Not all who wander are lost and not all that glitters is gold.

it’s okay if someone is waiting for your creation

it’s okay if you promised yourself you’d finish it by now

it’s okay if it’s not as good as you want it to be yet

log off, step away, put it in a cupboard. come back in a week or two with a well-rested brain and a fresh perspective

the pressure you’re putting on yourself is your own choice, and you can choose to step away from it

It's okay if I love your writing and you don't love mine.

It's okay if you are a loyal reader of my fic in progress, and then you drift away.

The fact that you left doesn't mean my work got worse or I did something "wrong" to lose you. It just means your priorities have changed. There are so many reasons why that may have happened. If I start imagining only the negative ones that relate to the quality of my writing, then I'm doing myself harm that I don't deserve.

I can be sad you've left, but also glad my fic was just what you needed for a while. And I don't have to blame either one of us for being bad or doing something wrong. We are not and we haven't. We all have busy, challenging lives right now. And the things we have time and energy for often change.

barb, steph and jason all frequently wake up screaming/shouting/etc. listening to their fear sends cass into uncontrollable panic attacks. bruce blames himself for all of this, and has started slipping medication that induces dreamless sleep into all of his children’s drinks past 8PM.

when jason first comes back, tim is the first to notice how deep jason’s self-loathing runs. tim routinely removes and hides all the bullets from jason’s guns.

damian cries for the first time in his life when steph and duke argue with bruce over sending another child to fight crime. he tells himself it’s because he’s angry, but this is the first time anyone has ever fought for the chance for him to have a childhood.

dick goes days at a time without eating. he hardly has the time between protecting two cities, and an entire family who need him. cass breaks into his apartment once a week to leave a stash of ready meals. dick still doesn’t eat.

duke never quite feels worthy of being part of the family. he loves them, but he always feels like an outsider pushed into a world he doesn’t understand. he takes 5 bullets in his first year in attempts to sacrifice himself for them.

tim secretly hates fighting alongside his brothers. each one of them remind him of the robins he was never able to live up to.

bruce can feel his body starting to give out as he grows older, but he refuses to let his children see. alfred quietly treats him for a minor heart attack, after bruce pushes himself too hard so damian doesn’t have to get involved.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

March 15th, 1933 - September 18th, 2020