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what is lost forever by rainbow_nerds
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
31 Aug 2025
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Bruce hadn't really wanted to go.
He hadn't really wanted to do anything, to be frank. Not since that night. Not since his whole world was torn apart in a single moment. But Alfred asked, and Bruce knew he was trying.
So they went. It should have been just like any old boring road trip, and Bruce was prepared to feign sleep and tolerate it.
And he did. At least, until their car broke down in some middle of nowhere town in Kansas.Series
- Part 1 of have your guarded heart be lifted
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The past few weeks had been a storm of emotions—frustration, sadness, desperation and fear, but also joy—more joy than Eddie knew what to do with, sometimes, and so much love it almost swallowed him whole.
He still couldn’t believe he was allowed to have this—not just him and Christopher, but Buck, and now Lucy, too—that they could be a family, imperfect and hard-won, but a family all the same.
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It wasn’t until the next class that it hit him again. When he spotted Buck walking in the door to the studio ahead of him and he felt himself speed up to try and catch up with him. When he made it, and Buck said hi to him before going to get changed, and when Buck sat up there on a stool, removing his robe.
Eddie did have a crush on someone from his art class.
He had a crush on Buck.
It was fine. It was only a crush, after all. It was his brain recognising the blatantly obvious: Buck was attractive and kind, and Eddie spent two hours every week staring at his naked body—it was inevitable that those wires would connect in the heads of at least one of the students. He wasn’t going to do anything about it, so it would be fine.
It wasn’t like they saw each other anywhere outside of those classes.
It wasn’t like they worked together.
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Once he was home—or, as Chris puts it, back in his stupid, shitty apartment, he sat down, poured himself a drink—then another, once he downed the first—took out his laptop, and started to type.
It was surprisingly easy, once the alcohol hit his bloodstream, to write it out. To put himself in the mindset of someone who loved Buck and couldn’t keep it inside anymore.Eddie Diaz was living in El Paso—miles away from his best friend who needed him, struggling to cross the invisible distance his son was keeping from him.
There was no quick fix for either—but he was working on it. And in the meantime, he could do something to help Buck feel better from afar.
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Eddie’s not a complete idiot. He knows this isn’t normal. He stands in front of a mirror in his underwear, the tightest pair he owns, and he poses for a picture at an angle he’s learned flatters his ass and the curve of his thigh, to send to his best friend.
He knows this isn’t what most best friends do. He also knows most straight guys don’t spend extensive amounts of time staring at men’s thirst trap accounts, or thinking about how their best friends look half-naked, but…
That’s not what Eddie is focusing on right now. He’s just focusing on feeling good, following the path that sparkles with joy, and refusing to overthink it. If happiness is Buck sending a meme of a guy with a nosebleed back to his shirtless selfie, then that’s what happiness is. Eddie has spent too long denying himself to let this be what stops his journey towards loving himself.
It doesn’t need to make sense. It just needs to be positive.
It’s not like he’s breaking any commandments, as Father Brian would say.
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have your guarded heart be lifted by rainbow_nerds
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
31 Aug 2025
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Rainbow's AU-gust 2023 fills by rainbow_nerds
Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV), Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Dec 2024
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When Batman tells Clark that he’s considering sharing his secret identity with him, the Kryptonian couldn’t be more pleased.
That, of course, has nothing to do with Clark being invited to Wayne Manor to interview Bruce Wayne and his family...right?
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- Part 12 of Q Event Fics 2019-20
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09 Aug 2025
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Watching Our Stars Align by ClarkeStetler
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
19 Mar 2025
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There’s a new dating app in town, but this one is just for superheroes. You don’t use your name or callsign and there’s no photos, only a short bio. The idea is to talk about personal lives AND hero-ing without specifics, keeping both their secret identity secret and their hero persona in place.
Dick signs Bruce up. Clark signs up willingly. They accidentally match up and even for the World's Greatest Detective, it takes a while to figure it out. In part because he isn't trying to figure it out, that's the whole point! But also because Boy Scout Superman is definitely straight and definitely not a dude who hangs out at a farm in his free time.
And Superman is confident that Batman probably lives in some random cave system like the gremlin he is, and doubts he even HAS a secret identity because he is so consumed by his Batman persona. Even if he did, he definitely wouldn't join a dating app. That would require wanting to interact with other people and also the capability to smile.- Language:
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Bookmarked by rainbow_nerds
05 Aug 2025
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Buck tells Eddie that he can't be the first man he dates.
Eddie listens.
Buck responds appropriately.
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22 Feb 2025
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Eddie leaves for Texas on a Tuesday and Buck feels it in his heart before he even exits the airport. He starts to feel it in his body on a Thursday.
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Soulbonds are rare, spontaneous bonds are practically unheard, but Buck and Eddie have always been anything but conventional.
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Bookmarked by rainbow_nerds
18 Feb 2025
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And then, in Los Angeles, 2018, Eddie had met Buck. Then, huddled over a man with a bomb in his leg, Eddie had needed gauze and Buck’s hand had moved. Then, in the parking lot bathed in the light of an ambulance on fire, Buck had inhaled and Eddie's lungs expanded. And, well, that was that.
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Bookmarked by rainbow_nerds
24 Dec 2024