17 Bookmarks by Cirth
List of Bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
When Diluc was a child, his father taught him a game.
--
Diluc reflects on the nature of truth throughout his life as he forges a tentative peace with the best liar he knows.
-
BUT WHO CAN GROW ME A NEW BROTHER? by solistrix
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Batman - All Media Types
30 Dec 2025
Tags
Summary
There's no way he could pass for Dick’s actual brother and he’s got the face of a shell-shocked cartoon mouse — but not the cutesy mice, the ones in the old 80's movies that gave Dick nightmares as a child. That plus the fact the Drake kid’s got a thick New Jersey accent he can’t shake and that Dick doesn’t look grown-up enough to be toting around a preteen is sure to get people asking questions. Or worse. So Dick hauls Tim in by the strap on his backpack, steps onto the shoulder, sticks his thumb skyward toward the cloudless cornflower blue of middle America in summer, and prays whoever pulls over lies somewhere boring on the sliding scale between serial killer and snitch.
Dick Grayson turns 20 on March 20th, Jason Todd dies on April 27th, and by May 23rd, Bruce Wayne's ward-not-son is rattling around in the bed of a 1979 Ford F-150 heading anywhere but Gotham, New Jersey. Wayne money and Bat technology can't find him, but he's got a bug-eyed shadow and a raw Robin-shaped wound to haul across the continental United States.
or: road trip, coming-of-age, #Grief Fic triple-threat with a healthy dollop of early accidental Tim acquisition. or about as accidental as Tim acquisition can get
Series
- Part 1 of lpd road trip au
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 46,144
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 357
- Kudos:
- 544
- Bookmarks:
- 229
- Hits:
- 11,687
Bookmarked by Cirth
28 Dec 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
BUT WHO CAN GROW ME A NEW BROTHER? by solistrix
in-character dick & tim interactions! i am here for it. everyone go read it right this second
-
Tags
Summary
Flying back to Cherry Street, weaving reckless in the dark, it comes down to this: Dick is the only one of his siblings that Jason has any real claim on. Dick is the only one of that whole mess of victims to Batman's cult of self-immolation who belongs to Jason. Even more than that - Dick is the only person in the world who he shares a parent with, who knows what it meant to be the Robin to Batman of nearly ten years ago.
It's just not the same anymore.
So if Dick fucking kicks it, Jason's the only one left. Jason becomes an only child. Jason becomes the last of his kind. Jason becomes the sole keeper of that memory, of a brotherhood shared under a man who no longer exists. There is no way to replace Dick, because the world that they lived in together is gone, and can never give Jason a surrogate.
The Red Hood pulls the thread on a mystery big enough to bridge the distance between two cities, two brothers: The plot they unravel is far deeper and darker than a garden-variety drug trafficking scheme. A story about siblingship, hauntings, and rivers.
1. Ostium, osti(i): Latin noun, II Declension: Door, opening; (river) mouth; entrance (to the underworld).
Series
- Part 1 of these and other tragedies
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 110,375
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Comments:
- 1,134
- Kudos:
- 2,382
- Bookmarks:
- 1,242
- Hits:
- 74,576
Bookmarked by Cirth
19 Sep 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
door, opening
cowboysorcerorThe Red Hood pulls the thread on a mystery big enough to bridge the distance between two cities, two brothers: The plot they unravel is far deeper and darker than a garden-variety drug trafficking scheme. A story about siblingship, hauntings, and rivers.
1. Ostium, osti(i): Latin noun, II Declension: Door, opening; (river) mouth; entrance (to the underworld).
-
How Far Love Goes by BeatriceEagle
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batgirl (Comics), Robin (Comics)
01 Aug 2021
Tags
Summary
Plenty of family reunions end in fighting. Not that many end in explosions.
A mass Arkham breakout brings all of Bruce's children home, and with them, all the drama, secrets, and anger they've been keeping for years. Amidst rising tensions and a mysterious new threat in Gotham, the family has to work together to round up the rogues—and confront their feelings about each other.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 99,549
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 438
- Kudos:
- 1,585
- Bookmarks:
- 552
- Hits:
- 46,407
Bookmarked by Cirth
20 Jul 2025
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Notes
How Far Love Goes
BeatriceEagle
Summary:Plenty of family reunions end in fighting. Not that many end in explosions.
A mass Arkham breakout brings all of Bruce's children home, and with them, all the drama, secrets, and anger they've been keeping for years. Amidst rising tensions and a mysterious new threat in Gotham, the family has to work together to round up the rogues—and confront their feelings about each other.
-
Tags
Summary
Sabito stretches his hand out.
Idly, Giyuu studies it. The grooves of his fingers, the dip of his wrist. The small scar on his third knuckle and the meticulous topography of veins branching just beneath the surface. It looks so real, so alive—flesh and bone, sinew running under the skin. When Giyuu touches it, it feels warm.
—
Or: at night he dreams of Sabito.
Bookmarked by Cirth
27 May 2024
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Notes
evening | morning
Munks
Summary:Sabito stretches his hand out.
Idly, Giyuu studies it. The grooves of his fingers, the dip of his wrist. The small scar on his third knuckle and the meticulous topography of veins branching just beneath the surface. It looks so real, so alive—flesh and bone, sinew running under the skin. When Giyuu touches it, it feels warm.
—
Or: at night he dreams of Sabito.
pure poetry
-
Tags
Summary
Canute does whatever he can to keep Thorfinn, though it might cost him everything.
“You want to kill me now.”
The words steal his breath with their truth. Thorfinn looks at him, from under his filthy bangs, eyes piercing and bruised. Something in Canute’s chest flips over at that look, at how wounded he is. He’s broken. He’s been broken from the first moment they met, but now he’s lost even Askeladd to hold his pieces together.
“But if you fight me like this, it’s not fair. You have to wait until I get stronger. Be my guard until then, and I’ll duel you, warrior to warrior.”
Thorfinn’s gaze is unflinching. Canute reaches behind him and pulls the dagger from the folds of his fur-lined cloak. The blade is a part of Thorfinn, like the crown is a part of Canute, now. He hands it over, hilt first.
“Or, you can kill me today. Right now, right here.”
-
ghost by Jumpingjedirose
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
29 Apr 2025
Tags
Summary
“I don’t expect you to know me, and I don’t expect you to remember my face when I leave,” the man said. “While it has been decided that your organization has the most resources and money available to go forward with this case, there is a fear that you don’t have the tact needed for the mission. The skill someone from my organization can provide.”
“And what if we decide their help is unnecessary,” Izuku asked. He and Bakugou made a good team. A better than good team.
“If you do not want to work with us, then the case will no longer be your concern,” the man said, “But I assure you these heroes are the best. However, my recommendation, the one we need for this case, is on top.”
Both heroes looked at the case file in sync. The only print on the top file: Ghost.
Midoriya and Bakuogu are tasked with working with another hero in order to find and stop villains from unleashing a bioweapon, blind to the fact that the hero, known only as Ghost, knows more about them than he's letting on. He intends to keep it that way.
(in which Todoroki is an underground hero)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 259,133
- Chapters:
- 21/?
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 282
- Kudos:
- 693
- Bookmarks:
- 130
- Hits:
- 21,409
Bookmarked by Cirth
26 Jan 2023
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Notes
it feels like a crime that i'm not paying to read this
-
Tags
Summary
Alatus is tired of bloodshed. Maybe, now that his master—the God of Dreams—has slain an archon, she will finally let him rest. But though Decarabian is dead, the Gnosis is nowhere to be found. Thus, Alatus is sent to hunt it down—but finds something (someone) else.
Venti never asked to be a god. He just wants to keep his loved ones safe. But then he accidentally breaks a curse on a strange dream-walker, and their lives become dangerously intertwined. Venti can’t run forever. Not from the God of Dreams—not from Alatus—and not from this new reality.
-
Tags
Summary
When their bond loses the immediate context of volleyball, they're left to consider why it's still so vital and important.
Meeting again, by chance, six years later.
Series
- Part 1 of where the night goes & companion stories
-
Tags
Bookmarked by Cirth
04 Jul 2021
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Notes
don't mind me, just my favourite fic ever
-
the higher fidelity by birdsofthesoul for abscission
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
28 Nov 2020
Tags
Summary
Bruce goes sheet-white, looking like Dick’s just cut him to the quick, and Dick can’t help but think they should have booked a flight, discretion be damned. This — this is why they don’t do road trips. Cars are like confessionals, cramped spaces built for coercing confessions, and neither of them are good with words.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,601
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 96
- Kudos:
- 1,085
- Bookmarks:
- 313
- Hits:
- 7,414
Bookmarked by Cirth
23 Dec 2020
-
This work isn't hosted on the Archive so this blurb might not be complete or accurate.
Tags
Summary
The moon is white gold.
June night. Spill of the pure light against my sheets, shadow of leaves like black paper cut-outs. The warmth is hands brushing over me: the soft places in the crook of my elbows, the pulse in my throat. This body of mine, this green-eyed new me. Midsummer.
- Bookmarks:
- 1
Bookmarked by Cirth
13 Aug 2020
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Notes
this is so, so gorgeous. it was published in 1999 and the link leads to archive.org, so if you enjoyed it i would highly recommend you download and save it.
-
Tags
Summary
When Bruce Wayne barely survives a brutal confrontation with the villain known as Bane, he comes away with a broken spine and the terrible certainty that his days as Batman are over. An unexpected discovery among his mother’s old things might offer him a second chance—but at what price?
The story of a man willing to risk his soul for the sake of his mission, the dangerous creature he decides to call Robin, and the unlikely partnership that will come to shape the legend of Gotham’s Dark Knight.
-
Tags
Summary
Spock likes McCoy. McCoy won't take a hint.
-
Roadtrip Vigilantes by Beabaseball (beabaseball)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
21 Jul 2017
Tags
Summary
Bruce Wayne gave up hope, stayed with the League of Shadows, and generally fucked up his entire life until a little kid called Dick Grayson came along and saved him anyway. Now on Ra’s al Ghul’s shit list, they travel the U.S. in whatever car they can get their hands on, trying to piece their hearts back together again.
A slightly different start to Batman.
Series
- Part 1 of Roadtrip Vigilantes
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 26,337
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Collections:
- 7
- Comments:
- 106
- Kudos:
- 1,792
- Bookmarks:
- 549
- Hits:
- 28,806
Bookmarked by Cirth
10 Jun 2019
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Notes
bruce & dick are so perfect here. such a treat.
-
Declensions by dustorange
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU
29 Sep 2018
Tags
Summary
“My father,” Dick says, “worked the rope. It cut him. His hands were never clean.”
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,536
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 25
- Comments:
- 264
- Kudos:
- 4,568
- Bookmarks:
- 1,774
- Hits:
- 44,890
Bookmarked by Cirth
21 Feb 2019
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Notes
absolutely insane incredible work