#asks:anonymous

I read the excerpt and it's like "once again gonna gobble up susie making bruce denying himself like I'm dying of thirst in the oasis"

/o\ :D Aw, man, I'm so glad you liked the vibes of the preview, anon! (It was SO HARD to pick a section that was short enough to fit, but fortunately my brilliant girlfriend was around to help me find one that would work. :D)

/o\ :D Aw, man, you are too kind, anon—I'm so glad you enjoy my DCEU Superbat so much! ;-; It just means the world to me to hear that it manages to hit the spot for you so consistently. ♥♥♥

AND THEN thank you so much for asking about this, because, yeah, that is yet another story where I have SO many thoughts on where to go with that AU and I just have not sat down and actually pinned them down properly :') BUT I STILL REALLY WANT TO SOMEDAY. So I'm thrilled anyone might still be interested if I do ever actually get my shit together for a sequel. :D

So, yes, a random sampling of Thoughts I Have Written Down In My Notes File That Aren't Quite An Outline Yet:

I was kind of picturing Clark, armed only with one of Bruce Wayne's business cards and not yet even an amateur investigative reporter, just lurking outside the Wayne Enterprises office tower that matches the info on the card, waiting :D—and Bruce, whose research gave him some idea that Clark was somebody he should be looking for but doesn't necessarily have a clear idea as to Clark's powerset (and was unconscious for a chunk of Clark rescuing him in Alaska, obvs) was, you know, kind of expecting Kent to have to hitchhike across the country or something! Wasn't precisely ready to have the guy WAITING FOR HIM THE NEXT DAY. And in public, at a Wayne Enterprises building where he needs an excuse for this hot young thing to accompany him straight into his office, he's going to be pretty maximum Bruce Wayne, which is FASCINATING to Clark, who saw him being Frank Dixon, Alaskan Fisherman :D (and Bruce is also probably half-expecting Clark to screw this up by being surprised ... but this is hobo!Clark who lies to people himself on the regular, he's perfectly able to keep his mouth shut until he's got a better idea what Bruce's deal actually is :D).

And this is a Clark who hasn't had Black Zero Day happen to him, who hasn't found the ship in the ice—this is a Clark who still doesn't know where he came from, who is earnestly hoping Bruce might have some answers for him! And this is (in my head) a Bruce who's started having some Knightmares (which is why, in the fic, he talks about knowing there's "something coming"), but hasn't had Black Zero Day happen to him either—he doesn't know Clark has laser vision, he doesn't know who that figure is in the sky who's flying around with burning red eyes. :') (He hasn't had the Knightmare about Clark specifically killing him where he actually sees Clark's face ... yet. :')))))) )

:D Oh, rest assured I have, anon (and in fact I am hoping to make that happen in the sequel to 50 Shades of Wayne, once Bruce and Clark have finally worked through everything and Bruce is ready to attempt to responsibly dom Superman for once).

Truthfully, I was actually sort of lukewarm on the idea UNTIL I wrote those Kryptonite Week fics—before that, I was so DCEU-only that I barely knew blue kryptonite was a thing, and the idea of Clark having green kryptonite shoved into him before or during sex ... I don't know, painplay is one thing but DCEU Clark seems SO genuinely physically unwell when he's exposed to green kryptonite that trying to have sex at the same time just sounds kind of awful to me. :'D (Even in praying for sparks, I had Bruce take the kryptonite away and put it in a box—Clark reopens the box, but he's still not actually touching it while they bang in that one, because I had to give myself room to pretend that he felt only moderately terrible and was genuinely caught up in the novelty of it, lol.) Maximum respect to everybody out there who makes it work! But I have to be genuinely into whatever I'm writing into a sex scene in order for it to come out at all hot, and when I imagine feeling that sick, I just can't get there. :D

/o\ :D Aw, man, thank you so much! ;-; I'm so, so pleased you enjoyed that story so much—jule (the artist who did the original illustration for that reverse bang) gets absolutely all of the credit for the fundamental premise, BUT I'm just over the moon that you liked what I ended up doing with it! I'm right there with you, I love that the DCEU lets us know some of the basics and then leaves the rest of Bruce's life wide open, not least because it means I wasn't contradicting anything in that fic. :D

And! AND. *chinhands* I am so here for everything you're saying about the contrast with Clark—because you're so right, we do get a lot more scenes with baby!Clark in Smallville, and in sum they are SO heartbreaking. ;-; I remember being SO struck by the moment Clark comes home to Martha partway through MoS and really smiles for practically the first time, it changes his whole face so intensely and it really highlights how isolated he is during the preceding hobo period ... but you're totally right to point out that the hardly-ever-smiling actually extends all the way back through Clark's childhood T-T and that is so! agonizing! to think about! CLARK. MY HEART.

And nothing could stab me deeper after that except THE ENTIRE REST OF THIS ASK, omg—combining Bruce's whole arc of learning Clark is a person with Bruce + a childdddddddd, just, so galaxy-brained of you to frame it that way, I can't even handle it! A Bruce who's already realized how wrong he was about Clark getting smacked gently in the face by exactly HOW wrong, YES PLEASE THERE WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH, and Bruce being the living proof for Clark as a child that someone's going to know his secret and it's going to be okay, he's not going to be carrying it alone forever AND he's not going to be rejected by anyone who does find it out (... at least, you know, once they're done trying to kill him :') just twisting that knife in Bruce's chest a little harder :'))))) ), so so good, my feelings, aaaaaaaaaa.

:DDDDD I've watched the movies so many times at this point that I'm sure I'll quote them completely by accident one of these days ...

... but this particular time, YOU CAUGHT ME, haha—I can never resist a reference or a callback, and especially not when the roles are reversed/the circumstances could not be more different/the irony of the original line vs the callback is about as intense as it could possibly be! (I pulled an equally cheap but far more obvious trick in the fic where Bruce and Clark are both time-traveling—that fic is set very distinctly before the scene in JL17 where Bruce says, "I don't—not," from Bruce's perspective ... but Clark is from the future and remembers that moment from his own past, which is why he laughs when Bruce says almost the same thing. :'D)

/o\ :D Aw, man, anon, thank you so SO much, dang—I'm so glad you enjoyed that fic so much! ;-;

wiredoll's art was SO cute, I felt a little ridiculous for taking the story in such an angsty direction :'D and I was also kind of intimidated by the whole prospect of writing mpreg more generally (I had read a LOT of it, I very much enjoy the trope, but I hadn't written any before, so) ... BUT the precise moment captured by the illustration, Clark encouraging Bruce to feel the baby kick, just *clutches face* gave me sooooooo many emotions about them both and where they might be at right then (Clark trying to share something about his pregnancy with Bruce! ;-; Bruce, UNDOUBTEDLY freaking tf out about having a child even sort of in his hands again! ;-; OH YOU GUYS).

I really love clark interacting with child bruce and bruce at diff ages. i was wondering if you would ever consider writing something that reverses this, i.e. bruce interacting with child clark or clark at any different age (basically younger)

once again, your fics are like cocaine to me thanks!

:D Aw, man, thank you so much, anon! I'm so thrilled you've enjoyed my writing so much in general, and then on top of that, that Superhero's Amateur Guide is one of your favorites! I LOVED working on that story, the art jule did for that round of the Superbat Reverse Bang was just beautiful and I had such a wonderful time brainstorming that whole scenario, I can't even tell you.

WHICH MEANS a thousand times yes, haha—I would absolutely love to write another version of that premise where it's Bruce traveling through Clark's life for ~reasons (time-traveling Apokoliptian assassins are trying to murder Clark at various points when he's younger and more vulnerable = the League has to work together to transport Bruce to the same points, with the right equipment to stop them?), for so many different reasons. There's nothing that isn't wonderful to me about the idea of a younger, lonelier Clark who has no idea what's coming getting to understand that he's going to be so special to someone, and not just to Bruce alone, but to a whole team of people ;-;—and having someone work so hard to protect him, when he's so used to feeling like he needs to work constantly to protect other people, either from himself or from dangers he can survive but they can't. OH CLARK T-T

PLUS I love everything about the idea of adult Bruce hanging out with a younger Clark on the farm—helping him with his chores! Seeing what his life is like (he already knew he was wrong about who Clark was during BvS, but now he's REALLY seeing it, you know? ;-;), seeing the things he struggles with, knowing how different he is from everybody around him and having to hide it all the time (which, again, Bruce kind of knew that, but adult Clark is so much better at dealing with it emotionally than a child or teenage Clark, he would be SO transparent and SO hungry to connect with Bruce once he understood that Bruce knows what he is and what he can do!!! m y e m o t i o n s).

And while obviously most of the fic would be taken up with Bruce getting to know younger Clark, depending on how far forward we got ... oh, man, the inverse of the scenes in Superhero's Amateur Guide where Bruce is being all paranoid about this having been Clark's ~plan to disarm him, being his BvS self about it and breaking Clark's heart ;-;—anon, Clark would be SO profoundly wounded by learning Bruce actually had hated and feared him and was going to try to kill him, OH NO. Even if Bruce managed to try to explain it to him ahead of time, it would be so difficult for him to believe it and then so agonizing when it happened anyway, aaaaaaaa. AAAAAAA.

/o\ :D SO I am so sorry this took me such a long time, anon, and you've probably already sussed out the answer, but—I don't currently take commissions, no! Under normal circumstances, I get really in my head about delivering something satisfying for someone who's given me actual money (!) to do so, and I am not always very good at meeting appropriate deadlines when I'm in my head about stuff. :') AND this year in particular isn't really turning out to be normal circumstances for me on several different levels, in ways that definitely do not make me comfortable promising completion of just about anything to anyone.