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    Sometimes the only way to solve an impossible riddle is to give up.

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    24 Mar 2026

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    “Tim,” Bruce says, “it’s driver’s ed.”

    “You think I don’t know that?”

    “It’s a graduation requirement.”

    “I know,” Tim snaps. “And you know why I know? Because two different counselors and the freaking P.E. divisional head sat me down and explained it! I know.”

    “Then how did you–”

    “Because I wasn’t going to class, alright?!”

    After failing his mandatory driver’s education course, Tim’s family all pitch in to impart their collective knowledge. But it’s an unlikely member who finally gets him up to speed.

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    21 Mar 2026

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    The universe Bruce wakes up in has superheroes, aliens and, somewhat more strangely, it also has four children living in Wayne Manor.

    Bruce Wayne is almost forty. He's been an innovator, a philanthropist and GQ's Most Wanted twelve years counting. He doesn't remember being a dad. But now that he is, he's going to be the best dad one could possibly be.

    Or: Batman is a dick. AU-Bruce saves the day.

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    21 Mar 2026

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    What should be a wholesome family vacation turns into Tim’s personal hellscape when the Waynes decide to spend Thanksgiving at the Kent Farm.

    Featuring an impromptu road trip, a packed-out farmhouse, an overeager grade-schooler, and a festive sprinkling of unresolved trauma.

    (And pie, of course. There’s also pie.)

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    21 Feb 2026

  5. Rec 79

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    [I saw you die, he thinks, and doesn’t realize he’s started to cry until Mama reaches out frantically to smear the wetness away, so haphazardly that her bones catch his eyelashes. I saw you die. Right in front of me. I can never forget what that was like.]

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    A kind gesture takes a turn.

    (featuring art by ky!)

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    18 Feb 2026

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    “Was this a mistake?” Robin asks quietly, and Tim squeezes his hand and keeps pretending not to know his name.

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    18 Feb 2026

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    “I always figured a witch’s hut would look more…” Tim wiggles his fingers over the windowsill, adorned with various kitchen herbs and Rae Dunn pottery. “You know. Hovel-y.”

    “That’s because it’s an apartment,” Bruce responds. “Don’t touch that.”

    Tim doesn’t know how he knows, considering he’s still inspecting the bookshelves and facing the opposite direction. He makes a face, setting the purple mug that proudly proclaims sweater weather in spindly font back down where he found it.

     

    Whumptober: 2025
    Day 1: “Please don’t cry.”
    Lamb to the slaughter | Ceremony | Beg for forgiveness

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    18 Feb 2026

  8. Rec 48

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    The look on her face pings something ancient and instinctive in Bruce’s brain. It’s the same electric jolt of fear and protectiveness that his ancestors must have felt seeing a tiger’s eyes fixed on their child’s cradle. He steps in front of Dick.

    She lifts her gaze to fix on him instead, hateful.

    She raises one hand, fingers curled around the bloodied wounds the glass left in her palm, to point at him. “I see your fate too,” she spits, voice rising above the roar of water and wind and rain and the crashing sea outside. “I know that it will be you that kills him.”

    And her hand jerks to point at Dick where he peeks out from behind Bruce’s cape.

     

    Whumptober 2025
    Day 2: “You’ve got a lot of nerve to dredge up all my fears.”
    Prophecy | Sewer | Taking accountability

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    18 Feb 2026

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    "Hey," Jason says, poking his head in through the door, making sure his body is angled so that there's no way the boy inside will be able to see Bruce.

    That's as far as he gets before he falters.

    The boy inside the dim-lit cell is tucked as far back into the corner of the cot as he can get, scrawny limbs wrapped around himself like the curled husk of a spider. His teal eyes are locked on Jason, but he doesn't move — not even a flinch.

    He's as perfectly frozen as a bird in the brush as a hound sniffs closer.

    Jason swallows, his throat abruptly so tight it's hard to breath. He's not sure either of them are.

    The boy's eyes flick just a fraction past him, to the open cave beyond. One of them is surrounded by a dark bruise.

    Jason steps cautiously into the cell, closing the door behind him, and watches his own eyes dim as his escape route closes.

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    17 Feb 2026

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    ISO: Carer to look after my father for 8 weeks this summer.
    Dad is 71, early stage Parkinson’s disease, broke his hip 6 weeks ago. No signs of cognitive decline; mostly needs help with household tasks (cooking, light cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping), getting dressed, showering, changing cat litter/general cat care, getting to and from appointments.
    Please know what you are getting into; Dad is physically more or less in good health but awful at accepting his limitations, unnecessarily mean, generally uncooperative, and largely nocturnal. Imagine yourself caring for a feral raccoon that is convinced it’s going to write another book, then subtract everything that is cute about raccoons.
    $20/hour, roughly 4 hours a day. Must be able to pass a background check and lift 50 lbs. Patience of a saint not required but preferred.

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    11 Dec 2025

  11. Rec 23

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    God finds you on your knees in the shuttle, stroking the dead girl's hair. There's blood on the floor, spilling out from the chest of the cavalier, and it's staining the edge of her dress.

    "Shit," God says, after a beat.

    John intercepts Cytherea before she gets to Canaan House.

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    01 Dec 2025

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    Daniel asks Louis if he's sure when he first suggests it. He asks him again a few days later, to see if he's changed his mind. He makes a psychic collect call to Lestat, of all people, and asks if he's sure. Asks Armand if he's sure when he accepts the invitation, when they're packing, when they're on the way to the airport. When they're walking up to arrivals, Armand’s grip crushing Daniel's fingers, Louis smiling at the back of the crowd with his hands in his pockets, casual as anything, like they do this every day.

    They're all sure and sure and sure, so Daniel lets Louis pull him in with one arm, Armand with the other, and hug them both while a planeful of tired New Yorkers filters out around them into the muggy bayou dark.

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    26 Nov 2025

  13. Rec 91

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    “I'll get you something to eat,” Louis says. “The scent of the blood, you'll - it'll undo this progress, for a while, but starving you would make it worse. We need to keep you fed so you can heal.”

    “Every three to four hours,” Daniel says, “like an infant.”

    “That’s what you are. You're a fledgling.”

    “And you're my mama bird? Gonna chew up my worms for me?”

    “You're in my nest now, Daniel,” Louis says. “You'll get your flight feathers.”

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    26 Nov 2025

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    “You doing all right?” Daniel asks him.

    Armand blinks. “No,” he says.

    “Most honest you've been with me since I got here,” Daniel says. And then, because it seems like the thing to do, “I can clear out, if you need the place to yourself.”

    “Whatever you prefer.” Armand's lips look chapped. Dehydration? He ate the kid with the sunglasses, but the smear he left took a lot of bleach to scrub away. Maybe Daniel should - “You won't be harmed,” Armand says, “regardless of your decision.”

    “You got served divorce papers so hard it left a crater,” Daniel says, “and you're still poking around in people's heads.”

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    26 Nov 2025

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    “I thought you were just a reader!” Shen Qingqiu yells, gesturing with his teacup and spilling some drops on his sleeve. “You’re the hack author himself? Master of plotholes? King of red herrings? Is this a stallion novel or a cultivation novel? It’s impossible to say, either way you’ve taken a dump on every genre convention! And the ending, I didn’t even get a chance to comment on it—”

    Shang Qinghua pushes himself back from the table, eyes wide. “Shen Yuan?”

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    31 Oct 2025

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    Linguang-Jun ruins everything. He always does; it is his habit. When Mobei Li was eight he found some way, bribes, threats, or blackmail, to convince his tutor to attempt to put a knife through his back; he stopped attending lessons. When he was ten, he poisoned his favorite food, leading him to be terribly ill and nearly lose his life; he stopped eating it. When he was sixteen, he poisoned his horse in the presumed hope that it would buck him off and trample him during its death throes; he stopped riding horses.

    The need for caution and survival dictates that he must cover every weakpoint, close off any avenue for another underhanded attempt at his life. Shaving his life smaller and smaller, making himself silent and unreadable, never betraying a preference or inclination that might be noted and exploited. The only way to avoid having the things he likes most used against him and thus ruined is to avoid showing that he likes them at all. 

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    Mobei-Jun overhears a conversation between his uncle and his servant.

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    31 Oct 2025

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    Shen Qingqiu wakes up. His heart immediately tries to catapult itself out of his chest, because two inches in front of his face is the flawless face of the darkened protagonist, staring at him unblinkingly. Moving on autopilot, he tries to make a summoning sign for his sword, but instead his hand spasms uselessly - not painful, but odd, signals not going to the correct nerves.

    “Shizun,” Luo Binghe croons at him, with all the fondness of a sadistic serial killer to their favorite victim. “Shizun, don’t be scared. This one has made some changes.”

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    Luo Binghe fixes the problem.

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    31 Oct 2025

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    When he chose to become Death he wasn't sure exactly what it would mean. He didn't realise he'd end up leaving humanity behind completely, forgetting all the ways he used to be human.

    Forgetting, that was, until in the middle of a war, his power spreading itself like wings over the battlefields, he discovered one particular human it was impossible to stay away from. Brave, fascinating, irresistible: again and again, he kept coming back to Bucky. Bucky, who was never afraid of him, who seemed content to walk in Death's shadow.

    If he'd known where it would lead him, where it would lead both of them, he would have tried harder to resist.

    (A First Avenger/ Winter Soldier AU where Steve is Death.)

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    25 Oct 2025

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    Mobei-Jun does not speak human. He does not speak human even a little bit, as Shang Qinghua has tested by saying absolutely unholy filthy things to him that should have gotten him instantly murdered, but instead only earns him a blank, annoyed stare. 

    “My king, please, it’s only water. It’s unpoisoned, see? See, I’ll drink some. Ahh, tasty, safe water! Please, drink it? You’re sweating so much, you’re, like, melting.” He helps Mobei-Jun drink the water. “... God I really want to lick the sweat off your neck.” 

    Mobei-Jun does not react. Ahaha, this is kind of fun. Except for all the ways that it’s so fucking inconvenient. 

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    Shang Qinghua wrote PIDW to have many different languages; he does not remember this.

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    23 Aug 2025

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    An An Ding disciple gets abducted to the Demon Realm, and sold into slavery.

    A nameless prince from the Northern Desert finds him.

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    23 Aug 2025

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