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Third Wheel by Unpretty
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
05 Nov 2016
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It isn't quite a love triangle. For one thing, Clark's the only one romantic enough to even think the word 'love'. For another, Clark and Bruce would be beating the holy hell out of each other even without Lois' involvement. And if Lois was aware of the secrets they were keeping, she'd be beating the holy hell out of the both of them. Overall, Bruce's visit to Metropolis has been a mixed bag for everyone involved.
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- Part 10 of Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts
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- English
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- 24,305
- Chapters:
- 11/11
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- 1,076
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- 6,787
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- 836
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Bookmarked by MusclesMcgee
29 May 2026
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Stop me if you've heard this one.
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10 Jan 2026
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Merlin has waited for three long years for this exact opportunity. During a battle against the near-mythical Barbarian King Arthur, Cenred has Merlin's manacles removed so he can fight. With only two guards watching him, it is easy for Merlin to make his escape. He doesn't make it far, and instead ends up being dragged before Arthur himself.
(Note: You do NOT need to know anything about D&D to read this, I just thought Arthur would look hot in Barbarian Rage and this got out of control)
- Language:
- English
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- 48,287
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Collections:
- 1
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- 311
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- 1,893
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- 448
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Bookmarked by MusclesMcgee
04 Nov 2025
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Crash Out Crutches by FauxPause
Fandoms: Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics)
25 May 2025
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Dick Grayson has had a rough year. A Joker fanboy with a viable plot to break the Clown himself out of Arkham and corner Batman was a curve ball. The son of a bitch daring to wear his dead brother's face, however, was enough to send him over the edge.
OR: Deathstroke shows up late to recruit Dick and 'Crutches' finds the Red Hood.
Bookmarked by MusclesMcgee
26 Oct 2025
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The Cassandra Metaphor by writersagainstwritersblock
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types
16 Sep 2025
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Through the carnage came a figure cloaked in shadow, she appeared to move through the bodies rather than step on top of them. Even standing somewhere around seven or eight feet tall, she was far too humanoid to be a foe, they had long since abandoned their ruse of playing at humanity. She wore a cloak that appeared to dissipate and knit together like threads of smoke, the gossamer threads like the grey of a new dawn. Under the hood, he could only just make out her eyes, a clouded sky blue, pupils, and her gaze unending.
She stopped before him, their eyes meeting through his tears. There was no empathy in her gaze, only his own agony reflected back at him, though her hand was light as a soft breeze as she tipped his chin up.
“Please,” Dick said, even though he didn’t know what he was asking for: release, mercy, death.
“You long to go back.”
“Yes.”
“For a different outcome.”
Dick nearly choked on the word, “yes.”
“I can make it so. I can give you the gift of foresight, but I warn you, it comes at great sacrifice as it does for anyone else who it is bestowed upon.”
Dick Grayson may not be able to change everything, but my god, is he going to try.
- Language:
- English
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- 164,692
- Chapters:
- 42/42
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- 1,401
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Bookmarked by MusclesMcgee
20 Sep 2025
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The Wayne Inheritance by ohmygodshesinsane
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
03 Sep 2025
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In 2028, the world's third-richest man, Bruce Wayne, is reported to be critically injured after a jetskiing accident while on vacation with his family. The groundbreaking documentary studying Wayne's life, 'The Wayne Inheritance', is set to premiere a mere two days later. With Bruce comatose, it falls to his surviving children to navigate the revelation of Wayne's darkest secrets -- as well as their own -- on the world stage, and to protect the memory of young Jason Todd. It doesn't help that Wayne Enterprises faces a plunge in their share prices as word spreads of Wayne's incapacitation, and the company faces threats on all sides after a bizarre data breach.
In unrelated news, Batman is missing, but the streets of Gotham are suspiciously quiet all the same. Does Gotham need Batman, or does Batman need Gotham? In America's vigilante capital, something strange is afoot.
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20 May 2025
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'Magic is as much part of nature as the earth, sea and sky. Other sorcerers who sought out the circle found that their power developed certain affinities. Their abilities became tied to the cycle of the year. There would be one season at which their power was at its peak and another where it lay almost dormant. They became more closely connected to the natural ebb and flow of the world.'
'But?'
'But they were not Emrys. His strength is beyond anything in living memory, and the heights he could reach are, as yet, unknown.' Aglain spread his hands, his shoulders rolling in a graceful shrug. 'I can only tell you that the Tir Na Lei means no harm. Three is the number: the ritual is set. The circle will not call on Emrys again.'
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In a Camelot where Arthur is king and magic is permitted once more, Merlin's power begins to change. Can he and Arthur overcome the challenges thrown their way, or will their relationship be forever changed by the ordeal?
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- English
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- 52,083
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- 6/6
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Bookmarked by MusclesMcgee
03 May 2025
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The best-laid plans of mercenaries and magicians...
In the aftermath of the rout at Ealdor, a mercenary leader tries to hold his small band of survivors together and extricate them from the mess he got them into. He thinks he’s come up with a simple plan to save them all, but things soon stop going according to the script. And then they meet with a group of knights, led by a knight who calls himself Sir Andrew of Dollop Head.
Arthur decides, for who-knows what reason, that he wants to spend his honeymoon chasing a gryphon all over Camelot. Merlin, as ever, is tagging along behind Arthur, but his usual plan of pretending to be a simple servant isn't working. Arthur has been behaving strangely ever since their return from Ealdor, and Merlin is worried. On the road, they meet with a small band of riders who insist that they are also Knights of Camelot, and Arthur comes up with a strange new plan all of his own...
Finally finished!
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 56,614
- Chapters:
- 4/4
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- 2
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- 142
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Bookmarked by MusclesMcgee
14 Mar 2025
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Dick Grayson: A Case Study by writersagainstwritersblock
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
25 Oct 2024
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Dick rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. “I’m mostly used to sparring with my little brothers, it’s kind of just habit, and I was having fun. I didn’t want the match to be over too quick.”
“Too quick?” Derek asked, eyebrows raised. “I’m twice your size, kid.”
Dick shrugged. “So’s Bruce and we’re pretty much tied at this point, or at least according to the score board the kids started to keep for Saturday spars.”
“Saturday spars?” Derek repeated, following him towards the locker room.
Dick flashed him a smile. “What? Don’t have any weird family traditions?”
“Not ones that include hitting each other,” Derek said
OR The BAU gets a probationary profiler who is a little more than he appears at first glance. Or second. Or third. Just how many secrets can Dick Grayson be hiding from a team full of profilers?
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- English
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- 64,098
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 1,062
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- 13,767
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- 4,242
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- 161,557
Bookmarked by MusclesMcgee
01 Nov 2024
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Home. The word is given new meaning for five-year-old Emma when she's dropped off with her new foster parent.
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- Part 1 of Moats and Boats'verse
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15 Dec 2023
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Someone wakes up in a mysterious facility with no memory of how they got there. This turns out to be the ideal state of affairs, and is swiftly ruined.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 63,684
- Chapters:
- 26/26
- Comments:
- 298
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- 1,050
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- 300
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- 82,547
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01 Oct 2023
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It's kind of about fake dating and it's kind of about friendship and it's mostly about casual revelations that I spent time in Los Angeles, because that's my wheelhouse. Some day there will be a Sarchengsey installment, probably.
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- 91,726
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- 12
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- 546
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13 Feb 2023
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18 Nov 2022
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
Marcus Aurelius
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- Part 4 of The Hands of a Hundred Winters
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 282,490
- Chapters:
- 15/16
- Comments:
- 324
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- 389
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- 81
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- 15,867
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01 Sep 2022
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The Till-Then From the Ever-Since by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
05 Jan 2020
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It began, or seemed to begin, with Jason.
Usually that would have meant something in the order of fire and explosion and probably at least one gunshot wound, but for once (as Tim said, sourly), it wasn't actually Jason's fault.
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 29/?
- Collections:
- 7
- Comments:
- 2,466
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- 5,806
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- 1,517
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- 153,346
Bookmarked by MusclesMcgee
21 Nov 2021
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Prophecy is a strange and terrible thing, but the old religion calls for balance. And that means that in the end, even the old religion has to give back what it took.
"Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully you will find this to be so." (Marcus Aurelius)
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- Part 3 of The Hands of a Hundred Winters
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 193,459
- Chapters:
- 19/19
- Comments:
- 600
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- 572
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- 95
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- 26,105
Bookmarked by MusclesMcgee
06 Oct 2021
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Sequel to The Impersonated Self
<><><><><>“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus RexSeries
- Part 2 of The Hands of a Hundred Winters
- Language:
- English
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- 240,594
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Comments:
- 333
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- 805
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- 125
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- 28,176
Bookmarked by MusclesMcgee
07 Sep 2020
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Merlin falls foul of a visiting nobleman and Arthur is not pleased.
- Language:
- English
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- 8,591
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
- Comments:
- 86
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- 6,577
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18 Apr 2020
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Twenty years after The Great Purge and the continuing effects of a High Priestess’s curse, Albion is a nation on the brink of collapse. Not even High Chancellor Uther Pendragon’s Compatibility Regime can curb the plummeting population. To add to his troubles, his wayward son, Arthur, makes no disguise of his unwillingness to wed. With good reason. Arthur is secretly leading the Movement, a covert organisation plotting to overthrow the government and return magic to Albion. Not to mention, it’s been foreseen that Arthur’s future, his destiny, is an indomitable union with a warlock—not marriage to the farm-boy matched to him by Uther’s Compatibility Machines.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 56,481
- Chapters:
- 12/12
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- 1
- Comments:
- 376
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- 5,358
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- 1,433
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Bookmarked by MusclesMcgee
10 Apr 2019
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Keith couldn't bear a universe that didn't have Shiro in it. What he got was a universe that had a Shiro that no longer loved him. And maybe if it had been anyone but Keith, that would have mattered.
Keith, however, had made a promise. "As many times as it takes," he'd said.
If he could make that promise reach beyond the bounds of death, a little thing like Shiro marrying someone else wasn't going to stand a chance.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 258,953
- Chapters:
- 46/46
- Comments:
- 1,275
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- 1,481
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- 382
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- 37,394
Bookmarked by MusclesMcgee
02 Apr 2019