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I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-Nazi ones, which is great, but I felt like we needed one to show our support for the Jewish community.  

This Blog Is Unrepentantly Pro- AO3!

This blogger remembers when we didn’t have AO3.

This blogger remembers when we had to put disclaimers at the head of our fics and pray that someone didn’t take it into their heads to sue us for what we created.

This blogger remembers brilliant artists and writers getting decades of work obliterated on LJ because someone who wanted to tell people what they were allowed to create went running to someone who wanted a profit, and told them the artists and writers had been naughty.

This blogger remembers just how hard the creators of AO3 worked to build the thing we all seem to take for granted now.

This blogger watched friends dive into the creation process so heartily and determinedly that they all but disappeared from the writing/gaming/artistic side of their fandom for YEARS while they worked to make the archive happen.

This blogger remembers the sense of giddy wonder that there would possibly be LAWYERS involved, willing to defend our right to create these works, and not leave us hanging at the mercy of corporate legal teams.

This blogger is aware that she reads between twenty to fifty books’ worth of material every year on AO3, and is never REQUIRED to pay a penny for the privilege of getting access.

This blogger is aware that she will not ever see advertisements on AO3, and that her personal data and reading preferences won’t be sold to advertisers in order to raise the money that AO3 needs to pay for the services they provide.

This blogger is aware that AO3 is, and has always been, a labor of love; by fans, for fans, and not for profiting off fans – and this is what makes it unique in the whole of the media universe.

This blogger has NEVER taken AO3 for granted, and has ALWAYS been damned glad to have access to it.  Even in years when this blogger didn’t have the means to support it financially.

In a weird character growth invert of shitty teenager Fabian being embarrassed of his friendship with Riz, I want mildly drunk (but not drunk ENOUGH for this to be happening, really.) adult Fabian trying to get someone to stick n poke "I love my friend The Ball" on his ass at a college party and Riz SCRAMBLING to interfere and BEGGING him not to because what the FUCK

Love it when people write Riz as like an actual creature like give me chirping Riz give me Riz with a tail give me Riz who literally perches on peoples shoulders like a cat just like creature Riz rocks

I think part of what makes the McElroys so lovable for millennials and gen z is that they’re a REAL underdog success story. All the ones about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs starting Apple and Microsoft from sheds and Jeff Bezos starting Amazon from a shed are wrong. They all came from well-off backgrounds with upper-class privilege coming out their goddamn ears, but the brothers didn’t.

They really were just three ordinary boys from West Virginia, and if you listen to Griffin’s Florida State lecture (the whole thing’s on youtube) he talks about how rough things were for them when they started their podcast. He mentions how they were in mourning over their mother, fighting all the time, and ready to separate forever, but held on and decided not to abandon each other in the thick of it. And things were still rough, because their father had to work stupid hours at the radio station to support himself, and the brothers were trying to make it in game journalism.

And then they started MBMBaM, a goofy bad advice podcast full of improvised bits and comedy segments, and it blew up. They started TAZ, a fun D&D podcast where they played with their dad, and were able to bond together and let him retire comfortably on the revenue it generated, and now Clint oversees the TAZ graphic novel series that’s still releasing issues and spends boatloads of quality time with his three sons. Monster Factory is just a funny game stream where Justin and Griffin try to destroy character creators as much as possible, but it’s one of their biggest IPs. Their TV show was short-lived but explosively popular among their fanbase.

They sell out entire stadiums and Lin-Manuel Miranda plays them We Didn’t Start the Fire parodies as they walk on and people lose their collective minds. Tom Holland fanboys over them at SDCC. People come from all over the place to hear them perform, and that performance never got less authentic. It’s just three brothers and their dad being goofy together and trying to make each other laugh. And the laughter and love they carried for each other was so contagious that it made an entire world of people love them, too. 

Maybe they’re a bit weird, and their jokes don’t always land, but they’re not always supposed to, because it really is just a tight-knit family living in the moment. And in this world where our two generations may be close to each other but horribly disadvantaged socio-economically, the idea that these three boys carved out a way for themselves through the sheer force of their own happiness out of such a dark place is more hopeful than any “millennials are killing the mayo industry” article ever written.

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does bruce go to extreme lengths to continue the “bruce is dating batman” charade (like changing between bruce and batman several times during a dinner bc the kids prepared it as a father’s day gift or do the batkids just continue to assume things (like bruce comes out of a shower (is there a shower? lol) in the batcave and dick is just like “why did u shower here bru—oh god. ew! i can never use that shower ever again”) and bruce just rolls with it? lmao i love your manor-dad fic so much

Anon: I love Manor-Dad lets me drive the batmobile! On “date nights”, is Bruce ever forced to change multiple times between “Bruce Wayne” and Batman for his kids’ sakes when they check to see how the romantic evening is going?

Short answer? Because the long answer is still in the works just haven’t had time to write properly because of exam times

No because Bruce is resigned to his fate but he’s not going this far to keep up his kids’ make believe once he wanted them to know

But that’s fine cause his kids don’t need to see him together with his alter ego, they know they don’t have much time together and everything runs on a strict schedule

Stuff like father’s day? Bruce gets the late mornings, moons and afternoons. Batman gets the evenings and nights and early mornings

Father’s day presents are wild. Bruce gets arts ‘n’ crafts. It’s “””forbidden””” to buy something for him

Actually Dick just set the gift bar way to high in his first year by making a cake from the recipe book of Bruce’s mother

Jason, 12 years old: “What the hell, Dick? Couldn’t you have just bought a tie? Isn’t that what you regularly do?”

Dick, 17: “You habe no idea what to get him, do you.”

Jason: “No, I’ve never done Father’s day before, but I’ll outdo you.”

Jason recited Shakespeare.

The following kids all found their own niche of gifts to give Bruce

Batman also gets handmade stuff but more along the lines of

Dick & Barbara, age 14 and 16 respectively: “We solves your case for you, Old man.”

Bruce, 28, thinking off the high profile gruesome child murders he hadn’t even told them about: “You dID WHAT?!”

Dick and Babs meant the stolen cars on Main Street case

Ever since there is a “safe case” filing system for the kids to pick cases from

Other gifts include: new gadgets, cleaning up safe houses, outshining all the other JL side kicks and making Bruce very smug.

Also dinner. They get dinner in the Batcave.

They sat on the floor in the first year because there wasn’t a table yet. The only table Bruce needed were his desk and the one to cut up bodies on

Alfred threw a fit and ever since there’s a table

That keeps getting bigger

Jason starts calling it The Round Table by the once Cass joins. He also additionally makes Batman a glittery crown together with Cass that year. It’s pink and has plastic diamonds and it usually sits on the first Batman outfit in one of the cases

Romantic evenings Bruce spends by himself sleeping or working

Bruce: “Where exactly would we go for a romantic evening? It’s Batman.”

Dick, 10 and dedicated to his new parents and also 10/10 convinced Clark should be the best man at the #BatWayne wedding: “Fortress of Solitude”

So whenever the kids make time for Bruce and Batman, Bruce goes over to Clark’s or one of the safe houses the kids don’t monitor and relaxes for a few hours

Clark: “What are you working on?”

Bruce, without looking up: “Jack the Ripper copy cat case.”

Or works the cases he doesn’t want the kids to see

And yes, the older Dick gets, the less uuuh personally invested he gets in Bruce’s and Batman’s relationship

Batman’s nocturnal. He knows that because he could always sneak into Bruce’s bed as a kid and nobody was there

But honestly? Nowadays he doesn’t want to know why Bruce looks like he ran a marathon after Batman and Robin came back from patrol

Or what he was doing in the showers

Nay, nope. No interest.

It’s gross enough when Batman smiles whenever he sees the Wayne name on some project in the city

How can two people be so in love with each other?

Barbara: “Relationship goals right there.”

Super happy to hear you like this story! Updates will have two wait a few weeks rn because I have exams coming up in the next two weeks. Joy.

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