#capes!!!

[tiikerikani]

This is the piece I entered in the competition that I personally think best demonstrated my (cape-painting) skills, though the judges disagreed. Being bad at pale skin was too much, I guess. Although the hair was a rush job the night before, the majority of the rest of it was completed much earlier.

Fact: The folded-over bit on the front of the black wrap (skirt?) is not part of the sculpt. I painted it in to hide some pitting in the metal near the bottom. Photos make everything look flat but it's actually quite convincing IRL too.

This is intentionally kind of a self-portrait with the clothing, especially the color/texture of the cape. (I don't wear that kind of top though. and also don't often do the devil horns gesture :P)

Model from Heresy Miniatures (sculpted by Steve Buddle); the base is from Dungeons and Lasers and I carved out a slot from it to fit the figure into.

[panakina]

I think it’d be funny if Dick and Jason, due to wearing bright yellow capes on the job for years, are capable of stealth to a frankly unhinged degree. They barely have to try anymore it’s so second nature. Dick can just completely disappear while in the loudest neon clothes imaginable. Jason is constantly startling people who don’t understand how they missed a guy the size of a fridge standing right there. Bruce is extremely grateful for his unbreakable poker face because they have both startled him by accident and would never ever let him live it down if they knew.

[useless-catalanfacts]

Masculine cape made of green silk velvet with golden embroidery. Years 1651-1675.

Source: Museu Virtual de la Moda de Catalunya [Fashion Virtual Museum of Catalonia]. Kept in Museu del Disseny [Design Museum] in Barcelona, Catalonia.

[mossypawz]

There is, it's called P Town and it's full of beautiful faggots

[aeturnum-mendacacium]

As Bruce grows older into his 50's or 60's the paparazzi and people crowding him becomes less and he thinks that people have finally decided that Bruce is too old to be attractive or mainstream and he's actually super fine with it and makes jokes( more like sarcastic remarks) about it. But in reality they've grown more freaky cause instead of looking wrinkly and a sappy old man the level of cunt he serves grows everyday,he doesn't look like a snack he looks like a buffet, 13 year olds are using his pics as the cover pages of their mafia wattpad stories, he looks majestic, absolute dilf, we don't talk about the amount of tags he's birthed just by ageing on ao3, and hes still an absolute UNIT, the reason he's not heard about it yet cause the batkids are blocking the shit OUT with all of their will and strength cause it doesn't matter if all of them are full grown adults they're still all like-THATSMYDADGETAWAYFROMHIMHEDOESN'THAVETIMEFORYOUHESBUSYBEINGOURDAD

[great-and-small]

Hands down my fave thing about hurricane season is when zoos put their birds in the bathroom to protect them from the wind and we get images like this

Photo from St Augustine Alligator Farm

[fckbatmanhiskidsareminenow]

no capes au dick and jason referring to tim as gala kid, before he’s adopted because he was the only other kid at the galas and they forgot his name.

jason post coma: what the heck bruce you adopted gala kid??

dick: his name is tim

jason: oh fr?

bruce: jason please be more sensitive his parents died

jason: omg welcome to the club

dick laughing: that’s what i told him!

[duckysprouts]

if you were at your worst, if you’re a villain or a screwup or whatever, there is a goth man dressed as a giant bat who keeps coming after you, bothering you. he sabotages your journey of self destruction over and over. ur ready to give up but he won’t let you. you think, today he won’t come. today he will give up on me too. he never does.

[gravygranola]

a moment of (weakness) comfort

[fanaticalthings]

Just a cute lil thought:

Since Bruce's kids all love to play around and hide in his cape as Robins, I wonder if he makes them blankets out of the same materials as his cape so they can have a piece of security when Bruce isn't there?

I remember in Dick and Jason's older comics (correct me if I'm wrong), they used to stay up late waiting for Bruce when he'd go out as Batman alone, so I'm gonna take this as confirmation that all his kids have done this at some point.

So now I'm totally gonna hc that in order to encourage his kids to not stay up late for him or as a way to help them feel more safe and secure when he's not there, he makes them all blanket replicas of his cape for them to snuggle with :')

And also just imagine his kids all grown up, and they STILL have the blankets with them, regardless of if they've moved out.

[tiikerikani]

Nobody has words for any of this (Part 1)

I'm really busy this week and this is going to be a wall of text anyway, so I'll be writing/posting this in parts.

2024 Nov 23 – Nokia Arena, Tampere

It seems like the weather is cursed to be terrible whenever I'm in Tampere for these things. Anticipating having to hang around outside all afternoon in -6ºC -ish like the silly fangirl I am, I dressed for the weather. That is, in wool and a light down jacket. This got me from i guess a bit past 2 PM to maybe around 4? I'd watched the usual suspects go inside and hang around at the bar/restaurant in the lobby??? and my toes were starting to give so I went in too.

Did my usual hovering around the usual suspects while they talked amongst themselves (and tried to share a bit about what's going on in my life but was basically ignored). Since the merch shop was already set up I bought the t-shirt. The design isn't really my flavour, but it's the kind of thing you just can't go home without. There were also posters but I decided to buy that after the show.

They started letting people in in a more organized manner at 5, because that was when people with VIP tickets could go have their dinners. One of these people jumped me from behind!! He was super excited because HE WAS ALSO WEARING THE CAPE!! FINALLY somebody else besides me!! We took selfies and he moved on.

The jeweler who made the silver pendants was on hand to make engravings on them for a small fee. For SOME REASON she remembers me from those photos (she'd shared them on her IG story)?? I had a little think and decided to get this date on it for when Senpai first noticed me.

"I can tell that it's been worn a lot," she said, noticing the patina. I've been wearing it practically whenever I leave the apartment since at least last fall when I was abroad. It's not special occasion jewelry like it might be for most other people.

The general mob was outside and would be let in at 6, so just before that the security staff went around to all the people inside and gave them the obligatory pat-down. At this time I'm already at the front of the queue to my side of the arena, the Blondes are behind me, and a newspaper photographer showed up and wanted a picture of me with the cape. (they published the photo the next day but it's paywalled.)

The Blondes got a step ahead of me when my ticket was being scanned (why does this keep happening) so they got side by side at the front of the section and I took the corner beside them.

I'm going to get ahead of myself and borrow a picture from the concert review in the newspaper (also paywalled) to show you what I mean.

I'm

there ↘

(I think you can just see the top of my head.)

Back to the timeline, while we were waiting, the Blondes couldn't identify where their friend's section was up in the seats, so I helpfully pulled up the ticket pricing diagram for them (I had saved it to my phone for reasons). I didn't have to but I'm nice like that, even if they don't engage me with any more than a "thanks".

Fanclub Founder and Regular Groupies were in the section opposite us, which for some reason filled up faster than ours. I argue that my section was better, for reasons I'll explain later.

The band had said there'd be a little surprise before the show began, and it was that Senpai had selected a few songs that he wanted to share to accompany a slideshow of photos from their book. They were:

Yo-Yo Ma & Ennio Morricone: The Ecstasy of Gold

Kent: Flen/Paris

Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You

Wardruna: Kvitravn

I can't say I'm familiar with the foreign-language songs but I CAN say these picks have significant overlap with my taste in terms of vibe and the influences come through quite clearly in his songs.

to be continued...

[ravenlilyrose]

Yet another JL learns about Batfam post

Featuring: everybody loves Nightwing

So, Nightwing isn’t technically a member of the JL, but everyone knows him and adores him. Even Batman seems to tolerate him fine.

They’re on a mission. Let’s say alien invasion. Or killer robots. Something large scale and dramatic.

Everyone’s fighting in the same general vicinity. Nightwing and Batman just happen (read: either very carefully planned, unconscious habit, or a combination of the two) to be fairly close together.

Suddenly, an explosion happens. Everyone is knocked down. Including the aliens/robots. Conveniently, they stop being an issue now, so we can focus on The Reveal.

Anyway, everyone knocked down. They start to get up and look around, checking to see that everyone is fine. And it looks like everyone is well and accounted for, except…

Nightwing!

Where’s Nightwing? They all start to panic (except Batman). Is Nightwing okay? Where did he go? Is he hurt?

And then Nightwing ducks out from under Batman’s cape, with a grin on his face, sunny and cheerful as ever.

“Well it looks like that instinct is fully intact. Explosion? Duck under the cape.”

He laughs at himself and Batman’s face twitches in what his family would read as a smile and most of the JL thinks they’re hallucinating.

“Do you two know each other?” They want to ask. And it’s been long enough that it would probably be awkward to ask. But they’re confused/curious enough that they might ask anyway.

[nitewrighter]

Definitely the sexiest thing about Harvey Dent across Batman continuities is when, y'know shortly after losing half his face, he starts working his way through the Gotham underworld and you can very quickly tell that this isn't what you'd call a rampage. 'Rampage' implies he's acting pretty much purely on impulse, but no, he sits down with various mob goons, maybe goes apeshit on a few of them, does his coin flip, et cetera, but the whole time, you can tell, he has thought about this for years. He's figured out all the gang hierarchies, he knows all the hangouts, he knows exactly where the gaps in his knowledge are and whose ass he has to kick to fill them, and he's working his way through it like a grocery list. And it's clear that for years the law was the only thing holding him back from doing this and now it's not holding him back anymore. It's equal parts terrifying and satisfying and anyway that breach of the line of law and the childhood friend thing is absolutely why he's actually Batman's greatest Rogue. Because Batman has also thought like, way way, way too much about what he would do if he didn't have his code. Do you see the vision here???

[morganbritton132]

AU where Tim, age nine, walked three miles to his neighbor’s house, held up his bleeding hand to Alfred, and asked if he could please have a bandaid. He got stitches instead, and a hug from Dick, who squeezed him tight and asked, “Can we keep him?”

And then Tim never went home again.

He learns gymnastics with Dick and reads in the library with Jason. He shows Alfred how to reset the wifi and rambles on to Bruce about his latest obsession (shipwrecks), and he never sees his parents again.

Behind the scenes, there was a kid left alone in a mansion while a whole international incident played out. It included a kidnapping, a ransom, a failed hostage negotiation, and two dead parents never coming home.

It pokes at a wound in Bruce when he is told about the Drakes and he has always been productive in tragedy. He knows how to shove the hurt away and build something strong on top of it.

The adoption was seamless. The sell of the Drake Estate was effortless. The trust for Tim. The memorial. The scholarships in Jack and Janet’s names. Bruce does it all methodical and singleminded.

And somewhere. Somehow. They forget to tell Tim.

Sometimes he misses his mom and dad. He misses his old room and being alone in a big house, but months turn to years and he likes it here. He really does. He has brothers here and Alfred, and they say they’re his family. He likes that.

They said they wanted to keep him, so they kept him. Kept him forever.

Then Damian is there.

Tim comes home and there’s a new boy, about the age he was when they got him. Tim asks in a whisper, “Did they take you too?”

[honorrry]

I watched

Batman Caped Crusader

Just for Oswalda

OF COURSE I HAVE DOODLES GANG

[waveoftheocean]

batswaddle 😌