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this grayson still flies

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Some people die the same way that they’re born. 

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ive got a really large bat-centric project im working on, but i dont want to start posting it until ive got more of it finished, so i decided to take a break and instead make something that popped into my head a few months ago while i was cross-referencing Under The Hood for a completely separate thing

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cass was only eight when she was brought to kill a businessman btw

and remember she wasn’t literate and wasn’t taught how to communicate how everyone else does

so when she kills him she could read everything he went through, and it was violent and hostile enough for her to need to get away after being raised to do this

just a reminder hahaha

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markiplier is acting his markipussy out of this show

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our new head chef Barbecue Pistol is going to rock your world with his brand new fry sauce which is a mix of ketchup and mayonnaise and a little sriracha for that pistol kick

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Read the latest eye in the sky chapter and it's so fuckingfiddlestickingly good?

I've said this before in a different ask but as always, love ur Pacing, I already asked about their ages a while ago so that's that

I wanted to ask if I could like put in ur ask theories for the fic or if that's spoilery?

Also what's your writing process like what's you technique I know one just sits but like how do your first drafts look like, THANKS BAI

1. Thank you so much!!! I feel bad cramming so much exposition right at the end of the fic so I’m glad it’s not too much. It made more sense to me for this to hit Duke all at once. He is always on the back foot in this fic. He will be asking questions until the very end I fear.

2. You can definitely send me theories! However I won’t confirm or deny anything big for the ending since that’s coming super soon.

3. That….was my first draft *runs away sobbing* I’m so sorry. I wish I could say it wasn’t, but I really don’t have a ton of time outside of work these days. I sat down around 11 am with my outline and had about 8k by 4:30ish. I cut that very lightly down to about 7.7k and published the chapter (just in time for ao3 to go down rip).

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Jason, watching Roy be a good dad to Lian: God he's so hot

Jason:

Jason: Oh. Oh, no. Oh no-

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Do I look like him?

had a lot of people ask me to make a tiktok for it and i swear i tried but,,, making tiktoks just isn't working for me rn so we're getting still images until i can get my brain to cooperate. anyways!! i am obsessed with chromokopia and when i heard Like Him i ascended into heaven and also cried. and it very much reminded me of LoF

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me when the devastating fanfic I chose to read is actually devastating

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Tim and Kon 😭 they’re so tender with each other even though you can tell that they’re so life hardened :( when Tim got emotional over Bruce still being the same and Kon snapping him out of it (I hope I read that right)

Duke makes me ache :( that boy is so strong and good. His intentions to go back to Bruce after running this intel is so toe curling and I can already feel the anxiety of what’s to come when he does.

Will be keeping the red light in mind and eager to see Damian! I think he and Duke will have an interesting dynamic with their similar ages and their positioning with Bruce!

Yes, you read that right! Kon was trying to get Tim out of a potential spiral. It looks a little unkind from Duke's POV, but it works. And I'm sure Kon does it enough to know that being kind doesn't always help.

I love Duke so much. While it's hard to write from his limited POV sometimes (an outsider and a child) his naive perspective can be so endearing. He truly thinks it's just as simple as wanting to do the right thing, and having a plan. I think Tim was a lot nicer here than Dick was; he was realizing the same things as Dick, mid-conversation, but didn't want to crush Duke too thoroughly.

I think Tim also caught onto Dick's plan within a plan, and he also didn't voice that to Duke. But giving him insight into his own powers was definitely a gift. A not-unrelated gift.

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I know this probably doesn't help, but if I were ever such a terrible person that I was rating fics in public bookmarks on AO3 I'd give all of your fics a 10/10!

I don't even rate fics privately because it feels a little mean when this was just someone who loves something and has a hobby having fun, but if I did yours would be a 10/10 and honestly every other fic because they went through the effort of posting it where people can be mean to them on the Internet and that alone deserves a 10

People openly rating fanfic is insane behavior! Rec something if you like it but that should be where it stops, this is stuff people take time out of their day to write for the sake of writing and their enjoyment of the source material! It shouldn't be judged on a scale.

Exactly! Thank you so much. If you asked me anyone putting stuff out there and taking time to share it with us is a 10/10. Especially since lower ratings are so subjective — oh I don’t like that kink, or unhappy endings, so I rated it lower. What??

We need to start remembering that actual people are attached to those fics and treat them accordingly. Which is to say, we keep our criticisms to ourselves unless explicitly asked for them.

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fandom etiquette

my hot take of the week (that absolutely no one asked for) is that there’s a crap ton of ao3 “etiquette” touted on here that’s actually 100% optional.

really. if it’s not in the TOS and it’s not required by the tagging system, there is no right or wrong “etiquette.”

yes, people sometimes use that flexibility to be dicks, but most of the time I see “etiquette” being enforced on authors who 1) used the tagging system correctly and 2) have inadvertently done something that readers don’t “like.”

examples of this I’ve seen: using the “creator chose not to warn” tag and then not tagging MCD, underage, etc. i.e., things that are absolutely allowed to not be tagged under that broader tag.

another example: writing a fic with a sad ending and not tagging the sad ending ahead of time. absolutely permissible, but if you do this people get pissed.

and another example: using archive warnings and zero additional tags.

all of these are examples of 100% valid and compliant usage of the ao3 tag system. and yet, we tend to penalize fics that follow this tagging style. I’ve seen people rate them, rec them with poorly concealed disgust, or even suggest that they should be reported.

“etiquette” is highly subjective and fandom-dependent. if you ask 10 different ao3 users, you’ll get different answers. pressuring newbie writers to follow your etiquette can make the whole process overwhelming when it doesn’t need to be.

now. there’s complying with ao3 TOS, there’s “etiquette,” and there’s marketing. the reason fics that follow general “etiquette” tend to do better is because they’re easier to find, easier to predict, and easier to filter in/out depending on certain tags and events. easier to sell, essentially.

users who choose not to warn, or use auxiliary tags, tend to see a hit in readership. it’s a known risk. but if the author is making that choice knowingly, that’s the end of the discussion.

etiquette is expected or implied conduct, but it is not required. as a writer, you get to weigh the pros and cons of following fandom “etiquette.” some find it beneficial, others stifling. sometimes it changes fic to fic.

I am wary of a lot of anti-shipping and fandom purity that is starting to masquerade as “etiquette” on here. we need to check ourselves, and remember how highly subjective our wants and desires for content can be sometimes.

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things I am intrigued by in Batman/Batfamily fic: all the signs/things you can't hide from someone even with good acting. or, the limits of even the most air tight secret identity game in town. scars and injuries fall into this, sure, there are some you can't fully conceal or explain away. but I'm thinking more behavioral or instinctual. not flinching when there's a sudden explosion. jumping in front of an innocent civilian at the last second. knowing things a normal civilian shouldn't. etc etc.

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the day-after hangover after writing a long-ass chapter is actually so real

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I'm sure one of the Batkids has tried that whole "I'm locking you in this room to go sacrifice myself" schtick with Bruce and assured themselves that the plan would work because Bruce was 1) already injured and 2) down to just his armor, no utility belt or weapons/devices.

but what they didn't account for was the fact that Bruce would absolutely, 100% bust down that door with his bare hands, splitting the knuckles open and fracturing his fingers and ruining his gloves and armor if needed. he would break that door and probably the wall if it meant getting to his Robin before he did something dumb like pull a last-minute self-sacrifice plan.