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  1. Rec 4

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    Bruce Wayne wears a thousand masks—billionaire, playboy, savior, ghost. None of them fit quite right.
    Clark Kent only wears one, and even that feels like a lie.

    They’ve crossed paths at fundraisers, galas, and crime scenes. Different people, same emotions.

    What began as fleeting glances and heat-pressed bodies in darkened hallways becomes something else—something neither of them know how to name.

    Clark wants more.
    Bruce only knows how to pull away.

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    14 Dec 2025

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    Really interesting first chapter

  2. Rec *

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    Swanwick gave Bruce a level, unamused look. "Mr. Wayne," he said. "Please tell me you know why you're here."

    Bruce shrugged. "Won the lottery, and first-place prize is the government marries me off to an alien."

    (Or: in a universe where Krypton took an extra thirty-odd years to implode, Kal-El was sent to Earth as an adult, in advance of the ship containing the only other surviving Kryptonians; and a quirk of Kryptonian law means negotiating refuge, potential resettlement, and an alliance with the Kryptonians in general is dependent on marriage between a Kryptonian and a human. Bruce did what it took to make sure that that human would be him, instead of some poor unprepared civilian—but his efforts to learn more about the aliens, what they want and why they're here, and how, if necessary, to kill them ... don't go the way he's expecting them to.)

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    08 Dec 2025

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    Really really really good

  3. Rec 36

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    “Why would I? You know damn well, Clark. Why the hell wouldn’t I? I can’t be Batman anymore, and what the fuck is Bruce Wayne any good for? I don’t want to be Bruce, and— and if I’m not Batman and I don’t want to be Bruce, what else is left?”

    Clark feels like his ribcage is being pulled apart, like someone has wedged the jaws of life between his bones and nicked his heart in the process. His chest is flooding, and it’s difficult to speak when his throat is filled with blood.

    “Be Dick’s father,” he says, quietly, desperately, frantically. “Be his father, Bruce. He needs you.”

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    Or: A man who has spent his life in mourning never quite learned how to grieve.

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    13 Oct 2025

  4. Rec 13

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    The man swings—can’t do that without a beating heart—and Batman’s foot collides with his chest. It sends the man careening to the ground, a resounding crack filling the alley as head meets stone but his chest still rises and falls. It rises and falls. In the recording, the man’s chest is still rising and still falling—can’t do that without a beating heart.

    He pulls the gauntlet logs up again. The pulse was fast but not alarmingly so, and most importantly, definitely there.

    He did not kill anybody. He is sure of this, and yet—

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    Or: Bruce knows that he didn't kill anybody. He really does. But would it really hurt just to make sure?

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    13 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 96

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    Forty was an achievement. One that many people never could achieve.

    Bruce's made it past his sixteenth, his twenty-first, and his thirtieth. They didn't fly past him, but he did it.

    He'll do it again. Had to.

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    21 Sep 2025