#This is all internal monologue

[terresdebrume]

Update on the next TBU fic:

Deathmask is going off!

Because Aphrodite is right, gods fucking damnit. Because this place was built on the back of thousands, millions of orphans taken from places where no one gave a shit about them so they could come here and suffer and bleed on these steps until they turned into complete freaks and died for a goddess who won’t even have the decency to visit them afterwards. Because all of them—the Gold Dicks, the Popes, the servants, the bronzes and their attending, they’re all lying to themselves. And they’ll never stop lying to themselves, because if they do, they’ll have to admit that all of them had a hand into making Deathmask and Aphrodite and even Crackpot, and they didn’t give a shit about it as long as they could maintain their sense of fucking superiority, like the assholes that they are.

[remcadll]

Dick is never going to get to have a midlife crisis because Bruce is going through his for him. also because he will not be making it to 40.

[morganbritton132]

Post-Starcourt AU where Steve and Robin kinda just wander off in the all chaos.

They’re just walking around because Robin can’t go home like this and Steve doesn’t want to go to his house. Robin also doesn’t want to go to Steve’s house. There were monsters there once.

So, they’re just moseying along still feeling the high of Russian drugs and monster fighting when a minivan pulls up next to them. They roll down the window and it’s…Tommy’s mom? Telling them to get in the car right now, “Steven Christopher.”

Tommy’s mom, Maria, heard about the mall fire on the radio. She vaguely remembered Tommy mentioning that Steve worked there and gave his house a ring. Her mom brain went into overdrive when she got no answer.

The unknowing made her so sick with worry that she got into her car to drive out to the mall to check herself. That’s what she was doing when she found them and all that worry wore on her face.

So, they listen. They kinda have to listen so they got in the car. She asks questions. They answer some of them.

“We’re fine,” Steve tells her even though his lips is bleeding and he’s all bruised up. He smells like smoke and blood, turning to Robin in the backseat, “Robbie. This is like, my mom.”

Robin thinks, whoa.

Steve’s mom is like nothing she was imagining and she takes them home to a regular house? It’s cozy and clean, but like. Robin thinks her house might be nicer than this. Honestly, weirdest thing she experienced tonight.

She immediately revised that thought when Maria gives them both a once over and sends them to bed. She follows Steve upstairs and watches him flop into bed next to - “Tommy H?”

Steve’s cuddling up beside Tommy instead of providing any sort of explanation so Robin puts the pieces together and concludes, “Tommy H is your brother?!”

[vaguely-concerned]

the strength it must have taken for illario to not immediately go full 'lmao since when have you even had a kiss hello lucanis' sibling violence mode during the café talk. inspirational. rook and lucanis really were doing all that right in front of his salad huh

[be-queer-do-arson]

I love that scene in tkm where Wymack tells Neil he's going to make him vice captain the next year and Neil tries to politely decline (on the grounds that he'll be dead by then) and Wymack is literally like too bad bitch. This isn't a democracy and i say you're the next captain so figure it out

[mxrcusflint]

assorted text posts ft. top gun

[seizethegay420]

[scholliski]

I bet andrews brain never shuts up, like sure obviously also in the sad traumatised way, but that medication didn’t make Andrew “Jean. Hey, Jean. Jean Valjean. Hey. Hey. Hello” Minyard think all of that hilariously unhinged nonsense but only made him speak it out loud, all I can imagine is anyone looking at a blank faced Andrew and wondering what ominous thing he must be thinking and it’s literally just “Neil josten, number 10, jos-10, cannot be a coincidence, Neil josten fortune teller perhaps?”

[tethered-heartstrings]

i want a 20+ minute segment of jack beating the ever loving shit out of hannibal again like he did in "contorno" with will just standing there drinking wine with his sleeves rolled up like in twotl, not helping either side and internally making a grocery list for the week or thinking about the dog he saw at the shelter 3 days prior and afterwards just being like "sorry babe i was trying to remember if the asparagus was on sale and also i want a dog. sorry about your face"

[ladyloveandjustice]

I actually don't recall Bruce having Jason hallucinations but he has to have had them in some comic somewhere#writers would not let that opportunity pass

so I said that and then just googled "bruce Jason hallucination" and found someone had catalogued every single jason apperance including cameo mentions and hallucinations and I'm so impressed by this I have to tell you all. That's the level of obsessiveness I was on about Steph but across infinitely more comics. I gotta share it out of respect.

so yeah I control f'd hallucination and he has had some ofc, and I remember this comic!!! It was on scans_daily or something. He hallucinated him thanks to the scarecrow's fear gas.

Then proceeded to just beat the shit out of the Joker screaming Jason's name over and over again. I remember we were talking about this one on scans_daily and it was like "well good thing the Joker doesn't care about Batman's secret identity because he'd definitely know it now"

In my famous post about how Bruce should have just bought up all the wild stuff that happened to Jason when he came back, and explain he did attempt to murder the Joker, but Superman got involved etc, he should have bought up this one too, he actually might have beaten him to death if the Joker hadn't managed to escape.

Also the backhand here is cracking me up

Ok but this is actually really depressing (possibly accidental, possibly on purpose) continuity but. I know it because it was in the Mike Barr run with Bruce and Jason and the adorable art I'm extremely fond of:

It remains his greatest fear, even after Jason actually dies. He just has to accept that the fear came true and he can't wake up from it this time. That's actually genuinely really depressing, I was getting all nostalgic about comics and I made myself sad.

[necrotic-nephilim]

what's fun about shipping Tim with Dick, Jason, or Damian is he has, at some point, hallucinated all of them to comfort himself. even when he doesn't like them or particularly get along with them, he has to imagine/hallucinate them just so he has the power to go on. Tim's concepts of the Robin mantle and what it should be is so fun, because he respects the others through the Robin mantle. Tim worships Dick because he was the first Robin. he wouldn't be Robin if Jason hadn't died in the mantle. and a lot of his frustration with Damian is he feels Damian isn't honoring the mantle correctly. when you ship Tim with the other Robins you can't divorce their identities as Robin from it because Tim will always see them as a Robin first and that's so fun and fucked up. like.

batman (1940) #456

Tim perceiving Dick as *Robin* cheering him on, not Nightwing, which is the version of Dick that Tim actually knows? that's just. wild of him. he will always view Dick as Robin first, his personal hero but also the original of the legacy. his love for Dick is shaped by that.

and then of course, even when he's hallucinating/imagining Jason cheering him on, it's *still* through the lense of being reminded how Jason failed? subconsciously believing that Jason got himself killed because of his actions, and that being a lesson for Tim to learn from? Jason isn't a person to Tim, he's a moral lesson about how to be Robin. any potential idolization he could have of Jason isn't because he loves Jason, it's because of the lessons Jason's death taught him.

and then, even though him hallucinating TIm is from the New-52, which makes characterization all kinds of questionable, i do think it makes sense for TIm to hallucinate/imagine Damian after Damian's death in an attempt to cope with it.

teen titans (2011) #18

to an extend, he sees Damian's death as in part his own fault. and even hating Damian, Tim needs the comfort from this to cope with Damian being gone. he's angry that Damian even was Robin, and has to learn something from Damian's death and how it impacts the Robin mantle, and teenage heroes as a whole. like, Tim can pretend he hates Damian all he wants, even getting taunted by the image of Damian, but there's still an underlying love to their relationship.

i think that's just the fun of shipping Tim with any of them. you will never divorce Tim's views of them from the Robin mantle and how fucking Unwell he is about anyone else who's been Robin before or after him, to the point he has to hallucinate them comforting him when he's at his lowest. it's always going to be a little unhealthy, a little toxic, and driven by Tim's relationship with being Robin as well. i need more Tim being weird about Robin in these ships.

[goldfishinaplasticbag]

i know it's just my side project and doesn't have many chapters out rn, but man, i LOVE Darkly Dreaming Drake. it's been sooo fun to write a older, cynical tim.

it's also a lot (like, a LOT) darker than 1-800-GOTHAM with no angst, just murders, which is fun for me to write! i get to tap into my less.... angsty...? side and just write bumfuck words on a screen. no character study needed!

i don't recommend reading it if you're uncomfortable with graphic imagery and just literally any canon Dexter content though lol like it gets real nitty gritty

but like (sneak peek for ch. 3) i think i'm so funny

anyways. here's my nonofficial shout to read DDD. i am vibrating in my flesh to get to the fun bats-meet-tim moments bc it's sooo fucking funny

[lunarharp]

idle yuri on ice scribbless

[chiricat]

(don’t) hold back

[moonsnqil]

would uh, anyone be interested in reading an 11.5k(ish) andreil one shot i wrote and telling me if it makes any sense at all before i throw it into void that is ao3

[yardsards]

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