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"Kurt Cobain shoots himself and Richard Nixon dies within weeks of each other. Oddly, it's Nixon she finds herself feeling sorry for, imagining him all shriveled out and shrunken the way dying people are, old and alone.
She tells Beth that but she doesn't seem particularly sympathetic.
“People get what they deserve,” she replies with her typically ominous seriousness, flipping through the news channels.
Not necessarily, Rachel thinks, but she doesn't say it."
Beth and Rachel, ten years later. 1994
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- Part 5 of Deconstruction Outtakes
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09 Jul 2026
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The Last Kings of Babylon by 0661072
Fandoms: All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder - Frank Miller (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
09 Jun 2026
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The god's honest truth is that when she first took Rachel in, the thought never crossed her mind. It had certainly crossed her mind that somebody else might get it in their head, but Rachel was twelve at the time and all doughy and flat the way kids are, basically interchangeable with a boy. So, while she was aware some people were perverts who were into the braces and Tiger Beat thing, she was not.
It's worth noting at this point that Beth's convinced models, heiresses and pop stars to let her put her hands up their dresses in questionably polite places and doesn't need to con it out of jailbait to supplement.
For the record.
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09 Jul 2026
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Rachel breaks up with her boyfriend, has a sexuality crisis, and instigates a one-sided game of gay chicken with her former legal guardian. Not exactly in that order.
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09 Jul 2026
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the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body by klose
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics)
08 Sep 2025
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"I didn't want you to be alone on your birthday," Dick whispers. "Which is stupid, because there are so many other people—"
Bruce doesn't let him finish. "None of them are you. And I was alone. And miserable. Until you arrived."
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- Part 4 of New 52
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01 Mar 2026
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even good boys bleed by klose
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
10 Nov 2025
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After Damian is badly hurt, and Talia berates Dick for it, Dick retreats to Bludhaven and falls into a low-key depressive spiral. Bruce eventually turns up. They talk, among other things. A handkerchief is involved.
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An unhinged response to/processing of these comics that really tested me as someone who believes so much in Dick Grayson’s importance to Batman:
“You're not [Damian’s] family. You're not anyone's family, Grayson.” (Talia in Batman: Urban Legends #20, “My Son”)
“If I were to choose a canvas on which to build a perfect partner, it would look like Harper Row.” (Bruce in Batman & Robin Eternal #21)
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01 Mar 2026