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my favorite fics aka the ones i keep rereading and screaming when they update
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Liminal Space by Calamityjim
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
09 Jul 2019
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Bruce's habit of collecting strays is not limited by dimension.
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When Young Justice Batman comes across an angsty, seemingly abandoned by his Batman Tim Drake, he decides to step up to the plate and parent the crap out of him.
podfic available: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43438116
Series
- Part 1 of Liminal Spaces
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Family You Made (Go Back, Do it Again) by JUBE514
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics)
23 May 2022
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He’s nine again– nine and new and knows so many things now so rather than try to go back–
He thinks he has the chance to make things right.
The bright blue trainers he puts on are a pair he hasn’t worn in forever, something he never thought about after he grew out of them (will grow out of?) a year from now, and sets off into the night and into the rain.
The plan he has in his brain is not really a plan, moreso just a couple of half thrown ideas and maybe five steps into building back the life he had in the most painless way he could.
Maybe, he thinks, maybe this plan can start off with the family he misses– because he’s sixty and most of them too injured or too old or too dead–
Call him selfish but he misses them. He would rather find them than get himself back into that lonely existence he called a life before he woke up at nine.
Dick makes do because that’s all he can do really.
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Dick gets sent back in time, but don't worry, he's got this. (Probably)
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wishing for little things (the big ones hurt more) by Higuu
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
26 Jan 2023
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When Ochako was six, she saw a shooting star for the first time.
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4 times her wishes came true,
1 time she didn't need to wish,
And 1 time wishes couldn't do anything.Series
- Part 1 of maybe one day we could be alright
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Residual Hope by SimplyKaren
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
31 May 2026
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The Sludge Villain doesn't find Bakugo after escaping All Might, but some other random civilian. There's no series of explosions to draw All Might to the scene of the second attack. It's by pure luck that Izuku stumbles upon them. And Izuku does what he always has when he sees one person hurting another: inserts himself between the aggressor and victim. He finds this is significantly harder to do when one of the parties is a sentient slime.
*formerly titled Second Chances are Made, not Given
Arcs
Introductions: 1-5
Vigilante Origins: 6-18
1st Week at UA, Plus Ultra Style: 19-31
Sports Festival and Investigations Thereof: 32-44
League of Our Own: 45-54
Family and More Than Friends: 55-64
Birthday Surprises and Misunderstandings: 65-71
Summer Camp and Kamino: 72-80
Trust Falls and Falling in Love: 81-87
The Shie Hassaikai: 88-105
Respite and Rough Waters: 106-116
Solo Flights are not Meant for Monsoons: 117-139 -
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She paused and cleared her throat. She blinked. Batman was still standing there.
“Batman. Alright. My name is Michelle Gordman. I am a therapist, though you must have seen the name card on my door. I usually take appointments, but…” She trailed off. Was she really about to offer Batman a therapy session?
What the hell, she thought to herself. She didn’t put herself through seven years of school, and choose to practice in her home city of Gotham just to balk at the first masked crusader who came in to lurk at her doorstep.it is a known fact that bruce wayne sees a therapist. it is a much lesser known fact, that batman sees the same therapist.
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Razzmatazz by xylophones
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
16 Jul 2021
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Izuku has plans for everything.
He plans out what to say to the cashier when ordering coffee, he plans out his homework before even opening his textbook. He has a whole ten-year plan for how he’s going to get into UA’s hero course and get his hero license fully quirkless. He plans for every wild, unlikely scenario he can think of because his anxiety gets so bad if he doesn’t go through every possible outcome, every way his life could landslide into disaster–– but Izuku never planned for this.
For once, he doesn’t have a plan and he doesn’t have time to think of one. All he can see is Yagi-san’s lined, kind face looking resigned as he stares down the villain in his shop. Yagi-san, who is the closest thing to a father figure Izuku has ever had.
Izuku doesn’t think. He just moves.
(Or: Izuku saves the number one hero, gets a hero license way earlier than anyone wanted, realizes that maybe hero society isn’t as great as he thought it was, and everything just kind of falls apart from there.)
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- Part 1 of Despite Your Good Intentions
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Thomas and Martha Wayne are Gotham's most famous martyrs. They used to be a wife and a husband, a mother and a father, doting parents. They could also be cunning, wicked, glamorous, decadent; an heir and a gold-digger, beautiful people in a beautiful house. It takes a certain kind of parents to make a man like Bruce Wayne, and Alfred can't take all the blame. He can't even take most of it.
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- Part 2 of Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts
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chronic conditions by deniigiq
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
21 Jan 2022
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“I will ask you questions of a person unnamed,” Commander Cody says. “And afterwards you can tell me if any of these behaviors are in need of professional support.”
Kix’s stomach yearns to become a farmer. Oh, the cheese it could make. It decides to practice curdling while this conversation continues.
(Kix ends up learning way more than he asked to about a most scandalous affair occurring at very top of the 212th Attack Battalion.)
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Keeping Watch by Starri_Skye
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
04 Mar 2026
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“You sleep, I’ll watch.”
We both know that they are not going to sleep. We both know that the moment they go still, they will be dead. And I will be alone. But I won’t say that, and they won’t say that, even if it’s the truth.
“You…save Erid,” they say.
Not a question.
I will be the last Eridian on our ship. I will be the last hope.
Or I will die. Just like every other Eridian has died here, and will eventually die on Erid, because we failed.
I shift low, close to where my last friend lays. “You sleep, I will watch,” I tell them again.
And they go to sleep.
And they never wake up again.
Rocky loses everyone on his crew.
Years later, he meets an alien.
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IF EVERYTHING IS TEMPORARY (I WILL BEAR THE UNBEARABLE). by orpheusaki
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
03 Mar 2023
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"Father. Do not panic. I have everything under control."
Bruce immediately begins to panic, because Damian should know his father would never panic, so whatever has happened, whatever Damian claims he has under control, is undoubtedly going to make Bruce panic. Like right now. He's panicking.
But just as Bruce pushes himself to sit up on the bed, with great difficulty due to the bandages across his stomach, eyes darting over Damian to find any injuries —
Thomas Wayne, age thirty, walks through his bedroom door.
(Or; a ten step guide of things not to do when you're sent to the past, by Bruce Wayne.)