#*my wip list

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WIP Title Tag Game

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Thanks @zeawesomebirdie <33 (even though I'm like 2 months late on answering this XD) 💛

😈😈😈 I would break it up but lets be real, all my ideas right now are focused on TGM and Hangster fandom XD but here's what I'm working on, though it's mostly in bits and pieces right now:

vampire Jake/human Bradley - hangster

non navy Bradley/fighter pilot Jake as parents - hangster

icemav break up / icedad

shifter au - hangster

virgin Jake - hangster (with vampire Bradley)

win a date with Jake - hangster

insecure Bradley - hangster

Jake doesn't deal with Bradley's death - hangster

serial killer Jake - hangster

Jake's family causes the hangster break up

Rancher Jake x music producer Bradley

Contract killer Jake x mob prince Bradley

Serial/Contract Killer Bradley x naval pilot Jake

Witchy Jake doesn’t handle Bradley’s death and brings him back to life a la Frankenstien style

Tagging (for those who wish to do this!): @impalachick @tabbytabbytabby @dracculaura @dear-massacre @robininthelabyrinth @crownofstardustandbone @halestrom @tgmsunmontue @whistler-king @hedwig221b @mxrcusflint and whoever else would like to do this!! 💛💛💛

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Thank you so much for tagging me @merriell-allesandro-shelton

WIP ASK GAME

Post up to five (5) filenames of your WIPs; not titles, file names.

Post a snippet from one/all of them. Snippet must be words you wrote in the last 7 days. We're posting progress here. If you haven't made any, go make some and come back to post.

After you've posted, people can send you an ask with one of your file names. You must then write 3 sentences in that file.

That's it! You can invite others to join in or just post.

Young Love and Old Money - Lewis Nixon x Josephine Wills

Her thoughts were interrupted by a gentle cough from beside her as she glanced at the hazy figure sitting on the wrought iron bench.

“Hello JoJo,” the voice came quietly, causing Josie to freeze, her heart thudding loudly in her ears.

“Will?” She asked, watching cautiously as the figure stood, stepping closer into the moonlight. William Beaumont stood before her, his nightshirt hanging loosely on his well built frame, his golden locks tousled from sleep but his blue eyes shining more beautifully than ever.

“Will,” Josie said again, this time more convincingly as she approached him.

“Did you miss me JoJo?” Will asked, using his childhood nickname for her as he came to stand before her. His large frame towered over her smaller one and yet she had never felt safer.

“Of course I have Will.” Josie flung her arms around his neck, burying her head into the crook of his neck and inhaling the all too familiar scent of cigarettes and Brylcreem. “I’ve missed you so much.”

Josie thought she couldn’t cry anymore tonight but the floodgates soon opened and before she knew it Will was cradling her on his lap, smoothing down her disheveled locks and whispering comfortingly to her. This was a scene so common throughout her childhood where her father would say something awful and Will was always there to pick up the pieces, he knew her inside and out and he cared for her. Josie felt herself wondering that despite the wonderful evening she had spent with Lewis was Will actually the best man for her?

David Webster x Florence Durrant

Florence tapped her foot rhythmically against the wooden floorboards of the stage as the music played out from the band around her. Some light chattering from the men in the front row distracted her, eyes hovering over the man at the end of the row who seemed too engrossed in his novel to listen to her singing. As the instrumental section came to an end she took a deep breath, drifting across the stage as she began to sing again.

“We'll meet again

Don't know where

Don't know when”

Florence preferred singing to the English troops, they always knew all the words and would sing along with her. It was in those moments that Florence felt that she was doing the most good to help boost their morale. The American troops however seemed disinterested. Too many of them were smoking, playing cards and talking but the one dark haired soldier at the front bothered her the most, his nose buried in a red, leather bond novel. A few of the officers at the back watched her intently, swaying along to the music, whether it was more out of respect to her or because they didn’t have any other plans for their Saturday evening.

The Good Die Young - Jake Seresin x reader (WW2 au)

(This is an extract from chapter 3 which I will hopefully be posting soon)

“I swear to God, if I have to take one more step I’m gonna shoot myself,” Edward whined, his pack slipping further down his back and his knees sinking to the floor despite their orders to continue marching.

“Get up, Mary. Come on we can’t rest yet,” Jake hauled his fellow Marine up so he was standing against him, supporting him around his waist and hauling him forward, ignoring the protest from the boy at his distasteful nickname. That boy was far from a virgin anymore, not with all the women he’d spent time with in Melbourne. They had fallen behind their original group but with the blisters Jake was suffering from he hadn’t minded the slower pace with Edward.

“Just a little further now,” Jake pointed to the distance where he could see a group of Marines stopping to make camp for the night. “Just up on that ridge and then we can stop, I promise.”

Edward groaned but nodded, standing to support himself a little more. He swung his Springfield disdainfully over his shoulder, he was still upset that the M1 Garand he’d scrounged from the army supplies had been confiscated and instead replaced with his original Springfield. Jake recalled the lectures of ‘it's lightweight and ammunition capacity is far better than this fucking shit’ Edward had complained nearly every night since they’d docked in Melbourne.

I have several other WIPS but I haven’t added to them in the last 7 days and I currently don’t have time/ inspiration etc for so I’ll add them down here and you guys can ask about them if you wish.

An original WW2 story - this story doesn’t currently have a definite title, despite the fact that I’ve been adding to it for almost a year, and is mainly just a load of research and planning with a few odd sentences and paragraphs but I’m very excited to start turning this into something beautiful. This will be a project for me following into winter 2023 and 2024.

Be My Last - Rhett Abbott x reader series - the reader is a student vet who comes home from university for the summer and works at the local veterinary practice. On a call to the Abbott’s family ranch with one of the vets she meets Rhett. To say it was love at first sight would be the furthest from the truth but they begin to grow on each other but families are complicated and long distance relationships are hard. ( I haven’t added to this series for a while and it’s very much a working progress but I may eventually get back into the swing of writing it)

Tagging: @desert-fern @mayhem24-7forever @mayhemmanaged @georgieluz @softspeirs @mads-weasley and anyone else who wants to join in.

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My WIP List

(Last updated: January 2, 2024)

Most of these are still very much in the notes phase.

DC Comics

Jonathan Samuel Kent & Damian Wayne - Don't Try This at Home, Kids!

Jon has recently gained his Kryptonian invulnerability. Damian, being Damian, decides to test the limits of Jon's new superpower. Jon's enthusiastic at first, but he eventually decides he's done testing. Damian disagrees, and so Looney Tunes-esque shenanigans ensue. Pure crack, maybe a pinch of angst. Takes place in the continuity established by "Battle of the Super Sons".

Jason Todd & Clark Kent - 101 Ways to Get Revenge on Superman

When Jason discovers that Superman stopped Bruce from killing the Joker after his death, the Red Hood decides he has a new target for his vendetta.

Damian Wayne, Mar’i Grayson, & Jake Grayson - A Little Ways Along the Family Tree

Whilst fighting a villain, Damian is catapulted into the future, where he teams up with Dick’s kids.

Tim Drake - A Lonely Place of Living

In this version of events, Tim made a mystical deal, that Batman would never lose another Robin.

Tim Drake & BatKids - A Very Common Sibling Game

Tim wages psychological warfare on his siblings. For fun, of course.

Tim Drake & Dick Grayson - The Cola Caper

The United States government has placed an embargo on the island of Santa Prisca, along with a recall of all recent Santa Priscan commercial imports. Tim and Dick are more concerned that the embargo means no more Zesti Cola for them. They decide they have no choice but to infiltrate Santa Prisca and the headquarters of the Zesti Cola Company to acquire the Zesti Cola secret recipe.

Tim Drake / Kon-El - Corporate With a Side of Catcalling

Conner Luthor has a chance encounter with the dashing Robin Hood-esque criminal known as Stray. Then it turns into a regular thing.

Miguel Montez, Harper Row, Tim Drake, & Cullen Row - Dial R

Harper invites Miguel to Gotham, where the H Dial is stolen. They enlist Robin’s aid to track it down.

Tim Drake / Kon-El - Fake it For the Win

TIm and Kon pretend to be newlyweds to compete on a game show during their cruise. When they win, they have to deal with the consequences.

Tim Drake / Cullen Row - He’s a Bombshell, I’m Your Wingwoman

TimCullen get-together set in the DC Bombshells continuity.

Khaji Da, Jaime Reyes, Paco, & Brenda - Khaji Da Goes to School

After Jaime pulls an all-nighter, Khaji Da agrees to pilot his body around for the day while his mind rests.

Tim Drake & Kon-El - Messing With the “S”

Fed up with Kon’s refusal to be a team player as part of Young Justice, Tim decides to mess with Superboy in his civilian persona.

Mia Dearden - Mia Dearden, Missing In Action

During a fight with a supervillain, Mia gets teleported to the middle of nowhere and has to make her way back to civilization.

Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne, & Dick Grayson - Recipe for Guardianship

Still in the hospital, Alfred walks Battinson through how to feed the small child he’s somehow acquired.

Damian Wayne, Bat-Cow, & Others - So You’re Cow’s Been Turned Into a Vampire

Bat-Cow gets turned into a vampire.

Tim Drake, Cassie Sandsmark, Aiden Kent, Oscar Allen, & N.O.W.H.E.R.E. - Two for the Price of Them

Tim’s 100th cloning attempt succeeds, but his efforts are interrupted by a supervillain attack. Now he’s on the run with two baby metahumans.

Tim Drake / Kon-El - Waltzing In the Rain

Tim and Kon go on a date above the clouds.

Billy Batson & Others - A Word in the Rain

Billy keeps pranking people by making them think he’s been vaporized by lightning.

Original Male Character, Original Characters, Garfield Lynns, Victor Fries, Stephanie Brown, & Tim Drake - Fly High, Little Firefly

Fusing The Batman (2004) with the main continuity. Back during Dick’s days as Robin, Garfield Lynns, AKA Firefly, worked with Dr. Jane Blazedale, a partnership that ended with Lynns becoming Phosphorus and being remanded to Arkham Asylum. To the knowledge of neither Lynns nor the Bat, however, the partnership between Lynns and Dr. Blazedale also resulted in an unexpected pregnancy. Dr. Blazedale named the boy Benjamin, Benji for short. She raised Benji in the East End, near Park Row, up until she was arrested and sent to Blackgate a year ago. Now Benji is living with his friend Blake’s family. Eventually, Benji decides to sneak into one of Lynns’s old hideouts and steals the Firefly equipment. Benji initially wanted to use the Firefly suit to gather enough wealth to afford a trade school or college. When Benji realized that he couldn’t follow through on an attempted robbery, he decided instead to become a vigilante a la Violet, stopping crime while taking some of the haul for himself. It isn’t glamorous or honorable, but honor won’t get Benji a better life.

Cassandra Cain, Mamaragan, & Others - A Single Word Spoken

A girl in the shape of a weapon is brought to Fawcett City, where she fulfills her purpose for the first and last time.

The girl who can no longer be a weapon hides from her wielder in an old subway and finds herself transported to a place of great magic.

There, the girl who wishes to be more than she was made to be finds a Wizard, who sees the girl for her heart and not for the blood staining her skin. The Wizard teaches the girl a name.

The girl speaks her first word.

And so she speaks power.

Tim Drake/Bernard Dowd - Pull My Heart Across the Ice

Tim and Bernard go on an ice skating date, for real this time. Tim enjoys acting like he doesn’t know how to ice skate. Fluff and humor.

Tim Drake/Bernard Dowd & Batfamily Members- The Tale of the Bedazzled Turtle

Bernard gets Tim a turtle figurine while they’re on a date to the Gotham Aquarium. When it goes missing at Wayne Manor, the hunt is on.

Tim Drake/Bernard Dowd - A High-Speed Romantic Tryst on an Open-Water Murder Shack

Tim and Bernard being cute on Tim's houseboat, they hear a commotion and find that a neighboring houseboat has been stolen and is speeding away. Cue chase, featuring bad puns.

Tim Drake, Young Just Us, Caitlin Snow, & Batfamily Members - Snowfall

Tim is investigating a case involving Mr. Freeze and a dangerous ice machine powered by a Self-Sustaining Thermodynamic Ultraconductor Engine. During the fight, however, Tim gets knocked into the STU engine, taking out the coolant system and causing the whole thing to explode. In the aftermath, Tim discovers that he has become a heat vampire, much like Caitlin Snow, AKA Frost.

Krypto the Superdog, Tim Drake/Kon-El Kent - Puppy Love

TimKon get-together from Krypto’s perspective.

Kon-El Kent & Others - Left Behind

When Kon died during the events of Infinite Crisis, he became a ghost. The worst part is, his future resurrection doesn’t change that.

Tim Drake & Dex-Starr - A Duck and a Cat Walk Into a Bar

What does one do after managing to befriend a cat with a red Power Ring?

Batfamily Members & Alfred Pennyworth - Alfred Calls Shotgun

Many claim that Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne’s valet/butler and the apparent true head of the household, is the most sane and responsible member of the family. They are very, very wrong. When Alfred Pennyworth sees a problem, Alfred Pennyworth will not hesitate to solve it with a shotgun, even when a shotgun is a terrible solution. Pure crack.

Duke Thomas & Tatsu Toro - Cracks Filled With Gold

Angst/comfort with Tatsu helping by teaching Duke to make kintsugi pottery.

Cullen Row, Harper Row, & Others - LGF: Little Green Friend

Cullen Row comes across a small, injured alien and takes it home. The alien isn’t quite sapient, but the two become fast friends. Hiding the alien from Harper is a challenge, though, especially when the alien starts growing.

Cullen Row - Rows and Rows of Worlds

Cullen Row comes across a strange object on the shore of Gotham Bay. Upon touching it, though, the thing sinks into Cullen’s hand. He passes out from the pain. When he wakes up, he finds himself on another Earth.

Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne - Green Tights

During his first encounter with Two-Face, Robin gets chosen by a green Power Ring. Silver-Age versions of the characters.

Damian Wayne & Batfamily Members - Surnames and Succession

A character study of Damian Wayne’s early years at the manor, his habit of referring to people with their surnames, and the paradigm shift therein.

Damian Wayne & Batfamily Members - Out of Sight, Out of Reach

While on a mission, Damian gets caught in an explosion from a villain’s machine, which renders him invisible, inaudible, and mostly intangible.

Damian Wayne, Jonathan Samuel Kent, Kathy Branden, & Maya Ducard - Young Titans: Beginnings

Damian Wayne, AKA Robin, was well aware that each of his older brothers has had a super hero team to call their own. Richard led the Teen Titans and later the Titans. Todd led the Outlaws. Even Drake led Young Justice, as laughably immature as that team was. Damian, though, has yet to lead a team of his own. He decides to change that. Enlisting the aid of his friend Jon Kent, AKA Superboy, Damian sets out to form his own team of superheroes: the Young Titans! [The current roster is set to include Robin, Superboy, Nobody, and Beacon at first, then Suren Darga, Ma’alefa’ak, Abuse, and others. Additions beyond the core four would be gradual.]

Damian Wayne, Jon Kent, Kathy Branden, Maya Ducard, Ma’alefa’ak, & Others - Young Titans: Old Wounds

Damian’s new team, the Young Titans, have established themselves in the hero community and the wider public eye. They’ve gained some admirers and even a few Rogues. Unfortunately, they’ve also caught the attention of Lex Luthor. Superman’s greatest foe has given up on trying to clone or brainwash Kryptonians. That would be great, except that he’s decided to shift his focus to Martians instead. Lex has successfully cloned a Green Martian, and he has the perfect target in mind for a field test. In this sequel to “Forming the Young Titans,” the Young Titans will face a Justice League-level villain from long ago, born anew: Malefic.

Additional note: @jesncin has given me permission to use their depiction of Ma’alefa’ak as a basis for the character in this fic.

Young Titans, Tai Pham, & Others - Young Titans: Distant Heritage

A strange shockwave transports Tai Pham, first Green Lantern of his generation, to an unfamiliar city in the middle of a battle between a team of young heroes and a villain. Tai joins the team, these Young Titans, to figure out what brought him here and how to send him back home. At the same time, Ma’alefa’ak, now going mostly by Malek, is trying to reconnect with his brother and the history that seems determined to leave him behind.

Young Titans, Colin Wilkes, Original Characters, & Others - Young Titans: Ambrosia

Someone’s giving superpowers away and creating supervillains, and some of those powers are killing their users. The Young Titans need to find out who’s behind it and shut them down. That’s made more difficult by a new hero team, the Olympians, some of whose members are foes the Young Titans have faced before. This new team is sponsored by Lindworth Industries, which is premiering a revolutionary method of treating metagenes and working to rehabilitate Point City’s superpowered criminals.

Damian Wayne & Superheroes’ Pets - Damian Wayne, the Super Petsitter

Damian Wayne goes about his daily routine of caring for all of his animals. Dick takes and posts pictures of Damian doing so (he barely escapes with his life). Over the next few weeks, various members of the hero community (and a few outside of it) get in touch with Dick to ask if Damian would mind petsitting for them. Damian agrees to consider the requests, under the condition that he petsit their pets at Wayne Manor. Each chapter has Damian trying to petsit a different hero’s pet, from Wonder Woman’s kangaroo Jumpa, to Harley Quinn’s hyenas Bud and Lou, to Klarion’s familiar Teekl. Shenanigans will abound as Damian is having both the best and most annoying time of his life and his family slowly loses their sanity.

Damian Wayne - Animals Are Better Than People

Damian shapeshifter AU.

Damian Wayne & Egyptian Mythology - Heavy As A Feather

Damian Wayne takes in a stray cat one day. As the Bat luck would have it, the cat is actually Ammit the Devourer. Maybe Jason should stay away until it all gets sorted out. Just in case.

Damian Wayne & Original Honorspren Character - The Light In The Knight

Stormlight Archive fusion crossover. The Knights Radiant have been completely forgotten. Covers Damian's history in this world, where an honorspren finds him when he's in the League of Assassins.

Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, & Others - Small-Time Vehicular Mayhem

Damian goes on a class field trip to TinyTowne, where the class gets to simulate taking a driver’s license exam and drive around a miniature town. Damian finds the whole thing insulting, so he decides to cause chaos.

Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Alfred Pennyworth, & Others - A Severe Lack of Ducks

AU where Tim never made the quadruple somersault connection and so he never joined the BatFamily.

Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne - The Words I Want to Say Get Stuck Behind My Lips

Jason Todd ends up transported to another universe. This Earth appears to be almost identical to his own, but the difference that sticks out the most is Bruce. In this universe, Bruce eventually started seeing a therapist within the hero community. He’s still Batman, but he’s not the emotionally incompetent lummox that Jason’s used to dealing with (read: pissing off). The two of them end up talking, and while Jason leaves more frustrated than ever with his universe’s Bruce, at least now he knows the words his Bruce could never get himself to say. [This is largely an excuse to write an actual emotionally productive conversation between Jason and Bruce where Bruce doesn’t just stare at Jason like a goldfish.]

Jason Todd & Original Characters - Jason Todd the Teaching Assistant

Jason takes a job as a TA at Gotham U for a case. He gets attached.

Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, & Others - The Hero’s Return to the Normal World

A “Jason Lives” AU. After the events in Ethiopia, Jason is left permanently impaired to where he can no longer be Robin. Where he’ll go from there is up to him.

Jason Todd, Boston Brand, & Others - Hallowed Walls

After Jason Todd dies, his soul finds its way to Nanda Parbat.

Justice League Members - When the Hell Did Our Lives Get so Weird?

The Justice League discusses the weirdest, grossest, and downright strangest villains each of them has fought, a conversation brought on by someone mentioning Starro. Humor, mostly dialogue.

Justice League Members - The SSN Justice

Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, John Stewart, Barry Allen, and others serve on the crew of a submarine on a mission to find the lost city of Atlantis.

Edward Nygma - A Recursive Riddle

The Riddler gets trapped in a time loop wherein the only way out is to solve a seemingly impossible riddle.

Edward Nigma, Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd, & Others - What Lies Six Underground But Cannot Be Found?

Based on the whole “Riddler checks Jason’s grave and finds it empty” post.

Kon-El Kent, Tim Drake, Bart Allen, & Cassie Sandsmark - Red, Blue, Look at You

A piece of red Kryptonite splits Kon into blue and red versions of himself during a Young Justice mission. The blue version has the personality of Conner from the cartoon, while the red version has Kon’s personality from the start of YJ98.

Kon-El Kent, Bart Allen, Max Mercury, & Others - That Alabama Clone Life

AU where Max Mercury adopts Kon.

Jason Todd & Damian Wayne - Gotham's New Dynamic Duo!

Talia al Ghul sends Jason Todd away from the League of Assassins with a Damian Wayne in tow. When they get to Gotham, however, Damian stays with Jason instead of meeting Bruce. Damian eventually starts fighting at Jason's side as a vigilante.

Talia al Ghul, Bruce Wayne, Damian al Ghul, Alfred Pennyworth, Ravi, Ra's al Ghul, and Ace the Bat-Hound - Flight of the Demon's Daughter

Jason Todd stays dead, and Tim Drake doesn't become Robin, so Talia al Ghul is forced to take matters into her own hands.

Jonathan Samuel Kent & Jonathan Samuel Kent & Others - A Tale of Two Jon Kents

It sucked that Bendis aged up Jon. I want Sunshine Jon back as much as anyone. But I can acknowledge that there are some things about the aged-up Jon that I’d like to keep around (namely his relationship with Jay). So I thought, ¿por qué no los dos? We had two versions of Clark Kent running around for years back in the day, and Jon’s entire origin is based in multiverse shenanigans, so who’s to say that Sunshine Jon couldn’t be written back into the comics without erasing the aged-up Jon? Certainly not me.

One day, Sman!Jon encounters Mxyzptlk. Mxy, being who he is, isn’t a fan of Jon’s recent growth spurt. He intends to simply rewrite Jon’s history so that he never left with Jor-El, but Jon appeals to Mxy’s love of drama by explaining how Jon’s current existence as Superman has caused a lot of controversy in the nation. Mxy thinks about it, then decides to just have it both ways. He creates a duplicate timeline, from the beginning of Jon’s existence on Prime Earth to the moments before he decides to leave with Jor-El. Mxy then manipulates the alternate Jon to decide not to leave with Jor-El. Mxy then merges the alternate timeline with the main timeline, resulting in both Sman!Jon and Sunshine Jon existing simultaneously. Mxy then leaves them with a cryptic warning, hinting that only one of them will be able to remain in the main timeline. This story will alternate between the two Jons, exploring their perception of each other and the bond they end up forming, but other characters, especially Damian and Lois, will receive POV chapters as well. Kon will also get involved.

Chris Kent, Kathy Branden, Maya Ducard, & SuperFamily Members - The World Didn’t Stand Still

Kathy Branden decides to use her shop’s teleporter to peer in on the Phantom Zone. She comes back with Chris Kent in tow.

Chris Kent, Jon Kent, Lex Luthor, Task Force X, & Others - Nightwing Rising

It’s been four years since Chris was pulled out of the Phantom Zone, since he renounced Zod and Ursa for good. Four years since he reunited with his family, albeit with some new additions. He’s settled in, found his place in families both Kent and Super. Chris has everything he could have ever hoped for. He’s safe, and loved, and content.

If only that could last.

The Flamebird, ancient Kryptonian goddess of destruction, is coming. Nobody knows why. President Luthor is happy to give them a target while he sets his sights elsewhere.

And something is stirring inside Chris himself. He dreams the same dream, over and over, of shattered glass and shackled ghosts. Shadows and secrets call out to him, begging him to answer. Something else, just out of sight, coils around him with whispers of something more.

He’s just a boy. He’s not ready.

It doesn’t matter.

The Phantom Zone is trembling.

Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, & Space Cabby - Space Scoop Switcharooo

Space Cabby and Jimmy Olsen mistaken identity fic from Perry White's perspective.

Luke Fox, Harper Row, Cullen Row, Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe, & Others - Bats on the Periphery

A series of mostly unconnected oneshots centering on the Batfamily members outside the inner circle.

Batfamily Members - A Snowball Fight of Batty Proportions

The Batfamily have a snowball fight at Wayne Manor. At least it’s not the most mayhem they’ve ever caused. Pure crack.

Selina Kyle, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, & Tim Drake - The Cattail Lounge

Prohibition-Era speakeasy AU. Selina Kyle runs the Cattail Lounge, one of the last surviving speakeasies in Gotham City alongside the Iceberg Lounge, owned by the vicious Oswald Cobblepot. The Cattail's on increasingly harder times as the Iceberg encroaches further and further. Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Tim Drake are in Ms. Kyle's employ.

Jason Todd & Jason Todd & Batfamily Members - Two Robins Means Twice the Magic!

Through multiversal and magic shenanigans, Jason Todd has his body and mind regressed to his early years as Robin, and a second Robin-aged Jason Todd gets dragged into their universe. The alternate-universe Jason is inexplicably much more violent, reckless, and irresponsible than their Robin-aged Jason. This fic explores everyone’s relationship with their Jason, especially Dick and Bruce, and their attempts to navigate and bond with the alternate-universe Jason.

Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Billy Batson, Anita Fite, & Others - The Echoes of Our Unjust Deaths

In which characters have dreams about alternate-universe versions of themselves. Unfortunately, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, and Billy Batson have recently been suffering constant nightmares about alternate-universe versions of themselves dying. Billy is able to figure out that something magical is going on that’s causing these nightmares for them, and so the three, along with Anita Fite, band together to get to the bottom of it. While doing so, they’ll try to navigate the complications their nightmares have created in their relationships with others. [Starring such stories as DC vs. Vampires, A World Without Young Justice, Injustice, Flashpoint, and more.]

Bernard Dowd / Tim Drake, Bernard Dowd & Bruce Wayne - Playing Darts With a Conspiracy Theorist

Tim introduces Bruce to Bernard. Bruce and Bernard get talking and eventually land on conspiracy theories about heroes, namely Gotham’s vigilantes. Bruce has spent many hours spreading false theories about the Bats online, so he’s read some weird ideas. But somehow Bernard’s theories are far more utterly off-the-wall than Bruce would have thought possible. Pure crack, heavy on dialogue.

“Big Hero Six AU” - The Titans of San Fransokyo

Bruce is not Batman. Dick is in the role of Tadashi and dies. Tim is in the role of Hiro and teams up with Dick’s university classmates, who are the Titans, though without powers. Baymax’s armor resembles Batman’s, but he still just goes by Baymax. Victor Fries instead of Callaghan.

Tim Drake & Batkids - Hell Hath No Fury Like a Robin Scorned

Tim’s siblings get on his nerves individually to the point that he gets revenge on each of them. Done in a 5+1 format.

Batfamily Members - The Gotham Grand Prix

The Batkids have a race through Gotham City.

Vicki Vale & Red Robin - Thinly Vale'd Animosity

Vicki Vale is dead certain that Wayne heir Tim Drake is secretly the vigilante Red Robin, but her every attempt to prove the connection blows up in her face.

Tim Drake / Bernard Dowd - They Keep Falling for Each Other All Over Again

An exploration of Tim and Bernard’s relationship through the years.

Damian Wayne - The Brown-Haired Demon

Damian dyes his hair brown for a mission, but he unintentionally uses dye that refuses to wash out, so he has to let it grow out naturally. Everyone around him is far more disturbed by Damian's new hair color than they have any right to be. Pure crack.

Young Justice Core Four - Mantle Semantics

The Young Justice Core Four discuss their codenames and what names they might consider using in the future.

Young Just Us - Merry Apokolips!

Young Justice gets trapped on Apokolips on Christmas Eve. Santa Claus comes to the rescue on his annual trip to give Darkseid a lump of coal. There may or may not be words had about that time Santa got hit by a meteorite.

Billy Batson & Dick Grayson - Batson and the Bat’s Son

Dick Grayson has tracked a human trafficking ring from Blüdhaven to Fawcett City. When Nightwing spots some thugs from the ring kidnapping a kid off the street at night, he follows them back to their base of operations. He busts the ring and rescues all of the kidnapped persons, including that night’s unconscious victim, Billy Batson. Nightwing makes sure Billy’s alright turns him over to Social Services. Dick spends the next few days in Fawcett looking into Billy. After learning about Billy’s history with foster homes, he impulsively decides to help the kid by fostering him. Billy knows Batman’s and Nightwing’s identities, though they don’t know his, so he agrees for the time being. Now Dick’s trying to take care of this kid who reminds Dick painfully of his younger self while balancing work and keeping his vigilante life secret.

Billy Batson & Sivana Family - Fostered by the Sivanas

AU where pre-powers Billy gets fostered by the Sivanas.

Dick Grayson & Billy Batson - To Hell And Back

Dick loses another brother. He refuses to accept that… Captain Marvel’s been to the Underworld before, right?

Billy Batson & Shazamily - Cats Can’t Say “SHAZAM!”

Doctor Sivana turns Billy into a ginger tabby cat, with the idea being that he won’t be able to say the magic word as an animal. With the Justice League unaware of the situation and Billy unable to reach out to them or any other allies, Billy tries to survive on the streets as a cat. Eventually, though, he's found by Darla Dudley and Mary Bromfield, who take him to live with the Vasquezes.

Billy Batson, Freddy Freeman, Tawky Tawny, Doctor Sivana, & Others - Lethe the Past Behind

"The boy woke in an alley." Preboot continuity, Billy Batson has mysteriously lost all of his memories. As such, Captain Marvel has also gone missing, and the Justice League are starting to get very concerned.

Selina Kyle, Billy Batson, & Tim Drake - Stray Tiger Cub

When Selina Kyle finds a kid passed out in an alley, skin and throat laced with Lichtenberg scars… well, she’s always had a fondness for strays. Told from Selina’s perspective. Something has gone wrong with the Rock, turning the magic lightning against Billy’s body. It leaves him powerless and without a voice.

Billy Batson, Kent Nelson, & Khalid Nassour - Crossroads

Billy Batson gets taken in by Kent Nelson as a kind-of apprentice, kind-of ward. Khalid is also there.

Tim Drake & Renee Montoya - Bat-Shaped Question Mark

Canon-divergent Red Robin AU where Renee didn't retire from the Question after Final Crisis. What if Renee took Tim under her wing during Red Robin?

Tim Drake & BatFamily Members - Late to the Party

Instead of becoming Robin following Jason Todd's death, Tim Drake joins the BatFamily after Damian Wayne is killed by the Heretic.

Billy Batson & Amon Tomaz - Through the Fields of Asphodel

Billy Batson (Captain Marvel) and Amon Tomaz (Osiris) journey into the Underworld, which has, for unknown reasons, been struggling between its Greek and Egyptian forms.

Billy Batson & Poseidon - Get In the Water

Captain Marvel picks a fight with Poseidon to save a passenger ship.

Tim Drake, Jack Drake, Dana Winters, & Others - A Key Change of Scenery

What if the Drake family didn't return to Gotham after moving to Keystone City following the events of Cataclysm?

Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd, & Others - Home to Roost Regardless

An AU exploring a timeline where Jason never died, so Tim never got involved with the Waynes, so both of his parents were killed by the Obeah Man.

Tim Drake, Jack Drake, Janet Drake, Barbara Gordon, & Jason Todd - The Scale of a Legacy

The Drake family has a long history of powerful shifters, from wyrms to wyverns to hydras and everything in between, but most notably drakes. Members of the Drake family have influenced history for as long as there have been records to tell of them.

From the moment he was born, Timothy Jackson Drake was expected to continue his family’s proud legacy. There’s one small problem, though: Tim’s shift is the wrong kind of drake.

Tim Drake & Batfamily - Honey, I Shrunk the Tim

Tim gets hit by a shrinking spell.

Tim Drake & Others - Healing Factor

AU where Tim has a powerful healing factor. Anthology-style.

Tim Drake, Jaime Reyes, Kon-El, Bart Allen, & Cassie Sandsmark - Khepri of the Rising Sun

After a Teen Titans mission to help Doiby Dickles and the planet Myrg, the team's ship passes through an undetected electromagnetic storm that causes them to crash in the jungles of the planet Odym, home of the Blue Lantern Corps. As they are traveling to the Central Power Battery to get a new ride home, Tim comes across a near-defunct Reach scarab, likely left over from the Reach's attempted invasion of Odym. Tim takes the scarab to research it back in Gotham.

Tim Drake and Cassie Sandsmark - Archaeology Brats

Pre-canon canon-divergent AU where Tim and Cassie become friends as kids on their parents’ archaeological digs.

Tim Drake, Bernard Dowd, Darla Aquista, Teen Titans, and the Omnitrix - Tim Ten

Teen Titans-Era Tim Drake finds the Omnitrix during the time when he’s forced to stop being Robin.

Tim Drake/Bart Allen - Tim & Bart: Private Investigators

TimBart Sam&Max fusion.

Tim Drake/Kon-El Kent - World’s Finest Halloween

TimKon Halloween fic. Kon dresses up as Kryptonian Nightwing while Tim dresses up as Flamebird.

Tim Drake/Conner Kent & Others - Woo Be Upon Ye

Medieval TimKon AU. Conner is a prince, Tim is a commoner, Conner personally appoints Tim to the Royal Guard on a whim.

Tim Drake/Conner Kent, Bart Allen, Jaime Reyes, & Others - Conquest is Their Business

Continuation of medieval TimKon AU. Jaime is apprentice to the court mage of the Reach Empire. When he discovers that the Empire has developed a new type of magical weapon that enslaves its user, he steals one and flees the Empire. He ends up in the Kingdom of Metropolis and shares news of both the weapon and the Reach’s new alliance with the Kingdom of Krypton, and after much debate, a diplomatic envoy is sent to the Empire. Tim, Conner, Bart, and Jaime sneak aboard the envoy.

Tim Drake/Conner Kent, Bart Allen, Jaime Reyes, Lor-Zod, & Others - All’s Fair in Love and War

Further continuation of medieval TimKon AU. The Kingdom of Krypton declares war on the Kingdom of Metropolis.

Tim Drake & Batfamily Members - Birdsong

Wherein the bullet Tim took through the neck in Batman (2016) #125 takes out his vocal cords.

Harper Row, Cullen Row, Leslie Thompkins, & Duke Thomas - Caterwaul

Pre-Endgame, Harper gets transformed into a cat.

Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Inspector Gadget, Penny, & Brain - M.A.D. Skulls

Inspector Gadget crossover. Black Mask is working with Dr. Claw and M.A.D.

Marvel Comics

Sam Alexander & Samus Aran - Adventure on Tallon IV

Metroid crossover.

Camp Camp

Space Kid, Dolph, & Others - War for the Lamp

Space Kid and Dolph find a magic lamp with a genie inside who will grant three wishes. When the rest of the camp finds out, the war for the last wish begins.

Max & Others - Flat Max

Max gets Flat Stanley-ed.

"Hilda" AU - Nikki's Adventures in Trolberg!

Details can be found in this post.

Max, Neil, Nikki, & Others - Drawing On the Walls

Max discovers how to do runic magic. Chaos ensues.

"Assassination Classroom" AU - The Cheery Teaching Octopus of Campbell High

David takes the place of Korosensei. Gwen takes the place of Kurasama. Camp Campbell's campers are E-Class. Campbell was ousted from the position of principal by Pikeman's father. The campers-turned-students have until the end of the school year to kill David before he destroys the Earth.

"The Sea Beast" AU - Ghost Coral and Buried Stories

For hundreds of years, sea beasts have wreaked havoc against mankind. In response, sailors called "hunters" venture out and hunt these sea beasts across the sea, returning to the capital with the beasts' horns. The most famous of these hunters were the crew of the Inevitable, led by the legendary Captain Campbell, his first mate Gwen Eddy, and his adopted son David Luna. One day, the Inevitable goes after the Red Bluster, the sea beast that took Campbell's [REDACTED] decades ago. Unknown to the crew, however, a young orphan girl named Nikki Maxwell has stowed away on the Inevitable.

"Astro Boy" Dadvid AU - Rebuilding Our Family Through Metal and Love

David is the head scientist. Max takes the place of Tobio. Max is killed in a lab accident. Overwhelmed by grief, David builds an android identical to Max and downloads Max's memories and personality into it.

“FNAF Security Breach AU” - Cameron Campbell’s Mega Pizzaplex

The Mega Pizzaplex is one of the most popular places in the city. And the stars of the show are the band, led by David Fazbear. One evening, though, something goes wrong with David’s battery, and the concert is cancelled. During that night, David reboots earlier than expected and discovers a boy named Max hiding in his torso compartment. Max says the security guard, Jen, is after him, so David decides to help Max leave the Mega Pizzaplex through the front entrance. Complications soon arise.

Max, Neil, Nikki, David, & Others - Camp Camp Koppai Koppai

Pikmin fusion.

Max, Neil, Nikki, & Others - The Chaos Trio Goes On a Pokémon Adventure!

Pokémon fusion.

Max, Neil, Nikki, & Others - The Campbell Zoo

Zoo AU.

Max & Others - Save and Load

Max discovers how to use save points.

Max & Kirby - Camp Poyo

Kirby crossover into Camp Camp.

Riordanverse

The Seven & Dionysus - For Hades’ Sake, Why’d He Have to Get Hot?!?

The gods are shaped by the mortal world’s perception of them. Supergiant Games’s Hades has recently taken the world by storm with its popularity, and so the Greek gods have found themselves influenced by the game’s depictions of them, especially Mr. D.

Percy Jackson & Others - Thick-Skinned Camper

AU where Heroes of Olympus never happened and Percy kept the Curse of Achilles.

Annabeth Chase, Leo Valdez, & Others - The Lengths One Will Go to For Their Laptop

Annabeth has a dream that the Kerkopes have Daedalus’ laptop. She’s determined to get it back.

[lananiscorner]

hey - i noticed you cleaned up your wip overview page since the last time i looked (full disclosure i'm a dc fan and that's how i found your blog, so i usually just come back every once in a while to check out any fun things). does that mean there's definitely no chance of getting the old batman ideas that were on there? and conversely will we actually be able to read city of hope someday? no pressure ofc i hope you're enjoying your current fandom!

Thanks for your ask, anon, and welcome back to my blog for a stopover! (No hard feelings here--I get that feeling of "oh, I came for X, now they offer 99% Y, guess I'll drop by every now and then" ^^)

Some of the old Batman ideas definitely still exist, either as story notes on my PC or as asks in my inbox (yes, I have asks in here that are literal years old, I am so sorry!!!), but at the moment it's taking me all my energy just to work on a single WIP for my current fandom, so it will probably be a while until I get around to those. I would definitely love to finish City of Hope at least, since that is sitting unfinished on my very public AO3 account, rather than my very private hard drive, and I hate that XD

[runraerun]

Steddie Amnesia Fic: 1/3

-> Part 2 | Part 3 | AO3

cw: lots of head trauma/brain injury/recovery stuff.

Steve wakes up in the hospital with someone snoring loudly on his leg, mouth open, drool getting soaked up into the scratchy hospital blanket over him.

Steve just stares.

It’s… Freddie? No, that’s not right... Eddie! Eddie ‘the freak’ Munson, known delinquent and drug dealer… resting his head on Steve’s lap.

What the hell…?

Steve reaches up with a wobbly, IV-ridden hand to clumsily pat along his head, but instead of meeting messy hair, he meets a thick wad of bandages. He flinches when he hits an especially tender spot.

It’s not much but it’s enough to wake Eddie Munson up with a jolt, and a random jumble of words that sounded something like, “the dice have spoken!”, but Steve can’t be sure. Not with the sharp ringing still going off inside his skull.

“Steve? Steve! Oh thank fuck, Jesus H. Christ, you scared the ever loving shit out of me.” Eddie stood and grabbed at one of Steve’s shoulders, shaking him enough to elicit another wince.

“Oh, damn, sorry. I’m like a fucking bull in a china shop here, man. There’s way too much expensive, breakable shit here. I’m not used to it. I accidentally ripped your IV out the other day... Fuck. The nurses hate my guts.” Eddie chuckles, eyes wide and solely on Steve, talking like they were old friends or something.

But that can’t be right. Steve doesn’t remember saying more than two words to Eddie Munson during the entire time he knew he even existed, and even then it was just to discuss weed prices.

“For real though, talk to me Harrington, how you feelin’, hm? Loopy? Gonna yak again? Apparently they got you on the good stuff,” Eddie flicks a liquid filled bag hanging above Steve and shakes his head, “but they keep cutting you back. Dicks.”

Steve’s eyes try and follow Eddie’s erratic movements but his eyes ache the more he moves them. He blinks against the harsh fluorescents and tries to open his mouth. And thank God, Eddie Munson seems to take this as a sign and shut up.

“What happened?” Steve finally croaks.

One of Eddie’s brows jumps. “You don’t remember?”

Steve gives his head a small shake. Did Eddie hit him with his car or something? Is that why he’s sleeping at his bedside and talking to him like they’re buddies?

“You fell, Stevie.” Eddie makes a whistling noise and mimicks something falling with his hands, then makes a crashing sound when his hand lands on Steve’s bandaged head. “Like a coconut out of a tree. Landed right on that big ol’ melon of yours. There was blood everywhere. It scared the shit out of me and the kids. Especially when you wouldn’t wake up.”

Steve’s throat feels like sandpaper, but he manages to swallow, his throat clicking as he did, and gets out, “The kids?”

Eddie seems to notice, even before Steve can ask, and reaches for a water bottle with a straw already in it, and half chewed. Eddie’s own, no doubt. Against his better judgment, Steve accepts it when Eddie offers it to him. He was just so goddamn thirsty.

“Don’t worry, they’re all fine. They were just shaken up. I’ll radio the little gremlins and give ‘em the good news in a sec.” Eddie’s smile falters a little, seeming lost for words. Like he wants to say something, but can’t quite get it out.

Steve finishes swallowing his few, meager gulps of water before he asks, “What is it?”

“Don’t freak out—“ Eddie begins.

And, okay, that’s exactly the thing you tell someone before they freak the fuck out. Steve’s stomach is subject to a growing, sluggish panic. “What? Dude, tell me—“

“It’s your hair.” Eddie seems genuinely pained at having to deliver this crushing of a blow to Steve ‘The Hair’ Harrington.

Steve can hear the beeping from the monitors he’s hooked up to begin to pick up speed as his heart begins racing. “My hair?”

“It’s okay! It’s okay, it’ll grow back! They just had to take a little bit off where the stitches went, you can hardest notice it—well, that’s a fucking lie, you could spot that landing strip from space—but I think if you part it to the other side it won’t look so… y’know.”

“No, dude, I don’t know.” Steve says, eyes wide, brows pinched.

“Like a drunk toddler took a pair of rusty kitchen shears to your mop.” Eddie says, huffing out a nervous sort of laugh.

Steve groans, half due to the bastardization that’s happened to his favorite feature, and half due to the migraine that’s looming on his horizon.

“You’re still pretty, Stevie, don’t worry.” Eddie grins, eyebrows raised, like he’s trying to be cute or something.

That weirdest part is, it’s kind of working.

Steve must have hit his head really, really hard.

The doctors eventually come in and perform all sorts of tests, and he tries his best to comply with them and jump through whatever hoops they make him jump through. He just wants to get the hell out of this hospital bed.

Unfortunately for him, Steve hadn’t exactly aced any of the tests.

In fact, he had failed most of them pretty fucking dismally. He couldn’t remember the date, who the president was, where he lived, couldn’t say the alphabet backwards… although, who the fuck can do that? He stands by that failing grade.

A couple of CAT scans later and it’s clear that Steve’s brain got smacked around a little more than they had originally thought.

Among a pile of other stuff, the thing that sticks out the most to Steve is his diagnosis of something called short term amnesia. They explain it like the past 2 to 3 years has just been wiped from his brain. The last clear thing he really remembers is getting the shit beat out of him by Billy, and then it all sort of gets jumbled. Fragmented. The doctors explain that this is pretty typical for head trauma patients.

He’s a head trauma patient, now.

It’s normal for memories of trauma to link, creating spiderwebs throughout your brain.

Which, that’s great. So when he gets beat up again, there’s always a chance his brain will try and erase his easy, happy years and revert back to a trauma default. Really helpful brain, thank you.

And the thing that sucks the most is that his years after the Billy beat down sound pretty great. Traumatizing, sure, but great. Once the Upside Down shit was locked up, with every scary nightmare fuel monster inside of it, life in Hawkins didn’t sound all that terrible.

He lived with Robin, who’s his best friend, (his ‘platonic soulmate’ even, as she explains it), he’s working a retail job, (also with Robin), and coaches the high school basketball team during the evenings. He’d even been talking with Hopper about joining the force.

Well, he was. Now he’s more or less useless, working full time at re-learning his life, along with a couple of fine motor skills that got glitchy after the fall.

And then there’s Eddie.

Eddie, who’s apparently also his best friend, only their soulmate link isn’t platonic at all.

The strange and weirdly exciting reality was that Steve Harrington had woken up from his 3-day medically induced coma with not only a full fledged relationship, but a boyfriend.

It’s a lot to digest, and part of him still doesn’t even know how to process it, but hearing the stories being told around him, seeing how Eddie is practically living in his and Robin’s two-bedroom apartment, and just… the way Eddie looks at him?

It’s with love—Steve can see it. Feel it. Eddie’s practically vibrating with it.

What’s even crazier is that when Steve looks at Eddie, he feels the exact same way.

It’s like looking at the stars. Steve’s heart skips a beat when those dark eyes of hit him, and Steve wants nothing more than to make Eddie smile—no, better than that, to make him laugh, just so he can watch Eddie’s adam’s apple bob up and down and hear that manic, unhinged cackle. It’s downright delightful. Steve loves being in relationships like this, where it’s all consuming.

Steve may not have the memories of falling in love with Eddie, but he has all the feelings.

No one talks about it with Steve, of course. Maybe they think it’s going to be too heavy for him to process that he’s into dudes now, but Steve isn’t a big dumb baby. Sure, he’s got a pretty severe brain injury, and yeah, alright, it takes him a minute to remember people’s names sometimes, and he has a harder time controlling his emotions, but he isn’t a complete invalid. Only a little bit of one. He’s working on it, dammit.

And Eddie is so painfully, frustratingly patient with him. He never pushes. He’s clearly letting Steve retrieve his memories before he makes a move, because despite his whole outward appearance, Eddie Munson is a goddamn gentleman. He never so much as reaches for Steve’s hands, but Steve can tell by the way their pinkies graze when they watch movies late at night that he wants to.

Steve can tell by the way Eddie teases him, the way he’s there with him through his recovery, that he doesn’t ever make Steve feel stupid when he asks the same questions over and over again, when he cries at the drop of a hat or when he gets sort of confused about the lay out of his apartment—he doesn’t care about that of that.

Because he’s in love with Steve. It’s so painfully romantic, it brings a painful lump to Steve’s throat every time he thinks too much about it.

The two of them are driving to one of Steve’s therapy sessions, Eddie in the driver's seat, Steve in the passengers, listening to a low racket of some kind of heavy metal music. Eddie always keeps the volume low now, for Steve.

He’s just been so intensely good about everything that Steve needs to try and do something good for Eddie in return. He needs Eddie to know that there’s a light at the end of this tunnel that they’re both currently lost in.

“I’m sorry about this, y’know.” Steve says when they finally pull up the building that has ‘Brain Injury Recover Center’ written on the front. So all the boys and girls with scrambled eggs for brains know where to converge.

“Don’t worry about it, man. I work the evening shifts, remember? My days are free.” Eddie explains, and Steve wonders if he’s had to be told this bit of information a couple of times now. Sometimes it takes a few times before something sticks to his brain now. His short term memory is still majorly flighty. But no, Steve remembers that Eddie bartends at a local bowling alley most evenings. He’s gone a few times. Not to bowl, of course—too much hand eye coordination involved—but just to hang out with Eddie. He’s pretty decent at Ms. Pac-Man though.

Steve shakes his head. He knows his mind must have wandered because there’s been a lull where no one’s spoken. Eddie never seems to care about that though. “I don’t mean about the drive. I was talking about… y’know.”

“Wha’dy’mean?” Eddie mumbles as he backs into his parking space, hand on the back of Steve’s headrest.

Steve sighs and decides to just come out and say it: “I mean having your boyfriend forget everything about you and your relationship. I just… that must be really tough.”

Everything in Eddie Munson comes to a jarring halt, hand frozen over where he’s turned to ignition off.

It’s sort of unnerving—Eddie is always moving, fidgeting. Damn near bouncing off the walls. But now it’s like someone hit the poor guy with a freeze ray gun.

Steve chuckles softly as he reaches out and touches Eddie’s arm, giving him a playful jostle, to loosen him up a little, “it’s okay, Eddie. I know. You don’t have to keep going easy on me. I’m gay! Or, bi-sexual. Whatever.” Steve shrugs, “see? Not falling apart. I can handle being in love with another dude. You don’t need to keep babying me.”

The side of Eddie’s mouth twitches into a downturned smile that he seems to be trying to hide.

“I know, I know. Not just any dude.” Steve rolls his eyes, a smile still firmly on his face. He takes Eddie’s hand from the steering wheel, and Eddie seems to watch it go in a detached sort of awe. Steve wonders if Eddie’s proud of him for being so cool with it all. “In love with you.”

“Steve, I don’t think—

“Wait, just let me finish.” Steve asks, and Eddie blinks and works on closing his mouth. Knows it’s important to let Steve get his thoughts out quickly, lest they be lost to the giant black hole inside of his beat-up brain now. “I know that I don’t remember any of the important stuff with us. Our first date, or our first kiss or, y’know, any of our other first firsts. So maybe it feels like you’re cheating on the old Steve with me? But… Eddie, I know it’s crazy but even though my brain forgot all of the specifics; my heart didn’t. I look at you, and it’s all there. I’m still so into you, dude. I can feel it, even though I don’t remember how I got here. I’m in l—“

“Steve! Stevestevesteve wait, holy shit—!” Eddie’s eyes snap up from his intense stare at the place where their hands are linked. “Steve—”

“Yeah?” Steve prompts when Eddie doesn’t seem to be able to find the words. He runs his thumb gently over Eddie’s knuckles. It feels so nice to finally be able to hold his hand again. They fit together so well, and Steve wonders briefly if it’s some kind of muscle memory.

Eddie opens his mouth a few more times before he remembers how to make the words come out.

“Steve. Buddy. We’re… we’re not dating.”

Steve’s face falls, and he can feel a lump form in his throat, but he keeps a firm hold of Eddie’s warm hand in his own. “Yeah, I know, I know. We haven’t had any time to be a couple. And it’s probably been torture for you, man. You’re so busy taking care of me and making sure I don’t freak out over everything that you’ve clearly been neglecting your own hierarchy of needs.”

Eddie raises a brow.

Steve chuckles, “Shut up. It’s a therapy term.”

Eddie laughs in his throat. “Steve, you gotta slow down and listen to me.”

He turns his shoulders so that he’s fully facing Steve while he reaches his free hand over and tugs at one of his earlobes. “Got your hearing ears on?”

Steve rolls his eyes, but he nods just the same.

“We… we weren’t dating before your accident,” Eddie speaks slowly, his voice warm, gentle. “Hell, I didn’t even know you were, y’know, into dudes like that. Much less me.”

Something throbs dully behind Steve’s eyes. It’s the start of a migraine—the one that makes it hard to process much of anything. Steve squints, trying to make sense of what Eddie’s saying. “…you’re not my boyfriend?”

Eddie shakes his head very, very slowly. “No.”

Steve snatches his hand back like he’s only just now noticed how burning hot Eddie’s hand is.

He settles back in his seat, staring out the front window. The sounds from the outside world are muffled, and everything feels far away and sort of… Made up. Just like everything he’d imagined was going on between him and Eddie. Not real.

He feels painfully detached from reality. Unmoored. Maybe this was the disassociation thing the doctor mentioned might happen…

“Are you sure?” Steve asks, risking another glance over to Eddie, who hasn’t taken his eyes off him for a second.

“Pretty fuckin’ sure.” Eddie snorts.

“Oh, God. This is… I’m—sorry. I’m so stupid. Fuck, I gotta—“ Steve suddenly attacks the door handle with a clumsy fury that has his hand fumbling with the handle for way too long. Fucking busted up, bruised as fuck fucking brain-!

“Steve, it’s okay, dude,” Eddie says from behind Steve, but that’s easy for him to say; he didn’t just humiliate himself in front of his not-boyfriend, definitely-crush, possibly ex-friend—“Steve, wait!”

Steve flees the van on unsteady feet, not daring to look back.

[reginalusus]

Jason thing.

He was my Guinea Pig for some new brushes and rendering techniques. He is holding the bullet he is going to kill you with. /aff

Ko-Fi.

[lurking-loaf]

Some quick dca doodles because I’ve been feeling antsy lately.

[herebutnotpresent]

Royal Fire Academy era girls

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[le-artpotat]

Surprise vacation!

[oneofthosenightbees]

Players 3 & 4 🦉🐍

[footprintsinthesxnd]

my WIP list

(Last updates 08/07/24)

On a Wing and a Prayer - MOTA collab

Beneath the Blue Sky -MOTA collab

Loving Her Was Red - Dick Winters x Lois Drake OC series

Original WW2 story

[blackkatmagic]

AU where Qui-Gon pulls the same thing with Feemor that he later does with Obi-Wan and sort of just....abruptly ends his padawanship in favor of taking Xanatos as his new student. Which is devastating, but Feemor takes a solo mission to a very quiet planet on the edge of Mandalorian space and somehow ends up with the Darksaber, all of the Death Watch out for his head, and Tarre Vizsla('s ghost) as his new Master.

[nekovale]

"And even if he was considering such absurd things, it just wasn’t possible. There was no way that Dazai would ever offer up that kind of thing for Mori to use. He can picture exactly how it would go, how Mori would twist the thing between them to get the reactions he wanted. Everything about them would become part of his game, everything would be manipulation. 

Dazai would rather have nothing than have that.

Still, sometimes when Chuuya did things like kidnap him and sing to him in stolen vans in front of the ocean with the sun illuminating him and his voice being the only thing Dazai was focused on, it’s hard to remember all that."

I've recently started reading I Was Screaming Your Name Through The Radio because I was in a band au mood and I'm loving it so so much. This little passage from chapter 4 struck a chord with me and I wanted to draw something for it!

[mora-is-meep]

Inspired by this busted lad from @shiftythrifting I wanted to make a red-eyed sculpt based on him for a jewelry/ring dish. Since I live in AZ I didn't want to go with a scarf so he's sporting a posh little vest.

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

AGH FASHION DESIGNER SUGURU AND MODEL SATORU W A NEW INTERN DESIGNER UNDER THEIR WING 😞😞☹️ - 🌺

WAHHHH I LOVE THIS 🥺🥺🥺 the pining and flirting and slowburn of it all… model!satoru and his favorite designer suguru geto, both of them undeniably skilled and born with an eye for fashion….. well-known and adored……..

designer!suguru who gets tasked with showing you the ropes, who’s always so patient and kind despite your inexperience. diligent with his teaching but also so laidback, so easy to talk to… he looks intimidating, but he’s so polite that you can’t help but swoon a little. and he admires your enthusiasm so much…… grows fond of you soooo quickly bc you’re just such a breath of fresh air compared to the divas he’s forced to work with all the time. he thinks you’ve got real potential and he wants to nurture it.

and ofc you end up running into model!satoru eventually…. bc he’s always hanging around suguru whenever he gets the chance. and he’s maybe a little jealous that you’re hogging so much of his personal designer’s attention, but… he also thinks you’re so cute . T_T like a little puppy following suguru around… so excited to be apart of what you’ve dreamed of for so many years……… he looks into your eyes and sees the same sparkle he had before he made it big, and it makes his heart race.

yeah . i’m just thinking abt the peaceful coffee breaks with suguru….. how he’d insist on paying for your drink, ”since he’s your senior” (he wants to be your favorite </3)…… and how he’d just be so protective over his little intern. don’t get me started on the close proximity with satoru when you’re taking his measurements, the glance and smile he sends your way during an impromptu shoot… the way he always calls for you with a sweet coo of ”how’s my favorite intern doing today?”

😔😔😔 yeahhhhhh. they make me feel ill.

[kiwiana-writes]

YEARS OF DREAMS JUST CAN'T BE WRONG

by @kiwiana-writes

[rated (eventual) E]

“Obviously I don’t know Prince Henry, Jesus. If I did, I’d be ten million pounds richer, for a start.” Twice a year like clockwork, ex-Queen Mary, now the Duchess of Washington and holed up in one of her cousin’s royal properties in London along with her daughter and two remaining grandchildren, pops up on social media to remind the American population of the reward on offer for her younger grandson’s safe return. There have been literally dozens of fake Henrys over the years, all hoping to get their hands on the cash, all soon finding themselves on the wrong side of treason charges. He looks at Nora’s computer screen again, fingers drumming anxiously on the desk as he tips his chair back on its rear legs. “I’m telling you, though, I know that guy.”

[An Anastasia AU.]

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7