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  1. Public Bookmark 19

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    Answer the following questions by choosing what applies to you:

    1. When was the last time you told the truth? (a) you’re a lighthouse, you’re in search of one. You’re the harbour, you eat yourself up. (b) your own grave must be your own to dig. At least that way you will know where it is. (c) because it’s the story of your life, you told it. Because you told it, it changed.

    Being alive, he postulates, is an herculean task. Life expects too much of him, death has the capacity for kindness. And ever so often would he catch himself thinking about being back in the coffin. Not alive. Not burdened. Not attached. Perhaps just doing what he was meant to be doing all along, all this time. Rotting away in his grave. He does wonder how different things would be for everyone else and there’s bitterness spreading from the sides of his tongue, it wouldn’t. He is still out of the picture, he is still forgotten.

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    07 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 68

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    Dick Grayson is a resilient man. He can take beating after beating and still get up and finish a fight. But after the patrol he's had, all he wants to do his go home and rest, but the universe has other plans.

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    Warm cedar and brown sugar.

    Bruce.

    He flinched at it, and tears suddenly filled his eyes for reasons he couldn’t even name. He took another deep breath and the tears spilled down his cheeks as he held Zitka close.

    He didn’t miss Bruce…did he?

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    “God, I’m so angry at you!” Dick laughed, voice manic as he tossed his phone beside him on the concrete, on speaker, and brushed a hand wildly through his hair. “It’s always Jason this, Jason that’. Do I just not matter to you anymore? Did I ever? I don’t speak to you for months. Months Bruce! And you still have the audacity to ask about him first thing before even asking how I’m doing when I finally want to talk to you. Do you even understand how fucked up that is? How bad that hurts?"

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    06 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 20

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    "Am I not allowed to talk to you?"

    "We don't do talking." Not as Bruce and Jason. Not since the last time it blew up in his face. Literally.

    "Well," Bruce keeps going, because he never knew how to take a fucking hint, "maybe we should start."

    "Alright," he agrees, because it's funny. Because he misses him. Because it's been a shitty day, shitty week, shitty month, and it's worn him down. Because he's tired, and dizzy and nauseous. Because today, he really feels like ruining everything good he has left going for him. He's sick of the tension, and shouting and his blood on his father's hands. Best to blame the cigarettes. Must have made him anxious too. "Let's talk."

     

    A look on Jason's skewed perception of love.

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    12 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 24

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    Faint laughter echoed in the walls and his breath hitched. “It’s not real” he reassured himself. The sound seemed to falter, but after a few seconds it grew louder again. “It’s not real” he repeated like a mantra.

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    Jason is having a really bad time as the anniversary of his death gets close, his siblings try their best to help.

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    08 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 34

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    Jason has always preferred accusation to trust.

    Accusation can be argued with. Shot at. Cross-examined. Turned into an enemy.

    Trust is a thing of nightmares, and tonight it sits on the blameless face of a lamb.

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    Jason has a nightmare while sleeping over at the manor. For better or worse, he's not the only one awake in the middle of the night.

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    Jason has an actual ptsd nightmare, because those aren't just flashbacks and I'm sick of people just giving them flashbacks, and has a heart to heart with Tim

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    08 May 2026