#this is a Bruce callout post

[frownyalfred]

the thing about Dick Grayson is, he’s been watching Bruce and Clark interact since basically day 1 and has 100% perfected the art of going “yikes” from a safe distance and then moving on with his day.

[leatortilla]

do y'all ever think about how sad it is that the batfamily has to work on holidays instead of spending evenings together because of this one bitchass dude who made it his thing to work ONLY on holidays

[screamting]

if you're ever feeling particularly mean, you can always add an amanda palmer song to your bruce wayne playlist.

[shoebillstork]

Mutual 1: (An extremely extensive post detailing their trauma on their secret blog)

Mutual 1: (A picture of the soup they finished making) Eeatting penis soup grab a bowl

Mutual 2: (Cropped batman yaoi) This scene was so compelling in the comics qnd established so much for Bruce Waynes character as a bottom

Mutual 3: Just updated my comic (it is one of the most compelling pieces of narrative youve ever read. Its based off of a bad game)

Mutual 4: Ngl this omegaverse gacha life youtube video is more compelling than most shows i watch

Mutual 5: Finally cocking out i swear if one more thing happens today i will snap

Mutual 6: PENIS TYPO

Mutual 7: PENIS TYPO

Mutual 8: PENIS TYPO

Mutual 9: This yak tranquilizer weak af

Mutual 10: Come make my sinister potion (posts how to make a pipebomb)

Mutual 11: Do i get plastic surgery and change my name and move to a different country y/n (poll is in favor of yes by a huge margin)

Mutual 12: Mutual 13 is a lying fucking piece of trash and i think they should drop dead. They live at 308 Negra Aroya Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104 and im going to record me beating the shit out of them

Mutual 13: Aww my bestie is coming to visit me soon :]

(Mutual 12 and 13 are dating)

Mutual 14: who tf does she think she is (posts a sc of mutual 8 from three url changes ago. It is mutual 8 saying theyre going to the park)

Mutual 15: So in my latest session in dnd we rolled 1d12 for dick size and i rolled a nat 20 and idk what to do with this reponsibility now

Mutual 16: he looks so good im going to scream (a screenshot where said character is so far in the background he doesnt even have a face)

Mutual 17: eho up thinking about the moral dillemma presented in pokemon go

Mutual 18: take a look at my ocs :D (mona lisa if dhe was gay)

Mutual 19: i hadba really good day today i got to spend some time bonding with my entire family and we got to celebrate something we havent had the time for in 37 years

Mutual 20: (reblogging mutual 19) L + Don't care + 632146K~P PRC, dl.2146K~P, 5K > 2146K~P, 5K > JF 2146K~P, 2H, WS ([4]6H->P), 623H

Mutual 21: (Blurry photo of them running from police) they're after me for my stash kf yaoi cocaine

Mutual 22: (Miles long RP chain they started 2 months ago. You have post notification on for them because its awesome)

Mutual 23: Discussing the morality of liking bananas over mangoes

Mutuals 24 ans 25: having a dramatic wedding where theyre acting as a crack ship. They're on the verge of divorce

Mutual 26: She winding onbmy waker (is in the middle of intense controversy)

Mutual 27: (Callout for mutual 26)

Mutual 28: If Mutual 17 asked i would give them a sloppy toppy

Mutual 29: Anon get out of my inbox before j block you his ass is NOT flat. (His ass is fucking concave)

Mutual 30: Shes just like me fr (a picture kf a shopping cart)

[nalyra-dreaming]

Comments on episode 2x02 - aka episode 9!

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Intro change!! Love it!!

The coven immediately tracking them but Claudia and Louis not noticing for FIVE MONTHS?! Sweeties!!! Come ON! This is Paris! You know? “Paris? No!“????

But the ribbing about it is EVERYTHING

Sitting on the statue made me laugh out loud

I‘m living for the vaguely bitchy bantering between Armand and Louis!!! Yesssss 🙌

And Daniel not buying it lol

Loved the little moment re the racism (callout) there

Armand and the jab re Lestat - LOL (oh god he is being so PETTY)

Armand needling Louis lmao

The coffins beneath the beds - clever

Poor pidgeons

GO DANIEL!

The interjections with Daniel‘s memories - shivers down my spine!!!

CLAUDIA SAYING SHE NEED A NEW BRAIN IN HER HEAD?!!!!! I FUCKING HATE THEM 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 God the foreshadowing

Madeleine and Claudia (and the dress 😭)

Daniel lecturing them about the gloves!!! I remember a post about this when s1 aired, because yes!!!! GOD THE DETAILS

Oh Louis. His photos. Going to that park to… watch?! Or snack and taste the lust in the blood?!!

Okay the groan and the elictricity … manifestations are definitely related to Armand.

They‘re very cute there on the couch in Dubai! If only Daniel would buy it lol. Also Louis‘ face when Armand says he never harmed him - oof. Pain and harm (for others) incoming 😭

God Armand seemed smitten indeed

The theater. HOLY SHIT. God they ate horrifically and left no crumbs.

Armand is maître. No hiding behind Santiago after all

Claudia choosing Bruce. Oy. Also Louis‘ face seeing the portrait

Daniel after had me laughing tears. Honestly. Drag them 🤣🤣🤣

Armand saying he fucked Lestat. Nawwww sweetie 😆

Louis going to Roget‘s to check if Lestat is actually dead. I… god. Honey.

Also: A part of the real Lestat!!!!!!!! I had not expected this (something similar yes, but THIS)??? GOD!! And Sam‘s presentation of it. Holy Hell. And making Louis his beneficiary. Right in the feels. “My Louis“. 😭😭😭😭 Mentioning the veil between them!!! Asking Louis not to give in to revenge!! But live his life 😭😭😭 FUCKING DEVASTATING 😭😭😭

The blood tears

Also Roget proposing Lestat is sleeping?!!!!!!!!! Does this Roget know?!!!

Whoa Daniel calling rebound

And Louis lashing out making Daniel remember Armand!!! HOLY MOLY

Louis called Daniel “Danny“

That smile Louis smiled there was vicious. Another little chip of surface humanity gone

Murder Mansion. Sex on motorbikes. It feels feverish.

Ohhhhhhhhh the flirtation. And Armand cutting it short by warning him and pushing Louis towards his shortcomings vampire-wise. OUCH. And also Armand commenting on her body and mind. Beheadings going on behind them. Oof.

The episode ending with a scream and the smile draining from Louis‘ face. Ruthless foreshadowing.

Next episode preview!!!

1556… the way they redirect for these snippets is interesting

Nicolas!!!!

God that gaze between Lestat and Armand is … *fans self*

Catacombs. Does Armand really show / (try to) teach LOUIS the fire gift? 😬

Justin fucking Kirk talking about the Great Conversion in broad daylight. Ohhhhhh I‘m still calling red herring lol.

Louis throwing Lestat against the wall 😈

Armand challenging Louis 🙌

Agh.

INCREDIBLE.

[loving-family-poll]

Ultimate Incest Tournament - Round 1

Propaganda under the cut:

Cersei/Jaime:

they're literally womb-to-tomb lovers. they feel that the rest of the world is beneath them and they're the only ones that matter. the fact that they're twins is fundamental to their attraction to each other

they’re blonde they’re evil they crossdress they’re fucked-up mirrors of one another they serve cunt they’re both bisexual probably and they’re TWINS who FUCK. who said that.

"if I were a woman, I'd be Cersei."

"I'll kill [...] the whole bloody lot of them until you and I are the only people left in this world."

"I am sick of being careful. The Targaryens wed brother to sister, why shouldn't we do the same? Marry me, Cersei. Stand up before the realm and say it's me you want."

"'Do you have a little wife, ser?'" No, I have a sister."

Bruce/Dick:

Adopted son Dick Grayson boywife Dick Grayson boywife

Was YOUR pairing mentioned in a 397 page callout post that changed the entire comic book industry forever? I thought so.

before John/Dean entered the scene they were doing up the militant-freudian-father/child-soldier-motherofhisotherchildren-son incestuationship in 1940!! in fact they were so flagrantly intimate that they spawned the first ever 'video games are bad for children' discourse in the form of 'comics are bad because they'll make your children yearn for the gay incest mines' i.e. seduction of the innocent by fredric wertham. and y'know maybe they were right after all *gestures to the incest poll tournament*

SO many delicious aspects of their dynamic honestly. the fact that dick made batman a father and the latter loved it (and him) so much that he sought to replace him forever and ever again and again rebecca daphne du maurier style. word on the streets (lost canon timeline) is bruce made the first replacement— jason todd— dye his hair from red to black so that he'd resemble dick, inspiring generation spanning lust for and yearning of approval from both daddy bats and first son/greatest love of aforementioned daddy bats

How many other incest pairings are so strong that they generated like at least 5 other incestuationships? the family tree branches are CRUMBLING. not to mention their dramatic breakup did give us beloved 2000's animated series teen titans.

there are so many interpretations writers like to impose on the characters. they're father/son, frankenstein and creature, brothers, husband and wife. when batman has his own biological son but then promptly "dies", dick, the first son, comes in as a father to his father's first son (whilst donning the cape and cowl/body of his partnerfather). MANY say that dick was a better parent to damian wayne than even bruce. it literally can't get more incestuous than this, sorry

[vintagerobin]

I was originally going to say I get it but actually no. I do not get where people have been getting the idea that Batman suffers little/no consequences because of Zur's actions in GW. Because I also concur that I've seen a ton of people complaining about it, including comic readers. He gets the shit beaten outta him by literally everybody and then (if I recall correctly) ostracized and spends the next however long to his apartment where the only noise to keep him company are the voices in his head. I do not know what people consider adequate consequences. Execution by firing squad? Cutting him off from any interaction forever and ever and exiling him to the deepest corners of the earth? Callout post on Twitter? People are okay with Jason and Harley being redeemed after torturing and murdering people but not Bruce after he does a, yes, very shitty thing during a psychotic episode? Anyway maybe I'm being too nice to Bruce because writers are bad about admitting when he's wrong in the narrative (though I think that's due to editorial) but I don't think this is one of those situations and the response by fans was weird. Can't believe I'm defending GW

Yeah like... I just don't get it. I do get one very specific related complaint, which is that Jason forgives him too easily, but that's only because that does feel out of character for Jason. I tend to think of forgiveness as one of the things he struggles with most.

The thing is that... I do think that all the issues with characterization aside, the writers still do a pretty good job of admitting that Bruce is very wrong. Bruce himself admits that he was very wrong at several points, makes heartfelt apologies, and stops Tim from excusing his actions under Zur's influence at one point, saying that it was still a part of him that did this and he has to be held accountable. The narrative absolutely does not fail to communicate that he fucked up.

More than half of this story is dedicated to disassembling some major flaws in Bruce's thinking and forcing him to face them - to the point that the main antagonist in the end is a literal personification of those issues. It doesn't execute this perfectly, but imo the intent couldn't be any more obvious. Like I'm hard pressed to think of another story that's happened in relatively recent memory where "there is something very very mentally wrong with Batman and there has been for a long time" was as central to the plot or as repeated a point.

(Practically a summary of this whole arc, from the starting issue.)

I'm chalking this one up to the (relatively) recent trend of loving revenge stories and hating redemption stories and the obsession with Bruce being a Good or Bad father. Because it does overtly tackle his flaws, including and especially the ways in which he is not a Hashtag Good Dad, but with a mind towards doing something constructive with that rather than just endlessly punishing him for it.

[tarucore]

Honestly, I agree, and I'd really love to hear more of your characterisation gripes!! Because you really do notice that when someone is doing the whole femgayBrucie! Stitch, it's always ALWAYS because they see him as a bottom, and this to them is how bottoms act they can not be any other way. And yeah at the end of the day it's art it's a sandbox of whatever you want so who gives a shit but like ,,, one he would not fucking do that and two do you even really care about the character if your view of them is so far off from their actual personality you have to make them occ because that's how you can handle them? You can't just make them how they are as a bottom. You have to make them so far from what they are because that's how you see bottoms as? Smh WFA and its effect on humankind will pay for what it's done.

lmao thanks, I try not to be so vocal about said characterization gripes since a lot of darkfic is almost by definition ooc and that would be hypocritical, but with pervasive fanon like "Brucie" that happens when people aren't even aware of what they are doing I can't help but go insane

and yeah I'd say about 75% of the time I see fem gay Brucie it's in a shipping context, mostly with super/bat I think because of its popularity, as the main culprit. And that kinda sucks!!! There's a lot that's been discussed about feminization of queer male characters in fandom and usually I'm on the side of "if it's written well then whatever," I try and mind my business, but with Bruce I feel its especially strange to portray him like that.

Batman for better or worse has been a symbol of American masculinity in all its forms since the beginning. And this includes queer masculinity!!! Midnighter's creation didn't come from nowhere! Acting like the only way to portray Bruce as a bottom in a relationship is to make him some 90's caricature of a gay man is frankly baffling!!! He's already pretty gay, guys, I don't know what to tell you?! God, I need kink history to be talked about more.

I do think there is a point to be made about subverting expectations, and how DC as a company has been focused on portraying hyper-masculine heroes because of their audience. I do think there is space to discuss queer identities in comics, especially about a character that has been written as overly patriarchal and masculine as Batman has been. But that's not what people who are writing "Brucie" are trying to do.

They are making Bruce a fem gay or at least pretend to be a fem gay as a cover bc they see that as being inherently submissive or that its easy to slot him into that role if they want him to get fucked by someone.

I've also seen it in gen contexts too which is more confusing somehow, since when you take dynamics that are unfortunately deeply embedded into fandom out of it, you are left with a situation where you are making fem gay stereotypes the butt of the joke.

I'll reference a post that I can't be bothered to find again where Bruce revealed his identity to the JL by talking in a "Brucie voice" (some dialogue that was pretty clearly referring to a gay american accent) and then flirting with Ollie. Like what's the joke here? The shock factor? Why would Bruce be willing to act out a stereotype as a social cover, if you consider Brucie to be an act? And if you don't, why would it be so funny that Batman is gay? Why do you consider a fem gay guy to be funnier than some rich man who is just kinda useless??? Uhg, I need to start blocking some of these people now, I do not want some sort of callout post.

Sorry, this got kind of long but I have a lot of pent up thoughts about how masculinity is portrayed in the DC fandom, but yes just imagine that we are shaking hands while saying he would not fucking do that.

[lorbanery]

I've been tweeting a bit through mine and @ark-shifter's first play-through of Gotham Knights on Twitter (you can see my ongoing list of the explicitly queer parts of the game (including Tim's canon bisexuality, The Squad making plans to go to Pride, and multiple pride flags as far as the eye can see) here). But I wanted to talk a bit more extensively about Dick Grayson in the game and how the writers and devs so carefully made him Schroedinger's Queer.

And just to be clear about this from the start: This is not a callout post or an accusation of queerbaiting. I'll explain more why later, but my stance is that they did an excellent job and I love the way they handled it.

Needless to say, but saying nonetheless: Spoilers under the cut.

First let me explain what I mean by Schroedinger's Queer.

Basically, every bit of queerness that comes up around Dick is circumstantial evidence. It might be confirmation that Dick is queer, but there might be some other reason for it.

I realize that's not very clear, so here's the examples I can remember off the top of my head:

During one of Dick's cut scenes, Alfred makes him some tea and serves it to him in a souvenir bi pride Bludhaven mug. You could interpret this as that mug being his mug, that he bought it because he identifies as bi and wanted the mug because of that. But he might have bought it because Tim is bi and it meant something to him because of that. He might have bought it for Tim. Or maybe he didn't buy it at all, maybe it's Tim's mug that he bought for himself when he was visiting Bludhaven. Babs emails Dick about an interview that he did, specifically mentioning the number he did on the interviewer. The email includes a snippet of the interview where the male interviewer talks about Dick being extremely flirtatious with him, and quotes him answering a question about his type with, to paraphrase, "I don't have a type, all people are beautiful." You can interpret this as an at least semi-authentic interview where Dick's answering genuinely, even if he is playing up a flirty public persona. Or, given the number of discussions of Bruce's flirty playboy persona (there's video of a half-naked table dance with an ice sculpture) in the game in general, you can just interpret this as Dick picking up where Bruce left off and taking on his own flirty playboy persona where he says things he doesn't really mean to throw the public off the scent. There's an email exchange between Babs and Jason where they make plans to attend Pride in costume because Babs overheard Dick and Tim talking about going together. You could interpret this as Tim and Dick talking about going without including Babs and Jason because Dick and Tim are the queer ones and it's a queer event and so they want to go. But they don't say why Tim and Dick talked about going without including Babs and Jason. Maybe Tim just brought up wanting to go but not wanting to go alone and Dick was like "Yeah totally, I'll come with you" and they were going to ask Babs and Jay to come with but they beat them to it. Tim tells Babs about this boy who flirts with him and just asked him out and he said yes. Babs is super encouraging and tells him that if he ever needs any advice, she's dated a lot of guys and she learned nothing, so he should just ask Dick. This could be Babs telling Tim that Dick has better experiences dating men than she does so he'll have better advice than her! But it could also just be about Dick being Tim's oldest brother and the one he asks for advice first anyway for things interpersonal stuff. Maybe she genuinely thinks that he's learned more from all the dating he's done. Or maybe it's just because he's a guy who's dated before and will know better what a guy wants out of a relationship.

Now I, as a queer and a firm supporter of Queer Dick Grayson, am certainly inclined to read these things in the gayest possible framing. But someone who is straight and/or inclined to see Dick as straight can easily just see someone who's supportive of his bi brother and uses hypersexuality as a means of distracting people from thinking he's roaming the streets at night fighting badguys (which, I'll be honest, is less effective for Nightwing than it was for Batman, but that's besides the point).

Like, say, the people who own the character and have a financial interest in discouraging any evolution of the character that could be controversial and/or they see as fundamentally changing him.

There have been efforts to introduce queerness into established superheroes (in both Marvel and DC) for DECADES. A lot of times when you see something in a comic that seems really gay and you're like, "How did the artists/writers NOT REALIZE" they absolutely did realize and are doing everything short of explicitly confirming it in-panel because the higher ups won't let them.

Tim Drake was originally introduced in 1989, basically as a way to reintroduce Robin with a more personable character than Jason had. He was not allowed to be explicitly queer until 2022.

33 YEARS.

For a character who basically existed as a second attempt to give Batman a Robin again because they were invested in Dick being Nightwing so they didn't want to revert him back, and they let Jason be killed, but Batman had only been without a Robin for his very first year of publication. So they needed someone in the position and they needed someone who was least likely to cause a visceral reaction in their readers like Jason did. (Which, to be clear, isn't to say that Tim hasn't evolved into a really interesting, nuanced, and generally wonderful character in his own right; or that the folks who actually created him didn't create him also conceive him as a fleshed out character.)

But we're talking about Dick Grayson. Who, at this point, has existed for 83 years. Less than twenty years shy of a century. He's existed almost as long as Superman and Batman — Superman was introduced in 1938, Batman in 1939, and Dick in 1940. He may not hold exactly the same place in popular culture that Superman and Batman do, Robin is still a legacy character, "Batman & Robin" is a phrase that basically everyone knows, and when you ask the average person who Robin is, they'll answer or describe Dick Grayson.

And Dick Grayson is not allowed to be queer.

He's too well-known. He's too popular. He has too much publication history where he's written, ostensibly, as straight. It doesn't matter that a large swath of his fans are, themselves, some flavor of queer. It doesn't matter that citing his publication history is patently ridiculous given the nature of the superhero comic industry. It doesn't matter that real life people have revelations about their sexuality at all points in life and "some point in their twenties" is literally one of the most common and far from the latest. It doesn't matter that bisexuality exists and would allow Dick to be queer without invalidating all of the (extremely popular) canon relationships he's been in over the years .

And this is when we swing back around to the question of how is this not queerbaiting.

First let's define queerbaiting. Queerbaiting is a term for media where the narrative hints at characters being queer — or that queerness plays a large role in the romantic plot(s) — but in actuality it's either a very small part or never actually exists at all.

A really blatant example of this was the marketing campaign for the first season of Riverdale. A clip of Betty and Veronica kissing was used in the ads and commercials. By featuring it in an ad for a show that hadn't premiered yet, they implied that some level of queerness between Betty and Veronica would be a regular, if not prominent, feature of the first season at least.

In actuality, the kiss was a single, one-off moment that, in the narrative of the scene, was just meant to surprise the girls running cheerleading tryouts and it never came up again.

With that in mind, I can see how reading all of these hints at Dick being queer with nary a peep of actual explicit confirmation might make people cry queerbaiting. But I don't think it is. For a few reasons.

One of them, I admit, is pure vibes. This all feels, to me, like a genuine expression of queerness. I don't know how many, if any, of the writers or devs of Gotham Knights are queer. But as a queer person — particularly one who's read queerness in Dick Grayson for a long time — this felt not only true to Dick's character, but true to a queer reading of his character.

Particularly in conjunction with word from on high that Dick isn't allowed to explicitly be queer. It's as queer as they could safely make him without getting in trouble or having DC scrap the whole project or give it to someone else.

And then ... there's everything else. All those bits and pieces and details that I mentioned in that Twitter thread. The rainbow flags, the gay neighborhood, the pride flag colorways for the bike, the number of explicitly queer NPC's just roaming around their version of Gotham. It would be one thing if it was just a one-off bit of idle dialogue about Tim's boyfriend and the interview snippet and maybe a rainbow flag above the arcade, maybe even the Pride mural in the gayborhood. That's what I would expect from a kind of well-meaning but kind of clueless dev team who doesn't really understand queer culture.

But you don't populate your game with gay NPC's and let players ride around on a nonbinary pride colored bike if you're not genuine in your desire to give some real, genuine, thoughtful queer rep.

[rookthebird]

the person who reblogged this saying it's bruce wayne it's so correct. i feel like arguably this is also a giant chunk of his found family (selina kyle callout post)

love a fictional character who will scowl and tell people “I’m not sick” “I’m not hungry” “I didn’t get injured”

meanwhile he has an extremely high fever, he ate some soup last week, and the blood is soaking through his jacket

[tonystarkbingo]

TSB Round 7 - Week 20/21!

It was another party weekend, and we've had some fantastic fills as a result! Be sure to check them out!

Collaborator: deehellcat Card Number: 7014 Square Filled: R4 - new team Title: Esprit de Corps Link: AO3 Pairings: pre-ironstrange Word Count: 1258 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: PTSD, Misuse of Magic, Grumpy Stephen Strange, Canon Divergence—post CACW, New Team Summary: Strange isn’t sold on this whole ‘new Avengers’ thing he’s gotten sucked into, and especially not on the idea of having to work with the most annoying person on this plane of existence, Tony Stark.

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Collaborator: SomeSortofItalianRoast Card Number: 7012 Square Filled: K1 - Thor Title: cross the sky for your love Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Thor Word Count: 2170 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, First Kiss, Injury Summary: Tony had spent years learning how to live as Tony Stark and as Iron Man. He'd never thought he'd be racing across the sky against time itself as he tried to save his Soulmate.

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Collaborator: tinystark616 Card Number: 7008 Square Filled: Adopted - Canon Divergence Title: The Right Time Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony/Steve Word Count: 2753 Rating: Mature Major Tags/Triggers: Pining, love confessions, angst with a happy ending Summary: Steve fell in love with Tony on the day they met. The problem is, he's scared that telling Tony how he feels will ruin their friendship. He keeps that secret for eleven years. Or, Five times Steve doesn't tell Tony he loves him, and one time he does.

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Collaborator: deehellcat Card Number: 7014 Square Filled: R2 - billionaire Title: In Season At All Times Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony/Bruce Word Count: 1543 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Canon Divergence--post-Age of Ultron, Gardening, Science Husbands, the Russos whomst, Tony’s Love Language is Gifts, Bruce Banner Deserves the World Summary: They were just trying to decompress from yet another insane callout. Tony was randomly flipping the tv remote, muttering “how is it there are ten thousand channels and literally nothing worth a flying fuck to watch—” “Hey.” He thought Bruce was asleep in his arms, but suddenly he sat forward, his eyes on the screen. “Hey, Tony, stop there. What’s this?” “Um, people with big green fruits, of some kind.” Tony discovers his boyfriend’s secret yearning, and true to form, takes it to the limit.

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Collaborator: deehellcat Card Number: 7014 Square Filled: A3 - free space Title: Love Is A Fruit Link: Tumblr Pairings: Tony/Bruce Word Count: na Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Canon Divergence--post-Age of Ultron, Gardening, Science Husbands, the Russos whomst, Tony’s Love Language is Gifts, Bruce Banner Deserves the World Summary: Tony discovers his boyfriend’s secret yearning for a peaceful life in the garden, and true to form, takes it to the limit, by lining up a team of Stark Industries botanists to breed a giant green gooseberry he can patent and name after Bruce.

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Collaborator: scottxlogan Card Number: 7017 Square Filled: R3 - AU: Non-Powered Title: Tempted Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes Word Count: 7282 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Alternate Universe - No Powers, Bodyguard Bucky Barnes, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Fake Dating, Tony Stark Has PTSD, Single Parent Tony Stark, Panic Attacks, Stalker, Sexual Content, Sexual Tension, Tony Stark has a stalker, Past Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Past Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Swearing, Adult Content, Explicit Language, Dirty Talk, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Light Angst, Parent Tony Stark, Tony Stark Has Issues, Flirting, War Veteran Bucky Barnes, Mild Blood Summary: Tony Stark's life takes an unexpected turn when after months of being bombarded, an antonymous stalker takes things a touch too far sending Tony and Morgan's lives into a tailspin. When Pepper reaches out to an old friend for assistance after Tony refuses to heed her advice, sexy bodyguard Bucky Barnes shows up at Tony's doorstep ready to get to the heart of the problem taking place. Armed with a new mission and a cover story posing as Tony's new live-in lover meant to explain Bucky's presence in Tony's life, the two find their way to solving Tony's stalker problem together while flirting with danger and romance along the way.

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Collaborator: Scottxlogan Card Number: 7017 Square Filled: T1 - Only One Bed Title: Lazy Weekend Link: AO3 Pairings: Bucky Barnes/Tony Stark/Steve Rogers Word Count: 1375 Rating: Mature Major Tags/Triggers: Domestic Fluff, Tony's POV, Threesome - M/M/M, Polyamory, Implied Sexual Content, Fluff, Morning Cuddles, Sleepy Cuddles, Established Relationship, contemplations, Reflection Summary: Snuggled in bed with his lovers, Tony contemplates how far they've come together from their sexy beginnings.

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Collaborator: scottxlogan Card Number: 7017 Square Filled: K3 - Pepperony Title: The Contingency Plan Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Pepper Potts Word Count: 3460 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Post-Canon Fix-It, Canon Divergence - Avengers: Endgame (Movie), post-Endgame, Light Angst, Reunions, Angst with a Happy Ending, past Emma Frost/Tony Stark, Grief/Mourning Summary: Following the events of Endgame Pepper tries her best to move forward with life to continue Tony's dream, but when a surprise visit from Emma Frost offers Pepper a mysterious alternative to her grief, Pepper learns of a contingency plan that Tony left in place before his passing. Will it prove to be the key to happiness for Pepper and Morgan moving forward?

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Collaborator: illogicalkat Card Number: 7009 Square Filled: S5 - "Let me do it" Title: Handle with care Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes Word Count: 456 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: description of dead animal Summary: Tony arrives at his boyfriend's house and learns Bucky hasn't had the best day.

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Collaborator: rebelmeg Card Number: 7001 Square Filled: S5 - Tony x Happiness Title: Laugh Lines Link: Tumblr Pairings: Pepperony, Iron Family Word Count: 1003 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: domestic bliss, married life, slowly growing old together, grossing out your kid on purpose Summary: Pepper has spent years watching the subtle (and sometimes unsubtle) ways Tony's face has changed. This one is probably her favorite.

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Collaborator: endlesstwanted Card Number: 7010 Square Filled: T2 - Asking for trouble Title: Picking Love Link: AO3 Pairings: Bucky Barnes/Sarah Wilson Word Count: 2095 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Modern: No Powers, Meet-Cute, Flirting, Minor Steve/Tony Summary: Tony takes Bucky to the farmers’ market as an excuse to meet with his new fling, but Bucky makes the best out of it with the idea to bake something for his sister’s birthday.

[deehellcat]

I was going to make another moodboard for the 'billionaire' fill on my @tonystarkbingo card, but then I started thinking about the surrounding events, what set it up. LOL, oops. The couple of paragraphs I meant to write to accompany the board mushroomed into its own timeline. So, here it is. (there's still gonna be a moodboard, and it's going to fill the free space on my card. hehe)

Title of Fill—In Season At All Times

Collaborator deehellcat

Card Number 7014

Link (AO3, Tumblr, etc.) https://archiveofourown.org/works/51434401

Square Filled (Letter AND number AND prompt) R2, billionaire

Ship/Main Pairing (romantic, platonic, or none) Science Boyfriends (Tony/Bruce)

Rating (Gen, Teen, Mature, Explicit) gen

Major Tags/Warnings/Triggers –Canon Divergence--post-Age of Ultron, Gardening, Science Husbands, the Russos whomst, Tony’s Love Language is Gifts, Bruce Banner Deserves the World

Summary –They were just trying to decompress from yet another insane callout. Tony was randomly flipping the tv remote, muttering “how is it there are ten thousand channels and literally nothing worth a flying fuck to watch—”

“Hey.” He thought Bruce was asleep in his arms, but suddenly he sat forward, his eyes on the screen. “Hey, Tony, stop there. What’s this?”

“Um, people with big green fruits, of some kind.”

Tony discovers his boyfriend’s secret yearning, and true to form, takes it to the limit.

Word Count (if applicable) 1543

[frownyalfred]

If you think about it, the Justice League is made up of two groups: people who aren’t worried about jumping off buildings because they can fly, and people who will jump off buildings despite the fact that they cannot fly

[batfamcraze]

I’ll never forgive DC making Jason have an abusive biological father to then being adopted by another abusive father

[starryeyedastronaut]

A part of the fandom: Tim is the robin who is more like batman! He's basically a mini batman!

Tim:

[arguablysomaya]

batman is such a fucking dumbass who on earth decides to keep an animatronic dinosaur in their secret hideout that is PRIME hacking bait. what the hell are you gonna do when that shit turns on when you’re hosting a gala?? “excuse me i’m running carnivore chuckee cheese in my goth basement lemme get right back to you”