Thingsareswinging
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On the television, the camera pans across Gotham’s skyline, and Jason’s mind goes blank.
The clocktower, Babs’ new base of operations, is a smoking ruin.
Scrambling up, mashing the mute button on the remote, he rushes to the desk in the corner, wrenching open his laptop, fingers shaking as he activates the nuclear option.
Putting the headphone to his ear, relief floods his chest when he hears Barbara’s voice for the first time in three years, then sours when he can process well enough to hear what she’s actually saying.
It’s not Barbara that’s dead.
It’s Robin.
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Dick is staring at him over the top of a beer bottle, brows furrowed, mouth set in a firm line.
“Jason,” he says, all serious, in a way that has Jason’s hackles raising, “don’t take this the wrong way, but…”
Jason sighs, internally. The pause means Dick’s making him play along. Which means it’s not actually anything serious, but he should prepare himself for a truly unbelievable amount of horseshit.
“Take what the wrong way, Dick?”
“Jason, are you a Friday the Thirteenth reference?”
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Mai, in a fit of panic, voluntarily joined Prince Zuko in his exile, before Iroh could consider making the same offer himself. Three years later, she regrets this decision.
“So…” he said, suddenly, stretching for casual and not quite reaching it, “what’s your guys deal? No offence but I wouldn’t have guessed you guys were Fire Nation based on your, you know.” He gestured all-encompassingly, but was kind enough not to point out specifics.
Mai shrugged. “His dad told him to go find the Avatar.”
Sokka blinked. “Okay? Why you two specifically, though? I mean your whole army is-”
“His dad told him to go find the Avatar three years ago.”
Sokka said nothing, but his expression was loud enough. After a long, complicated moment, he shook his head in something like amazement.
“And he found him? I mean, we got there first, but still.”
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It has been said that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the sons, but generally it is not meant to be the fathers doing the visiting.
In which Ozai's self-control is even less evident than usual at a critical moment, and the consequences are felt for years afterwards.
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Between Lions and Men by Thingsareswinging for TalesOfOnyxBats
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
28 Dec 2022
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Ten years after the war, an assassin puts an arrow between Sokka's ribs.
Azula reacts appropriately, for a given value of appropriate.
(AKA 'hey remember how the fire nation solves disputes using codified duels to the death? the fire nation does not have what we'd call a modern judicial system. I'm not even sure they have laws')
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The Life and Times of Grand Master Piandao by Thingsareswinging
Fandom Avatar: The Last Airbender
09 Apr 2019
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The Magical Adventures of Commander Rucks by Thingsareswinging
Fandom Bastion, Mass Effect
05 May 2012
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you're in ruins by massivdisaster
Fandoms: Dimension 20 (Web Series), Dimension 20: A Starstruck Odyssey, ThroupleWurst
02 Oct 2025
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The guy on the bed has pink hair, and he isn’t trying to get up. He’s just watching Norman with concerned eyes, and he pulls his friend back onto the bed with him. His eyes never leave Norman’s—
Hands.
There is a hand on his shoulder, and Norman thinks he’s going to die, and if he’s going to die, he might as well make it on his own damn terms.
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or: Norman Takamori, the Amercadian Dream, and the parts of him that broke because of it.
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Bookmarked by Thingsareswinging
22 Jun 2026
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He thinks, in the way that only the past-midnight quiet allows him to, about telling her.
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19 Jun 2026
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Bruce, predictably, is saying nothing. It’s a very productive nothing, that is saying quite a lot, quite loudly.
“Go make that face somewhere else,” Dick tells him. “It’s not helpful.”
“I’m not making a face,” Bruce says, lying baldly.
“You are making a face,” Jason tells Bruce.
“It’s not my fault there’s a ghost,” Dick says, arms crossed over his chest like he wants to pout but knows he’s too old for it.
“I know,” Bruce tells Dick.
“So stop making a face at me about the ghost!”
“I’m right here,” the ghost says.Bookmarked by Thingsareswinging
19 Apr 2026
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Batman ghosts up to the teenaged cluster, approaching from behind Chaps and his dance partner. Now that he’s not above them, something pings in his rolodex of faces- Wallace West in gym clothes, Roy Harper in the jean shorts. Queen, his email will start, followed shortly by In making my rounds though Gotham I happened upon your ward in an inebriated state and encouraging other underaged persons to break the law. I am inquiring as to if this is something you were aware of, have taught him was acceptable, or have given your approval for, and if not-
Batman clears his throat, and the gyrators turn as one towards him. Shaded by the improbable brim of his partner’s hat, Dick Grayson looks up at him.
Bookmarked by Thingsareswinging
30 Jan 2026
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love, and be silent by nichromefire
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days
20 Aug 2025
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Jason stares down at his script, feeling nothing.
“All I’m asking,” says TRAGEDY, “is for you to be yourself, Jason. Jason Todd has one job, and that’s playing Jason Todd.”
“Lucky for me, I’m a man of a thousand faces,” he grits out.
“And there’s nothing any of them can do to save him. Any story about you surviving is inevitably a story about Jason Todd’s death.”
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16 Aug 2025