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Shadows of Today by Barefoot_mouse
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
12 Feb 2026
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The Joker is dead. And Gotham doesn’t know what to do with the child who killed him.
Peter survives, but survival comes with a price. The city’s media tears him apart, arguing whether he is a hero who ended a nightmare or a villain born to terrorize Gotham. Headlines demand answers. Gotham demands a symbol it can either worship or destroy.
As new enemies emerge from the shadows and uneasy allies step forward, somewhere beneath the city, a man who studies monsters decides that Peter is not a mistake, but a masterpiece waiting to be shaped.
Caught between justice and exploitation, hope and fear, Peter must decide who he is in a city that refuses to see him as human, and whether surviving is enough when the world wants to define him as a monster.
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Read book 1 to understand this mess.
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- Part 2 of Shadows of Yesterday
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17 Feb 2026
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Welcome to the second part of 'Payment of the Hales' Debt'. Please start with the first part, otherwise this one will be pretty confusing.
Alright, a brief summary: Derek was given to Stiles as payment for his family's debt Talia could not pay when it was due. He truly expected the worst when being shipped off to a family who had their hand's in every branch of the organized crime from her to San Francisco, despite being led by an eighteen year old boy. He had been given trousers and a collar who would force his new owner's will on him. What good could ever come from that.
But Derek had been given a room, a family and every kind of support he had not even dared to dream of being worth receiving after the fire and Kate's betrayal. In the end, his mother had been able to come up with the money and had offered to buy him back. Stiles had chosen Derek as the messenger to deliver the money to the pack that would not get him as a member. And Derek had chosen.We are starting in the very same night. Let's see how the story continues.
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- Part 2 of Payment of the Hales' debt
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11 Feb 2026
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John Stilinski has been brutally killed and Stiles Stilinski finds himself thrust to the head of the American branch of the Stilinski Clan at the age of eighteen. The mobster family that operates mainly in central Europe, but had branched out to America with one very talented Claudia Stilinski, who had secured the market of central California (San Francisco, Brentwood, San Jose). She was succeeded by her husband and now her son.
When his enforcer, Isaac, brings him Derek Hale as compensation for his family's debt, he’s not quite sure what to do. The Hales were a successful family who had worked with the Stilinskis quite successfully over the last decades. Now they are offering their son instead of money. Though Stiles is still learning the ropes of this mob business, he's pretty sure that THAT'S not normal!
Stiles ends up using Derek as a bodyguard which is probably not what you’re meant to do with a rival family’s son, but Stiles is making this up as he goes. And despite him being a mobster, he still has some dignity left.
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- Part 1 of Payment of the Hales' debt
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09 Feb 2026
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the natural consequences of being a bad puppy by scooter3scooter
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
26 May 2025
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Tim deserves to be punished. He needs to be. It’s the only way to fix him. His Mommy is smart, she’d know how to fix it. She’d know exactly how much to hurt him to make it all better.
So he does what she would do. He pulls himself away from the warmth of the blankets, hating the way the movement stings against his renewed rash. It never really goes away, with how prevalent this particular problem is. Nothing Tim does prevents the nightmares. Mrs. Mac had to put a plastic sheet on his bed to keep him from ruining the mattress.
He crawls over the border of pillows, barely keeping from toppling to the floor. He’d deserve it, if he fell, but that’s too loud. He can’t dare wake them. He already has a whole list of mistakes he ought to be disciplined for, he doesn’t need awakening them early to be added. Sometimes Daddy is gentler after a good night’s sleep. Maybe Mr. Wayne and his sons will be too.
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When Tim goes to the neighbors house to ask for bandaids, he’s met with more love than he’s ever been granted in his entire life. He doesn’t know how to handle it.
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08 Feb 2026
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Tim knows he's not supposed to sleep in manor, especially since Bruce doesn't want him there, it's just not right. But what is he supposed to do when Alfred tells him to stay the night? And what does Dick mean by 'see you at breakfast'? Don't they know the rules?
Or Tim and Bruce have a couple misunderstandings that need to be cleared.
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08 Feb 2026