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Characters: Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne Summary: To be loved by his father. It was all he wanted. But it took far too long for him to realize: not all fathers are related by blood. A/N: Based heavily on ‘Piece by Piece’ by Kelly Clarkson. This is full of a lot of vagueness and implications, so I hope you all catch what I’m throwing down here, you feel? (If not just let me know and I can totally explain it.) This is all from Damian’s point of view and skewed perception, so not, of course, what may actually be happening with Bruce. Also, whether Dick saw/was aware of the fight between Damian and Bruce is up to the reader. I’m sort of leaning towards maybe yes he did.

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big boys

itty bitty boys

Mississippi boys

Inner city boys

I like the pretty boys

...with the bow tie

Get your nails did...

Let it blow dry

I like a big beard,

I like a clean face,

I don't discriminate.

Veins everywhere?

gorgeous~

Skin patches? Birthmarks?

hella rad~

Scars? Stretch marks?

beautiful~

Freckles? Moles? Acne scars?

heckie yeah~

Large? Curvy?

lovely~

Small? Thin?

charming~

Don’t have a few pieces?

handsome as ever~

Feel like you just look weird?

In the beginning… ( Questions A1-A10)

When did you start reading fanfiction?

How did you find your first fic?

When did you get your AO3/FFN account?

What is your AO3/FFN username? Has it always been that?

Who was the first author you subscribed to?

What is the first fic you bookmarked?

Why did you leave your first comment? Do you remember what it was?

What was your first fandom? Are you still in that fandom now?

Who was your first ship?

Who did you have your first fanfic-related conversation with? What was it about?

Best of the best (Questions B1-B10)

Which one’s better for reading fic: FFN, AO3, or tumblr? Why?

What’s the best time of day for reading fic? Why?

What’s the best device to read on (phone, laptop, tablet…)? Why?

Who is your current favourite author? What is their best story?

Which story have you read more than any other? How many times?

What is your favourite story trope? Why?

Which character is your favourite to read about? Why?

Is there a show or a book that you gave up on that you went back to later? Why did you come back to it?

Who is your OTP?

What is the best plot twist you’ve ever seen?

Worst of the worst (Questions C1-C10)

What trope are you tired of reading? Why?

What word or expression always makes you cringe when you read it?

Is there anything that makes you nope out of a story? What is it?

What thing that fandom loves do you actually kind of hate? Why?

What character that fandom loves are you just kinda “meh” about? Why?

Is there anything in canon that made you want to quit the show? What was it? Why did you hate it?

Who is your NOTP?

What is one plot twist you wish people would stop using? 

What show did you really try to watch, but you just couldn’t?

What book could you just never get into, no matter how hard you tried?

Present day… (Questions D1-D10)

When did you read your last story?

Who/Where did you get your last fic rec from?

Which did you log into more recently: AO3 or FFN?

If you don’t have an account on AO3 or FFN, do you want one? Why or why not?

How many authors are you subscribed to?

How many bookmarks do you have?

Why did you leave your most recent comment? Will you share it with us?

Which fandoms do you read fic for?

Who do you discuss fandom-related things with most often? 

Then later on The Stephen Colbert Show; Stephen asked Andrew if he was comfortable kissing men

And Andrew just

sorta went

Then Stephen 

kinda just

 leaned back in 

like

Comic Index

“Once in a Blood Moon”

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10

“Sir Crandle Doesn't”

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10

“Hand in Hand”

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9

“To Make A Head Spin”

1 / 2 / 3 / 4

“Happily Sever’d After”

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6

“Are We There Yet?”

If x charity aims for £10, but gets £15, would you expect then to give back the extra five or give it then to another charity? No. Any extra costs go into the “rainy day” fund; sometimes servers crash or break, sometimes false reports are made that require the legal team, sometimes you need to hire coders or what not to implement new features or fix bugs or deal with broken code … 

The money they aimed for is the bare minimum, which goes towards things like basic server costs and domain names and legal advice and so forth, but they don’t just “pocket” the rest (as people claim). It’s not a business. It has no advertisements. It needs some “rainy day” cash to function. 

You can’t ask a charity to give money to another charity. 

They don’t “pocket” excess money. They have a publicly accessible budget - waaaay more info than most charities, in fact. In it, you can clearly see where each dollar goes. (Also, you are vastly underestimating either how much traffic AO3 gets or how much servers/hosting costs.)                    

In my experience, people who don’t work in web design and hosting just have no concept of how heavy a load something like AO3 would have. Not only is the traffic absolutely buck wild, but the quantity of data that archive needs to store is fuckoff crazy. I’m talking “more than the library of congress” crazy. The only reason it doesn’t require Netflix levels of data serving is that it’s text based rather than video.

AO3 is in the top 300 websites in the world, and the top 100 in the US. It is the number 2 literature website.

Number 2 in the entire world. JSTOR is 20.

It sees about 6 million people a day. About 250k an hour. Each of those people is loading multiple pages, many are running searches that execute on literally hundreds of potential variables per search. The demands involved are astronomical.

JSTOR, btw, makes 85 million dollars a year.

It’s 18 ranks below AO3′s traffic, and takes in 650 times the amount of money.

But let’s say you think that’s an unfair comparison. Would you say that the Project Gutenberg Literature Archival Group- another text based archive that handles literature operating outside traditional copyright requirements- is more similar?

Because it sees all of 4% of the traffic that AO3 handles.

Care to guess its budget?

Double that of AO3.

AO3 is doing shit on the kind of shoestring budget that I fully, 100% cannot comprehend. And that’s just the archival service.

The 130k also pays for the OTW’s legal team, which they use to defend the right of fandom to fucking exist.