ShadowFrosted



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  1. Public Bookmark 23

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    They have an arrangement.

    Eight months of Thursdays. Eight months of Bruce cataloguing everything he tells himself he's not cataloguing — the sounds Clark makes, the impossible heat of him, the way his sleeping body turns toward Bruce's corner of the room. Eight months of very carefully not calling it what it is.

    Then Clark shows up on a Sunday and asks Bruce what he knows.

    Turns out Bruce knows exactly what this is. He's known since Kazakhstan, since a restaurant at 3 AM, since Clark said I'd like to come back from this to a bowl of pelmeni and Bruce filed it under highest priority classification and declined to retrieve it.

    He's retrieving it now.

    (Or: Bruce Wayne's comprehensive manual on how to be in love with Clark Kent while pretending very hard that you're not, until you can't pretend anymore, at which point you should probably just say it out loud. Featuring: a case, a conspiracy, water rights journalism, one teenager's homemade piezometers, and Bruce Wayne learning that sometimes staying is scarier than any exit he's ever built.)

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    25 Feb 2026

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    Batman is so confused, every time he meets with the Justice league they seem to think he's a vampire. And it is a good cover so why not lean into it?
    Then he gets kids, who become heroes, and find it hilarious to play along.
    He should have just come clean in the beginning...

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    Justice league assume Bruce is a vampire due to rumours and he just rolls with it

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    25 Feb 2026

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    Gotham is definitely not the usual place people decide to go for a Vacation. Danny's not really planning on staying long, but after a while being on the road every day kinda gets old. The city has a large population, ectoplasm, and enough bullshit going on the GIW probably won't think to start up a branch for a while at least.
    It's not like he can go home, anyway.
    So he's just gonna lay low, get his feet underneath him, and then figure out what to do from there.
    Grundy however didn't wait for him to explain any of that. Undead kid needs to lay low? Well, Grundy's got the perfect place for that! Can't get much lower than the sewers in Gotham, right?
    The Batfam just might have Opinions about that.

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    24 Feb 2026

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    Ayra Strykes has known Bruce Wayne since she was a curious six-year-old with a knack for reading people and a sharp tongue that even Batman couldn’t ignore. Now, at eight, left in Bruce’s care for a while, she quickly realizes that Gotham’s heroes need more than just muscle and gadgets—they need a social connector, a master strategist of chaos management, and someone who actually knows how to keep Batman express some form of emotion.

    Now, years later, she’s the one who books the gala alibis, schedules "accidental" rooftop interventions, and keeps a running spreadsheet of Batfamily grudges and snack preferences. Need Red Robin and Red Hood in the same room without bloodshed? Ayra's got a five-step plan and an emergency cake. Wondering how Batman ended up using full sentences? Blame Ayra.

    Sometimes she fights crime, but she does make sure the people who do on a full time basis, are properly caffeinated, mildly functional, and slightly less feral.

    Because let’s face it — Gotham might survive without Batman, but the Batfamily? They’d fall apart without Ayra Strykes.

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    20 Feb 2026

  5. Rec 27

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    Kal-El once had an older brother long lost in the Destruction of Krypton, and Clark Kent now meets Dan-El decades later. What follows is less a neat reunion and more a collision: of grief, magic, found family, and the kind of truth nothing survives unchallenged.
    This is a story about systems failing, and people refusing to.
    There is a certain magic-lightning radio guy whose involvement you’ll just have to read to understand, and ghost-familiar heroes who know far too much about liminal space and consequences of others' actions.

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    12 Feb 2026