#but i wrote this thinking about jayroy

[weiyjling]

Dick: I invite you to my home.

Dick: I teach you the joys of acrobatics.

Dick: I’m forced to wait an hour for bagels I didn’t even want.

Dick: And then I come home to find you chewing on my brother’s face.

#dick grayson #nightwing #dc #Jason: I kissed like a princess. #jayroy #royjay #batman #batfam incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes #incorrect dc quotes #incorrect nightwing quotes #source: icarly #this could be any ship dynamic #but i wrote this thinking about jayroy

[skyspats]

sky! i got high af and wrote an essay about jayroy and looking back at it made me think of you! hope you’re doing well 🧡

common tragedy enjoyer moment. i kinda went off.

WAHHHHHH I LOVE IT SO MUCH

common tragedy enjoyer is sooooo true like half of jayroys appeal is how theres pain when theyre apart AND when theyre together. i totally second that i dont want to see them in an actual relationship because the messiness they have is just so entertaining and heartbreaking. like i know us jayroy enjoyers™️ all love the "i dont need drugs. ive got you" line but it perfectly encapsulates jasons side of the dynamic: bro is straight addicted to roy and like you said, him being in roys life also damages it. and roy! he and jason are so similar in the way they care too much but where jason has his stubbornness toward change, roy has his toward accepting that jason wont change. hes an engineer, he sees all the components of a machine and how they work together and he can take it apart with his bare hands and put it back together in a way that has it working better than ever- but jason isnt a machine he can fix, no matter how much either of them wishes he was. theyre just so GRRRR THEY MAKE ME CRAZY

thank you for sharing your jayroy essay and reminding me how they make me want to chew off my own arm 🙏🫶🫶 i hope youre doing well too! 🩵

#sky.speaks #jayroy

[bi-bats]

"'n this is gonna have to go into my jaytimroy fic" LISTEN. listen, okay. jaytimroy is one of my fav poly relationships to read. i will eat this fic uppppp whenever you post it [zero pressure just to be clear!!! write at your own pace babes i'm rooting for it in the meantime]. with that said though, anything you're willing to share abt the wip?

also if you've written anything for that pairing, or just a fic including roy in general in the past??? shamelessly asking you to share a link.

AKLSJFLKSD thank you!!! Writing is definitely not happening the way it usually does for me (and this weekend has been Very Stressful, my cat is really sick and things aren't looking so good, he's not keeping food down at all and hasn't been for about three days and also it's my one year anniversary with my gf today and this has put a bit of a damper on it)

Anyways!! I really just have the plot for it 😂 basic rundown is Bruce finds out about the league bases and gets into a huge argument with Tim which results in the outlaws taking him in during the fallout. JayRoy have been hooking up but they don't know how to address the whole having feelings for each other thing because they both think it's one-sided. Then, of course, Tim comes in and throws a wrench into everything because he starts hooking up with Roy, and then if I say anything else we're wandering into spoilery territory!

I actually haven't written anything for that pairing yet/at all BUT my girlfriend has been begging for it (literally even was like 'you can give it to me as a birthday or a hannukah gift!! 😂) BUT I have written fics with Roy in them! I'm starting to get more comfortable writing him now.

Here's what he's in!

Roy is in Rooftops & Bookshops, but not very much. He's pretty much only in a short scene in chapters 9 and 12 each, other than a few background mentions along the way.

He's also in Pieces of Me (Pieces of You), and he's in two of the three chapters and plays a significant role in the plot

He's in Non-Refundable Plans, but he really only has a few lines (it's a one shot anyways), this is the one he's in the least by far

BUT he is in Know Yourself a significant amount! Every chapter, plenty of lines, scenes alone with Jason, scenes alone with Tim! This fic is ongoing but is NOT abandoned!! I'm struggling with it a bit right now but I am actively working on it. If you want to see how I write Roy or want to read something I wrote that has Roy in it, this is definitely my top recommendation for that!

And thank you for being clear that you aren't applying pressure!! I really appreciate how kind and patient and understanding everyone always is with me here!!! this fandom is the absolute best fr 💚💖💚

#batsasks #🤏🐈 hardlycats #fr I'm thinking of posting a new chapter of something just because at this point I could use the endorphins from comments #please send me and Zeus and Brosia (batsgf) your love 💖 #JFAKSDJFLK I'M MAKING MYSELF LAUGH SO HARD ABOUT BATSGF #I'M GONNA HAVE TO GO BACK THROUGH AND RETAG ALL HER STUFF AS BATSGF #THANK YOU THIS PROVIDED ME BOTH BRIEF JOY AND BRIEF DISTRACTION

[jaybirdh]

Okay, so I have spent the better part of a year trying to write a Jayroy fic that I thought would honestly take only a couple of months. I was inspired by this other fic, and had gotten full permission, and I wrote loads for it, but nothing ever quite worked out.

What happened was I read That issue of Red Hood & the Outlaws.

I pretty much ignore the whole penguin beatdown thing (I also ignore the titan’s tower attack, but that’s another matter), I always want Bruce to be a good father and I have tended to write him that way.

Same with Oliver Queen.

However, I thought, within the continuity, it was very stupid and unfair that this incident never gets mentioned again and Bruce never encounters any repercussions whatsoever (all this assuming you want to believe that the “fight” was at all canon, which I don’t really), and I wanted catharsis. Sort of.

I wanted a reason for the main premise of the story to happen, and that seemed like the perfect opening for that, in addition to wanting to see some comeuppance.

That was the main downfall for this story. I got way too invested in the toxic familial relationships the New 52 spat out, and it kept going into all the wrong directions. I ended up disliking all but individual bits of it. It was too nasty for me to handle.

Add to that that I couldn’t seem to get a single characterisation right, and in spite of the great inspiration, the story had almost no plot, and I couldn’t figure out how to worm one in.

So I’m scrapping that effort, and starting completely from new.

The thing is, there was one bit I did really like, from Roy’s perspective, and I don’t want it to be completely lost, although I know it wouldn’t have anywhere to go in my new attempt.

It will probably showcase all the flaws I described, and may not be written terribly well, but I still liked the voice (even if it isn’t necessarily in character), and I liked some of the points I made about what I know of how they handled Sanctuary, so I’m putting it out here.

Content warnings will be tagged. If anyone thinks they can expand on this or do it better, feel free. Just remember to credit me or even piggy back on this post. If someone does write more to this, I would like to read it.

Writing under the cut.

Therapy sucks.

That was Roy’s professional opinion as a Therapizee. And his opinion about it mattered, damn it! Customer satisfaction, and all that.

It didn’t help that all his therapizers were robots or holograms.

In a way, it made it worse.

The robots could pretend to care all they wanted, but you always knew they didn’t.

And they were always recording. Roy was sure that was some sort of violation.

But seriously, you might as well be talking to a metal wall for all the good that did (a certain saying about first signs came to mind).

Add to that the fucking holograms.

They were meant to represent the people you had issues with, or who you cared about, giving messages of support and all that sappy stuff.

Roy guessed it was supposed to be cathartic, or some shit, but really it was just frustrating, bordering on maddening.

If he weren’t already in rehab for capes interacting with the stupid fuckers would have certainly put him there.

Really, there was nothing worse about yelling about a problem you had about your adoptive father to his face, then hear him say something you know he’d never actually say to you.

All it seemed to do was increase the issue exponentially, drive you crazy with the knowledge that you might be working through your problems, but the people the holograms were pretending to be sure as hell weren’t.

Roy found himself moving just as roboticslly through his day as his so-called therapists. Sleeping badly, missing his Jaybird, and finding he didn’t have much of an appetite for anything anymore.

He supposed the one good thing about it was that he was so numb he didn’t even feel the need for drugs or booze anymore.

Just…nothingness, really.

And missing Jason, obviously, but there wasn’t much he could do about that. His boyfriend was off being a hero, no thanks to Batman (may he lose the use of his stupid fortune and die alone in a ditch), and Roy had made a commitment.

He’d stick it out for his two months, and if it got better, great! If not? It’s only two months, and then he could go back to out-law-ing with Jason, no problem.

He’d never felt the loneliness, the sadness, that drove him to addiction when he was with Jaybird.

And yes, he knew being dependant on someone else for recovery was a Bad Thing, but it wasn’t that at all.

What he’d realised, almost the first day in this purgatory, was that he’d kept himself sober with Jason, so that he could be the best he could be for Jason.

Jason, who’d always told him—always showed him that he was worth more than Oliver or anyone else had ever treated him.

Jason, who’d always made sure he was okay, made sure he was managing, made sure he knew that Roy as a person was worth more than being wrecked by heroin and alcohol.

And Roy had believed it. Roy could believe anything Jason said about it, even when the other wasn’t there, because Jason was the one who said it. He’d believed it, even through that little…hiccup.

And when they had started working together, when it became apparent that this wasn’t a one-off, Jason had been scared. Scared of hurting Roy, but also scared of being hurt by Roy.

Roy had understood that, resoected that, and gone forward with all due caution, like when you approach a wild animal.

And then came Batman’s beatdown of the Red Hood, and it was only pure luck that he was in the area to save him, god knows the other bats probably hadn’t even noticed.

And that had been horrible, absolutely terrifying.

He had almost lost Jason.

They might never have had the chance to see what they could become, together.

But he survived, and they had their chance.

Unfortunately, Roy was the one with the issues this time.

He and Jason had finally (finally!) made real progress in their relationship, but this time it was Roy who was scared.

He’d gotten low again, the Titans had broken up again (after a rather disastrous attempt at getting together again), and every time he’d tried to talk it out with Ollie something else—not even something more important all of the time—always came up, and he’d left Roy hanging.

So he’d had a bit of a relapse, nothing major, just, y’know, way too many drinks at a bar, no biggie.

But he knew that tended to lead to something more.

That had scared him, badly.

Scared enough that even when he’d been feeling much better, even when he and Jason had come together againm even closer than before, he had gone to rehab.

He shouldn’t have. He should have remembered that recovery wasn’t linear. He’d had a dip, sure, but after, he knew he would have had a rise, he’d have just had to have waited.

But he hadn’t ever wanted Jason to see him that way.

He’d been told everything about Jason’s background by the man himself in an intimate moment, and he never wanted Jason to have to suffer through anything like that again.

So he’d left.

And so, he’d died.

Yeah, therapy sucked.

#Tw drug use #tw depression #unreliable narrator #dc #jason todd #roy harper #oliver queen #bruce wayne #red hood and the outlaws #Violence #Violence only mentioned #Jayroy #Royjay #Bad therapy practices #Swearing #Dependance #Inaccurate depiction of addiction #Probably

[pluckyredhead]

ask game #22 :)

(especially for your jayroy fics, they hit just right every time 🥹 i think i’ve read them all 10 times each and would do the same if you wrote 1000 more)

Aww, thank you so much!

22. What is it about watching the same two idiots falling in love over and over again?

I just think it's very human to want to tell and hear and read and experience slight variations on the same story over and over again, or a million adventures of the same character. How many variations on Cinderella are there? How many productions of Hamlet have there been? This is why Superman has lasted for 85 years and Sherlock Holmes for 140 and Robin Hood fo 800 and King Arthur for 1100. We love the comfort of the familiar, and we love our blorbos.

With these two chumps in particular, they appeal to me because they have such neatly coordinating hangups. Roy is convinced he is not worth keeping and Jason is convinced he will never have anything to keep. Roy craves Jason's level of intensity and drama, and Jason craves Roy's level of acceptance and loyalty. It could go VERY VERY BADLY, or it could work perfectly. And I like it when it works perfectly. :)

#meme

[stvlti]

Fic writer tag

@silenthillmutual tagged me in this challenge. Cheers! Here are my answers:

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Not counting orphaned / anonymous works, I have 48 fics across both accounts

2. What is your AO3 wordcount?

168,810 (sum total of both accounts)

3. What fandoms do you write for?

DC comics & related media; Death Note; Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (way way back); Noragami (also way way back).

I used to write RPF too (I was a teenager, of course I did) but I've scrubbed all that from my ao3 profiles.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

top 5 fics not including anonymous ones:

Old aches become new again (DCU | Jason & Dick shenanigans, background Jay/Roy/Kori)

Imposter Syndrome (DCU | JayRoy)

Growing Pains (DCU × The Lego Batman Movie | Dick & Batdad gen fic)

if you can't summon your own tentacles, store-bought is fine (DCU | JayRoy)

the hands that worship you (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch | Colin/Stefan)

5. Do you respond to comments?

Always! It might take days weeks or months depending on what I have going on in my life but yeah :) unless it's a hate comment or bad faith criticisms. Oh and comments asking questions that I've already answered in the author's notes or in other comments or in the text itself (which yes, has happened before. I guess it was good for ""engagement "" but it's not stuff I want to explain again and again like a broken record. I'm not paid to do that - unlike at my day job.......)

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

🤡 I've written my fair share of dark fics so it's definitely one of those ones. You can DM me if you wanna know but I am not telling on myself here

7. What is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Growing Pains, no contest, because it ends with trans acceptance 💚

But I also think happy endings at the end of a high stakes fic are even more rewarding? In which case it would have to be This Mirror Ain't Big Enough For the Two of Us

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I have, once, on a genderbend fic. Some guy was outraged I made Jason a girl lol. But hate comments are few and far between for me because I'm not a bnf by any means

9. Do you write smut? If so, which kind?

Yeah. I write a lot of pwps because they're easy. From there I either go into pwp with feelings territory, crack territory or, well, if it's a dark fic...........one of my longest nsfw fics is a Jason Todd/Scarecrow fic. You get the picture. (That one isn't without plot though.)

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest crossover you’ve ever written?

Man. I actually once wrote a YouTube RPF x Death Note crossover. iykyk. But out of my surviving fics the only crossover that I still have posted online is a Death Note x DC fic.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not as far as I know

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I've translated other people's fics, but I don't think I've had mine translated by others

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes but that's from before my ao3 days

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Rem x Misa (Death Note). I go through phases of shipping different pairings but Rem x Misa is the one that I can always come back to and write stuff for / look at art about.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

My Teen Titans Dark Academia au. And on that note: I don't even know if I'll have the time to come back to writing long fics period. It's been 8 months since I last worked on my Jaime (Blue Beetle)/Eddie (Kid Devil)/Rose Wilson/Traci 13 road trip & interdimensional travel fic...........

16. What are your writing strengths?

My prose when I'm in the mood to write well. Poetry is my main medium these days so I'm very good at throwing in lots of one liners into my prose too.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Trying to pace my story beats and juggle multiple subplots once my projects get into 10K+ / long fic territory.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

As long as the author actually knows what they're doing. The language has to be authentic and not Google Translate gibberish. And then for accessibility's sake they should include the translation either in-text or in the end notes.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

YouTube RPF 😑

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

It's a tie between:

And the encore lasts forever (DCU x Titans TV | trans!Jason/Rose)

Exit Strategy (DCU | Rose Wilson character study)

Tagging @kiseiakhun @thenaphorism @shhhenanigans @smagata @reaperlight @mihaelkeehl or any mutuals who post fics!

#tag game #writing tag

[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

#dee speaks #dicktim

[disniq]

Heya, I was wondering if I could get a quick comic book rec. I've read RHaTO Vol. 1 up to issue... 27 I think it was? (Basically the first 4 volumes) ans RHaTO Vol. 2 up to issue 18 (end of Vol. 3)

Are volumes 6 & 7 of RHaTO vol.1, Red Hood & Arsenal, volume 4 of RHaTO vol.2, and Red Hood: Outlaw, worth a read?

Hi Anon! I apologise in advance because I was very verbose in answering this yes or no question lmao.

Disclaimer first, because RHATOs is always gonna be written by Scott Lobdell, so it's always gonna be at least vaguely misogynistic and full of heavy handed abuse apologia because Lobdell is a misogynistic abuser. That said, if you can stomach that, there's usually *some* merit to most of them.

(and, just to be clear, I am certainly not recommending you *pay* for any of them 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️)

So, RHATO vol. 1.

Volume 5 is actually one of the better ones imo, it finishes up the story from volume 4, and then has a few self-contained stories focusing on Roy and Kori individually (so depending on your opinions of nu52 characterisation ymmv). Bonus points for this adorable panel;

Volume 6 and 7 are a really weird mishmash of main plot about Kori doing space-drugs (which is unsurprisingly lacking in any nuance, making it especially frustrating when the book also features a recovering addict and a guy who grew up surrounded by drug users), their nu52 origin stories (which are retconned again in Rebirth anyway), then there's the bizarre little Christmas issue (which I don't hate), and the weird flash forward issue (which I *do*) that is also retconned out with the Red Hood/Arsenal run so. These two are entirely skippable for me.

Red Hood/Arsenal

There are only two volumes of this, and if you managed rhato vol. 1 then this is fine. It's a lot lighter in tone, even if I'm not a big fan of the Joker's Daughter plot in volume 2. Personally, I think this run is worth it just for the jayroy dynamic - genuinely don't know what Lobdell was going for but he accidentally wrote a gay sitcom. I mean seriously, look at this break up scene;

RHATO Vol 2.

I canNOT believe I'm saying this, but you should probably read through this one. #25 (MY BELOATHED) is actually the conclusion to the Bruce and Jason trust arc of early rhato rebirth, and as much as I hate the direction they went with it, it does fit with the general state of Jason and Bruce's relationship in rebirth. It also seems to be the jumping off point they've used for more recent interactions (Cheer and TFZ).

Red Hood: Outlaw

Volume 1: Requiem for an Archer. So, this is the start of Lobdell's shameless projection onto Willis Todd, and naturally they skip right over any consequences of Bruce beating the shit out of his kid AGAIN, but I actually quite like this one. It's nice to see Jason work competently alone, and I think it does a good job of letting Jason's grief breathe, after the chaos of everything in the previous volume. Also, this is where he meets Dog and she's a good girl.

Volume 2: Prince of Gotham. I like this one too, actually. Jason gets to wear his fancy little suit and be clever and calculating, he gets to actually use his criminal links for once, and it's the biggest fuck you to Bruce since utrh imo. I hate the random ass non-plot point of Jason suddenly having a public civillian ID again, but that nonsense is worth it for this scene alone;

Volume 3: Generation Outlaw. This one... I like in theory lol. Jason gets to be a teacher, I think putting himself between Lex Luther and a bunch of impressionable young metas is something he would do, and one of the kids is a non-binary entity (it's a little ham-fisted, but I never say no to more enby characters!) HOWEVER. The writing takes a turn again here, and where Jason was clever in the last one he's now a bit of a bumbling idiot being outsmarted by a bunch of kids. The Artemis and Bizarro plotline is weird and a but pointless, but they are back by the end of this volume, and it contains the one jaytemis kiss that I like (because they both hate it lmao. wlw mlm solidarity).

Volume 4: Unspoken Truths. This is just out and out bad. The writing goes from bad to worse, Isabel is dragged back for absolutely no reason other than Lobdell wanting his blorbo JT to be surrounded by women he's slept with at all times, the art is terrible. There's a single Joker War crossover issue which is meaningless without context, and also drags Joker's Daughter back up AGAIN, and it ends with the Outlaws breaking up again because Jason isn't allowed to keep any friends ever.

ANYWAY. All of that was a complete non-answer because it really does depend on what you like and don't, but I hope my rambling at least helps a little!

#asked and answered #rhato #red hood and the outlaws #long post

[sunlitlemonade]

one line, any fic!

tagged by the absolutely lovely @shhhenanigans

pick any 10 of your fics, scroll somewhere to the mid point, pick a line, and share it! Then tag 10 people.

between silence and memories [Dick & Jason oneshot]

So he yearns and tells himself he is just fine being alone. And maybe he is. 

But he belongs with the people who love him and the people he loves back. 

—

Here’s something even I don’t know - I don't know if he will let himself belong. 

(okay sorry but I had to share more than one line from this one because fuck I'm so proud this fic. It was my first time experimenting in a writing style like this and I hold it very near to heart.)

while you wandered between worlds [Batfam Oneshot with the focus around Dick & Jason]

Even his father didn’t brood as much as Richard did these days. It was starting to worry Damian. 

He has to know what this is about. 

like dewdrops on a windowpane [Dick & Jason oneshot]

Jason loves to be a contrary little shit so he says, “No but the tightness is gonna cut my damn circulation off.” If he is saying this to keep the warmth close then it’s no one’s business. 

Dick huffs but lets his hands rest around him, settling like a comfortable weight rather than a vice trying to keep him from running. 

running to you (feels right) [Dick & Jason oneshot]

There are too many faces, too many voices, too much warmth and yet none of them are the face he wants to see, the voice he wants to hear, the warmth he wants to feel. 

please just kiss already (preferably somewhere where i can't see) [JayRoy onsehot]

Dick wanted to scream and say, “There is a time and place, Roy, and this is neither,” and no he wasn’t talking about the mission. The time wasn’t right because it was physically distressing for Dick to listen to them flirt so relentlessly (cluelessly, might he add) and not have a break from it. The place was wrong because they weren’t doing this at least fifty miles away from him. 

revivescere solis [I'm predictable, my loves. yes, this is a Dick & Jason oneshot]

Years of thinking he would never see his little wing grow and he came back taller than Dick.

(I wrote this while I was grieving. So it might not be the best fic I have written but man, it's important to me.)

what can i do to miss you a little less? [Dick & Jason oneshot lol. I made them so soft in this one, probably to the point of oocness but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I can be shamelessly self indulgent. As a treat.]

Eventually, Dick took a few shuddering breaths and straightened to look at Jason, “I’m sorry, you probably want an explanation-”

“First, you do not need to fucking apologize. Second, you don’t owe me any explanations."

tires and soulmarks [Dick & Jason platonic soulmate AU, the first chapter is out and the second (final!) chapter will be out once it's beta'd :)]

The kid's whole body locks up at that, and before Dick knows it, he's getting a tire iron straight to his stomach. Doubling over, winded and betrayed, he looks up and sees short legs trying to run as fast as possible. But, it only takes a couple of long strides, and Dick catches the boy's collar.

getting to know each other is a start [Jason & Duke oneshot, the first part of an ongoing series]

“I… It’s not a list of questions that I have. It’s like - we are supposed to be brothers, right? And yet, we barely ever meet or talk to each other. And I get it! You are busy and I don’t want you thinking I’m not happy with the occasional chat we have over the comms but you are my older brother and it would be really really cool to get to know you. Dick and Dami talk about you all the freaking time but it’s not the same as talking to you, you know? And-” 

Jason kept a gentle hand on his shoulder, “Buddy, breath. You are rambling.”

getting waffles is the next step [Jason & Duke oneshot, sequel to 'getting to know each other is a start']

Because this seemed like the place that would disappear by daylight. Everything seemed distant. Faraway glow of lambent signs, half-constructed buildings, murmurs that faded with each step and picked up as soon as they went near a shop. Everything felt hushed. 

thanks for the tag, dude!!! this was fun :D

and uhhhh I am bad with tagging but no pressure tags for @ace-kdj @jasontoddisrightfuckyou @greeneyesandfingerstripes and literally anyone and everyone who would like to play!!! tag me, I wanna see :]

#jason todd #dick grayson #roy harper #duke thomas #batfam #damian wayne #tim drake #cassandra cain #stephanie brown #bruce wayne #tag game

[waveridden]

11 13 17 18 and/or 29!

11: answered!

13. what's your longest work of the year?

vault fic is the longest, clocking in at 22k! second place is desire paths the jayroy au (15k) and then quails fic (12k)

17. your favorite character to write this year?

i had a lot of fun with zeruel kramer for ground control! ze's a character i didn't know a ton about before writing the fic so that was fun

18. the character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

going to shout out dunlap in ode to a marble bust bc that kind of dramatics just Do Not come naturally to me

29. favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

on the older side but i hugely loved the bit in on currents about zenith allowing kofi to use its sword/body to fight. it's just very intimate to me and i think i did okay at capturing that

“Kofi,” it says. “I trust you.”

The wood peels away faster than it was expecting. By the time Kofi turns, most of Zenith’s body has opened up, blooming like a rose to reveal the sword. Small tendrils of fresh wood try to curl around the handle and the blade, but Zenith urges them down.

“Please be careful,” Zenith says, its voice echoing strangely outside of the wood. “I would like to return to my body once this is finished.”

Kofi’s hand closes around the handle. Every brush of their fingertips is a new and strange sensation to catalogue. Zenith can almost feel the glow of the starlight. The blade feels nothing, but the handle… with Kofi there, the handle feels warm.

“I don’t want to break you,” Kofi says, voice oddly choked.

“This is an old sword,” Zenith says. And then, again, “I trust you.”

“Okay,” Kofi says, and shifts to a two-handed grip, Zenith’s entirety encased between their palms.

#waveridden.ask #leonstamatis #thank youuuuuu

[gautierprotectionsquad]

Update on the fic I'm writing: it's turned out much longer than I expected. i originally thought it was going to be short bc it was a collection of short scenes separated by large time jumps but I just kept thinking of more scenes to add and now this fic is over 9k words.

For reference, before I wrote that 20k jayroy fic, the longest fic i wrote was less than 4k.

Something about Jayroy, man. I think it's bc i haven't been able to get myself to draw them. My artistic abilities and energy are being transferred over to writing

#romanticsap #fanfic WIP update

[totita030]

Have you ever learned about a couple from comic books -or maybe not even a couple- and they are sooo right for each other that it hurts and they exude that sense of devoted love that makes your heart skip a beat?

Because I have.

#batcat #stony #petermjane #petermj #dickbabs #dickkory #birdflash #timkon #wondertrev #superbat #clark and lois #idk their couple name #damijon #jayroy #i know i wrote down a lot of ships but i did this thinking about batcat #buckynat #winterwidow #marvel #dcu #batman #catwoman #spider-man #nightwing #red hood #red robin #Superman #superboy #robin #spideytorch #jaytim

[sluggishslugcrimes]

So soulmate au with chibi version of your soulmate, my best friend once wrote about this and I love it so here's a few things with the bats and a few other ships.

So what I remember about it is I think 6 years old your soulmate tiny version to help you find your soulmate.

Birdflash-

Wally: tiny you is very cuddly!

Dick: so is your tiny self.

Wally and Dick:

Wally and Dick: like us!

Robstar-

Dick: babe please let me have back tiny me.

Star: but he's so cute how do you expect me to not want to keep him?

Dick: because you and tiny you are given him more attention then me!

Star: aw someone jealous~

Batcat-

Bruce: Cat put the jewels down

Tiny Bruce: yeah!

Selina: aw a tiny batman on big batman shoulder, how precious~

Them: sh-shut up!

Superbatwonder-

Diana: *tiny superman and batman on her shoulder as she reading*

Clark and bruce: *saying cheap shots to have tiny wonder time, they always end up share because tiny wonder gets angry at them and that's so apologizing time*

Superbat-

Clark: are you sure you don't like me?

Bruce: hate you with every fiber of my being.

Clark: why lie?

Bruce: I'm not lying.

Clark: really? Because tiny Bruce hasn't left me all day, and been kissing my cheek too. *Smug smirk*

Bruce, blushing: he's lowering your guard before he ends you!

Clark: of course, of course.

Jayroy, with latino!Jason-

Jason: unhand the tiny Lian!

Roy: never!

Jason: you can't keep tiny Lian, big Lian will be giving to her soulmate soon so give it.

Roy: my baby girl will not, what if it's a man? You know how perverted and horrible they are!!

Jason: and then I'll kill him, give me the tiny now.

Roy: ... Pinky promise?

Jason: *eye roll* I pinky promise to murder the fucker who tries to hurt our little Lian.

Roy: okay here's her tiny self... She's growing up to damn fast it's not fair! My penguin drawing baby is now 17 and is going to leave us!

Jason: she won't leave us, stop being dramatic amor.

Timbartkon-

Tim: *in between his two partners, and their tiny selves* this was a mistake...

Bart: your fault.

Kon: we gave you a chance to come to be on your own, you didn't listen.

Tim: tiny me?

Tiny!Tim: we should have went to bed...

Tim: oh you poor soul they got you too.

Stephcass-

Stephanie: tiny cass is very quiet like Cass, I wonder... *Pets tiny Cass head*

Tiny!Cass: *happy Cass noises*

Stephanie: oh my god, so cute!!

DamiJon-

Jon: don't know what's cuter, Dami pouting or tiny Dami pouting!

Tiny Jon: so cute!

Damian and tiny Damian: *blushing heavily* I don't pout!

Jon: oh you so pout.

Oliver x Dinah (forgot their ship name,,,)

Dinah: you know, tiny you showed up and was just as flustered as you were when you asked me out.

Oliver: I was not flustered!

Dinah: *that look*

Oliver: okay I was a flustered dork... Shut up.

Tiny Oliver: *puff up cheeks*

Clark x Lois-

Tiny Lois: *cute little boss*

Clark: *loves watching her*

Tiny clark: *cowboy Clark noise*

Lois: we really are from two different worlds *smiles happy tho because cowboy Clark is a cute clark*

Barry x Iris-

Barry: where's tiny iris? *Looking for her*

Tiny iris: *asleep with tiny Barry on Iris lap as she reads a book*

Barry: *whispered* picture time! *Takes several pictures*

Halbarry-

Tiny Hal: *very flustered*

Tiny Barry: *cuddly*

Barry: yep, he's definitely the tiny version of you babe~

Hal: shush you!

Starrae-

Star and tiny star: *jump on their mediating goth gf* cuddle time!

Okay that's all I can think of rn lol

#birdflash #starrea #robstar #batcat #superbat #superwonderbat #timbartkon #DamiJon #stephcass #jayroy #oliver x dinah #clark x lois #barry x iris #halbarry

[aalghul]

So like can the fandom not turn into a place of ship bashing? Also can people understand that people who like a ship or idea in comics are creative enough to handle parts that others think don't work. That bad execution is not a bad idea. And the characters are not static. For example, you can so easily write Roy's time in RHATO as a person recovering from extreme depression from the loss of a daughter. Also the idea that fans of anything haven't read a comic is just gatekeeping pure and simple.

See here’s the thing about fans fixing the issues with jayroy in canon: they don’t do it. I’ve read a large amount of jayroy fics, mostly because it’s the Jason ship in everything, but also because I wanted to see if fans were making it better than what it was. And they weren’t. Jayroy as a concept isn’t terrible, but the point is that nobody who likes Roy for who he has been for decades before his character was ruined in RHATO actually ships jayroy. This isn’t me making stuff up, it’s genuinely the truth. Everyone, or at least the vast majority, that ships jayroy was introduced to him through RHATO and then never read anything else.

I really don’t like gatekeeping, so I’m not saying you have to read every single Roy comic ever to be allowed to speak on this. However, you do need to have a basic understanding of Roy’s character pre-N52 to be able to argue without making it obvious you don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s like if someone who had only read Battle for the Cowl tried to argue that Jason’s character in that godawful comic was a reasonable interpretation of him to the point where it should be his main characterization. That’s what this is like to people who like Roy, not just one half of a ship where your priority is the other character exclusively (and I say this as a Jason stan).

I’m going to ignore the amount of content of jayroy raising Lian that I see (all of which conveniently leaves out Jade) to respond to you. Roy’s character in RHATO isn’t just off by a little, so we can’t just attempt to reason which aspect was impacted by what. Almost nothing about Roy resembles who he has been for decades. Lobdell wrote an OC, not Roy Harper. I’m not interested in getting a headache trying to figure out how Roy became someone unrecognizable when the answer is that he was used as a prop in RHATO. I can’t even get into every small thing about him that changed because what didn’t? That’s not development or the result of trauma, it’s complete character assassination because it’s a disservice to the character he is.

[national-nobody-writes]

Self Love Retrospective

Rules: it’s time to love yourselves! Choose your 5 (or so) favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought to the world in 2021. Tag as many creators as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

I was tagged by the absurdly talented @irolltwenties!

2021 was a very weird writing year for me. It felt like I posted a LOT (well, a lot for me anyway) but also like I didn’t get anything done?? Idk man, time is a flat circle. I’m both happy with all the fics I posted this year, and also weirdly detached from them bc the writing process often felt like I blacked out and suddenly there were words on the page I barely remembered putting there, lol.

ANYHOW, in 2021 I wrote a total of 45,254 words across 8 completed works and 1 WIP (which will prob ultimately count toward my 2022 works since it’ll be completed in January). Here’s my top 5:

5. More Alike Than Not - JayRoy | Rated T | 1.7k | Young Justice/Earth 16

A Double Red Week fic! Like every event I’ve participated in, my plans were more ambitious than I was able to accomplish, but I had such a good time playing around with YJ!JayRoy all that week. I have so many plans for longer/more in depth fics involving them, but this one shot is a nice summation of why I think Arsenal x Jason works so well conceptually in this universe, and what would draw them to one another. Though not a particularly in-depth character study, it does examine the odd dynamic & parallels between Roy & Will and how Roy feels about it.

4. Left on Read - JayRoy | Rated T | 2.3k | Young Justice/Earth 16

Basically, Roy is bad at texting back and Jason is like a grumpy cat in human form about it, lol. Tbh I keep flipping back and forth between whether I like this fic or Proximity more. Both were also for Double Red Week, but Left on Read is a bit fluffier and more humorous, whereas Proximity is more of a pining/yearning, hurt/comfort sorta deal. I think I just enjoy reading back Left on Read a bit more because 1) Jay gets to be sassier and more ridiculous, which I adore, and 2) While I’m happy with Proximity, I think I could have elevated it to another level had I taken more time with it and put it through a few more rounds of edits. But, you know what they say. Perfection is the enemy of good and all that.

3. Entwined - ThanZag | Rated E | 7.2k | Hades (video game)

Y’all, when I tell you Hades had me by the THROAT this past year?!?! Whew. I may never recover. Play this game, romance Death, and then go read this fic if you want an expansion on that whole fade-to-black situation between Than and Zag. I still can’t believe they’re not only canon but also poly with Meg. I love them so much it makes me look STUPID. Anyway, while 90% of the smut I write is just two Extremely In Love idiots being sappy af, this is like, EVEN MORE than usual. So, you’re welcome I guess, lol.

2. Marked For Death - ThanZag | Rated T | 12.7k | Hades (video game)

Oh, this was SO much fun. I love this fic, I’m actually so proud of it. Basically, there is a game mechanic I discovered that sent my mind spinning bc of the in-universe implications, and then this happened. The game’s narration is done in a fun, purple-prose-adjacent style, so I went ham trying to match it, which was such a blast. Also, I’d say action is one of my big weak spots as a writer, so this was a perfect excuse to work on that. It was super rewarding to complete, and felt like such a success when I got a number of people giving unprompted positive feedback in the comments specifically about the action aspect of the fic.

1. Love Me Tender - Bluepulse | Rated E | 8k | Young Justice/Earth 16

Okay, so this was never supposed to be it’s own fic. But, I needed to post it in order to stop myself from endlessly editing it for the rest of my existence (which did in fact work!), so that I could move on to the unfinished parts of (still in progress) Remember Me, Chapter 5. Like I said, 90% of the smut I write is just two Extremely In Love idiots being sappy af. That applies here for sure. All Bart’s POV. As silly and flirty and ridiculous as it is smutty. Possibly the best E rated fic I’ve written to date (at least I should hope so, considering early, and now unrecognizable, drafts of this scene date back 2-3 years). Def the one I was most afraid to share, and prob the one I’ve ultimately become the most proud of.

I feel like 2021 was a rough year for a lot of my mutuals in terms of creating/posting content (I feel you), but if any of y’all would like to share, please do!! And I’ll tag @ofmorninglory and @incorrectbatfam​ (though no pressure of course <3)

#my stuff #writing #fanfic #2021 #tag you're it #dc #hades #jayroy #thanzag #bluepulse #for real though even if you didn't post ANYTHING this year #know that I'm proud of you anyway!!! #and I hope 2022 is better to us!

[sohotthateveryonedied]

Fic Writer Interview

thanks @allthebooksandcrannies for tagging me!!

How many works do you have on AO3: 160!! yes i have a problem

Total AO3 word count: 844,446 oh god

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?: 5 i think? dc comics, young justice, voltron, the teen titans cartoon once, and that one tiny fic i did for the lunar chronicles which is the only time i ever strayed from my fic-writing comfort zone lmao

Top 5 Fics (by number of kudos): the #1 fic is "obedience" with 3395 kudos, #2 is "don't touch me," #3 is "no pain, all gain," #4 is "hi bi, i'm dad," and #5 is "the same mistake twice" with 1353 kudos

Do I respond to comments, why or why not: i tried to respond to all of my comments at one point, but it was a lot of work to keep up and eventually i just gave up after a month of that. nowadays i try to respond to the longer comments that people put actual effort into or if they have a question or something

Do I write crossovers (and if so, what is the craziest?): nope nope nope. it's just not my thing (unless you count the ones where i give characters plots or traits from other forms of media like my "tim sees ghosts" au but that's about as crossover-y as it gets) (also julie and i come up with crossover ideas all the time but for my real, public writing, it's a hard no)

Have I ever received hate on a fic?: oh gosh so so SO many times. it's never fun

Do you write smut?: nah, it's not my thing. i've thought about it sure, just to branch out my writing style and to see if i'd be any good at it, but it doesn't match my audience so it's a no for now

Have you ever had i fic stolen: i hope not? i actually don't know what that means but it doesn't sound fun

Have you ever had a fic translated: yep! a couple have been translated into different languages and a few awesome people have done podfics for my stuff :)

Have you ever co-written a fic before: sort of? sometimes julie or i will write stuff together, but it's usually in a way where one of us will write a fic based on headcanons we've come up with together and then we'll credit the other when it's posted. there have been a few times when we've written actual fics together in the same document and everything, but i tend to step back and let julie do most of the work because i'm inherently bad at working with others and my instinct when partnered with other people is to shut down and let them take over everything 🤷‍♀️

What’s your all-time favorite ship: i don't know actually?? i'm sure i have one, but as far as writing goes, i tend to mostly lean on ships like jayroy, timsteph, spitfire, and birdflash occasionally. there are plenty of other ships that i care about way more than those four, but most of them i just haven't written for yet so yeah. for someone who's obsessed with love and romance, i'm pretty lukewarm on most ships

What's a WIP that you want to finish but probably never will: oh gosh. oh man. foster dad bruce au, my beloved. i love that fic with all my heart but like icarus, i forgot my sunglasses and rocketed straight into the ball of burning gas. this fic gives the phrase "bit off more than you can chew" a physical form. the fourth chapter has been sitting in its document half-written for months now and i know i vowed to never ever ever ever EVER post a fic and never finish it because i always hate when people quit on fics i like,,,,, there's a 50% chance that i will get back to that fic. it's just too long. i've only finished 3 out of 7 chapters and already it's at almost 59,000 words, i'm TIRED okay i'm sorry guys maybe one day i'll reclaim my braincells and finish that fucking thing

What are your writing strengths: i'm good with the mechanics and stuff, like the way my sentences are arranged and thought-out, but this is also my biggest weakness, which sucks. it's like in monsters university when mike spends so much time studying the technical aspect of scaring but he can't do it naturally like the other monsters can? yeah. i'm so focused on the mechanics of my writing that it's hard for me to let loose and actually let myself think and go loose with it. the only times i can really WRITE without one hand tied behind my back is when i'm overly tired or caffeinated. i have a feeling i'll be one of those writers who can't write anything of value without a bottle of wine lmao

What are your writing weaknesses: see above

What’s your thoughts on dialogue being written in other languages in fics: i don't know what this means?? is this asking whether i approve of dialogue being written in other languages?? or is it asking how i want it formatted?? what does this mean?? sometimes a story requires dialogue in another language, idk what to tell you man

First fandom you wrote for: oh god. don't make me think about my fanfiction.net days. i'm not strong enough (it was batfamily btw because what else do i write)

What’s your favorite fanfic you’ve written: my young justice gsa au <3 my pride and joy <3 that au was when i truly peaked as a human and it's only downhill from here <3

tagging uhhhhhh @damthosefandoms @haljordangreenjedi @catboykonel and @magebirdi because i have very few friends

#tag game #soho speaks