Liminal Spaces

Fanfiction
Title:	Liminal Spaces
Author(s):	calamityjim
Date(s):	2019-05-29 to 2022-07-18
Length:	339k words across 12 works (complete)
Genre(s):	adventure, internal crossover, eventual slash
Fandom(s):	Batman, Red Robin, Young Justice, DC Comics
Relationship(s):	TimKon
External Links:	AO3, Archived link
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Liminal Spaces is a Tim Drake-centric multiverse fanfic series by calamityjim. It is massively popular and influential within the Batman or Batfam fandom on ao3 and is frequently recommended.

A long work spanning 12 fics (including four long multichapter works and one-shots), there is a lot of story, but the general recurring theme is universe-hopping between different Dimensions/Universes within the DC comics multiverse--both canon alternate universes and ones made up for the fic -- and dealing with dimensional counterparts.

Summary

Young Justice Batman decides that he is the Superior Parent and Tim Drake ends up along for the ride.

Notes:

So this is a hurt comfort series about Tim Drake's adventures in an alternate universe.

The stories that are necessary to read in order or you'll miss stuff is Liminal Spaces, Compression, Caturday, Expansion and Collapse. Everything else is just window dressing.

summary blurb on ao3

Structure

The series contains the following stories:

1. 1. Liminal Space (17 chapters, 77,192 words):
2. 2. Unleashed (one-shot, 564 words)
3. 3. Animal Crackers (one-shot, 1022 words)
4. 4. A Good Dog (one-shot, 1983 words)
5. 5. Flightless Bird (one-shot, 1808 words)
6. 6. Compression (10 chapters, 50,488 words)
7. 7. Caturday (one-shot, 8,761 words)
8. 8. Art Commission -- art of Tim and Damian by Owldart, commissioned by Calamityjim
9. 9. The Dating Habits Of Batfish (one-shot, 4,542 words) --first fic marked M/M in the series
10. 10. If It Bites You It's Venomous (one-shot, 2,721 words)
11. 11. Expansion (25 chapters, 124,044 words)
12. 12. Collapse (14 chapters, 66,013 words)

Impact on Fandom

TODO

Reactions and Reviews

• https://www.tumblr.com/stvlti-recs/635263058264096768/show-chapter-archive?source=share
• https://www.tumblr.com/pinkrobinontheloose/755636076559941632/this-was-hilarious-this-is-from-the-fic-series?source=share
• https://www.tumblr.com/knockbutimreading/743736146751848448/liminal-spaces-calamityjim-batman-all-media?source=share
• https://www.tumblr.com/captainkirkk/653875039831310336?source=share hey a rec from aloneintherain
• https://www.tumblr.com/smelltheroses33/693350512707420160/something-i-really-like-is-the-au-where-tim-goes?source=share

Recursive Fanworks

Translations

• German translation in progress?? https://ift.tt/7RLGHEk
• Mandarin Chinese translation Unleashed 猛虎出笼 by UttopiahX

Podfics

• podfic of Liminal Space" (first fic in the series): https://archiveofourown.org/works/43438116

Fanart

TODO. SO MUCH TODO

• fanart of chapter 1 by goldity, 2020
• scene from Compression by arianna-creates, 2024
• art collection by arianna-creates, 2023 -- "Last pic is inspired by the fic Liminal Space by Calamityjim on AO3"

Recursive Fanfic

• some listed here
• Impression by thatthirdtriplet -- "Conner's POV of Calamityjim's Compression."