#dickbabs baby au

[thychesters]

The door thuds behind him before he slides the deadbolt home, and his keys hit the counter with a disjointed jangle before they slide to a halt. Tim lets out a breath as he toes off his shoes, and then he’s making a beeline for his couch to deposit himself on it, all loose limbs flailing every which way. Flopped sideways, he digs through his pocket for his phone as it chirps and a text alert from Dick greets him, one of the few notifications that has any merit that isn’t a weather or news alert. He swipes through a couple before finally settling on Dick’s name and pressing the camera icon. His own face stares back at him as it rings, and he grimaces a little at the front-facing camera and the awkward angle.

“Oh no, here comes trouble,” Dick says as he answers, to which Tim pulls a face. There’s tuft of dark hair under his chin, and it takes him a moment before he realizes it’s his son.

“You were the one who texted me first,” Tim says by way of greeting. Dick rolls his eyes and shifts as John snuffles; he adjusts his grip, holding his phone out a little farther so that the side of John’s head comes into view.

“Yeah, but you answered.” His head tilts to glance down at the newborn and Tim finds himself mirroring him, head twisting against the couch cushion. John’s tiny fingers curl gently against his shirtfront.

Tim opens his mouth and then pauses, closing it again. His brow furrows a little. “What’s that noise in the background?”

Dick sighs. “Barbara wanted to watch Dirty Dancing,” he pans the camera to the other side of the couch where Barbara curls against the arm, dozing and neck bent at an angle that might hurt soon, “and clearly it’s riveting.”

Tim has to hold back a laugh. “Clearly. Meanwhile, you’re sitting here answering phone calls.”

“I could have ignored you,” he comes back with. “She’s also a light sleeper, but I think we’ve learned to tune one another out sometimes unless it’s an emergency.” He tilts his phone a little bit in John’s direction. “Now this little guy makes any kind of noise and we both jolt. I think he knows it too.”

“Sounds like things are going well on your end then,” Tim says, swinging his legs over the back of the couch. He almost drops his phone.

“As well as can be expected, I guess.” The music kicks up a little, and Dick glances up at a screen Tim can’t see and then at Barbara. “You stopped watching this an hour ago, didn’t you?”

“I can hear you,” comes a murmur from the other end of the couch. Dick glances her way and his eyes crinkle a little in the corners. By John’s cheek, Tim spies a small spot of drool on his shirt.

“Hi Barbara,” Tim says, trying to be loud enough she can hear him through the phone speaker but not loud enough to wake the sleeping infant. As she murmurs again in response, he pauses before his mouth breaks into a grin: “Is she still mean and hogging the remote?”

Dick stills and then tries not to jostle the baby too much as he laughs. Barbara groans, though he can hears a little humor in it. He holds the camera to show Barbara squinting at them both. Tim can’t see her glasses anywhere. She pulls a face at him with no heat to it.

“Calling just to bully a lady who just had a baby? That’s a new low for you, Timothy.” Tim hisses.

“Oh, she broke out the full name. Yikes.” He sits up a little. “And here I was going to offer my babysitting services.”

Barbara laughs and Dick rolls his eyes. “Sure you were.”

“I was!”

“We’ll add you to the roster,” Dick tells him. John curls against him.

“Good, good,” Tim says around a smirk. “I expect to be the favorite uncle and your go-to for everything.”

“Good luck with that one,” Dick says with a laugh while Barbara says, “I don’t know, I kind of like him.”

#dickbabs baby au #tim drake #barbara gordon #dick grayson #kate writes #** #babs: idk we played vr video games together a lot and i like this kid #tfw tim is both dick’s and babs’ little brother #and now he’s an uncle #this is nonsensical and a mess but i wrote this on my phone while work was slow #and yeah dirty dancing was on earlier

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[huilian]

for @thychesters!!!!!!!!!!

***

“The soft food is here, and the breast milk is organized by date inside the freezer. You’re going to have to-”

“Yes, Babs,” Stephanie interrupts. “I know. You’ve told me this three times.”

“Well, yes, but you never know,” Barbara continues. She opens the fridge, and starts counting the bottles of breast milk there. “There should be enough thawed ones, but sometimes he can drink a lot and-”

“Babs!” Steph calls out. “I know. I’ve thawed out frozen breast milk before, and besides,” Steph looks at the lines of bottled breast milk in the fridge, “I don’t think John is going to finish those in one night.” She closes the fridge door, and says, “We’re going to be fine.” 

Babs looks at her, and sighs. “You’re right. It’s just that…”

“I know, I know,” Steph smiles. “But I’ve got Alfred on speed-dial for any baby John related emergencies, remember? And for any non-baby John related emergencies,” Steph feels her smile turn into a grin, “I’ve got the rest of the family.” 

Babs sighs again. “That’s what I’m worried about.”

“Hey!” Steph says, putting her hand on her chest in fake outrage. “I’ll have you know that I am perfectly capable of putting this power to good use.”

“But you won’t,” Babs retorts. 

Steph nods. “But I won’t. Glad to know that we’re on the same page.” She looks at Barbara, and switches gears. “But honestly, Babs, we’re going to be fine. Go enjoy your date with your baby’s daddy.”

Barbara smacks her arm, but she does it with a smile, so Steph is counting that as a win. “Alright,” Babs says, “but if I hear one single report about you misusing that speed dial button…”

“Yes yes yes,” Steph replies, walking over to snatch John from Dick’s arms. The father and son duo have been watching the conversation from the doorway kitchen, both enraptured for two completely different reasons. Thankfully, John’s eyes follow her as she walks toward Dick’s side, and thus a seamless transition on who’s holding the baby commences. "We're going to have so much fun today, aren't we, little guy?" 

John answers with a gurgle and a hand to the face. Steph resists the urge to wince, and settles him snugly around her side. 

She turns around to face Babs again, and tilts her head towards Dick. Go, she mouths, with a wink that makes Babs smack her again. 

"I know you're not trying to insinuate anything with my son right here in the room," Dick says, finally contributing to the conversation. 

"There's nothing to insinuate, he's the proof," Steph retorts back. "Also, thank you for helping me with that."

Dick gasps, and puts his hands around John's ears. "Don't listen to her, John!" 

For his part, John seems to enjoy his father putting his hands willy nilly on his ears, and laughs. 

"He'll find out eventually," Steph observes. 

Dick gasps again. "No!" He bends down to look at baby John around Steph's side, and says to him seriously, "You are a precious child and you are never going to understand that reference your Aunt Steph just said, okay?" 

John looks back, nodding seriously as if he understood what Dick just said. 

"He's going to understand it someday," Steph grins, bouncing John up and down, "and I will be there to tell you I told you so when that moment happens."

"No!" Dick replies, moving as if to take John from Steph's arms. "No, he's not!"

"Alright, alright," Babs interjects, already maneuvering around the two of them. "We're going!" she calls out, pulling on Dick's arm before rolling towards the door. "Bye Steph! Bye John! Be good!" 

Dick follows Babs out of the room, winking at Steph. She muffles her laughter, before calling out, "Is the 'be good' for me or for John?" 

"If I find out you misused the speed dial, no new tech for you for a month, Stephanie!" 

This time, Steph doesn't bother muffling her laughter. She races out of the room, manages to catch Dick and Babs before they get out of the apartment, and lifts one of John's arms to wave it around. "Say bye to mom and dad!" 

Babs turns around to blow them a kiss, and Dick catches it, adds a kiss of his own, and blows them again. Babs laughs, causing baby John to also laugh against Steph's side. 

"Bye!" Babs calls out one last time, before both she and Dick disappear into the elevator. 

Steph repositions her hold on John, putting his face on a level with her own, and says, "It's just you and me now, kiddo." 

***

Maybe it’s because this is Dick and Barbara’s son, or maybe it’s because she has always seen him at his finest, but Steph was not expecting to be changing diapers tonight. What a fool she was. Diapers and babies come as a package. 

She finishes cleaning him up, checks over the instruction Babs left so graciously on the changing table, and puts the new diaper underneath him. Then she grabs the cream on the table, puts it on, and moves to finish fastening on the new diaper, but John, the baby that he is, does not agree with her plans. 

“No, don’t move!” Steph calls out, placing one hand on John’s chest and another keeping the new diaper in place.

John just laughs, and continues his quest to escape from the strangling hold of the diaper. In that quest, he manages to knock over the pile of used wipes and diaper, and Steph has to bite her tongue to stop from swearing. 

“No, no, no,” she grimaces, firmly holding the baby in place. That, of course, caused the new diaper to slip from under his bottom, leaving streaks of cream in place. Steph sighs, fights another urge to swear, and pulls the diaper back up and quickly closes it up. 

She lifts John up and walks over to his crib, intending to put him down there while she cleans up, but John screams the moment she places him down. 

“Okay,” Steph grimaces, “one handed clean up it is, then.” 

She settles John on her side again, and starts narrating as she picks up the soiled wipes and diapers. “Do you see that?” she asks, bouncing John up and down. “These are all your messes. Who knew that such a tiny thing can make such a big mess?” 

John answers with a babble that is as unrepentant as it is cute. 

Steph shakes her head, but she smiles as she picks up the last of the wipes and puts them in the garbage. Then she readjusts John’s position on her hip and walks towards the bathroom to wash her hands. 

There, she is faced with a different conundrum. How on earth is she going to wash her hands while holding on to John? 

“Okay, baby John,” Steph says, walking back to his room, “you’re going to have to get down.” She places him in his crib, and sure enough, the moment her hands leave him, he starts to cry. 

Steph winces, but she really can’t wash her hands with only one hand, and so she runs towards the bathroom, washes her hands as fast as she can, and runs back to the crib with water still dripping from her fingers. The whole thing probably only lasted about a minute, but it was one whole minute of agony as every single second was filled with John’s screaming and crying. 

“I’m here, I’m here,” Steph says breathlessly as she picks him up again. “Don’t cry, okay, I’m here.” 

Thankfully, the moment Steph’s arms are around him, John’s crying peters out, and when he is back on his spot on Steph’s hips, his wailing has turned into small sobs. Steph walks around the room, shushing and bouncing him as he goes, and finally, finally, even his sobs stop. 

Steph shakes her head again, and sways around the room, trying to get John to settle down again. 

“You are going to grow up to be so spoiled,” she whispers to him. “Do you see your Uncle Damian? Yeah, you’re going to be so much more spoiled than he is. I can’t even put you down without you crying.” 

John hiccups, scrunching his face up. 

“No, no, no, you’re going to be amazing,” Steph says, trying to prevent another bout of crying. “Is it Uncle Damian? I’ll have to tell him one day that you cried because I said his name. He’s not going to believe it.” 

Thankfully, there are no tears coming out yet, but Steph doesn’t dare put John down in case the crying starts again. So she walks out of John’s room, and goes to sit on the sofa, placing John in her lap. He’s old enough that he sits up when she places him there, but she keeps a hand on his back just in case. 

“We’re going to have to tell him that with you in the room, aren’t we, John? Then we can mock him together. He’s going to be so mad. He thinks he’s your favorite uncle, can you believe that? Though I suppose we can forgive him. He doesn’t have to compete with either me or Cass, after all.” 

John moves forward, and places his head on Steph’s belly. She smiles, his earlier crying spells already forgotten, and adjusts him so that his position is comfortable. 

“When you’re a bit older, we’re going to have to tell him that together. Just go, ‘Uncle Damian, you’re not my favorite,’ and watch as he crumbles. You know what? Let’s make it a double punch. You can continue that with ‘Auntie Steph is my favorite.’ That’ll definitely crush him.” 

Steph can feel John’s breaths getting deeper and knows that the baby has fallen asleep. That’s good. He’s probably exhausted from the crying fit earlier, poor thing. 

Steph glances up at the clock, and sees that it’s close enough to John’s bedtime that she’s not going to bother waking him up again. She scoops him in his arms, and pats his back, trying to lull him into an even deeper sleep. 

“You are so lucky, you know that, John? Your mom and dad are wonderful people, and you’re going to have countless people ready to help you with whatever you need.” 

She stops, and kisses him on the cheek. 

“You are going to grow up to be so loved,” she whispers to his ear.

Steph sways in place, hand still patting John’s back. Like this, with the weight of John on her arms and no other voice except the one in her head, she can almost imagine that it is a different baby she is holding. Can almost imagine that life had gone differently. 

She doesn’t regret the decision. She knows that that was the best decision she could have made, both for her and the baby. But sometimes… sometimes she wishes. 

She hums a lullaby that her mom used to sing to her, a lullaby that she had imagined singing to her own children. As she does that, she closes her eyes, and sees John, saying his first words; John, taking his first steps; John, growing up and being loved in every single step of the way. Then, she imagines a different baby. A baby girl. Who will also come back home crying with scraped knees, only to smile again when she kisses it better. Who will also take her hand when they go to the zoo, excitedly pointing at the animals there. Who will also climb her like she is the world’s most entertaining jungle gym. 

Who will also grow up loved. 

Who is now growing up loved. 

Steph walks back to John’s room and places him in his crib, careful to keep it rocking as to not wake him up again. She looks at his sleeping face, and wipes the last of the tears that are still there from the previous crying episode. 

“You are so loved,” she says again, not entirely sure whether she is telling that to this baby in front of her, or to another baby, across space and time itself. 

Then, she kisses him on the cheeks, once for him, and once for that baby girl that she only gets to hold once. 

“Good night, John.” She slows her rocking, until the crib finally goes to a stop. After making sure that he is not waking up, she goes to turn off the lights, and says, “Sleep tight.”

***

When Barbara comes home, she sees two figures sleeping in John’s room, and decides that asking Steph for the report on her latest case can wait until tomorrow.

#dc #stephanie brown #john grayson ii #dick grayson #barbara gordon #dickbabs baby au #thank you so much for letting me play in your sandbox kate!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #lian writes #fic

[damthosefandoms]

your tags are always so nice and i appreciate them so much 😭❤️

ITS WHAT YOU GET FOR BEING SUCH A GOOD WRITER I CANT HELP IT

#I’m not kidding!!! #ever since you said ‘dickbabs baby au’ I have been not so patiently waiting ok #I forgot how to use words today but basically that’s one of my favorite types of aus for them and I cant explain why but I’m gonna lose it #<333333 #asks #everyone go read thychesters’ fics or rot they’re so good #:)

[beck-a-leck]

it's time to spread some love ✨ if you recieved this ask you are someone's favourite content creator, now it's your turn to tell us about your favourite ones, and what you love more about their content. you can send this ask, anon or not, to someone else so they can share their favourite people too! 💛

Oh, Nonny! 💜💜💜💜💜

This has been in my inbox for weeks now and every time I see it I smile like a goof. I've been meaning to reply to this for so long, and I've only now just found the time.

It's so hard picking favorites, but I'm gonna go ahead and shine the spotlight on some of my friends and the awesome work they do!

@durotoswrites is always here with quality HM/SoS fic, and I absolutely live for each of her new fics!

@thychesters is keeping me tangentially interested in DC things because of her DickBabs Baby AU.

@captainshakespear and @lookforanewangle and @blue-eco-freak and @jake-marshall are all out in their own separate fandoms, but every time I see them vibing with something I'm no into, I just get so excited to see them enjoying things!

And look, maybe I'm a little emotional tonight, but I'm just sitting here getting all teary over all my incredibly talented internet friends! I wish I could wrap you all up in a hug and tell you how much I love what you're doing, I love you all so much!

#replies #anonymous #the magic glowing box holds all my friends and I love y'all so much!

[dibs4ever]

”The Talk”

Future DickBabs AU

Dick sat awkwardly beside his 16 year old son. They were in the boys bedroom. Both sitting on the edge of his bed.

Dick glanced up at the shelf above his bed on it sat, his baby book, a family photo, a Green Arrow plushie that he had been obsessed with when he was little and a photo of him and Melenie West .....which reminded him why Barbara had sent him to talk to their son.

”You okay Dad?” Nathan cut in

Dick looked down at his son and smiled, how could he already be old enough for this talk. Wasn't it just last week that he was 3 years old and thought Green Arrow was the coolest superhero, making the whole Batfamily jealous? Wasn't it just yesterday he was 12 years old and discovered the family secret?

He'd give anything to have the ”Your family is secretly Gotham’s vigilants” talk over this talk

Dick nodded ”Yeah.....ummm how long have you and Melanie West been dating now ”

He watched as his son's blue eyes looked up in thought ”Going on 6 months”

Dick nodded ”I thought it was around that time. And now that you are driving, you two are alone a lot more.”

”Where are you going with this?” Nathan asked.

Dick sighed ”I umm I well. You're getting at an age where-well. I just want to make sure you don't.....” he took a breath ”I was your age when I lost my virginity.” he admitted to his son

Nathan scrunched up his nose ”Dad! Please say we aren't having this talk.”

Dick nodded ”Son it's necessary” he glanced around the bedroom ”Plus, your mom is making me” he whispered lowly Incase she was listening in

Nathan nodded “I’m a vir-we aren’t doing that so there isn’t anything for you to talk about.”

Dick tilted his head “Well see Nate, that’s a better reason to talk about it now. Look there is nothing wrong with being a Virgin okay? Heck I think your Uncle Damian was one till his late 20’s. And there is nothing wrong with sex. It can be a beautiful thing....when done with respect. And that comes from both ends.”

Nathan looked forward running his hands through his dark locks from embarrassment.

“My first time was beautiful, it happened due to mutual respect from both ends. “ Dick smiled looking up in thought as the memory flashed in his mind.

”She was so beautiful, her hair fanned around her face like a goddess. She still looks like one. And when we first joined together as one” Dick sighed caught up in the moment ”....I did it with other people after that first time but....it never felt as right as it did with her.” he grinned

Nathan looked toward his father “Dad, first off tmi. Second. What would mom think if she heard you talk like that about another woman !”

Dick chuckled lightly “Who said it wasn’t your mom.”

“Ewww” was Nate’s first response then his face softened as he thought about the story “Mom was your first?”

Dick nodded “And I was hers” he admitted

Nathan shrugged “As gross as that is to me.....it’s also pretty cool. Ya know, I know you two were together. Then you weren’t then you were.then you weren’t , then you kinda were, then you decided to-“

Dick cut him off “Kinda ruining the sweetness of the story there kid”

Nathan laughed lightly

“Look what I’m trying to say is....when-or if you do decide to take that step. Keep on mind for one—it’s a point of intimacy that can’t be taken back. Make sure it’s an agreement and respected point not only from you to her but her to you as well cause you are just as important. And use protection....from both ends.”

Nathan nodded “So before-if we do-do it. We need to have it planned out so both her and I are on protection?”

Dick shrugged “That’s how mom and I planned it.” He smirked- “Your Grampie was out of town, Alfie was on holiday. Place to ourselves. I had some bought candles and she bought silk-“

Nathan held a hand up “Dad! I don’t need to know.” He narrowed his eyes

Dick chuckled clapping his son on the back. “Good, soooo when mom asks you’ll tell her we had a good lesson?”

Nathan laughed “Yeah dad. You are safe....but umm who is going to talk to my little sister when she is old enough for this conversation?”

Dick’s eyes widened at the realization that she was only 3 years younger than her brother “Definitely your mother”

#dickbabs #dick grayson #barbara gordon #batfamily #nightwing #batfam headcanons #batgirl

[theartofdreaming1]

Advent Calendar Fic Rec 2020, Day 15

the dickbabs baby au by @thychesters

What’s it says on the tin, baby! <3 (unlike my previous recs, this is a WIP, but these first two chapters have been so glorious, I just had to mention it in one of my fic recs)

#dickbabs #dick grayson #barbara gordon #fic rec #advent calendar 2020 #advent calendar fanfic 2020 #advent calendar 2020: day 15

[redjaybathood]

I’ve decided to update the fic masterlist because - congratulate me! I finished the codename: all the dead doves in the world! Seriously, that fic kicked my ass with the prejudice. It’s only 8k, and I wrote 5 of it in like two or three days, and then just. The most horrible parts, it took me like a month. But whatever! It’s done and over with.

the deadest doves left me unable to write for a long while, and even when I manage to do it, it’s a struggle. So I need a little help with figuring out a posting schedule for my WIPs. Obviously, I won’t be able to do all at once, so I’m trying to prioritize. So far I think it’s going to look like this:

1) Lost in the In-Between - definitely

2) Jason runs away earlier

3) maybe hey, judas? or i wish we met before? Response and Responsibilities? something else?

4) not really time travel

So far, the list of my WIPs looks like:

1) 11K Jason&Steph, Jason&Bruce, Steph&Bruce DitF AU, Shiva is Jason’s mother AU: i wish we met before (though it’s mostly on ao3)

Jason Todd doesn’t believe a word an adult says, truth serum or no truth serum. So when DNA test shows him Lady Shiva is his biological mother, he abandons his quest, choosing instead to help Batman apprehend the Joker. It changes things a lot and not at all.

2) 7K Jason & Bruce & Steph & Cass, UtRH AU/No War Games/Robin!Steph/Batgirl Cass/Not Red Hood!Jason: perspective (on ao3)

There’s some value in learning from the best. Knowledge is priceless. It can literally turn your life around.

3) 5.5K Jason Todd, Roy Harper, Dick Grayson, Cassandra Cain, Damian Wayne, Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne, no capes!AU: priorities (most of it on ao3 tho)

Anonymous asked: Prompt: Damian and Jon need a baby sitter for a night, and Jason is the only person available.

4) 5K Brujay, DickBabs, StephCass, Tim Drake, Alfred Pennyworth, tw: accidental incest, Amnesia: Good Intentions (on ao3)

After Bruce almost loses his life fighting the Joker and completely loses his memories, his old guardian decides it would be better if his children, still leading vigilante life, stayed away for his sake. That made Bruce’s life less dangerous, sure. But it also opened him up to a threat nobody could have predicted.

from the same universe as Old Feelings linked above

4) 6K Jason Todd&Sasha, Batfam BftC AU/omega!Jason: Response and Responsibilities (on ao3)

If Jason watched Bruce’s last words on any other day, he might have had a different reaction. He would be fronting at the mouth, he is self-aware enough to tell. He would be full of desire to prove something, to Bruce, to himself, to all the citizens of Gotham. He wasn’t a failure. Instead, what he got, was - tired.

5) 2.5K Stephanie Brown/Talia al Ghul, post UtRH, noir-ish:  Look

Steph gets ambushed by a mysterious woman in need of her help.

6) +/-7K Jason&Bruce Platonic Soulmates/UtRH AU/Secret Identities: Soulmate AU

7) 11K Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Bruce Wayne, Barbara Gordon, Rena, Jason Todd, and characters to be added; docu series, Jason in prison!AU: hey, judas

8) 3K Talia al Ghul, Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson, other characters and pairings to be added, AU: good life

They were living a good life. Damian’s parents said so.

9) <1K Jason Todd/Kent Parson, crossover, AU, working title: Woke Up Married

10) <1K Jason Todd, Amnesia, YJ universe, AU: Young Justice: Outlaw

11) 22K written, 6k posted so far. Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, with Roy Harper, Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon coming right up: Jason runs away earlier.

12) Not posted! 3K, Talia al Ghul, Damian Wayne, Jason Todd. reasons to be missed.

13) Not posted, 5.2K, Post-underage Brujay, POV Outsider, Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne: codename not really time travel

14) 8K fae!AU jaysteph crossover with Dresden Files: Lost in the In-Between

A tale about a girl without a name and a bird-entrepreneur. Of a sort.

15) 1,2K Bruce Wayne & Jason Todd, gen, AU, codename: marriage of convenience

If you have any input on which stories should be prioritized, let me know.

#my fics

[batfam-christmas-stocking]

dottie-wan-kenobi’s stocking

Tumblr username: dottie-wan-kenobi AO3 username: dottie_wan_kenobi Preferred medium(s): any!! I’d honestly prefer a fic or art but I’ll seriously love anything Favorite character(s): all of the Batfam (including Cass, Duke, and Kate), but especially Dick and Alfred Likes: Family feels, sibling bonding, any sort of time travel/alternate dimension or universe type stuff, babies!!! any and all babies, happy ending, compassion for each other, found family, AUs, hugs, protectiveness, humor, angst, hurt/comfort, BAMF characters, bisexual Dick Grayson, Bruce can be a mediocre to really good dad (esp when the kid/s are younger!!). Ships don’t have to be included but I’d love Dick with Kory or Roy (or both??) if he’s gonna have a partner, and TimKon is cool too Dislikes: for ships I ask that there’s no incest, DickBabs, TimSteph, Damian/anyone at all, Jason/Talia al Ghul, or lots of BatCat. No Joker apologizing (killing him is totally fine tho), Bruce being a really horrible dad, character death (unless it gets reversed somehow), flat characterizations (so like PLEASE no “Dick is one part cereal, one part ass”, Tim having a coffee addiction, Jason killing indiscriminately, Damian being totally unredeemable, Cass not being able to talk at all or talking with total ease), reversed Robins, lots of Babs and/or Harley, Jason and Roy being close friends Prompts: 1. Duke feeling like he’s really a part of the family & bonding with everyone. Maybe he has to deal with not knowing all the history of the family, or people at school wanting to get close to him because of his new foster dad (I’m more than happy to help give some advice on how to write Duke!!) 2. Dick having a job like firefighter, nurse, social worker, or investigative journalist 3. Jason getting to go back to school, have something of a normal life, being kind to children to any degree, and/or taking care of something that’s depending on him (preferably a person or animal, but plants could be fun!!), and any of these things helping improve his mental health 4. Any time travel or traveling to an alternate universe shenanigans. The more different things are, the better (reverse robins could be used here!!) 5. Bruce taking care of one or more of his kids when they’re sick or hurt. Bonus points if he goes to Alfred because he’s unsure what to do

#stocking #submission

[two-baes]

SO, I’ve already worked out where Helena fits into the timeline / when she'll be born into the main timeline of my Batfam AU,

but then I got to thinking how I kinda wanna bring in the daughter Dick has in the BB timeline and that it’d be cute for her to be friends w/ Helena...also it occurred to me that Helena would be the youngest person in the fam and girl’s gonna need s/o her own age to interact w/, and I always figured Elainna in BB timeline was a wee bit older than Terry, so by my (possibly badly done) math, it works out to have her born around the same time as baby Helena!

But the thing is I’m gunning for endgame Dickbabs in this verse...and Barbara is not Elainna’s mum in canon which, you kno, I like to at least loosely follow. Now there’s theories of Bertinelli being the mum but that’s kinda ‘ehhh’ to me (at least for me to use in my own verse) since the mother seems to not be in the picture (either dead or left, we don’t know since they don’t give us ANYTHING on her //mumblegrumble), 

BUT I’m thinking a good way around that is Dick has baby w/ some civilian lady he’s seeing at the time (I have him as on/off w/ Babs [mostly so I can squeeze in other ships every now and then but it works for this too!] so it’d be sometime during their off period), the mum gets killed at some point, Dick is single dad for a bit, then maybe when baby Elainna is??? around 3 or 4 Dick and Babs get back together (and eventually have baby Johnny when Elainna’s 6 [also I decided he’d exist so a) when Helena is older she can have her Robin in this verse, and also b) Bruce deserves all the grand-babies and you can bet if I can work them into this verse I’m gonna!]).

#my batfam AU #Earth 7777777

[thychesters]

sometimes john watches his parents and tries to emulate what they’re doing. dick’s working through some stretches before he’s in a handstand and john sits on the floor next to him and stretches his arms in the air. john squeals when he holds him upside down. barbara’s working from home one day and john disappears into his room for a minute before returning with a small stack of books. he still needs one of them to read them to him but he cracks one open and flips through a few pages with a stern look. grandpa jim might be on the phone and john will hold his hand up to his ear and gesture. sarah has to cover her mouth to keep from laughing. sometimes grandpa bruce says ‘hrn’ and john says ‘hmm.’

#dickbabs baby au #i want this next to chapter to be done #i’m still working on the dickbabsweek prompts omg

[secretlystephaniebrown]

Do you have any dc or young justice longfic recs?

Sure!

Non-Batfam DC:

Trapped on the Merry-go-round by Muccamukk: 35k, oneshot, Boostle, complete, fix-it. 

Ted planned to give his life to save the Earth. Booster planned make his reputation by running a professional team of superheroes. Rip planned to fix time where it had once gone wrong. The universe had other plans.

BatFam DC:

aegis by purple01_prose: 119k, 5 chapters, StephCass and Steph/Damian Hellstorm, complete, Journey Into Mystery Crossover. 

Stephanie did actually die on the table at the end of War Games. Except, well, the universe–or some weird guy dressed in Norse-Meets-RenFaire garb–had slightly different plans. Now she’s stuck babysitting a baby trickster, and really, who the hell is in charge of her life, diary?

Crisis of Infinite Batgirls by adventuresofcomicbookgirl: 23k, 7 chapters, gen, complete, Batgirls team up that we all deserve. 

Fighting a time traveling villain out to destroy all Batgirls in existence, Stephanie Brown has to team up with Cassandra and Barbara of the past to save the world. On the way, the three of them have to cope with what it REALLY means to be Batgirl…

Fathers and Sons by @renaroo: 44k, 12 chapters, DickBabs but mostly gen, complete, incorporating Terry into the DCU in the most angsty yet glorious way possible. 

Gotham is not a stranger to tragedy, but the newest murder seems to be a haunting echo of its most notorious crime. The GCPD struggles to get ahead while experiencing interference from on high, and is forced to turn to Batman and his extended family to see justice served for a little boy and his murdered parents.

At the same time, the vigilante family’s new order is tested by their patriarch yet again. Will this highly personal case be the original Batman’s last?

Honeyverse by @daggerpen: 3 stories, 56k total, Jason Todd/Connor Hawke, series is incomplete but all fics in the universe posted are, quite possibly the Jason redemption fic I’ve ever read. 

The Changeling Sequence by @silverspidertm2: 3 stories, 127k total, Gen with BruceTalia as a pairing in the last fic, last fic in series incomplete, the fic in which Jason adopts Damian while hanging out with Talia. 

Jason is awake and aware but half-a-world away from Gotham in enemy hands. He thinks of nothing but escape, but what happens when he meets a certain little boy? Partial AU. Starts of at Red Hood: Lost Days #1 then spins in its own direction.

Young Justice: 

Girls’ Night Out by chellerrific: 4 stories, 89k, pairings depend by fic. Series incomplete but all fics posted are finished. The literal first fic I read on Ao3, the series where someone says “okay but Young Justice needs more women” and tells those stories in the best way possible. Features Babs, Karen, Kara, Cissie, Traya, and my main girl Steph. 

Yes, they do fight like girls and thank you for the compliment.

royally flushed by @brella: 72k, one shot, Spitfire, complete, the Princess Diaries AU you never knew you wanted. 

So Artemis Crock is a princess now, apparently. (A Princess Diaries AU.)

Maelstrom by Right_2_Left: 329k, 48 chapters, canon but background pairings, tragically incomplete, the (female!) Kaldur centric, Atlantis worldbuilding masterpiece this fandom never deserved. 

It began when a so-called “impurity” became Aqualass.

By the time she’s 16 and leading “The Team” the Purists are fully embroiled in a game of power with the King of Atlantis. With some help from her parents, Aqualass rises to the challenge of the games underwater and above, defining herself as unquestionably powerful.

Originally a fill for the YJAnon Meme. Ft. Rule63!Kaldur.

A Thousand Days Later by @sroloc–elbisivni: 68k, 19 chapters, Spitfire and other pairings, complete (and with sequel!), the Justice Lords take on Young Justice that awes me to this day. 

It’s been three years. Three years since the North Pole. Three years since Wally vanished. His former teammates, heartbroken by the loss, aggressively pre-empted their mentors to create a new world. A better world. Under their rule, the Earth has no crime, no violence…and no choice. Still, pockets of resistance gather under the surface, waiting to make their move and take back their world. And when Wally returns, thrust into this new and strange world by the energy that should have killed him, how will his presence change every plan laid over the past thousand days? AKA that one time travel fic where Wally doesn’t die and the Team becomes the Justice Lords.

The One Universal Constant by Irony_Rocks: 57k, 11 chapters, Spitfire and canon pairings, complete, post S1 AU.

Eight years later, everything is changed. The Light is playing their endgame. In order to save countless lives, Artemis is forced to work with the team she long ago left behind, but facing the challenges of the Justice League is only part of the battle. A checkered past, an unraveling conspiracy, and of course, Wally West. It’s time Artemis stopped running.

#fanfic recs #Steph Speaks #DC #Young Justice #I need to stop myself from re-reading Maelstrom now and gushing over how much I love that fic bc jesus I love that fic #anyways #hope you enjoy nonny! #Anonymous #Steph Replies #asks #long post

[huilian]

lian i love this fic with baby john and auntie steph so so much thank you so much for writing it and sharing it with me!!

🥺🥺🥺

It's a pleasure. A truly, truly amazing pleasure in writing those!

Thank you for creating the wonderful dickbabs baby au!!!!!

#lian talks #ask #thychesters

[thychesters]

the dickbabs baby au! part eleven! | read on ao3

“I’m fine,” she tells him, meeting his eye as he takes a seat on the stool beside her. Behind him, pregnancy and birth control pamphlets adorn the neutral toned walls. “Just nervous and it feels like they’re moving around a lot.”

Dick visibly relaxes a fraction, the lines in his face softening. His hand outstretches; warm calloused fingers lightly press against her stomach to a fluttering sensation. “Yeah?”

She nods again, and her sigh very nearly turns into a yawn. “Kind of feels like butterflies.”

“Ah, so like what happens when you look at me.”

“Oh yes, I get all twitterpated,” she says around a laugh, and Dick’s nose crinkles a little. Figures she’s spent the last two days nervous and he has those nerves devolving into laughter. Her hand rests over his. He shakes his head with a chuckle. “Though I will definitely take that over nose bleeds and heartburn.”

and we’re back! babs gets to spend some time hanging out with some of her favorite ladies, and then she and dick head off for another doctor’s appointment, this time for some more news. it’s a lot. still have some more characters to bring in at some point, but we’re also going to start working toward making some time jumps to move things along. barbara’s stealing some of dick’s clothes for maternity wear and fashion™

#dickbabs #dickbabs baby au #barbara gordon #dick grayson #kate writes #** #posted this like an hour ago on ao3 and just now getting to the tumblr post lmao

[thychesters]

john should get a lil smash cake for his birthday. just let that kid go ham on a cake made just for him, and he can grin and dig his hands in and smear it around the table. sarah gets a few nice photos and then jim has frosting in his mustache and john has cake clenched in his fists. barbara gets a photo of him smiling politely that’s basically a split second before disaster. he has a blast.

#bruce: what do you do for a one year old’s birthday? #dick combing cake out of his son’s hair: this #alfred managed to dodge. he’s fine. #dickbabs baby au

[thychesters]

in the middle of my skincare routine and nowhere near this moment in the fic, but i was hit with the sudden urge to write the scene where dick gets to hold his son for the first time

#he’s all cleaned up and swaddled and mom needs to rest #there’s a little tuft of dark hair peeking out of the cap the nurse put on him and he’s very content in his dad’s arms #dickbabs baby au