#BruceDick

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Mamabird in action (I'M NOT SORRY)

[dianorayopi]

The Graysons died in Kansas and Dickie was adopted by the Kents. Bruce meets his wife when he finally befriends Clark and visits him on the farm.

Clark: I'm glad you came to visit me my friend, you must like the farm to come so often!

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Melancholy

The background scene transformed into an acy one while I was painting this piece

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Academic Articles that Analyze Queer Readings of Batman and Robin (Brudick)

There actually exist multiple!…but the ones I want to introduce right now talk specifically about how the creation of the batfamily was DC’s attempt to dissuade brudick readings. and that it can be argued that DC is still doing the same thing today.

The first article is called “All in the Family: Homophobia and Batman Comics in the 1950s”, published in the International Journal of Comics Art in Fall 2000 by Chris York. It was not available for free online, but I bought a digital copy of the volume it was published in and provided screenshots because it’s been 24 years and I hate the fact that academics are behind paywalls so I’m sharing.

This article was actually infamous because DC refused to grant permission for the use of their panels in this article.

Click for better quality.

Notable Quotes:

“National [Periodical Publications]’s biggest step, however, was the introduction of other members of the Bat-family, which would give them permanent female counterparts and solidify their heterosexual status.”

“It is clear that, although Batman and Robin remain partners, their interests are no longer as the Dynamic Duo, but as a Bat-family.”

“Taking the focus of the comic away from Batman and Robin was exactly what these superfluous characters were designed to do.”

The second article, published in the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies in 2005, is called "Domesticity, Homosociality, and Male Power in Superhero Comics of the 1950s" by Mark Best.

Good news! This article is available online for free and it’s a great read.

Notable Quotes:

“In contrast to the Marvel family, however, the Batman and Superman families were modeled more after the familial relations of the nuclear family and the gender expectations of the domestic ideology.”

“One way the genre attempted to contain any “subversive” potential, including the possibility of homosexual readings of the comics, was through the narrative device of the “super­ hero family.””

Here is more academic reading with the themes of Batman and homophobia, written in 1991. This article is referenced in the former piece.

In summary:

(lest we forget) Batman has had queer readings since its inception, specifically between Bruce and Dick.

The creation of the batfamily served to curtail those brudick readings

It seems pretty obvious that the same attempts are STILL being made by DC, now with the exaggerated push for explicit familial titles like “father” and “son”. And are still working if you see any discourse online from fans who strictly oppose brudick on the basis of their “father/son” relationship (which seems to me a more modern emphasis compared to in the past, maybe i’ll make a different post about that later.) They are unknowingly parroting Freddy Wertham’s concerns and eating up DC’s new strategy of distancing Bruce and Dick, just under an accusation harder to argue against nowadays. It’s gauche to criticize queerness nowadays, but consider it incest and suddenly it’s acceptable to bash again.

I just find it incredibly fascinating that brudick had been discussed and analyzed in multiple academic articles! And reading some comments I saw lately of people exclaiming “I can’t believe Brudick is this popular!/Who on earth is shipping Brudick!?!” made me sigh and really want to pull these out. Brudick has been a thing before all of us were born. DC’s propaganda/internet purity culture has been doing too good of a job lately. We have to remember our roots.

[bee-a-garbage-shipper]

Bruce: *To Dick.* The absolute nerve, to come into my life. To make it better by your very existence. Effortlessly barging into the misery fortress it took me years to build. Shameful.

[vintagerobin]

Been reading Grayson, got to Grayson: Future's End, and I really love how this apparently canonizes Brudick in a one sided pining sort of way in New 52, because...

Seriously?? I can't fathom a SINGLE platonic way to explain ANY of this.

For context these pages come one right after the next for the most part. The whole point of this comic seems to be to explain that Dick becomes romantically interested in his superior in Spyral because she reminds him of Bruce.

[dikfingro]

Bat Dance

Batman (Bruce Wayne) & Robin (Dick Grayson)

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some more brucedick / Phantom Thread thoughts……..

Reynolds making a couture dress similar to the waitress uniform Alma was wearing the first time they met and then Alma herself modeling it

Bruce and Dick designing Dick’s Robin uniform as an homage to his family’s costume, the one he was wearing the (tragic) first time they met

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Dynamic Duo

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Hi friends! Day 2 has arrived! We invite you to enjoy this feast of the most iconic ship: The Dynamic Duo 💙🖤

Please don't forget to show your love and appreciation for our BruDick creators! 💙

[Fanfic] A Few Short Steps for FleetSparrow [Explicit, No Warnings Added]

Summary:

When they're out here, it feels different. Like, perhaps, there's less of a barrier between them, less distance between Batman and Robin than there is between Bruce and Dick.

[Fanfic] Beyond Batman and Nightwing for MFLuder [Mature, No Warnings Added]

Summary:

There is a new Batman in Neo-Gotham City. Who does he call when he needs to save one very specific, very obstinate life? Nightwing, of course. A short Bruce and Dick romance in the Batman Beyond universe.

[Fanfic] this place is my home. for cadkitten [Mature, Major Character Death]

Summary:

Bruce looks at him with a blank stare. “Gotham doesn’t want you here, Dick,” he says matter-of-fact, like the words do not tear a hole into Dick’s own heart. As if it does not sound more like 'I do not want you here.' Bruce is the heart of Gotham, and Dick is the heart of Bludhaven.

[Fanfic] Love You to Let You Go, Heal Apart to Come Back Home for fogwise [Teen, No Warnings Added]

Summary:

Dick Grayson has many gold medals, a not insignificant amount are Olympic ones. Bruce Wayne has his fair share from boxing. They were one of many Olympic couples from Rio 2016, everyone thought they'd come out of Tokyo with rings on their fingers. Instead, Dick spent months in physical therapy after a last ditch effort to save his ACL (and his career) failed, and they were broken up. Dick avoided anything sports related for two years. And then his former coach's kids, the coach responsible for the negligent training that ended his career early, come knocking with their youngest sibling in tow. They want to prove their father's coaching strategies were nothing but dangerous and the medals they all managed to win were in spite of his training, not because of it. Unfortunately the youngest Wilson is also Damian's half brother, Damian who Dick had helped raise for the four years he and Bruce had been together. But Dick Grayson needs to prove himself, complicated feelings about Bruce be damned. And if Bruce admits that he's been regularly attending therapy since they broke up well... It's not like he's changed enough to get back together after an open discussion about where they went wrong... Right?

[Fanfic] Then I Finally Rested In Your Bed for Themadwomanwhoisunfortunatelylackingabox [Explicit, Violence]

Summary:

For much of his life, Bruce felt no real compulsion to find his soulmate. Until one day he's drawn to The Circus, where he has the bad luck to lose his soulmate not once, but twice. Or: Bruce meets a boy from the circus and fate both decides yes, he's yours, but also no, you can't have him.

[Art] For Our Eyes Only for NyxKvistad [Mature, No Warnings Added]

Summary:

Galas can be so boring, especially if you have to keep up pretenses. An out of the way nook offers a moment of privacy.

[Art] Rule of Thumb for flitterwing [Mature, No Warnings Added]

Summary:

Constantine hadn’t explained the magnitude of Dick’s fuck up until it happened.

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Gotham's most sexy man spotted in vacation with his former ward and actually his sugar baby 🖤💙

[dianorayopi]

Something about us au - An au inspired in Carrie by @boyblunder24, her ideas don't stop!

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Humps

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[fleetsparrow]

Some say there is a pattern to all life, an order, an arrangement. Some say that there are certain events that can never be changed, certain destinies that cannot be escaped, certain multiversal constants that will not be erased. Waypoints on the map of time that are not “if”s but “when”s.

At some point early in his career as Batman, Bruce Wayne will attend a circus.

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Rating: Teen Characters: Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Alfred Pennyworth (more to come) Relationships: Bruce & Dick, (eventual) Bruce/Dick Tags: Fae/Eldritch Dick Grayson, Slow Burn

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Finally, the fae!Dick fic that has been eating my brain is here! Only one chapter up so far (because that's all that's done now), but it'll probably be updated again some time this year.

Hopefully....

[captainlordauditor]

BruDick Week 2023, Day 2: Possessiveness | Family Finds out | Age Difference

Happy day 2 of @brudick-week !!!