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Back in my Greek myth Troy© era and started reading Song of Achilles. Guys... I didn't get the Achilles/Patroclus parallels that dominate superbat fics before BUT HOLY FUCK BALLS I GET I NOW hooHoOHOO I GET IT NOW.

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💫 Caledonia 💫

Locked in. Typed up this mess. Had a breakdown. Bon Appetit.

(This is a 5+1 sequel to my previous fic because I'm unoriginal and lazy)

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I'm bored out of my mind and I miss writing so I'm planning to do a 5+1 ao3 comeback bois.

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A young Bruce Wayne asking Alfred what he did before working at the manor and learning that he was an actor. Where do you think Bruce learned the skill from?

The separation and performance level of Brucie Wayne vs Batman is completely intentional and NOT Alfred’s plan at all. He did not realize that Bruce would use it for secret identity/isolation purposes, but Alfred would definitely discuss his past performances/roles or other actors and their acting choices with Bruce. They would sit together and watch movies, plays, operas, anything where people were pretending and discuss the performances, believability, what factors leant to a credible performance or seamless one, and what things were a dead giveaway.

A lot of it comes down to studying the nuance of emotion and behavior, and then replicating it. People ask about “motivation” when acting, but what they’re really saying is that a character has to feel an emotion and there are different ways of making people feel something as well as the multitude of ways people react to those feelings. Why is the character sad? Are they only experiencing sadness or is it complicated by another emotion? Most people don’t feel single things, they are a summation of experiences. So Bruce would come up with narratives, explanations for characters behaviors and feelings so that he would be consistent in his performance.

Bruce would often watch a performance done by someone else, and work towards replicating and improving on it. Everything is an approximation of real emotions and behaviors in order to be convincing. And it is continually refined by Alfred, until he’s unable to assist with this insane level of mental separation necessary to turn all actions into a performance.

Maybe it started as a coping mechanism to distance himself from his feeling about the deaths of his parents, to try and separate himself from that pain, but now he seems able to convince everyone that anything he does or says is a performance or a cover.

Except Clark. Sure, he knows Bruce puts on a show often, even most of the time, but there are certain physical responses that can’t be controlled, not so quickly that Clark can’t catch them. So for every signal Clark is sure he’s giving off, he catches 3 that Bruce is actively trying to suppress and smiles even wider. This means that every active signal that Bruce is giving off is a choice, that Bruce is choosing Clark, that he has recognized his own emotional and physical responses to him and is allowing them.

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The way he looks like both is crazy 😭

Listen I'm sleep deprived right now and scrolling Pinterest but I NEED SOMEONE TO LISTEN.

MICHIEL VAN WYNGAARDEN, RIGHT?! DUTCH MODEL BUT HOLY FUCK HE LOOKS LIKE BRUCE WAYNE.

Like some pics? Not quite. Some other pics? Kinda looks like Clark kent. BUT SOME PICS. IT'S LIKE DAN MORA'S BRUCE IRL AND ITS NUTS.

Someone please open pinterest and say they see it too. If not imma drop HARD PINTEREST PICS on my BLOG.

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LIKE COME ON DUDE.

Listen I'm sleep deprived right now and scrolling Pinterest but I NEED SOMEONE TO LISTEN.

MIKIEL VAN WYNGAARDEN, RIGHT?! DUTCH MODEL BUT HOLY FUCK HE LOOKS LIKE BRUCE WAYNE.

Like some pics? Not quite. Some other pics? Kinda looks like Clark kent. BUT SOME PICS. IT'S LIKE DAN MORA'S BRUCE IRL AND ITS NUTS.

Someone please open pinterest and say they see it too. If not imma drop HARD PINTEREST PICS on my BLOG.

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Listen I'm sleep deprived right now and scrolling Pinterest but I NEED SOMEONE TO LISTEN.

MICHIEL VAN WYNGAARDEN, RIGHT?! DUTCH MODEL BUT HOLY FUCK HE LOOKS LIKE BRUCE WAYNE.

Like some pics? Not quite. Some other pics? Kinda looks like Clark kent. BUT SOME PICS. IT'S LIKE DAN MORA'S BRUCE IRL AND ITS NUTS.

Someone please open pinterest and say they see it too. If not imma drop HARD PINTEREST PICS on my BLOG.

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THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING

Since Bruce was raised by a very British man he has some British quirks like calling the garbage “rubbish”, calling coats “jumpers” saying some words with a slight British accent, stuff like that

Edit: okay so apparently jumpers aren’t coats but sweaters 😂. Obviously I am not British mb💀💀

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Batman gets hit with a love spell during battle that knocks him out and will make him fall in love with the first person he sees when he wakes up. The league takes him back to the tower and while they wait for Zatanna or Dr Fate to come help break the spell they all agree Superman should be who Batman sees and he can deal with a lovestruck Batman. Only, when Bruce wakes up and sees Superman, he doesn't act any differently. He just gets up and demands a mission report and tries to go about business as usual, much to everyone's confusion (and to the disappointment of Hal, who had his phone out ready to record). They explain the love spell and wonder why nothing happened and Bruce just says that obviously it didn't work and to not worry too much about it.

The spell did work it's just that Bruce was already in love with Superman so nothing actually changed outwardly. Zatanna gets there a few days later and examines him, and is also confused bc there's definitely a love spell on him and there's no reason it shouldn't be working. To prevent her from looking further into it and making a big deal, Bruce, in private, hints at why there might not be any effects. Zatanna gets it and agrees to remove the spell and say that it just wasn't that strong after all.

Everybody seems to accept that explanation and move on, except for Clark, who knows his best friends is hiding something and he's determined to find out what.

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I'm in a Bruce Wayne whump famine right now 😭 I'm re-reading comics and fics like a mad, mouth-frothing goblin locked in a cave.

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reading the latest issue of (2022) World's Finest got me looking in the camera like I'm in an episode of the office™

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I remember making this stupid account like literally yesterday wtf??? That's actually terrifying naaaaaaa

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ARE THOUST AN ANGEL? all hail the co-president of the snuggle cuddle committee

WHERE IS MY ACE THE THERAPY BATDOG FANFIC?!? WHERE IS MY BATFAM MEMBER'S POST-TRAUMATIC BREAKDOWN SNUGGLING INTO ACE'S FLUFFY KING SHEPHERD COAT AS ACE KEEPS THEM COMPANY SESH??

This is a gap in the market, an injustice to the snuggle, cuddle committee (me.)

If anyone has ace the bat hound fics, I need them. He's so cute. If not, I'm going to become like frozone coming out retirement and getting my ao3-author supersuit out from my rotating wardrobe.

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The face-inverting, cell-destroying cringe I got from re-reading my fanfic from like 3 years ago might actually be able to rival heroin.

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OMFG I'VE JUST REMEMBERED KRYPTO EXISTS AS WELL 😭😭 ANOTHER SNUGGLE LEGEND IN THE HISTORY OF GOOD BOIS.

Fuck I now also need to write a fanfic where batman gets along so well with krypto and every time he visits the fortress of solitude he scratches krypto's snout and krypto always wags his tail when he sees batman and superman is kinda like 🧍‍♂️bro that's my dog wtf?

Holy shit there is a gap in the dc dog lore.

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WHERE IS MY ACE THE THERAPY BATDOG FANFIC?!? WHERE IS MY BATFAM MEMBER'S POST-TRAUMATIC BREAKDOWN SNUGGLING INTO ACE'S FLUFFY KING SHEPHERD COAT AS ACE KEEPS THEM COMPANY SESH??

This is a gap in the market, an injustice to the snuggle, cuddle committee (me.)

If anyone has ace the bat hound fics, I need them. He's so cute. If not, I'm going to become like frozone coming out retirement and getting my ao3-author supersuit out from my rotating wardrobe.

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Some people get cravings for food, others get inspired. Some people just get horny.

i get eldritch, feral, manic urges to write batman whump at 2am.