Swiggity Swumpity Here Comes the Whumpity 2025
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This Will All Be Over Soon by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics)
01 Oct 2025
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Tim has been Robin for long enough to know fear toxin protocol like the back of his hand. Keep your rebreather on at all times. If you think you might have been exposed, take the antidote immediately before the effects have time to kick in. They both carry auto-injectors of the antidote in their belts.
It was meant to be Tim who got infected when his rebreather broke in the middle of the gas-flooded space, but Batman is a protector above all. He gave Robin his mask and held his breath for as long as he could. It didn’t take long after that.
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House Full of Bedrooms by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
03 Oct 2025
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The first six times Bruce has to stay up all night with each of his kids.
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Who's Going to Save You From Yourself? by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
11 Oct 2025
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The only thing that has brought on the slightest relief since Bruce first did this to Jason was the Joker’s toxin. It washed every last dredge of fear away and left only amusement in its place. For the first time in a long time, Jason could breathe. But there are a million reasons why Jason would have to be a complete idiot to utilize that method again.
Even that mild dose the Joker gave him was more than enough to have Jason feeling invincible. No fear, no hang-ups. He felt immortal—and even if he did end up bleeding, the pain was too fucking funny to worry about. He’d never felt so free in his life.
Jason nearly asked the clown for an extra dose for the road, but he knows better than anyone what a slippery slope that can be. He saw it on the streets, in both his parents, in Roy’s eyes every time he finds himself craving a drink. Jason could never allow himself to take such a dumb risk.
So, Jason endures.
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Why Did It Have to Be You? by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
07 Oct 2025
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And now here Dick is, bringing another child to Wayne Manor as if that place is anything but a glamorized bear trap. If Tim knew the full story, he’d realize why he shouldn’t give a damn about saving Batman because Batman can’t be saved. He doesn’t deserve to be saved. Every instinct in Dick’s body screams at him to turn back and dump Tim on the side of the road. Mostly due to the fact that Tim just keeps yapping.
“There’s a McDonald’s on the highway,” Tim suggests. “I think the McRib is back. Have you tried the McRib?”
Dick pries his gaze off of the road ahead to shoot Tim a glare. “This isn’t a road trip. We’re not stopping for lunch.”
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We Are Not Liars, We Are Performers by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics)
09 Oct 2025
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“You hate us for making you better,” Dick continues against his will. He doesn’t want to be saying this, but really, how dare Bruce be so surprised to hear it? He should understand better than any of them how defective his relationship skills are. He has no right to pretend it isn’t true now that they can all hear it aloud. “But you hate yourself more for making us worse, which is—it’s fucked up, but we’re all fucked up, and it’s—it’s only partially your fault. You secretly wish you’d never met any of us, and you’d be right about it because now we hate ourselves, too.”
How can Bruce have the audacity to look heartbroken when he already knew all of this? Why is he pretending? Why does he keep lying?
(Dick is dosed with truth serum, and the effects will take at least a day to wear off. During that time, Dick is forced to reveal and confront truths about himself that he never wanted to acknowledge. )
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Robin the Girl Wonder by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics)
10 Oct 2025
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Tim’s heart does a quadruple somersault every time he sees her. He hastily brushes Cheeto dust off his hands from his late-night snack and fixes his hair. “I think typically, parents don’t want burglars climbing in through their kids’ windows in the middle of the night.”
Robin laughs. Her eyes are tight with pain behind the mask as she clutches her left shoulder under her cape, but her smile when she looks at Tim in his pajamas is genuine.
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I Have to Change Fate by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Teen Titans - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
13 Oct 2025
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Wally knows he can’t go on like this forever. His suit is soaked through with sweat. His hair is drenched and dripping into his eyes. His entire body trembles with fatigue, but he can’t afford to let himself fall. If he loses even a second, it’s all over. He’ll lose the world. He can’t just stop.
And fine, maybe it is insanity. Maybe he’s a fucking crazy person and he’s putting his best friend in the world through endless torment for no reason, but he doesn’t care. Wally will push off the inevitable for as long as he can. He’ll keep going until his body gives out. He’ll gladly lose his mind if that’s what it takes to keep Dick breathing one nanosecond longer.
And he will. It'll be different this time. He can still fix this.
(Wally is trapped in a tragic time loop of his own making)
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It Will Never Stop by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics), DCU (Comics)
17 Oct 2025
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“Batman,” Dick stresses quietly, trying to telepathically convey his desperation. “Please.”
Either it sails right over Bruce’s head, or he’s too determined to stop the violence to pass up on the help. “I understand that the two of you have a past, but personal hang-ups have no place on the field. Tarantula has intel that would take us days to acquire on our own. Unless you have a real, justifiable reason for shutting her out, we’re keeping her on the case. At least until we have the situation under control. Am I understood?”
Biting his tongue until he tastes blood, Dick nods.
(AKA the fic where Dick is forced to deal with Tarantula again and finally confront the trauma that's been eating him alive since the assault)
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An Enemy We Can't See by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics), DCU (Comics)
18 Oct 2025
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The only word Bruce can come up with to describe the infected is feral. Human beings are driven by their innermost desires and fears, reduced to nothing but animal instinct. The infection robs one of their inhibitions. They revert to their core traits: greed, need, hate, fear, desire. The crazy become crazier; the self-haters kill themselves. Resentful parents throw their children off bridges or drown them in the bathtub. Enemies rush at each other’s throats with whatever weapons they can get their hands on.
No one can lie, no one can hide. No masks. No pretenses. It’s utter chaos.
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We Are Who We Choose to Be by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics), DCU (Comics)
20 Oct 2025
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It should have been an easy kill. A billionaire with few survival instincts and a reputation for being empty-headed in public. Even a baby Talon could handle such a simple mission, Talon thought while he listened in on the mission briefing—what little he could hear of it from his hiding place down the hall, at least. It would have been an easy kill, under better circumstances, except Talon didn’t know that his target somehow possessed combat skills that could rival even the oldest and most deadly Talons in the compound. Talon never stood a chance.
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We Don't Die Alone by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics), Robin (Comics)
22 Oct 2025
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Bruce was ten years old the first time he tried to kill himself.
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Tim is seventeen years old.
(alternatively titled "Like Father, Like Son")
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Like Lazarus by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Red Hood: Lost Days, DCU (Comics)
24 Oct 2025
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He’d bled out. He knew he had. If the batarang didn’t rip him away from this world on its own, then the bomb should have finished the job, and it did. Jason felt himself slip away. Once you’ve experienced death, there is no mistaking the sensation for anything else. Everything had been carried out the way it was supposed to, so how?
Jason didn’t leave the apartment for nine days. He ate canned ravioli and watched reruns of news footage covering the showdown with Joker, who had landed back in Arkham without a scratch on him. Batman saved the day again, folks. Red Hood was off the streets. Ding dong, the witch was dead.
Most hoped that the Hood was gone for good, either slain by the clown or scared away by the Batman. Either way, good riddance. Black Mask was still alive and kicking, regrettably, the fuckin’ cockroach.
And, more regrettably, so was Jason.
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I Never Had a Chance by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics)
28 Oct 2025
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Leslie sits them both down in her office immediately after they arrive. “I’m not going to mince words,” she says as soon as they’re settled. “Jason, your blood test results came back. I’m sorry. You’re HIV-positive.”
Time stops moving.
Leslie, ever the professional, plows right on before the bombshell has had time to settle. Jason doesn’t need her to explain what HIV is to him. He’s well aware. He’s watched and read depictions of the illness before, in novels and musicals, most of them tragedies because sickness always ends in tragedy. Like terminal cancer, or an oncoming train while you’re stuck in the middle of the tracks. No escape. No happy endings.
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You're Not Going to Lie Down and Die by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batgirl (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
30 Oct 2025
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It was her favorite rooftop.
She thinks he’s a jumper at first. In a city like Gotham where everyone is either a criminal, a victim, or simply too poor to move anywhere else, it’s an occupational hazard that they’ll run into a suicide jumper or two during a normal patrol. Someone else usually handles it, but Cass is on her own tonight.
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Something Mundane by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics)
31 Oct 2025
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Damian and Bruce are leaving a movie when a man with a gun steps out of the shadows to demand Bruce's wallet.
Or: history repeats itself.
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