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I NEED HELP FINDING A FIC PLS

EDIT: FOUND!! thanks for the help!!

It's either TimBer or TimBerKon, I can't remember rn. It's primarily Bernard's POV, but there are several scenes Kon's POV, and maybe one or two from Tim's?

The plot is that Bernard and Kon are internet friends, and Kon likes to mess with people on online superhero-related forums because nobody ever really believes him. At some point, Bernard finds out (or maybe Kon reveals it to him) that his internet buddy is Superboy

Early on there's a scene where Kon is texting Bernard while at the tower hanging with YJ and sends Bernard a strategically taken selfie so that he doesn't accidentally reveal any identities.

At some point, there's a scene where Kon accidentally calls Bernard late at night to rant about something while he's working on the farm. It's at this point that Kon realizes his online friend is not a girl, which he had assumed based on the nickname he'd given Bernard (blondie? or something like that?). The conversation makes Bernard start to wonder about what life is like for superheroes outside of heroing.

Eventually, Kon lets a detail slip that Bernard uses to make a conspiracy video on his YouTube channel, and the video blows up big time. Kon finds out and puts two and two together and gets upset because he felt like Bernard was using him.

There's like apologies and things get resolved, and I can't remember how it ends (hence not remembering if Bernard and Kon's relationship ends platonically or romantically).

But yeah, if anyone knows this fic, pls let me know because I would very much like to read it again and I forgot to bookmark it, ig.

#spec-text-ular #dc #tim drake #kon-el #bernard dowd #adding tags for reach #young justice #young just us #timber #timberkon #robin #conner kent #superboy #robin iii

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new hc unlocked: multigender Cass. bigender? genderfluid? pangender? i'm not picky about the particulars

but there is something about Cass being raised as a weapon, being denied her humanity for much of her childhood, being introduced to the concept of gender and choosing yes. She's feminine, she's masculine, she's none of the above and everything in between. I want Cass to get to be greedy with gender, want her to hoard it. I want her to explore every aspect of it with wonder and get to try everything she has been denied without regard for gender expectations. Cass trying on pronouns like clothes! Cass experimenting with wildly different gender presentations! Gender is a performance and she is going to bring down the house!! idk idk I am having thoughts. you get it?

#dc #cassandra cain #batfam #batgirl #black bat #cassandra wayne #orphan #spec-text-ular

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Cass: *standing in the kitchen staring at an egg in her hand*

Jason: *walking in* ......what are you doing?

Cass: *throws the egg into a cabinet*

Jason: why?!?

Cass: why not?

#based on that one tiktok and also the little gremlin living in my brain #i think cass should get to be incredibly weirdgirl-core #dc #batfam #jason todd #cassandra cain #cassandra wayne #red hood #black bat #spec-text-ular #batfam incorrect quotes

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The thing about media is you can give me a funky little guy who is CLEARLY queer-coded and solves little mysteries and most importantly also clearly cares helping people and the victims and making the world better with every mystery he solves

And I will eat that shit up every time

#this post is about: #phoenix wright #bruce wayne #hercule poirot #beniot blanc #thank you for your time #ace attorney #dc #dc comics #batman #agatha christie #glass onion #knives out #spec-text-ular

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If you, like me, believe the OG version of Slade losing his eye is the superior version, then boy do I have the fic for you. Idk why I wrote this, but it's here, so please enjoy.

(Spoilers for the penultimate episode of season 1 of My Adventures with Superman, btw)

Summary:

Slade hardly ever loses a fight, and certainly never as bad as he lost one today, but at least he gets to go home to his wife and kids at the end of it, right? Or, Slade has a bad day at work. It does not get better for him when he gets home. Alternate/Missing Scene for s1:ep 9 of My Adventures With Superman

#spec-text-ular #specs writes #my adventures with superman #my adventures with superman spoilers #maws spoilers #slade wilson #deathstroke #maws slade wilson #adeline kane #i've never written any of these character before so i'm lowkey terrified i'm gonna get skinned alive for this fic but....oh well

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media where the characters are like:

You do a fucked up thing and you call it survival. You call it necessary. And then you look at the carnage, and you wonder if all you were really ever after was revenge.

#surprisingly for once this is not about #jason todd #tho it very easily could be about utrh #no i'm working my way through #a crown of candy #and uhhhhhh yeah i'm having feelings about parts of the penultimate episode #this is also a little bit about #little nightmares #especially how ambiguous the ending of six's story is so far #i'm soooo normal about this (lying) #dimension 20 #d&d #spec-text-ular #this is so vague i should maybe delete the fandom tags but it's not like more than 12 people ever see my posts anyway

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Dick Grayson 🤝 Roy Harper

Sidekicks successfully able to move beyond their mentor and more well-known for their own individual vigilante identity now.

Stephanie Brown 🤝 Bart Allen

Original heroes that carried a couple legacy names before going back to their own unique hero names.

Tim Drake 🤝 Conner Kent

Stuck in the same name retelling the same stories and unable to fully grow as a character because DC can't seem to give them their own unique identities that would allow them to move on past this narrow idea of their characters.

#anyway yeah....just having some musings....they don't make 'em like they used to /hj #if they would stop roping Tim back into Robin that would be great actually #similarly i think Kon is being held back by still being Superboy #not to the same extent that Tim is but definitely keeps looping the 'i'm not like other Supers :(' narrative #(looking at you Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow preview) #i am holding out hope for the new SB series but also i am so fucking nervous. don't fuck this up for us dc #and i think he should get to be like 'i'm not like other Supers :D' and then build a new identity in the reconciliation of self #does that make sense? #like....i don't mind him staying SB except that it does grate on me a little that jon is allowed to grow up and become Superman #while kon is left behind and kinda neglected in superfam content and not allowed to Grow™ #and growth doesn't have to involve a change in hero name but i feel like tim and kon's names are so tied to their teen years #and them still having the same names is also seems to be why they aren't allowed to literally grow and be aged up at all #which limits the kinds of stories they get to have and can be used to tell #the immortal comic medium vs. the realism of believably semi-mortal characters ig #rambling in tags #spec-text-ular #dc #dick grayson #roy harper #stephanie brown #bart allen #tim drake #kon-el #conner kent #nightwing #arsenal #spoiler #batgirl #robin iv #impulse

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Still so mad that Tim went back to Robin while Damian is off doing whatever during his solo run. I think Tim should get a new identity and do his own thing finally.

In the meantime, I think comics should go back to have the Signal as Batman's primary sidekick. Not only because are Dami and Duke good brothers and therefore Damian would appreciate this more, but also it would mean both Damian and Tim get the opportunity to better explore who they are away from Batman. And it wouldn't gloss over the fact that Damian is gone from the current batman comics run instead of just making it feel like we've gone back to before Damian was a thing?!? AND I think Duke wouldn't put up with Bruce’s shit. He's got this.

Plus more Duke content is always good for me <3

#dc #duke thomas #tim drake #damian wayne #batfam #the signal #robin #red robin #batman #spec-text-ular

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I'm doing the Year of the OTP 2023 challenge for Timberkon. My January fic is just a little late, but it's out now! (It's also pre-relationship, so idk how much it actually fits the challenge, lol).

Summary:

It’s snowing. This late in the winter, this isn’t anything unusual to Tim. Except that— —Superboy has never seen real snow before. January Prompt: Snow

#dc #dc comics #young justice #young just us #tim drake #bernard dowd #kon-el #conner kent #robin #robin iii #superboy #timkon #timber #timberkon #specs writes #spec-text-ular

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I'M FREEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

(tumblr live finally disappeared for me)

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pls know that if you have boops enabled and i see a post i like from you, i can and will treat boops as extra likes, so if you get 3+ boops in a row don't even worry about it lmao

#spec-text-ular #funny #april fool's day #boops #boop-o-meter #boop

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DC needs to hire me because I'm brilliant

Pitch for a new JSA: we get the peepaws and the meemaws back together and they just beat the shit out of neo-nazis.

I think there's this overall perception of older people as being conservative and we really just need the rep of an older group standing up and saying "fuck you and everything you stand for."

Especially because the entire living OG JSA having age-fuckery being canon. I want a whole comic run that's just characters like Jay Garrick and Alan Scott and Wesley Dodds going "we fought Hitler and there is no way in hell we're letting that shit stand again."

Anyway, yeah, DC hire me and let me write a "JSA says Nazis can fuck right off" comic.

#this was specifically sparked by me and my wife /p talking about Jay's feral energy #i think the jsa would have a very 'talk shit get hit' approach to bigotry and i would like to make that unambiguously canon pls and thanks #dc #jsa #justice society of america #i'm not gonna tag all the characters because i don't want to clog up the tags but i'll add the ones i mentioned ig #jay garrick #alan scott #wesley dodds #i'm admittedly not super familiar with their comics but i think the peepaws and meemaws of the superhero community need more love #spec-text-ular

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joy is stored in the iced chai latte

#sometimes you just gotta treat yourself. am i gonna regret a caffeinated beverage later? yes. yes i am. but mmmmm tasty #spec-text-ular

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ding dong ding dong ding dong TRICK OR TREAT BITCH✨

For you: shamelessly plugging my favorite K-band because their first song (this one) got me hooked immediately

Bonus: this song is so Jason Todd-core to me

Happy Halloween!! 🎃

#happy spooky season #ask game #spec-text-ular

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was rewatching Young Justice tonight and paused it and....well....

#dc #young justice #jaime reyes #blue beetle #dc memes #spec-text-ular

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for the fanfic ask meme- 🎃 👀 🧠 (guy gardner bc i want you to talk about my blorbo)

🎃 Do you write fics for certain holidays? Which is your favorite holiday inspired fic?

I have yet to write any fics for any holidays (unless you count Pride Month, in which case, gonna promo my criticism of Devin Grayson's Jon Kent Pride story here). I may write a Christmas fic if I can ever get the time in the holiday season because it's fun. I also have a soft spot for Jewish batfam content, but I would need to do quite a bit of research before I wrote a fic for any Jewish holiday.

On that note, I'll rec some other people's holiday fics, lol.

Latkes and Other Fried Foods by metukah — a collection of very sweet and fun Hanukkah stories featuring the Bats!

Cherish The Present by Listentothelittlebird — part of a larger AU (Code Bat) that I love very dearly and will not shut up about. Fluffy Christmas content!

Holiday Trappings by Cloaked Sparrow — also part of a larger AU that I actually need to read the rest of. I stumbled upon this one and really enjoyed it. Jason is loves his family and fjdklfgjfkjfh also....gift-giving as a love language is my shit.

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!

teehee, this one is fun because I have like 5 open wips + nearly 20 just snippets sitting around.

I'm behind on the Year of the OTP stuff, so I actually have two timberkon fics going at the same time (and I'm hoping I can finish one of them before the end of the month at least). March is a cryptid-hunting road trip fic and April is Kon being oblivious af and not realizing he's been dating Tim and Bernard for weeks because I think that trope is fun.

There's also my big Jason wip that I've been working on for over a year (this was supposed to be a quick thing and it got WAY out of hand). I have a lot of feelings about it, but the basic premise is Jason gets to Gotham and starts his whole plan, but the Bats kinda realize that while he IS killing people, he's definitely more vigilante than criminal and their goals kinda align. So they decided to just work with him rather than against him (because Bruce has an established history of working with characters with different modalities on killing, both in and out of Gotham). And then Jason goes "well, now what?" and just....fails to tell them that "hey, btw, I'm the dead Robin" for like a year while he bonds with them and also gets to see how his death changed things up close and personal. (I'm not kidding, I'm keeping a timeline for this for my own personal reference and we're up to 70% of a year now. Also over 20k words. Holy shit.)

But because it's YOU asking and you get to hear about most of my fics as I'm writing them, I will add a bonus of the summary of wip I have not really told you about:

His siblings all follow Bruce's no kill rule for one reason or another, but the realities of vigilante life is never nearly so black and white. Jason’s there to help with all the grays. Or, 6 times Jason hides a body from Bruce + 1 time he nearly finds out.

🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favorite headcanon for them.

Oh, you want me to talk about your blorbo. I see how it is /lh.

Trying to think of something that isn't just straight up lifted from headcanons we've already discussed....hold on.

Being a GL isn't exactly conducive to having a stable job, so when he first starts out and is in space more often than he's Earth-side, he fills his time on Earth doing volunteer work with kids because he likes helping out and it gives him something to do for the like week he's back home. It doesn't really provide income, so he usually just crashes at other people's place. Hal, John, the jl:i peeps at some point, Oliver Queen on one memorable occasion. Eventually, he gets the bar and his own place, but he still tries to keep up the volunteer work when he can.

Speaking of the bar, to me, Guy's strength in the kitchen is his adaptability, and being a GL only enhanced that. Between having to figure out what makes for good eats on various alien planets and having to come home from long space trips to the 6 shelf stable items left in the pantry, Guy is something of an expert in turning a handful of mismatched ingredients into something enjoyable. This is in direct contrast to Hal Jordan, whose time as GL has just made him used to eating whatever, and now he has the most bizarre palette and will just throw together the strangest combinations and enjoy it. (Both of them have developed a keen sense for what kind of foods will keep their bodies fueled longer and their eating habits reflect that).

#ask game #spec-text-ular #dc #batfam #fic recs #timberkon #guy gardner #green lantern #just tagging a few thing so as not to clog up the character tags lol