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    The Dark Side of the Looking Glass by

    Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types  

    08 Apr 2026

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    As a general rule, Bruce believed time, space, and dimension were not to be messed with. However, in this case seeing as an alternate universe’s Batman had come to their universe with the intention of killing him, replacing him, and tearing down their Justice League from the inside so his Justice League could implement their own brand of justice on as many universes as possible, it seemed like a problem best not left to fate.

    “I say we take the fight to them,” Hal said. “If they want to go around messing with our dimension, then fucking up theirs is fair game.”

    “Play on their home turf? No way,” Barry said. “They’re bound to realize their plan didn’t work eventually and then they’ll have to bring the fight to us.”

    “And who knows how many other unsuspecting civilians that may be caught in the crossfire of their attack,” Clark said.

    “I say we find out everything this imposter knows and then face them head on,” Diana said.

    “Oh please, if that doesn’t work on our Batman, there’s no way it works on evil Batman,” Oliver said.

    “Bruce?” Clark asked.

    “It was a good plan,” Bruce said.

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    02 Aug 2025

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    The Dark Side of the Looking Glass (45832 words) by writersagainstwritersblock
    Chapters: 10/?
    Fandom: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
    Rating: Mature
    Warnings: Rape/Non-Con
    Relationships: Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Clark Kent & Bruce Wayne, Justice League & Bruce Wayne
    Characters: Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake (DCU), Damian Wayne, Clark Kent, Diana (Wonder Woman), Barry Allen, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Oliver Queen, Dinah Lance, Alfred Pennyworth
    Additional Tags: Bad Parent Bruce Wayne, Evil Bruce Wayne, Dark Justice League, Evil Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne is Good With Kids, Bruce Wayne Has a Heart, Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent, Dick Grayson Needs a Hug, Hurt Dick Grayson, Good Sibling Dick Grayson, Protective Dick Grayson, Dick Grayson is Not Okay, Dick Grayson Has Eldest Daughter Syndrome, Jason Todd Joins the Batfamily Early, Good Sibling Jason Todd, Tim Drake Joins the Batfamily Early (DCU), Damian Wayne Joins the Batfamily Early, Dick Grayson is Robin, Alternate Universe, Dimension Travel, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Past Rape/Non-con, Eventual Happy Ending

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    As a general rule, Bruce believed time, space, and dimension were not to be messed with. However, in this case seeing as an alternate universe’s Batman had come to their universe with the intention of killing him, replacing him, and tearing down their Justice League from the inside so his Justice League could implement their own brand of justice on as many universes as possible, it seemed like a problem best not left to fate.

    “I say we take the fight to them,” Hal said. “If they want to go around messing with our dimension, then fucking up theirs is fair game.”

    “Play on their home turf? No way,” Barry said. “They’re bound to realize their plan didn’t work eventually and then they’ll have to bring the fight to us.”

    “And who knows how many other unsuspecting civilians that may be caught in the crossfire of their attack,” Clark said.

    “I say we find out everything this imposter knows and then face them head on,” Diana said.

    “Oh please, if that doesn’t work on our Batman, there’s no way it works on evil Batman,” Oliver said.

    “Bruce?” Clark asked.

    “It was a good plan,” Bruce said.

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    just lowering your expectations by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU  

    06 Apr 2026

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    For a long time, Tim doesn’t know his parents are dead. Maybe that makes him a bad son, for not knowing. When he reads about death, or when he watches people die in movies, their loved ones always know. There’s a gasp of pained revelation, an instinctual loss.

    Tim doesn’t feel that. He wouldn’t have noticed at all, except for that he likes to keep track of the things going on in the places where his parents visit. Sometimes, it means he can ask leading questions, on their mostly-weekly phone calls, and Janet will spiral off into some tangent about these people and their lack of work ethic, and she’ll talk for minutes on end before realizing she’s still on the phone, getting bored, and then ending the call. So he keeps an alert system on his phone, for news, so they have some topics in common to talk about. It’s only luck he sees the article before anyone else does.

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    26 Jan 2025

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    just lowering your expectations (60305 words) by the_star_catcher
    Chapters: 13/17
    Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
    Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
    Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
    Relationships: Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Jack Drake & Janet Drake & Tim Drake, in a post mortem kind of way
    Characters: Tim Drake (DCU), Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd, Original Cat Character(s), i'm delighted that's a tag, Jack Drake, Janet Drake
    Additional Tags: Tim Drake Joins the Batfamily Early (DCU), Jason Todd is Robin, Grief/Mourning, Tim Drake Needs a Hug (DCU), Tim Drake Has Abandonment Issues, Tim Drake Needs Therapy, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Tim Drake is Not Okay (DCU), Tim Drake is Bad at Feelings, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, idk how to tag tbh, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Child Neglect, tim drake has never reacted to grief in a healthy way once in his life, and he is not starting now, Wayne Gala (DCU), Unreliable Narrator, Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent, Tim Drake is a Menace (DCU)
    Series: Part 1 of author's favorites

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    For a long time, Tim doesn’t know his parents are dead. Maybe that makes him a bad son, for not knowing. When he reads about death, or when he watches people die in movies, their loved ones always know. There’s a gasp of pained revelation, an instinctual loss.

    Tim doesn’t feel that. He wouldn’t have noticed at all, except for that he likes to keep track of the things going on in the places where his parents visit. Sometimes, it means he can ask leading questions, on their mostly-weekly phone calls, and Janet will spiral off into some tangent about these people and their lack of work ethic, and she’ll talk for minutes on end before realizing she’s still on the phone, getting bored, and then ending the call. So he keeps an alert system on his phone, for news, so they have some topics in common to talk about. It’s only luck he sees the article before anyone else does.

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    He had considered travel in his retirement plans by

    Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)  

    13 Mar 2026

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    Maybe he shouldn’t have pushed one of his more volatile students quite so far while playing as Sukea. One moment, he was enjoying a final game of teasing his face before passing the Hokage hat to Naruto; the next, he was in the past, draped in oversized clothes that now felt more like a tent than an outfit.

    It wasn’t ideal, but he’d survived worse. His plan was simple: step into his old life, lay low, and figure out a way back to his proper timeline, even if it was the long way. Except... it seemed he hadn’t displaced his younger self. Instead, there were two Kakashis now, and they had to adapt.

    The younger Kakashi, sharp-eyed and prickly as ever, clearly wasn’t thrilled by the intrusion. But older Kakashi wasn’t too worried. After all, he’d survived his students—adorable little brats who’d outgrown their charm and turned into forces of nature. Compared to them, his younger self was manageable.

    Prickly or not, this kid might even be fun to mess with while Kakashi figured out how to navigate this unexpected hiccup in his retirement plan.

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    02 Apr 2026

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    Tim Drake: A Passive Sacrifice by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types  

    05 Mar 2026

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    "Do you know what a desperado is in chess?"

    Tim Drake watches his world fall apart within the span of a week; the pillars of strength, his personal heroes, all disappear into interplanetary space without a trace. Well, that would be, if not for the foreboding, alien planet headed straight for Earth.

    As Batman confides in him one last time, Tim Drake will do whatever it takes to preserve humanity and take down the otherworldly being. Even at the cost of shattering reality.

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    27 Mar 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Tim Drake: A Passive Sacrifice (8246 words) by weswrites
    Chapters: 3/7
    Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types
    Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
    Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
    Characters: Tim Drake (DCU), Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Alfred Pennyworth, Barbara Gordon, Mentions of several Justice League members and superhero co
    Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Not Canon Compliant, Alternate Universe - Aliens, Jason Todd is Robin, Tim Drake Joins the Batfamily Early (DCU), In a way, Hurt/Comfort, Good Sibling Dick Grayson, Good Parent Bruce Wayne, Batfamily (DCU), Child Neglect, Kid Tim Drake (DCU), Mediocre Parents Jack Drake and Janet Drake, End of the World, Or Is It?, Author is dumb please don't take the science literally, Identity Porn, Identity Reveal, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Pre-Robin Tim Drake (DCU), Tim Drake is Red Robin (DCU), Weird Tim Drake (DCU), Tim Drake's Fake Uncle (DCU), yall are in for a treat, Swearing, that's why it's teen, Time Travel

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    "Do you know what a desperado is in chess?"

    Tim Drake watches his world fall apart within the span of a week; the pillars of strength, his personal heroes, all disappear into interplanetary space without a trace. Well, that would be, if not for the foreboding, alien planet headed straight for Earth.

    As Batman confides in him one last time, Tim Drake will do whatever it takes to preserve humanity and take down the otherworldly being. Even at the cost of shattering reality.

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    Do Not Separate by

    Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)  

    02 Apr 2026

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    When a training exercise accidentally lands the freshly-minted Team Seven in the Land of Rain, the stakes of their little practice mission abruptly get a lot higher. Amegakure, paranoid as it is, isn’t all that thrilled to have S-rank foreign shinobi wandering into the country unannounced, after all.

    Consequently, Kakashi is taken captive and marched off to Amegakure for interrogation and probably execution. Sakura, mistaken for a fugitive criminal, is taken captive along with him. Sasuke and Naruto are left behind, left to fend for themselves and forced to learn how to work together in order to rescue their teammates.

    As they’re transported towards an unpleasant fate in Amegakure, Sakura and Kakashi will have to adapt quickly if they want any chance of escaping. Sakura will have to find her confidence as a shinobi, while she’s surrounded by people who don’t even believe she is one. And Kakashi will have to teach her how to do that, despite how unused he is to his role as a teacher.

    The odds are against them in many ways. In spite of that, each member of Team Seven will fight tooth and nail to defend their brand-new teammates’ safety.

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    25 Mar 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Do Not Separate (5740 words) by ihopethelightwillshineupon
    Chapters: 2/15
    Fandom: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
    Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
    Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
    Relationships: Dai-nana-han | Team 7 Ensemble & Hatake Kakashi, Haruno Sakura & Hatake Kakashi & Uchiha Sasuke & Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura & Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha Sasuke & Uzumaki Naruto
    Characters: Dai-nana-han | Team 7 Ensemble (Naruto), Hatake Kakashi, Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke
    Additional Tags: Dai-nana-han | Team 7-centric (Naruto), Genin Era (Naruto), takes place before the land of waves arc, Hatake Kakashi-centric, Haruno Sakura-centric, Dai-nana-han | Team 7 Feels (Naruto), Character Development, Medical Ninjutsu (Naruto), Hatake Kakashi is a Good Teacher, Protective Hatake Kakashi, Protective Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi is Trying, Blood and Injury, Graphic Description of Injuries, arrow wound, Chakra Exhaustion (Naruto), Hurt Hatake Kakashi, Hurt/Comfort, Whump, Canon-Typical Violence, Hatake Kakashi Has PTSD, Angst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Everyone Needs A Hug, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Missions Gone Wrong, Mostly Canon Compliant, Happy Ending, Angst with a Happy Ending, Amegakure | Hidden Rain Village

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    When a training exercise accidentally lands the freshly-minted Team Seven in the Land of Rain, the stakes of their little practice mission abruptly get a lot higher. Amegakure, paranoid as it is, isn’t all that thrilled to have S-rank foreign shinobi wandering into the country unannounced, after all.

    Consequently, Kakashi is taken captive and marched off to Amegakure for interrogation and probably execution. Sakura, mistaken for a fugitive criminal, is taken captive along with him. Sasuke and Naruto are left behind, left to fend for themselves and forced to learn how to work together in order to rescue their teammates.

    As they’re transported towards an unpleasant fate in Amegakure, Sakura and Kakashi will have to adapt quickly if they want any chance of escaping. Sakura will have to find her confidence as a shinobi, while she’s surrounded by people who don’t even believe she is one. And Kakashi will have to teach her how to do that, despite how unused he is to his role as a teacher.

    The odds are against them in many ways. In spite of that, each member of Team Seven will fight tooth and nail to defend their brand-new teammates’ safety.