vechter
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- DCU (Comics) (8)
- Nightwing (Comics) (6)
- Outsiders (Comics) (5)
- Batman - All Media Types (3)
- Titans (Comics) (1)
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stitching by vechter for 2mad4plaid
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Outsiders (Comics)
23 Feb 2026
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But isn't desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn't the object always absent? — This isn't the same languor; there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.
- a lover's discourse, roland barthes
Dick & Roy, post-Outsiders '03.
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plurality of a heart by vechter
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
05 Jan 2026
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A rope snaps. The break is the birth of a myth.
A bullet fires. The ricochet is the death of two gods.
Canon-divergent take on what happens after Bruce returns from the dead, and Dick stops wearing the cowl.
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are we keeping (our) faith by vechter
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Outsiders (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
24 Sep 2025
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KORY: The team is… concerned… about you.
ROY: That’s crap. You’re new here, Kory; you’ll learn that this team isn’t the Titans. We’re not one big happy family. But if they’re worried about my head and heart not being in this… about me feeling slighted… Well, I’m a big boy. A big boy who shoots arrows and guns. I’m here for the team. I’m here to do the job.
KORY: What about Dick?
ROY: He will do the best job imaginable. He will always give one hundred ten percent. Particularly to prove you all wrong.
from Outsiders (2003) #17
Dick Grayson and his violent deconstruction. A character study.
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do you ever think of me and my two hands by vechter
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Outsiders (Comics)
11 Aug 2025
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“Would you change what you did if I yelled?” he asks.
Voice full of promise, Dick answers, “No.”
It’s not disappointment, as such, that courses through him, just something terrible that already existed, ossifying in his lungs hard enough to make breathing hurt.
“That’s what I thought,” Roy says blithely.
Relief is a pipe dream. A brief insight into Roy Harper's headspace after Infinite Crisis (2005).
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shaking it off to find a higher low by vechter
Fandoms: Outsiders (Comics), DCU (Comics)
27 Dec 2024
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If he keeps this up, maybe the smile will reach Dick's eyes. Roy has to pretend this will work because he doesn't know what else to do.
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“The eye sees not itself, but by reflection, by some other things.” - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
In BoP #43, Black Canary tells Spoiler to “go back to the Batboys.” What if she didn’t?
Or, three views of Stephanie Brown, in a world that might have been.
Bookmarked by vechter
20 May 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
“She cares about justice,” she insisted, “about Gotham. She’s in this, and she’ll do it with or without our help. Keeping your distance isn’t putting her off, and it’s not protecting her. If anything, the scraps you’ve been giving her have just made her hungrier.”
“You’re asking me to condone—to accept responsibility for—a naive and reckless choice.”
“Is it that different from me, when I started?” She hesitated, stumbling on a sudden insight the way she used to sometimes miss the bottom stair, momentum propelling her forward. “Or Tim?”
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Cass and Shiva disagree on many things. Combat is not one of them.
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Bookmarked by vechter
18 May 2026
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"You think I'm... interesting?"
"Extremely."
"Hm," Cass said, trying not to sound pleased.
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How Not to Lose by Sineala
Fandoms: Marvel (Comics), Marvel 616, New Avengers (Comics), Doctor Strange (Comics)
22 Dec 2016
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Everything dies. But Stephen Strange is a doctor, and he does what he can to avert the end of the multiverse.
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17 May 2026
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He'd sworn it to the Illuminati: if he was to be damned, it would be by his own decisions.
So he went to the Sinner's Market and he sold his soul. What was left of it.
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All the devils are here.
Bookmarked by vechter
18 May 2026
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Buffy’s friends keep asking her for more stories; they run raw over Buffy’s every half-formed answer, and Faith recognizes protection when she sees it, along with some kind of fear. They’re afraid Buffy will tell her something she’s never told them, or Buffy will fall sputtering-silent in the middle of a sentence, her eyes unfocused, the shadow of her jaw shallow on her throat.
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“So I guess we’re even.”
“I guess we are,” Harper says lightly, and Eric knows that whatever’s between them right now, this precarious parity, this brief pocket of time where the two of them aren’t hurting each other, can never last.
Two lonely Americans, on the night of Rishi's wedding.
Bookmarked by vechter
03 May 2026
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Eric had been proud of her in that meeting, up to a point. Not that he’d ever tell her that. Pride is the kind of thing you have to ration out and drip-feed, otherwise the person receiving it will think there’s an endless supply. But there’s no such thing as an endless supply of anything.