Grumpy Beastie's Other Lair

Challenge #13

Make a rec list of fanworks!

If this looks suspiciously like last year’s rec post, it’s because it is. The first one is a fourth year in a row repeat because I like it and why break tradition. The others are because I’d still rec them and I’m having to do this on a library computer where traipsing around my AO3 bookmarks would be frowned upon (and anywhere else I have things saved, there runs a great risk of accidentally bringing up content that would be considered NSFW, which would get me banned from the computers).

Batnesia by Qui is one of my favorite SuperBats fics of all time. Bruce Wayne gets amnesia that very specifically only affects his memories that involve being Batman. When he wakes up, one of the first people he sees is Clark staring down at him and immediately assumes Clark is his boyfriend. The BatFam is advised to just go with whatever Bruce thinks and let his memories come back to him on his own. This leads to some hijinks and some surprising self-reflection on Bruce's part. It also has some case fic elements as they try to figure out how Bruce got amnesia in the first place and how to fix it. I'm not going to share my favorite part because, while it is a minor plot point, it is still a bit spoilery. I am going to say, I appreciate that Clark is very aware of the consent issues of being intimate with Bruce while he doesn't know who he is and avoids doing so, much to Bruce's frustration. Also, this fic started the whole “Jason Todd identifies things by licking them” bit of fanon.

Batnesia (69205 words) by Qui
Chapters: 41/41
Fandom: Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne
Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Damian Wayne, Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Lois Lane, Alfred Pennyworth
Additional Tags: Amnesia, Batfamily (DCU), Damian Wayne is Robin, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent, Absurd, Poor Clark, Identity Porn
Summary:

In which Bruce forgets a few key facts, and Clark has to go along with it.

Or, the Bruce-Has-Amnesia Fic we've all been wishing for.

On to the rest of the recs, all links go back to AO3:

Batman/DC Comics
Fans in Cape by fayescar, rated Teen and up, Gen fic. During Dick Grayson's time as Batman, he discovers fans in the batsuit.

Good Omens
meantime i ask you to be my valentine (i'll be your valentino) by hipsterchrist, rated Teen and Up, pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley, Aziraphale and Crowley celebrating Valentine's Day through the centuries.

Good Neighbours, Good Fences (and Other Misunderstandings) by out_there, The first time Crowley meets his downstairs neighbour, Aziraphale is breaking into his flat. He's not what Crowley imagined in a burglar -- he's fussy, old-fashioned, and surprisingly adorable. Crowley is intrigued, Aziraphale is ready to share a good wine... and possibly more. (Human neighbours AU.) , rated Explicit, pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley, Harlequin Big Bang

Merlin (BBC)
The Boy Next Door by lady_ragnell, rated Teen and Up, pairing: Merlin/Arthur, In which there is pining, Merlin bakes, Arthur borrows batteries he doesn't actually need, and did I mention the pining?, modern setting AU

Person of Interest
[Vid] Carousel by JinkyO, rated Teen and Up, pairing: Harold Finch/John Reese, fanvid set to “Carousel” by Melanie Martinez

Stargate Atlantis
Christmas in Kansas City by ras_elased, rated Explicit, pairing: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay. Fluffy, Christmas romance. During a vacation on earth, John takes Rodney on a Christmas time road trip for a romantic weekend in Kansas City, which is all a surprise to Rodney.

Supernatural
Her Name is Sandman by knitmeapony, Rated G, gen fic, Dean wakes up in the hospital after an encounter with some talking ponies...

"Survey Says!" by Sylvia_Locust, rated Teen and Up, gen fic, It's 1978, and John is trapped in a two-room rental with a broken ankle and two teenage boys. He's going out of his mind with boredom until he spots a shapeshifter posing as a TV game show host. , Or John, Bobby, Rufus, and Dean get on “Family Feud” to try to gank a shapeshifter. (Sam is there too, but too young to actually be on the show.)

Challenge #8

Talk about a current fannish project (fic, art, vid, crochet, funko pop village) (that you are creating or enjoying)

I have a lot of fannish projects in varying stages of progress. These are the ones that are most present on my mind of late:

- I am actively working on adding to my crossover series'. I feel like I don’t give them enough love, despite being some of my favorite things to poke at. The most current ones are:

An Avatar: The Last Airbender/Batman crossover modern magic AU. Basically, magic and supernatural creatures are real, and it’s not really a secret, but it’s kind of ignored or looked down upon by larger “regular” human society. It’s there if you are looking for it, but most people aren’t. Bruce Wayne is a doctor at a free clinic by day and mad scientist by night, Alfred is something unspeakable and old, there is something really wrong with Dick but nobody talks about it, Tim has been recently turned into a vampire and hiding it, and Jason Todd is a werewolf that was adopted by Bruce and then resurrected Frankenstein style after he died. Most of the rest of the cast, including nearly all the AtLA characters, are magic users of various types, except Sokka. I have no idea what to do with Sokka. Most of the characters know each other by either being adopted by being part of the Wayne family or by going to the same exclusive school.

And

An Addams Family/Batman crossover kid fic AU, where Bruce Wayne and Wednesday Addams are the same age and neighbors (and have a crush on each other).

- I’ve been designing ornaments for a fandom themed holiday tree to reflect my multifandom-ness. Examples include: a small stocking that, in material and design, is inspired by the Stargate Atlantis off world uniforms with a ZPM in it and a garland that looks like Inuyasha’s beads of subjugation necklace. Though everything is in the planning stages.

Related to this, I’ve also been working on a strictly Good Omens themed mini tree. I have the white mini tree and I made a red snake garland for it, but it has some issues. The rest of the decorations were going to be made from shrink plastic, but I haven’t had time and resources to make them.

- Last year I started a junk journal of my year, that included tags of my fandoms of the year. Almost all of them are still in progress. Basically, they were paper tags styled after old school manilla tags and I drew related fanart on them. So far, there are ones for Wednesday, The Sandman, Hilde, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Invader Zim, and Moonstruck, but there are more to come.

- I have lengthy WIP that is a master list of all the Bat gadgets mentioned in the original 1960 Batman TV series, as well as another list of all of Dick Grayson’s hobbies and extracurricular activities. I am thinking of starting another one of all the committees Bruce is on.

- Speaking of lists, I also have one of all of the “periodic exclamations of surprise that also name-check women in history and the arts” in the Lumberjanes series in progress. (I had to quote someone on Good Reads to get the description right.)

There are more, but those are the big ones, I think.