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I will say despite all my issues with the new boy wonder issue this panel is so funny as Jason basically went

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This is George Rexstrew’s insta story!! Both Kassius Nelson and Steve Yockey reposted it!!

The creators are noticing and speaking up themselves, in whatever ways they can!!!!

@netflix Dead Boy Detectives is SUCCESSFUL!!!! It is loved!!!! The people want more!!!!

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average day at the jl

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I've seen ten billion arts of the Bats being cool and scary in the dark which I do love BUT

HOW COME I NEVER SEE ART ALONG THE LINES OF THIS??????

this is way scarier holy shit

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Wait… I just found out that this picture comes from Jon’s dreams… you mean to tell me Jon dreamt up Damian in this outfit………

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I love Easter eggs I love Damian’s Batman pencil case I love Jon counting on his fingers bring them back this isn’t fair

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Self indulgent Miss Kyle doodles

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Duke meeting the JL but it goes wrong.

We've all heard about Jason getting apprehended by the JL because they don't know Red Hood isn't a villain. Now get ready for, Duke Thomas getting apprehended by the JL because they don't believe he's new and they don't believe he's part of the bat clan.

They just see this new vigilante in Gotham who's the only one that works the day shift, has not been seen with the batman in person (that they know of, bc they don't actually have a pair of good eyes in Gotham that isn't Bruce and Bruce ain't telling them shit.) with no history of being a Robin.

They draw their conclusions, realize that this must be a copycat and therefore dangerous towards other and himself and decide to bring him in, because Bruce is of world somewhere.

Duke just lets it happen, faintly complaining about racial profiling while he waits for the rest of the family to break into the watchtower and embarrass the fuck out of the justice league.

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the “We should get married so we can’t ever be forced to testify against each other” trope except it’s Bruce and Clark as a catch all for any/all crimes committed by Bruce (as a vigilante) Clark (usually as a party to vigilantism, but also all the lies/forgery to look human) and both of them (money laundering, fraud, etc committed to create and fund the Watchtower).

Because if one identity gets found out, it’s not hard to connect the dots. And if it ever came to a trial, or a military tribunal, no one would see spousal privilege being invoked by Batman & Superman coming. Not from a mile away.

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I will forever love Dead Boy Detectives because they do not fall into the trope of “oh this character’s life was hard/bad so now they are evil” because im so tired of that trope. This show perfectly shows that “this characters life (or death) was hard/bad and they are KIND. and they LOVE and they HELP” oh my god. Its just. Its so refreshing to see it

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Prompt:

After Red Hood stopped killing and someone leaked footage hinting that he's the second Robin, he expected to fight for every morsel of territory, for everybody to desert him and the murder attempts to triple.

And, well. It's not like he doesn't find himself in a rigged warehouse on Monday, walking off that one explosion with singes on his back. It's not like on Wednesday, a bullet pierces through a hole in his armour and he's losing half his blood in an alley. And sure, someone takes advantage of him throwing his helmet away on Friday (he was out of grenades and needed a bigger bomb) to fear gass him, but it's fine, he can function normally under fear gass nowadays.

Except. Except nobody deserts him. By Monday, the attempts have completely stopped. He walks into a meeting with his men and sees his goons' hands won't stop shaking, and even his lieutenant won't look him in the eyes.

Jason is confused, and so are the other bats, but soon the rumours reach their ears: you can't go after the Red Hood, because no matter what you do, once you've targeted him it's over, like a dog with a bone, he'll get you eventually- no matter how you shoot or how many explosives you use. It doesn't matter that the Red Hood doesn't kill, because the Red Hood doesn't die.

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Duke is the kind of guy whose entire life is a sidequest

He comes home late from patrol because a bunch of pythons at the zoo got loose and he could only lure them back with a flute Pied Piper style

He got the flute from his language-learning buddy in Japan

He is learning Japanese after he had difficulty communicating with a civilian who witnessed someone stealing a combine harvester

The only reason he was in the countryside to investigate that case was because he needed a horse to win a race

A race he's in because he signed up for the wrong thing when he really meant to enter a robot wrestling tournament

The robot, of course, being a trophy of his first solo battle against Lex Luthor

And he was only there because he had box tickets to a Metropolis baseball game

Which he got in a raffle that his friends entered him in without telling him

Because he got them all a gold medal at the science fair by bringing real moon rocks

That he gathered after he accidentally launched himself into space

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I want a fic where Tim unwittingly becomes the rebellious kid after his dad dies because he has a hard time adjusting from his latchkey kid with absentee parents life to the almost constant adult supervision at Wayne Manor.

Like, Tim spent years sneaking around to do Batman shit and even when he got in trouble, if he waited long enough his parents would either leave town or forget about it.

Now he’s getting the ‘I’m not mad, I’m disappointed’ talk from Bruce for skipping school and supplementing half his meals with energy drinks and is just like: ???? Nothing has changed??

Tim gets hurt on patrol and Bruce tells him that Robin will not be out in Gotham the next night, and then gets mad when he finds Tim on a rooftop in his civies taking pictures. Tim is just like: Robin’s not out. I followed your order. What’s the problem?

Tim disappears for a few days following a lead and gets grounded for not telling anybody where he went (even though he did. It’s in the Batcomputer) and for missing school which he interprets as meaning that Robin is grounded (can’t patrol). So it’s confusing when he gets in trouble again for inviting Kon over to hang out because he’s ‘grounded’ which doesn’t even make sense because Bruce isn’t even home??

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Let them be besties.

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charles going "i'm aces with other people" literal seconds after he died from being murdered by his friends is absolutely fascinating, this kid's optimism and sheer determination to bullshit his way through every traumatic event he goes through and pointedly refuses to examine really knows no bounds

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I'm thinking about DBDA per usual and I think I've realized that one thing that makes it so groundbreaking for queer rep is the way it never positions romantic love as greater than platonic love.

Like, Edwin and Charles have a "so devoted the lines blur" thing going on, but Charles's "I can't say that I'm, like, IN love with you" is never framed as an insult to Edwin. Edwin himself feels extremely loved afterward!

And then I feel like I have to talk about the end of episode 4 here, too. We see Edwin and Niko, a completely platonic pairing (and one of the strongest, most beloved dynamics in the series.) They're bonding on a super deep level, Edwin staying around and Niko writing to her mom with his condoning presence there. It immediately smash-cuts to a romantic pairing across the hall (Charles and Crystal) just distracting themselves by kissing each other. The platonic scene is the one with the emotional impact.

Whether you're allo or ace or aro, queer people tend to have a lot of stakes in platonic relationships. Lots of media doesn't get that. DBDA does. That's one reason it feels so true to its queerness and its characters.

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actually, just looking at it from a general, logical point of view, cancelling Dead Boy Detectives doesn't make any goddamn sense.

The few shows Netflix actually keeps alive until the end for them to build a huge fanbase have ended or will end in the near future.

TUA ended this year, Stranger Things s5 (its final season) is set for 2025, Arcane s2 (its final season as well) will be released in November.

Netflix, you don't really have any major shows anymore. You've killed every show with the potential to grow as big as those mentioned above.

With DBDA connected with the Sandman Universe, there was so much potential for this show to become even more of a hit than it already is. It could've been one of those shows that the viewers grow up with.

@netflix we all have already said it, but oh boy, you made a huge mistake