#(to me)

[24hrsoda]

i’m too busy to write a fic but i need to telepathically project the Idea in your heads of Batman and Nightwing just fucking wrecking the batmobile. Absolutely totaling it. It flipped and rolled and everything.

And they’re (mostly) okay. some bruises, cuts, a broken arm for Bruce. It was a little scary to everyone else seeing/hearing it over comms and surveillance.

Except Bruce and Dick. Who are laughing their asses off because the exact same thing happened like 12 years ago when Dick was fifteen. On the exact same street. After hitting the exact same pothole.

And Bruce told himself he’d personally pay for it to be filled and paved over but he totally forgot. Insert some comment about Bruce’s old mistakes always coming back to haunt him, said as a joke but there’s a level of realness to it.

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

Is it still too soon to put in an application to be the next girlfriend?

too late actually, the job’s been taken for awhile now

[junkdrawerfan]

I have thoughts about Bruce & Parenting:

One of the reasons Jason runs away from home to find his birth mother (and eventually dies) is because Bruce benched him. Removing Robin from Jason made Jason think his time at the Manor was coming to a close, triggering his desire to return to his neighborhood which leads to him find our Catherine isn’t his birth mother. And all that heartache -- and the pain to follow -- stemmed from a misunderstanding that Jason thought he was “adopted” to be Robin while Bruce was just looking for a son.

This misunderstanding is never resolved. I would argue it is one of the keystones of the modern Jason-Bruce arguments. And it is never resolved because Bruce doesn’t know Jason didn't want to be Robin. After all, Jason genuinely enjoyed being Robin and Bruce thought he was being a "good dad" because he was making Jason happy while protecting him physically. After all, Jason asked to be Robin just as Dick did.

But why did Bruce allow Robin to be created in the first place?

My hypothesis… my interpretation is as such:

One of the failings of Bruce’s parenting with Jason and Dick is Bruce allows the child to set the expectations in the parent-child relationship.

You can see this A LOT in Bruce’s biggest blunders with Dick. When Dick was young (NINE!), Bruce let Dick decide to be Robin, throwing himself into danger, and running lead on cases without a lot of oversight or boundaries from Bruce. This pattern of behavior carries over into their civilian life. This has lead to interpretations of their father-son relationship being more like brother-brother in the early years. All of which, Bruce allows because Dick is physically small enough that Bruce can protect him from danger. Weirdly it’s the same logic small dog owners use to avoid teaching their dogs: why bother training them to stop jumping when you can just pick them up and move them. Of course kids don’t stay small forever.

As Dick got older and Bruce attempted — most likely subconsciously — to course correct by setting expectations like Dick needs to take his safety more seriously and slow down on hero-ing to allow for a civilian life, Dick is shocked and insulted, seeing it as Bruce not trusting him. When in reality, expecting your child to pursue some kind of job/college post high school is a not an unrealistic expectation nor is questioning if that child really wants to continue heroing, a very dangerous profession, into adulthood where Bruce can no longer protect him.

The problem is these expectations are being set way too late. Dick and Bruce have been operation for so long under Dick’s desires that it is such a shock to the system/routine that when it all comes to a head after Dick is shot by the Joker (triggering Bruce’s PTSD) it leads to a massive falling out. Of course, Bruce goes way too far in attempting to control the situation when he takes Robin away in a misguide attempt to bench Dick.

Of course we know how that works out.

Years later, once Jason is older, starting to push back against Bruce’s teachings, and is getting too big to hide under the cape, we see the same issue popping up. Bruce sees Jason acting out/getting angrier and is afraid Jason has killed a man (The Diplomat’s Son) and benches Jason. While Jason is used to following Bruce’s lead in the field, Jason definitely sets the expectations in their father-son relationship. So when Bruce attempts to take the reins by benching Robin — the one area in their lives that Bruce’s kids listen to Bruce — it, again, feels like a betrayal. This all culminates in Jason running away because he doesn’t feel stable at home (the same way Dick did).

(Side note: You could argue this is because Bruce’s biggest parenting influence is Alfred. Bruce views Alfred as a father figure but Alfred is never able to fully step outside his role as butler, no matter how much he wants to. This meant that Alfred the Butler enables Bruce a lot. That coupled with Alfred’s own violent past meaning Alfred doesn’t have a good frame of reference of what a child can handle in the first place, we end up with Batman.)

I don’t think Bruce really fixes his parenting until he gets Damian.

With Tim, Bruce provides stability — to the point Jack Drake feels threatened by Bruce’s presence in Tim’s life — but that is because Bruce is strictly the “mentor” in Tim’s life for the first few years, which helps establish a pattern in the relationship where Tim listens to Bruce’s expectations in and out of the mask. It also helps that Tim is less confrontational than Bruce’s other children and is less likely to argue directly with Bruce and more likely to go around Bruce while feeling guilty while he’s doing it lol.

Damian, from day one, is looking for a parent. And at this point — between Tim and Cass and fixing his relationship with Dick — Bruce has started to figure out how to manage his kids. This all culminates in a father-son relationship with Damian where Bruce, as the father, sets the expectations in and out of the mask. Bruce makes a lot of effort to bond with Damian in the Batman & Robin comics after he comes back from the dead. Bruce makes Damian go to school and expects him to socialize. He sets the moral framework for how Robin operates (which Dick started). After Damian comes back from the dead, Bruce knows Damian’s friends and is involved in his romantic life. He engages in Damian’s hobbies and encourages them. He also scolds Damian when he breaks the rules or tries to lie without ripping away Robin (shockingly low bar I know!).

Of course, I wouldn’t say Bruce is earning any parenting awards and I’m still reading about Damian and Bruce’s relationship so I’m sure there is information I’m missing. But Bruce seems like a much more involved parent now than he did with Dick.

But this is my interpretation of Bruce’s parenting so far!

[r3g-p14y3r]

@gyxtar0luvs

t4t? oh no i think you misunderstood me. i said tnt. we’re going to explode you. with a bomb

[mikesflaccidlemonade7]

To me, sexy German woman from the hare who wore a sweater and Magnus o.puss from BUS are siblings

I saw the German guys at the front desk of o.puss publishing and had a vision

[sofivicfest]

Real besties match Miku and Thomas Jefferson binders.. I wanted to make it in digital so you can actually tell the designs but. I couldnt 💔 maybe later..

Also ignore how fucking ugly Jay looks idk how to draw him..

[atmospher]

the phenomena of landoscar writers being lando or oscar haters has to be studied bc why are you even here then, writing with someone you hate as a main character

[train-of-trainkind]

This happened 5 minutes before the lead pipe

someone has definitely done this before but thats ok

[winn-wynn]

Perciver

[weeabooshitstain]

funniest reading of khr is that every character wants to be tsuna's sub but is utterly incapable of being normal about it and meanwhile tsuna's only definition of that word is the sandwich species

[starseongs]

:)

[everchased]

it’s just me and the 5 people on here who know my oc by name against the world

[kiddycup]

[stefisdoingthings]

franziska von karma they will never make me hate you

[sunsetcurveauto]

love when a man is a prettyboy and a loser. a prettyloserboy if you will