يعني

neither! it's يعني

the 3 is an 'ayn, not a kha, which would be represented by 5. it means, "i mean" "you know" "so/so" etc. in english the closest romanization is: "yah - AH - ni".

Bruce talks to Clark, then warns Barbara.

"Barbara Gordon is a Grown Woman":

Wrote this last night when the idea hit.

((smacks Dick's flank)) this baby can fit so much sexually-charged trauma!

bat!math: it's perfect, like calculus

apologies if i missed this in ttt but post mating do alphas still routinely cat around? seems like there is a strong socially expectation of purity from omegas premating and fidelity postmating but i wasn't sure if that's true for alphas. not that i expect anything like that from jay but dick is only getting to dick tim down ~4 days a month which i'm guessing is a steep dropoff from his premating days

ah, the constraints of 3rd person limited strike again. Dick and Jason are allowed to have their own paramour(s); however, they're supposed to be respectful to Tim (e.g. if they have a lover, keep a separate apartment or house for them). They could theoretically marry a beta or alpha while still being mated to Tim. As Tim's main alpha, Bruce can't legally marry or mate someone else. He's allowed to sleep with others but is expected to be circumspect about it. Basically, Victorian rules. Don't make a fool of your wife unless you want to piss off her family.

Jason fulfills the three promises he made to Tim.

...Sometimes Tim's appraisal reminded Jason that the omega had been watching Jason — had Seen him — for much longer than their actual relationship. As a child Tim had snuck out to capture pieces of the night, pieces of them, and Jason started wondering if Tim could give them back. If those pieces Tim unknowingly possessed could even fit anymore or if the Pit had warped Jason's soul, its caustic acid scouring him into something misshapen, incapable of reconciliation inside or out...

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That's very kind, thank you. I'm old enough that cursive was earnestly taught as a necessary life skill at my elementary school. And you're correct, it's a fountain pen I received as a gift about two and a half decades ago, a simple Rotring. The company doesn't make them anymore but they're quite reasonable on Ebay. The paper is 105 GSM, iirc, so rather thick compared to the majority of journaling paper nowadays. I was tired of being able to read the last page through the current page!

Bruce is going to come back from Mars to find Jason has turned Tim into a full-blown Teenage Delinquent over the course of a long weekend, popping wheelies, slipping cuffs, and serving cunt (to which Jay would likely respond, "oh no the entirely foreseeable consequences of your own actions, fucking deal with it, old man").

I answered this but only in my mind, oops. Here's what I will say....this is a possible outcome of Tim's situation. Maybe Tim will replace Oracle -- Tim would certainly love that!

Unrelated note:

I write about 70 - 80 percent of my words by hand before I type them up and make edits / add finishing touches electronically. My hand and arm unfortunately sometimes decides not to work due to some nerve issues, so be patient with me. (If you'd like to spoil yourself for #TTT, feel free to zoom into this picture.)

The next three fics are as follows:

Jay/Tim - Jay fulfills the three promises he made to Tim. (85%)

Bruce & Clark; Bruce & Barbara interlude - The news of Oracle's LOA escapes containment. (80%)

Dick/Tim - mostly porn with a dash of Dick's untreated trauma and Tim's curious nature. (5%)

Love the question! Gonna do my best impression of a dead author for this one in particular.

//free him, be devoured, die happy// ra's: i TRIED but my greatest adversary got all cunt-struck by the tiger and now look where we're at!

Ahh, a seed I planted that I don't think will grow. It was indeed Ra's, but of course what could have enticed him to be interested in this version of Tim? I won't spoil it here on the off chance it comes into the story later.

i get why tim didn't go with dami to bludhaven (a trial for dick's self control while healing), but what would be so unsafe about tim staying home at the manor by himself? jason's place has a lot of unsecured guns, boobytraps, and, y'know, a somewhat unstable jason

I would say Bruce didn't fully decide to ship Tim to Jason's until a certain alarm went off when a little mouse was sniffing around again...protecting access to secrets sealed the deal. As for safety with Jason, Jason's self-evaluation is not reliable. I defer to something Dick said about him in Acquisitions: “Not sure if you’ve noticed, but he doesn’t trust us still, let alone himself. Not fully. Tell him whatever you want. The only way he’s going to believe us is if we show him.” Bruce's own take on Jason is in the same story, and he tells Jason to his face he doesn't think he will harm Tim. Is he right?

(As for the boobytraps, Jason comes by that particular response to paranoia honestly: the Cave and the Manor have hidden surprises, too!)

In #TTT, is Themyscira off limits to alphas? Alphas and betas? All men regardless of designation? Some other sort of combination? etc. Since JL has been mentioned, I'm just curious what Wonder Woman and the Amazons would be in this universe.

free him, be devoured, die happy

While I adore the smutty BruTim and DickTim encounters in TTT, Jason interacting with Tim as a person with all the aspects that delight or frustrate him just scratches my brain in such a good way. It makes their moments of physical connection--or misconnection--really knock you out. Your latest TTT story was perfection :)

thank you! i have 1 or 2k in drafts of jason and tim together that i will either fit into an interlude or post here as a nice surprise for ppl who visit tumblr

Dick is deeply questioning whether to get Jason a remedial birds-and-the-bees book after Jason implied he'd hit or choked Tim in a Pit rage only to find out from talking to Tim that Jason gave him a big hickey.

I was going to add this little ditty to the end notes but left it in my draft because it was too on-the-nose even for me:

jason: i mauled him because of the pit. i'm a worthless piece of shit alpha

stephanie: ….it's a hickey, jay, you total moron

dick: and everyone calls me the best at self-sabotage, ha!

tim: ((left extremely horny by TWO alphas, now)) hello, can someone fuck me??

I think #TTT Jason would/does love getting pegged especially by a big strong lady he likes and trusts for reasons both carnal and traumatic.

Is Tim's hurt toe a metaphor in Timtamtom? Like Tim doesn't quite fit yet in the Batfam just like the shoes aren't broken in yet so there's this discomfort/blister. And maybe Tim having to use expensive alcohol + silk handkerchief and the lack of basic first aid supplies for care is a metaphor for Bruce et al.'s (current) interest in him going straight to the indulgent (sexual and social/Society) and less in the basics of an interpersonal relationship? I dunno, just ponderin' (or overthinking).

Yes, when I originally jotted that down it was along the lines of Tim breaking in the shoes Bruce bought him because none of his are nice enough for the wardrobe he's got now. I didn't explicitly ponder further than that re: Tim's jerry rigged solution, but I love your thinking and will now tell anyone that was on purpose, too!

P.S. Speaking of subtext and because I want to mention it somewhere, in "Feared Symmetry" the symmetries are Tim:Tiger, Tim:Steph, Tim:Damian presented in order of Tim's awareness of how he is like them: unaware (captive-born tiger), hidden (Steph, because he thinks she's a beta), and acknowledged (Damian, who Tim sees himself in).

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i hate it so much that right now i'm looking at this fic i'm writing like, that's not this right? no it's not. but is it? noooo it's not.

i know a lot of people write jason as a sexy bad ass but i really see him as an angry dork. i know he also gets pegged as someone who can scheme but man, have you seen this guy's schemes? he needs help!

dick

Tim, Damian, and Stephanie go to Gotham Zoo.

Gotham Zoo is not ready.

“I do not require a guardian,” Damian said. “I am 11, not 5.”

Feared Symmetry

I've been working through technical problems (I'm waiting for my BYOK and my new laptop and otherwise piecemealing my workflow together since my laptop is dead).