recs and links

On the anniversary of his death, Jason gets de-aged to 15. Bruce handles it much better than expected. Oh my heart.

On his way back to his own dimension, Peter B Parker gets pulled into the MCU. Hijinks ensue.

One Widow got away. Other Widows are still trapped. This requires... Leverage. I enjoyed this a lot.

Well-behaved boy (10) is looking for big brother (11-15). Must meet up with me three times a week, for at least two hours each. Overall duties include helping me with homework, playing videogames with me, and showing me how to play catch. 10$ per hour. Tim, lonely and in desperate need of company, decides that if his parents are not going to give him a sibling, he's going to hire one instead. Luckily, Jason Todd-Wayne shows up in the nick of time. This is adorable and also hilarious. Oh Tim.

Instead of threatening her infant son with the boogeyman, Janet Drake tells Tim that Batman is going to come for him if he doesn't behave. Years later, Tim realises that if he wants a fast way to get adopted, all he has to do is commit a crime so that Batman will take him away. Years later still, Tim knows that no one is coming for him, but that doesn't make him any less scared. It also doesn't make him any less interested in Batman and his Robins. Oh Tim.

Officer Grayson gets cursed to kill Nightwing. This is a rough read, even if Dick isn't actually suicidal (he's cursed), but a good one.

Jason picks up a little bit more from Bruce than he means to as Robin. It doesn’t go away, not even when he’s Hood. Jason and Bruce and identity.

Parker, Hardison and Eliot steal the Winter Soldier. Oh heart.

The Bats find out that Jason Todd is alive and apparently has questionable taste in friends, if the Red Hood is any indication. Instead of leaving clues as to his identity when he comes back, Jason just pretends he's someone else to troll the Bats. hilarious.

“I remember a great many things. But I have forgotten things too, and I expect as time goes on, more of them will slip away from me, and it’s entirely possible that I won’t even notice they’re gone. My memories of them will simply be… less.” Dick looks at him, studying the lines of his weathered face. “Does that ever make you feel like... like if you loved them more, you’d remember them?” *gross sobbing*

Whatever this is, real, unreal … Jason doesn’t know how much longer he can last before he breaks. Jason runs way from the teacher Talia sent him to in order to figure out what is really going on. Oh Jason.

Even from this distance, Jason can see the tears in Dick’s eyes. Dick stares at the back of Bruce’s head with such raw, aching betrayal that Jason’s chest burns. “You can’t give away someone’s name!” Jason yells. Jason's tenure as Robin begins on a fraught yet better note. Oh heart.

Yelena's bored and she's got three options: (1) Start a fire. (2) Start a brawl. (3) Talk to Peter Parker. This is ADORABLE.

Months after Dick's return from Spyral, Tim has revelations that were a long time coming. Tim gets second chances with Dick and Damian and finally realizes he doesn't want to waste them. Oh Tim.

Obi-Wan spent ten years in lonely contemplation of the unresolved past. Now he is in exile once again - but this time Qui-Gon is there to help him see the past, and himself, more clearly. Coda to the series. Lovely and melancholy.

AU where in a world where he was never sent to live with his father, Damian al Ghul is contracted to assassinate one Dick Grayson. It does not go anything like he expected. Oh my heart.

Some Bats go back in time. It's mostly a good thing. Interesting look at how Bruce tries to fix things and messes some other things up when he and Dick are inadvertently sent back in time.

Billy gets adopted by the Batfamily while trying to deal with a strong magical enemy. I enjoyed this a lot, though there are a lot of punctuation and tense issues.

Jason Todd was loved best dead. Dead he was a saint. A martyr. Nothing was more sacred in the Church of Batman than martyrdom. interesting, lyrical look at Jason through the lens of religion.

Tim fucked up. Now Tam is alone in a League of Assassin base that’s under siege by Spider Assassins, with her only hope of rescue being a single ex-Robin of questionable capacity. Sure Jason had punched Tim in the face, but Tim got punched in the face a lot; it couldn’t be that hard. Highly enjoyable AU where Tim finds catatonic Jason at the Cradle during his time with the league and figures out how to bring him home.

Running way to join the circus was never Stephanie's plan. Of course, a case involving LexCorp, a casino and the mob alters all of her midterm plans (binging on coffee, stressing out, the usual). Now she's teaming up with Nightwing to infiltrate the award-winning Cirque du Lune's nearby casino show in hopes of finding a paper trail for Proxy connecting it all and saving the day (again). Really fun Steph casefile!

5 meetings between Obi-Wan and Ventress.

Dick finds the Batcave. By this point, everyone from Gotham has heard of the Batman. Dick, however, is not from Gotham. This is adorable!

There is no backup for the Signal. Duke reminds himself of this regularly, like a prayer through gritted teeth: there's no one to catch him if he slips, to replace him if he stops. So the Signal can't give up. Just can't, like an immutable law, an undeniable truth. He has to win every fight. There isn't any other option. Duke Thomas makes himself invincible. Untouchable. Then he loses. This is a really great look at Duke, at what it means to be the day shift in a city where everyone else on the team works at night, to be a meta when no one else is, and how he deals with all of it.

The first time Cassandra speaks to Batman, it's in the language David Cain taught her. The way bodies speak is simple. Cassandra watches Bruce Wayne go, and thinks that people are not. She goes back to Barbara. "I want," she says, and stops. She doesn't know the words for what she wants. There's a story Cassandra heard once, about a boy made out of wood. He wanted something like this, too. Oh Cass... ♥♥♥

Compelling AU where Bucky comes to in a bunker in Siberia after the end of the world, and survives.

5 stupid ways Duke's siblings discovered how his powers worked, and 1 time he figured it out for himself. ♥DUKE♥ I enjoyed this a lot.

Steve Rogers goes into a bar and meets...Norm Scully! This is incredibly fun. I made the :D:D:D face the whole time I was reading it.

Clark and Bruce are stuck on a planet with a red sun and Clark is injured. Bruce handles it as well as he's able. This is full of grief but also a lovely look at their friendship.

Maps manages to get a hold of Damian's cell phone number and sort of maybe kind of starts using it as her own personal 911 Emergency call line. THIS IS ADORABLE. BEST TEAM.