#metukah

[kbirbpods]

Notes: podded for a slew of folks for ITPE '23 & I don't know everyone's tumblr handles - @flowerparrish @mistpodfics @reena-jenkins @godoflaundrybaskets @litrapod - Opalsong, hoebiwan, MelancholyMorningstar, lattice_frames

Original Work: Latkes and Other Fried Foods by @metukah

Rating: General Audiences

Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types

Audio Length: 48 minutes, 8 seconds 

Summary:

Eight (short) Hanukkah fics featuring the Bats

Notes: Chapters are primarily gen Batfam fic, with the exceptions of: Ch 2 (DickRoy), Ch 4 (JayRoy), & Ch 5 (BruceHal). Ch 8 has some mentions of ships but is not focused on them!

[freedvmrouge]

By pure, utter coincidence, I was on the Roy Harper/Jason Todd ao3 tag and opened these three (3) fics consecutively. Read them in random order, but then I realized how they could be in the same universe. And as far as I’m aware, all the authors had no collaborative discussion about it. I found it amusing, and it’s yk, the Roy - Jason - Lian family, which I love, so I’m sharing it! 

Makes Three by metukah ⁕ @metukah​

Someone drops a baby off at Jason and Roy's Gotham apartment. What are they supposed to do if not keep her?

Getting Together - 1.1k

(Not) Fake Married by DarbyDoo22 ⁕ @darbydoo22​​

Dick asks Jason to fake marry him to avoid annoying advances at another one of Bruce’s galas, except Jason is apparently already married? Dick doesn’t know how to feel about it.

Established Relationship - 1k

Why not both? by devils_ivy

Jason gets injured on a mission and his family comes to see him. Only, his siblings don't realise that he has another family. Or that he was seeing someone at all.

Secret Relationship - 1.2k

[lilituism]

It's Batfam Art Dump Weekend!!!

Here are my entries:

Talon Tim

Winged Dick

True Oracle/Mythical Creature Barbara

De-aged Bruce

The event is hosted by @dcartevents here:

[glygriffe]

Rec list of the Month

Reading is fondamental. It makes you travel in different worlds, feel all sorts of different things that make you grateful for the wonderful people who share their words with you.

Here are some of the authors and stories I want to celebrate in September.

Supernatural

Untitled: Post-finale genfic where Cas is back but have to possess Dean and he cannot manifest other than a thought in Dean’s head. By @cosmicoceanfic from a prompt by @foolondahill17 (Dean x Castiel)

Imperfections: teen Lucifer has skin problems and too many brothers he doesn’t relate to. A fic by @thewritingspot inspired by the art of @troize (No pairing)

Prompt ask: "What if we'd ended up somewhere else, somewhere closer to what we planned?" A fic by @quietwingsinthesky from an ask by @sugaraddictarchangels (Sam x Jess!Lucifer)

Never Say Goodbye: a Soulmate AU following the first seasons of the show by @zepskies (Dean x Reader)

Untitled: A short head canon from @castideans-pie where Dean is learning Enochian (Dean x Castiel)

Stanger Things

The charming of Steve goddamned Harrington as told by Jeff: an outsider POV on a fledgling steddie romance by @scarcrossdlvrs (Eddie x Steve)

Untitled: a sweet imagine scenario where Eddie experienced a kiss differently by @steddiehyperfixation (Eddie x Steve)

Other fandoms

Bottom of the barrel: Some cargo on the Firefly class ship called Serenity is anything but… A slice of life on Malcolm Reynolds’ ship by @waywardwizzard (No pairing)

I'm only me when I'm with you: Peter Parker is having a rough day, but Morgan Stark is on a quest to make her adopted brother feel better. A cute IronDad story by Good_As_I_Am94 on AO3. (No pairing)

Fatherhood: Dick Greyson : a sweet story where Bruce and Dick learn to navigate with each other, by @metukah I draw a little something for this one as part of the @wipbigbang event!

Live a little: a cute fluffy ficlet with Steve Rodger by @until-theend-oftheline (Steve Rodger x Reader)

The Judgment of Bucky Barnes: Just Bucky being grumpy and Tony Stark being there for it! A story by @copperbadge-writes on AO3 (No pairing)

[oliocelottafanfics]

Got tagged by @sagetsukimura ! To be honest I have so many favorite characters, this is such an unfair one for me 😂😂 forgive me for my inability to follow to rules! But hey, I’ll tag some extra people to make up for it.

Tagging time~ @spagbol99 @hale-13 @niniblack @meepmorpperaltiago @chronicly-ill-girl @metukah @happyaspie

[batfsm]

The kids are related, biological siblings.

I'll be adding on to this a lot I hope.

Some recs:

Achieve by metukah

Just because Tim's first time at the circus was the night John and Mary Grayson died doesn't mean it was Jack and Janet's.

Common People by AmariT

His whole life, Jason’s mom had told him his dad was Bruce Wayne, but he’d never been dumb enough to actually believe it. They lived in a rundown, one-room apartment in the worst part of town, and in every single picture he’d ever seen of that rich bastard he was wearing a suit or sipping champagne worth more than everything they’d ever owned.

But if he wasn’t Bruce Wayne’s kid, then what the hell was he doing sitting outside the man’s office in Wayne Towers?

It's actually a series!

Uncommon UpBringings by Chaseha_Wing

Bruce Wayne saw his life flash before his eyes. Every plan he had put into motion for the next ten years. Every business effort, every charity gala. Heck, he'd already planned at least five dates in the next week alone that he was going to have to cancel. Everything he thought his life would be would change thanks to this baby.

And that’s not even including his plans for the night.

A story about Bruce aquiring Jason as a baby and his adventures when raising him. This can also be considered a side story of AmariT's "Common People"

[dcartevents]

introducing Batfam Art Dump Weekend! run by @metukah and @oliocelottafanfics

Pick one item from each category to create your full prompt!

here is the ao3 collection, and we'll be taking submissions on tumblr as well! the tag for this event is "batfam art dump 23"!

alt text under the cut

characters: Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Stephanie Brown, Kate Kane, Damian Wayne, Duke Thomas, Cassandra Cain, Barbara Gordon, Alfred Pennyworth

tropes: Reverse Robins, Talons, Partners, Supervillain, Undercover, Crossover, Civilian AU, De-Aged, Wings AU, Meta Bats AU, Mythological Creatures

the two columns of text are separated by eight dotted color palettes.

[metukah]

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Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth & Bruce Wayne, Jim Gordon & Bruce Wayne Characters: Bruce Wayne, Jim Gordon, Alfred Pennyworth, Dick Grayson, Clark Kent Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Bruce Wayne is Batman, Good Parent Alfred Pennyworth, POV Bruce Wayne, Jim Gordon & Bruce Wayne Friendship, implied pre slash Bruce/Jim Series: Part 1 of Fatherhood (Rewrite Verse) Summary:

Bruce's entire life changes when he goes to the circus one night.

art by @glygriffe​

a rewrite of my fic Fatherhood, completed for WIP Big Bang challenge.

updates Tuesdays and Saturdays

[marirah]

20 questions for fic writers

thank you @vellaphoria for tagging me!

20 Questions for Fic Writers

How many works do you have on AO3?

oof okay it's a lot. i have two accounts, and one of them is over 10 years old so....

metukah (est 2013): 185

marirah (est 2022): 85

for a total of 270 works... oof

What’s your total A03 word count?

metukah: 407,889

marirah: 133,069

total: 540,958

What fandoms do you write for?

DC these days. I started in the one direction fandom, played around with Percy Jackson, the MCU, and Star Trek

What are your top five fics by kudos?

marirah:

Protected - T Sladick. After another blowout fight with Bruce, Dick offers to let his little brothers move in with him. And the mystery boyfriend they've never heard of before. (3.5k)

Daily Planet: Live From Gotham - G Superbat. Clark has an old crush on Batman and a new crush on Bruce Wayne. Lois is merciless. (3.5k)

Red - E JayTim. Jason doesn't know who this Red is or why he's in Dick's apartment, but it doesn't matter in the end. (6k)

Unread - G Jason & Dick. Jason finally caves to the kid's demands that he clear out his inbox. As it turns out, Dick has been writing to him for years. (1.5k)

Loud - G DickTim. Tim finds a little bird in his Nest and takes him home. (1k)

metukah:

Introducing Us - G batfam gen, side StephCass. The Justice League doesn’t know how many bats there are, or where Batman is keeping them all. (1.9k)

Field Trip - G Peter Parker & the Avengers. Peter Parker and his classmates take a trip to Stark Industries. He only spends about half of it wanting to melt into the floor. (3.2k)

I'm (Not) a Mess - G JayRoy. Roy Harper is Neal Caffrey. He's not letting that get in the way of his relationship with his daughter. (4.7k)

Ninjas as a Catalyst - G Birdflash. Peter doesn't like to remind people of how good an investigator he is, but he can definitely connect the dots. (4k)

Double Take - G Birdflash. Several years after Neal Caffrey disappears, Peter and Elizabeth are visiting El’s cousin Wally, who is engaged to Dick Grayson. Who used to be Neal Caffrey. (1.2k)

What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

i'm not really that angsty a writer i think? i thought letter (dicktim, SPYRAL) had an angsty ending but i checked, and... it doesn't really lmao

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

i mostly write happy endings, but my favorite one technically isn't up yet. i'm just really happy with how my joint year of the otp/year of jason and slade series is going.

Do you get hate on your fic?

luckily, i don't really!

Do you write smut?

absolutely (see above lmao)

Do you write crossovers?

i've written a lot of white collar x dc, and i've been playing with dc x marvel x percy jackson recently

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i know of

Have you ever had a fic translated?

i had someone ask once but i don't think anything ever came of it

Have you ever co-written a fic?

i had a co-written series once

What‘s your all-time favourite ship?

right now it's 1000% dicktim! (send me a message to join an 18+ dicktim server!)

What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

i have trouble finishing anything longer than a oneshot, they just rot in my scrivener files forever

What’s your writing strengths?

does fluff count? i like my fluff

What’s your writing weaknesses?

keeping up with things longer than 1k. also i tend to burn myself out

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

i'd feel more comfortable with it if i spoke the language. but i have been known to use pet names from other languages sometimes, namely Hebrew

First fandom you wrote for?

the first thing i ever wrote (in middle school) was technically percy jackson self insert. i just wanted to be friends with percy and annabeth. i still want to be friends with percy and annabeth

Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

oh man. pretty much everything i write, i write for myself, so all of my works have been my favorites at one point. right now, i'm really happy with Negative and Aperature, which are a series with reverse Robins dicktim.

I tag @klarion-the-witch-boy , @the-alice-of-hearts , @ginbenci, and @bittercape

[space-specs]

for the fanfic ask meme- 🎃 👀 🧠 (guy gardner bc i want you to talk about my blorbo)

🎃 Do you write fics for certain holidays? Which is your favorite holiday inspired fic?

I have yet to write any fics for any holidays (unless you count Pride Month, in which case, gonna promo my criticism of Devin Grayson's Jon Kent Pride story here). I may write a Christmas fic if I can ever get the time in the holiday season because it's fun. I also have a soft spot for Jewish batfam content, but I would need to do quite a bit of research before I wrote a fic for any Jewish holiday.

On that note, I'll rec some other people's holiday fics, lol.

Latkes and Other Fried Foods by metukah — a collection of very sweet and fun Hanukkah stories featuring the Bats!

Cherish The Present by Listentothelittlebird — part of a larger AU (Code Bat) that I love very dearly and will not shut up about. Fluffy Christmas content!

Holiday Trappings by Cloaked Sparrow — also part of a larger AU that I actually need to read the rest of. I stumbled upon this one and really enjoyed it. Jason is loves his family and fjdklfgjfkjfh also....gift-giving as a love language is my shit.

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!

teehee, this one is fun because I have like 5 open wips + nearly 20 just snippets sitting around.

I'm behind on the Year of the OTP stuff, so I actually have two timberkon fics going at the same time (and I'm hoping I can finish one of them before the end of the month at least). March is a cryptid-hunting road trip fic and April is Kon being oblivious af and not realizing he's been dating Tim and Bernard for weeks because I think that trope is fun.

There's also my big Jason wip that I've been working on for over a year (this was supposed to be a quick thing and it got WAY out of hand). I have a lot of feelings about it, but the basic premise is Jason gets to Gotham and starts his whole plan, but the Bats kinda realize that while he IS killing people, he's definitely more vigilante than criminal and their goals kinda align. So they decided to just work with him rather than against him (because Bruce has an established history of working with characters with different modalities on killing, both in and out of Gotham). And then Jason goes "well, now what?" and just....fails to tell them that "hey, btw, I'm the dead Robin" for like a year while he bonds with them and also gets to see how his death changed things up close and personal. (I'm not kidding, I'm keeping a timeline for this for my own personal reference and we're up to 70% of a year now. Also over 20k words. Holy shit.)

But because it's YOU asking and you get to hear about most of my fics as I'm writing them, I will add a bonus of the summary of wip I have not really told you about:

His siblings all follow Bruce's no kill rule for one reason or another, but the realities of vigilante life is never nearly so black and white. Jason’s there to help with all the grays. Or, 6 times Jason hides a body from Bruce + 1 time he nearly finds out.

🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favorite headcanon for them.

Oh, you want me to talk about your blorbo. I see how it is /lh.

Trying to think of something that isn't just straight up lifted from headcanons we've already discussed....hold on.

Being a GL isn't exactly conducive to having a stable job, so when he first starts out and is in space more often than he's Earth-side, he fills his time on Earth doing volunteer work with kids because he likes helping out and it gives him something to do for the like week he's back home. It doesn't really provide income, so he usually just crashes at other people's place. Hal, John, the jl:i peeps at some point, Oliver Queen on one memorable occasion. Eventually, he gets the bar and his own place, but he still tries to keep up the volunteer work when he can.

Speaking of the bar, to me, Guy's strength in the kitchen is his adaptability, and being a GL only enhanced that. Between having to figure out what makes for good eats on various alien planets and having to come home from long space trips to the 6 shelf stable items left in the pantry, Guy is something of an expert in turning a handful of mismatched ingredients into something enjoyable. This is in direct contrast to Hal Jordan, whose time as GL has just made him used to eating whatever, and now he has the most bizarre palette and will just throw together the strangest combinations and enjoy it. (Both of them have developed a keen sense for what kind of foods will keep their bodies fueled longer and their eating habits reflect that).

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Fatherhood: Dick Grayson

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/5qOgICT by metukah Bruce's entire life changes when he goes to the circus one night. art by Griffe   a rewrite of my fic Fatherhood, completed for WIP Big Bang challenge. Words: 1524, Chapters: 1/6, Language: English Series: Part 1 of Fatherhood (Rewrite Verse) Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Bruce Wayne, Jim Gordon, Alfred Pennyworth, Dick Grayson, Clark Kent Relationships: Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth & Bruce Wayne, Jim Gordon & Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Bruce Wayne is Batman, Good Parent Alfred Pennyworth, POV Bruce Wayne, Jim Gordon & Bruce Wayne Friendship, implied pre slash Bruce/Jim read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/5qOgICT

[birdflash-fics]

My Hero

by metukah

Wally's Warlocks and Warriors character has been asking Dick's for good luck kisses for ages now. It was bound to happen before a Titans mission, too.

[sofiaottoman]

#thanksvember 2022 Masterlist

So with that we’ve reached the end of Thanksvember for another year. I hope you’ve enjoyed at least one of my picks.

Here for your convenience are all the fics I recommended during #thanksvember 2022. The list is organised by fandom for ease of use, and hidden behind a cut so as to not clog anything. This year I recommended 31 fics across 10 fandoms.

Batman

Thanksvember Day 03: rather feel it all than feel alright by wingedgrace | Dick & Jason | One-shot | Rated: Teen | Word Count: 1.7k

Thanksvember Day 04: don’t tell anyone (who has to know?) by jehans | Jason/Dick | One-shot | Rated: Teen | Word Count: 5.5k

Thanksvember Day 09: maybe we’ll wake up to the silence of shoes at the foot of the bed not going anywhere. by jehans | Jason/Dick | One-shot | Rated: Mature | Word Count: 5.6k

Thanksvember Day 12: Dick Grayson and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Two to Three Weeks (But Who’s Counting) by dietpudding | Roy/Jason | One-shot | Rated: Mature | Word Count: 11.3k

Thanksvember Day 13: grave robber by envysparkler | Gen | One-shot | Rated: Teen | Word Count: 7.5k

Thanksvember Day 14: Jack of Hearts by khthonicEcho | Jason/Dick | One-shot | Rated: Explicit | Word Count: 7.6k

Thanksvember Day 15: By Any Other Name by ManURonaldo | Gen | One-shot | Rated: Teen | Word Count: 4.5k

Thanksvember Day 21: The Bowery Branch by ivy_and_ivory | Gen | One-shot | Rated: Teen | Word Count: 6.9k

Thanksvember Day 23: Just Breathe by Lulu_Rythmea | Gen | Complete | Rated: Teen | Word Count: 58.2k

Thanksvember Day 24: earn my keep by marquis | Gen | One-shot | Rated: Teen | Word Count: 9.2k

Thanksvember Day 26: chew it until it bleeds by dukeaubergine | Tim/Jason | Complete | Rated: Explicit | Word Count: 69.1k

Thanksvember Day 29: Never Believe It’s Not So by metukah | Roy/Jason | One-shot | Rated: General | Word Count: 1k

Crossover

Thanksvember Day 11: Third Wheel by Kangofu_CB | MCU/DC | Bucky/Clint/Jason | One-shot | Rated: Explicit | Word Count: 10.7k

Game of Thrones

Thanksvember Day 01: there is nothing lost (but may be found, if sought) by branwyn | Oberyn/Sansa | Complete | Rated: Explicit | Word Count: 64.7k

Thanksvember Day 19: flatterers look like friends (as wolves like dogs.) by darkinnocent | Gen | Complete | Rated: Mature | Word Count: 62.5k

Thanksvember Day 25: The Worth of a Lady by smokingsea | Tywin/Sansa | Complete | Rated: Explicit | Word Count: 151.1k

Thanksvember Day 27: Yearning by lttledcve and spinner | Jaime/Sansa | Complete | Rated: Not Rated | Word Count: 24.9k

Hannibal

Thanksvember Day 16: Paragon by BloodyWar2411 | Will/Hannibal | Complete | Rated: Explicit | Word Count: 541.5k

Harry Potter

Thanksvember Day 06: The Venom Peddler by lightning fury | Gen | Complete | Rated: Teen | Word Count: 114k

Thanksvember Day 07: A Study in Choices and Second Chances by queerofthedagger | Harry/Regulus | Complete | Rated: Mature | Word Count: 90.3k

Thanksvember Day 08: The Art of Self-Fashioning by Lomonaaeren | Gen | Complete | Rated: Mature | Word Count: 283.9k

Hawaii 5-0

Thanksvember Day 22: Deus Ex Girlfriend by ninjaboots and thignsandstuff | Steve/Danny | One-Shot | Rated: Explicit | Word Count: 36.3k

James Bond

Thanksvember Day 10: Harry Potter and the Fucking Audacity by Anyawen & AtoTheBean | James/Q | Complete | Rated: Mature | Word Count: 17.3k

Thanksvember Day 17: the fly in the amber by thesalwartheart | James/Q | Complete | Rated: Mature | Word Count: 35.8k

Thanksvember Day 20: Château de la Résurrection by Boffin1710 and Dassandre | James/Q | Complete | Rated: Mature | Word Count: 120.2k

MCU

Thanksvember Day 30: Lines In Sand; Lines in Stone by BigSciencyBrain | Bucky/Loki/Steve | Complete  | Rated: Explicit | Word Count: 211k

Star Trek

Thanksvember Day 02: and i can lend you broken parts that might fit (like this) by jayhawk | McCoy/Kirk | One-shot | Rated: Explicit | Word Count: 17.4k

Teen Wolf

Thanksvember Day 05: Rending Shadows by FicBaal (illbeintheend) | Gen | Complete | Rated: Mature | Word Count: 95.1k

Thanksvember Day 28: Light in the Dark by cywscross | Peter/Stiles | Complete | Rated: Teen | Word Count: 21.7k

Tortall

Thanksvember Day 18: Lady Knight Volant by Bracketyjack | Kel/Dom | Complete | Rated: Teen | Word Count: 432.4k

Congrats for making it to the end of this long list. If you’re looking for more fics you can find my picks for thanksvember 2021 here and my picks from thanksvember 2020 here.

[glygriffe]

Bragging about my WIP Bigbang Art and Title Card

Art Title: Purple Embrace for "Fatherhood: Dick Grayson" Fandom: DCU, Batman Link to the fic by @metukah: AO3 (this fic is complete with 8 542 words!) Warnings: none Bragging Rights: I did my first Bang!! And I'm super glad I chose to start with the @wipbigbang one. Putting my art into the world is always a challenge, especially on a deadline, but I pushed myself by selecting a story in a fandom I'm not involved in. I'll surely do it again and I recommend to other artists to also take the plunge: the experience with my author was lovely.

For an alternate title card, you can go see this Tumblr post by @metukah

Go read this sweet story!

[ao3feed-spirk]

The More Things Change

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/44134494

by metukah

Leonard gets an unexpected life update from someone he hasn't heard from in a while.

  day 255 of one word prompts and bringing in another fandom at the finish line

Words: 2510, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 344 of 365 Days of One Word Prompts (and my Suffering), Part 1 of Star Trek Works

Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Joanna McCoy, Nyota Uhura, James T. Kirk, Spock (Star Trek), Sarek (mentioned), Winona Kirk (mentioned), Sam Kirk (mentioned)

Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock, James T. Kirk & Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Leonard "Bones" McCoy & Spock, Leonard "Bones" McCoy & Nyota Uhura, Joanna McCoy & Leonard "Bones" McCoy

Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Secret Relationship, Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Relationship Reveal, Fluff, Family Fluff, Team as Family, Kid Fic, New Vulcan

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/44134494