A place for weird dreams and rantings

A bunch of gifts (christmas and birthdays) I made since December 2020

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hey cough cough ;)

i nab me the movie. REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ACTUAL RELEASE WHEN IT COMES OUT!! we watching 10+ times when it comes out okay as compensation for pirating, okay!???

IM SCREENING THE MOVIE ON DISCORD.

server link

i’m only doing this for about a week, i don’t want get in trouble. Another google drive link will be available soon. i deleted the original link for safety concerns.

google drive

MY MOM JUST MADE THIS PATTERN EVERYONE LOOK

Dick, wailing on his knees, hands clamped over his ears: Oh, the profanity!

Tim, headphones on: *hands over Damian's ears*

Damian: *hands over Titus's ears*

Jason, cradling Duke and Steph's heads to his chest, covering their ears: How could you, B?

Cass: *covering Jason's ears*

The Returnverse is an interconnected tapestry of mostly one-off BatFam fics set in the same loose universe. Unlike most of my other fics, which tend to be broadly consistent with each other, these do all reference each other in various ways, but subtly enough that they can mostly be read as standalones except for the series within the series.

There are at least four different ways to read the fics:

In-Universe Chronological Order

As-Written Chronological Order

Coherency Order

Series Groupings

And if you're seeing this post, you're seeing the

As-Written Chronological Order Explainer

As-Written Chronological Order is, as you might guess, the order in which the fics were written, out here in reality. Unlike In-Universe Chronology, this involves a little more weaving back and forth, because in real-time sometimes I would reference an event and then go back and fill in the details in another fic later. I think this order is fun, though, because you start our with my oldest fics and get to watch me improve. 😅 It only goes up, folks!

1. Choco Bombs

was my first fic in what became this overarching series, a BatFam hurt/comfort fic looking at how alone Dick must have felt during Bruce's "death"... but from Tim's point of view.

2. Carried

was also a prompt fic, this time for the BatFam Christmas Stocking exchange. @hollyhock13 submitted a prompt noting that Janet Drake's funeral, canonically, was on Christmas Eve, so I took it and ran with it. (And now we're friends! The power of fandom!)

3. If the Sky Comes Falling Down (For You)

published one chapter per week for six weeks because I had a bunch of loose ideas for Jason-as-Red-Hood pretending he didn't care about his family and then being roped into oops-actually-caring-a-lot and the concept worked well for a 5+1. I friggin' love this fic and it helped me nail down some crucial bits that, unbeknownst to me, would come in handy later.

4. Shoulder to Shoulder and 5. Listening

appeared together, two days apart, because to celebrate my one-year ficaversary I let people request sequels to fics I had written and two separate people wanted more from Carried. It's details from Listening, really, that help nail down that this little series is part of the larger Returnverse series.

6. Chicken Bones

is friggin' wild to me. WILD, I say. Because this Whumptober 2019 fic was written six months before The Return started and almost TWO YEARS before it ENDED, but it was only while writing the very last chapter for The Return that I realized that it teed up the dinner in Chicken Bones! Writing is so so weird sometimes.

7. Resonant Frequency

appears next, born from a ranting discussion between me and @bowditch, about what SHOULD HAVE happened on-page between Tim and Bruce immediately after Bruce was rescued from time. And that stuck with me, because a few months after posting this fic, I started

8. The Return

about allllllllllll the other stuff that should have happened on-page after Bruce's return. It just took me a literal year and a half to finish—which normally I would blame my speed on that year being 2020, but I must gesture at my other long fic (not in this series) that took just as long. I wrote other fics in that year and a half, but none connected to this universe.

9. Fix This

was me still gnawing on the bone of Jason & Tim's weird little not-enemies-but-not-even-allies-really relationship established wayyyy back in If the Sky, which then kicked off Mutual Aid, one of the series within the series that continued with

10. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Hood and 11. After the Storm

where I kept gnawing at their dynamics, but put a pin in that, because I then pivoted over to

12. (S)kittish

to figure out what's going on with our girl Cass, because I wanted to unpack her stuff from If the Sky but then partway through writing figured out the trigger for the whole fic actually came from The Return (cue exploding head), and as soon as this Whumptober fic was up, I took a handful of Cass and smashed that hand together with my handful of Jason and Tim to write

13. Hey, Sister

... And then promptly got stuck for two years. Yes, two. Chapter one posted in 2022 and chapter two didn't follow until 2024, also for Whumptober. Writing. It's so fun. So while I paced in circles over the second half of this fic, I went back to Jason-and-Tim's weirdness in Mutual Aid with

14. Hounded and 15. There's an Endless Road to Rediscover

Did those, finally figured out the second half of Hey, Sister, then did nothing more in this universe until here we are in 2025 with

16. Boys' Night

when I finally got to circle back to Dick and stuff I set up wayyyyy back in Choco Bombs (remember that one?) and then again in The Return and unpack some of that mess.

At some point I'll have to get to Damian, probably. And, uh, figure out how to rectify the fact that If the Sky confirms that Steph is for sure a part of this universe as Spoiler but hasn't been present otherwise. A mess a mess a mess I make for myself.

I've made primers of the other three orders and queued them. If they haven't hit my feed yet, they will soon, so watch the tags.

@jason-todd-week

Day 5 P: Jason Meets Damian in the League of Assassins

- he’s got a little miffy sticker on his bike because some kid was in a “vandalizing” mood. jason thought it was stupid at first, but then the more he looked at it, the cuter it got. so he just decided to leave it there.

- skull hand tattoo. he’s corny.

- jason’s definitely got photographic/eidetic memory, that boy does NOT forget anything. he’s also generally more perceptive than the average person… the perks of being raised by a detective…

- he does that spinning pen trick out of habit (and it’s super attractive). you leave that boy anywhere with a pen and he’s set, he will not be bored. he’s doing silly little tricks to keep him company.

- and this doesn’t really need to be said, but he’s such a good listener. it doesn’t matter who’s speaking, they’ll always have his undivided attention.

- oh and uh he does the whole “bends down to hear you better” thing… (or he looks up at you with softest eyes if you’re taller btw)

- jason smells warm and spicy, somthing like tom ford’s tobacco vanille perfume. i also don’t think he cares about cologne vs perfume, he just wears whatever smells good to him.

- this might be a little niche, but i don’t think he’s ever been on a clean bulk lol

- speaking of which, jason’s got a big, big, BIG sweet tooth! he loves sugar and craves it almost all of the time.

(if you don't want to see these posts just block the tag #wheel of shipping)

Our lucky trios are:

@queen-of-hobgobblers, @evilsailorsenshi, and @nemoislostagain

@usuallyobsessedtmblr, @asmallcommitteeoffrogs, and @nimbustratos

And

@25kitkat, @alex126486, and @yoopsity

Congratulations!! Enjoy your lives together 🥰

Thanks I've been fucking around with it a wee bit again trying to figure out if i want the white to part in the middle like:

Bruce was able to rescue Jason before he died, and after this experience, Jason stopped being Robin.

He became afterwards the golden child, he goes to college (with a scholarship), helps out in the city library, teaches children (helps with their homeworks and helps them to study), works part time in a car garage in crime alley, and is a supportive brother.

And it pisses his siblings off.

Because there has to be something fishy because no one, really no one, is that perfect.

And there is something fishy.

He is also Red Hood.

No one knows, and the vigilantes never talk to Jason about "the family business" because he needs to concentrate on his studies and other stuff.

So imagine, Batmans suprise when the JL was able to catch Red Hood.

Someone takes Jasons helmet off in front of Batman, Nightwing, and other members

And Jason, who wears also a domino mask, doesn't look Batman in the face even as he says :

"Hey Dad. I can explain."

And Dick loses his shit, he laughs so hard because, Jason, The golden child, the one who gave up on being a vigilante, who reads to children in the library, is a goddamn crimelord.

Bruce just stands there frozen because wtf Jason?!

And Dick takes selfies with Jason being tied up and calles the other Batkids in because they should definitely not be left out of it.

(Edit: As someone who doesn't really write (or can write good stories), I want to say, feel free to use this prompt for a fanfiction. Just please give credits to me (because I don't know if someone else had also this idea and posted it) and please inform me if you publish something (because I want to read a fanfiction like this too))

(Edit: people we got a link, pls leave some love there for @radioactivepigeons, https://archiveofourown.org/works/55499164