Oof I'm sorry, it's not posted yet. The no pack au will be posted on ao3 when it is finished, but for now is not published on any platforms. I apologise for the inconvenience, but when I begin to post, links to the fic and chapters will be available here on my account, as they are released. Sorry for any misleading.

Everyone's doing these, seemingly, so! Cannot thank everyone who reads my fics enough, I cherish all of it!

I'm glad you enjoyed! Thanks for reading, I love seeing the same name pop up on my ao3 repeatedly too, so welcome back.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Prezzies!

For @nikiexe0

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76154281

For @veythegay

I wrote it but it's disappeared? Like I clicked post and now it's gone? I'ma wait a lil bit to see if it pops up in my works, but I have it saved externally too so I'll post it in like an hour if that's okay with you?

Merry Christmas! 😬

2 months! I've been posting for two months!

This is something I've noticed both on here and ao3.

Omegaverse readers spawn at like 4x the rate of normal readers, which is endlessly amusing to me. I got a comment like....minutes after posting 'Mama', and I was lowk in awe because my work count hadn't even gone up yet.

Love you freaky little weirdos.

Ugh I really need to make a masterpost and things and pin it at the top with my user ig.

However my user is in my blog description btw.

@occasional_author on ao3 anyway tho

From this question list, not reblogging this a thousand times. @nikiexe0 as you wished to know.

2, 3, 4, 7, 12

2. What do you think was the best line/paragraph/etc. you wrote? I don't know what constitutes a 'good' line, but one that always makes me grin is from Day 25 of my whumptober, centred on Bruce and Jason: It's one of the few ways he still feels comfortable to bond with Bruce. One of the ways from before that hasn't been eroded by time, distance, and a crowbar.

3. What was your favorite whump fic to write? Mmm, probably Mean Girls and Fear Toxin, or Life Force.

4. What was your least favorite whump fic to write? Shoot. I wasn't really excited for the prompt anyway, but then I fell asleep (yay chronic fatigue) and I had like twenty minutes to finish it before my mum made me go to bed and I had barely started so it just sucked and I'm mad I didn't do it better.

7. Which whumpy tropes did you enjoy most this year? I think emotional whump. It always hits. For like physical whumping, probably cutting Bruce's leg off.

12. How many drafts/WIPs are you sitting on? This is such a callout omg. 16 if we count the no pack au, and ignore the other fandoms I used to write for and have some old drafts for fics. I don't want to think about how many fic ideas are in my notes app

Happy to answer anyone else's questions!

Ha I thought you would tell me it was too angsty

I am having the realisation though that I think I'm an angst writer I genuinely couldn't come up with any fluff ideas free of any angst

Glad you liked! And I'm glad the fic you wanted won

Guys I've run out of fics to read 😨 I can't find anything to read, and searching is too tiring after all my work

I've exhausted good parent bruce wayne, superbat, halbru, oliver queen and bruce wayne friendship, so on so on.

What are the go-to tags you guys trawl through? Cause if I find a new one I'm happy to scroll through like a miner hunting for precious gems that's enrichment and I'll be golden to hop back on ao3 again so it can devour all my time.

Sincerely please and thank you I'm fed up of functioning and doing schoolwork rather than reading fics.

The Second Sunday in May (1) is a lovely mama bruce fic, I've read it before, I think it's adorable, have a fic saved somewhere in my notes inspired by it.

I Understand (2) is just as heartbreaking in English omg that was sad. Google just popped up like wanna read this in English and I was like yupperoni and ugghhh I'm not sure if I regret that now I'm sad.

Thank you so much anon! These were both great reads!

*bows* tis me hello

I am quite proud of that fic I will admit, but yes I think I've gotten threats over it in the comments you wouldn't be the first we're all good.

Thanks for rereading! I love knowing that people liked my fics enough to come back to them, mental happy dances every time.

How am I meant to decide omegaverse scents when I don't know what half of these things smell like??

If you've perused my ao3, you may have come across my first A Love Lost But Not Forgotten... which I have always wanted to follow up on with more toxic arrowbat exes.

One idea is like a Bat-auction? Like where JL 'sells' off trivial information about their bats. That Bats know it goes on, they don't really intervene or attend. Cute, wholesome, doesn't that sound fun? No.

(For reasons, Oliver is not in attendance of this auction in particular.)

Because someone found a video of Bruce singing.

How could that be bad, I hear you ask?

Everyone clamours to get the video, someone wins, but plays it on the big screen anyway bc the whole thing is really just for theatrics. And it's a young, scowling, teenage Bruce refusing to sing, someone behind the camera (carefully angled, Bruce clearly doesn't know he's being filmed) bugging him to sing for them. And he caves, and he has a beautiful voice.

(Still doesn't sound angsty? You shall see.)

Then Bruce sees the camera, and he's playfully angry, and tackles the filmer, and they go tumbling down together, and you can just see a flash of blond hair before the video cuts out.

And the JL members that were present for ALLBNF all freeze. It could be anyone, right? But they know. They know Oliver was behind the camera.

(Still no angst? Fine.)

And then another video is offered. Auctioned, sold, shown anyway. The JL in the know try to put a stop to it without giving anything away, and fail, so it gets played.

Only this one is a lot less fun. It's not really filming anything except the wall, and you can hear a voice belting out song through it. Furious, heartbroken, powerful voice and breakup lyrics. The seller scrambles to turn off the video, muttering about the wrong file, but someone snatches the remote. You can hear someone sniffing and crying as Bruce sings, and then the singing gives out, there's a sob clearly from Bruce, and a door slams.

The pov of the video just slides down the wall, and there's a broken apology whispered before the video cuts out.

The whole auction is quiet, and quickly dissolves. Only the core seven are left, and just stare at each other. Because they never brought it up to either of them, it was clear they werent allowed to, so they never found out what happened, but.... what did Oliver do? The breakup was his fault?

(....or was it?)