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totally normal email that 100% did not make me think of batman and robin

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Bruce: *Sends to Clark*

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can we have sex and by sex i mean you beat me up. no i don't want to cum and frankly i don't want you to either. i just want you to hurt me

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ch 1 - love is the distance (intro)

ch 2 - between you and what you love (family contact, failure, try again, fail again, friend contact, fail, off into the world)

ch 3 - what you love is your fate (pov switch question mark, dick comes back, dick and co figured it out yayyy closure but not rly)

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BIG WIN FOR THE DC COMMUNITY TODAY.

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I think a key piece of the discussion on the parentification of Dick Grayson and whether it happened at all is like. you need to stop looking at his relationships with his siblings and very specifically his early relationship with Bruce. bc the thing is Dick doesn’t really parent his younger siblings, but he’s the blueprint for the trap so many of them end up falling into: you cannot truly be someone’s partner/coworker and their son at the same time, or at the very least not when you’re in fucking MIDDLE SCHOOL. Dick takes care of Bruce too much at too young of an age for them to really comfortably settle into the father/son relationship, and it’s part of the reason they struggle so much with setting boundaries and this nagging insecurity about their relationship (the other part is Bruce’s massive control issues lmao).

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lately ive been getting really into leaving things behind

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Ana Menéndez, “Why We Left,” In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd

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one thing I will say about dick grayson’s canonically like, potentially Olympic level gymnastic capabilities, is he truly never could’ve pursued either that or being a professional trapeze artist without quitting his vigilante life. like it’s fun to joke about but also if he kept on being nightwing while making athleticism like that his job, especially given the kinds of injuries he gets, it would’ve absolutely destroyed his body so thoroughly even the plausible deniability of comics couldn’t save him. dick can’t even make a living out of one of his passions, one of the things he’s best at, the legacy his parents left him, bc of what being a vigilante demands of him. are you picking up what I’m putting down. the things being a vigilante takes from him, the doors it closes, are so numerous and diffuse that it’s easy to lose track of them all, forget they’re even closed at all, forget the way it shapes him. grabbing your shoulders Do You Get It????

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superman #298

[ID: a close-up on Superman's face as tears streak down from the rims of his eyes. He woefully thinks, ‘People expect so much... of a Superman!’ END ID]

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u know it's dire when i get sent a superman edit and start giggling n twirling my hair n sighing longingly

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hope.

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I'm still angry about "Dick is a cop". Thing going on.

Dick hasn't been a cop in 21 years (he stopped in 2003) He had numerous jobs since and before that and he was doing it at the time to try to fight the corruption from inside (whether that was a good idea is up to debate it wasn't in my opinion) and he was written as cop by Dixon (deregatory).

Devin Grayson continued and stopped that.

His most common job is being a barista followed up by a gym teacher.

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90s Arrowbrothers have such a unique relationship and I will literally never stop thinking about it because. This man is not your brother but he is your dad's son and sometimes he speaks and you swear it's your dad's voice. This man is not your brother but he got the parts of being your dad's son you craved so desperately your whole life and if you could combine yourselves together you'd make either the perfect son or a total stranger. This man is not your brother but there is nobody else in the world who could understand the experience of being Oliver Queen's son. This man is not your brother but you're haunted by the same ghost. Maybe this man is your brother. Fuck.

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I am going to [Remembers suicide jokes and general violence is not good for the psyche] Do something Batman would not approve of

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adventures of superman #448

[ID: two of the same image (for scaling) of Superman. In them, he's shown from a slightly low angle and is frowning. Someone off panel goads, “Normal things can't hurt you. You're not even human!” Superman dejectedly thinks, ‘Words can hurt...’ END ID]