My Favorite Part Of Donna Tartt Books Is That They’re Always Hyped Up To Be Super Dark Academia And

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Young Dick Grayson as Robin asking Bruce for light up shoes for his costume after he saw Wally get a pair.

i do really love the idea of Time Shenanigans leading to ~13-year-old Damian meeting all former Robins at the same age, because every single one of them is just the exact opposite of what he’d expect.

Dick, who Damian expects to be the cool nice supportive one, at thirteen is fucking furious at the idea that there are any Robins after him. Stephanie, far from the perky optimist he knows, is a hardcore cynic who thinks Batman is super cool and hasn’t even become a vigilante yet. Jason, who has previously interacted with Damian mostly via bullets, is a sweetheart who’s exceptionally insecure at the idea of Bruce getting another Robin.

And meanwhile Tim at thirteen is like “oh you’re the next Robin? Heck yeah, that’s awesome, glad it worked out.”

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You wrote about murder?? Murder is illegal?? You wrote about this dude killing someone and you didn’t even say ‘murder is bad’ at the start of the book, wht wtf, wtf is wrong with you? I can’t believe you condone murder, I can’t believe you’re pro murber, oh my fucking God don'ttalk to me when ou literally kill people, freak. I’m calling the cops, what the fuck, I’m shaking and crying.

it’s the way that i feel physically nauseous whenever i remember they made this LITTLE GUY homeless like DC I AM COMING TO FIGHT YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS

You ever think about how Cassandra Cain was homeless for 10 years, wasn’t able to speak or read the entire time, and somehow made it from Macau all the way to Gotham? DC hello??? There’s a story there

im not afraid of characters turning evil, you shouldn't either, idc if canon jason is actually a sweetheart, i love him too, i just want ONE comic where they let him be deranged for a bit, actually deranged, make him give us nightmares with the atrocities he commits and then make him be conscious, make him human, because the scary part is that ITS A HUMAN doing that, a person like anyone else

make jason scary, make him a murderer who doesn't look back on the scum he takes rid of, make him psychotic, and i want him to have a well deserved mental breakdown when he realises everytime he kills someone he turns a bit more like his own killer

Don't think about little Jason Todd, who was curling in his sleep around Catherine, who was passed out, when he could. Don't think about a freshly orphaned Jason Todd, who kept curling in a little ball, trying to warm himself. Definitely don't imagine him doing the same in the Wayne Manor, except this time he curled around pillow or a small Nightwing plush his brother gifted him. And definitely don't imagine Talia searching for little Damian frantically, only to find Jason, curling around a toddler in his restless dreams. And maybe don't imagine Jason continuing to do the same in the solitude of his apartment, despite being all strong and huge.

Just don't.

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I think a lot abt how ram wrote talia talking about how she was going to help bruce get back to himself. such an important part of brutalia’s dynamic is that talia has always understood that being batman will always come first &, crucially, she wouldn’t have it any other way.

it’s a big reason why I like brutalia so much; when it’s written correctly, everything abt bruce is accepted & loved & adored — & for talia to be able to do all of those things, she knows she also has to let him go… trapped in this eternal cycle of loving bruce at his truest form, when he’s doing what makes him happy, adhering to his sacred vow; while knowing that that stops them from being together, but that she wouldn’t ever want him to change for her… poetry