Joy Sullivan, From “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions For Traveling

when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

Personal hc that before Jason, dick was a total teenage dirtbag.

Dick was always seeking his father’s approval, just to see if he *truly* cared. Bruce was always so preoccupied with Wayne Industries and off world missions that he never took time to truly acknowledge Dicks feelings.

There would be several times Wally would put out Dicks cigarettes before he could protest. Arguing “they aren’t good for your health!”. Dick would simply just vow to buy more and smoke in secret for the next time.

In his civvies, Dick would get arrested for “disorderly conduct” because he doesn’t believe in blind obedience. On a deeper level, the Gotham police reminds him of going to Juvie when his parents died, and Dick can’t help but lose it a little. It’s a PTSD response for him, to reject the local Gotham PD.

Dick and Commissioner Gordon are on a first name basis for how many times he’s picked Dick up for causing too much ruckus around Gotham. Bruce always pays his bail and wordlessly takes him home.

In his later years as Robin, Dick would get in trouble for experimenting too much amongst his peers. Getting invited to parties, drinking too much, smoking too much… it’s almost a cyclical thing for Dick to stumble through his open window at night, or to wake up hungover in someone else’s bed.

All of this was an attempt to see if Bruce truly cares, if he would actually stop Dick from making these unhealthy choices that are slowly killing him.

Dick constantly sought his father’s approval, but never truly got it. Bruce understood what it was like to be an orphan, so he would let Dick make these mistakes without interfering. From Dicks perspective, it seemed like Bruce never truly cared…

I still write about you. You probably forgot my name.

I copy pasted parts of this but I do hand letter everything, because while I'm trying to work easier as I'm chronically ill, I am still chronically stupid

“You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first.”

— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

How would you describe Dick and Bruce’s relationship in your canon?

it’s 2am and ur POV is sitting in your car parked in a burger king parking lot trying to out-eat the oncoming hangover. you look to your left at the nightclub across the street as a middle aged father hauls his 18 year old daughter out. she’s a drunken mess, cursing at him while throwing a sloppy punch and trying to keep her boob from falling out of her shirt. he’s yelling at her. she starts screaming so much she throws up on her dad and now he’s patting her back and holding the hair out her face. she starts to cry, he starts to cry. now they’re both bawling and hugging in the middle of the street. the bouncer awkwardly looks away. you look down at your half-eaten burger and wonder if you should call your mom

“I have been in love with no one, and never shall,” she whispered, “unless it should be with you.”