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My personal goal is to try and make fanfic binding as accessible to everyone as possible, so here are some resources on how to make a fanfic hardcover for under $25.

This is a barebones bind for the broke college students and such. Happy to field questions, too!

Here's a proposed budget breakdown:

Loosely organized thoughts:

Fanfic bookbinders often share typesets amongst each other. Never pay for a typeset for a fanfic. (A typeset is shorthand in fic binding circles for a fanfic that has been formatted/designed and paginated like a book, to be printed out.)

You'll hear a lot about grain direction for your printer paper, but as a newbie on a budget without your own printer, settle for some nice 92 bright or cream colored paper. If you like the hobby, splurge after but expect to pay at least 2-3x more for short grain paper.

Printing is a pain because some copy shops won't let you print intellectual property smut, and it's very expensive. You are better off bartering instead or looking for a free printer on Buy Nothing.

You know the thick paper wrapping that comes with online orders? It's a good weight for endpapers if you need to scrounge. Paper grocery bags or gift bags (birthday presents) might work, too.

Ask your local library to give you covers from books they are throwing out. Ask for outdated textbooks (those covers are built like tanks) or three-ring binders that are too busted to be binders anymore.

Obtain a used book that was mass produced (so your destruction of it does not impede anyone's access) and maybe even become a little vindictive with it.

If you can afford it, I recommend the Olfa SVR knife (~$10)

If you can afford it, upgrade your ruler to a t-square.

(Links to Amazon products above are affiliate links)

I really hope this resource is helpful! I want to stress how possible this is and encourage people to cherish what they love through art.

Usually in bookbinding, you format the text into signatures, print them, fold them, sew the signatures together before casing them into a book. Sewn signatures look like this:

I don't do well sewing signatures, so I found a way to publish books that doesn't involve sewing. In the Simplified Bookbinding method, you print the text front and back on loose sheets of paper and then glue the loose sheets together. A glued text block looks like this:

Gluing loose pages instead of sewing signatures changes/simplifies the formatting, creation of the textblock, and the headbands. You also don’t need the sewing supplies, so it’s cheaper and faster.

To see books I've made with this simplified process, click here, here and here.

I thought some of you on Tumblr might appreciate a "bookbinding for beginners" post. You can use this as an introduction to classic bookbinding, or just keep bookbinding with this simplified method. I’ve put out a series of tutorials on Simplified Bookbinding. Here’s the list and links all in one place.

General posts about the bookbinding process:

Simplified Bookbinding: How to Make a Cheap First Book.

Simplified Bookbinding: Buy Good Glue

Simplified Bookbinding: Cutting Tools

There are four steps to creating a book, with more specialized posts.

1. Format the text and print it.

Simplified Bookbinding: Font and Text Ornaments

2. Create the text block.

Simplified Bookbinding: Headbands

3. Create the case

Simplified Bookbinding: Cardstock Covers

Simplified Bookbinding: Spine Text

4. Attach the case to the text block

Details about this step are in the posts on creating the entire book, and the one about glue.

Hi! This is me. I make Life Series SMP art and animatics on YouTube. I also post Vampires SMP art and ramblings, with occasional Stardew art as well.

I also have a sideblog for my ao3 fic: @badalloc

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like, eyeshells in particular has a startlingly vast collection of asymmetric glasses:

(this isn't even all of them)

and also this steampunk nonsense that I love so fucking much and cannot justify spending any money on:

while aoolia has...tbh a lot of the frames the other sites have, but more expensive, but also, a collection of the gayest people you've ever seen:

though tbh not nearly as gay as whatever lens alter has going on:

and vooglam has uhhh...whatever this is!

huh.

(I can't vouch for any of these companies ofc, though I think I'll get something from at least one of them. ideally not the slime glasses, but hey!)

but honestly the absolute best thing I found in all of this is this site that makes vintage fashion, and which happened to have:

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you can even buy with prescription lenses, jesus fucking christ you have no idea how hard it is to not immediately drop $180 on this shit, I'm having to physically restrain myself, I want them so fucking bad

and hey, if you don't need prescription lenses, y'know what else you can buy from this site?

the glasses from national treasure 😭😭

So.

Vlad dragged Danny along to a Wayne Gala, and Danny got bored.

Danny also noticed that the Wayne Manor had like, a lot of weird statues.

So he uh. He possessed one of them. Sort of? He really just hid in it intangibly.

Then he started whispering shit in ghost speak to some of the rich fancy guests. Guests that sort of understood the general gist of what he was saying, but appeared to have a bit of a gap.

They asked him weird shit about like, the meaning of time and how could they be sure they had enough in a city like Gotham.

So he tried to convey that he wasn't Clockwork, but he thought they were probably doing okay.

They started leaving really tasty food bits in front of his statue.

So he answered some more questions.

Four hours into the Gala and there's a few people actually praying to him.

Six hours in and half the guests are ready to riot if Bruce Wayne suggests they go home one more time.

Eight hours in and Danny is nervously sweating as he stares through the statues eyes and into the whiteouts of a very angry Batman's cowl, the party goers are being forcibly prevented from sacrificing the Joker to him courtesy of Nightwing, Red Hood, Red Robin, and Robin (he'd mentioned at the beginning of this whole thing that he hated clowns and apparently the people had taken that to heart).

So.

Danny started a cult.

Throw in a bit of "Danny helps the Pit Rage" and you can up the stakes by making Red Hood one of the most devout to The Statue.

Also, what if the statue is one of those fancy ice sculptures rich people like to put up for parties. And Danny, by possessing it, accidentally made the ice part of his ghost ice, so now it isn't melting.

The whole city would probably burn.

No Thanks(tm)!

So since it's a faux pas to have anything be cute animals, objects, or "idea" pieces? Obviously Bruce looked up some up-n-comer, who's probably hyperventilating in the back over his work turned Possessed God Idol For A Cult IN GOTHAM, and had him make some piece representing "Hope".

Something both fitting for the charity AND appropriately "Brucie Mask: I am a very earnest himbo" -ish? Like "HOPE".

Which it definitely fits. Dude NAILED it. Absolutely hit it out of the park. Thing shone like diamonds and was made in such a way? That it would melt SUPER gracefully and shine beautifully the entire time. This was gonna be his ticket to the big leagues. Danny's gonna feel like shit.

(Bruce absolutely doesn't blame the sculpter. HE already passed his background check. Bruce is gonna hire him again AND recommend him to others. But Danny doesn't know that.)

So like? Imagine graceful swooping lines. "Wings". The COULD be swirls, COULD be tails or mane, it's up for interpretation. As intended. It arches up. Is it fighting to be free? Is it swirling freedom itself, about to take flight? Looking up to the heavens? Or peering, benevolently, down at you from the corner of its eye? Does it even HAVE eyes or is that just a trick of the light?

Yes.

And isn't it BEAUTIFUL. A+++ Job, ice sculpture dude!

But... uuuuuuh... it was? Less BLUE wasn't it? Or is that green? Some intangible blend of the two, instead of the softly frosted white he chose. It's also? NOT MELTED. It WAS. It's catching the light now, the way he designed. But it STOPPED. Everything ELSE melted?

And worse! It's... it's gotten COLDER? Without changing!!! Weird shit is BAD in Gotham! Colder without changing the temperature is BAD!

But now it's distinctly? "Purity of snow" somehow? Like childhoods and wonder and hope! What the actual FUCK!? It's RADIATING cold that seeps into... no, BYPASSES the skin. Feels like mint on your breath, the coming of winter against your face. The stillness and rest of SOMETHING they are all too familiar with, that the fight the hold off each and everyday.

They see angels in that statue.

Birds of legend and great beasts of lore.

Defiance and freedom, struggle. Compassion. And SOMETHING is speaking back. Answering prayers that other Gods ignored. No miracles, no shows of power. But in a world like theirs? A CITY like theirs? Should they be impressed by such things?

The Statue LISTENS. The Statue knows things beyond their mortal understanding, yet? Still cares to answer they worries and concerns. The Gods surely turned their back on Gotham. Everyone knows it. Yet? The Statue has come for them. Waded into the tar and muck, too try and pull them free.

The Statue despises (hates) The Clown (clowns). And? Of course! What more Wicked and Tainting force could you imagine, in Gotham, the The Joker? OBVIOUSLY The Statue wishes to set them free of Him. Too free EVERYONE of the fear and trauma he rains like poison.

But The Statue is weak! Oh no! We are THE FIRST! Chosen, probably! To witness their coming! Everyone knows that God's probably get stronger the more people worship them! They've seen movies! Read popular book series! The Statue can not Smite the Wicked, doesn't seem the type...

Luckily THEY can! Don't worry Statue! We'll protect Our New God!

LETS KILL THE JOKER FOR THEM!!!

And like... m-maaaaybe *sweats nervously under Direct Bat Glaring* if he just? Holds Very, VERY still? Batman won't notice him? Ha ha... W-We'll look back at this and laugh?

*softly and with panic* Vlad, Help!

Which like? You KNOW Vlad had found a comfortable lounging seat, from which to watch the little badger Dig Himself Deeper. Drink all of Brucie's good wine. Enjoy the show. God, he loves these parties. Always SOME sort of interesting shitshow.

But! That's his cue~

After all, as Danny's BELOVED and TRUSTED Father Figure(tm), he really can't just let the boy be capture by Bats. He did promise to return him too his mother.

So~ *silently and invisibly splits in two* *possesses a decorative suit of armor*

*Sets FIRE to the far side of the ballroom*

Oh nooooo. We're under attaaaack. Oh. His boy, his boy. Won't SOMEBODY help him find his godson? *smirks like an asshole*

The suit then becomes SUITS of armor, thanks to the Bats fighting back. Which? Gives Danny enough time and distraction to dip. Ha ha, YEP! Was in the crowd the WHOLE TIME!

But also, like.... don't take your eyes off Cultists, man. Religious fervor is no joke.

People get hurt, trying to protect The Statue. But that's only AFTER? At least a handful of people fuckin full on stab the Joker. He survives PURELY because they have no idea how to properly stab someone. With serious medical complications, sure, but? Eh. "Fuck that guy." Is Gotham Party Line.

(So? What have we Learned, little Badger?) (That Gothamites have no sense of humor and Batman scares me.)

But! You think?? Silly child. That A CULT will just? Stop?? After they PERSONALLY WITNESSED: 1) the arrival of their God. 2) the rare BENEVOLENCE and concern for them of said God. 3) A CLEAR and MALEVOLENT force, bent on the DESTRUCTION of the NICE God. ?

Ha! No, no. Clearly The Statue was just AN AVATAR of The Winter God. And-! *sprawling, conspiracy board style mythos built up from "context clues"*

Worst of ALL~♡ :D WHO? Attends Brucie Wayne's parties? WHO are these new Cultists?? Did you say Business Leaders, Heirs/Heiress's, Socialites, trophy partners who also in this day and age happen to be HOT INFLUENCERS, and union service staff? Because you should have!

You think certain IRL Science named Cults have star power? THEIR God never showed up to personally answers your questions about your marital concerns. They gad to trick people! Most cults do! THIS one? Just has to say "no, I was totally there, here's the snap chat timeline of the dude before me in line. God is really nice and the group is super supportive. We have brunch."

Good luck keeping THAT from taking over Gotham! A place that DESPERATELY needs something to hopeful believe in!

Danny? Has made the ROOKIE mistake all Supernatural Creatures know to avoid!

DONT PRETEND TO BE A GOD.

Kronos.

While she had never personally met her grandfather, every member of his bloodline could identify his presence, or in this case his blessing.

Finding a blessed mortal was rare enough, but one blessed by Kronos was unheard of.

When Zeus had cut his father into pieces he had inadvertently split the Titan into separate aspects as well. The Mad Titan aspect of Kronos was safely sealed away in Tartarus while the Time God aspect had fled to the Infinite Realms. Both places no mortal could survive. So how was it that a mortal blessed by Kronos was walking around?

Diana had to find the blessed mortal, if only to ensure they were not a servant of the Mad Titan.

…

Diana could not believe what she was seeing.

She had only stepped out of the ballroom for a few moments to inform Bruce of the blessed mortal and figure out how to locate them.

Upon her return … well, she didn’t have to look for them anymore.

Why was the blessed mortal in an ice sculpture.

Why where the Gothamites worshipping it

Why was Joker beaten to a pulp and ritualistically splayed out on what used to be the desert table like an offering.

No one is sure how old Red Hood is. But they saw a single white streak of the hair once, so he is... old, right? And these Batkids, they always hang around him, whining and asking for something - surely, it is his kids? Right? That gotta be it.

Red Hood: Now, back to- Sorry, I need to take a call. Goons: Sure, sir. Red Hood: What... Oh my god, Red. What do you mean, you don't know how to wash the carpet without- Spoiled brat. Okay, listen to me, you first need to get a really hot water... Goons: That's definitely his son being in troubles.

(It was Tim, who accidentally ruined Alfred's favourite carpet. He was in big troubles that day.)

Robin, appearing on the doorstep of Red Hood's den: Scram. I am here to see Hood. Goons, staring at little Damian: Hm-m. Red Hood, pushing them away: Bad day? (Damian wordlessly raising his arms to be picked up by Jason) Okay. It is fine. Goons: Hm-m-M.

Nightwing, whining: You are so boring. Why don't you want to play Twister with us this Sunday? Red Hood, rolling his eyes: Shut up. Goons, overhearing the conversation: Kids, am I right? Red Hood: Huh?

Goons, watching Batman and Red Hood shouting on each other on the rooftop: Hey, do we think Batman is also his kid?.. Goons: (thoughtful pause) Red Hood, completely pissed off by his dad in the meanwhile: I am TIRED of you. Go back to your stupid ass CAVE and think about your behaviour. I don't want to see you AGAIN. Batman: But- Red Hood: OUT OF MY TURF. NOW!!! Goons, staring at Batman, who walks away sulkily: ...HM-M.

It's midnight and I'm hopped up on that ADHD juice. Been thinking on and off about this prompt and how things play out. Might clean this up for ao3 posting later but whatever.

Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3

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Danny can feel the weight of their stares like it’s physical. A last mournful glance at his pancakes- Actually no, fuck it. He grabs the last one from his plate, flashes the whole Wayne family a peace sign, and turns invisible. The pancake is eaten as he dashes out the door and away from the shouting and chaos he leaves the family in.

 -

“Where the FUCK did he go!?” Jason’s shout somehow made it above the din of the others- and got Bruce and Dick yelling ‘language’ back at him. The pricks.

“I say! Watch your tone Master Jason! As for the rest of you-” The whole family shut the immediate fuck up when Alfred speaks. His displeased expression more than enough to cow them into submission. “I expect you to clean up after yourselves today and a quiet trip to the batcave to find our new ward. Master Jason, you will be taking care of Master Danny’s plates, and I will hear of an apology from you for scaring that poor boy.”

There’s a chorus of ‘yes Alfred’ from the chastised bats, but Bruce- carefully mind you- presses.

“Alfred, how long has he been here? Why didn’t you say anything?”

“The young master has been staying for the past three weeks sir. And despite my best attempts, I have not yet been able to convince him to sleep in his own room.”

Bruce groans and rubs at his face before turning back to his other children, “Nobody thought to tell me!?”

The kids all look at each other, and then back at him with the most judgmental ‘are you serious’ looks they can muster. Except Cassandra, who very excitedly signs; New brother! All Bruce can do is sigh into his hands.

“We’ll discuss this later-”

“Why didn’t you notice then old man?” Jason grins, a little feral at Bruce’s dirty look but sue him.

“Okay okay, let’s hurry up and get this place cleaned up. There’s no telling how far Danny got- and the sooner we go after him the sooner we figure out what’s going on.” Dick said, quickly gathering his own plate. 

“And the sooner I can get all of you presents.” The entire family stops. Staring at Jason in shock. “Only the finest ‘World’s best detective’ mugs for all of you!” 

The groan he gets from all of them is perfect.

-

“I cannot believe you didn’t think to tell me either!” Batman scolds Oracle later. 

Everyone is out in force. Even Batwoman, Batwing, and Bluebird (after having a good laugh at Batman’s expense) had joined. They had all been searching for Danny the better part of the day. Batman had even agreed to let Red Robin and Robin join the search and skip school. That’s how seriously the kids knew he was taking this. And how important it was for one of them to get to Danny before Batman scared him off for good with his infamous paranoia.

“If you didn’t notice, that one’s on you Batman.” God Jason really loved Barbara sometimes. 

“Oracle would not have allowed a dangerous individual into our midst. She is thorough when it comes to such things.” Robin is moving fast, probably swinging right behind Batman. No doubt headed east where the nicer areas were and any sane person was bound to head.

“I think that’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me, baby bat.”

“O, you wouldn’t happen to have a new update on Danny’s whereabouts would you? Or anything from his past?” Nightwing cuts in after Robin’s little ‘Tt’. He’s somewhere near the border to Bludhaven, in case Danny’s making it out that way.

“Nothing Nightwing.” They can hear her frustration, and concern, through the voice modulator. “The kid’s practically a ghost. All I can tell you is that he’s not from Gotham. What little I can find of his time here in Gotham is some security feeds of dumpster diving and sleeping on a bench.”

“He’s also definitely a meta.” Signal mutters, somewhere to the west and near the coast..

Jason remains quiet and lets them all talk. As funny as it is- and holy shit Jason will never let any of them live this down ever- it is a little strange this random kid would just... Show up out of nowhere. Meta or not. Alfred said he wouldn’t sleep in a bed of his own, but he also hadn’t left until after Jason questioned his existence. This ‘Danny’ had been around the manor, the bats coming and going, for weeks. He could’ve found out their secrets, and even if he hadn’t sold them out yet, there’s no telling who might pick him up and drag those secrets out of him. Or worse, if he was sent here by someone, then they needed to find out who. And fast…

….

Ugh. He sounded like Batman.

“Hey guys, how well do you even know Danny?” Jason pulls over near an abandoned apartment building. Cutting the engine to his bike to hear them all better. “He was there for a few weeks, pick up anything on him? Might help us figure out where he ran off to.” That last bit was added as an afterthought, not wanting to be too paranoid, but it was also true.

“I know how this is going to sound, but uh, well, he does seem really nice actually.” Signal helpfully offers. “Dick and I ran into Danny I think not long after he got there?”

“O’s camera feed tells us Danny arrived at the manor 28 days ago, Thursday night 11:38 PM. Looking at the records, he was picked up prior to that in front of Wayne Enterprises by one of our drivers- Archer Tenson. He’s reliable and honest, no record of any sort that would make him a suspect of subterfuge.” Nightwing rattles off the information pretty calmly, but they all know him well enough to hear the concern. “According to the records, he was going to pick up the caffeine addict after the cafe got an alert of his fourth Death Latte-” They all ignored Red Robin’s little ‘hey!’, “-and dropped him off safely at home.”

“Red Robin.” Batman’s parental disapproval was palpable through the comms. 

“There wasn’t a fourth Death Latte!” Red Robin protested from his place in the batcave. Aiding in the digital search and combing over the camera feeds over the past few weeks for any information about Danny. “The third Death Latte was the last one. An Alert at W.E. was the plan the whole night. Nobody made it back to the manor until sunrise and the cafe kept saying there wasn’t any more coffee and-!” He gasped, horrified! Outraged! And the rest were left to hold their snickers as Red Robin said, “He stole my last coffee!”

“That’s right, Danny said he was a caffeine addict too.” Batwing mused. Probably flying somewhere over the more open suburbia in case Danny was trying to make a break out of the city that way.

“Wait when did you meet Danny?” Spoiler asked- Jason knew she was patrolling nearby with Bluebird. Those two, Orphan and Signal were the only ones who were allowed to come close to Crime Alley. Mainly because they annoyed Jason the least, but also because they understood how bad the streets could get and looked the other way better than the others. Signal surprised him about that one.

“Start from the beginning.” Batman orders. “Nightwing, Signal, you met Danny when?”

Danny stranded in Gotham.

After a while he did something not really clever.

He was walking past the Wayne Enterprise building, a Taxi holds beside him. Told him Mr. Wayne sends them to drive him home. So he got in and they drove him to the Manor.

Tim was working that day, Alfred was driving Bruce around, so Bruce send someone to pick up Tim. But Tim didn't knew that and was working longer, he then just got back to the Manor with his bike.

Danny knew he should not be here but. Nobody is home, there are a lot of free rooms, so no harm in staying the night, right?

The next morning he wanders down already planning on what to say, but he just got some food.

When Mr. Wayne sees him he just asked how his Day was.

Danny realized after a few days that, people constantly coming in the Manor and going out to the point where no one knows who lives there at the moment.

People passing him often mistaken him for someone else.

Or thinking he was a new child of Bruce.

Danny wonders how long this will work, sometimes he even eats breakfast with them.

It took three weeks until Jason asked bruce:" where did you steal/adopt this one?"

Bruce:" I didn't adopt anyone recently, not since Duke." he is mildly confused and looks up from the paper, first time he really looks at the small teen at the table who just casually sits between the other who came to a Sunday brunch.

He then asks:"Who are you?"

Sam and Tucker, thanks to living in Amity Park and being overshadowed and controlled by ghosts so many time, had become very liminal. Until an accident while trying to stop the newest ghost enemy led to the two of them becoming halfa’s. Sam’s ghost form looks like what she looked like during the whole Undergrowth thing. And Tucker’s ghost form looks like his King Tuck design.

The real issue is that they think he's a clone and they are babying him. He doesn't know what they will do when they find out he isn't actually a clone.

They have been more than accommodating and have let him snoop around to his hearts content, even going so far and to come up behind him while he's trying to hack into thier computer and just casually putting in the passwords for him.

That was embarrassing. How is Phantom so stealthy??? He loves his future evil self as wierd as that sounds. He showed him how to use thier wierd coffee machine and made both of them ten shot espressos.

The entire time there was spent in domestic bliss. How are either of these people villains? The room went silent when asked.

Appearently older Tim's story began when he accidentally killed a pit raged Jason in self defense. The batfam took it way worse than anyone would have thought, especially when the Lazarus Pits failed to revive him again. He was treated coldly as they grieved and tried to find comfort in his friends at the time, but not many people were available.

He stayed in different places, not wanting to head back to the manor and face his family, eventually he caught a signal from a space station that supposedly didn't exist and went to investigate.

Inside he found numerous crumpled bodies, all in white suits. All dead. The station itself looked oddly in tact despite obvious signs of a struggle. Eventually he found Phantom bleeding out on the floor, the destroyed remains of a metal muzzle were still on the ghosts face and Tim made quick work of removing it so he could speak easier.

Tim nursed Phantom back to health in the station and the ghost made the bodies disappear. Tim never learned what he did with all of them.

Over time Danny revealed what he was and who the GIW were and began answering all his questions. They chose to stay in the station and Phantom began renovating it to be more of a home than a workplace.

The real problems arose when people discovered the station and by extention, Phantom. He defended himself using his powers which caught the attention of both the Justice League and many villains.

The Justice League offered him protection and wanted him to join them, the villains wanted his power and made no effort to hide that fact. Phantom saw them as one in the same. All Danny wanted was to stay in the space station with Tim, who he already had a massive crush on. He didn't mind the swirling darkness he sensed inside of Red Robin, he had it in himself too after all.

At some point the station was under attack and Phantom killed a whole bunch of people to defend himself and his home, something the JL didn't particularly like and Batman himself offered to take him under his wing and train him to fight without killing.

That's when Tim revealed himself and stood next to Phantom, "He already has a teacher"

This is beautiful. I need a fic of this. Please.

Tim is just a bundle of stress and Phantom is trying to comfort him when he can but hes rarely awake cause his body is focusing on healing and Tim is nursing him back to health.

Luckily Tim only had to explain "time travel" and Danny was like "I gotcha" and rolled with it. Tim still explained the rest and Danny has been cuddly and purring for him whenever he gets the chance.

Tim, who has been hiding a sleeping 'vampire' in his room for two weeks: Wow! Why do you think it was me?

Bruce: Jason won't take my money, Dick avoids anything funeral related, Damian told me Talia already has his funeral arrangements planned and "none of the ilk he kills deserves coffins"-

Tim: Yikes.

Bruce: I know. Steph is convinced shes either never going to die or shes going to die fighting God, not sure what that means but she scares me, and Barbra and Duke are my good children who I pretend I never have to worry about in regards to things like these.

Tim: What about Cass?

Bruce: If Cass needed a coffin, she'd either come out and ask me, or I would never know about it. Meaning, it has to be you.

Tim: Touche.

Bruce: Timothy what is the coffin for?!

Tim: Okay jeez. If you must know, I thought sleeping in a small enclosed space would help with my sleep schedule.

Bruce: Why not just ask for a bunk bed, or use the closet or wardrobe?

Tim: Its was 3 am! Give me a break!

It then becomes a Thing, because of course all the other bats simply must try it (for science, obviously, and also because they wanted it to suck so that they could make fun of Bruce for it with receipts. but they were disappointed when it was, in fact, extremely comfortable [the outlier here is Jason, who has coffin trauma and will not be counted]).

So begins the trend of bats napping in coffins like vampires. If it ever gets out to the public — which of course it eventually will — the entire superhero community is going to lose their minds.

Their sleep coffins of course are in their rooms/homes and significantly more personalized but the napcoffins are all up for grabs for anyone (with the exception of Jason who didn't want to be left out and so got a wicker casket that everyone calls the napbasket) and you only know if their occupied if it's closed

And then eventually find a small dark room in the darkest and most secluded part of the Cave, turning on a Flashlight only to see a room full of Coffins, each with the Emblem of one of the Bats.

At first they feel very guilty, because this is obviously Coffins that Batman prepared for the day when one of them dies, and its in the most hidden part of the cave because he hopes it will never be needed. This feels like a violation of privacy. They really should leave before somebody finds them-

One of the Coffin Lids begins to creak open.

They freeze in Terror, and point their Flashlight to the Coffin in the Center, which is slowly opening.

Out of it, rises Batman. In Full Costume. Yawning.

On another note, imagine a Vampire King Dick getting into this world, but is captured? And when they ask what made him go evil, he says it's because he's a vampire.

And the superheroes are giving him the eyebrow because, "That's a harmful stereotype. Our Bats and Birds are all Vampires, except Red Hood who died before he could be turned and came back a Revenant and the youngest Robin who is half Demon Dhampir. And Cardinal's boyfriend, the Banshee Ghost by the name of Phantom. But he's still on the fence about joining the Gotham Vigilantes, so he probably doesn't count?"

And Vampire Dick is actually so fucking confused. Cause he knows that technically all possibilities are possible in the mulitverse. He also knows about the old rumors of them being Vampires, especially Bruce. But his Bruce didn't have fangs or sleep in a coffins. Though, they can all walk in sunlight? But they are covered, head to toe, in a way none of his family ever did. Even Spoiler is wearing a helmet that lets her hair out the back! Only one not covered is Damian. WTF is this world?

Now the coffin vs casket thing is a good point. I think that when they started ordering their coffins they experimented a lot with shape, material, and whether they wanted a full lid or hinges. I think they fight over which is comfier, casket or coffin.

The napcoffin part of the cave is called the Bat Mausoleum and the caskets there are formed to their suits so they can have comfy power naps without needing to put away their gear. Caskets are used there because of the hinges make exit quicker and theres greater space for customized padding for when suits change. The half lids are useful if they need to monitor alerts to results of tests but are usually closed.

Upstairs theres more coffins in the family napping den, unpersonalized bc again its a everyone's space kind of thing. The loose lid is nice if you wanna peak out one way or another and a lid slightly crooked lets others know you're okay with being woken up. Whether they have a coffin or casket in their bedroom is up to them, that's their personal preferences and specs so it doesn't matter to anyone else.

the writers REALLY liked my artist resource post, so I thought i'd give y'all my dragon hoard of things i use for writing

Reverse Dictionary, you type in the meaning of a word, and it gives you a bunch of words that mean that. (MY MOST IMPORTANT OFFERING IN THIS LIST)

Slang Dictionary, what it says on the tin.

Anglish Translator, Anglish is if English evolved without borrowing from other languages and it really itches my brain (Anglish is if english grown without borrowing from other languages and it truly itches my brain)

Incorrect Quotes Generator, Put character names in, and incorrect quotes come out. Really fun way to goof around with your characters' dynamics.

Handspeak, an ASL dictionary

Library of Babel, Odds are, the finished version of your wip is in here somewhere

The best fantasy map maker i have ever used

Glitch Text Generator is one I use A Lot, does ť̷̨̢͓̤͔̤̤̝̺̯̄̔̄̌̄͗͒͋͂͋͝ḩ̵̼̜͍͚͕̏̓͊̈̉̆̄͐́͗͒̈̃̊̚͜i̵̻̐̇̎̏̀̋̌̃̇̿͘̚s̴̮̔̂̇͒͑͝͝ͅ to your text

Totally not bootleg microsoft office

Emotions Thesaurus a guide for writing emotions and their associated body language

Mythcreants, has a whole bunch of stuff you can read to learn more about the technical aspects of writing

A decent article talking about what to think about when creating a language

Trope Talks, particularly good for beginner and younger writers or people who have a hard time reading. Honestly this whole channel is a fantastic format to get information into my adhd rattled brain.

FOR MY AO3 BESTIES! Postimages will host your image forever so you can embed it into your work

Ambient Chaos, sometimes the only thing in the world that can kick your brain into writing mode is nuclear sirens and lofi beats

Rationing in the UK. (Link for the US below.)

Rationing in the US:

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Oh geez you crazy people really did it. You've made my notes unusable for a full year and made it so i have a widely circulated post. I will be turning off notes for this, but before then, have some seconds!

DesignDoll, I can't believe I forgot to put this in the original post. This is how i make 3d bases. Has both free and paid versions.

Bodies In Motion, great resource for animating and seeing how bodies look throughout different parts of movement

Pixabay: Free stock images + sounds and videos and such

Museum websites with CC0 (public domain) images, big list of places to get copyright free works

MapCrunch, kinda like google roads, great for background references

ANY BOOK BY CHRIS HART