Here are the results for that poll i held a couple weeks ago! Sorry it took so long and thank you for the patience!!

Hey just got Kirby’s air riders after playing Kirby’s air ride out the womb. Couldn’t google this because there’s one million stars in the game and I had no clue what the actual name was. But I’m talking about the star that you can hit by flying off the top of the middle building that gives you points. I tried flying around in free play but didn’t see anything. Is there an equivalent in air riders?

Another week of comic-based fic recs. this accidentally developed a sort of "steph is dead" theme. except for the steph fic which is just steph and the trials and tribulations of the human body

Bruce Wayne:

Don't hold your breath, I don't think we've got much time left by Chemical_Processes

"On a quest to rid Harvey of Two-Face, Duke gets critically injured, forcing Bruce and Harvey to work together to keep him alive.

(Takes place during All-Star Batman #5)"

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 8k-9k

Relationship: Bruce & Duke, Bruce & Harvey Dent, Duke & Harvey Dent

Tags: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Attempted Murder, Blood and Injury, Medical Inaccuracies, Drowning, Concussions, Unhealthy Relationships, Hurt Duke Thomas, Hurt Bruce Wayne, Guilt, Harvey Dent & Bruce Wayne Friendship, 'Friendship', Alternate Universe-Canon Divergence, Fix-It of Sorts, Whump, Dissociation

Dick Grayson:

persephone's in hell by Whiskey

"He’d been mistaken – never in his life has he experienced pain like this.

It’s like staring in a funhouse mirror at the carnival, Dick’s reflection coming back distorted and horrifying and otherworldly as he watches everything he’d worked for be taken from him, again, for the second time. Tony Zucco snapped that first line and then Bruce Wayne kicked off him right off the edge into the abyss.

Dick Grayson has just been fired. Dick Grayson wakes up in a world with five Robins."

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Chapters: 3/3

Words: 80k-90k

Relationships: Dick & Jason, Dick/Roy Harper, Dick & Cass, Dick & Teen Titans, Dick & Batfamily Members & Dick & Bruce

Tags: Age Regression/De-Aging, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Teen Titans as Family, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Angst & Hurt/Comfort, Trauma Recovery, Unreliable Narrator, the mortifying ordeal of being seventeen

Barbara Gordon:

im in the business of losing your interest by mintchocochips

"Barbara Gordon might be the best connected woman in the world. No Man's Land is very, very lonely."

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 11k-12k

Relationships: Barbara & Dinah Lance, Barbara & Dick, Barbara & Bruce

Tags: Barbara Gordon is Oracle, Barbara Gordon-centric, Angst, No Man's Land (DCU), Character Study, Introspection, Canon Relationships

Jason Todd

Ophelia in Retrograde by Thingsareswinging

"On the television, the camera pans across Gotham’s skyline, and Jason’s mind goes blank.

The clocktower, Babs’ new base of operations, is a smoking ruin.

Scrambling up, mashing the mute button on the remote, he rushes to the desk in the corner, wrenching open his laptop, fingers shaking as he activates the nuclear option.

Putting the headphone to his ear, relief floods his chest when he hears Barbara’s voice for the first time in three years, then sours when he can process well enough to hear what she’s actually saying.

It’s not Barbara that’s dead.

It’s Robin."

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Chapters: 5/5

Word Count: 17k-18k

Relationships: Jason & Cass, Cass & Tim, Jason & Tim, Steph & Cass, Tim & Steph

Tags: Cassandra and Jason's Absolute Lack of Chemistry, UTH Starts Early, Jason is Not Impressed With Grimdark Batman, Post-Batman Comics Story Arc: War Games (2004), stephanie brown was Robin, Cassandra Cain-centric

(i know it says cass centric its more of an ensemble thing and jason has a lot of focus)

Tim Drake:

How Do You Breathe Now? by waterunderbridge12

"Tim remembered how they'd swung together that night, in the park. How his love for Stephanie had sat fluttering in his chest, lifting into flight every time she snorted at one of his lame jokes. How she'd wished the night would never end. How he'd wished the same.

But that was another life. Tim reached over, taking Cass' hand.

"I'll help you, though. Get with her. If you want."

 

Tim's life is going great. He has a wonderful boyfriend, his step-mom is back in his life, and he and Stephanie are on friendly terms again. But after a revelation about Stephanie and Cass' feelings, things start to unravel—and maybe his own feelings aren't as settled as they seem..."

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 28k-29k

Relationships: Tim/Steph, Tim/Bernard, Steph/Cass, Tim & Steph, Tim & Cass, Tim & Dana Winters, Tim & Damian, Tim & Duke, Tim & Bruce, Tim & Everyone

Tags: Tim Drake Loves Bernard Dowd, Tim Drake Loves Stephanie Brown, He's Having a Crisis About It, Tim Drake-centric, Love Quadrangle(ish), Endgame Timbern and Stephcass, Fluff and Angst, Tim Drake Has Issues, Emotional Hurt/Comfort

Stephanie Brown:

The shark was calling to express his feelings on his ugliness and his mortality by Luvo

or: Stephanie does not ask Bruce to buy her pads, which causes some problems, solves another, and ends with Bruce buying her some anyways."

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 7k-8k

Relationships: Steph & Bruce

Tags: Stephanie Brown-Centric, Stephanie Brown is Robin, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Menstruation, post c-section complications, Medical Procedures, Bruce Wayne Tries, he kind of succeeds, enough real medicine that inaccuracies will stand out badly, Teen Pregnancy (past), Stephanie Brown has Issues, no beta we die!, Hospitals

Cassandra Cain:

Catch You On the Flip Side by waterunderthebridge12

"“I had a… friend.”

Brenda looked at her for a long time. “A friend? Like a normal friend, or...?”

"I don’t know. We never… I never told her…”

“Oh,” she said. “Why not?”

Cass closed her eyes, letting the words tumble out of her mouth. “She’s dead.”

 

Stephanie Brown is gone. Cass moves to a new city, meets a new girl, and tries to survive a world that doesn’t make sense anymore."

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 21k-22k

Relationships: Cass/Brenda Miller, Cass/Steph, Cass & Everyone, Cass & Tim, Cass & Bruce, Cass & Dick, Cass & Barbara, Tim/Steph

Tags: Grief/Mourning, Dead Stephanie Brown, One-Sided Attraction, only because Stephanie isn't alive to reciprocate, Cassandra Cain needs a Hug, Post-Batman Comics Story Arc: War Games (2004), Cassandra Cain-centric, Tim Drake loves Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain loves Stephanie Brown, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Cass and Tim and Dick have the worst time of their lives, but it gets better, Cassandra Cain loves to Eat, i need that to become a tag.

Damian Wayne:

bouncy castle in the sky by drakefeathers

"When Damian dies, he finds himself in some kind of limbo with a girl who no longer exists."

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 1k-2k

Relationships: Damian & Stephanie

Tags: Afterlife, Implied/Referenced Character Death, but really more like comic book limbo

Duke Thomas:

signal, n. a divine act by britishparty

"The halo gets brighter the more people that Duke saves.

He’s pretty sure that’s how it works, at least. He inherited it from his mother the day the doctors suggested it as a possibility: we may not be able to help them, Mr. Thomas.

Duke doesn’t know what he is. He doesn’t feel like an angel; he has no divine purpose, no holy weapons, nothing but this stubborn light. But he looks at Robin and some part of him thinks I could do that, too and the halo, deep in his blood, sings.

or: an AU concept in which Duke's powers stem from the 10th metal: pure celestial possibility. he inherits a halo that has its own idea of Good and Evil."

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 3k-4k

Relationships: Duke & Bruce

Tags: Dark Nights: Metal Arc, looks at duke: hey what if we made his powers even more complicated, Alternate Universe, Duke Thomas-centric, thinking about about the fact that in all of duke's training he doubts himself, and im making up extra fun reasons why

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See you next week!

Hi all I want to try to do weekly fanfic recs, including 1 fic rec per “main” batfam character (Bruce/dick/babs/jason/tim/steph/cass/damian/duke) per week, based in comic canon (as in either grounded in an actual comic or grounded in canon characterization— as opposed to fanon portrayals.) let’s see how long I can keep this up lol. (Feel free to drop your own recs and i might include them in the next batch, just please only rec if you’re a comic reader and you know the work is based on the comics!!)

Bruce Wayne:

EBB AND FLOW. by orpheusaki

““I'm not suicidal,” Bruce says with a roll of his eyes, reaching out to take a biscuit from the plate in front of him. Alfred had specifically sent them with him to give to Clark, but what he doesn't know can't hurt him.

Besides, Clark doesn't even seem to mind, given he's more focused on glaring at Bruce from across the table, “I didn’t say you were. I simply made some observations.”

(The recurrent pattern of coming and going, decline and regrowth, of Bruce Wayne.)”

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 8k-9k

Relationships: Bruce & Alfred, Bruce & Dick, Bruce & Jason, Bruce & Tim, Bruce & Cass, Bruce & Damian, Bruce & Duke, Bruce & Clark Kent

Tags: Implied/referenced Suicide, Suicide Attempt, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, Hurt/Comfort, Canon Compliant, Canonical Character Death, Unconventional Families, Recovery, Bruce Wayne-centric, Time Skips, Angst With a Happy Ending

Dick Grayson:

im only honest when it rains by FromStarstuff

“It had been somewhere close to a year now, since Bruce had come back, and anyone could clock that Dick had been relatively touch and go. Or perhaps, rather, one could say that he appeared sparsely and sporadically, never for very long, and was always on his way before you could really ask him anything. He was around, sure, he had been to Gotham, sure, and most importantly of all: no feuds or underlying bitter tensions were crackling in their little web. Everything was fine, seemingly, except for the fact that if Dick spent more than twenty consecutive minutes in Gotham he felt himself start breaking out in hives.”

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 5k-6k

Relationships: Dick & Bruce, Dick & Damian, Dick & Cass

Tags: post-reborn era, dick grayson versus communication

Barbara Gordon:

Oracle, Re: Birth by KamalasFanfiction

“This isn’t something Bruce would approve of. This isn’t something her dad would approve of. But neither of them are stuck in a tower with poor ventilation and heating, sweating next to a generator running their only means of communication, while someone runs around wearing their face. Sending two characters that had disturbed her as a child was showboat-y, and a little crass, but it confirmed one terrifying fact:
The imposter was using her brain scan.

The Batgirl of Burnside isn't really Barbara Gordon- she remains Oracle, and is trapped while watching someone else run around and pose as her.

She's willing to do whatever it takes to get her life back.”

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 8k-9k

Relationship: Barbara Gordon/Dinah Lance (implied)

Tags: New-52, Pre-New 52, DC Rebirth, Isolation, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Barbara Gordon is Oracle, Barbara Gordon is Not Batgirl, Past Sexual Assault, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Dubious Morality, Canon Disabled Character, Fake Hostage Situation, Mild Language, Ableist Language, Blood

Jason Todd:

> VISCERA by vfx_batman

““Don’t run.”

Jason reels back. That guttural voice could only belong to one person.

A fraying gauntlet clamps down on his shoulder. “Did you have a justifiable cause when you murdered that man?”

Of course it’s an accusation. He wants to join the worms in their chorus of laughter.

As it is, he swallows his elation and grinds the morsel to dust. “Your city is falling apart and you want to waste your time worrying about whether or not I had a legitimate reason for slicing up that rabies-infested piece of meat? What kind of a protector are you?”

The Batman grunts in lieu of a response.

Earth-51 Bruce + New Earth Jason reunite at the end of the world.

Day 4: "No one's coming." | The Batarang Incident | Loss”

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 8k-9k

Relationships: Jason & Bruce, Jason & Earth 51 Bruce

Tags: Jason Todd Summer Week 2025, Comic Countdown to Final Crisis Vol. 1 (2007), Jason Todd has BPD, Jason Todd has PTSD, Survivor Guilt, Hallucinations, Jason Todd has Daddy Issues, Jason Todd-Centric, POV Jason Todd, Angst, Why are there so many different tags, Canon Compliant, you have no proof this didn’t happen off page, Jason Todd is Red Robin, happy early birthday jason!, Canon says Jay’s physically 18-19 during countdown. Donna + Kyle were in their mid 20s beefing with a teenager lmfao., u ever think about how JT’s post countdown growth was ruptured by an author who literally said growing up poor, + getting raped made jt an evil child? 😕 dc fans don’t read interviews or care about poor people so nobody cares, anyway enjoy ur e-51 bw & jt angst. Don’t we all wish things could be different?

Tim Drake:

fatherhood by starlingsinwinter

“Jack feels like he’s somehow ended up coparenting his own child with a stranger, and Wayne has become the “fun parent.” As though Jack is the strict, boring one for not approving of Tim swinging through downtown Gotham with a grappling hook, getting beaten up at all hours of the night.

“I’m your father,” he says.

Tim huffs, his breath fogging up the car window. “Whatever.””

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 9k-10k

Relationships: Tim & Jack Drake, Tim & Bruce, Jack & Bruce, Dick & Bruce, Cass & Bruce

Tags: Batman Comics Story Arc: War Games (2004), The art of coparenting when you’re not coparents, and also you kind of hate the other guys’ guts, compounded by your son/not son’s teenaged-ness, Daddy Issues, Jack Drakes Canon Parenting, Bruce Wayne’s Canon Parenting, Canon Compliant, author actually reads comics, Canon-typical violence.

Stephanie Brown:

yeah, dad, maybe no one is perfect by Luvo

“There’s the sound of a grappling hook hissing and light feet landing on the platform. “Hey, Batman,” Robin says. “What’s—uh. What’s happening?”

Stephanie laughs louder. Above her, Batman looks over her head, face grim. “We’re not taking in the Cluemaster,” he says.

“Yeah, I figured. He’s, um. Dead, and all. What—oh. Did she…”

Stephanie swallows her laughter, taking a breath to steady herself. “Yeah,” she says through a smile, “I pushed him. I killed him.”

“Right,” Robin says. “Okay. So, do we…” He looks helplessly at Batman and asks, “What do we do now?”

It's a story about murder, it's a story about motive, it's a story about mommy issues. Or: Stephanie Brown kills her dad!”

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 11k-12k

Relationships: Steph & Crystal Brown, Steph & Tim, Steph & Bruce

Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Character Death, It’s Arthur, Past Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Bad Parent Arthur Brown, Complicated Relationships, Stephanie Brown kills her dad, Stephanie Brown-centric, Drug Addiction, Suicidal Thoughts, Angst with a Happy Ending, Stephanie Brown has daddy issues, she also has mommy issues!

Cassandra Cain:

to be buried alive by FromStarStuff

“Bruce died and Cass couldn’t breathe for a week. She didn’t want to believe it at first, didn’t want to even think of it. She knew Bruce and she knew death and they didn’t fit together, not at all.

He was gone, gone like Brenda and Bludhaven, gone like Steph had been. Like Faizul. She felt it inside of her, so keenly it was as if she had killed him by her own hand. She could search the whole earth and not find a trace of him. It was too much. The pressure was squeezing her insides, left her constantly choking for air. She couldn’t stop dry heaving.

Or: Bruce is dead. Instead of leaving, Cass stays in Gotham. She learns a thing or two about being Batman.”

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Chapters: 1/1

Word count: 43k-44k

Relationships: Cass & Bruce, Cass & Dick, Cass & Damian, Cass & Steph, Cass & Barbara, Dick & Bruce

Tags: Cassandra Cain-Centric, grief and loss and healing, the trials of burgeoning sibling hood, cassie cain versus her EPIC titanic self loathing, basically ‘dick and cass tag team Batman: the life the movie the blog’, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

Damian Wayne:

How Long Can a Good Thing Last? by aSintobeRin

“Damian has been Robin for one year. Grayson has been Batman for one year. It hasn’t been that long, really, but the prospect of Father returning to take Batman over again…

Damian feels horrible for how much he doesn’t want that to happen.

Damian’s perspective from Batman & Robin (2009) #15-16”

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 4k-5k

Relationships: Damian & Dick, Damian & Bruce

Tags: Whumptober 2025, Day 5 alt; deal with the devil, Gun Violence, Gunshot Wounds, Blood and Injury, Mild Language, Hurt Dick Grayson, Protective Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson is Batman, Damian Wayne is Robin, Comic: Batman and Robin vol 1 (2009), Comic: Batman and Robin (2009) #15, Comic: Batman and Robin (2009) #16, I’ll give you context (or at least as much as I can for a Morrison comic), Hospitals, implied/referenced surgery, Dick & Dami are very special to me, sorry to jason todd fans everywhere, I won’t bash him but this run desecrates his name, spoilers for grant morrisons Batman run, cross-posted on tumblr

Duke Thomas:

and there was absolutely no other way this could have gone by sydandgotham5

“You can figure out how it goes. He makes the two-foot climb to the top of the diving board. He looks down into the water below, and though the red letters along the edge of the pool all declare obnoxiously “12 FEET!”, he thinks to himself that it didn’t really look that deep. He thinks that, clearly, everyone was just trying to hold him down. Stop him from flying. Stop him from breaking free. And so Duke does it—he dives. For about two seconds, it feels good because it’s just him, the water, and the glowing warmth of his own triumph.

Then he sinks.

Of course, he sinks. He couldn’t swim.”

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Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 12k-13k

Relationships: Duke & Bruce, Duke & Dick, Duke & Original Male Character(s), Duke & Tim

Tags: Religious Imagery & Symbolism, Religious Guilt, Minor Character Death, Bruce Wayne is Bad at Communicating, Bruce Wayne is Bad at Relationships, Duke Thomas is a Batfamily Member, Duke Thomas-centric, Character Study, Social Commentary, We are Robin

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Ok see u next week. Hopefully.

Hi I’m trying to make lists of shorter comic recs to try and ease people who may know batfam from fanon/fanfiction but haven’t read comics yet into comics without overwhelming them with 100+ issue solos with multiple event crossovers. Basically a “here are some quick reads to get you started” sort of thing, but I need some for Tim. So far I have:

A lonely place of dying
Robin 1/2/3

Hi I’m trying to make lists of shorter comic recs to try and ease people who may know batfam from fanon/fanfiction but haven’t read comics yet into comics without overwhelming them with 100+ issue solos with multiple event crossovers. Basically a “here are some quick reads to get you started” sort of thing, but I need some for Tim and Damian. So far I have:

Tim:

A lonely place of dying
Robin 1/2/3

Damian:
The boy wonder
Detective comics 1080

I’m actively doing my Tim resd rn and haven’t read for Damian yet (outside of stumbling upon tec 1080 on accident looking for a cass issue and going wait this eats lmao) anything helps just try and keep it 6 issues or less!! I make occasional exception if they’re not hugely over the limit and are vital stand alones

I use CSP Paint Pro, version 2.0.3 on Mac

Ive been using clip studio for years now and recently have been unable to open some of my files on the CSP app itself as they say "file not found." ive tried to look up what this means but everything as been saying it's because files were renamed/moved/deleted--maybe I'm tech illiterate and this means something else but I have not moved or changed these files in any way. Everything is kept in a "drawing" file, I also cannot open or even view these from the files on my computer itself (it only shows the CSP logo and upon double clicking/trying to open nothing happens). I use a mac if that's helpful. Anyway to fix this?