recs and links

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.

when I recommended the first story in this series, there was no series! but now there are seven more stories and they do a great job of dealing with Jason's relationships within the family and made me all achy in the chestal area.

Crowley is in a spot of trouble with the law, and asks Aziraphale for some advice. This is so much fun!

citeShe was where she needed to be. She was going to pull her necro out of this godforsaken tomb, end the game of musical bodies they were playing, and then everything would be all right. Harrow would be alive. And Gideon was going to give her shit for approximately the next myriad for not just taking what she’d offered and saving them a whole lot of trouble./cite 333

citeBruce convinces Thomas to come with him during the Button storyline. Jason meets his grandfather./cite Oh Jason.

Gideon doesn't die at the end of GtN. This changes things. This is a good read. (I'd like to know what happens next!)

citeNames are important. The Bats tend to bypass their real names, however, in favour of increasingly dumb nicknames. The older sibling trio of Dick, Jason, and Cass are the primary instigators of this. After all, it is their duty./cite #siblings! oh heart

Jason gets hit with fear toxin and comes home to the manor for the first time since his revival. Oh my heart.

After the defeat of Sauron in the War of the Ring, and before leaving Middle-earth for the final time, Galadriel remembers a long-ago day on Númenor. Lovely!

citeDick is thrilled that Jason has been spending more time at the manor lately. Things with the family seem to have reached a steady equilibrium. But then he notices a pattern that sets his big brother senses tingling. Jason is spending plenty of time at the manor, but he never spends the night. And Dick has no idea why. The only solution is to go straight to the source./cite Oh heart.

Damian and Tim swap bodies and learn how the other half lives. Oh boys.