#THAT DICK WOULD FIX ME

[blackbatcass]

not to be back on my bullshit but as it stands I think cass and dick’s relationship has the potential to contain soooo much resentment and discomfort. two people who are not used to being meaningfully perceived are now being deeply understood by another person who is NOT their first choice for this. they know each other Too Well and are both uncomfortable by this. there is so much resentment wariness and tension to be found in their shared proximity to bruce and babs, their thought processes, personalities, etc. HOWEVER. i do think that throwing them into the emotional pressure cooker that is the bruce-is-dead era together could fix them. being forced to share the cowl and wrestling with differing ideas of batman’s legacy, family, morality, etc would end SO well actually. they would have so many screaming matches and would come out of it bonded to all hell.

[savanir]

The cure to vampirism is to never get turned at all

Dick is not ashamed to admit he's in trouble. 

He's surrounded on all sides by vampires (because that's a thing now), he's put in this situation by his sister which is just great. Some ancient vampire lady named Pandora says she needs him to defeat the Queen of Blood named Mary and he's pretty sure that involves him being turned into a vampire as well, which he doesn't want. 

He's good but even he can tell his odds are pretty shit. There is no backup coming and even if he could call them they would never arrive on time. 

And of course he's in his civvies and doesn't have any of his gear. Just fantastic. 

But if he goes down he'll go down fighting.

"DANIEL!!"

everything screeches to a halt as the furious booming male voice echoes through the room. 

A large ornate wooden double door in the back slams open and a young man rushes through slamming them closed behind him.

Intricate red and green flashes of energy cover the doors and then the young man turns to the crowd in the fancy crypt.

"Our young gifted prince? There is no need for you to attend this meeting, But if there is a way we may assis-?" The question hovers in the air, choked off as the young man runs forward and with hands shimmering in eerie venomous green and deep blood red energy he tears through the random vampire's throat, startling all the others. 

"I'm putting an end to this madness, here and now" He drops the gradually disintegrating corpse on the ground. 

"Young prince!?" Exclaims lady Pandora.

For Dick things become a blur after that. Screaming and screeching and inhuman growling. The young man easily tears through them all with his powers. It seems some form of backup did arrive, but if this is a blessing or a curse remains to be seen.

Dick doesn't understand though, he seems to be one of them so why...?

One second they are all still fighting then the next the old vampire lady is lying dead on the ground, gradually turning into dust. The vampires who remain all stare at the young man in shock. “he… he killed Pandora, our oldest. The strongest of us” 

None of them seem to know what to do now. There are a lot of dead vampires all around, in Dick’s humble opinion this meeting could not have gone worse for the acolytes of shadow. He’s not feeling too upset about that though considering what they wanted from him. Still, the fact that they aren’t outright trying to kill this young prince in retaliation… he must be someone special, that alone is more than enough for Dick to keep his guard up around him.

Then the young man darts forward and grabs Dick's wrist, "we have to leave, the seal I put on the door is about to break. I won't be able to protect you from him"

"Who?" Dick can’t help but ask as they both start running for the exit. The young man quickly dragging him up the stairs. For a split second does Dick think about Melinda, he’s not entirely sure if she was among the ones killed or not. She was the one who tricked him into that mess. 

Well, she absolutely knew the consequences, she told them about him being Nightwing, if whatever is left down there decides to punish her for this fiasco that’s probably what she deserves.

"I'll explain everything later, I promise, but we need to go now!"

The furious noises behind them grow steadily in volume. Danny pushes Dick forward as he slams the red fake fridge door closed behind them and another flash or red and green covers that as well, another seal of sorts most likely. The one other person in the kitchen startles as the two of them run past him.

"Who are you?"

"Call me Danny, now this way, quick!" the young prince, Danny apparently, faults over the Waffle House front desk Dick not hesitating to do the same.

"DANIEL HOW DARE YOU!" comes faintly from behind them as Danny slams the fake establishments front doors open and pulls Dick out of there.

"Oh he's next level mad" mutters Danny as they are running again. Meanwhile Dick is just very glad to be breathing in the fresh cold night air of Bludhaven. 

However, his legs are having trouble keeping up with the pace, he has taken some serious hits and those things definitely don't pull any punches. 

He can’t help the faint pained groan and the speed with which the other man snaps his attention back on him almost makes him flinch. 

"Do you need a hand?"

"I'm fine"

"Here let me-" 

Next thing Dick knows he's being carried, if he wasn't friends with so many supers and speedsters he'd probably be flailing. Instead he's just kinda used to it and lets it happen even if it’s a bit awkward what with Danny being a bit shorter than him.

He's glad when they get to a safehouse and Danny puts him on the couch. He then goes to fetch Dick the first aid kit. 

"Who were we running from?"

"Old as balls vampire lord named Vladimir Masters, he’s in cahoots with the acolytes of shadow. And I guess he’s now fully in charge seeing Pandora just had her final death."

Dick pauses and just looks at him. 

"Yes he's really named that" Danny looks rather tired.

"And I'm guessing he's the sort who is going to be a massive headache"

"I mean they had this whole plan of world domination, you were a key player in that plan which is now completely ruined by the way. I was part of it too but I really don't want anything to do with any of that so... here we are"

"Here we are"

It's only when Dick is fully bandaged that Danny flops down in the nearest arm chair and drops his head in his hands and takes a deep shuddering breath. Perhaps all the murder is catching up to him? 

"Are you okay?"

"Don't mind me, I'm just... thirsty... I'll be fine" 

"Ah yes of course, vampire."

"I'm unfortunately a vampire yeah but don’t get it twisted, I'm absolutely not one of them" Danny looks up and sneers, Dick can now clearly see the fangs. “Seeing humans as cattle… the absolute moronic-” Danny trails off in furious muttering. “living in a world with demons and angels and aliens and whatever else but no we’re the ones who deserve special treatment.”

Dick makes a choice and then gets up, Danny watching him go and curiously listening to him opening and closing something in a different room before coming back and holding out a blood bag with a bit of IV tube hanging out of it. 

"Here you go."

“Oh! thank you,” Danny gladly takes the bag, "You just have bags of blood in your house?"  

"You never know when you need an emergency blood transfusion. Especially considering my nightly activities." … you know that sounds kinda vampiric in it’s own way doesn’t it?

Danny snorts and starts drinking. It kind of looks like a huge capri-sun that way. It's sort of adorable. 

If only it wasn't a massive plastic bag of Dick's own blood but whatever. 

They both fall quiet as Danny focuses on his drink and Dick takes a moment to think about the absolute mess he just went through.

“Someone called you gifted… what did they mean by that?”

“This mostly,” Danny holds out his hand and shows Dick the strange glowing mixture of red and green energy he saw down in the crypt. “I am a huge anomaly because I became a vampire while I was half alive and half dead. What that means for the most part is enhanced powers, I am even harder to kill than a regular vampire and you cannot fix my vampirism with one of those disgusting smelling pits of… what was it called? Lar- Lazard?” “Lazarus,”

"Yes that! Anyway I am like.. the backup to their world domination plan, initially they just wanted me to be their weapon but I have morals, pesky things, super annoying according to them. Which is why they decided to ‘recruit’ you. But I managed to screw that up too.” Danny looks very satisfied with himself about that. 

“Thanks for that” Dick says genuinely earning him a cheeky sharp fanged grin from Danny. Though he wished it had not involved such a massive carnage, he’s very glad he’s not a vampire right now. Beggars can’t be choosers he guesses.

“It would probably be best to get the League involved, root them all out. Vlad is definitely going to make more drastic moves now that things have turned out this way.”

Dick ponders to himself, “Yeah… let’s be Helsing about it,” He already got a Vampire on his side too.

Danny dejectedly looks down at his empty blood bag, “... can I have another?” He asks carefully.

“Sure!” responds Dick with a smile that finally manages to ease the tension out of Danny’s shoulders.

[latimeria-fell-from-heaven]

omg opinions on mr reca,

he’s literally >:3, mr. reca is full of silly whimsy and i need to study him under a microscope. he’s such a pathetic unhinged freak and i LOVE that for him <33

but he don’t get pussy, that silly little man gets the biggest strap-on up his ass <33 you could get mr. reca to cum in his pants from just steeping on him a couple of times, and now he’s hooked. he’d hump your foot like the depraved dog he is and drool n pant when you press down even harder. he REEKS of obsessive masochist vibes, dude would constantly follow you around like a lost puppy and refuse to leave you alone.

might as well get yourself your very own personal dog <33

[tomboyyyaoi]

hazbin hotel dragging me out of art block like those jokes about songs waking people out of comas so they can turn the radio off

[renirae]

Tim Drake and stalking as a love language

I have this idea that Tim has been stalking people as a love language actually years before he ever discovered Robin's identity.

It started when he was six and his parents were visiting. Tim was already being taken care of by a live-in nanny, so he rarely saw his parents - even while in Gotham, they were still usually out of the house, going to galas and dining with important businessmen.

However, one night they actually did stay home, and Tim was so excited to finally spend a day with them before they flew out the next day!! ...Until he learned they were only home because they were having a dinner party.

Now, it was clear that Tim wasn't a part of the guest list; but Janet made the mistake of not telling Tim to go to his room. Instead, she specifically said "Timothy, I don't want to see you for the rest of the night".

Tim, of course, realized the loophole; they weren't allowed to see him, but he could watch them. And as long as he wasn't caught, he'd be following his parents' rules AND spending time with them before they left!

So before the dinner, he found somewhere to hide in the dining room, and he watched his parents the entire night. And it was great! They even talked about him to some of their guests, called him a "smart and independent young man". They'd never said that to Tim's face, but he glowed with pride from the compliment for days after. His strategy had worked perfectly.

For the next few visits he did the same thing. Every time his parents were home but didn't want to see him, he simply watched them instead. It was basically spending time together!

Eventually though, Tim grew older, and visitors to the mansion started to ask why their son was never a part of the dinners. But rather than adding Tim to the guest list, his parents simply stopped ever hosting events.

Tim at this point had already started stalking Batman and Robin, so he had a genius idea; he could follow his parents around Gotham to watch them too!

So yeah, this continued until Janet's death; whenever his parents came to Gotham and went to go, for example, meet a colleague in a restaurant, Tim would find a way to sneak in or otherwise watch over them. Obviously by this age he was now aware just how... not-normal this behaviour was, but it was also basically the only time he ever saw his parents interacting with each other without Tim around. And again, they even sometimes complimented him! He would never have known that if he hadn't kept watching them! So... yeah, no matter how creepy he knew it was, he couldn't convince himself to stop.

Of course, the canon stalking of Batman and Robin continued as well - after Robin switched hands, Tim even sometimes went to Bludhaven to stalk Nightwing around too, although those trips were much more few and far between given the necessary added amount of planning and travel.

That, of course, continued until Jason's death... and then Tim's mother and later his father died too, so you'd think Tim would have nobody else to stalk, right?

...Well, old habits die hard.

Even after getting friends and family, Tim couldn't quite stop himself from stalking them. Perhaps it was because his parents always got annoyed when Tim tried to spend time with them, so he grew paranoid that his new friends and family were the same way - if he was too clingy, they would stop wanting to spend time with him. So if he wanted to see a certain family member but he'd spent time with them too recently, he ended up just hiding and watching them instead. Just like with his parents, he could spend time around them without them getting annoyed at him. It was a win-win!

(Of course, he now lived with a bunch of other stalkers (even if most of them did it for vigilantism reasons and not to their actual friends and family like Tim did), so this couldn't last forever. I imagine they slowly caught on, one by one, and once the entire family was aware they all worked together to stage an intervention.

And since I refuse to write unhappy endings - during the intervention, it takes some prodding, but Tim finally opens up. He tells them about his parents, and admits he stalks people because he's worried he'll be seen as clingy like they did. And after many many reassurances that his parents were wrong and everyone loves him the way he is, they all hug him and have a movie night or something and it's happily ever after :))

[crmnlgy]

I’m sorry but I’m a bottom Inho truther…….

[theredcuyo]

You see, i keep thinking about fics sending characters back in time and how they just fix everything and they're sweet and i love them but also

There's things you just can't change, you know?

How would a 8 year old fucking stop a traffic accident on the other side of his city, not even the country they're in

How does a child prevent someone somehow from getting an illness that will kill them, both psycological and not

I'd love a story where yeah, they fix what could be fixed but stomp into walls that just couldn't be prevented, not having money for the doctor, personalities that just won't do as they wish, people forgetting or ignoring a kid's advice, someone that needed more than a few words to turn away from certain paths

And i don't mean it in a "Destiny finds a way" type of thing, they can do stuff, they really can, but somethings go far, far away from their capabilities

[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

[strawberrystepmom]

enough talking about thick dicks I can’t DO it anymore

[dickheadcanons]

Obviously people can write what they want, but nothing takes me out of a story faster than seeing Jason adopted without Bruce meeting Dick.

I know I have my biases, but I feel it shows a complete…lack of interest in Bruce, as a character. Bruce is a highly traumatized man, one who hasn’t had a family since he was 8 years old (hired butlers really don’t count, for all that they might get more family-like later). What could possibly convince him that he was the best person to care for a young boy? It’s delusion at best or even insane narcissism. What could he possibly offer besides money, which he already gives in large amounts to actual child-helping organizations in Gotham??

Unless, of course, he witnesses something so shocking, so deeply affecting, that it’s become one of the best attended events in the DC universe because everyone wants a piece of that emotional arc. Something that vividly takes him back to the alley way, back to another boy kneeling between two bodies. Makes him realize that there might be other people in that lonely, dark world of his.

Dick in general is so massively influential on Bruce, but this moment is what pries its fingernails under the doorframe. It’s what makes everything that comes later possible. And it’s not just that he’s an orphan boy; it’s the shock, the spectacle, the intensely public display of grief after violence from a boy who looks like Bruce, who is the same age as Bruce was,and, I think this is critical, was so happy just moments before like Bruce remembers being.

Maybe Bruce still finds Jason and Tim and Cass without taking in Dick. Maybe he still can be a good father, be a good Batman, without Dick’s influence directly in his life. But the character is fundamentally different without being there that night. It’s the first and longest lasting moment of character growth that we see on page for Bruce, one that gets retold over and over.

He needs his night at the circus.

[noise-misato-boy-destroyer]

this top arc is nonsense, if I don't get treated like the pathetic and r***able girltwink I am soon...

[wilder-fangirl]

concept: me curled up in a man’s lap with my face buried in his shirt and he chit chats and drinks with his friends like I’m not even there except he occasionally kisses me on my head

[breadandblankets]

Jason is the sibling you go to if you need your bones taken out and power washed.

In a family full of people veering towards disability, at a speed superman is envious of, this is a highly coveted skill.

Mans has back cracking down to a science nay! An Art.

Dick, climbing through Jason's window: "hey can you take out my spine and give it a shake 🥺🥺🥺"

Jason, looking extremely put up on but already spreading his arms to crack Dick's back: "yeah, get your flexy ass over here 🙄🙄🙄"

[drbatsponge]

A lot of people don't seem to understand that Starfire would likely face the same damage that Babs has faced if they got her back with Dick.

As if Starfire isn't already facing damage from people who think her personality is the same as that cartoon from 2003.

[funeralpartyclown]

i have got to know your thoughts about the dynamic (sexual or non sexual) between dale and ruth. i know you mentioned wanting to write a full thing for them in the notes of your fic, but would you mind just sharing a few ramblings? there’s like noooo content for them lmao

Yes!! I do want to write something about them so bad,,

Sorry this turned into a HUUUUGE Yap fest but I love to talk about them

Non sexual- I feel like their dynamic would be genuinely comical I need to see that so bad. He’s so strange it would be hilarious seeing him do anything mundane, and I bet he’d be weird about everything he does. Milk before cereal type of guy.

Like I said in my fic too, she retired from a very consuming job and her only daughter has moved out and she seems to have no hobbies. She’s probably bored out of her mind and eventually would put up with his company (at times).

She doesn’t really have anyone else in her life and they have no other family, even if she did have friends it wouldn’t take long for it to be obvious there’s something different about her and they’d distance themselves over time.

When Lee moves out there’s no reason for him to confine himself to the basement, he’s coming upstairs to pester her for no reason like a child.

Just seeing him is a reminder she was forced to throw away her entire life and assist in several murders. It takes a long while for her to not recoil in disgust at the mere sight of him, but with his persistence and maybe a little dark influence she can stomach being around him.

Maybe if she caught him the right state, upset or under the influence he’d end up talking about his past.

To me I think there’s no way he got into this by choice. He loves the devil, he’s devoted to his work and willing to die for it but it just feels to me like under that he’s hollow and empty. I don’t think this is what he originally wanted for himself.

He had aspersions, he’s a talented musician and dollmaker. There are plenty of reasons characters in media turn to the fictional type of satanism, to be granted power, money, fame, Sell your soul to the devil and become a celebrity!

But he’s not. He didn’t even manage to continue making music once he got into this. He has no power, he’s a servant. He has no loved ones or friends. He’s alone, working tirelessly for decades. I feel like it would have began as, “this is my only choice no reason to dwell on the past I’ll just devote myself to my work” and the way pathological liars get caught in their own web of lies, he believes it and convinces himself on a fundamental level that this is what he wants and needs to do. I don’t know enough about to speculate about what it could have been but I think he was originally coerced into it in some way. And he and Ruth have that in common, she’d see him at least a little differently after that.

They’re the same. Shell of a person, condemned to the work. No escape, not even the cold clutch of death can free you. You are alone, you have no one and nothing save for eachother. No salvation and no one to understand the horrors you face. Lee can’t understand, she can’t know and she doesn’t until the end.

So overall, it would take a while for her to stand his company. Even once she does she still resents him openly for dragging her into it.

He just wears her down over time. Through my experience and that of people I know. I will say, even if you truly hate someone. When you’re forced to go through severe trauma together and have no one else to turn to it kind of tethers you. Their relationship would be horrific and toxic and disgusting. And I don’t think they could ever love eachother, it’s more of a mutual acceptance of their situation and occasional stress relief.

Living with him for so long I’m sure she’s witnessed a fair amount of him going off the rails, and considering their past she knows what he’s capable of and is probably afraid of him.

Buuuuuut fear and arousal go hand in hand. She’s still mildly disgusted with him and I think the first time would take a lot of convincing from him and probably some drinking.

He’s gross, she’s probably walked in oh him either doing something or just naked and knows that he’s,, well endowed. Which, I figure some people must not agree with that because he’s pathetic and that gives small dick vibes BUT! I argue.

He’s kind of huge just as a person so proportionally it would have to be at least decent. And I think it’s funnier to imagine that him having an absolute horse cock but being so,, dale,,, that nobody is touching him with a 10 foot pole.

I do that he has at least a little experience, but from a LOOOng time ago. I think I’ve said this several times already but under the surgery he’s nic cage who doesn’t want nic cage.. AND he was a musician..

They’re both touch starved and old, he’s into freaky shit, it’s getting weird fs.

Ruth is so gorgeous, (I don’t know if lees dad died or was never around? Was that ever hinted at and I missed it. I’m gonna go with he ditched them just because that’s what I’ve seen other people write.) and she was religious, so I’m saying she’s inexperienced too.

Maybe he’d even be the first one to go down on her,, I figure that would be the most common occurrence between them now that I think about it. He gets to have less power over her, (push him to the floor and make him stay there. Pull her dress or skirt over his head so she doesn’t have to look at him.)

she makes up an excuse afterwards to not return the favor and probably never does. It’s almost a death sentence with his size anyways.

She seems pretty skinny and frail I think he’d abuse that and move her around into whatever position he feels like. I feel like this post is getting really long now but I can think of so many things to add 😭😭😭😭.

At first he’s definitely on top, more of a “just get it over with already so I can get away from you” i think she’d hate being manhandled like that though he’s not getting away with it for long. She knows he’s desperate, and she’s not a sex obsessed pervert like him shed be fine holding out. So everything after that is on her terms, she’s yelling at him and smacking his hands away if he’s doing anything she doesn’t want. That would be therapeutic for her too, he probably enjoys the abuse and she gets to take out her anger with him.

[torchstelechos]

God, I just want a fanfic about the absolute wild internet fandom and discourse of PIDW. Just full stop make it a chat/discord sever fic with both SQQ and SQH in it but neither know and they have another meltdown relationship on this server. Enough so that the fans make jokes that they’re just alts of SQQ and SQH (which is true but no one actually believes this). Make the final chapter present day them figuring it out and wailing on each other in anger. I need this more than I need air.