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Like Fire in Our Bones by acuteneurosis

With all of the most important things in the galaxy literally exploding around her, Leia is given the chance to go back and help keep a promise she never personally made.

But then, for Skywalkers, saving the galaxy was always a family matter.

T | Major Character Death | Leia Organa & Shmi Skywalker, Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker, Padmé Amidala & Leia Organa, Leia Organa & Darth Vader, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Leia Organa & Anakin Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker & Shmi Skywalker | 153k words

Walk a Different Path by alexjanna91

Initiate Obi-Wan Kenobi did not take Master Jinn's last rejection lying down. With the Force whispering gleefully in his ear he decided to make his own way through the wide unknown galaxy. He wasn't afraid, though. No, in fact he was a little bit excited. After all, if he didn’t want to be a farmer and couldn’t be a Jedi, maybe being a pirate was his path in life. Either way he knew he was heading for an adventure.

T | No Archives Warnings Apply | Obi-Wan Kenobi & Jaster Mereel, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Darth Maul, Jango Fett & Obi-Wan Kenobi | 139k words

Queen's Gambit by bedlamsbard

Civil war threatens the galaxy. Hundreds of star systems have declared their intentions to leave the Republic and form a Confederacy of Independent Systems.

In the hopes of securing a quick peace, the Jedi Council has dispatched two Jedi to capture or kill the leaders of the separatist movement, Queen Amidala of Naboo and her lover, the former Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Into this period of conflict have come four refugees from another universe, fleeing a devastating massacre triggered by the death of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, secretly the Sith lord Darth Sidious, at the hands of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker…

T | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker | 354k words

trade your heart for bones to know by blackkat

A week after an attack that nearly killed him and his son, Jaster Mereel finds Mostross dead on a battlefield. His killer is a Jedi, grievously wounded, who Jaster takes into his care. By Mandalorian tradition, Jon Antilles owes him a life-debt, and Jaster is cunning enough not to let such a thing slip away. It's meant to be an entirely political arrangement. It doesn't stay that way for long.

M | No Archive Warnings Apply | Jaster Mereel/Jon Antilles, Jon Antilles & Jango Fett, Jon Antilles & Arla Fett, Arla Fett & Jango Fett & Jaster Mereel | 126k words

as wild wings follow by blackkat

Despite the council's objections, Qui-Gon takes a new and promising padawan before Feemor is a made a Knight. Left adrift after failing his Trials, with nothing to do but wait and try to adjust to his new situation, Feemor makes the trip back to his homeworld, only to stumble over a strange old lightsaber in an ancient Mandalorian keep.

Tarre Vizsla has spent a long time waiting for a Jedi to take up his blade again, but even with the Darksaber finally out of Mandalorian hands, the Mandalorian civil war is spiraling rapidly out of control. As a former Mand'alor, Tarre has an obligation to his people - one that Feemor is going to have to fulfill in his place.

T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Feemor & Tarre Vizsla, Feemor/Jaster Mereel, Feemor & Qui-Gon Jinn | 172k words

What Lurks in the Dark by DragonflyonBreak

A simple mission to check out an abandoned weapons factory turns into a dangerous fight for survival. Trust is broken, loyalties will be tested, and dark secrets are brought to light. Because sooner or later, the truth always comes out.

T | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Luke Skywalker & Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker & Wedge Antilles | 155k words

Who Said Time Travel Had to be Done by People, Anyways? by glitterinsect

“As for the whereabouts of the Chancellor’s assassins, no official statement from the Jedi Council has been released except that any information regarding these two individuals be reported immediately to the authorities.”

Two grainy images of their faces appear: Cal, sporting a new lightsaber burn across his face and Vos with his dreads flying loose and wild. They must have been taken from the Senate security footage.

“Did we make things worse? I think we made them worse.” Cal drags his knees up to his torso and hugs his arms around them. He continues to intently watch the Coruscant newsfeed.

“…and now, we now go to Reporter Delshie on Naboo, where protests have broken out across the planet…." Vos just takes another swig of his Corellian whisky.

Two psychometric Jedi receive an assortment of items from the Force. Each object contains echoes, or memories, that tell of a future to come. And it is a very dark future indeed…

T | Graphic Depictions Of Violence | Cal Kestis & Quinlan Vos, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Quinlan Vos | 128k words

War Drums by intermundia

In 4 ABY, Darth Vader lies dying, overwhelmed with regret at the impossibility of atoning for all that he’d done—it was impossible to fix, to undo; no apology would ever be sufficient. But nothing was impossible for him, merely difficult.

In 32 BBY, ten-year-old Anakin Skywalker wakes up as Darth Vader, his mind overwritten by the consciousness of his future self. In one day, Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi loses his Master, gains the confusing and concerning friendship of a 46-year-old (ex-)Sith Lord temporarily trapped in a child’s body, and is pulled along on his desperate mission to save the galaxy.

E | No Archive Warnings Apply | Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker | 91k words

walk by faith/tell no one what you've seen by Killbothtwins

After the end of the war with the Empire, Obi-Wan wakes up in his twelve-year old body. Now all he needs to do is convince everyone he's psychic, trick his Master into taking him on before he's sent to Bandomeer, redeem a few bad guys, and try not to have a nervous breakdown. Pretty easy. It's not like the Sith are lurking on the horizon, waiting to devour the Jedi Order.

T | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Qui-Gon Jinn & Obi-Wan Kenobi | 39k words

Divergence by mylordshesacactus

In another world, another life, the moment of hesitation goes no further. Bastila Shan, consumed by fear, raised from birth to place utter faith in the Council’s judgement, keeps her silence.

Lie feeds upon half-truth upon lie and each careful sidestep only adds fuel to the smoldering, bitter contempt. Shown no honesty, Revan offers none. Secrets and fears are entrusted to a woman with no reason to treat them as anything but weapons, twisted to pierce the hearts of those who pressed them into her hands. The last hope of the Jedi, used and discarded one too many times, kneels on bloodstained marble at her feet. The once breaker of chains, turned in rage to bind the galaxy, returns. The Dark Lord rises from fury and flame and it is as inevitable as the death of stars.

In another world, another life, the Republic falls.

This is not that story.

T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Bastila Shan/Female Revan | 12k words

Ad Utrumque Paratus by obeyingthemuse

It's hard to bring balance to the Force when the only method you've seen is your black-cloaked psychic cyborg sorcerer dad with a severe breathing problem throwing an old man down the Death Star reactor shaft. As much as Luke would like to see the not-yet-Emperor dead, he doesn't want to be arrested by his unusually attractive(?) war-hero dad and spend the rest of his indeterminate time in the past dropping Ewok beats in a jail cell. Also Leia would probably kill him. But not before breaking him out of jail.

So when the twins wake up on Tatooine decades in the past, they play it safe. They take over a planet, reconnect with their adoptive and real parents without weirding them out (too much), and accidentally cause the Chancellor perpetual near-death experiences.

Nailed it.

G | No Archive Warnings Apply | No Relationships | 44k words

Sticky Fingers by phoenixyfriend

In which Hondo Ohnaka (accidentally) saves the galaxy far, far away.

M | No Archive Warnings Apply | Obi-Wan Kenobi & Hondo Ohnaka, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Quinlan Vos, Past Quinlan Vos/Asajj Ventress | 8k words

Under the Cover of Darkness by randomlyimagine

Being pulled back through in time, getting to see the Old Jedi Order, Ben, even Anakin Skywalker, before he Fell…it was an opportunity Luke had never dreamed he’d have.

If only he and Mara hadn’t been pulled back in the middle of a mission where they were undercover as Sith.

T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Mara Jade/Luke Skywalker, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker | 57k words

Knotted Embers by sunryder

For most Jedi, a holocron was nothing more than the Gatekeeper’s memory: their wisdom left behind to aid those who might be able to learn.

But Revan – Darth Revan – had made his holocron in the old Sith way. It was his memory, and his wisdom, but it was also some small part of his soul which kept him tethered to the mortal plane. Some part of his soul that he wanted to share with Obi-Wan.

G | No Archive Warnings Apply | Obi-Wan Kenobi & Revan, CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi | 7k words

the kenobi conundrum by tennessoui

Acting as Anakin Skywalker's confidante is probably the most painful aspect of pretending to be kind and sympathetic Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine. It seems that every other week, Skywalker is in love with another paramour who will leave him heartbroken within months. And as Skywalker's mentor and father figure, it is Darth Sidious' job to pick up those pieces and lend a compassionate ear to Skywalker's suffering. Every. Single. Time.

It's only after several years of this routine that Sidious realizes that he can solve two of his problems in one fell swoop: if he can convince Skywalker that he is in love with his old Jedi master, Kenobi, then Skywalker will inevitably have his heart broken by the man when their relationship fizzles into nothing. Then his strongest tether to the Light will be severed, and Sidious can claim Skywalker as his apprentice.

Because surely Skywalker's feelings for Kenobi are not returned. Surely Kenobi has more sense than to be enamored beyond reason with his former padawan. Surely all Sidious has to do is push Skywalker in Kenobi's direction and then watch the fallout.

Surely. Surely?

T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker | 11k words

Blackbird by ThereAndGone

Hera and crew are sent on mission to recruit Kanan and Ezra, who operate as vigilante assassins fighting the Empire, into the rebellion. But Kanan’s dark past and darker tendencies make the chances of the mission’s success slim.

It’s a good thing Hera, Ezra, and the crew don’t give up easy.

M | No Archive Warnings Apply | Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla | 249k words

Will Save the Galaxy for Better Credit Ratings by zuzeca

In which Darth Maul applies for a loan, discovers a forgotten heirloom, experiments with space drugs, complains about his nemesis to a captive audience, and learns the value of bank fraud. Also love and friendship, but mostly bank fraud.

M | No Archive Warnings Apply | Darth Maul & Darth Plagueis, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Darth Maul | 19k words

four winds drown the hours by sakutsu

“You should pursue him.” It’s not at all what Edgar had meant to say. He says it regardless.

A look of surprise runs across Ranpo’s face. “What.”

“Your coworker. Dazai. You should… ah, goodness, I’m not sure how this works. But you sound… passionate. Perhaps you should nurture that.”

Bungou Stray Dogs | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Dazai Osamu/Edogawa Ranpo/Nakahara Chuuya/Edgar Allan Poe, Dazai Osamu &/ Edgar Allan Poe, Edogawa Ranpo &/ Edgar Allan Poe, Dazai Osamu/Edogawa Ranpo, Nakahara Chuuya & Edgar Allan Poe | 7k words

Self-Knowledge by Beatrice_Otter

A question of Kara's makes Clark realize that some of his assumptions about Kryptonians are wrong.

DCU (Comics), Superman (Movies), DCU (Movies) | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | No Relationships | 1k words

10 Things I Hate About Sex by blueyeti

Damian felt like this obsession with sex and romance was some long con being played on him by the entire school, and he was reaching an untenable level of frustration with the irrational behaviour of his supposed 'peers'.

On a Bat Family movie night, Damian finally figured out the right question to ask, to finally get answers to why all the other teenage boys at Gotham Academy were obsessed with sex.

Batman - All Media Types | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Stephanie Brown/Cassandra Cain, Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne, Jason Todd & Damian Wayne | 6k words

Your Name Carved in Stone by Cirth

“Think clean thoughts, Robin.”

It was an outrageously old-fashioned choice of words, and it took Damian a few moments to realise, with creeping embarrassment, what his father meant.

DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Super Sons (Comics) | T | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Jonathan Kent/Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne | 10k words

break your throne, cut your hair by dukeaubergine

Ra’s thought he could force Tim into marriage with an ancient magical artifact. He didn’t account for the magic recognizing his daughter’s protégé as a potential alternate groom.

Tim and Jason just have to survive the one-month engagement period without getting kidnapped, killed, or outed as fakers to the press. Then survive any assassins gate-crashing the wedding. Piece of cake, right?

…This might be easier if they’d actually tell the rest of the Bats what’s really going on.

Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics) | E | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Batfamily Members & Tim Drake, Batfamily Members & Jason Todd | 125k words

Nothing Personal by firefright, Skalidra

Jason's never been that interested in sex, except as a tool to help him get what he wants and a way to please the people around him. What he does enjoy, however, is the part that comes before it (especially being treated with a firm hand). Finding someone willing to understand and respect both those aspects of himself has always seemed impossible, though. That is, until Slade comes along.

DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types | M | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Jason Todd/Slade Wilson | 5k words

Nonfatal Impartiality by GeneratorCat

He’s been trying this new thing where he lets himself have what he wants without over-analyzing every little thing or what his desires say about him as a person. If he wants to spend a day literally doing nothing but reading young adult dystopian novels, that’s fine. If he wants to ride out to the country and sit on the side of a dirt road next to a cornfield, that’s fine. If he wants to spend an hour teasing himself before he jacks off, that’s fine. It’s also fine if he wants to go two months without touching himself. It doesn’t make him weird.

He’s been taking each day as it comes and learning about himself, learning that he’s different from what everyone thinks of as Jason Todd. Different from what he thought was Jason Todd.

Batman (Comics) | E | No Archive Warnings Apply | Tim Drake/Jason Todd | 10k words

Hot Chocolate and Fruitcake by HermesDay

"Tim," Barbara said. "Do you know what asexual means?"

"Immaculate conception," Tim replied. "Fact: the Virgin Mary was an amoeba."

Batman - All Media Types | G | No Archive Warnings Apply | Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson | 6k words

your most beautiful by holyarcana

“I want this,” he says, clasps Kyle’s right hand between his own. “And this,” leans in, knocks their foreheads together, watches Kyle laugh. “Our team-ups, and movie nights, and awkward diner almost-dates— I want those still, desperately.”

Connor Hawke and the art of longing.

Green Arrow (Comics) | G | No Archive Warnings Apply | Connor Hawke/Kyle Rayner | 1k words

Reciprocation (or: Sex as Violence) by Honorable_mention

Sex was a lot like violence. It was all about who held the power.

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Or: Jason's always had a complicated relationship with sex. Despite his best efforts, it might finally be time to explore it.

Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics) | M | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Dick Grayson & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Damian Wayne, Roy Harper/Jason Todd, Roy Harper & Jason Todd | 6k words

we show off our different scarlet letters (trust me mine is better) by lostandlonelybirds (RUNNFROMTHEAK)

He gets called things, sometimes. Slut when Mirage tricks him. Cheater when Barbara tells others about her suspicions, her doubts and feelings. Whore when it’s a villain pissed he took out their goons and they’re aiming below the belt. Playboy by magazines, and bicycle by the younger generation because “everyone gets a ride”. They hurt the way most things do, and they each hurt in a different way because he’s broken and he’s tattered and he loves but not the way you’re meant to, because it’s not nature or an inferno or something out of a Greek myth. It’s not possession or jealousy or the need to lock it down.

It’s different. It’s not supposed to be.

Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), Teen Titans (Comics), Titans (Comics) | M | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Dick Grayson/Jason Todd, Dick Grayson/Other(s) | 3k words

Think of Me by Luvo

“Any…life updates?” Bruce asks hopefully.

“Like what?”

“I don’t know. Do you maybe…is there a girl?”

Jason feels his face heat. He does his best to ignore Tim, Steph, and Cass snickering as he asks, “Seriously?”

Bruce looks down. He looks back up.

“A boy?” he tries.

Jason’s fork clatters to his plate. “Dad!” he hisses.

Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Connor Hawke & Jason Todd, Cassandra Cain & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Jason Todd | 5k words

where the emperor's clothes went by Mayarenerose

“You know no one cares right,” Roy says, when he’s finished. He pauses for a while and just looks at Dick. His eyes are older than his face and shrewd. “You’ve been down for a while now and we just wanted to cheer you up. We fucked up with that, but we don’t care if you don’t like the kissing thing.”

“I know,” Dick says.

“We love you,” Roy says. “We just want you to be happy.”

Dick doesn't answer. He doesn't know what to say.

“We don’t care,” Roy says again.

“I care,” Dick says. “It’s stupid and I don’t get it, but I care. I just want to figure out what to do.”

In which Dick discovers bits about himself and learns to be okay with it.

DCU (Comics) | T | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Bruce Wayne & Dick Grayson, Dick Grayson & The Titans | 15k words

my body is an orphanage (we take everyone in) by mitzvahmelting

He can stand in a room with the League members and receive surreptitious glances from each one of them individually, each one of them trying to communicate with the intensity of their eyes some sort of camaraderie with Bruce, us against the world, which would be funny, would be far less bitter and ironic, if he wasn’t so desperate to affirm with each of them in turn, yes, you are my friend, for better or for worse.

So he lets them have sex with him because it seems like that means a lot to them.

Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types | M | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Oliver Queen/Bruce Wayne, Diana/Bruce Wayne, Hal Jordan/Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne | 4k words

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow by poisonivory

After years in the future with the Legion of Super-Heroes, Jon is finally back in Damian's life, and Damian's determined to keep him in this century. If that means a little fooling around between friends, so be it. It doesn't have to mean anything.

(It just might mean everything.)

DCU (Comics), Super Sons (Comics), Superman (Comics), Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics) | E | No Archive Warnings Apply | Jonathan Samuel Kent/Damian Wayne | 46k words

if I'm being honest I never thought I'd have this by Poteto

Fives times Mia doesn't talk to Connor + one time she listens to her brother.

Green Arrow (Comics) | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Mia Dearden & Connor Hawke | 5k words

our love was built outside these walls by Shenanigans

Connor Hawke loves Kyle in a clean simple way, but he can't help but think it's not enough. He can see Kyle look, can feel Kyle need more than he knows how to give. He can't find the touch, the words, to make the mess Kyle needs to be.

He asks the people he trusts for help.

DCU (Comics), Green Arrow (Comics), Green Lantern (Comics), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics) | E | No Archive Warnings Apply | Connor Hawke/Kyle Rayner, Roy Harper/Jason Todd, Roy Harper/Kyle Rayner/Jason Todd | 22k words

Kerosene and Flame by Sohotthateveryonedied

Jason chews his cheek. How is he supposed to explain his sexuality to an alien whose first language is touch? Part of Kori’s culture revolves around physical intimacy, sharing oneself with another as a means of connection.

“I don’t exactly…feel things the way you do, Kori,” he starts. “You’re a very tactile person. You like skin contact and connection and…you know, sex.” He blushes just saying the word. He pushes through. “But it’s not like that for me. I don’t feel sexual attraction the way you do.” He takes a breath. “I’m asexual.”

Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics) | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Koriand'r & Jason Todd | 2k words

enough by sparkycap

After trying to make his son relive his violent death in Ethiopia in hopes of bringing his other son back to life, it occurs to Bruce that he might, possibly, have made a questionable decision in his grief. Again. For once, he'd like to try to fix it before it's too late. Jason may have run away again, but he's still alive, so Bruce has to believe it's not too late. He goes to find him.

Finding him in bed with Roy Harper and Princess Koriand'r of Tamaran is an unexpected distraction.

Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics) | M | No Archive Warnings Apply | Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Roy Harper/Koriand'r/Jason Todd | 5k words

A Thin Line to Thaw by Terminallydepraved

The sound of a chamber sliding into place shouldn’t have been a soothing sound, but in the quiet stillness of the shitty motel room, Jason found it just that.

Batman - All Media Types | E | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Jason Todd/Slade Wilson | 3k words

Unsteady by withthekeyisking

Dick grew up watching Bruce take countless women to bed for the sake of the mission, and to get what he needed from different people. He watched, and he learned.

And maybe he doesn't feel the same things the people around him feel, maybe he doesn't really like sex, but it doesn't really matter. Because if sex makes people happy, then why does his opinion on everything matter? It's not their fault he's broken.

DCU (Comics) | M | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Dick Grayson/Various, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd | 9k words

poison spreading to my lungs by GallifreyanFairytale

Frieren’s fingers close around the flower. Pretending to not know about Himmel’s feelings was easier than confronting them head-on. She can’t imagine what may have happened to their party if he’d confessed halfway through the journey only to have Frieren turn him down. Himmel did his dance around her, and Frieren looked the other way so she wouldn’t run in the night.

Had he tried to chain her down with his love, she wouldn’t have been able to stay. And if she hadn’t stayed, the Demon King would still be reigning, with Himmel’s corpse at his feet.

on love as suffocation, and reciprocation as masochism

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Anime) | G | No Archive Warnings Apply | No Relationships | 4k words

Summer by Tierfal

People mean well, mostly, but he's alone in this – right?

Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | No Relationships | 11k words

Talking with Tonks by heliantheae

“What do you mean,” she said dangerously, “when you say ‘snowed in?’”

Because he’d known her since they were both very young, Charlie Weasley scratched his beard instead of paling, stuttering or otherwise apologizing for existing.

(Takes place a few years after the events of Speaking with Serpents. You don't have to read one to understand the other.)

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | M | No Archive Warnings Apply | No Relationships | 3k words

You've Got a Face for Radio by ckret2

The closest Alastor's ever gotten to romance comes in the form of—in order of increasing hilariousness—a couple of botched youthful attempts at kissing, cheap mass-produced smut comics, and the wildly entertaining tales of other people's sordid affairs.

He's never wanted sex. He's never wanted love. He's never seen a problem with this.

It's taken about a century, but he's pleasantly surprised to discover that the rest of the world is finally starting to catch up with his perspective.

More than anything else, he’s pleased that these new modern attitudes have given him extra opportunities for bad puns.

Hazbin Hotel (Web Series) | M | No Archive Warnings Apply | No Relationships | 13k words

(just wanna be) somebody i'm proud of by GallifreyanFairytale

“That’s nice,” Maki acknowledges, “but I’m not.”

Geto frowns. “...Not what?”

Maki looks up at him. “The girl of the group,” they answer simply.

Geto blinks. “You’re not?”

“Nope.” Maki takes another bite of cereal, amused as Geto’s face flickers through several different expressions as he tries to figure out how to respond. He opens his mouth, then closes it again. Maki would laugh at him if it weren’t also sort of heartwarming that he’s searching for the right thing to say.

(If he weren’t the only one who’d ever bothered to think through their response to Maki coming out to them.)

or: five times geto's students come out to him + one time geto comes out to his students

Jujutsu Kaisen | G | No Archive Warnings Apply | Getou Suguru & Zenin Maki, Getou Suguru & Okkotsu Yuuta, Getou Suguru & Kugisaki Nobara, Getou Suguru & Inumaki Toge, Getou Suguru & Itadori Yuuji, Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru | 13k words

like best friends do by valleykey

If I don't love Suguru like that, Satoru thinks, then I won't ever love anyone like that.

OR: stsg but make them aromantic.

Jujutsu Kaisen | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru, Getou Suguru & Gojo Satoru, Getou Suguru & Gojo Satoru & Ieiri Shoko | 6k words

The Not Your Teaching Tool Job by BlackEyedGirl

Parker doesn't understand why it has to be more complicated than: "I want to be with you, I just don't want to sleep with you." It's everyone else who has the problem. (Parker as biromantic asexual)

Leverage | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer | 3k words

Odd One Out by thingswithwings

"We should talk about Eliot," Alec says, at the same time Parker says, "We should have sex in a hammock."

Leverage | E | No Archive Warnings Apply | Alec Hardison/Parker, Alec Hardison/Eliot Spencer, Parker/Eliot Spencer, Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer, Eliot Spencer/OC | 27k words

A Year is a Long Time for a Break by phoenixyfriend

The lack of communication was what killed their relationship the first time around, and she's not particularly willing to try again, even if his feelings on the matter may be different. But they're still trying to be friends, and that works to mend a lot of broken bridges and make them closer than romance ever did their first time 'round the block.

Somehow, they always end up just talking on the roof.

Young Avengers, Hawkeye (Comics) | T | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Kate Bishop/Noh-Varr, Minor or Background Relationship(s) | 13k words

love is for children and other lies by Fahye

War is the child's emptiness, the surrender of identity, the transformation into a simple system: purpose goes in, action comes out. (Natalia Alianovna Romanova, and everything that she became.).

The Avengers (2012), Marvel Cinematic Universe | T | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov, Maria Hill/Natasha Romanov | 30k words

Everybody Wants to Fall in Love (But Not Me) by Willowe

Being aromantic was never a problem for Tony. He has a surprisingly healthy non-romantic relationship with Pepper and Rhodey and he's happy with that. So maybe that means he's also, technically, never had to come out to someone. That wouldn't really even be a problem, if his teammates could just get their heads out of their asses and piece things together without him having to actually say, Hey, by the way, I'm aromantic and romance-repulsed, just thought you should know!

Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies) | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Tony Stark, Pepper Potts/James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Tony Stark | 12k words

Ace of Hearts by beccadearie

One night when out with friends, Merlin meets Arthur and quickly realizes that they have something in common: they are both asexual and trying to make their way through life and love in a sexual world without going crazy. What starts as hanging out between friends evolves into something more, and Merlin and Arthur decide to plunge headfirst into this tenuous relationship of give and take between the two of them.

Merlin (TV) | M | No Archive Warnings Apply | Merlin/Arthur Pendragon | 32k words

What Brings Us Together by Asuka Kureru (Askerian)

"Oh," Izuna said -- delicately, while studiously reading his folder, "I'm afraid we need someone with a ... strong personality for Naohime."

"Why's that?" Hashirama replied, just as painfully polite.

The daimyo's mediator kept watching them and scratching little pointy words in his notebook.

"Because if your man doesn't prove that he's dangerous and has the personality to use it on her if she pushes him, it's going to turn abusive," Madara drawled.

Hashirama stared at him for a blank second. The daimyo's envoy stopped writing; even his stone-faced Aburame bodyguard arched her eyebrows over her darkened spectacles.

Tobirama stretched out across the table without another word to take back one of the folders Izuna had spread around him.

--

The daimyo is over the whole Uchiha/Senju war. They're going to become one people if they know what's good for them.

Madara hates it enough without having to marry a woman too.

Naruto | M | No Archive Warnings Apply | Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara | 6k words

Doing the Work by MarbleGlove

There’s more to peace than the absence of war. The work is as hard and uncertain as any Shinobi mission.

AKA: A highly self-indulgent fic in which a civilian woman helps an orphaned Sasuke and winds up saving the world.

Naruto | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Uchiha Sasuke & Original Female Character(s), Hatake Kakashi/Original Female Character(s) | 59k words

Your Moral Crisis is Stupid by etothepii

Sherlock is asexual. John is not. Possibly, Sherlock should have told him this before they had sex.

Sherlock (TV) | E | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Sherlock Holmes/John Watson | 8k words

All the Best and Brightest Creatures by wordstrings

Sherlock sent Jim Moriarty to prison for killing Carl Powers at age ten. This is the story of the consequences.

Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms | E | Graphic Depictions Of Violence | Sherlock Holmes/John Watson | 188k words

four winds drown the hours by sakutsu

“You should pursue him.” It’s not at all what Edgar had meant to say. He says it regardless.

A look of surprise runs across Ranpo’s face. “What.”

“Your coworker. Dazai. You should… ah, goodness, I’m not sure how this works. But you sound… passionate. Perhaps you should nurture that.”

Bungou Stray Dogs | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Dazai Osamu/Edogawa Ranpo/Nakahara Chuuya/Edgar Allan Poe, Dazai Osamu &/ Edgar Allan Poe, Edogawa Ranpo &/ Edgar Allan Poe, Dazai Osamu/Edogawa Ranpo, Nakahara Chuuya & Edgar Allan Poe | 7k words

How To Wreck A Schedule In One Easy Step by valleykey

No, Kunikida thinks with dimmly rising horror, I will not let the mom jokes be how I find out I’m a woman.

“Aaaa how scary~!” Dazai is saying, hand to his chest, dramatic dip to his tone, “Kunikida-kun’s really gonna get even worse with the mothering if this goes on, you know! Call someone something enough times and they’ll really become it! Look, he...no, she’s about to scold us already!”

Kunikida’s pen breaks.

/// Kunikida's egg cracks on an innocuous Monday morning at approximately 10:36AM. It's awful for her schedule.

Bungou Stray Dogs | G | No Archive Warnings Apply | Armed Detective Agency Ensemble & Kunikida Doppo, Dazai Osamu & Kunikida Doppo, minor Dazai Osamu/Kunikida Doppo | 7k words

tell me we do not live in vain by valleykey

Fyodor’s weak heart thuds violently within its cage of flesh and bone, ba-thump. Dazai’s knife kisses cold on the skin of their throat. They swallow, and the bob of their Adam’s apple against it draws blood.

“Alright,” Fyodor decides, “let’s find a way to die.”

// In the Decay’s aftermath, Fyodor and Dazai quietly slip through the cracks, and set on a journey.

Bungou Stray Dogs | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Dazai Osamu/Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dazai Osamu & Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 57k words

A hold on me by Anonymous

Damian starts thinking about self-identity. Things both are and aren’t difficult. Growing up is hard, you know.

Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | No Relationships | 15k words

loot my body by carolinaa

Jason comes back to life, and finds that everyone's mourning someone who never existed.

Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd, Talia al Ghul & Jason Todd, Roy Harper & Koriand'r & Jason Todd | 7k words

Spoiler Alert: It Gets Better. by carolinaa

Red Hood's been running Robin's Nest, a secret youth shelter in Gotham, since he came out of his murdery craze. He wants it to be a place to stay, no questions asked, with a hot meal provided if you stick around for breakfast. The kids of Gotham deserve that much.

Enter Stephanie, whose new name isn't the only secret she's keeping.

(or: how steph outsmarts her dad, makes gay friends, and gets the guy)

Batman - All Media Types | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Stephanie Brown/Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown & Selina Kyle, Stephanie Brown & Jason Todd, Stephanie Brown & Everyone, Stephanie Brown & Damian Wayne | 41k words

if you get lost (you can always be found) by corvidspectre

Originally, it was easy to believe it was just over-eager adoration for one Dick Grayson. It was too easy to believe in fact; how could he have known there was any alternative? Dick Grayson was amazing, all that he wanted to be. The way he flew through the air, his effortless smiles and energy, what young child wouldn't want to be him? He was just idolising him, and he was a perfectly fine role model for a young girl to have. Maybe it was just a blossoming interest in gymnastics.

It took Tim a while to realise he didn't just want to be like Dick Grayson.

He wanted to be a boy. No, he was a boy. He was sure of it.

Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), Young Justice (Comics), Batman - All Media Types | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake/Kon-El, past Tim Drake/Stephanie Brown | 34k words

These Twists and Turns of Fate by Hinn_Raven

To be born is to exist, but to live is something else entirely. Stephanie Brown falls apart, and pulls herself back together.

OR

Stephanie Brown is assigned a different name and gender at birth. These are the changes that result.

DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics) | G | Graphic Depictions Of Violence | Stephanie Brown/Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown/Tim Drake, Harper Row/Carrie Kelley, Stephanie Brown & Harper Row, Stephanie Brown & Jason Todd, Stephanie Brown & Damian Wayne, Stephanie Brown & Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown & Crystal Brown, Stephanie Brown & Tim Drake | 39k words

always an angel (never a god) by maruyaaya

When Jason Todd is twelve, people begin calling him the ‘Boy Wonder’ and while Jason is, of course, extremely pleased to have taken up such an important mantle, it also feels wrong in a way that he can’t quite put his finger on.

“Look at me! I’m Robin, the Boy Wonder!” Jason cheers the first time he has the Robin suit on, Dick Grayson’s old nickname coming out of his mouth with a sickly sort of feeling to it.

But then Bruce smiles at him like he’s finally done something worth being proud of and Jason feels like he can ignore the way his skin is crawling if it means Bruce will smile at him like that again.

He can change, can’t he? He can be the Boy Wonder that Bruce wants him to be. He can do it. He can be whatever Bruce wants him to be. It doesn’t matter what she wants.

or;

a canon compliant fic following the life of jason todd from birth to death to re-birth and their struggles with discovering who—and what—they are.

Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics) | M | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd, Roy Harper/Jason Todd, Barbara Gordon & Jason Todd | 69k words

by any other name would smell as sweet by misspickman

A dare and a couple of offhand comments set off a domino effect, sending Tim down one or two identity crises. Apparently everyone thinks it's time for him to do some self-reflection.

DCU (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Batman (Comics) | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Stephanie Brown & Tim Drake, Batfamily Members & Tim Drake, Bart Allen & Tim Drake, Tim Drake & Cassie Sandsmark | 35k words

myself and this body that they stuck me in by misspickman

“Oh,” Bart says with a hint of surprise in his voice. “You look so pretty.”

“I look like a girl,” he rebuts. He's not sure why he's even continuing this conversation.

Bart, blissfully unaware of Kon's internal crisis, shrugs and says, “Well, I think you'd make a lovely girl.”

Young Justice (Comics), Superboy (Comics), DCU (Comics) | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Bart Allen & Kon-El, Kon-El & Cassie Sandsmark, Tim Drake & Kon-El, Tim Drake/Kon-El, Jonathan Samuel Kent & Kon-El, Stephanie Brown & Kon-El | 14k words

Laying My Heart Out by rotasha

Bruce doesn’t have friends. Until he has Oliver.

DCU, Batman (Comics), Green Arrow (Comics) | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Oliver Queen & Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth & Bruce Wayne | 19k words

Prince of Gotham by snackbaskets

Gotham wasn't kind to its girls. Jason would brutalize it until it agreed to be. He only hoped it would spare him long enough to make it so.

Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Under the Red Hood | T | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply | Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Talia al Ghul & Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Gotham, Catherine Todd & Jason Todd | 2k words

A Deeper Underground by wormparade

“Hey Kim?”

He looks up from the game, “Yes, Harry?”

“Does…” You pause. “Does every man feel like a girl sometimes?”

“What?”

Harry finds himself out, gets a cat, meets new friends, and dances. Not in that order.

Disco Elysium | M | No Archive Warnings Apply | Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi, Harry Du Bois & Kim Kitsuragi, Harry Du Bois & Jean Vicquemare, Harry Du Bois & Original Female Character | 13k words

Skin Deep by Batsutousai

Trisha and Van's first child, Edith, was born a beautiful, healthy girl. The only problem? Ed knew he was a boy.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood | M | No Archive Warnings Apply | No Relationships | 17k words

no better word than just not saying anything by gealbhan

“Much as I appreciate you turning the kid into a rebel against cisnormative human society this early, we don’t want him to get so tetchy about it that he grows up to destroy the world.”

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV) | G | No Archive Warnings Apply | Aziraphale & Warlock Dowling, Crowley & Warlock Dowling, Aziraphale/Crowley | 3k words

the girl who lived (again) by dirgewithoutmusic

Molly tried her best. When Harry had told them, Arthur had asked excitedly, "is this a Muggle thing?" Hermione had hurried out a "no!" and a frantic history of gender diversity in the wizarding world.

"It's just that I'm a girl," Harry had said, and Arthur had nodded and asked her about how telephone booths worked. He would call her by the right pronouns until the day he died at the respectable old age of one hundred and thirty three, and he would make it seem easy.

But Molly had to try. Hermione explained things faster and higher-pitched every time Molly messed up a pronoun. Molly frowned and muttered and put extra potatoes on Harry's plate at breakfast. Harry slept in Ron's room, which didn't bother either of them but which made Hermione scowl.

Harry got boxes of sweets and warm hugs, as Molly chewed things over. For her fifteenth Christmas, the Weasley sweater she would receive would be a bright, friendly, terrible pink.

The next time Harry visited, Molly put her on Ginny's floor to sleep-- for some definition of sleep that involved Hermione hissing threats at three in the morning if Harry and Ginny didn't "shut up about Wronski feints, do you know what time it is."

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | G | Major Character Death | Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley, Harry Potter & Blaise Zabini, Harry Potter & Professor Sprout | 10k words

Being Liquid by rotaryphones

When Teddy discovers a new way to be liquid, Victoire helps him to find stability.

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling | M | No Archive Warnings Apply | Teddy Lupin/Victoire Weasley | 7k words

(just wanna be) somebody i'm proud of by GallifreyanFairytale

“That’s nice,” Maki acknowledges, “but I’m not.”

Geto frowns. “...Not what?”

Maki looks up at him. “The girl of the group,” they answer simply.

Geto blinks. “You’re not?”

“Nope.” Maki takes another bite of cereal, amused as Geto’s face flickers through several different expressions as he tries to figure out how to respond. He opens his mouth, then closes it again. Maki would laugh at him if it weren’t also sort of heartwarming that he’s searching for the right thing to say.

(If he weren’t the only one who’d ever bothered to think through their response to Maki coming out to them.)

or: five times geto's students come out to him + one time geto comes out to his students

Jujutsu Kaisen | G | No Archive Warnings Apply | Getou Suguru & Zenin Maki, Getou Suguru & Okkotsu Yuuta, Getou Suguru & Kugisaki Nobara, Getou Suguru & Inumaki Toge, Getou Suguru & Itadori Yuuji, Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru | 13k words

Till Death does me part by loosingletters

Hela was tired of being under Death’s thumb. She was made to reign and rule, bowing to the Mad Titan was beneath her. When she saw her chance, she took it and so Tony Stark started his life.

[Being a mortal man and an ancient goddess at the same time, it was a miracle, truly.]

Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies) | T | Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply | Pepper Potts & Tony Stark, Tony Stark & Stark Robots, Tony Stark & Ho Yinsen, Tony Stark & Hela | 6k words

and the fourth flies by grit

Here's a secret: Sakura isn't Minato. She isn't particularly heroic and she's definitely not a man.

Naruto | M | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Haruno Sakura/Uzumaki Kushina, Haruno Sakura & Uchiha Mikoto & Hyuuga Hizashi | 24k words

Blurred Lines by ijnt

"However strong you become, never seek to bear everything alone. If you do, failure is certain." Being Uchiha Itachi is as much a blessing as it is a curse, because most problems can be solved with a precise application of violence. Except, you know, the important ones.

Naruto | M | Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death | No Relationships | 124k words

stay loose by theformerone

She starts wearing the binder because chest compression is helpful considering Sasuke shoved an arm through her tit during the war. When she pulls back her hair and a stranger calls her 'young man', it spirals from there.

Or, the one where the boys of Team Seven try to teach Sakura how to be a dude, Shikamaru has a sexuality crisis because his crush is hot in every gender, Ino is a wardrobe consultant to the stars, and Sakura figures out how comfortable he can be in her own skin.

Naruto | G | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply | Haruno Sakura/Nara Shikamaru | 11k words

Transgender or Konohan by valleykey

The drama starts, as is often the case, in ANBU.

“No—it’s just—” it’s unusual to see an ANBU hesitate, much less stumble over their words. Stag visibly steels themself. “I’m not sure we should address Hokage-sama as male. Uzumaki-sama called Hokage-sama her wife.”

Beaver pauses. “Oh.”

“But then,” Ox says eventually, “what do we call Hokage-sama?”

// AKA Team Minato is alive and together, Konoha is thriving, and no one wants to accidentally misgender their beloved military dictator that everyone loves.

Naruto | G | No Archive Warnings Apply | Namikaze Minato/Uzumaki Kushina, Jiraiya & Orochimaru & Tsunade, Hatake Kakashi & Nohara Rin & Uchiha Obito, A | Fourth Raikage & Namikaze Minato | 18k words

the violets in the mountains (have broken rocks) by blackkat

Five people who underestimated Ino-as-Skull, and one person who really, really didn't.

Naruto, Katekyou Hitman Reborn! | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Skull & Gokudera Hayato, slight implied Gokudera Hayato/Sawada Tsunayoshi | 6k words

Seems So Easy for Everybody Else by etothepii

He signs his correspondences to the police as Sherlock H, as he always has, and he signs his letters to his parents as SH -- they can take what they will from the S. He signs his school assignments S. Holmes, and manages to get away with it because he is the only Holmes in his classes. FtM!Sherlock. Contains trigger warnings for trans issues and brief mention of suicidal ideation.

Sherlock (BBC TV) | T | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | No Relationships | 14k words

who to look after, who to watch out for by demigodbeautiies

People knew him as Kaz Brekker. Dirtyhands. The Bastard of the Barrel.

The boy with too much blood on his hands, but a boy, nonetheless.

Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo | T | No Archive Warnings Apply | Kaz Brekker & Jesper Fahey, Kaz Brekker & Wylan Van Eck, Kaz Brekker & Inej Ghafa, Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa, Wylan Van Eck & Nina Zenik | 4k words

Made Manifest by schmerzerling

Wherein Castiel defied God for Dean before Dean even knew his name.

Supernatural | M | No Archive Warnings Apply | Dean Winchester/Original Male Character(s) | 6k words

As the Unchanging, Many-Colored Sea by inexplicifics

Over the years, Serrit of the Vipers finds brothers, a friend, a lover, a leader worth following, and, eventually, herself.

The Witcher - All Media Types | M | No Archive Warnings Apply | Gweld/Serrit | 5k words

Post-Crisis

Detective Comics #608, #609 (1989)
Detective Comics #618 - #620 (1990)
Robin Annual #1 (1992)
Batman: Shadow of the Bat #16 - #18 (1993)
Green Arrow (1988) #89 (1994)
Batman Chronicles #1 (1995)
Batman: Shadow of the Bat #40, #41 (1995)
Anarky #1 - #4 (1997)
Anarky #1 - #8 (1999)
Green Arrow (2001) #51 (2005)
Red Robin #13 - #21 (2010/11)

New52 and Rebirth

Detective Comics (2011) #37 - #40 (2015)
Detective Comics: Endgame (2015)
Detective Comics (2011) #957 (2017)
Detective Comics (2011) #963, #964 (2017)
Detective Comics (2011) #969 - #973 (2018)
Detective Comics: The Deluxe Edition #1000 (2019)
Batman: Urban Legends #22 (2022)

Post-Crisis Optional

Batman: Shadow of the Bat #73 (1999)
DCU Heroes: Secret Files & Origins (1999)
Young Justice: Sins of Youth #1 (2000)
Sins of Youth: JLA, Jr. (2000)
Robin Vol. 2 #180 - #183 (2009)
Red Robin #22 - #25 (2011)

New52 and Rebirth Optional

Detective Comics (2011) #966 (2017)
Prelude to the Wedding: Red Hood vs. Anarky (2018)
Harley Quinn (2016) #61, #62 (2019)
Infected: The Commissioner (2020)
Robins #4 (2022)

Elseworlds

Batman Annual #15 (1991)
Batman: Shadow of the Bat Annual #2 (1994)
The Batman Adventures #31 (1995)
Future State: The Next Batman #1 (2021)
I Am Batman #1 - #2, #12 - #14 (2021/22)

Full list of appearances: spreadsheet [WIP]