, gen & ship) server to talk all things Dick Grayson if you like🐦

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It's the second day of posting for the WilsonDick Exchange 2024! 💙🧡

Enjoy these wonderful works done with all the love for the Wilson Fam and their favorite bat, Dick Grayson💙

Please remember to double check the warnings and tags before proceeding!

WORKS

Bruising grip, polished quip [FIC] for @anawrites3 [Teen, Violence Warning] [Joey/Dick, Slade & Dick & Joey]

Summary:

Dick has been coerced into becoming Deathstroke’s apprentice. He must figure out a way to escape without risking the lives of his friends. Meanwhile, Joey has recently reunited with his father and is struggling to fit into the mercenary lifestyle. Without a voice, he doesn’t have much of a choice in the matter. OR Joey is Dick’s only source of comfort as he tries to survive the nightmare of being Slade’s apprentice.

I Am What I Am [FIC] for @beyourownsavior [Mature, Violence, Consent Issues, Torture, Past Abuse, 5 + 1 Things] [Slade/Dick, Dick & Raven & Roy Harper, Dick & Batfam]

Summary:

Five times someone learned something unusual about Nightwing, and one time all the pieces got put together.

forenoon idleness [FIC] for @Reddiamond29 [Mature, No Warnings, Fluff and Banter] [Joey/Dick]

Summary:

“See?” He murmured with a smile. “Isn’t this better than just going back to sleep?” Joey pretended not to smile as he lifted one shoulder in a shrug, «Well, your breath stinks. That’s at least minus ten points.» “Oh, come on!” Dick laughed, lifting his head again to point his finger right into Joey’s face. “You kissed me, mister, that’s entirely on you. Also, ten whole points? That’s just rubbish!” Little lines appeared around Joey’s eyes as his smile widened into a grin. or: Dick, Joey and their day off.

to quench the unconquerable soul [FIC] for @wingdingery [Teen, Science Fiction AU, Space Opera, War Crimes, Hostage Situation, Xenophobia As in Alien-On-Alien Racism] [Slade & Dick]

Summary:

Earth had already lost the war, but Dick knew there was plenty more they could lose. Now, their conquerors were demanding a hostage. To save what was left of his planet, Dick would have to put his life in his enemy's hands. OR: Slade & Dick, the Space AU.

Repeat Revenge [ART/FIC] for @aveaveria [Explicit, Non-Con, Hurt/Comfort] [WadeLaFarge/Dick, Slade/Dick]

Summary:

…A noise rung out of something hitting the rooftop and then light erupted. Stark bright and painful. Dick jumped back, grunting. He closed his eyes behind the mask, the lenses not helping much to keep the painful light away…. or Wade LaFarge kidnaps Nightwing knowing he’s important to Slade.

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The WilsonDick Exchange 2024 is here! Join us on the first day of posting 💙🧡

6 NEW WILSONDICK works await you today. Please remember to double check the warnings and tags before proceeding!

WORKS

five days [FIC] for inabsurd [Mature, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Sex, Omegaverse] [Slade/Dick, Wilson Siblings & Dick]

Summary:

Rose's daddy goes on a business trip. But that's okay, because her new mama is still there to take care of her, and her two older brothers. She really, really loves her mama.

Crucible [FIC] for Eriord [Explicit, Rape/Non-Con, Omegaverse] [Slade/Dick, Wade/Dick, Wilson Siblings & Dick]

Summary:

Slade is killed during a routine visit to his kingdom's border, and it is on Dick to protect the family they have built. But what is an Omega to do when Slade's brother attempts to take the throne?

Wood Stained Red [FIC] for hmmBarkBark [Teen+, No Warnings, Horror] [Joey/Dick]

Summary:

Dick agrees to join his boyfriend Joey for a weekend at a family cabin to meet said family. Surely nothing can go wrong with that. Except that fact that literally everything goes wrong. Or: Dick learns that his boyfriend is from a family of cannibals and he reacts about as well as you could expect him to.

We Found Each Other [FIC] for Midosune [Gen, No Warnings, Omegaverse] [Slade/Dick Respawn & Dick]

Summary:

Slade's in town and with a new kid following him. Dick can't wait to meet him.

the one that does not belong [FIC] for nursal1060 [Explicit, No Warnings] [Slade/Dick]

Summary:

Bruce’s parties are always huge, glamorous affairs befitting his status as the Duke of Gotham, which means there are bound to be times Dick encounters unexpected guests at them. None, however, have been as unexpected as Slade.

Freaky Friday [ART] for dicknge [Explicit] [Slade/Dick Joey/Dick]

Summary:

'It's not usual the three of them are all available at the same time, so Dick suggests they can have fun together tonight - let Joey posses Slade. But somehow Joey and Slade actually body-swap by accident. And that’s not gonna ruin their plan for the night!'

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This request was sent to us and we made a poll in response to it. Send any Blorbo or fandom related question you want to our inbox and we’ll make a poll on which people can vote!

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the idea that it’s ‘creepy’ to interact with things posted a long time ago is so terrible for artists and contributes to the pressure to be constantly creating new work, at an unhealthy and unsustainable rate. I hate it so much.

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Ok so AO3 has just announced changes to their terms of service. Mostly it's just rewording ambiguous phrasing and clarifying some points. But they are also changing the archive warning 'Underage' to 'Underage Sex' (because some people were using it for like, teenagers kissing or for underage drinking, which isn't a massive problem but it's not what the tag is for)

It's a minor change and should be a non issue, but I've seen people saying that AO3 isn't requiring you to tag underage sex anymore, which is categorically untrue. I do however know why they think this, and its a combination of not fully reading the updates and a misunderstanding of how the archive tag system works in the first place.

You can find the full wording on AO3 itself but the relevant part is as follows: "If you have a work that carries the "Underage" warning and you don't want it to display the "Underage Sex" label, you can replace it with the "Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings" label at any time."

Any fic that currently has the 'Underage' archive warning will be updated to have the 'Underage Sex' warning instead. If for some reason you don't want that, what the above statement is saying is that you can use 'Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings' instead.

Makes sense. However, if you don't understand the archive warning system, you might interpret that as not being required to tag underage sex.

The way it works is that there are five archive warnings: 'Underage', 'Rape/Non-con', 'Graphic Depictions of Violence', 'Major Character Death', and 'Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings'. There's also 'No Archive Warnings Apply', which is used when none of the others are relevant.

The site classifies the first four as specific archive warnings (meaning they refer to a specific topic) and 'Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings' as a non-specific warning, which means that a work tagged with it could contain any archive warning.

It can also be used where you might want an additional tag for a non-archive warning (for example, Drug use), but don't want to tag it for spoiler reasons. This is a perfectly acceptable use of the tag.

The issue is, some people think that's the only thing its meant to be used for, and any archive warnings have to be tagged no matter what. If this hypothetical person came across a work containing major character death, but the only archive warning was 'Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings', they would consider the work incorrectly tagged.

So then, if this person read ToS update, and found the part about replacing 'Underage'/'Underage Sex' with 'Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings', they could easily interpret that as the site no longer requiring underage sex to be tagged. In actual fact, underage sex is still a required warning, you just don't have to use the specific archive warning. You can use the non-specific one instead. (To be fully clear, this has always been the case)

Nothing is actually changing in terms of what content has to be tagged, it's literally only the wording of the archive warning, because it was a little ambiguous before.

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Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.How to Turn off Word’s AI Access To Your Content

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”:

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”

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Hello, I hope I'm not bothering you! I also hope that you're doing well! I want to start off by saying that I adore your fics, particularly the ones that you write about Brudick. They're really great, and I often reread them on occasion. The many different ideas you have for them, along with your grasp of their characters, are so fun to read and feel so accurate honestly! I love seeing your comments as well even if its on your own fics or others with your analyses about them, and it genuinely brings me joy to see. Thank you for writing stories about them! 🖤💙

I also have a question that kind of popped into my head in regards to them that made me wonder if this is a thing that mostly or only Dick has the privilege of. It's often been pointed out how Dick usually can be physically affectionate with Bruce in comparison to anyone else, like he can touch him freely without Bruce getting upset for the most part or being on guard, and I was wondering if that's the case within canon. I feel like it is, but I'm not entirely sure, though I do know for sure that Dick is someone extremely special to Bruce regardless of whether it's platonic or romantic.

Hi! I hope you're doing ok too! Thank you so much for the ask and the kind words. I always appreciate people commenting on my writing. 💕 And these two are undoubtedly very dear to me!

How physically affectionate Dick and Bruce are in canon changes a lot, tbh, which means people's opinions on it really depend on what panels someone has been exposed to. Often there can be a wall between Bruce and Dick, but they grow most affectionate when they are grieving (and that doesn't need to be a person). Bruce has given out hugs to other Bats, but canon does give the impression that Dick can initiate physical contact more easily and often than others. I think specifically for ship purposes, tearing this wall down further is a lot of fun.

How I see their physical affections comes down to their fighting style. They are very much in tune with each other, and Dick would be used to a kind of physical connection given he is a trapeze artist.

Fighting for them means contact. Sometimes painful, othertimes not.

We have a lot more hands-on a shoulder or other body part panels than hugs. Maybe because the panel from Tec #38 is so iconic, but more likely because they are guys. There are a few instances of Bruce hugging others, but Dick remains a source of comfort for him too, which is different from the role others play in Bruce's life.

The hand on heart is a newer thing, but I'm not complaining about it.

A lot of it is interpretation, of course, but I think it says something that when Dick played the role of the Joker in Batman 2011 #1, the way he was exposed to be Dick to the readers (before the true reveal) was by him touching Bruce a ton, lol.

And, of course, Dick was carried to safety a lot when he was younger. Sometimes he even did the carrying himself.

Dick can, very easily, be in Bruce's bubble because he isn't an intruder. They share 4 to 6 years of living together depending on canon and crime fight together for even longer on top of their shared trauma. That doesn't automatically translate to physical contact = good, but it helps.

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The Remake

Funny reel the good old pals filmed together on Dick's apartment :3

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