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Title: R-Point Rendezvous
Author: iesika
Rating: Explicit
Trio: Cass/Steph/Tim (Batgirl/Spoiler/Robin)
Summary: It’s supposed to be the universal male fantasy
Warnings: really, really explicit, actually.
Author’s note: For my Ladies' Choice Challenge. This is the second fic I’ve written in this universe, which I’m calling Tim and Steph Do The DCU. It takes place prior to Best Boyfriend Ever, and knowledge of that story is not in any way required for the appreciation of this one. Also, this is not fully beta’d, but faile_neumehelped me catch a lot of silly mistakes.

Two hot chicks, no waiting! All you can eat pussy buffet! 

Why do I love writing Steph's POV? Because I get to use lines like the above.

Today is the last day of my unexpected vacation. I should probably have spent more of it doing productive things, like attending to the pile of dishes in my sink and the dog hair in the carpet. Instead, I spent the hour-and-a-half putting this image-heavy post together for scans_daily, because the issue I was referencing for Darla's near-miss (for A Study in Self-Denial), also includes this:



Yes, that is, in fact, Superboy in a tattered Robin costume, being supported on his way back to Tim's Nest and WHERE THE HELL IS MY PORN, FANDOM?

So, we may now know who the people in the Nightwing and Flamebird costumes are...

Okay, that means nothing to you. Um. Nightwing (Dick Grayson, the first Robin) was originally inspired by the Kryptonian story of Nightwing and Flamebird as told to Dick by Superman, when Bruce told him he wasn't Robin anymore because he'd picked up a hustler in Crime Alley (I love Jason, I do, but OMG Bruce is cruel). So Dick took the name Nightwing, and much later Bette Kane (yes, the old pre-Crisis Bat-Girl) started calling herself Flamebird. There's also been a few times, in various continuities, that Superman has taken the identity of Nightwing, along with a partner calling his or herself Flamebird (Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane have both filled the role).

Anyway, they've cancelled half the bat books, and we were getting teasers in the back with pics of a young man and woman who looked suspiciously like they ought to be called Nightwing and Flamebird - they've got very Kryptonian garb, and winged/flame symbols rather than "the S" ... And I'd been getting a bit flaily in anticipation of the big reveal.

Now we've got this. (please leave aside the incredible stupidity of the "forced evolution" thing. Evolution: You're Doing It Wrong!)

No conclusive proof of anything, of course...but there's only one character in the DCU, EVER, to have Tactile Telekinesis as a power. A certain Kryptonian/human hybrid we haven't seen in a while, due to his being DEAD and there being a HUGE GOLD STATUE of him that FALLS OVER ...

I'm hopeful and apprehensive and confused and flaily.

HE TOOK APART THEIR GUNS! HE! 

! 

Don't mind me.

I have drifted from Fishes. I want to finish it, I really do. Comics are now eating my brain, though. I've mostly finished the Dick/Harry thing (which in my head is called Tom, Dick, and Harry, but I really need a better title than that), but I am still waiting on a report from canonistas as to whether my egyptology curator can in fact make a cameo. Babs is in it, and Alfred. And there is Threat of Zatanna or Dr. Fate, because Batman does, indeed, know how to ask for help. Sometimes.

As for what I'm not writing (not really, outlining and dialog, that's not writing, right?):

The thing where Robin (Tim) makes a brief jaunt to an AU where Robin Never Was (and thus everyone is dead). And kidnaps himself. And maybe there is crazy bondage/stockholm identity porn in the dark of the abandoned batcave, and Robin is facinated by all the places the scars are not, and Tim is facinated by the scars and the muscles and threatening crazy persona. Maybe.

The thing where Booster meets Tim while visiting Babs, and they *ahem* bond. Because their love is so breakingthelawsofnatureforonemoremomentwiththemantheylove. (No, really. They would be creepily perfect together. I can just see Tim making Booster take him back to Cadmus to steal specs and DNA samples. Tim was Ted's fanboy. There's been talk (all the way up the ladder to Chuck Dixon, actually) of what a great Beetle Tim would make, if he weren't a Bat.)

And it's just hit me that I have not babbled here about Identity Porn OR Boostle. Shame on me.

( You want to know about Identity Porn. I know you do. Also, there are funny pictures behind the cut. )
ETA: I was cooking dinner and it hit me really hard that I want to do a fic where Booster goes back in time just to talk to Ted before he dies. Like, visits baby Ted, and small child Ted, and teenager Ted, and so on. Spies, maybe, until young adult Ted catches him. Ted who's never met him, and Booster's in civies and 20 years older than he will be when Ted officially meets him. And they talk. Mostly I want the talk. I wouldn't mind a smooch. God, I'd break my own heart, attempting that one.

Man oh man, does Frank Miller have issues. 1-9, in fact, of All Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder. Probably the rest is nearly as bad, but I've only read the first collection. I just finished it a little while ago and O.o I had to put my reactions down because (I repeat) O.o!!!

( In brief (but not brief enough to avoid a cut) )

I...I can't even begin to discuss how...weird I feel after reading that. As someone said in a comment to a story I read last night (comment is what prompted me to go looking for All Star), "Unlike Miller, I prefer my Robin consenting."  I'd like to dismiss the whole thing out of hand, but it's made me think.

Bruce and Dick are supposed to be at odds with each other. They always have been. They represent completely different things. I would even call it canon that Bruce was an abusive and neglectful 'parent' figure - though I don't think he was (often) physically abusive. We've seen him punch Nightwing in the face when he was upset about something else. They probably sparred too rough when Bruce was mad about other things. We know Dick all but ran away to New York (and occasionally Metropolis, which is why I like Clark/Dick so much) when he was too young to be on his own and still searching for somewhere to belong. We know he demanded his emancipation, and we know how hurt he was when Bruce replaced him with Jason. We know how fucked up Dick is emotionally, if we read between the lines (or read him as Marv Wolfman writes him). It's sort of fanon that Dick is in love with Bruce and measures everyone in his life against him. And he's definitely angry at him, all the time, even when he loves him. A lot of people (including me) believe Dick kind of hates Bruce, deep down, though he doesn't know it himself. The people who make canon say it's all about adolescence and growing up and becoming your own person, but there's a lot more to it than that, and Bruce is nobody's happy father figure.

What's scary about All Star is that it makes a weird kind of sense. It brings all those nasty undercurrents to the surface. I'm still not sure how I feel about that.

I can't find a way to wrap this up coherently. Fandom with multiple, incompatible canons is weird.

Also, I made a couple of new icons last night, with comic scans. I don't know why...I only ever use the bookrat icon. Except today, because Robin being spanked was...entirely too appropriate.

Back in, oh, 2001? I was a chronic lurker on the comicslash mailing list. For some reason, I unsubscribed (there may have been decreased traffic, or increased spamming, I don't know). Anyway, re-reading my comics and working on the (still nameless) HP/Batman thing made me want to reread some older stories, and maybe find some new ones, so I re-subscribed and started sorting through years of back messages looking for the good stuff. Unfortunately, seven years in RL = 700 Internet Years, and all the links are broken. I finally got up to some more recent messages and found the current address for X-Men Slash Central, but it's old and full of holes. Then, just a little while ago, I hit a major jackpot. The Titans Adult Archive link still went somewhere - and it went somewhere with a link. A link here: dcu_slash_index . And from there to here: dcfic_index .

I now have ginger-lemon tea and Dick/Tim slash. Jessie is a happy camper.

And Dinah/Babs! (Theirloveissointernetcrush)! And Tim/Kon-El! (Theirloveissowearingthedeadboyfriend'sclothes)! There's a listing for Joey! And (Wah!Wah!Wah!*flail*) Alfred fic!

If I find Jim Gordon/Dick Grayson, so help me, I am going to wake up the whole house with my joy. (Is that weird? I feel like maybe that's kind of weird. But I want it so bad.)

Ah! And now this: marvelfic_index ! Though, aside from the Rictor/Shatterstar and the Iceman/Beast, I am not so much for the Marvel slashing. Oh. And the Gambit/Courier! How can I forget the Gambit/Courier! Now I have to go scour that list, too.

Quasi-Related Comicbook tomfoolery:

- I found my copy of the official Batman RPG guidebook. I'd forgotten why we never played it. It's soooo bad (but I still want to be Clayface).
- Crazy Crossover That Hit Me On The Head: Tim goes up to Westchester to see his cousin Bobby. If you get the joke, you get bonus points!
-  I seem to have every Mainstream Comic Character Comes Out of Closet issue, EVER.
- I should scan the relevant panels. At the very least, everyone must see Batman's abusive ex.
- I should also scan and share that bit of that Nightwing comic where Dick and Tim discuss Bruce and girls while blindfolded on top of a train. Otherwise, the begining of the HP/Batman thing might not make sense. Also, because Dick falling when Tim tells him his girlfriend is pregnant is one of the funniest scenes in comic book history.
-I wish I had more Gordon comics. I've got The Killing Joke, Gordon's Law, and all of the Officer Down arc, but I don't have any GCPD books, and I can't find Gordon of Gotham anywhere. And I can't remember which comic (I own it, and can't find it) has Gordon and Batman drinking coffee in a diner. It's killing me! That was such a good scene! Up there with Gordon "not seeing so well without his glasses" when Batman looses his mask in Year One.
-I am a crazy fangirl and you should probably ignore me completely when I get like this.

ETA:  I found Jim/Dick but it wasn't what I wanted at aaaaall. Stupid me, my wishing should have been more specific (I want 'Only Honest Cop in Bludhaven' Dick with 'Just Pre-Retirement' Jim. Okay internet? Dick is not allowed to be Twelve.)