Static Shock / Batman:TAS story: "The Year of Living"

[mtgat]

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The Year of Living
a Static Shock / Batman:TAS story
by Merlin Missy
copyright 2005
PG-13
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Comments

[dotsomething]

Just popping in again to say, wow, so loved this (and I've already betaed the thing). People must read this who haven't seen Static Shock even, for the Tim angst. Is that a new word? timangst? ;>

[mtgat]

All. About. The Angst. :D

[crazyoh]

I love you.

[mtgat]

I know. :) Also, you left your stole-thingy.

[calico321]

That was fantastic! And beautiful! And fills in canon perfectly!

Poor Tim :( But, you know, I think Toon!Batman needed something like this, something that really rocked his world and made him question himself, comparable to Jason's death. Just my thoughts on the matter.

[mtgat]

And this is the general consensus on RotJ, that is was necessary. Still bites for Tim, though. :/

[sharpest_rose]

Wow. It'll take me a minute to recover from that, and I'm sure I'll never be able to watch the movie without fitting this into the time-gap in its canon. Extremely well done.

May I have it for my Tim site?

[mtgat]

Thank you. (Personally, I'll never be able to watch the movie without going "OMG gah! Tim noes!" but that's what I always do when I watch it.)

And sure! Yay archive!

[rubynye]

thete1 sent me here.

This is heartbreaking and wonderful and deserves paragraphs of praise.

Maybe after I'm done crying I'll be back to write them.

With applause,
Ruby

[mtgat]

:) *offers tissue* Sorry to make you sad, but kinda glad I made you feel something.

[rubynye]

That's why I told you. :)

There's a *lot* to praise about this story. I'm going to pull out one thing: the rotating perspective is very skillfully used here. It's never unclear whose eyes we're looking through, nor what they can't see and how that very blindness informs us.

Oh, and on rereading the story made me cry again. Poor Tim. *sniffle*