daydreamingyonder

[daydreamingyonder]

Across The Spiderverse + Trivia

[daydreamingyonder]

timeline of the Old Guard’s involvement in world history

AKA: Every Bit of Text on Copley’s Sociogram That Was Ever In-Focus Enough for Me to Decipher (With Supplemental Googling to Confirm Some Dates), Arranged in Vaguely Chronological Order

1099 CE, First Crusade - the siege of Jerusalem ends when the Crusaders breach its walls, wresting control from the Fatimid Caliphate. Nicky and Joe, obviously, met here

1228, Sixth Crusade - an oil painting depicts a battle between two mounted knights, probably Nicky and Joe

at some point, Andy and Quynh become involved in the Crusades as well. Copley’s wall includes an image of the cover of a book titled Heroines of the Crusades

1667, France - first performance of Andromaque, a tragedy by famous French playwright Racine [note that this is, in fact, a real play], inspired by the Classical Greek version by Euripides (written 426 BCE) and by Virgil’s Aeneid (written in the 1st century CE, itself inspired by the Homeric epics composed circa 800 BCE)

1799-1812, Napoleonic era - Booker is active as a forger in this time, notably of gold coins

1853, Crimean War - Joe and Nicky are photographed as soldiers

1861-1865, American Civil War - a photograph shows Andy as the commander of a unit including the three other members of the Old Guard, as well as two mortals. they participated in the Battle of Gettysburg (1863)

1904, Haiti - the Old Guard prevents a coup d’état on the centennial of the Haitian Revolution

1916, Montenegro - Andy saves 200 refugee women and children. the daughter of one family would go on to develop a technique for the early detection of diabetes

1914-1918, World War I

Joe saves a little girl, Marie-Hélène Varte, who would go on to become the youngest Nobel Laureate in Medicine

1915 - Andy rescues a member of the ANZAC forces during the Gallipoli campaign

1918 - Andy saves a young French girl who would later be awarded the Legion of Honour for her actions as a pilot in WWII

1936, Spanish Civil War - Nicky is photographed during the battle of Irún

1939-1945, World War II

a photo shows a line of soldiers marching up an escarpment, Nicky among them, possibly in North Africa?

a boy that Nicky tends to as a medic would go on to receive the Institut Pasteur Medal for work with DNA profiling

1944 - Andy is involved with the French Resistance

1945 - the Old Guard prevents the production/deployment of a third atomic bomb in August of this year

1956-1959, Cuban Revolution - Booker, Nicky, and Joe show up in a photo

1955-1968, American Civil Rights Movement - two photos exist of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. giving speeches; Nicky is in the crowd of one, Andy in the other (possibly MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech)

1968 - Joe and Nicky rescue a man from a cave(?)

1955-1975, Vietnam War

April 1975, Operation Babylift - this was an operation by the US government to evacuate orphaned children from South Vietnam. Andy is shown in a photo leaning over one such boy on an airplane. this boy would go on to invest in helping amputee children in Asia (2010)

1975-1979, Cambodia - the Old Guard and “her” grandson (either Andy’s, or that of a woman Andy had previously saved) rescue 317 people from a Khmer Rouge death camp. the Old Guard also shuts down a smuggling ring in the area

1978 - a man previously saved by Andy prevents a nuclear exchange

1989, Berlin - Andy helps people flee from East Germany

1992, Bosnian War - Booker is involved as a combat medic in the Siege of Sarajevo

1992-1993 - Nicky attends college under the alias N. Smith. his birth date is given as April 8 (or possibly August 4)

2000s, Democratic Republic of the Congo - the Old Guard (although only Joe is pictured) rescue a group of children, one of whom would go on to become an influential hip-hop activist in his teens (2018)

2003-2011, Iraq War

2001-present, War in Afghanistan - the Old Guard are linked to the US 10th Mountain Division

2013, Czech Republic - Andy is issued a passport under the alias Alexandra Black

2014, Germany - Joe is issued a passport under the alias Joseph Jones, born in Hamburg and residing in Frankfurt. his birth date is given as January 2

Other items without specific dates attached:

digital image of an aerial shot of a USAF F-22 airstrike in Syria

newspaper headline: Mystery of Death Cheat Woman

newspaper headline: Man Sacrifices His Life to Save Bus Full of Children

this one shows up twice, in both Italy and Poland

a copy of a painting depicting a black man and a white woman, evidently a romantic couple, is posted under the Australia section. the original painting is in Andy’s abandoned mine in Val d’Argent, France

newspaper headline: Case of the Death-Defying Couple Remains Unsolved

this one shows up a bunch, with lots of red string and lines, as Copley evidently traces Nicky and Joe’s exploits. the end of the sequence has a handwritten label that says, Couple’s Final Triumph

Regional labels where I couldn’t read any of the smaller text:

Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bhutan, Bulgaria, Greece, India, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Sudan

[daydreamingyonder]

The Pevensie Siblings

High King over all the rest

The tender-hearted big sister

The traitor who mended

And a dear, darling heart-daughter of Aslan

[daydreamingyonder]

The Green Arrow Family character artwork by Denise Zhang

[daydreamingyonder]

Nvm i just had a minor panic attack followed by existential crisis and have reached the state of fuckthisshit. I’m gonna see my doctor this weekend. Knew Iwas weaning off the antidepressants too fast…

[daydreamingyonder]

The problem of recovering from depression: I have no idea if I’m just having a bad day or slipping back.

[daydreamingyonder]

Cat!Jason Master Post

I got tired of updating the links on every single post, so they’re all right here, and I’ll just update this one instead.

Original: Here

Follow-up: Here

Meme Edition: Here

Enter, Talia: Here

Plastic Muncher: Here

Stop and Scream: Here

*Master Shake voice* You look at him and tell me there’s a brain: Here

*B Dylan Hollis voice* EGGY: Here

Bonus: Cat!Roy: Here

If you have any ideas, prompts, or things you’d like to see in this universe, feel free to send it to my ask box! I’ll do my best to work with it, and seeing interest in the concept makes me really happy <3

[daydreamingyonder]

Fooled Around and Fell in Love

Read on AO3

“Marry Me,” Jason says throwing himself into the chair across from Roy’s hastily.

Roy removes his goggles sitting the sawdering tool in his hands down. “And a good evening, to you too, Jaybird,” he chuckles.

“Yeah, hi. Listen, marry me,” Jason says again.

“Okay, Jay,” Roy says with a snicker looking down at the arrows he’s been toying with.

“No I’m serious,” Jason says and he actually sounds it. Roy looks back up at him, his eyebrows raised. “Jason Todd, not Red Hood was caught on camera leaving a warehouse that proceeded to explode moments after I exited. Cause, you know I blew it up.”

Some days it has to be wondered if Jason Todd staying legally dead would have been the better option. Can’t be a wanted man if you don’t exist.  

“But we-“

“Disabled all the cameras?” Jason says with a sigh. “Yeah, no we missed one, a dashcam from a car across the street.”

“Shit,” Roy says throwing down the arrow looking to the side. It takes him a moment, but another bad thought hits him. “Oh shit, shit Roy Harper was also on camera fucking waiting for you across the street.”

더 보기

[daydreamingyonder]

Canon things that we should not let fall into obscurity:

• Dick was an excellent basketball player and played on the school team

• Dick plays both the guitar AND the accordion

• Jason had a pet dog when he was itty bitty. The dog's name was Sparky

• Tim is a skater. He skateboards and is pretty damn good at it, both as Tim and Robin

• Tim and Bruce both like The Clash. Alfred is Britishly Offended by their music

•Jason loved books as a kid. To support this, Bruce had a mini library built right in his bedroom

•Alfred and Bruce collected first edition books ever since Bruce was a little kid. It's implied this tradition was also carried on with Bruce and Jason

•Damian steals items from his brothers. He's stolen a helmet from Jason, escrima sticks from Dick, possibly one of Tim's bo staffs and I'm 75% sure he's stolen one of his father's cowls

•Barry Allen's real name for a time was Barrence Allen.

•Tim was a boarding school kid. He spent the first half of his life in boarding schools and didn't go to a semi normal school until he moved in with Bruce and went to Gotham Academy.

•Tim did not drop out of high school, he was kicked out because his father did not pay the Brentwood boarding school tuition (because posh boarding schools don't let you attend if you have no means of paying or aren't there on scholarship). It's unclear if Tim ever finished high school or if he just got a GED.

•Correction!: After Brentwood, Tim did go back to a local high school. Unfortunately, he had to drop out again after Bruce died and Tim went on his infamous search. (Thanks everyone who pointed this out!)

•Cass is teaching herself how to read and gets very frustrated with it, but is stubbornly pushing through. We're very proud of her

•Duke has a Nest. He has his very own base of operations and it is stellar

•Steph's father was friends with Edward Nigma. The Riddler spent some time living in Steph's house with their family. They probably had to share a bathroom. (Imagine that chaos)

•Baby Steph dressed up in a cape and Super shirt and pretended to be Superman

•There are four members of the Dead Robin club: Jason, Damian, Steph, and Dick. He was once dead for about five minutes, killed by Lex Luthor before being rescusitated. Likewise, Steph's heart stopped before Leslie was able to revive her before squirrelling her away to Africa. Cass's nomination is up in the air as she has died but was not a Robin.

•Only Tim is member of the Thought Dead But Not Really Robin club

•Dick and Steph are members of both clubs and are considering getting punch cards.

•Duke is the lucky bastard to be part of neither club. He lives in terror of the day he gets a membership

•Damian tried to kill Victor Zsasz. He really thought he succeeded. But Victor survived and no one's really sure how, and the fact that Damian did his best to kill him is never mentioned again

•Steph can speak Swahili

•Roy Harper's original vice was heroin addiction due to being undercover. In New52 it was retconned into an alcohol addiction.

•Talia. Is. A. Good. Person. And. Morrison. Fucked. Her. Over.

•For a time, it was believed that Lady Shiva was Jason's birth mother

•It is unclear if Two Face has been disbarred from practicing law or not

Update: Sorry for any mistakes I made.

[daydreamingyonder]

Here’s the first half of slides from my comic class on Lettering! 

Rest of the slides: https://gingersnappish.tumblr.com/post/616487287636803584/the-rest-of-the-comic-lettering-slides-first

[daydreamingyonder]

I'm sick of people making all these characters so 1 dimensional.

~Percy isn't just the Son of Poseidon, this confident, leader and hero. He isn't super confident and charming around Annabeth. He's still kind of nervous and awkward sometimes. He's not always as confident as we think he is. He just acts like it sometimes. He is SMART. Percy is so incredibly smart and people just forget about it, making it seem like Annabeth has to help him with everything and she's always the one thinking of the plans. Percy is also not always sassy. Sure he has his sassy moments, but we definitely over exaggerate it. He also has a lot of pain. His step-father ab*sed both him and his mother for years. Sally was working multiple jobs, always trying to make sure they had enough. Percy got kicked out of almost every school he went to.

~Annabeth isn't just 'The smart one'. She is incredible in battle. She has so many skills- She also has ADHD. She probably had those insane thoughts and hyper fixations too but everyone always makes those memes where Percy says something that radiates ADHD energy and she’s like, 'shut up'. People always seem to forget that she also had dyslexia. We never really talked about it after the first book but she, like most other demigods had ADHD and Dyslexia. Annabeth, like Percy also has a lot of pain. She ran away from her home (because of her step-mom), she met Thalia and Luke and eventually lost them both at some point. Thalia left and joined the hunters and Luke being gone. Annabeth (especially in the first books) was pretty b*tchy as well. She was mean and rude to Percy, Rachel and others. We always seem to gloss over the small things like that because she's one of the main characters and we seem to view them differently than they actually are.

~ Jason isn't just a boring Roman. He's not boring- people just think he's a knock off Roman version of Percy, that's why they think he's boring. The fact is he's a completely different character, he's not just overly sensible. The fandom just views him as an overly sensible guy and Percy's bro. Sure they're great friends and have a great bond but let's remember, Grover is Percy's best friend and Leo is Jason's. He also was raised completely in the Roman Camp from a very very young age, all the way until the events of HoO. He's also not just a leader. Just because he's the Son of Jupiter, doesn't mean he's automatically leader material. Same goes with Percy, just because they're the children of the 'Big Three'.

~Leo isn't just 'funny'. Don't you guys remember, he makes jokes to hide the pain from past trauma. Sometimes all the fandom does is show him as funny/dumb when in reality he is hurt and he is SUPER intelligent. Leo is actually genius- like all these inventions and projects he's done? He's the first demigod in a while that has that amount of intelligence and skill with that stuff besides maybe Beckendorf. He's not just the goofy kid we all think of him as. He's serious about his work and serious when he needs to be.

~ Hazel. The fandom always views her and Frank as being these cuddly, sweet cinnamon rolls all the time. Hazel is literally so BAD*SS I don't know what y'all are talking about--when she was at school, the nuns washed her mouth out with soap over stuff she said. She's not just sweet and innocent, she was bullied for her race, she left her only friend behind, and died saving the world when she was only 13. She can control the FREAKING MIST- that's pretty epic. Honestly, to me she's more powerful than Nico Di Angelo.

~Frank. HE IS NOT JUST A SWEET CINNAMON ROLL. Frank is literally the sweetest but out of all the seven, to me He and Hazel are the most bad*ss. He single handedly defeated hundreds of monsters, saved his friends COUNTLESS times, and he became Praetor in THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE- he is so incredibly over-powered, his life was tied to a piece of wood. Imagine being so powerful you had your life line tied to a piece of fire wood. Son of Mars and descendant of Poseidon. People need to appreciate him more.

[daydreamingyonder]

Detective Comics #533

"Be yourself, Jay. Sometimes...it's the most heroic thing anyone can do."

Bruce really did chew him out for wearing the suit, but as promised, here is the apology.

[daydreamingyonder]

here are a few things that could help if you’re looking to get into comics because it’s very confusing at first (and every moment after)

the dcu guide lists characters’ appearances in chronological order

comicvine lists every appearance of a character

comicstorian is a youtube channel that summarizes comic arcs/character origins in short, easy to understand videos

lornahs has a lot of good character reading lists, dc & marvel

comic book reading orders has reading orders for almost all events & characters, dc & marvel

r/DCcomics’ wiki has a large recommended reading page & a newbies section for people looking to start reading for the first time

comic book herald has a list of reading guides as well as a where to start with current dc & a beginner’s guide to comics

the dc database has a recommended reading section

comics back issues has a list of reading orders as well as their guide to comics for new readers

and if you’re looking to get into lanterns, be sure to give my own, comparatively puny rec page a look!

good luck!

[daydreamingyonder]

Canon things that we should not let fall into obscurity:

• Dick was an excellent basketball player and played on the school team

• Dick plays both the guitar AND the accordion

• Jason had a pet dog when he was itty bitty. The dog's name was Sparky

• Tim is a skater. He skateboards and is pretty damn good at it, both as Tim and Robin

• Tim and Bruce both like The Clash. Alfred is Britishly Offended by their music

•Jason loved books as a kid. To support this, Bruce had a mini library built right in his bedroom

•Alfred and Bruce collected first edition books ever since Bruce was a little kid. It's implied this tradition was also carried on with Bruce and Jason

•Damian steals items from his brothers. He's stolen a helmet from Jason, escrima sticks from Dick, possibly one of Tim's bo staffs and I'm 75% sure he's stolen one of his father's cowls

•Barry Allen's real name for a time was Barrence Allen.

•Tim was a boarding school kid. He spent the first half of his life in boarding schools and didn't go to a semi normal school until he moved in with Bruce and went to Gotham Academy.

•Tim did not drop out of high school, he was kicked out because his father did not pay the Brentwood boarding school tuition (because posh boarding schools don't let you attend if you have no means of paying or aren't there on scholarship). It's unclear if Tim ever finished high school or if he just got a GED.

•Correction!: After Brentwood, Tim did go back to a local high school. Unfortunately, he had to drop out again after Bruce died and Tim went on his infamous search. (Thanks everyone who pointed this out!)

•Cass is teaching herself how to read and gets very frustrated with it, but is stubbornly pushing through. We're very proud of her

•Duke has a Nest. He has his very own base of operations and it is stellar

•Steph's father was friends with Edward Nigma. The Riddler spent some time living in Steph's house with their family. They probably had to share a bathroom. (Imagine that chaos)

•Baby Steph dressed up in a cape and Super shirt and pretended to be Superman

•There are four members of the Dead Robin club: Jason, Damian, Steph, and Dick. He was once dead for about five minutes, killed by Lex Luthor before being rescusitated. Likewise, Steph's heart stopped before Leslie was able to revive her before squirrelling her away to Africa. Cass's nomination is up in the air as she has died but was not a Robin.

•Only Tim is member of the Thought Dead But Not Really Robin club

•Dick and Steph are members of both clubs and are considering getting punch cards.

•Duke is the lucky bastard to be part of neither club. He lives in terror of the day he gets a membership

•Damian tried to kill Victor Zsasz. He really thought he succeeded. But Victor survived and no one's really sure how, and the fact that Damian did his best to kill him is never mentioned again

•Steph can speak Swahili

•Roy Harper's original vice was heroin addiction due to being undercover. In New52 it was retconned into an alcohol addiction.

•Talia. Is. A. Good. Person. And. Morrison. Fucked. Her. Over.

•For a time, it was believed that Lady Shiva was Jason's birth mother

•It is unclear if Two Face has been disbarred from practicing law or not

Update: Sorry for any mistakes I made.

[daydreamingyonder]

Okay I got a question for you, resident Batfam Expert! I’ve been reading a lot of fanfic recently (because I love pain) and I was wondering how many of the pet names the family calls each other are canon? Because they have A LOT and they’re all pretty consistent throughout the writings. Some of the ones I’ve noted regularly are Baby Bird, Little Wing, Jay, Jaylad, Jace, Timmers, Timbo, Dickie, Dickiebird, and then Bruce calling his kids ‘sweetheart’. (Adorable) Anyway, thanks! Don’t feel a need to rush in answering :) I’m in no hurry

Sorry it took me so long to get to all of these, I’ve spent the last few weeks scrounging up every single resource I could get my hands on so that I could make a comprehensive list of which nicknames are canon and which are fanon and it took a SUPER long time. The bottom line is I ended up accidentally making a whole-ass Google Slides for every single batkid nickname, and while the whole project isn’t anywhere near finished yet, I managed to complete the slides needed to answer all of these questions. So...yeah! Here’s what I found:

Dickie/Dickie-Bird:

Jason seems to be the main nickname-user of the family, so aside from the aforementioned comics, there isn’t very much content of Dick being called “Dickie” or “Dickie-Bird”. (I also want to bring up “Big Bird,” which I see Jason calling Dick sometimes in fanfics. That one’s not canon anywhere, unfortunately.) Dick used to be called “Dickie” sometimes as a term of endearment during his circus days, but after that it’s not likely you’ll see any of his family members calling him something other than Dick. 

Little Wing:

Sadly, “Little Wing” hasn’t been used in any canon content after this comic, which is a major bummer since the fandom has turned it into one of Jason’s most popular nicknames (from Dick at least).

Jay/Jace/Jaylad/Jaybird:

(I didn’t list the comic sources for the more widely used nicknames since they’re so common in comics that you could find them pretty much anywhere.) 

I’d say that Bruce called Jason “Jay” far more during his Robin days than he does now, though that could be attributed to their more distant relationship nowadays. (Or maybe I just didn’t happen to read the specific modern comics in which he called Jason “Jay” or “Jace/Jase”.)

Yeahhh, sorry about this one. “Jaylad” is kind of the Schrödinger's cat of nicknames. The fandom ended up misconstruing the term over time. and losing the comma between “Jay” and “lad” so it became “Jaylad” and everyone just stuck with it.

The main person who seems to use this one is Roy Harper, as I haven’t yet found a comic in which one of Jason’s family members calls him “Jaybird”. You can open pretty much any comic with both Jason and Roy in it and expect Roy to say it at least once.

Timmy/Timbers/Timbo:

I haven’t seen anyone calling Tim “Timmers” in canon, but otherwise, most of the other common nicknames derived from Timothy are canon.

Pretender/Replacement:

I always found it wild how Jason never once called Tim “Replacement” in a comic, and yet we all managed to latch onto it anyway and make it his go-to nickname for Tim? That takes some dedication, man. Otherwise, Jason called Tim “Pretender” a few times during Batman: Hush, and that was about it. 

Baby Bird/Baby Bat:

I know a lot of people hate the nickname “Babybird” (for whatever reason), but honestly, I’m really hoping that DC makes it a thing because dammit, we deserve this breadcrumb at least. As of right now, the only batkid who has ever been called “Babybird” was Damian, and it was by his mom. (In fanon, it’s typically Tim who is called “Babybird” while Dick is “Dickie-Bird” and Jason is “Little Wing”. Who decided this, I have no idea but I’m not complaining.) I also included “Baby Bat” since I see that one pretty often too, and that one is sadly not canon either. The DC writers really don’t want us getting our hands on any family fluff whatsoever, huh.

As for Bruce, I don’t think he’s ever called his kids a term of endearment more emotional than “son” or “pal” because he has the emotional capacity of a dried-up raisin. All of those nicknames like “sweetheart,” “honey,” “pumpkin,” and any other names a parent might call their child are banned from Batman’s dictionary as far as the writers are concerned. Will that make me stop having Bruce call his kids “sweetheart” in my fics every chance I get? Absolutely not.

[daydreamingyonder]

Jason being a dramatic fuck/meme compilation

I have an entire album in my gallery full of this shit

[daydreamingyonder]

This is a tall order but since youre the batclan expert can you find every instance of the batkids calling each other brothers and sisters? Trying to prove a point

and this isn’t even HALF of the ones i have saved