Very_Tall_Rodent
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Memories Swirl Up and Collide by Rat (Very_Tall_Rodent)
Fandoms: Knives Out (Movies), Wake Up Dead Man
07 Jan 2026
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This is little moments from the movie where I want, ‘wow I wonder how Juds alluded to previous life impacts how he thinks and feels in these scenes. It must really suck’ and then I wrote all that down.
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Jud feels the fist of Monsignor Wicks collide with his stomach.
“You’re angry, you should be. It’d be dangerois if you weren’t,”
The Monsignor is speaking to him. He knows that, but it’s not just the Monsignor’s fist he feels. It’s his first fight in the ring, and it’s the fist of his father, and it’s the fist of the man he killed in the ring. It’s hard to keep straight whose fist it is because in the moment Jud’s mind remembers a hundred punches just like this one.
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Costochondral Separation by Rat (Very_Tall_Rodent)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
13 Sep 2025
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Tim is having a very bad not good time. He is struggling under the many pressures of his life and gets real introspective. And that’s most of the fic.
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Nietzsche and Batman by Rat (Very_Tall_Rodent)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), The Birth of Tragedy - Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche - Fandom, Philosophy RPF
22 Jun 2025
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Nietzsche ideas of the ideal for Greek theatre, a balance between the more structured Apollonian, and the more chaotic Dionysian. Applied to Batman: Killing Time by Tom King and David Marquez
And how Euripides and Socrates “killed” Greek theatre
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Frozen Pizza by Rat (Very_Tall_Rodent)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman Unburied (Podcast)
23 Sep 2024
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Another one of my food themed works. This one Barbara focused.
Chapter one: Teenage Barbara and her dad hang out for once and actually talk to each other
Inspired by Batgirl: year one. But knowledge of the comic isn’t needed to read this fic. I just like that comic a lot
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Mulligatawny Soup by Rat (Very_Tall_Rodent)
Fandoms: Batman Unburied (Podcast), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
29 Jul 2024
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The first chapter:
A young Bruce is sick and his father doctors him while his mother comforts him. Martha makes Bruce his new favorite soup and they bond.The second chapter:
A much older Bruce is sick and Alfred doctors and comforts him. Martha’s soup recipe is made and they bond.(Specific knowledge of “Unburied” is not needed to understand this fic. It’s pretty universal Batman but I’m in love with Unburied so in my mind that’s the universe it’s in)
Series
- Part 4 of Different stories Same universe
- Part 1 of Favorite Foods and the Comfort They Bring
Recent series
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Favorite Foods and the Comfort They Bring by Rat (Very_Tall_Rodent)
Fandom: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman Unburied (Podcast)
22 Sep 2024
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All these stories follow the same format.
A favorite food of our character is introduced. We get a look at the first time they had that food (then) and a later in life look at them with that same food (now)
Through the food the character and the characters relationships with other people in their life are explored.
Each story is in the same larger universe. But there is no overarching plot so you can pick and choose what you read without missing important details
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Different stories Same universe by Rat (Very_Tall_Rodent)
Fandom: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman Unburied (Podcast), The Riddler: Secrets In The Dark (Podcast)
29 Jul 2024
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All these stories take place in the same timeline/universe but they don’t build on each other in a way that means you have to read all of them or read them in order.
But here’s a timeline anyway
“What Am I” takes place mid episode 5 of “The Riddler: Secrets in the Dark”“What Are We” is set around few months after “The Riddler: Secrets in the Dark” and has Eddie Bruce and Barbara in the beginning of an agreement that Eddie will help them solve cases in return for a vacation of sorts from Arkham
“A Fickle Thing (Trust)” is a few months after “What Are We”
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Jud Duplenticy is seventeen years old and killing a man in the ring, he is thirty three and there are four dead bodies in his church. He is all the ages between them; broken, bloody, healing, holy.
Or: Jud Duplencity, before and after.
Bookmarked by Rat (Very_Tall_Rodent)
10 Jan 2026
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Father Langstrom is murdered before he can finish helping a lost boy find his way. Jud Duplenticy, 17 years old and fresh off a boxing match where he killed his opponent, is suspect #1. Benoit Blanc, not yet famous nor rich, has just come into town to solve the case.
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- Part 2 of Found Family Detective Agency
Bookmarked by Rat (Very_Tall_Rodent)
08 Jan 2026
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Nygma is very confused as to why there's a bird in the corner of his cell.
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Through a series of bizarre encounters Riddler gains a son.
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Bookmarked by Rat (Very_Tall_Rodent)
20 Nov 2025
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Leap of Faith by Arwriter
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types
13 Jun 2022
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Bruce knows this is how things will always go. No matter what he does, no matter how good he tries to be, no matter how safe he might feel for a few precious weeks, it will always come back to this.
It's his fault, anyway. He should have known better than to make Superman so angry.- Language:
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Bookmarked by Rat (Very_Tall_Rodent)
13 Nov 2025
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He wasn’t angry. He’d gone into this knowing Bruce was particular about his space, that his trust came sparingly, that things would have to move slow, but he’d like to think that he was past the point of punishing himself to avoid setting a boundary.
Or: Bruce won't sleep next to Clark.
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Bookmarked by Rat (Very_Tall_Rodent)
13 Nov 2025