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Gotham wasn't kind to its girls. Jason would brutalize it until it agreed to be. He only hoped it would spare him long enough to make it so. this is a great look at Jason.

Really good look at how Clark and Lois fall in love and how Clark reveals his secret to her.

Max and El write to each other. Oh my heart. This is exactly what I wanted after season 3.

The one where Ra's tries to assassinate Tim and Damian takes a bullet for him. This is so full of Batfamily feels!

DCEU Batman wakes up in the comicsverse and learns a lot about how much better his life could be. I enjoyed this.

The New York Times ✓ @nytimes · 4h “A Shot in the Dark” remains on our bestseller list for the fourth week in a row! Read our review of @brucewayne’s tell-all memoir here: nyti.ms/3Fs9k2E After his brush with amnesia, Bruce decides to write a memoir in order to get his story straight. His kids decide to help. SO MANY BATFAMILY FEELS.

What Peter was up to during the end of the world. I enjoyed this (though having him call Nightingale "Thomas" throughout seemed off to me).

Aziraphale rejects all of Crowley's nicknames over the years. YES GOOD.

Damian assembles a crack team. With Maps's help. BEST TEAM. This is tiny and adorable, like both Maps and Damian.

Two stories about Selina and her relationship with Bruce and his kids. This is really great - touching and warm and occasionally hilarious, especially in the second story, in which Bruce attends a series of terrible bachelor parties before the wedding.

When Sirius falls through the Veil, he gets offered the chance to do things differently. He just has to figure out which way would work best. I enjoyed this.

"Proofing, also sometimes called final fermentation, is the specific term for allowing dough to rise after it has been shaped and before it is baked." Less than a year has passed since the final battle, and the Ministry is already up to its old tricks. Harry would very much like them to stop ignoring due process, tossing people in Azkaban, controlling the press, and menacing the populace with dementors. He would also like, if at all possible, to bake a passable loaf of bread. A few months after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry decides to take on another difficult foe - the political establishment. And also yeast bread. I enjoyed this a lot. (There are recipes!)

Anakin Skywalker, back on Tatooine for the first time in a decade and so relieved to see his mother that he is almost shattered. You realize what he must be thinking right now: his dreams always come true but somehow this dream did not come true. You wonder what the repercussions of this will be: perhaps in three years, when Anakin has his first dream about his wife dying in childbirth, he might decide to put his energy into researching better prenatal care instead of trying to unlock the secrets of life and death. Vader follows Ahsoka into the World Between Worlds and decides to make some changes for the better.

lovely dick/jason fanart

And in this story, Bruce knows Tim so well that he can anticipate his every move.

This is super-id-tastic Tim fic where he thinks no one else in the family notices or needs him so he decides to cut all ties cleanly, but he's not really right about any of it (I mean, I feel like this could have more clearly shown that he was wrong, that he was depressed and blinkered by it, but that probably lets some air out of how id-tastic it is).

This time, Bruce swears it will be different. (this time, the kid he adopts is an infant.) Oh heart

AU where Jason's return to Gotham goes slightly differently. Oh heart. #hugs make better heroes

AU where Jason doesn't die so Tim never becomes Robin, but he ends up joining the family in his own way. Oh Tim.

Missing scene showing what happened after they went to Petronius's restaurant to have oysters. Oh heart.

1. SET CONFLICT RESOLUTION GROUND RULES: Recognize whose lands these are on which we stand. Ask the deer, turtle, and the crane. Make sure the spirits of these lands are respected and treated with goodwill. The land is a being who remembers everything. You will have to answer to your children, and their children, and theirs— The red shimmer of remembering will compel you up the night to walk the perimeter of truth for understanding.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Five conversations with a dead man. Han visits his son after he dies. And some other people too.

A lovely look at Irene and also her wedding night(s).

*sob* #oh no clone feels With a bell to tell us when we're hungry There's a bell to tell us when we're tired A bell that tells us to rise and fight A bell to rise and die It's just all bells Sometimes I ring myself To see if I might chime

This is a great look at Pree and what Old Town means to him.

Tim is kidnapped and he hopes this time his family will rescue him. This hits a very specific id-tastic place and does it very well. Poor Tim.

Jason's life after death can be told through his tattoos. Oh Jay.

Jason has a habit of stealing the Batmobile's tires. It's tradition. This is a lovely look at Jason stealing the Batmobile's tires and what that means to Bruce. Oh heart.

Warlock Dowling is over-dramatic, insecure and inclined towards running away, which makes sense since he was primarily raised by a certain over-dramatic demon. After the apocalypse Warlock heads home to England to find his nanny. Oh heart.