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My Circus, My Monkeys by Jackedrabbit
Fandom Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: The Animated Series, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Nightwing (Comics)
26 Apr 2026
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Bookmarked by Ayce
03 Jun 2026
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Money's no good for just sitting around, though. You have to do something with it, put it somewhere. Back when Jason first moved to the manor, he got more pocket money than he ever did selling tires at the chop shop. Crisp dollar bills, no strings attached. Bruce never asked how Jason spent it. He was real old money like that. But Jason didn't like the idea of keeping more than he needed. Or at least that's what he told himself, on days where he was homesick for the summer air of Crime Alley. Jason took the bus back there a lot, back when he was a kid. He didn't speak to anybody. Crime Alley had already restructured itself around his absence by then. Some time after he became Robin, he began leaving money at his & Max's spot with a little guilt. The guilt of leaving without saying goodbye. Of saying goodbye at all. He's not sure what Max ever did with it, but he liked skulking in the shadows, waiting for Max, watching him. He'd become good at that by then.
Maybe it's nostalgia. Or maybe Jason's homesick for a time that doesn't exist. He doesn't know. But he knows—with his skills—that it can't take long to track Max down again.
That's how it starts, anyway. And as with most things, it snowballs from there.
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03 Jun 2026
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Talia refuses to allow the guilt to sour her. She remembers all-too-well, the arguments between them when she'd been a girl—Ra's reminding her that if she wanted a higher education, he would have a bevy of tutors brought to her doorstep. There was no need to travel—and certainly not such a long distance. Talia, on the other hand, had been desperate to see the world on her own terms. Had been desperate to get away.
In the end, they had parted ways with a stony silence between them. Her father had not responded to any of the letters she wrote him, in the weeks after. To this day, she has no idea whether he'd even read them, the detailed reports she wrote of her academic progress, as if to show him the entire endeavor was more labor than pleasure. As if she hadn't gamboled in that tiny dorm room like it was a world entire.
What is it about my freedom that offends you, Father? she dares to ask him, even if it's within the depths of her own mind.
"I will return," she reminds him softly instead. "You know I always do."
Talia, through the years.
Bookmarked by Ayce
02 Jun 2026
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The Hollow Knight, having fallen short of both the operative terms of their title, struggles to find their purpose and place in the new era of Hallownest.
They fail to cope in a healthy way, but then again, they are used to being a failure.
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Bookmarked by Ayce
28 May 2026
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In the defunct kingdom of Hallownest, the ruler solely in name humors its sibling, and perhaps itself. Mostly, though, it is stuck.
Bookmarked by Ayce
28 May 2026