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[Podfic] This is Better Than the Two Boats by motleyfam, read-for-you-by (captainafab)
Fandoms: The LEGO Batman Movie (2017), The LEGO Movie (2014), Batman - All Media Types
07 Dec 2025
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Everything should be fine now, except it isn't. Why does Batman still seem to brush Joker off? Why won't he listen to anything Joker says? Why won't he just get that they're supposed to be best enemies now?
Well. Maybe his roommate Bruce Wayne can help.
A LEGO Batman Movie (2017) Podfic of This is Better Than the Two Boats by Brokenpitchpipe.
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you might feel like you’re givin’ out by motleyfam for JBS_Forever
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
22 Nov 2025
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“He did what?” Darry blurts, causing Pony to glance back up. His brother’s expression has completely shifted, all traces of exasperation gone and replaced with sharp focus. “How long was he out for?”
“What’s going on?” Pony asks.
Darry holds up a finger, shushing him. “He’s alright though, yeah?” There’s a pause. “Shit.” Another pause. “How much blood are we talkin’ here?”
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Soda faints at work. His brothers fret.
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Step Aside, Paul Newman by motleyfam
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
14 Oct 2025
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Sighing, Pony lifts his head just enough that Darry can see the unfocused look in his eyes. “My head hurts real bad, alright? Everything’s too loud and the lights keep doing weird stuff.”
Darry’s brow furrows. “What do you mean ‘weird stuff’?”
Pony gives another small shrug. “I dunno, like…going in and out or something.”
The pieces are starting to fall into place in Darry’s addled brain and the picture they’re revealing isn’t a very pretty one. Just like their mother, Darry’s been getting migraines on and off ever since he hit puberty, but so far both his brothers have been spared the family curse.
It looks like Ponyboy’s luck has finally run out.
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Turkey with a Side of Stressin’ by motleyfam for justbeyondstars
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Super Sons (Comics)
17 Sep 2025
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What should be a wholesome family vacation turns into Tim’s personal hellscape when the Waynes decide to spend Thanksgiving at the Kent Farm.
Featuring an impromptu road trip, a packed-out farmhouse, an overeager grade-schooler, and a festive sprinkling of unresolved trauma.
(And pie, of course. There’s also pie.)
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- Part 11 of Settle Our Bones
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Accelerated Learning by motleyfam
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
22 May 2025
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“Tim,” Bruce says, “it’s driver’s ed.”
“You think I don’t know that?”
“It’s a graduation requirement.”
“I know,” Tim snaps. “And you know why I know? Because two different counselors and the freaking P.E. divisional head sat me down and explained it! I know.”
“Then how did you–”
“Because I wasn’t going to class, alright?!”
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After failing his mandatory driver’s education course, Tim’s family all pitch in to impart their collective knowledge. But it’s an unlikely member who finally gets him up to speed.
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CEC Shorts by bowditch, DawnsEternalLight, HylianEngineer, Imbecamiel, lurkinglurkerwholurks, motleyfam, pinstripedJackalope, rockygetsrolling, takingoffmyshoes
Fandom: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Gotham Central
24 Nov 2025
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Collected CEC shorts loosely or directly connected to each other.
also, now with assorted dev stories from other universes.- Words:
- 59,575
- Works:
- 11
- Bookmarks:
- 136
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Settle Our Bones by batmoniker, justbeyondstars, motleyfam
Fandom: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Super Sons (Comics)
17 Sep 2025
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A hurt/comfort focused series where Jason never dies, but the Waynes’ weird neighbor kid gets strung along for the ride all the same.
- Words:
- 165,206
- Works:
- 11
- Bookmarks:
- 4,110
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Eat Like Birds by motleyfam
Fandom: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), The Batman (Movie 2022)
02 Sep 2024
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Food can be hard sometimes. Each Robin struggles with it in his own way.
(Stories all stand on their own and can be read in any order.)
- Words:
- 8,506
- Works:
- 5
- Bookmarks:
- 111
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The Under 500 Club by motleyfam
Fandom: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic), DCU (Comics), The Batman (Movie 2022)
02 Sep 2024
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Drabbles and ficlets that are all 500 words or less, originally posted to tumblr.
- Words:
- 2,885
- Works:
- 8
- Bookmarks:
- 23
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Itty Bitty Bats by motleyfam
Fandom: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
05 Jun 2023
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A collection of oneshots featuring the batfam being much younger and closer in age than they are in canon.
(Stories are unconnected and may be read in any order.)
- Words:
- 7,556
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 261
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The Corner of Pickett and Sutton by fanfareandwhimsy
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, The Outsiders (1983)
12 Jul 2025
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"'Where are Dally and Johnny?' Darry asked. His voice was real serious now, all tiredness forgotten. 'Are they okay?' He strode to the kitchen and dug around in the icebox, grabbing an ice pack that he tossed to Two-Bit.
'They're alright,' Two-Bit said. 'But the cops showed up not long after the fight started and they got arrested. Both of 'em, even though Johnny didn't do nothin', other than try and pull off the guys who were beatin' Dally to a pulp—'
Ponyboy sucked in a breath. 'Johnny got arrested?'"
Or, Ponyboy doesn't go to the drive-in with Dally and Johnny that night. Without him, Dally gets into an altercation with the Socs, setting off a wave of violence and unforeseen consequences that neither Ponyboy nor the rest of Tulsa is prepared for.
Bookmarked by motleyfam
13 Dec 2025
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Yesterday's Troubles by fanfareandwhimsy
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
15 Nov 2025
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"And then, because he couldn't help it—because he had to know—Darry asked, 'You ever feel like you've done something before? Like…you've done this before?'
'No,' Soda said slowly. He'd started rubbing circles on Ponyboy's back, but now he paused. 'I don't—what're you talkin' about?'"
Or, Darry knows he hasn't been a perfect guardian (far from it). He's got plenty of regrets. So when he finds himself thrown backwards in time, reliving all his past mistakes, he realizes this might be his chance to fix things once and for all.
(A Darry POV time travel/fix-it fic)
Bookmarked by motleyfam
02 Dec 2025
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Pounding in my Head by emmmerz
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
30 Nov 2025
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His parents had almost gotten him prescription medication for his migraines, and he was actually set to have another doctors appointment about a month after—
well, after their car got hit by that train.
But when that happened, every aspect of their normal life had been thrown out the window without a care in the world. Sodapop’s migraines were no longer a topic of worry. Everything became about bills, food, or money; and a medical bill— much less an exploratory medical bill— is simply out of the question.
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Or, Sodapop Curtis has chronic migraines.
Bookmarked by motleyfam
02 Dec 2025
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Steve's stubborn pride has never held a candle to Soda's caring heart.
Bookmarked by motleyfam
30 Nov 2025
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when you were a running tear I was a drop of sweat by Smile22
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
15 Nov 2025
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The migraines had gotten better, sort of, when Ponyboy and I hashed it out last year and promised to try and get along for Soda's sake. I laid off him as much as I could, and he'd starting coming to me to talk about stuff in the way he only used to with Soda. He was still a moody teenager, cagey and defensive. But he'd probably say I was pretty cagey myself. So we tried. And I'd gotten a raise, just enough to slow the endless march of dread that I used to feel anytime a bill came in the mail or groceries got low.
Or, Darry has a migraine. Ponyboy gets something off his chest.
Bookmarked by motleyfam
28 Nov 2025