#bluebird is dead

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JANE GREY & GUILDFORD DUDLEY in MY LADY JANE, 1x04 “Bluebird Is Dead” ♥️

[renegadesstuff]

The way they look at each other 🥰🥹

[44-mag]

[glittergoats]

why do they say bluebird is dead?

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Datsun Bluebird 1200 Deluxe "Flower Car", 1960. The 310 was the original Bluebird series. As part of the launch in the Spring of 1960 this car was driven around Japan. The body is adorned with the emblems and autographs of the governors of prefectures it visited.

[bvnnyface]

And god save you, bluebird.

[maelstrom-of-emotions]

So you ever just begin to explain your story and realize how unhinged you sound? And it makes the five-hundred-and-sixty-one slides you created for your ‘Why I Don't Need Therapy’ PowerPoint presentation crumble into mere ash and bone. Yeah, me too.

[swallowtailed]

hxh 85:

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JANE GREY & GUILDFORD DUDLEY in MY LADY JANE, 1x04 “Bluebird Is Dead” 🤍

[renegadesstuff]

The way she looked at him for comfort 🥺

[abookishidentity]

Books read in May 2024

-Dead Men’s Boots by Mike Carey started May 4, 2024 and finished May 8, 2024 -4/5 stars. I already talked about this book in a separate post. I hope to read more of Mike Carey's books.

-Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen started May 8, 2024 and finished May 10, 2024 -4/5 stars. It's refreshing to read a vampire book and the vampires aren't ridiculously horny or used that way. Vampires just want to live their lives. They don't even drink from humans in this book which is nice. Main character just wants to be in a band. Distant family shows up and interferes with that. I think it's rather interesting that I got that the grandpa who showed up with his grandson was her brother before the main character did.

-The Sleepless by Victor Manibo started May 10, 2024 and finished May 15, 2024 - 5/5 stars. What happens when people don't need to sleep? Capitalism takes that and messes with it. Oh? People don't need to sleep then they can work more jobs. Oh? People who are sleepless can't form new memories? Why not build technology around that and sell it to them for lots and lots of money? Main character ends up in jail at the end and the corporations aren't taken down. It feels very realistic but at least there's some kind of hope as the two characters he worked with send him their location. Main character and author where queer men of color and sometimes you need to read that.

-Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot started May 15, 2024 and finished May 19, 2024- 4/5 stars. 3 factions constantly at war. Woman trying to help others who were like her. Spaceship adventures are always good. Reading about queer women and one of them is a librarian is good too. The chapters sometimes alternate and I was right that it was describing the life of a character before she met the main character.

-Prime Deceptions by Valerie Valdes started May 20, 2024 and finished May 23, 2024 - 5/5 stars. I loved this book. Captain Eva Innocente's life is such so interesting. Didn't care for the bot fighting but that didn't last too long. We get more of her backstory in this book which is interesting. I love the physic and intelligent cats in their ship. I love the abilities the locals have on the planet they were on. I say this book is about 30 or so pages too long but I guess they had to set up things for the third book somehow.

-Fault Tolerance by Valerie Valdes started May 24, 2024 and finished May 27, 2024 - 4/5 stars. A lot of robots in this book. I don't really care for robots or robots fighting in general. It was tolerable because the robots just reminded me of Transformers. It's amazing that Captain Eva Innocente and company defeated the evil with a robot that looked like a giant cat.

-Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree started May 27, 2024 and finished May 29, 2024- 4/5 stars. After reading 3 science fiction books that dealt with spaceship adventures it was nice to read something different. This was a very cozy read. The descriptions of the pastries sounded very good. I liked that there was a budding relationship between Viv and Tandri. I think I might check out the other book as well.

-Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway started May 29, 2024- haven't read much of this book yet. It has a very interesting premise and I'm hoping it lives up to the book jacket summary.

Book I DNF'd

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany- It had an interesting premise. I can appreciate that it was written in the 70s and it had a bisexual main character. There were interesting things going on in this weird ass town but I simply could not read further. I felt like I was wasting my time. Also the fact that the main character and his lover were doing stuff with a 15 year old was disturbing to no end. Main character had no qualms about it. He didn't seem to have any kind of qualms about who he hang out with. One of the most interesting things about him was that he lost time. Whole days went by and he thought it was merely hours. That was interesting but not enough to keep me reading. This book was over 500 pages.

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

"Oh my god." The kid muttered, pacing back and forth in front of the summoning circle anxiously as he clutched some old book to his chest, "Oh my god, I just killed Nightwing."

"Uh," Nightwind started to speak, but didn't get far.

"Oh my god, my dad is Nightwing!"

"Wait, what?!"

That seemed to catch the boys attention and...yeah the kid looked a lot like he did as a teen. "I, uh" The kid rubbed the back of his neck nervously, "I'm kinda your clone. My parents made me and told me recently about how I was born and I wanted to meet you!"

He threw his hands up in the air, one hand still clasping the book, "They told me you were dead, so I tried to summon your ghost! I swear I didn't know!" This seemed to switch him back into whatever spiral ge was in before, "Oh god, I killed my own father."

Dick hurried to speak before he lost the chance again, "I'm probably still alive."

"Huh?" The kid looked over at him, a hint of hope in his features

"Yeah," Nightwing shrugged, "some other bats were with me. They're trained to keep my vitals up until they can get me back to the cave. Plus, I felt my soul pulled out of my body by force. I don't think you actually stopped anything from functioning."

The kid sagged with relief, "So batman isn't going to murder me?"

An odd sound came from within the summoning circle as Nightwing covered his mouth

"Are you laughing at me?! I'm being serious!"

This time, the vigilante made no move to hide his laughter, "We don't kill kiddo, besides he probably won't maul his own grandkid, right?"

Unfortunately this gave the kid something new to spiral over, "Oh god, my grandpa is Batman."

"How about we start over?" The bluebird asked, "I'm Nightwing, what's your name?"

"Um, Danny. Danny Fenton."

Dick gave an award winning smile, "Nice to meet you, Danny. Could you break the circle so I can get out?"

[generalenemybluebird]

everyone cry in despair for my friend who just got into the DC fandom and asked me to explain the basic timeline

[lifetimeoftired]

How to adopt a dead kid in three weeks or less

It's midnight and I'm hopped up on that ADHD juice. Been thinking on and off about this prompt and how things play out. Might clean this up for ao3 posting later but whatever.

Part 1 || Part 2

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Danny can feel the weight of their stares like it’s physical. A last mournful glance at his pancakes- Actually no, fuck it. He grabs the last one from his plate, flashes the whole Wayne family a peace sign, and turns invisible. The pancake is eaten as he dashes out the door and away from the shouting and chaos he leaves the family in.

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“Where the FUCK did he go!?” Jason’s shout somehow made it above the din of the others- and got Bruce and Dick yelling ‘language’ back at him. The pricks.

“I say! Watch your tone Master Jason! As for the rest of you-” The whole family shut the immediate fuck up when Alfred speaks. His displeased expression more than enough to cow them into submission. “I expect you to clean up after yourselves today and a quiet trip to the batcave to find our new ward. Master Jason, you will be taking care of Master Danny’s plates, and I will hear of an apology from you for scaring that poor boy.”

There’s a chorus of ‘yes Alfred’ from the chastised bats, but Bruce- carefully mind you- presses.

“Alfred, how long has he been here? Why didn’t you say anything?”

“The young master has been staying for the past three weeks sir. And despite my best attempts, I have not yet been able to convince him to sleep in his own room.”

Bruce groans and rubs at his face before turning back to his other children, “Nobody thought to tell me!?”

The kids all look at each other, and then back at him with the most judgmental ‘are you serious’ looks they can muster. Except Cassandra, who very excitedly signs; New brother! All Bruce can do is sigh into his hands.

“We’ll discuss this later-”

“Why didn’t you notice then old man?” Jason grins, a little feral at Bruce’s dirty look but sue him.

“Okay okay, let’s hurry up and get this place cleaned up. There’s no telling how far Danny got- and the sooner we go after him the sooner we figure out what’s going on.” Dick said, quickly gathering his own plate. 

“And the sooner I can get all of you presents.” The entire family stops. Staring at Jason in shock. “Only the finest ‘World’s best detective’ mugs for all of you!” 

The groan he gets from all of them is perfect.

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“I cannot believe you didn’t think to tell me either!” Batman scolds Oracle later. 

Everyone is out in force. Even Batwoman, Batwing, and Bluebird (after having a good laugh at Batman’s expense) had joined. They had all been searching for Danny the better part of the day. Batman had even agreed to let Red Robin and Robin join the search and skip school. That’s how seriously the kids knew he was taking this. And how important it was for one of them to get to Danny before Batman scared him off for good with his infamous paranoia.

“If you didn’t notice, that one’s on you Batman.” God Jason really loved Barbara sometimes. 

“Oracle would not have allowed a dangerous individual into our midst. She is thorough when it comes to such things.” Robin is moving fast, probably swinging right behind Batman. No doubt headed east where the nicer areas were and any sane person was bound to head.

“I think that’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me, baby bat.”

“O, you wouldn’t happen to have a new update on Danny’s whereabouts would you? Or anything from his past?” Nightwing cuts in after Robin’s little ‘Tt’. He’s somewhere near the border to Bludhaven, in case Danny’s making it out that way.

“Nothing Nightwing.” They can hear her frustration, and concern, through the voice modulator. “The kid’s practically a ghost. All I can tell you is that he’s not from Gotham. What little I can find of his time here in Gotham is some security feeds of dumpster diving and sleeping on a bench.”

“He’s also definitely a meta.” Signal mutters, somewhere to the west and near the coast..

Jason remains quiet and lets them all talk. As funny as it is- and holy shit Jason will never let any of them live this down ever- it is a little strange this random kid would just... Show up out of nowhere. Meta or not. Alfred said he wouldn’t sleep in a bed of his own, but he also hadn’t left until after Jason questioned his existence. This ‘Danny’ had been around the manor, the bats coming and going, for weeks. He could’ve found out their secrets, and even if he hadn’t sold them out yet, there’s no telling who might pick him up and drag those secrets out of him. Or worse, if he was sent here by someone, then they needed to find out who. And fast…

….

Ugh. He sounded like Batman.

“Hey guys, how well do you even know Danny?” Jason pulls over near an abandoned apartment building. Cutting the engine to his bike to hear them all better. “He was there for a few weeks, pick up anything on him? Might help us figure out where he ran off to.” That last bit was added as an afterthought, not wanting to be too paranoid, but it was also true.

“I know how this is going to sound, but uh, well, he does seem really nice actually.” Signal helpfully offers. “Dick and I ran into Danny I think not long after he got there?”

“O’s camera feed tells us Danny arrived at the manor 28 days ago, Thursday night 11:38 PM. Looking at the records, he was picked up prior to that in front of Wayne Enterprises by one of our drivers- Archer Tenson. He’s reliable and honest, no record of any sort that would make him a suspect of subterfuge.” Nightwing rattles off the information pretty calmly, but they all know him well enough to hear the concern. “According to the records, he was going to pick up the caffeine addict after the cafe got an alert of his fourth Death Latte-” They all ignored Red Robin’s little ‘hey!’, “-and dropped him off safely at home.”

“Red Robin.” Batman’s parental disapproval was palpable through the comms. 

“There wasn’t a fourth Death Latte!” Red Robin protested from his place in the batcave. Aiding in the digital search and combing over the camera feeds over the past few weeks for any information about Danny. “The third Death Latte was the last one. An Alert at W.E. was the plan the whole night. Nobody made it back to the manor until sunrise and the cafe kept saying there wasn’t any more coffee and-!” He gasped, horrified! Outraged! And the rest were left to hold their snickers as Red Robin said, “He stole my last coffee!”

“That’s right, Danny said he was a caffeine addict too.” Batwing mused. Probably flying somewhere over the more open suburbia in case Danny was trying to make a break out of the city that way.

“Wait when did you meet Danny?” Spoiler asked- Jason knew she was patrolling nearby with Bluebird. Those two, Orphan and Signal were the only ones who were allowed to come close to Crime Alley. Mainly because they annoyed Jason the least, but also because they understood how bad the streets could get and looked the other way better than the others. Signal surprised him about that one.

“Start from the beginning.” Batman orders. “Nightwing, Signal, you met Danny when?”

“Looking back, it was actually the day after he got there it sounds like.” Signal sighs. “I was headed downstairs for breakfast, and saw Dick in one of the sitting rooms. I thought I saw our caffeine addict passed out on the couch and thought dick was going to wake him, so I went in to help…”

[bugster-o7]

Do you ever put on your discover weekly and go “hmm that song sounds familiar, what’s the band name and album? Oh! I have that on record, that’s why!!” Just me? Yeah just me.

[guildfordd]

This is as close as the English ever get to admitting emotional turmoil.

JANE GREY & GUILDFORD DUDLEY in My Lady Jane [3/?] 1x04 — "Bluebird Is Dead"