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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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    “You realise you don’t have a monopoly on Dinah, right?”

    “No, I don’t,” Barbara agrees, her eyes dark. “I just have a monopoly on you.”

    Helena Bertinelli is a Formula One driver. Barbara Gordon is her race engineer.

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    08 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    Shaggy-dog, noun:

    An extremely long winded story, anecdote or joke, that – despite its excessive narration – terminates in an anticlimax. That is to say, that preconceived notions of typical story structure is, in itself, an undoing. That is to say, that the human desire for closure is nothing but a comedic device meant to humiliate and infuriate.

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    In which Roy considers the past 15 years and the concept of inevitability.

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    27 May 2026

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    There's no way he could pass for Dick’s actual brother and he’s got the face of a shell-shocked cartoon mouse — but not the cutesy mice, the ones in the old 80's movies that gave Dick nightmares as a child. That plus the fact the Drake kid’s got a thick New Jersey accent he can’t shake and that Dick doesn’t look grown-up enough to be toting around a preteen is sure to get people asking questions. Or worse. So Dick hauls Tim in by the strap on his backpack, steps onto the shoulder, sticks his thumb skyward toward the cloudless cornflower blue of middle America in summer, and prays whoever pulls over lies somewhere boring on the sliding scale between serial killer and snitch.


    Dick Grayson turns 20 on March 20th, Jason Todd dies on April 27th, and by May 23rd, Bruce Wayne's ward-not-son is rattling around in the bed of a 1979 Ford F-150 heading anywhere but Gotham, New Jersey. Wayne money and Bat technology can't find him, but he's got a bug-eyed shadow and a raw Robin-shaped wound to haul across the continental United States.


    or: road trip, coming-of-age, #Grief Fic triple-threat with a healthy dollop of early accidental Tim acquisition. or about as accidental as Tim acquisition can get

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    30 Apr 2026

  4. Rec 51

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    Dinah doesn't even know what the woman looks like. The only piece of Oracle she has is that voice, and meanwhile Oracle has probably dug up secrets Dinah didn’t even know she was keeping. It's something she tries not to think about, and ends up thinking about too much, rolling it over and over in her mind like a loose molar, a little painful, a little dizzying.

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    14 Mar 2026

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    Damn that Bartholomew Kuma! Perona tells herself she's going to haul ass back to Thriller Bark immediately. (She hangs around the castle for two more years.)

    — Pastel Goth Family, and the place they briefly call a home.

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    01 Feb 2026