#Just let them be happy DC

[escapismisaddicting]

I love the Tim Drake joins the batfamily early fics thats center around him and Jason. Cause it implies that if they met under different circumstances they would have hit it off. Like Jason finding out about his parents and just going all mama bear mode. I love them.

[ravenpureforever]

On one hand, Young Justice is kind of neglected by the actual superheroes that should be looking out for them in a lot of crucial ways and very much failed by the adults around them

But on the other hand Red Tornado straight up hosts a parent-teacher conference where their respective legal guardians all show up, barring Batman who’s in traffic so Nightwing fills in instead because Robin’s dad does not know he’s a vigilante which is objectively hilarious

[nelkcats]

Family Trip

Danny loved her, like a sister, a daughter or something in between, but Ellie was happy as long as he was there to take care of her. She felt protected but couldn't stay forever.

She had already explored the whole world, and as interesting as the Infinite Realms seemed in reality they didn't interest her that much. Ellie was sure she needed to go further, but she didn't know how to let Danny know. So she simply told him straight out, that the universe they were in was no longer enough for her.

Danny accepted it, and told her that there were many other universes that she could explore, he told her that Clockwork had told him about some of them. Ellie was excited, she could travel more, but for the first time she hesitated, and realized that she didn't want to travel alone.

She asked Danny if he wanted to travel with her and he gave her the flattest look in existence.

"Obviously I'm going to travel with you" he said. And that was that. No discussion, no questions asked.

They both packed a couple of backpacks as if they were going hiking and asked Clockwork. He just tossed them Dan's thermos before offering them a method of travel. Danny frowned but opened the thermos anyway and dragged Dan with them as he yelled about injustices and upset families.

They ended up in Gotham, in front of a man with a helmet and a guy dressed as a stoplight. Danny waved and asked them for a chat (he probably wanted to ask for directions) while Dan sulked in the back. Ellie looked at the architecture curiously.

Unfortunately for Danny, the stoplight guy pulled out a sword and the helmet guy pulled out a gun. They both looked tense as they looked between the three of them. Danny frowned (his green eyes glinting with annoyance) before nodding towards Ellie and Dan and disappearing.

Thus began their vacation in a world where everyone wanted to shoot them; Danny felt at home, Dan wanted to steal an exotic candy called crypto-something and Ellie was happy to explore.

Their family trip had officially begun.

[punnifullife]

will you draw dickkory with their son jake grayson?

i got you, anon!

[the-witchhunter]

You know those video games where the character has to complete puzzles and work through their trauma to escape/wake up/something? Obstacles getting in their way and being tied to their past as they delve more into their trauma and have to learn/heal from it before they can progress?

Danny has been around a loooong time. He's old, he's powerful, and has a space in the ghost zone that he controls much like a god. The ghosts have long since started leaving him alone, the ones he's friends with have their own affaires to deal with, and in his ever shifting labyrinthian layer he's too powerful, and even outside of it he can still kick their asses.

and he's without a purpose

His friends had long since passed on after leading long and wonderful lives with him, not even leaving a ghost behind. His Family as well. Jazz had never had children, and try as he and Sam might have, half dead as he was he couldn't have children. He had no one left and nothing to do, and all of eternity to do it in.

Thinking of Jazz is what made him do it the first time

She loved helping people with her psychology, and Danny decided to do it in his own way. It hadn't been pretty, and it hadn't been easy, but he had found his method. Some took to it better than others, and many had different theories about his lair and his motives, but he helped people move past their trauma. Some believed his lair was some kind of purgatory, and... they weren't totally off

So, when Danny moved on to the timeline of the DC multiverse, he had some experience under his belt

He just underestimated how much trauma superheroes can have

[autisticrosewilson]

So do you guys actually think that Jason's entire story, relationship to the others, and philosophy amounts to him being a rebellious teen who wants his dad's attention? Like are you 100% serious? I thought you were joking about that but too many of you are saying it with your whole chest.

And what the fuck is this "Bruce antagonizing Jason is fanon!" Shit I've been seeing? You guys are aware that a parent can love their kid and still be a shit parent right? I know you guys don't want to fathom the thought that maybe your blorbo might also occasionally have to face responsibility for consistently endangering children but let's not start being delusional now.

Bruce does love his kids, that doesn't mean that he hasn't hurt them. And I'd also argue that for the most part he feels in the right for it, and he's said multiple times that he believes it's for their own good, so you can't even argue that he's sorry about it. It's okay for you guys to admit that your PERSONAL INTERPRETATION of the character wouldn't do that but don't sit here and pretend that it's not a facet of the source.

[moonilit]

why is polygamy not an option for Dick Grayson and im asking the writers, like he loves both Kory and Babs? I don’t see Kory and Babs being together but if they are ok with it Dick can be with both of them? Like he have a family in both the titans and gotham ?? Instead of this on and off with both that leaving everyone hanging let them be happy

[seren-dipitous-art]

First time I’ve drawn Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn, and they’re on a date. This feels appropriate.

[batcavescolony]

Detective Comics #389

Oh my God would you look at that! It's almost like Batman cares about his rogues and doesn't just beat up mentally ill people.

[batboopp]

people who like genuine tragic depressing ships make me so sad because it bleeds into their fanon shit too. like sweetheart this is YOUR imagination you can let them be happy i promise. you can write a fanfic where they aren’t constantly pulling and pushing to and away from each other. you can draw fanart where they aren’t sobbing over each other. you can let them look at each other with just love, not eyes that give seven different emotions that all conflict with each other. you can

[swaggy-lee23]

Just imagining Damian and Mara saying goodbye before Dames left the league, leaving Mara by herself.

After ten years of being the only other kid they knew, of sneaking into the other’s bed almost every night. Climbing through windows to watch the stars together, palming eachother sweets and one smuggling water and food for the other during one of Ra’s more severe punishments. Ten years of being best friends only to hardly ever see eachother ever again.

[escapismisaddicting]

Me: looks at the absolute Jason slander that DC is putting out these days. Hm.

Also me: looks at my unfinished draft of chapter one of this fic. Hmmm.

In all seriousness- do you guys want it? It’s such a cute idea and my boy deserves happiness. He’s not just a good soldier, he doesn’t want to die again for Bruce’s mission. Jason Todd has seen enough pain, can’t he just have a little bit of comfort?

I’ll be writing it for myself because tbh this is so self-indulgent. But if yall wanna read it- I’ll post it.

Welcome to the second episode of “Should I write this?”

An AU where Jason Todd decides that Batman isn’t worth it and opens a coffee shop on Park Row, tutors street kids on the weekends and hangs out with Harley and Ivy on his down time. He’s perfectly content with his life. And so what if he specifically chose this location cause it was on their old patrol route? And because it was next to a batburger that Bruce always took him to?

That means absolutely nothing, Harley.

But of course Replacement had to ruin everything by stumbling into his shop and ordering black coffee and- putting monster in it?

This kid needs serious help. Jason doesn’t plan to be the one to give it. But something about the kid also kinda makes Jason want to simultaneously punch him in the face and hide him away so no one can hurt him. And really Jason was mad at Bruce. Not Tim.

So sue him if he doesn’t wake the kid up when he falls asleep at his booth.

(Steph comes to get him and Jason nearly shits himself cause Cass was outside and Jay was like “Holy shit- did that shadow move?! Bruce are you sure she’s human cause that was terrifying...”)

Long story short- Jason Todd doesn’t want to be a big brother. But God hates him and he now has 4 little siblings.

[phoenixcatch7]

From what I can tell, the popular idea of the shazfams transformations being based on their ideal versions of themselves is fanon, which is a crying shame because we could have had walking magibio super weapons playing on superman's field packed into demigod vessels of the most deviant art oc energy on planet earth. Do NOT tell me that wouldn't have happened.

[britcision]

Anyway in case anyone was wondering why I do firmly aver I did not get to DPxDC from DC and am not a DC fan despite having consumed all of the Harley Quinn and Suicide Squad runs up to 2018

(And have an exciting grab bag of shows, movies, and assorted trivia under my belt besides

Batman vs Dracula was fucking great fight me)

It’s because DC as a whole is hostile as fuck to the concept of being a casual fan

(And about 90% of the main heroes annoy the hell out of me for the very tropes that DC is known and praised for in their heroes I am here for villains, antiheroes, and sidekicks exclusively)

There is no such thing as consistent characterization, especially as you consume more content or fall down a rabbit hole, and the rabbit holes are ENDLESS

Everyone cameos everywhere else, referential jokes are often dropped in as Easter eggs for people who have read every single other DC comic put out in the same decade and yet within the same comics you get glaringly inconsistent characterization and different retcons for the same events

Big stories are retold and retconned every couple years, we got 3 separate Spiderman origin movies and the exact same Batman origin in more than half the live action movies; DC PAYS PEOPLE to make up their own different versions of canon events

There is a REASON that the Marvel and DC cinematic universes are both officially divorced from comic canon; the sheer volume of canon content is inaccessible to most of the population, and DC and Marvel know it

That’s why the New 52 was a big divorce from all previous canon too - it’s an on ramp for new fans, because sorting through the web of old content is off putting as fuck

It’s the one thing not a single DC fan I’ve spoken to who complained about “canon characterization” has bothered defending or even acknowledging, and yet it has been the core of all of their arguments:

“Canon is what I want it to be, not what any of the sources say”

And listen, I was a Torchwood fan, we were the archetypal example of “canon only happened if I acknowledge it” (so sad that show ended after only two seasons and nothing else ever happened again Children of Earth who), you just gotta acknowledge that that’s what you’re doing

But you frankly cannot have a serious conversation about canon characterization with someone who does not acknowledge entire swaths of canon and cannot understand why that makes their argument completely invalid

Any kind of conversation about the “right” characterization for a DC character necessarily has to involve the acknowledgement that it’s your personal preferred characterization, not a One True Canon, because I guarantee there are canon incidents for every single big name and most of the small ones that directly counter the ones you like

You may note I share a bunch of posts with things like “My Batman would never do this”, as opposed to “canon Batman would never do this”

Hell, on Batman specifically there are hundreds of beautifully put together posts talking about how the different canon runs get him wrong; I too prefer a Bruce Wayne who does genuinely care about his family and tries to protect them, but isn’t perfect or always right over the massive asshole elitist who just grunts and treats them like soldiers

Canon Batman slaps his kids around, it’s the meme that broke containment and you don’t have to like it or accept it as something your Batman would do!

But it’s still canon

Both versions have a massive well of canon support, and exist simultaneously in the multiverse

Every single characterization of a character is true and exists in the multiverse

And that is why the idea of a “canon version” of any DC character is utterly meaningless

TL;DR: write DC characters however the fuck you want and do not worry about it for more than 10 minutes together, that is what the paid DC writing staff do

There will be at least two pieces of canon media to back up whatever interpretation of the character you pick

Not everyone will like that characterization or agree with how you see the character, and that is all fine and good! But “canon” is meaningless in this context, neatly encapsulated by the “multiverse” explanation

Everything is canon, which means that nothing is canon

[hailsatanacab]

new chapter new chapter new chapter!!!!! (finally)

[peppermintack]

show tempe gang crossover with the morris islanders would actually have been the best episode of bones ever. btw