buggery | I have been wanting to make this post for so long. And now I can!

First, all fans of Gotham comics, and particularly Dick Grayson, ought to go check out Five times Dick knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bruce loved him, as written by

sanj for

cereta. It's more gen than it might sound, but it's also still Dick and Bruce.

Frequent readers of this journal may have noticed that I almost never make recs posts. Sandy Justine writing comics fanfiction again (however temporarily) is reason enough for an exception to that practice.

Speaking of Justine and comics fanfiction, a ~~funny~~ wonderful thing happened while I was gafiated earlier this year: her influential and much-talked-about story "Wrestle" (along with the rest of her older DC writing) is once again available on the internet! Check out

sanj_stories for the "Learning to Lose" series (including "Wrestle") and her other fanfiction as well, notably the lovely gender-bending Shakespeare slash she wrote for Yuletide 2004, and "Equal Time," a scathingly hilarious critique of gender representation in fannish media most popular when it was written (in 1999, yet only marginally less relevant today). So many of you have lamented never having had the chance to read "Wrestle" these last few years; few fandom-related things could make me happier than to finally be able to point everyone to its new home in LJ-land.

Enjoy!