#also i wouldn’t touch the batkids with a ten foot pole.

[shoot-i-messed-up]

Was always worried about the angst of unrequited love, had never realized the sheer amount of comedic potential that it has.

Imagine one-sided Superbat where Clark is fully aware that Bruce has a crush on him but is being his repressed self about it, and Clark is just like, “I’m not gonna touch that :) you’re going to figure that out for yourself, buddy, and in the meantime, I’m just going to have a good time and be best friends with you as you inevitably pull yourself together enough to either fall out of love or to confess :) and I’ll just let you down gently because I care about you :)” but he absolutely 100% is using it to his advantage in the meantime. His puppy dog eyes had never been so effective before. He’s gotten out of Monitor Duty three times in the past month.

[goldkirk]

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Thank you so much for the questions!!!

3. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?

A VERY interesting question, because answering this from a reading perspective vs. writing perspective would lead to very different answers. As a writer, I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to convince myself to do any kind of full-on soulmate AU or character death story because I just. Don’t see how I could personally do them justice. I wouldn’t even know where to start. I love reading soulmate AUs, personally, but holy moly the idea of writing one is terrifying. I also will never EVER even THINK about writing rape/incest/noncon/dubcon, even if there’s only a few year difference, or it’s like “they’re just adopted and only barely” or “they’re not ACTUALLY adopted siblings” or whatever. I can’t do that. I also can’t do like mentor and mentee to lovers bc it’s just...the relationship was formed in a differential power dynamic, and even once you add friendship and genuine affection to that it’s never going to fully change how it was formed, you know? I understand that some people like all those kinds of stories, or just NEED them, because it’s part of how they process and cope. I just personally can’t do it. The only time I’ll write noncon or dubcon is if it’s for a certain purpose within a story, and it will always be something that HAS to be dealt with and properly addressed before I end the story.

37. Talk about your current wips.

Okay so there’s lovingly roasted with a side of meme, a Voltron modern AU college/grad school story which is a MONSTER of a “chatfic” which I call it LOOSELY because while that’s what it started as in the beginning, it’s now retained the FORMAT but gotten? pretty deep and plot and character heavy? but also I haven’t written for it in like. A year. BUT I WILL COME BACK TO IT, it’s too dear to my heart to abandon forever.

And there’s Blackbird, which is the direct sequel to Latchkey, my first Batman/Batfam fic. Blackbird follows Tim and the Batfam through his like...sort of first, sort of second year as part of the family. It addresses some of the remaining situation with Tim’s parents, handles bringing Cass into the family and deals with HER father, pulls in Stephanie and her very complicated, VERY cool, badass smart teenager situation and how it ties in with a major plot, slowly reveals some Major Scheming from villains which I can’t spoil too much here, and ultimately will have a showdown with the Joker and others and QUITE a ride for the Batfam and most of Gotham as a whole before everyone is finished and the dust settles. It’s my love letter to a still-figuring-out-how-to-handle-trauma Tim, a Bruce who’s worked on his own mental health and is trying his best with his traumatized kids, the recognition that Tim is a genius and so is Steph (but Steph is like. So undersold. I mean she has outsmarted and out-stubborned SO many people), how damaged Cass is and how amazingly hard she works to overcome it and learn to speak and be her own person and live a good life with a real family, the way trauma shapes and informs every aspect of life and can interweave among people in very different AND similar ways, and also to how strong the bonds between the Batkids grow to be and how the strong ties and trust between friends and family that love and support each other can change the outcome of a lot of situations.

And there’s I’ll fight your fight, I’ll hold you tight, which is part of my Shutterbug series, tackling how Dick’s tell when he’s really upset and needing care and affection is that he pulls away from touch and stuff, and how Bruce notices and handles that. It’s a two-parter, and I have to finish the second half.

And THEN there’s an unnamed collection of sidefics for the Shutterbug series that I’m not talking about, but they span a large chunk of time and show a lot of the more personal, specific moments of batfamily stuff and a lot of Tim life things that didn’t fit in my major story arcs but I still want to explore. Not telling anything yet though!!!