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Parental instincts are tingling

"Feel free to had more" Well, it is asked so nicely, I have one, even if it's a bit different, from Batman and Robin: Year One (#3):

I love when he

Detective comics (2016) #1056

Robin v.4 #128

Robin v5 #14

Robin v.4 #92

Batman & The Signal #3

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Batman to his kids (here Dick) be like: "You do not need powers to be great. If I can be a respected member of the Justice League, so can you. No, actually, you can be better than all of us."

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Tumblr already showed me twice a post where OP implies that Bruce made the choice to not help Jaybin when he was attacked by an angry mob in Legends, so I had to check, and look at that, they were lying.

Context: the general population has been turned against superheroes.

An angry mob does attack Robin, and what is Batman's reaction? To come to the rescue! He even immediately calls him "son", switching to an endearing term to reassure him. However, Batman is hit in the eyes with a bottle of perfume and blinded, as his attention was on his boy. Gordon tries to get him to leave, but he refuses because he can't leave his boy behind, and when Gordon tells him that his men will take care of Robin, Batman is like "I don't trust your men with my son". Batman is forced out of here, he is so pissef, and he is called "arrogant" by the cops there.

This man trusts ONE cop, and it's Jim Gordon, that's it. And people dare to tell me Bruce isn't an acab believer. He grew up in Gotham and his parents were murdered when he was 8, of course he believes in acab. That's why he was so against his son becoming one.

Anyway, later on, Jason is in the hospital (Bruce was right, Gordon's men didn't do shit), and Bruce is pissed at the situation. However, Jason feels guilty and ashamed, and Bruce immediately goes to comfort him, reminding him he isn't at fault for getting beat up, that Bruce is proud of him and that he is a great Robin. And when Jason compares himself to Dick, Bruce stops that too, bringing up that Dick also had less glorious moments like this. And again, Bruce switches to "son" and "Jay", which convey affection in the goal of comforting his boy.

In the end, Bruce leaves his son safe at the hospital, resolved to not obey the president and get to the bottom of this. Later, Jason decides he cannot stay there and must help, even if it kills him. And people dare say that he wasn't reckless.

Anyway, the other thing about this, apart from Bruce didn't walk away WILLINGLY from Jason being attacked by an angry mob, is that as awful this is, the writers never intended this to be a traumatic experience for Jason. Of course, it would be normally, but it's just a plot point here to get Robin away from Batman while he works with the other heroes. Damn, there isn't even a follow-up to Jason leaving the hospital, he doesn't show up in the next issues to help.

Sometimes, especially with older stories, comics' events don't matter as much as you think they do. If you want to re-imagine them as impacting for the characters, that's your choice, but let's not act as if they were intended to be. Because I saw that moment being used as a comparison to Under The Red Hood, to be like "see Bruce keeps abandoning Jason", and like, calm down with the shortcuts. Because you are making that up, on your own, with what was given to you by different writers over the decades that didn't communicate with each others or agree on the characters.

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NOOOOOO!

I took his girlfriend and his job. I saved the colony AND I LOST HER. SHE BROKE UP WITH ME BECAUSE OF HIM. ALL THIS WORK FOR NOTHING.

Cannot believe I'm going to have to start ANOTHER life to get my happy ending with Nem!

I was a Teenage Exocolonist is making me go through what being a teenager is really about, which is drama and pettiness.

Like, Anemone flirting with me and giving me a gift, only to make out with Vace DURING MY FUCKING BIRTHDAY PARTY?! The betrayal! And they flirt in front of me??? And she gets mad that I'm annoyed?! And my next birthday, she wasn't even at my party, even tho she is my best friend, and came in with her boyfriend and other soldiers to lounge! And she gets mad at Cal for fighting with Vace, and tells him they're not friends anymore because he started it?! Girl, you did worse to me, so you better not talk to me anymore. You changed.

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It's so interesting how every Batman fan I have seen waiting for The Batman 2 is asking for Robin. On tumblr, on instagram, on youtube, every gender wants Batdad, they want Robin and they want Batman to be his dad.

The people have spoken, WB, give him the baby.

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“Daddy, up!”

Clark doesn’t miss a beat. He continues telling Bruce about his investigation into chemical waste shipments out of Metropolis Harbor and a possible connection to LexCorp as he bends down to pick up his toddler.

Bruce smiles as the sixteen-month-old boy waves at him. He waves back and silently wishes he’d seen at least one of his boys this small. This is criminally adorable.

“Daddy,” Jon interrupts again. He pats Clark’s cheek with a tiny hand, trying to get his father to stop talking and look at him. “Daddy, ‘nack?”

Again, Clark doesn’t even pause his story. He reaches into one of the pockets of his jeans and pulls out a pack of animal crackers, then opens it and hands his son a bear-shaped cracker. He hasn’t even broken eye contact with Bruce, who figures out very quickly what “nack” means.

“Da-kit?” Jon’s gnawing on the animal crackers half-heartedly. Bruce guesses that he’s pleased with it, but would prefer something else.

This gets Clark to pause his story. “No, my love, no chocolate crackers today.” Ah, okay—“da-kit.” That’s cute. “We have to get more at the store later. Can you be patient?”

Bruce fully expects the baby to throw a tantrum. He has no firsthand experience with toddlers, but general knowledge of children tells him that “no” isn’t a word they like to hear.

To his amazement, Jon smiles sweetly. “Pay-tay,” he says quietly, still chewing on his cracker. “Tow.”

Clark smiles and pokes Jon’s nose, earning him a little giggle. “That’s right, baby boy. Patient, then we go to the store.”

“You know,” Bruce interjects, “I keep some chocolate in my utility belt. Just in case one of the boys wants a snack.”

Jon wastes no time reaching his chubby arms toward Bruce at the word “chocolate.”

“I could watch him for a bit,” Bruce continues, accepting the baby happily when Clark relinquishes his hold on the squirming boy. “I’m sure grocery shopping is quicker without a baby, right?”

Clark levels a flat, yet amused look at his friend. “Groceries. Right. Totally not your baby fever acting up.”

Jon’s happy as can be in Bruce’s arms. He’s got a snack, the promise of chocolatey snacks, and he’s being held. What more could a baby want?

“Bye bye, Daddy!”

Bruce barely suppresses a grin. “You heard him, Clark. You’re dismissed.”

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Bruce Wayne has entirely too many secrets that he doesn’t realize are secrets.

He’s traveled the world and has seen and experienced shit. He often forgets that people aren’t detectives like him so they have no fucking clue.

Bruce has extensive ‘dad lore’ that knows even Alfred knows about. Bruce just never thinks of it as necessary to talk about.

They’ll be having dinner and Bruce will be like “That reminds me of that one time I climbed the direct route up to the East Face on Mt. Everest.”

And it’s a completely WTF moment for all his kids to realize they don’t know shit about Bruce’s life before they came into it.

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Bruce Wayne grew up underneath Alfred Pennyworth and became Batman.

Dick Grayson grew up under Bruce Wayne and became Nightwing.

Nightwing is renowned by heroes, by fans, all over the world, even bad writers, he is shown in a good light, a beacon, an amazing person.

And people laugh, and ask “How the fuck did Dick Grayson become so amazing?”

Bruce. Bruce Wayne is the answer.

Dick Grayson is who Bruce Wayne would have become if he’d had a Bruce Wayne in his own life, as his own father. And yet people still try to say he’s an awful dad and a horrible person. Look at the facts. 

(and yeah, some kids are amazing people from shitty situations and shitty parents, but Dick becomes who he is because of Bruce, not in spite of him)

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I always get a bit sad when I read fanfics figuring the iconic first meeting of Jason and Bruce, and people write Batman growling at a child, threatening him and scaring him on purpose.

No! That's Batman! He cares about kids, it's why he is doing this, because he doesn't want kids to go through the same pain as he did! When he sees a kid doing a crime, especially young kids, he doesn't treat them at all like an adult. He is worried about their living conditions for a kid this young to turn to crime, he wants to help them! He even go see them as Bruce Wayne to help and listen to their problems. When he faces a kid who murdered his parents in Gotham Knight, he is heartbroken that a child did that, and he only wants to get the kid help. In the same comics, when he realizes the enemy he is facing is the ghost of a child, he totally changes his behavior to help this kid.

But also, that's not how he originally reacted to Jason stealing his tires. I know DC rewrote that meeting multiple times, making Bruce awful to this kid, but that's not how it happened originally, and if you are going for a "good parent" version of Bruce, you should use that one as a template.

Batman LAUGHS upon seeing the batmobile without tires. And he isn't threatening Jason, he is acting like an adult who caught a kid doing something they shouldn't (he is literally standing like a parent catching you in the act, with his hand on his hip), telling Jason to give him back his tires. Of course, Jason is scared, because that's the Batman, but it's not because of Bruce's behavior. And Batman doesn't run after him, because that would be scary, and finally shows himself when Jason arrives home because "Kiddo, you cannot be living like this. Let me help you."

Batman laughs, Batman smiles, he loves this lil son of a gun that has the guts to steal his tires, hit him and call him Big Boob.

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The irony of people being baffled by DC having Bruce being abusive and nobody never addressed it again or it's excused extremely easily, because they can't understand that morality is subjective, and people don't all agree about what is abusive and what isn't (in art school, one of my teacher was a comics writer and he defended hitting children as not being abusive. He is far from the only one), than turning around and writing posts and fics where the batfam say and do stuffs that my family did, were abusive and I'm still healing from that, but painting it as normal and with no effects.

I'm not saying what Bruce is doing sometimes isn't abusive, I'm saying "we don't live in a world where everyone is on the same page about what is abuse"

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They make me very happy

Also sorry if I don't answer your asks or req!! I'm starting comms and am focusing on those first hehe

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People who refuse to read or watch One Piece annoy me so much, not because they don't want to read or watch it, it's their life, but because they have to justify it by talking trash about One Piece.

It's incredible the number of posts I see where people are like "I refuse to watch a homeless boy go on stupid adventures, I watch REAL stories", and like, wtf. It doesn't matter that some fans were annoying, you cannot talk shit about something you know nothing about. Because, in the end, with all its flaws, One Piece is a story about oppression and fighting oppression, and how an unjust system forces people into crimes, and how the government is not your friend. You can't act as if it tells nothing, as if it's empty, just to justify not reading it. These stories are morals and themes.

The other argument is insulting One Piece fans of "having no life" because the story is long af, and like... Who are you to talk, you are terminally online to be having beef with other anime geeks.

For example, I'm not interested at all in reading or watching Death Note. However, I am not going to insult people who do, or insult this story I have not read. I also know that Death Note is also a commentary on the death penalty and killing criminals, and I think that's great.

If you don't want to read One Piece, cool, whatever, I don't care. But you don't need to insult it to justify yourself.

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Bruce is well aware how boring galas and events can be for kids, so he always has a couple of babysitters at his events to take care of the kids in another room, with also a second room to nap in for the kids that get tired.

However, his own kids cannot stay with the other kids. It's not that he wants them to endure the event, it's that no babysitter want to deal with his kids after having deal with Dick Grayson. Like, imagine watching over at least ten kids, and there's one of them who always seems to end in the chandelier, jumping from furniture and trying to teach the other kids how to do it. Nope, never again, deal with him on your own, Mister Wayne. He's adorable, but he has way too much energy and refuses to stay on the ground. Even babysitters that never had to deal with Dick Grayson have heard of the horror stories, so they still refuse to look after the Wayne's kids.

Dick's siblings (Jason and Damian mostly) have him to blame for having to stay with the adults instead of reading or playing video games in another room.

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Fanfic Friday

"The Lone Ranger Never Had to Deal with Bruce Wayne" Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: Batman Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson, Tim Drake & Alfred Pennyworth Characters: Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, Alfred Pennyworth Additional Tags: Tim Drake Joins the Batfamily Early, Kid Tim Drake, Tim Drake-centric, Tim Drake Needs a Hug, Tim Drake Gets a Hug, Bad Parents Jack and Janet Drake, Good Parent Bruce Wayne, Protective Jason Todd, Good Sibling Jason Todd, Protective Dick Grayson, Good Sibling Dick Grayson, One Look at This Kid and Now He's Ours, Canon? What's that? Who's she?, Tim Plots Like a Kid, 11 Year-Olds Can Be Dumb, "Brucie" Wayne is His Own Warning, Secret Identity, Identity Reveal, Suicidal Ideation (Lite Because He’s Smol and Doesn’t Quite Know It) Summary: Tim is an independent, clever, and super mature eleven-year-old. Unfortunately, his dopey neighbor, Bruce, can’t seem to understand that. When he decides to disappear on a “solo camping trip” and run away to Canada, he figures it’s the perfect plan that will make everybody happy. He didn’t expect the Waynes would tag along with him and ruin everything. A six-chaptered tale filled with identity shenanigans, s’mores, soon-to-be-brothers, and a kid who is in desperate need of a new family.

There are a lot of fan content of Dick and/or Jason bringing Tim home and being like "our brother now", but I need more fics like this, where Bruce is the one to adopt Tim on sight. He is the one with an adoption problem, after all. The fact that it is from Tim's pov is the cherry on top.

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Gotta love how batfam fics teach me other ways my parents failed me.

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Batblob is sad that he can just erase his kids' pain.

And Tim dreams to be as great as Jason!

Detective comics #618

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Got him. They were on sale because Christmas is over and I used the money on my fidelity card, so he was free.

Put him in my Christmas stocking.

My groceries store is selling cute little plushies of the trinity and Harley Queen, and I wanted to buy one or two (Harley and Batman, as there was a lot of Harley and one Batman left), but no price on it. I went to the scanner to get the price and they were 15€ each??? They were so small, no way I'm spending more than 10€ on one! And they are mass products cheap thingy, I know for certain it's not the workers or the products that money goes to.

So, anyway, no cute plushies for me.