#adult bab

[windelfreude]

Jetzt riecht die Windel noch nach Erdbeeren 🍓. 👶🏻

[mysterycitrus]

‘dick grayson and kory’s relationship was built on lust not love’ ‘dick grayson is babs gordon’s true love because they’re robin and batgirl’ i will kill u, do u understand? these women care about people other than him. he’s not quite that shallow. death will come for u in the night

[punkeropercyjackson]

When you're reading a post about Batfam adoptions and op starts talking about either party 'stalking' eachother or see people talking about 'Stalker Tim Drake' in gen:

[aingeal98]

Dick: I took Tim and Damian to a baseball game last night to make up for Bruce getting too wrapped up in a case all week. You ever feel like those eldest daughter memes are disturbingly relatable?

Babs, just finished an hour long screaming match with Bruce after Cass and Steph interfered with said investigation to save one of the targets Bruce was stalking: Oh you know. Every now and then.

[gretahayes]

ALSO. also the thing with dick and bruce, right? is that bruce was all dick had. is that tim and cass and damian all had barriers. all had other adults to go to and have parental attachments to, tim even had a dad for most of when he knew bruce. dick couldn’t do what they did, it was him and bruce and alfred who would always be on bruce’s side when it comes down to it, in his inaction if nothing else, and literally nobody else. so of course this eight year old will grow up impacted so much by his unfit guardian, there was nobody else.

[t4tails]

this is the worst conversation in the world

[call-me-oracle]

barbara gordon in batman #149

bonus:

[freddyloyd]

i hate the dickbabs vs dickkory shipping war why we gotta put one girl down to bring another up

[windelfreude]

Echt schön diese Windel. 👶🏻

[lazaruspiss]

now im hung up on the idea of like. babs angsting about how dick doesn't see her like he used to, making a big huff about [insert insecurity here] etc etc. but like having her fav pic of them being from when dick was a teen. girl he looked at you like u were the universe bc he was a teenaged boy and u were a hot older woman. and also teens are prone to treat partners like The One by default bc they're inexperienced and don't know what they actually need/want from a relationship yet. anyways if i was friends w babs id make so much fun of her for being so hung up on him lmao

[vonehrenfest]

DCxDP: Dead guys stick together

(A Batman 138 fix-it)

After Bizarro becomes King of Hell he watches the mortal world and is distraught to find that his brother/best friend/sorta father-figure has been hurt very badly and is calling out for help.

Distraught, he goes to another lord of the netherworld who he's heard has access to a portal (and subjects a bit more compatible with the act of helping someone). He asks King Phantom would he please please help him protect his brother/friend, and if he does Bizarro will owe him a favor and leave his realm alone.

When the inferno had initially breached the Ghost Zone Danny had thought he was going to have to deal with f*cking Trigon again, but as it turns out that guy's been replaced and the new guy is pretty nice. After a brief cosmic battle and a clearing of misunderstandings, Danny agrees to Bizarro’s request.

While Gotham's vigilante civil war continues on its rooftops, Jason is in a cell. He is trembling, practically catatonic again, and losing his mind. He’s seeing the flaming figure of a knight on horseback appear from the shadowy far wall of his room, like some kind of fairytale nightmare version of Batman. It takes a while for Jason to realize he’s talking. 

“... part of the treaty between the King of Ghosts and King of Demons, Jason Todd: Prince of Demons has been granted special status and is henceforth a protected and honorary citizen of the Infinite Realms.” 

Nightmare-Bruce touches his flaming sword on Jason’s shoulder and the unearthly fire instantly engulfs him. Relief washes through Jason, and it’s so strong he nearly drops asleep.

Bruce is apologetic when everything’s over and he realizes the mistakes he’s made... but nothing really changes. (It is a relief to Bruce that no one died or was permanently injured, Jason's condition resolved itself somehow, and Bruce is normal now so really everything is fixed or at least it will be fixed.)

Just like when Jason first came back from the dead, Bruce's response makes him hurt deeper than the physical torture itself. Jason is the one who died but Bruce acts like the ghost. Singleminded, possessive, stuck in time and blind to it; bound to repeat the same cycles again and again. Jason is the ghost but he's died multiple times now, and maybe that's kind of like living and maybe that means he can move on. 

Dani and Bizarro become friends, and she gets Danny's friend Tucker to somehow set up a working Wi-Fi connection in hell so they can all play games together. (He’s not going to question it. Everything about Amity Park is abnormal. They helped him and they’re good to Bizarro, that’s all that matters.) 

Jason forges a fake identity for Dani. He might ask Babs to make a better one for her if she ever needs it but he doubts that's likely. He hasn’t had a living identity for years now after all, he’s an old hand at fake identities. Dani is delighted and starts attending school soon after. 

Danny has good friends, and as far as Jason can tell plenty of reliable mentors in the ghost world. You wouldn’t think it, but Jason’s less worried about Danny in his role as a little godling than in his civilian life. He’s got too much on his plate- too much power yet not enough to actually resolve his real issues. Not enough to protect himself where he’s vulnerable. 

The “Guys in White” that Danny likes to complain about are concerning. So is the fact that Danny’s lives with mad-scientist parents who are trying to hunt down his alternate identity. So is his ever grinding cold-war with the mayor of his town… And something else too that had been niggling at the back of Jason’s mind ever since he’d first gotten to talk to these kids. 

One day Danny’s sister, Jazz asks to talk to him. He’s an adult she says. That’s true he replies. He’s capable of protecting himself and other people, she says. Well, he has the training and experience for it, he agrees. If things go wrong, would Jason let Danny or Dani stay with him- just until she becomes a legal adult? She asks. Jason’s... not the sort of person who should be taking kids in. Danny saved his life though. He won’t say no. He says of course.

Jason knew it. Everything about Amity Park is abnormal.

The town doesn’t technically exist- there are no maps that include it and even satellite imaging is corrupted where Danny describes his hometown is supposed to be. There are no references to it on the internet that couldn’t be referring to a totally different Amity Park elsewhere, and judging by the problems they occasionally had on gaming nights and the odd offhand remarks Danny and his friends sometimes made, it was looking extremely likely that all communications between Amity Park and the outside were being heavily censored. Before Jason knew it he had started a full-on investigation on the GIW, Mayor Vlad Masters, former Mayor Montez, and Axion Labs.

Hope and fear lodges itself in Danny’s chest. Jason’s an adult and he’s actually going to help.

[winepresswrath]

2000s batman was my first ever experience with "are the men ok" because the vibe would just sometimes pivot from noir adjacent detective adventures ft. broody but good hearted dark knight to

your dad is withholding.

it's presumptuous and needy for you to suggest that he's your dad.

he's legitimately not your dad.

it's a dadsuationship.

he's always disappointed in you but that's just because he has such high standards.

he's controlling but in a way that suggests it's less that he cares about you on an individual level and more that he's a perfectionist and you are a potential fuckup.

he does care about you on an individual level don't be silly. god you're so emotional and dumb

he's an impossible ideal that you're never going to live up to.

any negative feelings you might have about this are mostly on you for the twin sins of not being good enough and caring what he thinks.

but if you didn't care what he thinks wouldn't that be petty and ungrateful and indicative of poor judgement that will bring Disaster.

and then i'd conclude that only someone with daddy issues beyond my comprehension could have written this. like both the behaviour and the pervasive implicit victim blaming. that was unfair of me! in retrospect some of it was clearly just writers struggling with what i will generously call the complex cultural legacy of batman and robin. some of it was rank misogyny in terms of like, an inability to consider teenaged girls fully human and thus an inability to write batman as considering teenaged girls as fully human. some of it is that comics thrive on melodrama and it's easy to fall back on repetitively rehashing the same emotional beat. and i was a kid; it's possible that my take would be different today. however with these caveats i maintain that this was nevertheless not even worth asking who hurt you behaviour (it was dads).

[redplanetlobster]

I just started watching 'The Mystery of Batwoman' and since it's set in The New Batman Adventure universe I've got to deal with the Bruce/Babs.

Fuck, I just wanted to learn about this Batwoman not have to sit through their ambiguous (but definitely sexual) relationship.

[kstarlitchaotics]

The other response of why I think it's immature of people to automatically hate DickBabs besides them automatically thinking they're siblings is the age difference. Why because Babs is two maybe three years older than him? While Kori is an immortal being? (Also not dissing on either girls love them both just pointing it out) Really? Might be a moot point but my grandmother was at least two years older than my grandfather when they met so really what's so wrong about the woman a bit older than the man? As long as it's not a underage kid and a grown adult then does it really matter? What matters is if the chemistry works.

[cononeillbreastingboobily]

Reconciling with ADHD as an adult means dealing with grief. So much grief.

There are so many projects I couldn't bring myself to finish after being excited about them initially. So many hobbies I dropped out of nowhere, never to pick them up again. An entire sea of moments when I would only be present in body, but my mind was wandering. So much knowledge I now know I missed out on, because it wasn't stimulating enough for me at the time.

And finally, there's the hurt within me, because I grew up so deeply misunderstood by adults who came into my orbit growing up. Where I should've received help and support I was met with hostility and expectations far beyond my reach. It has left me with an ever present feeling that no matter what I do, it is never going to be enough.

It's the kind of situation where "sorry" is never going to be enough to mitigate it. And it just kind of sucks really bad that I'm the one who has to take care of that little kid I used to be, and the adult I am right now.

[thatlovelydove]

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