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Remix authors have been revealed! I wrote a Batman fic, which was a lot of fun. I've never actually ... read the comics, but I crossed my fingers and took a chance on my signups, because the thing about comics is that canon is so large and sprawling that even people who really love them and read everything can't read everything, and canon contradicts itself so often that you have to pick and choose. So, I thought there was a decent chance that "having read a shitton of Batman comics fanfic" would be enough, when combined with wikisurfing, and so it turned out!
I was really lucky to be assigned to FleetSparrow, who's got a lot of great stories, and, even better, a lot of great stories where there's really interesting details that can be expanded on. I chose one where Bruce is a ghost and Selina is the new resident of the manor, and Bruce is trying to drive her out. And it made me wonder: why does Selina Kyle want the Manor? It's huge and needs a lot of upkeep, way too much house for one person! What happened that lead to Bruce's death? Where's Alfred? Are there costumed superheroes and supervillains in Gotham, if there's no Batman? And once I had answered some of those questions for myself, I had a lot to write about! My problem was that I kept focusing on "what's going on with the house and what work does it need" and details like that instead of, you know, things like plot and characterization. (When I was five, my favorite TV show was This Old House, okay, I have opinions!) Anyway, I like how it turned out, and my beta was very helpful.
Title: The Ghost And Ms. Kyle (The Casa Familiar Remix)
Fandom: Batman (comics)
Author: Beatrice_otter
Remix of: Mi Casa Es Mi Casa by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
FleetSparrow in the 2021 ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
remixrevival
Wordcount: 13109 words
Rating: teen
Betaed by: lurking_latinist
Summary: Everyone knows Wayne Manor is haunted--that's why the last several sales fell through. Selina doesn't care; she's got plans.
On AO3. On tumblr. On pillowfort.
The Waynes had built Gotham.
In the Gilded Age, they'd been one of the richest families in America. They'd owned the city in a very literal sense, and like the others of their type, they'd given generously to charity. Even 80 years after the last one died, their name was still over everything: Wayne Tower, Wayne Community College (and High School, Middle School, and Elementary School), Wayne Hospital, Wayne Boulevard.
Wayne Enterprises was a thing of the past, though; bought and sold and gone public and merged until only a historian could tell you where all the pieces of it had gone. The name was only a subsidiary holding company, these days.
Well. And the house, of course.
( Selina sat in her car outside the gates (wrought iron, with a giant W in the middle) and waited for the Wayne Estate's agent and Selina's home inspector to show up. )
I was really lucky to be assigned to FleetSparrow, who's got a lot of great stories, and, even better, a lot of great stories where there's really interesting details that can be expanded on. I chose one where Bruce is a ghost and Selina is the new resident of the manor, and Bruce is trying to drive her out. And it made me wonder: why does Selina Kyle want the Manor? It's huge and needs a lot of upkeep, way too much house for one person! What happened that lead to Bruce's death? Where's Alfred? Are there costumed superheroes and supervillains in Gotham, if there's no Batman? And once I had answered some of those questions for myself, I had a lot to write about! My problem was that I kept focusing on "what's going on with the house and what work does it need" and details like that instead of, you know, things like plot and characterization. (When I was five, my favorite TV show was This Old House, okay, I have opinions!) Anyway, I like how it turned out, and my beta was very helpful.
Title: The Ghost And Ms. Kyle (The Casa Familiar Remix)
Fandom: Batman (comics)
Author: Beatrice_otter
Remix of: Mi Casa Es Mi Casa by
remixrevival Wordcount: 13109 words
Rating: teen
Betaed by: lurking_latinist
Summary: Everyone knows Wayne Manor is haunted--that's why the last several sales fell through. Selina doesn't care; she's got plans.
On AO3. On tumblr. On pillowfort.
The Waynes had built Gotham.
In the Gilded Age, they'd been one of the richest families in America. They'd owned the city in a very literal sense, and like the others of their type, they'd given generously to charity. Even 80 years after the last one died, their name was still over everything: Wayne Tower, Wayne Community College (and High School, Middle School, and Elementary School), Wayne Hospital, Wayne Boulevard.
Wayne Enterprises was a thing of the past, though; bought and sold and gone public and merged until only a historian could tell you where all the pieces of it had gone. The name was only a subsidiary holding company, these days.
Well. And the house, of course.
( Selina sat in her car outside the gates (wrought iron, with a giant W in the middle) and waited for the Wayne Estate's agent and Selina's home inspector to show up. )
