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100000% believe Jason bought this mug for Dick as a gag gift one year, and it back fired as now its his favourite mug, because duh, its from his baby brother.

Alfred has attempted to hide it several times, but to his dismay, its always back in use within a day.

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It actually makes a lot of sense that Bruce was one of the few people left standing in the crowd at Haly’s Circus when Dick’s parents died.

Watching two innocent people plummet to their deaths is gruesome. It’s shocking. It can be horribly traumatic, depending on the blunt force trauma of hitting the ground. They might not have died right away. They might have bled and made awful noises that were heard even above the sounds of the crowd.

But Bruce is Batman. Bruce saw his parents get murdered right in front of him. And he knows the sounds and sights of someone dying. He’s hardened himself to stay calm in a situation like that, both through trauma and practice.

I think the image of a young Dick Grayson making eye contact with the one unshaken person in the crowd is chilling. A man standing resolute when everyone else is screaming, sadness etched across his face. But not panic. Not confusion. Resignation, maybe.

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happy pride month to chad and ryan, the lil gay cowboy and roman in the night at the museum trilogy, and every man who played volleyball in top gun (1986).

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Happy pride!

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You know what this makes me think about? A guy as paranoid and highly trained as Batman would absolutely flip out if someone he didn’t know tried to touch him. He’s probably on alert at virtually all times for possible hits or hands reaching toward him.

But here? He’s on his comm and he doesn’t even blink when Dick reaches into his belt pockets. His belt pockets with explosives and highly dangerous materials that shouldn’t be accessible to anyone who doesn’t know how to disarm them.

Dick reaches into his belt for a sucker and Bruce just lets him. It’s such a casual display of touch that I overlooked the first time I came across this panel.

How many small touches and invasions of his space does Bruce allow from family? How big of a gift is it for him to allow those? What other ways does the Batfamily climb all over him with casual touch and affection? Did he have to learn to accept it after being relatively devoid of it for so long?

Just some morning thoughts as I wake up on cold medicine.

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a stephanie brown sketch for the soul

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Finally read Robins!

I have a lot of thoughts, but I just want to say this panel is the funniest thing I've ever seen:

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Dick Grayson by Dan Mora you will always be famous.

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Honestly where would we be as a society without the "if I had a nickel for every time [x] happened, I would have two nickles. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice" meme. Perfect meme to express confusion that something happened two whole times which is not a LARGE number of times, usually, but for this specific thing that is a lot of times. We owe Doofenshmirtz everything

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My star wars fic: *is about mandalorian politics, is tagged as such, the entire plot revolves around the run for leadership, even has "politics" in the title*

Someone in my AO3 comments: mmh. it was interesting but too much politics for my preference

Me: 🥲

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As someone who grew up with siblings, I just can't stop thinking about Nightwing and Red Hood getting into a fight in costume and Nightwing slapping his hand over Red Hood's mouth to get him to shut up, temporarily forgetting that he can still talk through the helmet, and Red Hood retaliating by trying to lick Nightwing's hand and accidentally just licking the inside of his helmet.

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The dichotomy between Jason dying because he disobeyed Batman and Stephanie dying specifically because she was trying to follow his rules is so good, and yet so under utilized.

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the debate between Jason and Bruce’s killing/no-killing rule is so fucking exhausting because they’re both right and that’s the damn point. Bruce believes every single individual is worth redemption and deserves saving and he is correct. Jason believes that a bunch of people shouldn’t have to die so that one person has the chance to get their shit together and he is correct. do you see it? do you get it now? there is no right answer because that’s not how this works, that’s not how any of this works, Bruce is right when he says Jason can’t decide who to kill because a lot of Gotham’s villains are themselves victims and when you have a system constantly failing people unless you fix that system it’s just gonna keep creating villains no matter how many you kill and Jason will never be able to put the gun down once he starts, Jason is right when he says sparing the Jokers life directly led to the death of dozens if not hundred of people that might still be alive if someone put a bullet through the Jokers skull, it is if nothing else a fast solution. it was cruel of Jason to ask Bruce to kill the Joker, it was cruel of Bruce to save the Joker from Jason

lets talk about something else, lets go into how Jason’s reaction to dying and coming back is to go ‘hey you failed me. not because i died but because you can’t love me in any way i recognize and that’s killing me, you failed me so i’m going to do better than you ever did. i saved myself except i didn’t because i’m still drowning and i don’t trust that you’ll ever be capable of saving me again’

the morality of batman vs red hoods methods is almost the least interesting thing about their rocky relationship c’mon

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Jason should have to move Roys hat to kiss him more often in fics, and he should be very annoyed about it.

Roy should have a Pavlovian reaction to it, and that should bite him in the ass at some point.

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Can you fucking imagine how funny would it be if there's a Wayne Family Rule that says the kids can bully Bruce as much as they want but he absolutely cannot bully them back?? Because he'd be too good at it?

I'm just sitting here maniacally chuckling at the thought of Bruce matching Jason's " I hate being around you people" energy. JOKINGLY, TOO.

Like. Jason is once again yelling, " YOU THINK I LIKE BEING AROUND YOU GUYS? BEING AROUND YOU TO DRAG ME IN YOUR MUSHY FAMILY STUFF? CAUSE I DON'T!"

And Bruce has a tiny, teasing smile on his lips, " Okay? You can leave if you want, Jay. Who says I want you here?"

Record screeching. Alfred drops his cookies. Damian slaps a hand over his mouth. Jason, who's been stunned in silence, is like FINE. FINE. Even if Bruce calls after him.

He makes it to the door but collapses on his knees. Just out here screaming and wailing, crying, dying a second time, etc

Next shot is apologetic Bruce rocking a sobbing Jason in his arms while a tired Dick stares into the camera like he's in the office

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The instant connection with a total stranger you feel when you both arrive to the city administration to register only to find out it's a national holiday and nothing is open

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Can you IMAGINE getting your ass beat by this annoying child? I would simply give up the supervillain game rather than let baby Dick Grayson be this annoying about defeating me, I would rather die than have to admit this obnoxious chaos gremlin could win against me.