here’s a compilation of all of my prompt fills from @batmanbingo2020! thank you to everyone who sent requests! 💙
Follow the links below to read the prompt fills on tumblr, or read them on AO3 here
Reverse Age with Damian, Jason, and Tim
Panic Attack with Dick and Roy
Breakdown with Bruce and Jason
Summer with Dick, Damian, and Bruce
Joins the Family Early with Dick and Damian
Illness with Dick, Damian, and Bruce
happy birthday to tim drake, but not ur tim drake, the one that lives inside of MY head and only MY head <3
this is so awesome. no more tv no more shows, lets all start reading books again. booktok losers dni
hi everyone! so i recently went through and deleted all of the remaining prompt requests i had sitting around. i just didn’t see myself getting around to them, and they’ve honestly been sitting in my drafts for way too long and having to look at them all the time was starting to bother me. sorry to anyone who’s disappointed that i didn’t write something for their prompt, but i will probably take prompts again in the future when i have fewer wips and more time!
and also thank you to everyone who has sent me prompts, i really enjoy getting them 💙
i can't believe alfred saw this and then let dick briefly believe tim was dead
ref panel + extra:
and here it is at long last, the very last Batman Bingo prompt! thank you @amararae12 for the prompt request, and thank you to @minnow-doodle-doo for the beta!
i hope you enjoy the fic!
When Dick was fifteen, he, Roy, and Donna went sledding together.
Gotham had been hit by a huge snowstorm the night before, leaving the city covered in a good two feet of snow. He was texting in one of the Teen Titans group chats while running some analyses in the Batcave, and somehow, they ended up talking about happy childhood winter memories. Dick doesn’t remember who had brought up sledding, but soon, he was racing upstairs to ask Alfred if Donna and Roy—the only two who were available—could come over.
Alfred, always one to encourage socializing with his peers outside of crime-fighting, had said yes.
The three of them sled down the hills at the back of the Wayne property all afternoon. They hadn’t stopped until Dick’s sled hit a patch of ice that sent him crashing through an ice-covered pond.
He doesn’t remember being under the frigid water long, but he got a case of mild hypothermia out of it anyway—and later, he would learn, an ear infection. As annoying as the incident was, he wasn’t unaccustomed to going for dips in cold bodies of water and coming out with hypothermia. And all things considered, that time around wasn’t so bad. No one yelled at him or blamed him for the accident (well—not until a few days later when Bruce came back home from his League mission), and he got to watch movies with two of his best friends while drinking hot chocolate.
It was a fun afternoon, and it remains a nice memory.
Dick’s had hypothermia a few more times since then (one of the many hazards of his night job). He doesn’t always think of that afternoon when he gets hypothermia, but tonight he will. Maybe it’s because of the uncanny similarities between that time and the one that will happen in just a few minutes. Or maybe it’s because he misses Donna, and lately, everything reminds him of her.
people who think writers are in control of the story clearly have never spoken to a writer
hey is anyone around for a quick beta? i have a 1.5k one-shot where Dick gets hypothermia, and i’d really appreciate it if someone could look it over!
Anonymous asked:
Hiii hello, just wanted to say I read your farm au on ao3 and I absolutely loved it!! Your writing is literally chefs kiss 👩🍳💋‼️✨ Tysm for publicizing your work :D
aww thanks so much, I’m glad you’re enjoying it so far!! 💙
daringyounggrayson asked:
hi, hope you're doing well! for the short prompts, maybe Dick is sick and Tim visits/checks in on him?
havendance answered:
Dick woke up and blinked groggily. The TV was on. He could’ve sworn that it’d been off when he’d gone to sleep.
“Hey.” There was someone sitting on the other end of the couch.
“Timmy?”
“We were supposed to hang out,” Tim said, still half-watching the terrible kung fu on screen.
“Oh yeah.” He’d forgot. “Sorry, came down with something.”
“I saw. You contagious?”
“Probably,” Dick rasped. “Worried?”
“I mean, I survived the clench.”
“Not funny.”
Tim rolled his eyes. “You’re no fun.”
“I’m sick. I’m allowed.”
“You’ll be fine.”
“No help from you,” Dick said.
Tim smiled. “I try.”
motleyfam asked:
Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗
thanks for sending this! here are my current top five fics (in publication order):
In the past I've shared other people's musings about the different interpretations of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Namely, why Orpheus looks back at Eurydice, even though he knows it means he'll lose her forever. So many people seem to think they've found the one true explanation of the myth. But to me, the beauty of myths is that they have many possible meanings.
So I thought I would share a list of every interpretation I know, from every serious adaptation of the story and every analysis I've ever heard or read, of why Orpheus looks back.
One interpretation – advocated by Monteverdi's opera, for example – is that the backward glance represents excessive passion and a fatal lack of self-control. Orpheus loves Eurydice to such excess that he tries to defy the laws of nature by bringing her back from the dead, yet that very same passion dooms his quest fo fail, because he can't resist the temptation to look back at her.
He can also be seen as succumbing to that classic "tragic flaw" of hubris, excessive pride. Because his music and his love conquer the Underworld, it might be that he makes the mistake of thinking he's entirely above divine law, and fatally allows himself to break the one rule that Hades and Persephone set for him.
Then there are the versions where his flaw is his lack of faith, because he looks back out of doubt that Eurydice is really there. I think there are three possible interpretations of this scenario, which can each work alone or else co-exist with each other. From what I've read about Hadestown, it sounds as if it combines all three.
In one interpretation, he doubts Hades and Persephone's promise. Will they really give Eurydice back to him, or is it all a cruel trick? In this case, the message seems to be a warning to trust in the gods; if you doubt their blessings, you might lose them.
Another perspective is that he doubts Eurydice. Does she love him enough to follow him? In this case, the warning is that romantic love can't survive unless the lovers trust each other. I'm thinking of Moulin Rouge!, which is ostensibly based on the Orpheus myth, and which uses Christian's jealousy as its equivalent of Orpheus's fatal doubt and explicitly states "Where there is no trust, there is no love."
The third variation is that he doubts himself. Could his music really have the power to sway the Underworld? The message in this version would be that self-doubt can sabotage all our best efforts.
But all of the above interpretations revolve around the concept that Orpheus looks back because of a tragic flaw, which wasn't necessarily the view of Virgil, the earliest known recorder of the myth. Virgil wrote that Orpheus's backward glance was "A pardonable offense, if the spirits knew how to pardon."
In some versions, when the upper world comes into Orpheus's view, he thinks his journey is over. In this moment, he's so ecstatic and so eager to finally see Eurydice that he unthinkingly turns around an instant too soon, either just before he reaches the threshold or when he's already crossed it but Eurydice is still a few steps behind him. In this scenario, it isn't a personal flaw that makes him look back, but just a moment of passion-fueled carelessness, and the fact that it costs him Eurydice shows the pitilessness of the Underworld.
In other versions, concern for Eurydice makes him look back. Sometimes he looks back because the upward path is steep and rocky, and Eurydice is still limping from her snakebite, so he knows she must be struggling, in some versions he even hears her stumble, and he finally can't resist turning around to help her. Or more cruelly, in other versions – for example, in Gluck's opera – Eurydice doesn't know that Orpheus is forbidden to look back at her, and Orpheus is also forbidden to tell her. So she's distraught that her husband seems to be coldly ignoring her and begs him to look at her until he can't bear her anguish anymore.
These versions highlight the harshness of the Underworld's law, and Orpheus's failure to comply with it seems natural and even inevitable. The message here seems to be that death is pitiless and irreversible: a demigod hero might come close to conquering it, but through little or no fault of his own, he's bound to fail in the end.
Another interpretation I've read is that Orpheus's backward glance represents the nature of grief. We can't help but look back on our memories of our dead loved ones, even though it means feeling the pain of loss all over again.
Then there's the interpretation that Orpheus chooses his memory of Eurydice, represented by the backward glance, rather than a future with a living Eurydice. "The poet's choice," as Portrait of a Lady on Fire puts it. In this reading, Orpheus looks back because he realizes he would rather preserve his memory of their youthful, blissful love, just as it was when she died, than face a future of growing older, the difficulties of married life, and the possibility that their love will fade. That's the slightly more sympathetic version. In the version that makes Orpheus more egotistical, he prefers the idealized memory to the real woman because the memory is entirely his possession, in a way that a living wife with her own will could never be, and will never distract him from his music, but can only inspire it.
Then there are the modern feminist interpretations, also alluded to in Portrait of a Lady on Fire but seen in several female-authored adaptations of the myth too, where Eurydice provokes Orpheus into looking back because she wants to stay in the Underworld. The viewpoint kinder to Orpheus is that Eurydice also wants to preserve their love just as it was, youthful, passionate, and blissful, rather than subject it to the ravages of time and the hardships of life. The variation less sympathetic to Orpheus is that Euyridice was at peace in death, in some versions she drank from the river Lethe and doesn't even remember Orpheus, his attempt to take her back is selfish, and she prefers to be her own free woman than be bound to him forever and literally only live for his sake.
With that interpretation in mind, I'm surprised I've never read yet another variation. I can imagine a version where, as Orpheus walks up the path toward the living world, he realizes he's being selfish: Eurydice was happy and at peace in the Elysian Fields, she doesn't even remember him because she drank from Lethe, and she's only following him now because Hades and Persephone have forced her to do so. So he finally looks back out of selfless love, to let her go. Maybe I should write this retelling myself.
Are any of these interpretations – or any others – the "true" or "definitive" reason why Orpheus looks back? I don't think so at all. The fact that they all exist and can all ring true says something valuable about the nature of mythology.
