#Year Two

[yr-martyr]

Happy birthday Ben!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay!! February 25!

[cristinakid]

I survived Sick New World, year 2 😘

Enjoy this unedited, unfiltered photo of me at open gates, two shots in 🥲

[gothpheus]

[tipsypixel-sims]

Fergus had been working on a very special toddler formula. It was not completely ready to be released to the public, but he decided it was safe enough for Astra to drink it. If only he could figure out how to stop the weird side effect of his toddler glowing in the dark...

[discountmalinois]

My boys.

[love-and-bugs]

Look at her little head-tilt at the monster noises

[clangen-shenanigan]

Moon 13

Echohusk died in the night. For a moment, Fogmeadow thought by some miracle she might recover; she found enough breath to argue with Magpiefreckle. But when he woke from his nest in the morning, her fur had already gone cold. They held a warrior ceremony for Bluebellpaw at sunhigh, with a funeral to follow. Cinnamonstar’s naming felt lackluster; “I name you Bluebellbat in honor of an Echo,” and everyone nodded like that made sense. The orange-furred tabby hunched and bleakly touched noses with Cinnamonstar, wishing that Echohusk could have waited just a few more hours to see her last apprentice receive his warrior name.

Before moonhigh, Magpiefreckle was named deputy. There was no way to follow the rules of taking an apprentice before becoming deputy in a Clan this small, with no apprentices or kits. Cinnamonstar felt StarClan had waived that requirement when they added Echohusk to their ranks.

To give the ruin of the day its final touch, Cinnamonstar came running back from her solo evening patrol with bad news; FlaxClan had harassed her at the border, throwing jeers at the lonesome leader and skirmishing. No harm came to her, but her pride was wounded and the fragile standing of MistClan amongst their neighbors had been soured. The whole Clan looked ahead at the new year, terrified of what it might bring.

[eternalintestines-art]

procreate digital drawing of niki lauda in formula 1 for my uni project !!

[schistcity]

ohhh… you guys are like… STUPID stupid

[parientou]

big brother duties are never over

[s0up1ta]

toxic yaoi or something idk i haven't watched gravity falls

[freefallintothevoid]

Dick Grayson's unmatched success as a child vigilante makes a lot more sense when you remember the Court of Owls was a thing and that Dick was meant to be the next Grey Son.

There is no way that someone at Haly's Circus wasn't there keeping an eye on him while he grew up. A future weapon needs to be trained and monitored after all, and a circus, a place where weird skills are completely normal, is actually a great place to secretly train a child.

You know, just some knife tricks that translated really well into actual fighting. How to get out of restraints and pick locks while under a time limit. Death defying acrobatic stunts that coincidentally do wonders for parkouring. That sort of thing. Nothing that seems out of place for a boy growing up around circus performers to learn, but would literally any where else.

I mean, while I fully believe that most kids would want to kill the man responsible for their parents deaths, Dick was weirdly prepared to go through it. He tracked down Zucco with way more ease than any normal child should have too. He became the first child vigilante, for goodness sake. The first Robin! He only started getting formal training after he basically forced Bruce into it!

Bruce himself has no idea that this kind of competency in a child is unusual, considering he was much too blinded by the similarities between his and Dick's tragic orphanhoods.

Alfred is in a similar boat because he’s desensitized to weird children after he somehow managed to successfully raise Bruce 'The Batman' Wayne, so he doesn't clock the hyper-competency as abnormal either.

By the time the other batkids start popping up (Jason 'The Audacity' Todd, borderline-street rat with no fear) (Tim 'the greatest stalker in Gotham history' Drake, child genius, also bullied his way into becoming Robin) (Barbara 'raised by the only uncorrupt cop in gotham' Gordon) (Stephanie 'daddy issues and spite' Brown) (Duke 'Pretends he's the normal one and people believe him' Thomas) it's too late.

It would also explain how Dick got along so well with Damian out of all of them. Similar childhood with different approaches and all that. On some subconscious level, Dick recognises and resonates with the murderous ten year old assassin with strong familial ties to a secret elite assassin organization.

It isn't until after the whole Court of Owls and Grey Son reveal that suddenly Dick realises a whole lot of things about his childhood that suddenly make a lot more sense.

[kosmogrl]

the scary part about getting better is that there's this constant fear that things will go back to what they once were

[gothpheus]

ESSE FILHO DA PUTA ARROMBADO COMO EU ODEIO ESSE DESGRAÇADO PRIMEIRO O KYLE DPS O JOHN VAI SE FODER SEU RESTO DE SER VIVO

[tipsypixel-sims]

When Fergus was at work, Una looked after Astra. She quickly discovered that this little human really liked being read to, so they began working their way through Fergus's bookshelves. Astra seemed to have inherited Fergus's exceptional spacial awareness and, because she quickly figured out which shape fit into which hole on her puzzle toy.

[discountmalinois]

He was not happy I took pictures of the cats while he was Right There.