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a mother’s concern

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siblings pt. 1

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I'm drawing Volcano Manor cartoons these days. I want to print them out and turn them into books... It's hard for me to get a line, but it's going to work out somehow.

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trope i really like is self-loathing characters desperate for the catharsis of punishment for frankly rather selfish reasons who r also obsessed with repeatedly pressing others into hating them and hurting them as essentially a method of self harm. yes pls continue making it worse for urself and everybody around u instead of doing an actually productive and effective journey of improvement

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Dick and Damian Week 2025: Circus!

Batgirl (2009) #5 & #7

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The world if Bruce had stayed dead and dickie had raised Damian and Damian had been his son

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Sometimes I miss the early Dick and Damian dynamic so much like you are in your late twenties you've been through so much too young and now your dad is dead and you're worn out and grieving and here comes his larger than life youngest son dumped in your lap. You are fighting a deeply personal and grounded internal struggle and meanwhile your new little ten year old brother is a ninja with PhD level education who likes joyriding the batmobile. It's like a team up between baby Wile E Coyote and the world's most depressed Road Runner.

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hate an x reader fic do not put me in a situation

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dress warmer ⊂( ´ ▽ ` )⊃

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Like mother, like son.

got out of my artblock with a little talia + damian doodle ;)

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Successors AU - Aftermath

Incorporating the Teen Titans run bc I am scared of no bitch, bastard, or poorly written comic run

(playing with the idea that Damian names his Teen Titan equivalent team as "The Wardens" - also a play on the Watchmen with Damian as Rosrscach bc yeah this will be a deepcut)

In the aftermath of Stephanie Brown's death, Shadow crashes out by creating a secret prison and mindwiping criminals. This gets stopped when Cass Cain joins the family and pulls Shadow out of the brink.

(Honestly, how fucked up should Bruce get about Stephanie's death? If she was the first Batgirl? He'd be cut up but like the whole nasty nugget between Steph and Bruce is that he never gave her the acknowledgement that she was due. And I want to keep that in this AU)

So in lieu of Bruce going apeshit, it's Damian under his guise as Flamebird (a.k.a the avatar of destruction in Kryptonian mythology). But he starts mellowing out when Cass joins the family and Tim holds him to his word of trying harder.

(I want to keep the story of Damian's team casting doubt on him and all that, and it's when he's at the lowest point and all the Wardens abandon him, that Duke calls for help. With Cass.)

Damian starts believing in redemption again, and dismantles the prison. Also, he reconnects with Duke. But he retires the Flamebird name permanently after he kills Arthur Brown to set Stephanie's heart at ease.

(The ex-Wardens catch wind of this like they tried to stop Robin from mercing KGBeast, but Shadow succeeds here, and at which point, the Wardens force Damian to retire, but he's not convinced until a weeping Cass begs him to stop)

Jon is also there. But he recently inherited the cape so he's a bit... busy right now.

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What if Kinger - alone after Queenie - figured out how to escape?

But then, someone new entered the circus and he had to restart his coding progress

What if he stayed for her?

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My Favorite Moment

Ragatha with her unfailing positivity, rendered mute because she absolutely cannot admit outloud how upset she is.

Oh the animation is stunning here. I have seen this exact face on people desperately trying to keep it together in the face of mounting despair

and she admits that shes upset - and kinger, oh darling man. I speaks to such a long term relationship that ragatha feels safe enough to even nod at kinger's questions!! She can own her upset to kinger, here together in the dark

And ragatha alludes to how kinger has shown this side to her before

She must have arrived when kinger was already the kooky guy that he is in the light. But when they found some place to hide, there he was... for her...

Aww fuck man, this is hitting all the simon-marcy feels for me.... not the dad who seizes life because he has to keep it together. FOR HER. Not again. I CANT GO THROUGH THIS HEARTBREAK AGAIN

(Also the safety of shadows vs the exposure of the spotlight - the dark is safer, you can be whoever you need to be in the dark)

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Damian: Father is perhaps the worst resource for all matters matrimonial. He's far too busy mourning the loss of his parents to note the newer, shinier losses that he's acquired.

Jon: So what are you saying?

Damian: That his Ls are many and his bitches few.

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belated apple trend… familiar taste; betty & simon 🍎

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My Happy Place

Reverse Batkids AU where Damian, raising Dick, has to play denmother to the Teen Titans

The Titans Tower is like Summer Camp on speed - they like to claim that they're too old for a babysitter but Damian ends up playing counselor for two different friendships and at least one romantic relationship before breakfast

He doesnt live at Titans Tower, but he has a clinic in the Bay Area and half the kids have ways to fast-travel sooooo... (also it gives the kids the illusion of independence and free reign not to have the counselor in house)

Damian does make house calls, at which point the Tower goes on DefCon 1 because someone forgot to clean the fridge again and the mold became sentient and escaped. Also, he's not checking on them because theyre little babies who need to be watched. but because they're grown up friends and he's coming over for a dinner party (it's totally a check in but the teens respect the illusion of being treated as an equal)

When the kids piss him off too much, he arranges a surprise Survival Test where he dumps them in a National Park somewhere and tells them not to come back until sundown... two days from now (the length varies on how much they've pissed them off)

(Park Rangers fucking hate his ass)

Jon is Damian's second, so he handles all alien and alien-adjacent cultural adjustment (Garth and Kory). But he likes to be the cool Summer Camp counselor so he maybe tells a couple white lies about Earth (Land) customs

(Which inevitably leads to someone committing fraud and/or food poisoning. Usually both)

Damian doesn't have favorites (except that he does - Raven and Donna hands down. He loves his son but the boy is a gremlin)

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"nuances that are already there to stand for themselves..." i think they stand just about as well as tavros does

Since "June" has been canon - or at least hinted at from way early on, I'm hoping that we get waaaaay more overt hints in this adaptation. Just bc I'm a petty guy and people don't do literary analysis anymore so it'd be nice to get something blatant to smack people with.

I think this is another thing it totally makes sense to expect from Hussie retreading homestuck. at the same time though i would totally get wanting the nuances that are already there to stand for themselves... and if the June story is something that has been placed in the care of the beyond canon creatives i think there's also something to be said about just letting them tell it without stepping on their toes

i totally feel that need to have something that'll finally get all the ignorant to see the light, but at the end of the day you can't warp the story just to fit what the ignorant need to see. they'll come around on their own or they won't