Smallville has been running so long...

1. All the good one-word episode titles have been taken, so they're reusing them. Next week on the CW... Heat, Again.

2. The thrill of returning guest stars has lessened to the point where now guest stars must travel in packs to get a response.

3. Season 1: Clark Kent is the last son of Krypton. Season 8: We've met Clark's father, mother, uncle, cousin, evil twin, and this random Kryptonian who got his brain sucked by Brainiac.

4. Fan-favorites like Brainiac and Bizarro have already come to the screen. Now they have Plastique.

5. Of the cast in the pilot, only Tom Welling and Allison Mack remain. And Allison Mack was thinking about leaving...

6. When Clark stubs his toe, he immediately suspects an evil Luthorcorp plot.

7. And he's right.

8. Ancient Kryptonians left cave drawings for Clark to find, a cult to protect/kill him, and now... dirty laundry for him to do. Hey, those glowy white robes don't glow themselves.

9. Superman's pal, Jimmy Olsen, is now Jimmy Olsen, that guy Superman was really close with but then they lost touch with each other, even though they promised to write and bought each other friendship bracelets.

10. Doomsday shows up. In a shocking twist, he's reimagined as a young, sexy thang who has sexual tension with one of the cast.

11. All the good foreshadowing has already been done, so now Clark has recurring dreams about shifting the Earth out of orbit by doing a handstand.

12. Sweeps week: Clark discovers "new superpower" of programming VCR.

13. Lois... having already already dressed up as a sexy French maid, sexy stripper, sexy bikini model, sexy schoolgirl, sexy nurse, and sexy GI... now dresses up as a sexy Sean Connery impersonator to get scoop.

14. Latest sexy love triangle is Clark/Kara/Comet the Super-Horse. It's two taboos for the price of one!

15. Even Brandon Routh has done an ironic guest appearance.

16. Crossover with The Graysons features Clark once more ruminating on not being ready to join "some hypothetical league of superheroes devoted to truth and... stuff," then musing that perhaps young DJ can join "a similar team, although with a more youthful focus and loads more sexual tension."

17. Lois and Clark have gotten married! And divorced! Twice!

18. Elbows have worn thin on all Clark's red jackets.

19. Kristin Kreuk left to do a Street Fighter movie. YA REALLY.

20. Clark is seriously thinking about putting on a costume and going around fighting crime.

Batman fic: Cutting off the petals so you can get to the thorns (Joker/Harley/Ivy)

Title: Cutting off the petals so you can get to the thorns
Fandom: The Dark Knight
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,194
Timeline: Post-movie. Follows Too Good To Be True and features fanon from Everyone Breaks, although reading neither is necessary.
Characters/Pairings: galamb_borong asked for Joker/Harley/Ivy in the threesome meme. This is probably more Joker/Harley car-crashing into Harley/Ivy.
Summary: Breaking up is hard to do.

( The condo they shared was modest even by the Gotham housing market, but Pam’s plants and Harleen’s murals made it feel like a mansion. They were so different, their lives almost at cross-purposes. Pam was the exterior, her flora cresting the windows and transoms like curious children poking their heads out, while Harleen was the interior. In the closets and pantries where only mushrooms grew, her paintings glowed in the dark like the skeleton of their home. )