All That: World Class
Fics with particularly good/interesting/detailed world building (mix of completely original settings, well-blended crossovers, & the occasional canon expansion)
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A Constellation of Complications by AuroraKant for classysleuth
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
02 Jul 2022
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No one besides a select few knew that Dick tried to solve the cases the people of the upper city were too busy to care about. Cases that dealt with the lower classes, the current addicts, the bitcoin debtors, the cyborg traders.
Cases like this one.
Or: Cyborgs are being killed in Gotham City and Dick is the only one who can find the killer before it's too late,
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Tony Stark and the Sentinel of Liberty: A Marvels Adventure by Sineala for Moonlit_Lampshade
Fandoms: Marvel (Comics), Marvel Noir
04 Jul 2015
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When Project Rebirth fails, leaving the super-soldier serum inert in his veins, Steve Rogers is forced to bid goodbye to his dream of defending his country -- at least, in the way he'd always envisioned it. But his prospects in that regard aren't entirely bleak: he takes a job as chronicler for Tony Stark, the former Marvels adventurer who now serves his country in his typical unorthodox style, hunting down mystical relics before the Nazis can find them. At Tony's side in the jungles of Peru, Steve discovers that the serum works after all -- but it works in ways he could never have imagined.
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It had seemed so simple: take part in a dangerous experiment for the chance to fly again. Instead, his feet are frustratingly on the ground and the closest he gets to the sky is the promise in Blue Lantern’s light.
But whether it’s chasing the impossible or staying ahead of all the forces threatening to crush him, Hal has an advantage. After all, he’s the fastest man alive.
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Give Thanks to Broken Bones by thepartyresponsible
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Batman - All Media Types
30 Mar 2021
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The bodyguard is incredibly well-respected in the superhero single parent community. He is also, Tony’s realizing, something of an asshole.
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Bookmarked by Scribbled_Seconds
10 Dec 2024
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M=(themes of) threat to children, violence & death
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There’s always been something eerily bloodless about Batman, like he tried so hard to build a defensive wall out of himself that he shifted, brick by brick, into stone.
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If you hollow out someone’s mind, what could you make them do? If someone lost everything, how much power would they give the one familiar face they saw?It’s that easy. That’s how it happens. Electrodes on bare skin, and you can unmake a hero and build up murderer.
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Sunrise in Exile by Ragdoll (Keshka)
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Doctor Strange (2016), Iron Man (Movies), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
16 Aug 2025
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Tony does the math and realizes their best chance to save the universe is by... not confronting Thanos on his own turf.
So he steals a wizard and a spider and a space ship. And he runs.
(Three humans and an A.I in space, the alien friendships they make along the way, and discovering how science and magic might coexist in a universe where they can be one and the same.)
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- 58/58
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05 Oct 2025
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(M: Violence, torture & coercion (& death) ch.18-20, 30-1, 37-8, 42, 49, 50-1, 53-4)
(S/M: (occasional brief refs/mild innuendo)
implied/ref.d c.90% ch.24, mid ch.27, (beginning ch.58; mostly vague);
c.4/5 ch.31 (not very long or detailed; feels-focused) )
S/E: middle third ch.36 (very long & detailed, skippable),
c.1/4-1/2 ch.42 (convo-focused, not plot-critical),
3/4-c.90% ch.48 (long, detailed, not plot-critical)