recs and links

Dick gets turned into a cat, leaving Donna and Roy to deal with Damian for the weekend. Oh Damian.

citeIn which Prudence Wood's transition from League Assassin to vigilante-adjacent operative goes about as smoothly as anyone could expect and Tim displays a deep dedication to puns, pop culture references, and rampant paranoia. Granted, the paranoia turns out to be entirely justified. /cite This is a highly entertaining story about Pru's shift from assassin to anti-hero, with some help from Tim.

Inej unexpectedly gets pregnant. She and Kaz have a long road ahead. This is thoughtful and melancholy and lovely.

citeSteph was only trying to get her group project done. Not end up kicked out of a party, and accidentally kidnapped alongside one Damian Wayne when two bumbling partygoers decided to go for a joyride. But frankly, that was exactaly the kind of night she was having./cite This is a lot of fun.

citeTalia doesn't tell Damian his father's name before sending him off to Gotham. This sets off a series of events that no one could have predicted. On an unrelated note, Tim has always wanted to be a big brother./cite This is hilarious! 3

citeJason Thomas Wayne was stolen from his crib at two weeks old by a money hungry Willis Todd, who intended to keep the kid until he would "find him" and return him for a reward later. Although, things don't always go to plan.../cite Oh Jason... #i'm not crying you're crying

Damian doesn't love his useless brothers at all! No really! 333

cite"I didn't make you wrong, you're just…" he waved a hand, looking for the right term, "half-baked." Conner sat back in his seat, widening his eyes. "Oh, I'm Half-Baked Superman? Thank you . That's so much better than Defective Superman or Watered Down Superman, or my previous personal favorite, Diet Superman. Promise me you'll make sure they engrave that on my headstone."/cite Conner is dying. Lex is also dying. He offers to figure out if there's a way to fix Conner's issue. Some hilarious father-son bonding happens along the way. I enjoyed this a lot, as well as the sequel, Exobiological Toxicology, in which Conner and Clark get drunk for the first time on alien liquor.

Sequel to "Seasons of Darkness, Seasons of Light" (previously recced) - Bruce is back and now he has to fit back into the new shape of everyone's lives. Plus there's a weird missing persons case to be solved. This is a good read.

citeAs the Council sits down on Naboo to consider the newly-knighted Obi-Wan Kenobi's request to take young Anakin Skywalker as his padawan, they're informed of what transpired on Tatooine – and that Anakin used to be a slave. Mace Windu goes to interview the young child to confirm this, and gets rather more than he signed up for./cite Lovely AU where Mace and Anakin bond in the aftermath of the Battle of Naboo.

citeThere is something wrong with Stephanie Brown and that something has to do with Cassandra. Cassandra doesn't really understand what she did, but Stephanie's acting funny—nervous laughter, flushed cheeks, startling when Cassandra draws near—so clearly she must have done something. With the help of her family, Cassandra's going to get to the bottom of it./cite Oh heart.

emIt wasn’t his place -- far from it -- but Bruce had asked./em Oh my heart. ♥ALFRED♥

Tim hires Jason to be his fake uncle when his father dies. Hijinks ensue. This is great.

citeJason's new roommate bears a striking resemblance to the Joker. And the new Robin. And somewhere along the line, things have gone very, very wrong./cite Long, thoughtful AU about two tortured Robins coming out the other side.

Lovely bit of Cass and Jason interaction. 3

Steph goes to Jason with a problem. Oh heart. #even robins

Alfred is known to the GCPD. Oh gosh, this is great.

This is a really fun AU set in the 90s where Robin meets Superboy on a class trip to Metropolis and discovers he's working for Lex. 333

Steph and Jason team up and things go… about as well as these things usually do, honestly. This is adorable!

Really sharp look at Tim. (the sequel, about Jason, is also really good, but so far unfinished)

Tim revives whenever he's killed and it makes things more complicated than you'd expect. I enjoyed this.

This is a super fun Leverage/Old Guard crossover where the Leverage crew is in the process of taking down Merrick when Joe and Nicky are brought into the lab.

There is nothing more magical than a gooey-centered, crispy-edged chocolate chip cookie What makes this particular recipe especially enchanting is the inclusion of brown butter It mixes right into the dry ingredients, infusing the batter with its nutty flavor without the need for a mixer or any other special equipment

ABatkids being adorable and sibling-y! 3

citeDick Grayson, bestowed with the memories of an alternate life, decides that things are going to go better this time. Things take a few unintended turns, and the consequences of his actions ripple through his family./cite I enjoyed this series a lot.

Bruce rescues Tim from the League but it brings up some of his own issues and he's not sure how to deal with them. Oh Bruce.

citeJust because Tim became a bat, doesn’t mean he stopped taking photos of bats. Several times Tim took photos of the batfamily, and one time they took photos of him./cite Oh my heart.

emIt's a routine post-mission beer alone in a bar in Kamchatka, until it turns into a rescue mission./em Oh Jason. I enjoyed this.

Tim has a couple of hard conversations with Dick and Jason in the two stories in this series. Oh boys.

This is a really lovely coda to the Obi-Wan show, following Reva as she finds her way.