Could you spare a wip Wednesday snippet, pretty please?
sorry anon from 3 weeks ago ! here u go. wip wfriday. wsbf 8.4 snippet, warning for mention of sexual assault
This new cell is not bare. There is a desk, like the one in Batman’s room. A desk, and a chair, and, against the left wall, a bed.
Heyyy I just hope that you’re ok and everything’s great for you!! ✨
awe thanks anon........ i will b real the mental health has been a bit 📉📉📈📉 lately. hoping things will even out a bit soon and i can get back to writing progress and also posting a bit more
“And if you could trade this one for the dead one, son for son, would you do it?”
For an instant, the image flashed into his head, seductive and alluring—Jason back, Jason home, Jason alive—before it vanished, leaving behind a young boy broken in pieces and Jason’s horrified expression.
“No,” Bruce said hoarsely, and it tore at him, but he could never trade one life for another.
“No?” Hood repeated, voice harsh.
“Because then I’d have no sons,” Bruce said quietly.
“Gave up on the dead brat already, huh.”
Bruce wished he could punch Hood and wipe the stupid sneer off his face.
“If I exchanged an innocent life to bring Jason back,” Bruce said, struggling to keep his voice level, “Then he would never speak to me again.”
I went down the Clark whump hole and found Lubania. My heart is shattered
lubania never fails to put me in the meat grinder
god i still need to make a lubania post
so in the original story, world’s finest 192-193, clark flies to Lubania (a fake communist eastern european country, because this was published during the Cold War) to help with a disaster, but ends up depowered and captured by the country’s evil dictator and put in a concentration camp along with batman, who had come by to rescue him. they are starved and put through various interrogations and tortures, and eventually escape by secretly switching places so that bruce sleeps in clark’s kryptonite-irradiated cell, allowing clark to recover and eventually bust them out.
in Superman Red and Blue, john ridley takes this already-whumpy original story and remixes it.
in it, an older clark returns to a post-communist lubania for the first time, ostensibly to interview one of its wealthiest entrepreneurs, but in reality to face his own fears and unaddressed trauma from his original time there. In this story, there was no batman to keep him company- clark endured everything alone.
It’s a lot of trauma.
the wealthy entrepreneur he came to interview turns out to be koslov himself- rehabilitated and made filthy rich in the aftermath of the fall of communism. clark sits down at a restaurant with the man who tortured him, did “things” to him - a man who has no idea who he is - and asks him whether or not he feels remorse.
in the end, clark muses on whether to run his story- an exposé on Koslov’s exploitative labor practices- despite fearing no one would care about it. Koslov himself was able to rise to power, to torture clark, because no one cared, or was brave enough, to stand against him. but clark makes the decision to publish it, because he - Superman - will always care. And in this way, decades later, he makes his own stand against Koslov.
and that’s the story of lubania- how clark was depowered, put into a death camp, starved, tortured, and heavily implied to have been sexually assaulted every day for eight months. and then went back years later to look his demon in the face, because the exposé he was writing, if it helped even one person, was worth reliving one of the worst events of his life. because Superman cares.
This is not meant to be a push for an update but I have to know: are you one of those unicorn authors that post once a month and finish their fics within 2 years???? All authors are godsend and I appreciate every single update I'm blessed with.
Idk about unicorns but I have been trying to keep to a minimum of one chapter a month! I’d love to write and edit faster but Real Life has been Interesting these past few months (health stuff, unexpectedly lost my job last September, moved several states and started my new job in January, which I like a lot but which sadly leaves me less time for writing than my old job). Up until around what will be chapter 10 I’m working off my first draft which I wrote and ‘won’ with for nano ‘23, so that’s 50k of raw wordcount. I really thought posting would go faster, but it was mostly written in a frenzy so it needs… generous amounts of editing. Once past that buffer I hopefully won’t slow down too too much since by then the plot threads will be threaded and it'll be more a matter of keeping the whole thing on the rails then having to hammer said rails into shape. I also try to have a few little side projects I can hop between and I might experiment with putting them on tumblr if I can find the time/motivation/work up the nerve to do so lol. Ty!!
[in the style of the Finding Nemo seagulls] Id fic? Id fic? Id fic? Id fic?
ok id fic!!
the backstory is over the weekend i needed a break from editing wsbf, and i found a prompt on the dc kinkmeme, along the lines of: omega bruce foils an assassination attempt on kryptonian ambassador kal. this is probably a one off thing in this verse, it is not a story it's just a little. warmup
1.5k, gen, superbat, omegaverse, i was gonna leave this completely unedited but @januariat as usual saved my life
WRITE IT!!! WRITE THAT SELF INDULGENT SHIT!!!
POST IT!!! POST THAT SELF INDULGENT SHIT!!!
READ IT!!! READ THAT SELF INDULGENT SHIT!!!
J'onn J'onzz in Justice League (2018) #16
Man, this guy is hard to please. Superman blows out a freaking star like a fucking candle and he's still like, "meh".
Context is that he's a stamp artist from the government and his first design was perfect, but Superman is very weirdly worried about him using that one- so he tries to convince him to draw something else.
The reason is revealed on the last panel.
Superman #91 (1954) "The Superman Stamp!"
i think we have a lot of media about houses that are alive and hate You Specifically for making it this way. what about houses that love you too much
the house is lonely, but not in a bitter way. "the house is lonely" as in the house tries to sing you to sleep with the voices of your dead parents, lower than you remember. "the house is lonely" as in the front door is always unlocked when you return. it's closed tightly when you try to leave. are you leaving? please stay. will you go? oh, please, come back. "the house is lonely" as in there are never any bugs in the house, never a speck of dust. there is only you, because the house only wants there to be you. when you leave the house for work, the neighbors tell you, the house creaks and groans and the metal twists into itself with noises so loud that it seems like screaming. "the house is lonely" as in the house owes you something for creating it. "the house is lonely" as in it doesn't want to let you go.
Psssst does the au superbat fic exist bc I waaaaaaaaant it
I want it too 😭 tragically it only exists in about........4.5k scattered scenes which I try to poke at in between working on my main project rn!
misc worldbuilding scraps that are currently rotating on the back burner:
Summary: When Bruce asks him to use some of the Fortress’s processing power for a chemical analysis he's working on, Clark agrees without a second thought. Why shouldn't he? Well, because neither of them know that linking the resources of Houses meant a lot more on Krypton. Or, Bruce accidentally proposes to Clark. Except they’re not even in a relationship. (...Yet?)
Author: @blorb-el
Superman and Wonder Woman production cel from Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show (1984)
Hi! I’ve been obsessing over your fic WSBF for the last few days and I had a question about fanart.
Are you uncomfortable with art of gore/injuries? I have some non-gory sketches too, but one that I was thinking of expanding is of the damage the c4 earpiece left Clark with. If you’d rather not see that, I can definitely just not post that one.
Anyway, thanks so much for sharing your writing! Hope this isn’t a super weird question :v
!!!i would absolutely love to see whatever art you have come up with!!! and i'm absolutely fine with whatever gore levels! thanks for asking!!
