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baby i’ve got half finished wips you couldn’t even imagine

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Batman isn’t a mask; It’s a leash. In this essay I will—

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*emerges from the other room covered in blood* you should see the word document

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yes there's a lot of things to criticize about Star Wars but one thing i will always love it for is being so unabashedly tragic

i'm sure it's been said before, but one of the main things i think powers the SW fandom (fics in particular) is the (in)evitability of it all

time travel fix-its are one of the most popular sub-categories of fics that i've seen (for the prequels at least) but i see it much more rarely in other fandoms. i know each fandom has their own niches that they dig into but star wars fic writers took one look at this decades long story of people who were doomed from the start and said 'not in my house bitch'

and i'm never tired of it, because there's so many places where just one different action could have changed the story entirely, but didn't

was it over the moment Palpatine succeeded in feeding Anakin's fears and his distrust toward the Jedi? the moment the Sith gained control of the senate? what about when the war started, when the Jedi were made generals of men designed to be their executioners? what about when Dooku left the order? when Qui-Gon Jinn died, leaving barely-knighted Obi Wan Kenobi to raise a child he had no idea how to care for? when the Jedi massacred the Mandalorians at Galidraan, leaving Jango Fett primed (hah) for revenge? when Palpatine, and thus the Sith, first gained influence? when the Jedi were tied to the Republic, all the way back at the Ruusan Reformation?

there are so many little moments that turn into this huge web of cause and effect when you take a step back. and in canon, these characters are dooming themselves while we watch, but what reason do they have to do anything different? they don't know they're in a tragedy - its dramatic irony at its goddamn finest

but there's this thing about decisions: for it to be a choice, there has to be another option. and our heroes make their mistakes because that's what they do, while we aren't privy to that other option, leaving that little what-if. it's a favorite human pastime, to think about what might have been.

we start at episode 4, though, fourty or so years after what you could arguably call the start, and find ourselves watching the dominoes fall in place throughout 1, 2, and 3.

and we can hate the choices, hate the tragedy, hate what happened to our beloved characters, but we knew. we had the luxury of knowing.

it's a love story, it's political intrique, it's sci-fi at its finest, and they were dead from the start.

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POV you're an 8-year-old circus boy hiding from your first thunderstorm in Gotham and the weird emo man you live with tells you his cape will protect you from anything

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Death and The Hermit | Cody and Obi-Wan

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there is no chaos, there is harmony.

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the best part about comics and fics where the batkids have to fight a mind controlled Bruce is the inevitable "oh shit" moment when they realize that every single spar with Bruce over the years -- even the ones where they were sparring at full force -- was against a Bruce who still held himself back in some way. because those are his kids.

a Bruce who doesn't care about them is terrifying.

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feel the same way. it makes it feel like i've been the unwilling participant in some kind of robbery or something.

When I find out something is AI, I suddenly feel deeply disappointed. It's been interesting to observe this in myself. Curious what your experience is.

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Someone: Boop! Got your autism.

Damian: You better give me that back, that was a gift from my father.

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Honestly I think Bruce could even floor some heroes with a soft-spoken "I'm proud of you."

He says it to the sidekicks and off to one side a few of the JL members tear up.

Hell, he can still floor his kids by saying that. The tone, the quiet assuredness of it all, the hand on their shoulder — all six feet and 220 lbs of Jason blinks away tears.

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idk if someone has already made this post but. imagine gotham upholding bruce wayne as an example of "you can have a tragic backstory and not start doing weird superhero/villain crap" and he just has to Deal with it

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Late night thought.

You know how when you need to put a cat down you can kinda just gentle toss them. And that sometimes people who are use to holding cats then hold a dog and forget that you can't really do the same thing for them. So they end up just throwing a dog. I would like to imagine that was what it was like for Bruce to go from having Dick as a child to Jason.

Bruce main experience with children would be this little acrobat who would just jump/flip out of his arms and honestly enjoyed the extra momentum of the toss when being put down. So that's just how he is use to releasing kids when carrying them. But then he has Jason, and is holding him and they have a cute moment, but then by instinct he throws Jason, and Jason just thumps to the ground. And both of them are staring at each other with confusion.

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Bruce saves people because a long time ago on the worst night of his life, no one was there to save him. Cassandra stops killers because a long time ago on the worst night of her life, no one was there to stop her.

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☀Stephanie. A commissioned piece for Women's Day! Really enjoyed drawing her :)

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little yellow creature :)

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Wayne galas are a literal party for the children of Bruce. They tried to do the most stupid shit they can possibly think of everytime.

Once Tim skated over the fancy ass chocolate fountain.

Damian won $1k in a bet with Dick that he could get Redhood to show up and perform a Shakespeare soliloquy.

Stephanie likes to try to start fights among the rich bastards about the littlest things—once she got two politicians to fist fight over taxes.

Cass got several sugar daddies.

It always ends up in the paper and a very drunk Bruce Wayne.