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I keep seeing posts about Bruce and Batman being connected to Gotham in an almost arcane Eldrich way and I am here for it!!!

I like this idea that Bruce doesn’t even notice, not really. Like he’s human but sometimes he just syncs with his city so well that he just embodies Gotham.

Gotham is alive in a way that no other city is, not thinking or speaking, but feeling and moving. Bending around itself with narrow alleyways and barely lit streets. It almost breathes.

He drifts off into the streetlights and gargoyles and fades away becoming part of the city, like any other fixture.

And he doesn’t really notice, because this is just his every day.

Along side playing Fallout New Vegas I will also be playing Fallout 4 because I have this immense urge to build settlements.

I’ve downloaded so many mods.

Lois Lane and Clark Kent are two of the most capable and brilliant journalists the Daily Planet has. They have written articles that have brought people to tears, spread the truth about injustices, and have both won multiple prizes.

This does not stop them from also writing the most stupid gossip rag like articles after the Justice League have a fight on Twitter.

(Lois knows and Clark enables, they just wanna mess with them so bad and they make it so easy)

“Well Mr. Columbo—”

“Actually, it’s Lieutenant Columbo.”

“You’re Starfleet?”

“Star who now?”

(thanks for the caption @brookbee!)

enjoying a character is so embarassing like ugh yes i do want to buy this thing that has him on it. just because it has him on it. what next. a fucking shrine? get real.

Does anyone know of any psychological horror fanfics about Bruce sort of fight against Batman almost. I have no real good way to describe this.

Maybe like when Bruce was trying to reject becoming Batman again in Dark Knight Returns or like when Bruce try’s to fight for a regular-ish life like in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.

I’m in an angsty Bruce mood. Also bonus points if Gotham itself is almost alive.

If these don’t exist I might write it myself, it won’t be good but I gotta practice writing and fanfic is the way to go for that.

Does it ever frustrate you when people argue about the moral implications of characters in serialized media (like comics and tv shows) when you yourself know that the reason characters will do things incredibly differently and make some completely out of character choices depending one what the writer wants to write.

Or not even moral implications, literally just any action or characterization.

And also those writer change so frequently that often the character will do something with one writer and then not do it with another writer.

Also these things have been existing so long that (especially with comics, like nearly a century) that times have changed and writing has also changed.

Just remember that these are characters that have been around for years and have been passed around by writers since their conception.

There is no hard canon with these things.

(Also a better argument would be about the industry issues and why the writers wrote what they did rather than arguing about fictional characters. Because a lot of this stuff is mostly industry issues that should be addressed because these are real people making these writing decisions and editorial changes.)

So I’m playing Fallout New Vegas for the first time and found out I can be a bisexual cowboy in post apocalyptic Nevada.

I’m having the time of my life.

Do you think Bruce is one of those dads who hears their kid mention needing or wanting this thing and he just continuously buys that thing for them.

Like Dick complained about how he doesn’t have enough colorful or fun socks once and Bruce will still give him new socks every once in a while. Dick said that when he was 12!

Damian mentioned wanting colored pencils to practice art with and now he had a tub of them. They aren’t even the same brand Bruce just keeps buying whichever one is highly rated by people online at any given moment.

Cass mentioned like one specific Barbie she wanted cause she wanted to make a joke with Barbra (the Barbie had red hair and Cass was gonna make it look like her as an Oracle action figure) and now she has one of the biggest collections in the world. Like she appreciates it but she has no where to put all these Barbies!

I love the fact that the Wayne Family Adventures episode with Hal in it gives the same vibes as when Hal and Bruce went on an adventure in Batman Universe.

Just absolute chaos and getting into such random scenarios. Like they went to the Wild West for some reason?!

Ok so I’ve bought a Brandon Sanderson book.

It’s called The Way of Kings and it’s thicker than a text book.

I am so ready!

THANK YOU 🙏 This is the exact one!!!

Can someone help me, I can’t remember what it was called but there was a fanfic where the batfam showed Duke the Discowing outfit for the first time.

Everyone including Dick was prepared for Duke to make fun of it but Duke said “it’s beautiful.” The batfam was shocked and Dick was delighted.

I need help finding it cause I wanna download it to my usb.

Random sad post!

Do you ever think about how some of the Justice League will out live their friends. Like Clark and Diana are like semi immortal in some continuities. Like I think about this so much, cause I think they both would have such a hard time with this. Lois will die before Clark. Diana will loose Steve no matter how hard they fight. Bruce will grow old before them and so will his kids.

I keep thinking about Kingdom Come and stuff so this sort of inspired me.

Can someone help me, I can’t remember what it was called but there was a fanfic where the batfam showed Duke the Discowing outfit for the first time.

Everyone including Dick was prepared for Duke to make fun of it but Duke said “it’s beautiful.” The batfam was shocked and Dick was delighted.

I need help finding it cause I wanna download it to my usb.

YES!! The more I read about home the more I want to put respect on his name!!!

The sheer amount of lunacy I have recently come to learn about this man. Chills.

Ok so I’m working on something.

I might change up the formatting but we’ll see if this ever get finished.

Bruce about to reveal his identity to the JL

Bruce: “I’m going to do something that may traumatize two of you. I am not sorry.”

Oliver: “oh come on Batman you identity isn’t that special.”

Bruce going full whiny play boy: “Dinah! Ollie is being mean to me!!!”

Oliver: blue screens

Dinah: “YOU BITCH!?”

I actually did a coughing laugh when I read Duke hitting kgbeast with a car. That man will never know peace again and I am here for it!

Thank you for the recommendations!! I’ve been on a bit of a comic slump (I’ve only been reading world’s finest) and I want to branch out some more.

I’m excited!!!

have u read any of Duke's comics? if so what's your favorite arc? I Really love the cursed wheel which I know is not everyone's fav but I just love the way that duke and Bruce have their mentor/mentee relationship they're so sassy to each other and they really enable each other's dumbass impulses XD

I still gotta read that one, that sounds so fun!!! I think the last one I read was the one where Duke was getting into a fight with some we are Robin people and trying to steal some joker serum. I don’t actually remember which comic that was.

I’m still sort of new to his character (I’ve been read We Are Robin and been learning through fan osmosis) so if you have any recommendations please give 🙏

Oh I’ve also been reading Batman and The Signal

Does anyone have issues watching movies? Cause for some reason when I go to movies I get super flushed. Hell sometimes I’ll get like this when I’m home alone with movies. This doesn’t happen when I watch long YouTube videos it’s so odd.

The internet can be so useful and so not useful sometimes 😅

Thanks again for telling me and being so nice!

my apologies Tumblr is a Webbed Site and ate my first message. please read this article in regards to we are robin, it's really common and problematic, but I want people to be aware so we can make fandom safer thanks!

https://ejusa.org/why-we-dont-say-gang/

Ok so first of all thank you for telling me about this. I’ve changed it cause I feel like I should, though I do want to mention I meant no malice gang is just part of my vocabulary when I talk about people in a group.

I do want to mention, and I’m sorry if this comes off as rude, that maybe you shouldn’t use the word problematic. It’s often used as a buzzword by people who want to cause problems rather than educate. Example is I like villain characters cause they’re characters and I like to study how they operate for my own stories. But often on other websites (and even this one) people will call that problematic when it’s doesn’t actually affect real people.

Sorry for the rant I just felt like that was important to tell people. But genuinely thank you so much for telling me about this and I really appreciate you going out of your way to tell me about this. And you were incredibly polite about it which I appreciate so much.

have u read any of Duke's comics? if so what's your favorite arc? I Really love the cursed wheel which I know is not everyone's fav but I just love the way that duke and Bruce have their mentor/mentee relationship they're so sassy to each other and they really enable each other's dumbass impulses XD

I still gotta read that one, that sounds so fun!!! I think the last one I read was the one where Duke was getting into a fight with some we are Robin people and trying to steal some joker serum. I don’t actually remember which comic that was.

I’m still sort of new to his character (I’ve been read ing We Are Robin and been learning through fan osmosis) so if you have any recommendations please give 🙏

Oh I’ve also been reading Batman and The Signal

Okay, but counterpoint to all the angsty Bruce-bleeding-out:

Bruce is relieved. All his life, it's felt like Gotham has called to him, a siren song not even pretending to be pleasant but enthralling all the same. She's had him in a vice grip since that night and he's always known it deep in his heart.

So, when he's laying there curled against a wall, feet away from the spot that claimed his parents' lives, it all makes sense. Gotham's mercy always came with a price. He had thought it was his parents, but that was never true. His parents' debt had been called in that night and his own had begun - Gotham's lucky owed her their souls and she would always collect.

And yet, for Bruce, it doesn't feel like a punishment. He looks up at the raining heavens, the cold water soaking through the suit, and asks her, "Is it finally over?"

She doesn't answer, of course. The sky just rumbles with thunder, not even any lightning.

He knows he's dying. There's already too much blood washed away by the water to recover from. He wants to take off the cowl, suddenly suffocated by the duty she'd placed on him. He's being freed from his task, and he wants to feel the water wash through his hair. She exerts her influence over him one last time to stop him - if his identity gets revealed, the children will be in danger - but grants him the energy to roll onto his back. The cool water will work its way under the cowl enough for him.

"I get to stop now?" He asks.

His body feels more sluggish and the aches he almost forgets he has leave him, no longer compelled forward by her relentless drive. He knows this feeling - death is coming. But for once, it feels ... permanent. Gotham's cold, dark tendrils had been wrapped around his heart and soul for most of his life, laying their claim on him. But tonight, he felt them slip away and this death ... this death feels like the real one. It's not cold or scary, just peacefully empty. He has done his job, fulfilled his role.

Batman dies, spilling out the same blood he was baptized in, born from.

As for Bruce Wayne, well ... he's back home, of course, finally resting.

hi…..first of all how dare you? second of all how dare you. third of all how DARE you—-

Ok one more…

My Tim doesn’t drink coffee, he’s young adult. He drinks every energy drink under the sun. Sometimes he makes cocktails with them.

Thank you.

(Also he takes naps)

I imagine that Batman banned puns over the comms because they were once in the middle of sneaking into a gang hideout and every single thing Dick had said was some kind of mushroom/fungus pun, which was the last thing that Bruce heard before Duke burst into laughter and got pinned by gunfire.

Ok one more for the night:

A small list of things I think Bruce would have in his utility belt. (This is inspired by lots of things including posts on Tumblr. Please go check out the people I mentioned.)

1. A extra cape (he will often wrap his cape around victims and then feel too bad to ask for it back so he just has an extra cape. Inspired by a Detective Comics issue.)

2. Horse biscuits shaped like bats (inspired by that tumblr post about the Trinity riding unicorns. One of the commenters noted that maybe Batman was giving the unicorn biscuits in stead of that being the unicorns name and that idea is stuck in my head. The post is by dangerousdan-dan and the comment is by raaaaaaaawr)(pls inform me if i missed an a)

3. Shark Repellent (we all know)

4. The Kryptonite Ring (we also all know)

5. Sugar free lollipops (from the Nightwing issue)

6. Glitter Smoke Bombs (Stephanie snuck those in with his regular ones)

7. Gel Pens (inspired by my own post cause I thought about it more and Bruce would absolutely use gel pens regularly just not glitter ones cause the ink feels rough after it drys and the glitter gets everywhere)

8. A Camera Baterang (from that one family photo comic)

9. Catnip and Cat Food (he leaves some out for Selina’s cats)

10. Pain Meds (for various reasons but these ones are primarily for the back pain he undoubtedly has forever after knightfall)

11. Medical Stuff of all types, yes they all have little bats on them. (This ranges from bandaids to menstrual pads. Inspired by a ditzybat post)

12. A bat recorder (just in case he needs to record any final words, for others or for himself)

Hot Take, I think the Bruce fires Dick retcon makes no sense and takes away from both characters.

Like why would Bruce be “oh I don’t want to lose my kid so I’ll fire him” and then adopt another kid and let them be Robin. That makes no sense at all?!

And it completely screws up Dick’s whole thing. Like Dick is supposed to represent freedom and independence. Him being fired takes away his agency in that moment and completely undermines his character motivations.

Also the departure does not have to be good. It can be a mess and Bruce and Dick can fight about it. I just want it to be Dick’s choice, because I feel like that fits better narratively.

So yeah the only thing I liked from Nightwing Year One was how he got the name Nightwing. Also in my Earth au thing Dick does still leave on his terms. I might write about my Earth someday I have like a full timeline.

Bruce about to reveal his identity to the JL

Bruce: “I’m going to do something that may traumatize two of you. I am not sorry.”

Oliver: “oh come on Batman your identity isn’t that special.”

Bruce going full whiny play boy: “Dinah! Ollie is being mean to me!!!”

Oliver: blue screens

Dinah: “YOU BITCH!?”

It's not easy being the new Batriarchy of the family ╮(╯▽╰)╭

Dick Grayson Anniversary Week 2023 || @dickgraysonweek Day 4: Abuse | “In every iteration, it’s Dick who remains the light of the world.” | Batman!Dick

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"i've just been working on a... celebrity impression. it's for a sting operation of sorts i've been putting together. yes as a matter of fact it WILL keep me busy tonight—"

Ok this is super niche but if the Justice League was in Eorzea (ffxiv) what classes would they be. I’ve been thinking about this way too much.

Like I’m gonna draw Bruce as a Dark Knight but I genuinely believe he would either be a Ninja or a Sage. Cause of how mmo healers can be (I know cause I am one sometimes)

I think Diana would make a wonderful Paladin, she just feels like she is that light.

I genuinely am stumped on Clark. Maybe a Gunbreaker for what they represent, or maybe a Monk. I feel like Monk might work well.

Oliver has to be a Bard, like it just fits him perfectly. He’s hopeful and wants to help the little guy.

I’m thinking there can be some overlap and the Justice League is just a big Free Company. Oh my word this is so dumb but these are my hyper fixations. Like these are the two things that people can’t talk to me about cause I just won’t shut up about them. I like them a lot.

I might delete this later cause I’m embarrassed.

Dishonored!!!

*crouches to go into stealth*

the cracking of my knees alerts the guards, I am immediately killed