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Rose Cut Letters (only there when you're blind) by SilverSkiesAtMidnight
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
21 Mar 2022
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All he can see of Jason now is a hunched-up blob. “I’m - I can’t see,” he chokes out, and there’s none of the viciousness that was there moments earlier. “I can’t - it’s too dark, I don’t, - please let me out.”
His voice cracks.
“You are out,” Tim says, trying to make his tone soothing even as his heart clenches at the sheer fear in the older boy’s voice. “I - I don’t know what you’re seeing, but you’re outside, you’re on a roof, we’re not far from the docks. We got hit with something, do you remember that?”
The blob twitches. It might be a nod.
“Okay good,” he says, letting out a breath. “It’s, um. I don’t know what it was, but I think it’s affecting our nervous systems. I can’t - I don’t know about you, but I can’t move super well? And I think it’s messing with our ocular nerves. Your - your eyes are fine.”
Day. 7 - MY SPIDEY-SENSE IS TINGLING
helplessness | numbness | blindnessSeries
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07 Apr 2026
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The valet opens the door as he places a ticket under the windshield, a hot breeze lazily snaking its way into the backseat. Then, he climbs out and shuts the door behind him, and the air falls as still as a crumpled quilt.
He doesn’t so much as glance at the backseat window as he walks away, leaving Tim alone to wait.
And that’s… that’s probably fine! His parents did say that going to a gala with them was something for big kids to do, and he already knows big kids are supposed to be able to be able to be apart from their parents without throwing a fit, so maybe this is why. Maybe waiting like this is part of every grown-up event, and that’s why he needed to be a big boy before he could come with them.
So yes. He can be a big boy. He can wait, alone.
It’s even kind of exciting! He’s not sure he’s ever been completely alone, without even a nanny nearby.
He just… well, he wishes they could have left the AC on while he waits.
Day 15 - FEED A COLD, STARVE A FEVER
delirium |fever dreams| beesSeries
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07 Apr 2026
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Peter is fine, anyways. His boss might fire him soon, the Avengers might arrest him soon, the principal might expel him soon, but none of it has happened yet. And his dad—
“You didn’t get my coffee,” his dad says, halfway through his burrito. He has been in a state of low, simmering irritation all evening, and apparently this is how long it took for him to find a reason to blame Peter for it.
“You didn’t tell me to get coffee.”
“Do you have eyes?”
“Yes,” Peter says. “I have eyes.”
“So you could have checked if we needed coffee without me telling you every little thing, Jesus Christ.”
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Peter just wants to make it to sixteen so he can escape this life and strike out on his own. He has a plan and nothing will ruin it.
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06 Apr 2026
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just lowering your expectations by the_star_catcher
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
06 Apr 2026
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For a long time, Tim doesn’t know his parents are dead. Maybe that makes him a bad son, for not knowing. When he reads about death, or when he watches people die in movies, their loved ones always know. There’s a gasp of pained revelation, an instinctual loss.
Tim doesn’t feel that. He wouldn’t have noticed at all, except for that he likes to keep track of the things going on in the places where his parents visit. Sometimes, it means he can ask leading questions, on their mostly-weekly phone calls, and Janet will spiral off into some tangent about these people and their lack of work ethic, and she’ll talk for minutes on end before realizing she’s still on the phone, getting bored, and then ending the call. So he keeps an alert system on his phone, for news, so they have some topics in common to talk about. It’s only luck he sees the article before anyone else does.
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In 1971, Sidney Crosby died on the Civic Arena ice.
Forty years later, he fell in love.
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