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This is a series of rambling debates that I'm having with myself based on the ethics and philosophy of superheroes and superheroics, along with broader questions of power and moral responsibility. Expect it to be amateurish at best. It is also a story, inspired by With This Ring by @Mr Zoat...

"No." A man's voice said calmly. "Yes!" A women's voice retorted excitedly. "No." "Yes!" "No." "Aw c'mon Davy! You didn't even hear me out yet!" The woman complained. "I'm not even going to ask. Please leave my apartment, I'm going to go do things now." The now identified Davy replied...

[Insert Story Blurb Here. Currently Empty Until Brain Cooperates] Warning: The following may be a tad bit brutal. Slight body-horror and violence within Prelude: The Storm Sophia couldn't help but shudder as she slunk away from Winslow. Away from the flashing lights of the police cars...

Welcome to the latest tale in the Batman 1939 series. Unlike prior novel-length works, A Very Special Batman Christmas is a short story told in two parts. Part one is below. Part two will be posted on Christmas Day. If you're looking for the previous stories in the '39 World, you can find them...

I wanted to try a new thing for me, which was writing without any idea where I want to take this. Seems like whenever I make a plan for something, it doesn't work in any way as I want it to, or I get distracted. So I tried to do the best I could with something that popped into my head quite a...

The New Guy In the house above the Heavens, there live people. A man who can crush a diamond with a touch. A man who can outrace thought. A man who can escape any trap. A man who controls the seas. A man from the ever shifting red sands of another world. A man, whose mind is matter. A woman...

A ROB offers you all the skills of either Batman, or Barbie. Who do you pick and why?

"Um, hi. Well, uh, I probably sound ridiculous doing this. But...well, here we go. My name's Joseph Claude Winfield. I'm just a nerd, I guess, and I just woke up in the DC Universe. With superpowers. And voices in my head, or at least, the potential for voices in my head, judging by what that...

Gotham City was a mess. You would know, as Francis J. Yoker, being a detective for the Gotham Police Department gave you a front row seat in all of the insanity. Even then, growing up as a kid with a drug dealer for a father and an absent mother could have also clued you in. Your hand rubbed...

Lex Luthor stood at a podium, face bruised and his arm in a cast, and looked out into the crowd of flashes and saw no one he was quite familiar with. “I’m announcing, that as of today, I am changing the direction of my company away from military arms and weaponry, and away from anti-invasion...

Young Justice Season 3 Officially Announced YEEAASS!!!! IIIIIIT'S BAAACK! Okay, prediction time! Kid Flash: Alive or dead? Time Gap: Will there be one? The Team: What do we reckon the lineup will have become? Shipping: What's gonna develop? New Characters: Will we finally get Raven...

Galatea 1.1 When someone loses something precious to them, they will do whatever they can to get that thing back into their lives. Now eventually everyone gives up and accepts that nothing can change, such is the nature of grief; But when that precious thing is a person, it is all the harder...

I've decided to make a snippet thread of my own, hoping to inspire myself to write more and get critiques. I may not be as good as the other guys who have such threads yet but I'm willing to work to get there. Plus this will hopefully have me kill time in a fun and productive way. Now, this...

Alfred Beagle cut his teeth as a soldier in World War I, serving under Percival Sheldrake. It was here that he met Thomas Wayne, an American medic who volunteered for the French. Thomas Wayne was a combat medic who barely saved Alfred's life, pulling his out of the Trenches and sharing a...

Skewed! (A DC Quest) BANG! Fifteen years later and you still couldn't get the sight and sound of your mother's death out of your head. Martha had been her name and she loved you dearly. She had loved this city dearly. But as you looked out of the window of your private jet and set sight...